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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 39m

Ladybird books in the spotlight.
Toys and Games to Make (1966)
Artist: Robert Ayton

Cover picture of the book, demonstrating some of the activities to make including cotton reel puppet, cargo ship date box and matchbox boat

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 37m

#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 14h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 10h

Here's my grandad and his mates training for the big antifa day out on 6th June 1944

Troops from the Royal Engineers and Royal Ulster Rifles training with a machine gun in advance of D Day, (my grandad is the fella holding the magazine)

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tomboktu.bsky.social @tomboktu.bsky.social · 10h

As a barrister, she should know that the only way the election can be cancelled is if one of the candidates dies before polling.

A journalist should ask her why she would want that and whether it is not a bit harsh.

tomboktu.bsky.social @tomboktu.bsky.social · 10h

But the most delicious bit is that the main subject of the book, as listed in the Library of Congress Cataloging Data, is 'Recursive functions'.
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tomboktu.bsky.social @tomboktu.bsky.social · 10h

In 1982, Dover published a second edition of his book, with the Sci Am paper included as an appendix, and with the entry nr references for his book updated to refer to the 1982 edition.

So: an entry in a reference in his book is to the book in which the reference appears.
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tomboktu.bsky.social @tomboktu.bsky.social · 10h

My favourite on this:
"Computability and Unsolvability" by Martin Davis was published in 1958. In 1973, Davis published a paper in Scientific American about a development in the field, which listed his book 1958 in the references.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 13h

😭 help . I planted a beefsteak tomato thinking it was going to grow bits of cattle flesh but it was just tomato. I'm so confused, the EU parliament needs to help me. I've been tricked and mislead

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Financial Services Union @fsuireland.bsky.social · 13h

Productive meeting with Labour Deputies Ged Nash and George Lawlor earlier.

Good discussion around hybrid working in AIB and BOI and the effects of AI in the wider financial services sector.

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 14h

This results in this central Sankey plot that shows the flow of 2022 fossil fuel profits ‘from the well’ to their ultimate U.S. beneficiaries. 7/

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tomboktu.bsky.social @tomboktu.bsky.social · 14h

Saw the bloke in the middle with another man and that badger, from the bus on my way to work, yesterday morning. They were at traffic lights.

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Daragh Ó Briain @daraghobrien.bsky.social · 17h

Looking at #Amazon to get a copy of the #DataEthics book I co-authored with Katherine O’Keefe.

Almost €20 in the difference. For the same book.

Photo of Amazon.ie listing for “Data Ethics” by O’Keefe and O Brien. Price is €66.03.

Photo of Amazon.co.uk listing for “Data Ethics”. Price is €46.10

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 21h

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She's Made President http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/maria-steen-turning-up-at-gates-of-the-aras-refusing-to-leave-until-shes-made-president/

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She’s Made President

A WOMAN who has never been a presidential candidate or appeared on a ballot paper has taken up residence outside the gates of Leinster House, vowing never to leave until she is made president of …

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I see something talking about "The West," I mentally substitute "The White Nations" or "Christendom".

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
The Trimphone
(How it Works: The Telephone, 1972)
Artist: BH Robinson

Photo realistic illustration of a green trimphone on a beige background.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 1920 seamen and firemen at the Dublin docks were on a wildcat strike demanding a pay increase. The stoppage halted exports from Ireland, which reduced the number of cattle for sale at markets by half stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

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tomboktu.bsky.social @tomboktu.bsky.social · 1d

My employer has a subscription to JSTOR. I wonder if I can download it.
(Last week's attempt to read about a report by Australian judge Mr Justice Blow on employment corruption was blocked. The NT Independent started their headline with. "Blow jobs report".)

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tomboktu.bsky.social @tomboktu.bsky.social · 1d

Even better: not any old attacks - "Suffodit inguina: Genital attacks on Roman emperors and other primates"

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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tomboktu.bsky.social @tomboktu.bsky.social · 1d

“Tax bands and allowances aren’t indexed and cost of living measures ... are being discontinued. ... It’s a two-pronged attack on workers.” – @kcallinan60.bsky.social of @forsatradeunion.bsky.social on Budget 2026

www.forsa.ie/budget-2026/

Workers to bear brunt of ‘belt-tightening’ budget 2026 - Forsa

Fórsa general secretary, Kevin Callinan has warned that Budget 2026 will have major implications for wage bargaining across the economy.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 7 Oct 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter and Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW) revolutionary union martyr, was born in Sweden. He wrote such working-class anthems as 'The Preacher and the Slave', and was executed in the US. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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