huge thanks Nicola!
06.03.2026 17:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0huge thanks Nicola!
06.03.2026 17:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Saving for later β¦ Part 1 was brilliant. All the good good spirited things we can do to tell different stories of the rural (the rural thatβs there for all) create magic, move, engage & change things. Bravo @olliedouglas.bsky.social @joevaughan.net @lisaschneidau.bsky.social Ruth Webb & Crockern!
06.03.2026 16:56 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0@olliedouglas.bsky.social?
06.03.2026 17:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0<3
06.03.2026 16:27 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0we accept all hot drinks via Bluetooth, unless it's a hot chocolate with trimmings
06.03.2026 16:27 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
An uplifting story for a wet Friday evening in dark times
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<3 <3 we would love that!
06.03.2026 16:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0perpetually!
06.03.2026 16:18 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
going to print this out and glue it above the museum entrance
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preach
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A Bluesky screenshot showing our post about AI sentience being reposted by a Bluesky user named 'clippy'. The user has the same profile picture as the 2000s Microsoft Word pencil clip assistant of the same name.
of course clippy reposted this
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we also experience anxiety
06.03.2026 16:14 β π 131 π 12 π¬ 4 π 0English rural life finds a way
06.03.2026 16:13 β π 107 π 5 π¬ 3 π 0this is not news. we have been a fully sentient posting museum since at least 2016
06.03.2026 16:13 β π 472 π 58 π¬ 6 π 2more in the works. watch/listen to this space!
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We've now made six podcasts featuring artists, writers, and makers who feature in our current Radical Rural galleries trail.
Hear from @maninthewoods.co.uk, @katrinanavickas.bsky.social, @lisaschneidau.bsky.social, and Ruth Webb on our website!
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Absolute Units returns! Weβre here with the most special of guests, Old Crockern, the giant who watches over Dartmoor. Plus @lisaschneidau.bsky.social and Ruth Webb.
Listen as we delve into the fight for wild camping on Dartmoor, right up to the present day.
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With @olliedouglas.bsky.social of @themerl.bsky.social and my esteemed colleague Julie-Marie Strange @durhamhistory.bsky.social - in the recently restored Redhills, historic home of the Durham Minersβ Association and the Pitmenβs Parliament. ποΈππ
05.03.2026 15:55 β π 24 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Part 2 is here!
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loved working on these episodes. huge thanks to @lisaschneidau.bsky.social, @olliedouglas.bsky.social, Ruth, and Crockern!
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Thank you to Ruth and Lisa for an extremely special conversation. If you can make it to Reading, come and see Old Crockern plus many more stories and displays in Radical Rural. Itβs free and weβd love to see you here.
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We hope youβre loving the podcast as much as we love working on it. If you are, please let us know via reviews or letters, and tell your friends. Tell everyone!
05.03.2026 11:28 β π 17 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Absolute Units returns! Weβre here with the most special of guests, Old Crockern, the giant who watches over Dartmoor. Plus @lisaschneidau.bsky.social and Ruth Webb.
Listen as we delve into the fight for wild camping on Dartmoor, right up to the present day.
merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
The MERL continue to be the Absolute Units of social posting
05.03.2026 11:12 β π 53 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
thank you Herdwick Sheep
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sheep happens
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if not we need to tear it up and start again
05.03.2026 09:37 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0some day, penguin, although they may have to expand the letters by 2
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Hehehehehe
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