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@philippa11.bsky.social

reader, knitter, traveller, flâneuse. Academic-adjacent.

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Latest posts by philippa11.bsky.social on Bluesky

Just ran in to Kate Garraway in Margate. Didn't ask who won Traitors.

11.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ZOMG can't remember the last time I stayed up this late.

Probs the last time I was here, with these people.

10.10.2025 23:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's a proper earworm. I bought it when it was released as a single here in the UK.

10.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I once worked at a busy bookshop where my shift started two hours before we opened. It was my favourite time of day, just chatting and laughing with colleagues as we tidied up and shelved. Anyway, that's what Bluesky is like before America wakes up.

10.10.2025 10:16 — 👍 44    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Does this make it more or less likely that the US will now attack Venezuela?

10.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 71    🔁 10    💬 11    📌 0

How could you forget You're The Voice??? A song to which (from personal experience of being at parties there) every Australian knows the words?

10.10.2025 10:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Every single time I see Alan Carr on #CelebrityTraitors I think of this scene from Goodfellas

09.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
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He's got a point #CelebrityTraitors

09.10.2025 22:04 — 👍 112    🔁 14    💬 4    📌 6

bsky.app/profile/gene...

10.10.2025 07:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

09.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 3436    🔁 770    💬 86    📌 68

"You can't call someone a traitor because they've got a better vocabulary than you." Alan Carr, I love you.

09.10.2025 20:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Managed 10 mins of Murder Before Evensong before I switched to Frauds, and Jodie & Suranne being badass. First episode very promising.

09.10.2025 19:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@cabbagepatchcat.bsky.social may be RTYI

09.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As a teenager, everything I knew about Donald Sinden I learned from Spitting Image.

09.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Didn't know that Solihull is posh. Learn something new every day etc.

09.10.2025 13:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A user from south of the Midlands writes

09.10.2025 07:56 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

THANK YOU.

09.10.2025 09:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

imagine wearing a 7th doctor jumper to a tory conference in a world where this story, and many other stories, exist

09.10.2025 06:53 — 👍 71    🔁 18    💬 7    📌 1

It really, really is.

(If this is the future of the Tory party, it's clearly doomed to irrelevance, going by that line-up).

09.10.2025 06:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

💜

09.10.2025 06:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wow!

09.10.2025 06:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It should. But it's where all the posh people live so I wouldn't dare.

09.10.2025 06:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

08.10.2025 20:56 — 👍 239    🔁 74    💬 7    📌 2

So many round here. Prudhoe. Alnwick. Ponteland. For starters.

When I lived in London I heard Americans on a bus in the West End ask if we were at 'Lychester' Square.

08.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Charlotte Church tho

08.10.2025 20:15 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Paging @samrandomnumber.bsky.social

08.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Celebrity Traitors here we goooooo

08.10.2025 20:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I notice he didn't mention how many women were in the audience, either.

08.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

highland cattle have it figured out

08.10.2025 09:14 — 👍 805    🔁 157    💬 12    📌 1

I will be GLUED

08.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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