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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 3d

I want to know if this person was ever aware they were in the opening titles of every episode of Cheers

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Pauline Loven @paulineloven.bsky.social · 5d

Crow’s Eye Productions latest dress history film, directed by Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social and starring Andreane Rellou. youtu.be/4QR9BnrcNbc?...

Getting Dressed - Anne Boleyn (1533)

YouTube video by CrowsEyeProductions

youtu.be

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 7d

Younger daughter & I are sorting our fossil
collection with a late breakfast of ammonite pancakes 🐚🌀

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 8d

as a neurodivergent & also weird kid school was hell for me, though these days I struggle to remember the names of all the teachers who bullied me. But the three that treated me like a person have never left me. Now more than ever, I hope you all try your best to stay unsquishable!

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 14d

tempt them back to room with banana

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14d

Mountain gorillas are back from the brink. But what happens if they run out of room?

Humans have helped save the great apes from extinction, but are now the biggest threat to their survival as they compete for land in east Africa’s Virunga mountains

www.theguardian.com

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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 14d

Starmer?

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16d

Thing with all the soft language of dignity and respect and compromise being used to describe loss of human rights, persecution, and segregation, is that it immediately frames any opposition to it as unreasonable and aggressive

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16d

*segregates you with dignity and respect*

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 17d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 19d

It's an elaborate marionette

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 19d

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

Country with bullet vending machines makes preventing autism a priority

Headline by Sarah Amero A country that distributes bullets like they’re chocolate bars has decided that eradicating autism is one of its top priorities, it has been reported. The USA, where you can p...

thedailytism.com

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 21d

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 23d

While our government must have diplomacy with Trump, we should never roll out the red carpet for him.

Trump is a far-right leader who propagates hate, undermines democracy and makes the world a more dangerous place for us all.

This unnecessary state visit is just normalising his politics.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 24d

My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct
Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood.
Includes:
🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums
🗝️30% off my Etsy shop:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 23d

this year's jfsp is on the bbc's comedy of the week podcast this week, and i believe that's available to international listeners

podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/c...

Comedy of the Week

Comedy Podcast · Every two weeks · Brighten your week with the latest BBC Radio 4 comedy.

podcasts.apple.com

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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 24d

"Have you met my awful wife?"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 25d

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.

Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 26d

Then, later that day, I watched a goshawk shrieking through the forest

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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 26d

On the same day, I was also lucky enough to see a golden eagle and a pair of white-tailed eagles.

An eagle with large broad wings and white tailed feathers soaring in a pale blue sky.

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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 26d

Some more shots of the adder as it emerged from an underground retreat.

The face of a snake only just peering out of a whole next to a large grey rock.

The grey scaly body of an adder. A slight blue iridescence is present on some of the scales.

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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 27d

Shingle street?

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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 27d

Looks like the AI got confused about whether it was making a cat or a coyote in that black and white image

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 28d

Racist, homophobic, misogynistic, transphobic views aren't 'controversial'. I thought we had got to a stage where we agreed these things were backwards and vile. The sooner we start calling bigots by their name the better

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 29d

News outlets like @wsj.com have a critical responsibility to report the truth.

Promoting false information that ties our LGBTQ+ community to the Utah shooting is reckless, irresponsible, and puts trans people especially in danger.

Anyone with a platform must do better. Lives are on the line.

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Nicole Loven @nrloven.bsky.social · 29d

I spent a week in Sweden over the summer, visiting family. It was also a lovely opportunity to see some wildlife, including beavers, insects and this lovely adder.

The grey scaly face of a snake looking out of a hole. Its bronze coloured eye gazes with a narrow vertical pupil.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 29d

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist

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