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Nicole
@nikwatson.bsky.social
Crafter, spoonie, sci fi nerd.
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🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
January 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Thank you, Valentino Garavani, for showing us a way.
January 19, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Funeral went very well, far better than I hoped. Hard to pick a highlight but contenders are 1. The old flame who mum knocked back thirty years ago who read a self authored poem indicating he’s very much Not Over It (iconic)
January 18, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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We're on the tube. A girl wearing a puffa jacket has a huge orangy coloured lizard sitting on her shoulder. It's a real live lizard. Don't expect that in zone 6.
January 18, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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A lot of people don't know that Nobel laureates get two medals. A real gold one usually kept in a safe deposit box and a gold plated duplicate for public display.
She gave him the dupe
January 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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I'm in this one!
January 16, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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jezza. mate. it's TORY dysfunction week this week smdh
Jeremy Corbyn wants to get Your Party “back on track”

He has launched his own platform for the upcoming Your Party central executive committee elections

By @meganekenyon.bsky.social
Jeremy Corbyn wants to get Your Party "back on track"
He has launched his own platform for the upcoming Your Party central executive committee elections
www.newstatesman.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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This is not going to work. Jenrick and Farage are going to kill each other. It's going to be very funny.
January 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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flashbacks to the time my 89 yr old FiL fell off a pavement into a canal, in paris in february, swam down the canal to a restaurant to call for help, taken to hospital with hypothermia, and we found out because the hospital called us about his clothes when he absconded the next day to give a lecture
Mid-November I get a text from my mom asking for help to move my dad's car.

Okay, sure! Where is the car?

Oh, it's at a hospital.

...why...is it...at a...hospital...?
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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I placed a cheese stick on my child's highchair and then turned around to pick up the kid to put him in the highchair and by the time I turned back around the cheese stick was gone and we cannot figure out where it went.
January 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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Today, Sen. Mark Kelly filed a suit against the Department of Defense and Secretary Pete Hegseth over the military disciplinary proceedings initiated against him which argues that the government retaliated against Kelly for First Amendment-protected speech. Read the suit, from @pwbeck.bsky.social.
Sen. Kelly Sues Department of Defense Over Disciplinary Actions
The suit alleges the Defense Department retaliated against Kelly for protected speech and interfered with his Article I duties.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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“‘People should know there are steps they can take to uphold democracy’ said Erica Chenoweth. This is a core tenet of civil-resistance theory, also known as people power—that citizens, working in concert, have more agency than they are led to believe.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Protests for Democracy.
January 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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New name for Elon Musk's X just landed
Finally, Digital Epstein Island
January 9, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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I consider myself an Anglophile…until friends in England start posting photos of “the first flowers of spring” in January, and then I loathe the entire country with a passion.
January 8, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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This is a lovely archaeological discovery! An ancient Iron Age war trumpet dating to the time of Boudica’s rebellion against Rome

www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
‘Extraordinary’ iron age war trumpet find in Britain may have Boudicca links
Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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Mamdani really did just describe exactly a guy like him and his job and they can’t process it like Rumpelstiltskin being told his name no issue
this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on
January 2, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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For connoisseurs of utterly mental extensions on mundane houses (via reddit)
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
January 2, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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Interesting new research from Sweden:

Low Vasopressin In Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

www.endocrinepractice.org/article/S153...

Vasopressin or antidiuretic hormone helps the body hold on to fluid

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome
January 1, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Today's the day I archive everything I did in 2025 into three separate places because one day my biographers will want every single picture of every single cat I've ever seen
January 1, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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jools... put down the piano... we're all here to help you
December 31, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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daily routine
December 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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December 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM