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MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈

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I am currently bisexually eating brie. Former writer, current exhausted parent. She/her, UK

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MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈 @solelyfictional.bsky.social · Sep 16

Quick heads up to whoever sent me a DM - i am not arsing about with age verification on social media (because I should spend less time on it anyway) so if you know me in real life and can message me through another platform please do :) and if you don't know me, don't!

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MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈 @solelyfictional.bsky.social · 2h

The official display has finished. Now we're on to the part of the evening where the dads insist on setting off one firework at a time in their own gardens for hours on end while the family stands around in the cold.

A large firework burst above a terraced house, seen through the bars of a metal gate

MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈 @solelyfictional.bsky.social · 3h

Still pissed the council used the pandemic as an excuse to cut most of the free bonfire night fireworks displays, but the whole watching fireworks from my kitchen window in my pyjamas thing is still good. (Small Child's bedroom window has the best view, but she's only just fallen asleep)

MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈 @solelyfictional.bsky.social · 3h

The temple behind our house must be thrilled the weather has cleared up just in time for fireworks. Happy Diwali!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 5h

Trans women are women, and we know this because if we weren’t women the majority of cishet men would automatically believe us when we shared our lived experience, and wouldn’t assume that they had a better grasp of the issues “as an outsider with a more objective opinion”

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 4h

🎵if you like a lot of chocolate-style cocoa mass based coating on your biscuit ...🎵

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Penguin and Club bars can no longer be described as chocolate

The rising cost of cocoa has led to the manufacturers changing their recipe.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 3d

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 1d

Today's theft from the Louvre (
art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/10/jewe...) is making me think about my favorite series of museum heists. Buckle up for a 🧵 on priceless porcelains, the Dead Zoo Gang, a Pekinese named Looty, and the unsolved mystery of who's stealing Chinese art from European museums.

Jewel Heist at the Musée du Louvre

"A blog about art crimes, illicit trafficking, forgery, art theft and cultural heritage protection."

art-crime.blogspot.com

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 1d

We hope they find those responsible for the Louvre robbery.

In the meantime we have got our own suspicions on who might be the culprit…

We are looking at Feathers McGraw - a dastardly penguin/chicken impersonator from the Wallace and Gromit animated films. He is holding up a large diamond.

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ceej @ceej.online · 2d

your fucking tax dollars and mine paid for a bunch of professional government trolls to have at least(!) one actual fucking meeting about how epic it would be to all join bluesky at the same time. people wrote fucking emails about this. from dot gov addresses

ceej @ceej.online · 2d

this shit is so embarrassing. the government used to have guys who like, built bridges. now it’s just a gaggle of bleary-eyed cave children jacking themselves off to porno deepfakes of AOC while posting “based meme edits” of reaper drone strikes on venezuelan children. quit gooning and fix a pothole

ceej @ceej.online · Jun 19

vance has got to be the most cucked vp of all time. absolutely no power, completely subservient to a sundowning blowhard and an unelected nazi sleaze, so bored of waiting around for grandpa to give him something to do that he’s organizing forum raids like goons dropping in on habbo hotel

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MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈 @solelyfictional.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, if it's coming to a theatre near you, completely recommended Northern Ballet's Merlin. Dragons, fire, swords, massive gold sets and glowing trees. northernballet.com/merlin

Merlin | Northern Ballet

northernballet.com

MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈 @solelyfictional.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no. Thanks to the ballet Small Child is very into Merlin at the moment, and we've been bemoaning that lack of a recent Arthuriana adaptation. This is not what we wanted!

Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like we've got some half-arsed Christo-fascist "Celtic" Arthuriana coming from Ben Shapiro's Trumpist crowd. Yay.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...

In a statement, Boreing said The Pendragon Cycle is “the culmination of a 10-year vision to create culture, not just to criticize it. Lawhead’s novels present a visceral, masculine Christianity in a world of conflict and mystery. It isn’t saccharine or clean. In short, it is very much like our world. I’m so happy to share our adaptation, and the work of our remarkable cast and crew, with the Daily Wire audience.”

The Daily Wire has produced a number of feature films (both scripted and documentary) and a couple of animated series, but The Pendragon Cycle represents the biggest swing for the company, which Boreing founded with Ben Shapiro, in the TV arena.

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 3d

im a proud peter freuchen stan. explorer, bullshitter, saved people from the nazis, ethnographer, giant with a pegleg

ShiftKicker @shiftkicker.bsky.social · 3d

I had to do a search out of curiosity. You were not exaggerating!

Black and white studio photo of very large and imposing bearded man in an enormous ankle length fur coat with his fists on his hips, standing next to a seated woman half his size and dressed very chiquely in a knee length black dress, gloves, patent shoes and netted hat. A very staged looking photo.

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Lynn | Settiai @settiai.bsky.social · 3d

I'm still living in a hotel and struggling to cover bills, and I could use any help that I can get. Donations are appreciated so much, but even just sharing this post to get more eyes on it is very helpful as well. #HelpSky #MutualAidRequest

cash.app/$Settiai
paypal.me/poicelle
venmo.com/u/Settiai

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Dom Cram @domcram.bsky.social · 3d

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨

🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾

Find out by studying meerkats!

🧪Epigenetic clocks
✨Bioinformatics
📊Long-term data
🌍Kalahari fieldwork
💡Big evolutionary questions

Get in touch or APPLY NOW
Please share!
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

A collage featuring some laboratory analyses, a schematic of the structure of DNA, a pocket watch in an elderly person's hand, and a family of wild meerkats.

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acab rangoon @mid-skeets.bsky.social · 3d

sean connery in a suit with a quote bubble

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MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈 @solelyfictional.bsky.social · 4d

When someone says "I'm sorry for putting this in over lunch" at the start of a call and I'm thinking "lunch was three meetings ago, we're well into the afternoon now" and the clock cruelly informs me it's barely half past one.

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The Wynter in Black 🎃🐈‍⬛ @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 5d

The more I think about this, the more it feels informed by the same kind of logic as phone hacking & Cambridge Analytica. Your data, privacy, image is not your own, it is ours to be manipulated, exploited. When this begins happening to brittle men who own the media, perhaps something will be done.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 7d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 5d

Celia has absolutely elevated herself to National Treasure status with that fart #CelebrityTraitors

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5d

@mitildide.bsky.social

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 5d

Exiting the airport at Bergen in Norway,one confronts an invitation to what I like to call “contextual existentialism.” The traveler confronts a radical choice on the essence of their arrival space:

Rather be in Kathmandu? Hong Kong? That’s on you, Bud. Places don’t just “manifest” ya know. 🙄

Ragnar Kjartansson’s installation”This must be the place” 5.5 m tall neon letters.

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MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈 @solelyfictional.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting that the Vampire Frappucino is their current seasonal item; it's got the mocha and the strawberry sauce. I wonder how similar it is otherwise.

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 6d

STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]

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MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈 @solelyfictional.bsky.social · 6d

I'm enjoying it, but it's a touch magpie-esque in its anecdotes; any and everything can be a reference to slime (even some stuff that a cursory Google will suggest otherwise, like Pytheas' coagulated sea, which was probably pack ice). It crams a lot of examples in.

MsSolo 🫖 🏳️‍🌈 @solelyfictional.bsky.social · 6d

Small Child informs me she collects glow-in-rhe-dark pencils "for real life, but I haven't got any yet."

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 6d

boo?

a drawing of a little black cat with a ghost costume saying “boo?”

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