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Lizzie
@lizziecharlton.bsky.social
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History geek, sewing devotee, fabric addict, sci-fi nerd, cat owner. Cis woman. Pronouns: she/her. 🩷💜💙 🐘: @[email protected]
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Ooh, is it ID Cards?
Sir Tony Blair's think tank is said to be pulling together a policy plan to "save the Labour party" amid frustrations over Sir Keir Starmer's leadership.
December 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I’m Lizzie and I sell as @unwoundbobbin.co.uk.

I sew all sorts of things including custom lanyards, wristlets, and ribbon based fidget toys.

My shop is on Etsy and folksy and links to both are available through my website unwoundbobbin.co.uk
Two small ribbon fidget toys made of soft satin ribbon Three longer ribbon fidget toys made of soft satin ribbon, in dark colours. A wristlet/wrist lanyard made of doctor who fabric and finished with a rainbow pride ribbon. A big collection of lanyards draped over a sewing machine. Two other specific lanyards, one in a maths fabric and one with hearts on.
December 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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From a furniture store in Essex, UK.
Three decorative bulbs with a flared base
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I note that the BBC seem to be doing the very best they can to avoid gendering the victim at all when they quote her. They only use her name. It's really obvious when they liberally use pronouns for both the Judge and #Linehan. Hell, Brooks' statement gets a pronoun, and she doesn't. #transphobia
Judge Clarke said it was "not for the court to pick a side" on the "continuing debate about rights of individuals regarding their sex and gender identity". She explained that the prosecution used female pronouns to refer to the complainant during the trial, while Linehan's defence used male pronouns. The judge said she had chosen to refer to Brooks using "gender neutral pronouns and as 'the complainant'" in her ruling. Speaking outside court on Tuesday, Linehan said there was "a group of dangerous men who are determined to bully women and girls, and to misuse the courts and police in furtherance of a misogynistic agenda". He added: "I'm proud to have stood up to them and I will continue to do so." In a statement, external, Brooks said "justice has finally been served". The statement thanked the court for holding Linehan to account and branded him a "plainly bigoted, bad tempered thug, and a criminal". It continued: "All those who supported Linehan, from senior politicians, journalists and members of civic society, should hold their heads in shame". Brooks added: "Some people are just different, get over it."
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I see *someone* went to editor/director school.

(This had me cracking up for some reason.)

Source: Medic (1955) s1e26
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Loved my visit to #QueerBritain, the #Queer museum near Kings Cross/St Pancras. Highly recommend it to fellow members of the Rainbow Mafia and our allies. @queerbritain.bsky.social
A wall of colourful and hand drawn hexagons, each filled with a message or drawing from a visitor to the queer museum A giant slobbering cat with massive claws and sharp teeth bearing down on a small group of people. The cat is wearing a shark fin that says “we must protect the children”. The caption says “just when you thought it was safe to come out of the closet…”
November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Oh that’s Spock’s (b&w) favourite bit, especially in the winter because he can curl up really tightly and be nice and warm. She may use it more now she’s getting on for an adult size and fits it tightly like a hug rather than bagging around her.
A black cat sits on a cat tree platform. Just below and to the left a black and white cat is curled up in a hammock type circle of fabric. They’re both looking at the camera.
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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*How do you mistakenly release two sex offenders requiring a manhunt within a month of each other?*

At this point it’s either serious incompetence or horrifying malice.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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They’ve done it again. It’s been less than a month and the prison service accidentally released another prisoner requiring another manhunt.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
LIVE Police launch manhunt after Algerian man mistakenly released from London prison It comes as the shadow defence secretary presses the deputy PM at PMOs on a migrant sex offender accidentally released from prison last month.
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Addendum: I said the road had a weird 90° turn in it - it's not just the road, it's the whole coastline. You can see exactly where and how badly the Hampton Pier caused massive coastal erosion.

Here Hampton is circled in red.
A picture of part of the North East Kent Shoreline. Between Herne Bay (on the right) and Whitstable (on the left) is a sharp 90° corner circled in red. It's where Hampton was... and part of it still is.
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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So, I actually live very near Hampton, and it's honestly probably my favourite geography story, because it demonstrates very well and surprisingly easily the impact that human development can have on an area!
Time Out London @TimeOutLondon Hampton-on-Sea, Kent Another victim of coastal erosion, Hampton was a modest oyster-fishing village that sprung up in the late nineteenth century. Abandoned in 1916, Hampton-on-Sea crumbled into the ocean. Today the only evidence of its existence is the local boozer [Picture of a pub with the sign "The Hampton Inn" on] 2:54 PM - Sep 14, 2021
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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But for good vibes and SD manifesting purposes here is Dora who has just passed her Bronze Award and so now has an official Good Girl in Training leash :) (training vest at Silver and full vest at Gold)
A golden retriever puppy with a beautiful bushy tail sitting at the end of a red leash. The leash has a fluorescent yellow patch around it that says “assistance dog in training” A golden retriever puppy looks at the camera, her tongue out and licking at her own nose. She is at the end of a red leash. The leash has a fluorescent yellow patch around it that says “assistance dog in training”
October 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Any worse or more complex than that and you will end up - at absolute best - with a combo of drugs that keep the suicidal ideations staying as ideation rather than actions and a goodbye that doesn’t involve “good luck”
October 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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I had a “relatively mild” covid case in the spring (my first) and I have ended up with significantly worse asthma that has so far taken up extra inhaler doses for four months so far, and three additional appointments with the asthma nurse.
The JCVI said Covid was now a "relatively mild disease for most people", ', with ates of hospitalisation and death having "reduced significantly".
October 7, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Wonder if the Home Office have any of these left over from the last time? Would at least save a little money if so.
An Identity Cards mug with the old Home Office Logo on it. Literally a white logo with “identity cards” and the home office logo printed on it. Highly depressing. Came from a cupboard full of them in a HO kitchen. From c2009.
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Jesus Christ Rosie Duffield, why *would* anyone consult with you first?

You're not affiliated with either university's management structure. And despite what you say here no one is talking about Fire and Rehire at lower rates. It's *nothing* like the P&O situation.
Rosie Duffield MP 21 Hours ago As many will have heard, the University of Kent (UKC) is merging with Greenwich University and apparently becoming a 'super university'. I am disgusted that the first I knew of these plans, as the area's Member of Parliament, was this morning when it was announced on Radio 4's Today programme. I have no idea why the University decided that that was an acceptable way of letting their staff and students hear this huge news. This plan will have been discussed for months, the Government will have been aware, yet the staff, unions, students and my team were not given any sort of warning in order to be able to be prepared and help support anyone now worried about their future. Over the last few years, staff have been treated extremely poorly, often with a total lack of transparency when it came to various rounds of redundancies. Dedicated teaching and support staff deemed not important enough for full and open consultation, and excuses about debts used to cover up often nonsensical decisions around the slashing of popular courses and departments. Until now, however, I have met with senior management with an open mind and taken them at their word when frequently assured that staff needs would always be prioritised. This latest move shows how blatantly untrue that was. At the very least, staff and union reps should not be having to hear this kind of news via Zoom several hours after radio presenters announced it! This is the exact behaviour decried by the current Labour Government when in Opposition at the time when P&O Ferries surprised their work force in the same way. I will be writing to the Minister responsible today in an attempt to get some answers. As the Party long-known to centre and champion workers' rights, and currently pushing a big new Bill of rights through Parliament, I expect this Labour government to support all those staff who may potentially be affected and will keep pushing for that in the coming days and weeks.
September 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Not that I could see, but on Musk’s twitter who tf knows
The earliest mentions of civil war I could find on twitter under Swilua’s account.
September 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Found it. It was Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hasanat. This was on instagram, posted by Israel’s official verified account.

Why was the diabetes untreated? Why didn’t his body have more food to break down?

It’s all the same damn thing. The Israeli blockade killed him. They starved him to death.
stateofisrael A real man. A fake claim. NO 41-year-old Mohammad al-Hasanat didn't die of starvation - he suffered from untreated diabetes and died from complications of severe hypercatabolism. But his image is now being used to smear Israel. This isn't compassion. It's manipulation. Don't let Hamas weaponize suffering to spread hate. Truth matters. hypercatabolism noun hy.per-ca-tab.olism ( hi-par-ka-ta-ba-li-zam •))) : excessive metabolic breakdown of complex substances (as protein) within the body: catabolism at an increased or excessive rate
August 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Give me Hugh Jackman's Wolverine in the first X-Men film every single day over whatever the fuck he's become.
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in the original X-Men movie In this shot he is shirtless. He is well muscled but looks hydrated, in proportion, and like he'd enjoy a tub of ice cream with me after a burger or whatever.
July 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Said best by Shax in another LD episode
A bajoran man in a yellow Starfleet uniform with lieutenant’s pips on his collar and a scarred right eye. He says “Fighting fascism is a full-time job!”
July 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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With alt text.

QS:

@mikestuchbery.bsky.social “everything old is new again.”
'Superman' Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis Claim By The United Press BERLIN, April 24-Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Adolf Hitler's elite SS guard, today denounced the American comic strip "Super- man," drawn by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The paper devoted a full page to reprints of such feats of the "Superman" as his single-handed destruction of Germany's West Wall, and concluded that the "Superman's" creator is a Jew. "In principle, we could overlook the fantasies of Jerry Israel Siegel, but there is a catch," Das Schwarze Korps said. "The clever creator of 'Superman' is a Colorado beetle who works in dark, incomprehensi- ble ways. He appeals to the ideals of American children under the cry, 'Strength, courage, justice.' In- stead of taking wise advantage of the opportunity really to further serious virtues, he sows hate, dis- sension, injustice, laziness and crime in your hearts. Jerry 'Seal- ing Wax' (Siegallack) stinks. It is pitiful that American children who must live in this atmosphere of the west don't even recognize the poison they daily swallow." "Superman" is a feature of The Springfield Daily News. The News thinks it will continue it for a while, anyway, even risking nazi disapproval.
July 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Further, if using a mobile phone (as I imagine OJ is given he took the photo) most bsky apps have the ability to detect text and post it directly in the alt text box
An example of using a Bluesky app (the official one in this case) to add alt text. In the bottom right corner is an icon used to show the ability to detect text. It’s highlighted blue showing it has been tapped, and all the text is highlighted in white. In the bottom left is a “copy all” button. Below is the “descriptive alt text” box which you can then paste in the highlighted copied text.
July 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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I just saw this posted and I want to correct some misinformation that appears to be spreading, or at least as rife as to have a crappy infographic…
If ICE thugs grabbed YOU off the street, tossed your ID or passport in a storm drain, shoved you in an unmarked vehicle and whisked you off to an undisclosed, secret overseas high security prison, what could you or anyone else do about it? Nothing. Image: FIRST GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP Picture shows a group of starving people with shaved heads in a striped uniform behind bars in a building labelled “Poland” FIRST AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP Picture shows a group of people with shaved heads in orange uniforms behind bars in a building labelled “EL SALVADOR” THERE'S A REASON YOU DON'T DO IT IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY
June 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Spock, on the other hand, is so hot he has melted down in to a pair of ears and a single leg. #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky #CatsOfFedi #ProofOfCat
The mortal remains of a black and white cat that I assume has melted in the heat. A pair of black ears show above the edge of his cat tree platform while a single white leg is kicked out over towards the curtains.
June 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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This #Caturday sid would like to you see how well he lies upside down and shows off his teefs and beans.

#CatsOfBluesky #CatsOfFedi #ProofOfCat
A black cat lies upside down with his head cupped in the hand of a white woman. He is utterly relaxed with his paws above his head showing his beans, and a slight sneer to his relaxed face showing his white fangs and front teeth.
June 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM