Helen Macdonald
@hjm.bsky.social
Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she
Sure it's strange to seek inspiration from a fiver but there's something even more bizarre about viewing the natural world as being primarily for very young children.
Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · yesterdayThere's a time and a place for a Hedgehog
According to Cloudflare Data Explorer the amount of russian bot traffic has dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a yandex data center. yoda69 / twitter
Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · yesterdayAnd now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
Yesterday @sinblache.bsky.social pointed out that I'd uttered the most neurodivergent sentence imaginable, namely: "I had to stop reading the cyberpunk sex novel because there were just too many fluids happening, so now I'm reading a collection of ghost stories about trains."
Never watched a full episode of Strictly, but the BBC showing themselves to be pathetic yet again by blurring out a participants “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt. Their excuse will be that it’s a political statement so had to be neutral but we know it’s because they can’t show an ounce of humanity to us
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 4d agoThings got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
I'm struggling to wrap my mind around how jaw-droppingly dumb this dross actually is. Reads like it was written by a 'clever' 15 yo who has never left his mom's basement or, like, read a book. Consider the vast power these folks + 'Antichrist!!!' Thiel hold What are we doing here, folks?
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitz
We are told that technology is on the brink of ruining everything. But we are being lied to, and the truth is so much better. Marc Andreessen presents his techno-optimist vision for the future.
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Industry regulations back then said they couldn't use rats, so the makers of Dracula (1931) used possums
"All her veins go down into this paper. She takes her pen and writes on it some marks no one else will ever see, she bestows on it a kind of surplus, she tops it off with a gesture as private and accurate as her own name."
Oh absolutely fucking not @london.gov.uk. Khan has been vocally on the side of the trans community; this is two fingers up. www.timeout.com/london/news/...
Oxford Street’s 2026 Christmas lights are getting a magical Harry Potter makeover
Have a Harry Christmas.
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The reason young people vibe with liminal horror is that the wealthy have spent the last half century destroying all anthropological spaces they can exist in, leaving *only* non-places en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place
Non-place - Wikipedia
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Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3mo agoFoucault's heterotopia is an interesting idea, considering how frenzied every single billionaire pedophile nazi is to destroy the heterotopia that was once the internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterot...
There are so, so many. But it'll settle for this one because it reminds me of a childhood listening to weird stuff on a short wave radio early in the morning before school. The world lost something when radio interval signals stopped being a thing. youtu.be/F6XFt4XLi60?...
R. France International (France) _ Interval signal [around 1978]
YouTube video by Interval Signal Library
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Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · 5d agoWhat is your favourite 80s French tune? (”Joe Le Taxi” can be taken as read I think)
the solution to the Monty Hall problem is simply to offer the host a handjob and then the rest works itself out
feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them
Walked past two students on Saturday, overheard this “Instead of cancelling it they should have introduced an even smaller Scrappy Doo to fuck with the first Scrappy. And kept going like that.” “And smaller Mystery Gang members?” “Yeah!! A tiny very clean shaven well dressed Shaggy.”
Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton@brainmage.bsky.social · 10mo agoImagine Scooby Doo saying "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori". It would be terrible. In fact, I don't think that Scooby Doo should read any war poems out loud. He can respect the fallen in other ways.
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
Hope For The Planet@h4tp.bsky.social · 3w agoWe now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews
If you try to do this with Prophet, I hope that Adam and Rao come out of your device to bite your fingers off.
Skyla Dawn Cameron@skyladawn.ca · 2w agoThanks, I hate it. techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/a...
Air to Ground Message: THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS WOULD LIKE ME TO PASS ALONG THAT THE GALLEY CART IS COVERED WITH ANTS. Area: Washington DC, USA Type: Airbus A220-300 A: #a64a1cc29e5 F: #f08f1cc5b3f
I did GCSE Russian at school and our teacher showed us a Russian map of the UK. Friend and I got mildly hysterical when we managed to transliterate one placename as "Niukasl-apon-Teyn".
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 3w agoThere are so many crimes in this thread you have to wonder what the police and Home Secretary think they are doing at this point.
Late 2nd-century statue of Glycon. (National History and Archeology Museum, Constanţa, Romania) who is a snake god that seems to have originated in Macedonia #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #archaeology #serpent #glycon
Am very very much enjoying The Rouse and have just stopped reading for a second to yell about how much the word “qualiaphagic” pleases me
