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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 1d

*muffled sounds of me biting my tongue*

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 3d

I feel this is one of those concepts that so perfectly straddles the line between "weird genius / weirdly unsettling"
While I'm no traditionalist in any sense, I'm not sure I'm ready for such breakfast innovation!

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 3d

Wait... Have I got this right, instead of water or milk you used tea?

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 4d

Same, little tree. Same.

A fenced-off sapling with a sign on it saying "I am stressed but I will be happier once Autumn comes".

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 5d

Devil's Coach Horse. They 100% do square up to you. They can be proper chippy.

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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 6d

#DailyGhost
4) DALLINGTON CHURCH
Northamptonshire, 1907. Two girls out for a walk enter the church. Inside, they are terrified to see the place full of kneeling people who seemed "to be made of a substance similar to bubbles". No explanation has ever been offered, and the apparition never reoccurred

Haunted East Anglia by Joan Forman (1974 / 1990)

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 6d

It's #HALLOWEIRD season!

'When Hell Laughed' was written by Christine Campbell Thomson (1897 - 1985) under her pseudonym Flavia Richardson. She also edited the NOT AT NIGHT series.
M.R. James was *not* a fan of them (see 4th picture).

#halloween #spooktober

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 6d

I am a fan of that cover art though!

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ACLU @aclu.org · 8d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 8d

Lichen, algae, funghi
‘Plants and how they Live’ (1965)

Artist: Ronald Lampitt

An illustrative diagram showing range of different fungi etc, set under a tree in autumn

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 10d

I can't recall where I read it, but there was a cottage up on Keal Hill (nr Old Bolingbroke) that regularly used to lose china and crockery off shelves due to the whole building rumbling with returning bombers 'just' making it height-wise to the elevated land their base was sited on.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 10d

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power

We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before

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www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 10d

Given the number of Bomber crashes in the county (especially as the Bombing Campaign really got going late war) I'm surprised there were not a lot more civilian casualties!

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks David, confirmation it's not just me is reassuring.

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 11d

I keep getting (somewhat ironically) a 'Bad Gateway Error' message.

Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 11d

Hi, fellow Archaeology & Heritage peeps.

Is Heritage Gateway down for everyone else, or am I the only sap that can't access it right now (or indeed since some point on Friday)?

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 11d

Wait... what the hell is going to happen on Wednesday?

A picture of a plastic kettle with the text " UK households told to descale kettles before Wednesday "

Photo of sticks of coloured chalk, with the text " UK households told to draw around beds with chalk before Wednesday"

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 12d

Whatever happens, DO NOT FEED THE JAR OF HAIR AFTER MIDNIGHT!

Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · Dec 17

3. Jar of hair

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Hannah Boston @hannah-boston.bsky.social · 14d

4-year funded PhD in the field of Old Norse-Viking Studies, working on artistic and literary representations of the Vikings for the ERC-funded NorseMap Project #jobs www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

Research Vacancies | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 15d

God...
It's drying out terribly.

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 15d

M.R. James - Kitchen edition

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 15d

One of the most enviable thing about cats, is their absolute assured sense that there is no situation that won't be 100% improved by them sitting right down in the middle of it.
Casts... zero imposter syndrome

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 16d

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Pighill @pighill.bsky.social · 19d

As the ancient prophecy foretold!

Robin Bougie @robinbougie.bsky.social · 20d

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

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