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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 19h

Oh this can fuck all the way off

Sorry I'm not contributing to society by paying tax after getting a job as a result of my English degree. I'll try to remember to never do anything that brings me joy, because that won't help make rich people even richer. I apologise.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 5d

When your husband calls you from a satellite phone in the middle of the desert in Turkmenistan

So relatable

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 6d

Happy National Poetry Day

I am very, very late to the Mary Oliver party but here are some of my favourites:

#poetry #nationalpoetryday #maryoliver

A picture of a page from Mary Oliver's A Thousand Mornings. It shows the poem Three Things to Remember:

As long as you’re dancing, you can
break the rules.
Sometimes breaking the rules is just
extending the rules.

Sometimes there are no rules.

A picture of a page from Mary Oliver's A Thousand Mornings. It shows the poem The Gardener:

Have I lived enough?
Have I loved enough?
Have I considered Right Action enough, have I
come to any conclusions?
Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude?
Have I endured loneliness with grace?

I say this, or perhaps I’m just thinking it.
Actually, I probably think too much.

Then I step out into the garden,
where the gardener, who is said to be a simple man,
is tending his children, the roses.

A picture of a page from Mary Oliver's Wild Geese. It shows the poem Wild Geese:

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

A picture of a page from Mary Oliver's A Thousand Mornings. It shows the poem The Morning Paper:

Read one newspaper daily (the morning edition
is the best
for by evening you know that you at least
have lived through another day)
and let the disasters, the unbelievable
yet approved decisions,
soak in.

I don’t need to name the countries,
ours among them.

What keeps us from falling down, our faces
to the ground; ashamed, ashamed?

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 8d

Nothing better than a meeting you've been steeling yourself for all day not happening

Thank you, end of the month

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 9d

Went to the gym yesterday for the first time since April. Always good to know my shoulders are still there

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 13d

And I'd do it again

Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 13d

This and 2x Wisewood for sure

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 14d

Top 5 most full I've ever been

Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 14d

I'm going to the Orange Bird for my tea and I'm so excited.

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 14d

I'm going to the Orange Bird for my tea and I'm so excited.

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 14d

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Rotherham Zoo @rotherhamzoo.bsky.social · 15d

Remember. They don't forgive or forget!

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Rotherham Zoo @rotherhamzoo.bsky.social · 15d

Happy Fat Bear Week!

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 19d

My work laptop just suggested I play Farming Simulator. I like its thinking.

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 20d

I repeat

Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 21d

Where's that "I wake up every day furious to be labouring under capitalism" meme cause I feel that to my core right now

Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · 21d

Where's that "I wake up every day furious to be labouring under capitalism" meme cause I feel that to my core right now

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes I'm having a lovely holiday thanks

A screenshot of the Merlin app showing I heard a Eurasion Scops-Owl. It's a little brown owl with yellow eyes and thick frowny eyebrows.

A screenshot from the Merlin app showing I saw a Short-toed Snake-Eagle. It's mainly white with a few dotted rows of black along its body and wings. I can't see how short its toes really are.

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Kit D @lordtoots.bsky.social · Sep 8

Not online much these days so I have a lot more time for writing by hand then having it edited by the lovely @jenduckie.bsky.social

This one's for the ND parents.

#autism
#adhd

medium.com/@shadowfaxri...

Back to School Burnout: How Parents Can Help Their Neurodivergent Teens Survive the School Year

All is not lost, except perhaps for PE kits and homework.

medium.com

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · Sep 7

I don't know what I interrupted here

A brown and white cat is sat on a road like a gremlin, hunched over, one of its front paws is between its back legs and one back leg is slightly raised. Another brown and white cat is a zooming blur running across in front of it.

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · Sep 5

A very kind gift courtesy of badge maker extraordinaire @thebadspot.bsky.social

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · Sep 5

Man, Slugblasting kicks ass. The ⏩️ story was beautifully told by @andrewwormald.bsky.social @the-sanctorum.bsky.social @ptwiddle.bsky.social and Master of Slugs @thebadspot.bsky.social

Thank you for bringing Ken along for the ride.

No one pauses fast forward

@wilkiescandylab.com

Two pages from the RPG Slugblaster handbook lay open showing a pale green background and a little hoverboarder grinding down a piece of the multiverse while their friends look on and film. On top are 5 badges with various phrases including 'BRB sucks', 'Check it!' and 'Brainduster'. A fingerboard sits among them next to a character sheet that's been doodled all over in pencil featuring a salvage crab delivering a pizza, fast forward symbols, an avocado bat squirrel thing and a multitude of other random scribbles.

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · Sep 4

⏩️❤️

andrewwormald.bsky.social @andrewwormald.bsky.social · Sep 4

Tonight was the finale of our #Slugblaster campaign. An emotional farewell to our beloved characters and a final chance to kick-flip over a quantum centipede. Thanks to @thebadspot.bsky.social, @jenduckie.bsky.social, @ptwiddle.bsky.social & @the-sanctorum.bsky.social. #TTRPG #Slugblaster #FFWD

Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · Sep 3

Teenaugh Duglass remembered what dogs are finally

andrewwormald.bsky.social @andrewwormald.bsky.social · Sep 3

In tonight’s session of Neighbours-themed TTRPG, ‘The Perfect Blend’, Scott is surprised at his bucks’ party, Helen Daniels chokes on a bao and the players uncover a conspiracy that could change Erinsborough forever. #TTRPG #Neighbours #saveNeighbours #HelenDaniels #TimTams

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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · Sep 2

📢Help save Coul Links!

Once again, this beautiful place is threatened by plans for a golf course which would do irreparable damage to rare habitats and wildlife. 🌱🦆🐦🦋🪰

Join us in sending a message to Scottish Ministers to stand up for nature. Add your voice: action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270/...

Aerial photo of Coul Links showing the sea, dunes, grass and pools behind the dunes in orange sunlight

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Jen Duck @jenduckie.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ringinglow rainbow

A man walks towards a row of archery targets in a green field. A full rainbow arcs overhead against a moody grey sky.

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andrewwormald.bsky.social @andrewwormald.bsky.social · Aug 27

In our penultimate session of hot new TTRPG ‘Slugblaster’, the FFWD crew heal some fractures, play a music festival in Popularia and face off against BRB, Shimmer and the Arborists for an item that could change the face of the multiverse itself! #TTRPG #Slugblaster #FFWD ⏩ @wilkiescandylab.com

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