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themountaingoats.bsky.social
this is my friend Steve Bailey. We met at one of the YoYo festivals, we were lodged at the same place, and we've been friends since. I am really stoked that he is sharing this stuff because "not all disabilities are visible" is something people say, 1/3

deadline.com/2026/01/grey...
‘Grey’s Anatomy’s Steven W. Bailey Reveals Neuromuscular Disorder, Wheelchair Use: “Same Actor … Now With Wheels”
A familiar face to fans of 'Grey's Anatomy', Steven W. Bailey is opening up about a five-year struggle with his own health.
deadline.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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louiestowell.bsky.social
It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
January 1, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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halfrobot.com
May 2026 be a year when those who persecute, despoil and oppress the people find their power shattering on the rock of solidarity!
January 1, 2026 at 5:29 AM
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lolennui.bsky.social
tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999 (i’m scared of computer)
January 1, 2026 at 2:34 AM
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davidandress.bsky.social
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · Dec 4
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
Johann Lamont @JohannLamont• 1d X Girlguiding decision important yet it all makes me sad. The Guides meant so much to me but the announcement is so grudging, so reluctant, so concerned about the impact on boys, I wonder if it can ever again give girls the brilliant, confidence building space in which I thrived. • 93 {7 316 O3.1K I|41K •
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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cyricz42.bsky.social
Announcement:

I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark Ties.

Full statement below:
Hi everyone. CyricZ here. After giving myself time to reflect on my options, I’ve decided that I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3 / Dark Ties. I will not be purchasing the game, nor playing it in any capacity. I write guides because I love writing, and I write for the games that I write for because they inspire me. The joy I find in them drives me to give my best work. If I were to write a guide entirely out of obligation or expectation, I do not believe my best work would find its way to the page. With the hiring of known sexual harasser Teruyuki Kagawa to the face and voice cast of Yakuza Kiwami 3, I do not find myself inspired by the game. The Like a Dragon series has a long-standing history of opposing sexual misconduct in all its forms and I feel this casting goes against that message. Key members of RGG Studio have refused to speak on the hiring of Kagawa after his misconduct was made more widely known. While they are by no means required to speak about this, by their silence they have sent a message that they do not view Kagawa’s misconduct as a dealbreaker for inclusion in the series cast, nor do they deem it worth addressing. This stands in contrast to steps taken in the past to replace other cast members that did not align with their values. I won’t go into further detail on the issue itself as the information is widely available via the #REMOVEKAGAWA movement. The rest of this will be about me, my guides, and my relationship with RGG Studio and the Like a Dragon series. I remain a fan of the Like a Dragon series. It’s not something I can just excise from myself. I intend to continue playing past Like a Dragon games on stream as they are some of my favorite video games. That may be subject to change in the future, but the plans are to continue playing the games on stream in my intended order, with the exception of Yakuza Kiwami 3 or Dark Ties. The only minor thing that will change with regards to my streams is that I intend to take special note during stream of the many, many instances during the series that remind us of the societal ill of sexual misconduct. As to future games put out by RGG Studio, I reserve the right to not make a decision on those at this time. That will be a “wait and see” situation, dependent on future actions or inactions by RGG Studio. Further, if things change with regards to the release of Yakuza Kiwami 3, I reserve the right to reassess all the preceding. RGG Studio still has the opportunity to do right in this situation, and I hold onto hope that they will see the best way forward. Finally, I promise to all my readers that my GameFAQs guides for the Like a Dragon series and other RGG Studio games will be going nowhere no matter what happens. Not only are they some of my best work, but if I preserve the guides with myself as the author, I remain in creative control of them. This prevents others from taking the text and redistributing it without my consent, which is something I fear would happen if I were to remove them from GameFAQs entirely. For those of you who read my guides, thank you so much for your support, and I’m sorry I will not be helping with this upcoming game. For anyone who wants to write a guide on GameFAQs for Yakuza Kiwami 3, be my guest, not that you need my permission anyway. For those of you joining me in solidarity against Kagawa and this release, I thank you all for sticking with it. Your commitment has inspired this. Be good to each other, Scott “CyricZ” Zdankiewicz
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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lseimpactblog.bsky.social
👀ICYMI: "the British Library’s woes are a microcosm of a wider crisis across the UK’s knowledge sector"

#ScolComm #Libraries #KnowledgeWork @simonxix.com
Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences
Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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algernonentity.bsky.social
borb #borb

#birds
an extremely round male eurasian bullfinch sitting on a branch among branches, his head poking up, the whole silhouette resembling an upside down light bulb.
December 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
thebookmagpie.bsky.social
AFI - Barrowlands, 2006
Leonard Cohen - Clyde Auditorium, 2008
Bruce Springsteen - Hampden, 2009
MCR - Hydro, 2022
Mountain Goats - Barrowlands, 2024
magickitten.bsky.social Kate ✨🐱 but hibernating @magickitten.bsky.social · Nov 27
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts:
• Mull Historical Society, Radio 1 tent, Reading 2001
• The Killers, who were on before Keane, V Festival, 2002
• Take That, Milton Keynes Bowl, with the Robbie hologram, 2006
• Daði Freyr, Forum Kentish Town, 2021
• Muse, 15 times since Reading 2002
plashingvole.bsky.social Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · Nov 27
The Serpents (Welsh supergroup) where I was the only paying customer so they bought me a pint and still played the gig
Kate Bush
@lowtheband.bsky.social in a pub’s upstairs room
Philip Glass in a cathedral
Premiere of Festen the opera
Broadcast surrounded by freshers with their hands over their ears
November 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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xkcd.com
Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
A chart showing child poverty in the UK increasing sharply if the two child limit remains in place, and falling if it is scrapped.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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twlldun.bsky.social
Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer
what resembles the grave but isn't Always falling into a hole, then saying "ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying "ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying "this is not your grave, get out of the hole"; sometimes being pushed, saying "you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave," and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying "this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole," all together getting out of the hole together, hands and legs and arms and human ladders of each other to get out of the hole that is not the mass grave but that will only be gotten out of together; sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave because it is easier than not falling into a hole really, but then once in it, realizing it is not the grave, getting out of the hole eventually; sometimes falling into a hole and languishing there for days, weeks, months, years, because while not the grave very difficult, still, to climb out of and you know after this hole there's just another and another; sometimes surveying the landscape of holes and wishing for a high quality final hole; sometimes thinking of who has fallen into holes which are not graves but might be better if they were; sometimes too ardently contemplating the final hole while trying to avoid the provisional ones; sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, with perfect fortitude, saying "look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from…
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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gothcasual.bsky.social
Racists “we just want people to integrate”

Asylum seekers “learn english”

Racists
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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titsay.bsky.social
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November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social
James Daunt (Waterstones MD) 2018 vs US Hedge Fund Owned Waterstones in 2025 - opening just 2 mins from brilliant @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith bit.ly/3XJ1thi. (NB Elliott Advisors' billionaire CEO Paul Singer donates millions to support IDF soldiers in Israel.. bit.ly/4rpjPBU) #SupportIndies
Extract from Bookseller 2018 "When asked if the company had chanmged its stance on not opening up new stores in places which alreday had thriving independents, Daunt said "Absolutely not. We will not be operating in a predatory way." Extract from Scotsman interview with Argonaut Books owner saying "It was with much surprise then that we learnes, and not directly from Waterstones themselves, that the UK's biggest book chain was moving in literally steps from our front door."
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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bigbeardybooks.bsky.social
and if your going to Scotland at any time there is a list of 117 Independent Bookshops (it does need updated and checked) to visit or buy from their website

#BookSky #Bookshop #IndieBookshop 📚💙 #ChooseBookshops #BuySmallBuyLocal

bigbeardedbookseller.uk/bookshops-sc...
Bookshops: Scotland – Big Bearded Bookseller
bigbeardedbookseller.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
thebookmagpie.bsky.social
With the Booksellers' Association report on Scottish bookshops today and chat around Waterstones & indies still rumbling on, I thought it might be a good time to share a wee project. I decided last year that I wanted to make a map of indie & charity bookshops across Scotland & here it is!
An image of Scotland in Google Maps with pins marking the locations of Scottish indie and charity bookshops.
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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ramonaspierre.bsky.social
If you're about to buy books for Christmas presents, why not order from @argonautbooks.bsky.social or drop in if you're in Edinburgh? @waterstones.bsky.social have just announced they're opening less than 100m away, so they could do with all the love and support they can get #BookSky #NatureWriting
The logo of Argonaut Books in Leith, orange text on top of a fractured white spiral, on top of a black background
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
thebookmagpie.bsky.social
Further crap behaviour from Waterstones at a corporate level. Not surprised, still disappointed. Argonaut is a fantastic bookshop and Edinburgh in general is not short of indies - why do this?
argonautbooks.bsky.social Argonaut Books @argonautbooks.bsky.social · Nov 18
We need your help.

@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.

Please read on for more information

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...

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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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seamas.bsky.social
No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.
October 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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chrissyd-comedy.bsky.social
There is no more anger-inducing, humiliating and physically perilous act in my life than changing my duvet. I hate it with a passion that could cause a rift in time and space. THIS is what we should be training robots to do.
October 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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florencehrscott.bsky.social
Looks like someone took the last train home xxxxx
October 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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craigtime.bsky.social
Ian Was-kins
October 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM