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wheatles @wheatles.bsky.social · 7h

This is basically seeing Beyoncé for 7-12yr olds, based on the length of queue and hype levels of those around me @jamiesmart.bsky.social

Union Chapel - a large screen over the stage showing "Bunny Vs Monkey Superfan Event" . A packed house waits for the show to start.

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Oct 18

In many ways, women and spiders have a great deal in common - independent, do a lot of work that isn't seen or valued, spend the autumn scuttling around in the shadows on our hairy legs looking for a mate before the winter sets in while people point at us and scream, etc.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

btw the bit was gonna be the St. Crispin’s Day speech, free idea to a good home

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 23h

«ahem»
Rosie the Ribbiter

Thank you for you attention to this matter.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 22h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 1d

I did a "Are You Being Served" watch last year, and actually, it holds up okay. There were I think two or three times in the entire run I went "Oh.... Oh no...." But surprisingly unproblematic for when it was made.

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Gareth Roberts @garicgymro.bsky.social · 1d

In Wales most placenames are pronounced exactly as they look. However, tourists often make the mistake of pronouncing them as they look *in English*, which makes it immediately obvious that they're tourists.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 2d

It’s quite a feat for Isabel Oakeshott to be the only white person in a London tube carriage given she lives in Dubai

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 2d

There are very, VERY, few Tories I would ever have anything good to say about, Helestine is one of them.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 4d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 2d

OH THANK GOD.

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 2d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 4d

PITCH: New point-n-click video game called Tory conference or Riyadh Comedy Festival.

tory conference with hardly anyone there

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 5d

And if you're fat, & you're having medical issues, ask your Dr if you were thin would they be saying the same thing?

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 5d

I hope it goes to coroner's court, & they tear them to shreds.

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 5d

She's a fat, middle-aged, woman, & I wonder had she been thin, would this have been spotted sooner? Would she have been able to have chemo, would she have had longer?

Anyway, fuck cancer, fuck fatphobia, & the NHS is a wonderful thing, but I'm so mad this wasn't seen sooner.

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 5d

Last week a friend of mine was admitted to hospital, she'd been having back problems for probably two years by this point. She was diagnosed with cancer of the spine, and is now in hospice care, with days/weeks left to live.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

I knew they’d come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than “Our Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!”

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 7d

“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 8d

As a visibly Jewish person, I always know that going to a synagogue means assuming a certain degree of risk. But now I know that if something were to happen to me, it wouldn't just be sad for my family, but people would try to exploit my death to push policies I deplore.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 8d

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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 8d

'I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard.' RIP Patricia 'Kitty' Routledge.

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 8d

In memoriam...

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 8d

There's no real end to this, no point to it, just that this fucking sucks, & honestly individual messages of sympathy I find difficult to deal with, but, if you're not Jewish sharing/writing posts, condemning what's happened & offering sympathy will probably help your Jewish friends feel better.

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 8d

It's always been a low risk for me, and this attack was on an Orthodox synagogue.

But, honestly, for the first time I'm scared because of my Jewishness. I'm genuinely worried that my community will be a target.

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 8d

As a disabled, queer, Jewish woman, I'm used to not feeling safe, honestly.

Especially given the demonisation of the disabled by the previous (& current) govt. & press.

But I never been too worried about violent anti-Semitism, I'm not Orthodox & very visibility Jewish.

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 8d

I presume the helicopter we'd heard hovering so low was the police doing a fly-by/recce & that officers had probably turned up just after I left.

When I got home I watched BBC news as I waited for the roofer, trying not to cry.

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Madame Pinkness @madamepinkness.bsky.social · 8d

And he told me, & I looked at the news, & I really wanted to turn around & go back to York, & be with my community, but I had to be back at the house & ugh.

I spent the drive back up the A1 in silence, hoping that this was a lone attack not a coordinated one on Jewish communities across the UK.

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