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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 1d

1824: Very ill today & very unhappy my 3 Childern are all unwell had a dismal dream of being in hell. This is the third time I have had such a dream. As I am more & more convinced that I cannot recover, I will make a memorandum of my temporary concerns, for next to the Spiritual, they ought to...

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 21h

Why doesn't Dodgy Bob just go and join the rest of the swivel-eyed racists in RefUK?

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 1d

By coach to see Mr. Moore, who continues ill. I took his books of accounts, and did discourse with him about my Lord’s and my own businesses.

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 1d

1776: Gathered some keeping-apples. The intercourse between tups and ewes seems pretty well over. Ewes go, I think, 22 weeks.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d

Tree on the Moon

A full moon captured in perfect symmetry behind a solitary tree on a hilltop

Photo: Bernd Nowack

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 1d

He is utterly corrupt. Utterly devoid of any humane quality. He is a walking cancer.

Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 1d

This. Absolutely this. This is a core reason why we're in such a dire, dreadful situation:

Dan Howdle @danhowdle.bsky.social · 1d

what kind of system is that? when your country has enormous problems to solve you need people who have the intelligence, experience and know-how to bring forward and enact effective solutions, not someone who, for example, talks a good game, tows the party line, but is on some personal vendetta 4/4

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless."

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 2d

Holy mother of mercy! How utterly incompetent are these people?? (Rhetorical, its self-evident) 😲🙄😁
(Did they put Grayling in charge of the printing?)

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2d

The BBC has been accused of “extraordinary” anti-Green bias, after the party says a long-promised conference interview with new leader Zack Polanski was cancelled by the Laura Kuenssberg show just days before going to air

Every major political party leader, aside from him, was interviewed recently.

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

In the last 2 weeks MAGA aligned people have done 2 attempted mass shootings of a gay bar and pride center in Arizona and Texas, murdered 2 teenage girls for mocking Charlie Kirk, and torched a judge's home.

Meanwhile, the government mobilized the military to go after the left.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 23d

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal.

This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer.

#MedievalMonday

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 7d

Covid infection levels in England continue to rise very steeply, up 23% in the last week. While the overall risk remains High, we are anticipating that it will be raised to Very High next week.

buds.org.uk/covid-19-ris...

Covid-19 Risk Assessment: Week Ending 28 September 2025

The BuDS Covid-19 Risk Assessment for the week ending 28 September 2025

buds.org.uk

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 2d

The Conservatives: not okay, barely relevant, and yet… dangerously so.

The Bear on why their collapse isn’t the victory you think.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

The Tories are not okay – and we urgently need them to be

The Conservatives’ collapse into outrage politics isn’t just their downfall – it threatens Britain’s democracy and stability too

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 2d

I wish there were an emoji for being so emerald with envy that i could explode! 😁
(Not envious of your ailments, obvs, but of being in France with a functioning health service, obvs! 😘)

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 2d

Mr. Coventry telling us how of late upon enquiry into the miscarriages of the Duke’s family, Mr. Biggs, his steward, is found very faulty, and is turned out of his employment.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 2d

We can't tax billionaires, because they might take their tax avoidance to another country. But we can drive out brilliant people who do much-needed work, contribute to our society and culture, pay tax, create jobs, and have done nothing wrong. That's fine, apparently.

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Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.social · 3d

The Twin Suns of Tatooine ☀️☀️

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 2d

1776: Numbers of swallows & martins playing about at Faringdon, & settling on the trees. If hirundines hide in rocks & caverns, how do they, while torpid, avoid being eaten by weasels & other vermin?

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 4d

Is there a petition to get Moaning Mone expelled from the Lords yet?

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Maudie @maudiestokes.bsky.social · 3d

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Marius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 3d

Before covid, I sneezed very rarely. Only when I had a cold (maybe once a year) or disturbed dust. Since having covid in '20, I sneeze at least 10 to 12 times a day, often 5 or 6 times in a row, for no apparent reason whatsoever. Every. Single. Day. Every 👏 Single 👏 Day 👏

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 3d

1776: Black snails are more sluggish than in the summer; but in sight all day at this season of the year. Rooks steal wallnuts off the trees. Some wallnut trees naked of leaves. Saw one hornet. When mice eat nuts, they perforate a round hole in the shell: but squirrels split their nuts in halves...

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 3d

Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and fell out about my maid Sarah, whom my wife would fain put away, when I think her as good a servant as ever came into a house, but it seems my wife would have one that would dress a head well, but we were friends at last.

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · 4d

To my office till 9 at night, among other things examining the particulars of the miscarriage of the Satisfaction, sunk the other day on the Dutch coast through the negligence of the pilott.

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