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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 8h

And we're seeing Ash tomorrow 😆

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 8h

*Throws bucket of water over @maysiebug.bsky.social*

Maysiebug @maysiebug.bsky.social · 8h

Oh my fucking GOD

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Maysiebug @maysiebug.bsky.social · 8h

Oh my fucking GOD

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 8h

I'm fine (still full of cold tho) but I had to scrape @maysiebug.bsky.social off the floor 🤣

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 20h

The sort of cartoon you'd expect to see from me

www.worldofmoose.com/products/con...

Cartoon showing a man reading from a dictionary to another. He says "So, it turns out confirmation bias means exactly what I expected it to mean|"

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 18h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue looks curiously at a pie which Green has placed on a plate on the table, while Green looks at him with joy and pride.
Green: I have made a sidequest pie!

Blue listens patiently as Green goes on.
Green: Flour from the mill we visited once, mushrooms that we gathered with your mom, homegrown parsley and basil... Almost all ingredients were things we've made or gathered on adventures!

Both foxes turn back to look at the pie.
Blue: How does it taste?
Green: Bad.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 17h

Happy #InternationalLesbianDay! If you are an international lesbian, please have a nice day!

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 19h

When I was first deciding what to do at uni I wanted to do either philosophy or English with creative writing but I got persuaded out of it by my dad. Sometimes I wonder how I'd have been different if I had decided to do a BA rather than a BSc

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 1d

Listen to Coffee Monster's recommendation!

We will be in Manchester on Friday and Sheffield on Saturday, if you want some top notch entertainment and a reasonably priced T shirt.

snd.click/@sprayontour

Coffee Monster 🦅 ☕️ @monsterofcoffee.bsky.social · 4d

Fully recommend seeing @spraypopmusic.com on their current "shilling merch 2025" tour

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Dr Scarybear 🏳️‍🌈 @jamiebear.uk · 20h

Education for education’s sake — learning about something because you want to learn about it — is not only an unalloyed good thing, it’s a fundamental part of what makes humans human. Arguing against it is inhuman. And Tim’s very correct about not telling adults what to do with their time and money.

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 22h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20h

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 22h

I remember working in IT for the civil service and having to go in on strike days - as contractors, if we didn't go in we didn't get paid. I felt so guilty! So glad I don't have to do that anymore!

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 1d

TOE BEANS!

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah exactly. Lucky if you get any support at all depending on where you live. But the DWP are expecting us to have proper care and assuming we're fine if we don't!
Wish you well too ❤️

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Fran @hashtagfran.bsky.social · 1d

There is a real, potential problem here because ME and LC are so poorly understood (and variable in severity). There are no clear tests proving the condition which leaves patients vulnerable when speaking to agencies. I have LC but am retired. If I was younger I would not be able to work.

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 1d

I have ME and I don't have a care plan. The only medical support I was given were three one-hour sessions with a support group that consisted of eight people sat in an uncomfortable, loud, overly hot side room in a hospital being patronised by a nurse for an hour. 'Have you tried mindfulness?' etc

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. I completely agree with the fact that the DWP have a total disconnect from the real-world experiences of most people with ME. They're claiming that people are fine because they don't have a care plan but it's because they don't have access to a doctor to give them a care plan.

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 1d

The DWP were supposed to share their training guidance on ME/CFS with the ME Association but they've redacted nearly the entire document so it's neither use nor ornament. Sounds like the DWP as a whole to be honest.

meassociation.org.uk/2025/10/dwp-...

DWP Training Guidance on ME/CFS (FOI Redacted Document) - The ME Association

This document was obtained via a Freedom of Information request […]

meassociation.org.uk

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AnalogueTrash @analoguetrash.com · 1d

It’s round two! @spraypopmusic.com take on all-comers (in a nice way!) in Manchester, Sheffield, and Todmorden this weekend. They’re joined by Boston's @thisblissmusic.bsky.social, and local lad @hawaiiworms.bsky.social rounds off the bill on all three dates. Come one, come all.

🎟️ buff.ly/tX4a8CS

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The Blender is 25, unfortunately @theblender.online · 1d

Go see them! They're astonishingly good.

We've barely recovered ourselves. In fact, we may never be the same.

SPRAY @spraypopmusic.com · 1d

This sounds great. Come one come all snd.click/@sprayontour

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NiamhsDaddy @niamhsdaddy.bsky.social · 1d

Of course they will pay attention. After all, it is not as if all they see us as is little worker bees in the great GDP hive.

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Kit 💛🤍🖤💜 @littlegreyboat.bsky.social · 1d

Some excellent evidence here on why forcing people with ME/CFS or Long Covid into work is a bad idea. Think there's little or no chance of the government listening through.

meassociation.org.uk/2025/10/empl...

Employment, Government policy and ME/CFS or Long Covid - The ME Association

The ME Association is engaging in ongoing campaign work regarding […]

meassociation.org.uk

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