Is there a way I'm missing that you can filter the trending topics field to ANYTHING BUT THE US? I really don't care what the most popular American topics are. The Other Place at least lets you choose by geographical region. @bsky.app

So, because successive UK Govs have done zilch about increasing prison capacity, their solution is to just let offenders out early. Wait until the first woman is murdered by a domestic abusing ex getting out & hunting her down. Meanwhile Gov just apologises in advance. It's a disgrace.

PSA: #VisionExpress are sh*t. Carry on. ☹️

Sometimes 'traditions' need to go. Whatever the reasons for this hunt in the past, they do not exist now. It is not 'bullying' to say that the annual butchery of young birds 'just because we've always done it' is no longer acceptable. Thank you #NatureScot for showing compassion and sense. #guga

Scottish islanders refused permission to stage annual guga hunt

Each year hundreds of gannet chicks are killed for their meat on the uninhabited Hebridean island of Sula Sgeir.

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Saw this in my current read, in reference to Sophia of Hanover. Surely as a granddaughter of James I, she was niece of Charles I, not Charles II? 🤔 #EarlyModern #History #AmIReadingThisWrong

I get we're in the middle of an Odyssey craze, so ppl are going loopy over all things mythological, but is anyone else finding the already exhaustive glut of novels reimagining the lives of Greek goddesses a bit, I dunno, much? It's like the Everything Anne Boleyn era all over again. 🙄 #booksky

#BugSky folks, what is this?? Dozens just dropped out of our willow tree while we were trimming it. 😐

What a load of complete bilge. I've read the Game of Thrones series. I picked them up because I like a bit of fantasy and, let's be honest, Jon Snow. It doesn't mean I 'worry about humanity's future', for pete's sake. 🙄 #booksky #comeonbbc

What your summer reading list says about you

Just picked your holiday book? Our choices can subconsciously reveal important parts of our personality, studies show.

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Holy crap, it's raining! Like, BIG RAIN! 😲🌧️

I can't be sure if the thumping headache I have tonight is the result of dehydration, too little sleep, or the effects of a mislaid contact lens potentially stuck behind my eye for the last 24 hours. 😵‍💫

Tom Kerridge really gets my back up in his ads, especially the latest about the wonderful lives of the pigs on a farm, while he stands surrounded by plates of pork & salami. Making pigs & cows happy before you kill them is NOT 'animal welfare'. Ugh. I hate carnivores. 🥺🐷

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The feeling when you've been looking at a handwritten document for an hour and you still can't read THAT word...! This illustration of a sea monster can be found in our sixteenth-century atlas of the counties of England and Wales by Christopher Saxton. 📷 Rare books B 1590/SAX/XX

The current obsession from #Ancestry is Irish records. I have ZERO Irish ancestry. My tree states this very clearly. Still, that doesn't stop their p*ss poor algorithm fishing out any Irish random with the same name as my ancestors & hinting every bloody day that they *might* be mine. 🙄 #genealogy

What the hell are 'acid burned melodies?' 🤨

Charli XCX photo purchased by National Portrait Gallery

The gallery describes the pop star as "one of the defining cultural figures of her generation".

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You know the world has finally lost the plot when Brits are excitedly posting pictures of a few drops of rain. 😆☂️🌧

A well deserved, humiliating day for #Argentina. #Spain win, and the #Falklands are still British. 🥂 #suckitup

I hope Thomas Haynes' executors fulfilled his wish. What a lovely gesture in 1645, to give his books to a 'publique library' and to pay for them to be taken there. What became of them? Do any sit today on a modern library shelf? What a legacy that would be! 📚❤️ #earlymodern #libraries #books

Bog off, #Argentina. The #Falklands were never yours in the first place. Get over it.

I'm not watching the football, but the commentary on it in here - especially the oh-so-British insults aimed at #Messi - are hysterical. 😆 #England #Argentina

I can't decide whether I'm impressed at #Ancestry's handwriting deductions on this one, or concluding they're just making these things up. This, apparently, is the surname 'Brockenbunes'. 👀 #genealogy #earlymodern

Um, I don't think so....😳 #birds #gardenbirds #shgtss

My win for the day is a letter from my mortgage provider saying they've reviewed my account, and from August my monthly repayment will be £9.46 less. Woohoo! 😄 🪅 All those little bits of overpayment are starting to work! 🏠

Need cheering up. 😞 Anyone got Jack Russell pics? 🙏 #dogsky #dogs #jackrussellterrier

Watching another doc about the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower, peddling the tired old Henry VII/Shakespeare narrative that Richard III killed them. I wish ppl would read Philippa Langley's book on the evidence she found in Europe. It suggests the truth was nothing of the kind. #history

"Shaking his hand while wearing the rubber gloves felt like being the giblets inside a plastic bag inside the arse cavity of a turkey." 🤣 From "One Yellow Eye" by Leigh Radford #booksky #bookquotes

I'm probably being thick but can someone from @ihgs.bsky.social please explain how to access the July Anytime Talk as a student? It says it is available until 3rd August on the website but I'm looking at the list in the student area and it isn't there. Am I missing something? 🥺 #genealogy

A question for #Booksky folks. When buying books, do you avoid the versions with movie/TV adaption pics on the cover? Everything's adapted these days, & I want to to use my own imagination for the characters' faces, not some actor's I can then never separate from the story. Is that weird? 😐

In 1994, I was caught up in a stubble field fire after the #SealedKnot (cheers guys) accidently set fire to it with burning wadding from a cannon...🔥 Stories like this always remind me to avoid cornfields in the summer! Thankfully the SK had nothing to do with this one, though. 🤦

Firefighters tackle large crop field blaze in Hungerford

Most of the firefighters left the field after the blaze by Friday evening, the fire service says.

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Not a good start, #AndyBurnham. All the other main politicians - Starmer, Badenoch, Farage, Rayner, even the Speaker, managed to find time to express their shock and condolences at #AnneWidecombe's murder themselves. Burnham's statement came through a spokesperson. 😐