Clair Slade
@clairslade.bsky.social
Neotist, community connector, Mayoress of St Neots and still Low Sheriff of Huntingdonshire. Should be ashamed of my behaviour.
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Awesome stuff as ever from Swede Mason
December 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Awesome stuff as ever from Swede Mason
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A reminder that there's free things. Free!
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#ProjectGutenberg
#Library #reading #bookclub #literature #classics #eBooks
@oldladyhembrew.bsky.social 📚
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#ProjectGutenberg
#Library #reading #bookclub #literature #classics #eBooks
@oldladyhembrew.bsky.social 📚
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Please share.
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Project Gutenberg
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December 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
A reminder that there's free things. Free!
📚📘👨🏻🏫👩🏼🏫📖📗📔
#ProjectGutenberg
#Library #reading #bookclub #literature #classics #eBooks
@oldladyhembrew.bsky.social 📚
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#ProjectGutenberg
#Library #reading #bookclub #literature #classics #eBooks
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i know this is hardly a new take but isn’t it WILD that wikimedia has to ask for donations to keep itself afloat when every LLM in the world has been trained on wikipedia data?
This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
i know this is hardly a new take but isn’t it WILD that wikimedia has to ask for donations to keep itself afloat when every LLM in the world has been trained on wikipedia data?
“I felt I couldn’t pamper myself with the luxury of silence.”
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“I felt I couldn’t pamper myself with the luxury of silence.”
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Everything is terrible but this is joyful
Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Everything is terrible but this is joyful
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Moving back from the country due to a previously undiagnosed peach allergy
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Moving back from the country due to a previously undiagnosed peach allergy
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Circulating this again.
A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain
Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.
www.worldofmoose.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Circulating this again.
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Swathes of wildflowers bringing pops of November colour and cheer to this lovely little bit of Cambridgeshire 🥰
Priory Park, St. Neots
Priory Park, St. Neots
November 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Swathes of wildflowers bringing pops of November colour and cheer to this lovely little bit of Cambridgeshire 🥰
Priory Park, St. Neots
Priory Park, St. Neots
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Last year I did a Middle Aged Man Gift Guide and Advice Thread on Mastodon.
Middle Aged Men are difficult to think of gifts for- it is why there are so many jokes about just getting them socks.
But even Middle Aged Men have gift dreams- even if they don’t know what they are themselves.
I'll help
Middle Aged Men are difficult to think of gifts for- it is why there are so many jokes about just getting them socks.
But even Middle Aged Men have gift dreams- even if they don’t know what they are themselves.
I'll help
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Last year I did a Middle Aged Man Gift Guide and Advice Thread on Mastodon.
Middle Aged Men are difficult to think of gifts for- it is why there are so many jokes about just getting them socks.
But even Middle Aged Men have gift dreams- even if they don’t know what they are themselves.
I'll help
Middle Aged Men are difficult to think of gifts for- it is why there are so many jokes about just getting them socks.
But even Middle Aged Men have gift dreams- even if they don’t know what they are themselves.
I'll help
This reminds me of this respectful photo at the history festival when local historical figure James Toller, the giant of Eynesbury, stopped to show respect when the queen died.
(The shoes)
(The shoes)
November 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This reminds me of this respectful photo at the history festival when local historical figure James Toller, the giant of Eynesbury, stopped to show respect when the queen died.
(The shoes)
(The shoes)
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Really REALLY important that everyone who enjoys #SpéirGhorm goes through these settings and toggles the switch to enable 'rude' posts. Tis a rare one of us who doesn't have a colourful tongue.
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Really REALLY important that everyone who enjoys #SpéirGhorm goes through these settings and toggles the switch to enable 'rude' posts. Tis a rare one of us who doesn't have a colourful tongue.
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social not impressed with this offering
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
@remembrancewatch.bsky.social not impressed with this offering
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It's not a grassroots working class movement.
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
It's not a grassroots working class movement.
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
Started watching this late last night and finished it this morning. Reminding me how much distraction is used daily so that our attention has always been elsewhere. I knew none of this nor cared. Our press is the absolute pits.
🥶🥶🥶"Dr Andrew Lownie on the lives of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.
"Drawing on four years of research, numerous FOI requests and interviews with over a hundred people who have never spoken before," In #Cambridge a couple of days ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=62j0...
🥶🥶🥶
Astonishing.
"Drawing on four years of research, numerous FOI requests and interviews with over a hundred people who have never spoken before," In #Cambridge a couple of days ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=62j0...
🥶🥶🥶
Astonishing.
Entitled: The Duke and Duchess of York with Andrew Lownie
YouTube video by Cambridge Development & Alumni Relations
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Started watching this late last night and finished it this morning. Reminding me how much distraction is used daily so that our attention has always been elsewhere. I knew none of this nor cared. Our press is the absolute pits.
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The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #womensart
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt
October 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The poem 'Dangerous Coats' by contemporary Irish writer Sharon Owens #womensart
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt
Home Office surveillance photograph of suffragette Olive Beamish, 1914
#WomensArt
When was the last time you had to watch TV? No pause facility, no apps? Having to watch the ad breaks? It’s been soooo long for me that I hadn’t realised quite how awful it is. The further up the channel numbers you go the older the demographic it seems. The overall message is dying and death.(cont)
October 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
When was the last time you had to watch TV? No pause facility, no apps? Having to watch the ad breaks? It’s been soooo long for me that I hadn’t realised quite how awful it is. The further up the channel numbers you go the older the demographic it seems. The overall message is dying and death.(cont)
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This alt is a work of genius
July 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This alt is a work of genius
So green washing liquid is heavier than yellow?
October 7, 2025 at 7:12 AM
So green washing liquid is heavier than yellow?
One of the very few reasons St Neots gets a mention.
It’s Friday & I’m pleased to announce that for the Half Man Half Biscuit fan who thinks they have everything,a new HMHB map of the UK has arrived with over 200 locations mentioned in their inimitable lyrics. Something for the weekend? Oh, yes, I think so. xx
www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage-rail...
www.edwardphilips.co.uk/vintage-rail...
October 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
One of the very few reasons St Neots gets a mention.
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This whole section really.
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This whole section really.
Every year I lament the lack of something like this here where I live. Cambridgeshire is nice but boring as hell. Work on a cultural strategy got shelved by the new mayor of the combined authority which is a mistake. The new focus is heritage and tourism. Without supporting culture, that won’t work.
Culture Night is back for its 20th edition, with more than 1,700 free events taking place across the country.
Will you be out celebrating all things arts and culture tonight?
jrnl.ie/6821099
Will you be out celebrating all things arts and culture tonight?
jrnl.ie/6821099
Are you attending any Culture Night events?
Culture Night is turning 20.
jrnl.ie
September 19, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Every year I lament the lack of something like this here where I live. Cambridgeshire is nice but boring as hell. Work on a cultural strategy got shelved by the new mayor of the combined authority which is a mistake. The new focus is heritage and tourism. Without supporting culture, that won’t work.
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Found this that I didn’t send into Anything Goes. Lots of clown tears. But made sure to include the toilets.
September 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Found this that I didn’t send into Anything Goes. Lots of clown tears. But made sure to include the toilets.
@curatorkate.bsky.social might give this a go. Also, if you’re on YouTube look for Bobby Fingers. You’ll be taken on a journey that’s for sure!
Go watch this documentary. 10/10 highly recommend. Unexpected, interesting, funny, charming, full of character, and full of characters. AND it’s all on YouTube without ads cos the two gorgeous brothers who made it, made it just for the joy of it. Watch it.
“How did you cut your finger so badly Panti?!”
“Oh I was mincing (shut up!) garlic while also *totally* engrossed in this unexpectedly engrossing and really fun documentary about two adorable stoner straight guys getting involved in the surprisingly competitive world of competitive bird watching”
“Oh I was mincing (shut up!) garlic while also *totally* engrossed in this unexpectedly engrossing and really fun documentary about two adorable stoner straight guys getting involved in the surprisingly competitive world of competitive bird watching”
September 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@curatorkate.bsky.social might give this a go. Also, if you’re on YouTube look for Bobby Fingers. You’ll be taken on a journey that’s for sure!
Found this that I didn’t send into Anything Goes. Lots of clown tears. But made sure to include the toilets.
September 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Found this that I didn’t send into Anything Goes. Lots of clown tears. But made sure to include the toilets.
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Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
September 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Hi guys, did you already know there are competitions for window tinting? With better commentators than most of the tennis matches I’ve watched on ESPN? (Low bar I know)
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you
Anyway if you need to procrastinate harder than you’ve ever procrastinated before, I got you