There's a road near my home that struck me because it's named after a little place south of Manchester where I first grew up. Handforth got briefly famous during Covid years when a recording of the parish council Zoom meeting went viral 1/
Bex Luther
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Gender blurrer, lover of Watership Down, Howards' Way, and Twin Peaks. Please don't tell me how I should do Bluesky
stg they are going to replace your car mirrors with cameras and make you subscribe so you don't get ad breaks every 4 mins in your rear view
852dude@852dude.bsky.social · yesterdayThis sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.
There are so many swans on Eagle Pond you get these great drifts of white feathers around the edges
Friends… please can you share? I’m starting to put some art up for sale to pay for my louche year of painting (and grieving, let’s face it cos that’s what’s at the root of all this, I think) - and would love to find some nice homes for my art #artforsale #starvingartist #watercolour #bsnm #nature
Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons@gingertotty.bsky.social · 3d agoBack to scanning artwork. Some originals will be on sale, some prints, and I’m starting to curate so I can put together the much vaunted exhibition I keep threatening… These will be in the 2026 Clarkive sale. Prices in alt if you want to reserve (DM me)! #art #bsnm #artforsale #originalart #artist
Christians should be banned from playing sports. Jesus provides them with additional strength, which gives them unfair advantage.
You know they took The Phil Silvers Show and animated it as Top Cat? Well they have now done the same thing with your uncle Keith's awkward post Christmas lunch diatribes
Not often I see a post about Borth so delighted with this one
Andrew P Brooks@andrewpbrooks.bsky.social · 3d agoI spotted lots of these unusual creatures on Borth Beach in Wales, these are By-the-wind Sailors or Velella velella & are a colony of individual animals & not true jellyfish. There’s a video here which shows more & gives a sense of their scale youtu.be/IwDnV0zcINU
Top 10 faithful old tortoises who brought us out of our shells
Lucy Fishwife 🥐@lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 3d agoTop 10 adorably scruffy stray dogs who taught us to love again
I watched S3E4 of King of the Hill (Pregnant Paws) yesterday and it might be the best animated sitcom episode I've ever seen 😊
Achtung Bono, CSI Ambleside, and 90 Bisodol (Crimond)
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · 4d agoWhat's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
I somewhat helplessly watched K fix her rear wheel bicycle puncture and somewhat helplessly watched J try and set up her new sewing machine and I have reached the conclusion that practicality wise I'm somewhat helpless
This is where you can come in Walthamstow to see the kingfishers and have a drink
My friend told me he was interviewing a young man for a job, and because it was an interview, instead of saying innit, the guy ended every sentence with isn't it
My friend told me he was interviewing a young man for a job, and because it was an interview, instead of saying innit, the guy ended every sentence with isn't it
What most of these trite "did we get the balance wrong" takes miss is they're delivered a safe distance from the prospect of taking responsibility for the thousands of extra deaths that would have happened if we'd struck a different balance.
I'm watching French Connection 2 and it's a very strange film
I've known my friend M since we were 18. I told him today about Bex. 32 years it's taken
🎵 I'm so tired of being lowly, I've got so much love to give 🎵
🚨NEW VIDEO!🚨 The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is the earliest known work of science fiction written by a woman. Published in 1666, 150 years before Frankenstein, it's been ignored for centuries. But not anymore. Link below ⬇️ youtu.be/OxJkiIL9UGw
The Woman Who Invented Science Fiction
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superhero called The Human Cork
It might have been a perfect, flattering sunlight, but one place with surprisingly lovely trees is around the Catford gyratory (on Rushey Green)
Will Jennings@willjennings.bsky.social · 6d agoYesterday, I met the perfect tree.
Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:
To me, Jodrell Bank is the most ridiculously exciting thing to look at in Britain
Skionar@skionar.bsky.social · 6d agoThe decommissioning of Jodrell Bank feels like the decommissioning of Alan Garner. No to disenchantment. Yes to re-enchantment and the filaments thereof. #Hookland
Rupert Lowe is a dirty, creepy, fucken ghoul of a shite
Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 6d agoI realise this is Restore Britain etc etc, but it's nonetheless pretty shocking.
1. What really happened with poor Hae Min Lee? 2. Voynich manuscript 3. What would have happened if I'd asked out Karen Quinn in 1993?
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
Cis woman: that looks so good on you Me: [happy for hours] Trans woman: I LOVE that dress Me: [happily gives v involved story on where it came from/what sizes/how much £ Man: that's a nice frock Me: je telephone le police
Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · 6d agoThe other day at the grocery store I told a woman I loved her cute green shoes, which matched her cute green top, and her whole face lit up and she told me the story of how she bought them Giving another woman a compliment is a great way to get a little serotonin boost btw
Thinking of encouraging more creativity in my team by setting annual subjectives instead of objectives