If you need to be distracted by watching an hour of someone’s delightful special interest and learning some history today, I got you youtu.be/ukmIXUEDAkE

What Was Childhood Like In Shakespeare's London?: The London History Show

YouTube video by J. Draper

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The cat has melted in front of the fire, I have gathered kale from the garden before this week’s big freeze, and I’m flipping between a fiction book and these (snagged 6 glass demijohns, fermenting buckets, and related odds and ends from a neighbour 🤓) Have a great 2026, you lot

How everyone in this house feels today

Oh no. #Whamageddon

I never want to live in London again, but this visit hasn’t been half bad so far. I thought my now-rural brain would struggle but nope, it all snaps back into place

This book is fantastic and you should read it and give people copies

Violet Blue®@violetblue.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This holiday season give the gift of fighting for what you love. Spend time with houseless punk kids who refuse to give up on each other in award-winner No Word For Water. Fortify your health boundaries with Covid Safety Handbook. Demand privacy with all-gender, all orientation Smart Girl's Guide.

calling it now, the “look for the helpers” of 2k26 is “look for the anarchists”

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 9mo ago

….A thousand liberal moms and grandpas being trained by a couple communists and anarchists they don’t know are communists and anarchists lolllll

New gig starts tomorrow and I’m excited, but also more anxious than usual. Can’t afford more time off to recover from the toxic job I quit, so back on the horse I go!

Me before October 7 🥲

🚨glucose monitor recall

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 10mo ago

There's an urgent recall on a subset of FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus — they show FALSE LOW GLUCOSE READINGS. The website to check the serial number of your sensors is www.freestylecheck.com/us-en/home.h...

When you are stuck in bed-gaming mode because sitting up hurts too much, so your partner surprises you with fairy lights to brighten the view ❤️

Tiny birds were VERY ready for this feeder top up! Getting a dozen at a time but managed to capture a few. Male and female pheasant stroll through to snack on whatever drops; haven’t gotten a photo of them yet. And next door’s little black cat sits at a distance and watches them all

UK friends, please take a moment to nominate this awesome charity? (Category in the dropdown = ‘community’)

Wheels for Wellbeing@wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk · 10mo ago

From 1st – 16th December, Benefact Group are donating £1,000 to 10 charities each day. Please can everyone vote for us. It only takes a minute and we may be one of the lucky charities to win. Thank you all so much for your support. movementforgood.com #MovementForGood

Sharing this "scientific paper" with Bsky because misery loves company: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen... Iggy Pop Leonard Cohen Björk Elvis Costello PJ Harvey

@gavreads@gavreads.co.uk · 10mo ago

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen... Scissor Sisters Thea Gilmore Alanis Morissette Placebo Bastille

Kagi+Orion (search engine you pay for vs being the product & privacy-focused browser) are really good so far. I also like that my new (used) iPhone lets me toggle browsers and use any source of truth for site logins. Not the Linux phone of my dreams yet, but slight improvement.

My brain has decided I’ve had enough downtime and the only way to be unemployed now is to keep tackling the backlog of house chores. At least I’m getting a lot of audiobook time as I shift and scrub things…

Heads up! Amazon have a deal on the print version of @wtpress.bsky.social Fight Like A Girl 2 - a mere 4.99 for something both signable and absorbent, if you like that sort of thing... please share? www.amazon.co.uk/Fight-Like-G...

Fight Like A Girl - Volume 2

Fight Like A Girl - Volume 2 eBook : McKenna, Juliet E, Smith Spark, Anna, Ware, Danie, Sebold, Gaie, Bond, Charlotte, Morgan, Lou, Davies, K T , Clarke, Roz, Hall, Joanne: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Drifty in-between time while I’m unemployed. Snow let up so I made it out to the garden. Plenty to harvest, & even ripe tomatoes in the greenhouse! Watching YouTube talks on subjects I’m interested in. And ofc always reading. Mask will be up soon enough. Now I have a little time to just be me.

very important cause and I suggest everyone buys a copy in order to support that worthy cause, the pictures are irrelevant I read it for the articles

Anne Pasek@apasek.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The big news today is that there's a bunch of jacked firewomen in NZ who have put together a calendar to fundraise for breast cancer research: www.breastcancercure.org.nz/calendar/wah...

Trying to find ways to feel like myself again while I shake off the effects of the job I quit. Today’s supporter package from @pmpress.bsky.social definitely helps! ❤️

What are your top 5 media* genres? mine are: Friends & frenemies band together to fight scary things Woman achieves greatness in the face of adversity Dystopian hellscape + found family Singing where you wouldn’t expect singing Kaiju! *modified to include other media (was movies)

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 10mo ago

What are your top 5 movie genres? mine are: - spot the BBC actor historical - Utena and things that are basically Utena - US-Japanese horror movie cross-pollination had a monster baby - Derek Jacobi is in this, right? - cosy mystery, or Gundam, why not both?

My face hurts. Because capitalism.

Read this (then of course read Hild and Menewood if you have not) Seriously. Top of your TBR

Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now!@nicolaz.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is such a lovely, perceptive, beautifully conceived critical appraisal that even if you never plan to read my novels, you should read the review essay. 💕 Deeply interesting in its own right!

Unfollow or block every single person who uses body shaming or homophobia to attack anyone, including fascists. It’s just lazy. And wrong. Fash are such easy targets, we can all do better. And the attack never lands on them. It lands on the fat/old/queer person who reads it.

PSA: if you are a cannabis grower in the United States or have been thinking about starting to grow, get any seeds you’ve been wanting to buy online before the end of the year. The new changes to the hemp laws make buying seeds online illegal again as of January 1, 2026

Me: it’s all muscle memory now, I can play the post-ending version of Hades 2 on painkillers after a hard day deep-cleaning the house. I want to finish the story, it’ll be fine. Game: surprise! You now randomly drop into the first game’s boss fight no matter how few boons you have #gaming #hades2

No human on earth should go without access to nourishing food, a safe home, and adequate healthcare Borders should be abolished Coercive hierarchy should be dismantled at every opportunity (Ok maybe I’m actually 357 woke opinions in a trenchcoat)

Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 10mo ago

"my least woke opinion is---" That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania. Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.