tinymattresses
@tinymattresses.bsky.social
a keen sense of the absurd, a passion for books and less than stellar motor skills. Everyone deserves respect. (she/her)
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SOMEONE GET DAVID CRYSTAL, I've stopped using question marks for questions and now I only use them when i'm looking for reassurance or double checking something!!!!
October 6, 2026 at 3:56 PM
SOMEONE GET DAVID CRYSTAL, I've stopped using question marks for questions and now I only use them when i'm looking for reassurance or double checking something!!!!
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The UK's 117 day long streak of somewhere having at least 20c every single day has ended today.
This record trashes any previous year and proves beyond any doubt that the UK is suffering serious Climate Change.
This record trashes any previous year and proves beyond any doubt that the UK is suffering serious Climate Change.
October 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
The UK's 117 day long streak of somewhere having at least 20c every single day has ended today.
This record trashes any previous year and proves beyond any doubt that the UK is suffering serious Climate Change.
This record trashes any previous year and proves beyond any doubt that the UK is suffering serious Climate Change.
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I catalogued over 500 hours of Youtube footage for a website that lets you stare out the window of a train, and also control the weather somehow
train.samismith.com
train.samismith.com
October 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I catalogued over 500 hours of Youtube footage for a website that lets you stare out the window of a train, and also control the weather somehow
train.samismith.com
train.samismith.com
just had a straight white cis man at work tell the group chat to "instead let's just get on with our lives with normal words and, thus, stop annoying everyone."
it was over whether "folks" is a more inclusive term than "guys". (it is)
it was over whether "folks" is a more inclusive term than "guys". (it is)
October 6, 2026 at 3:18 PM
just had a straight white cis man at work tell the group chat to "instead let's just get on with our lives with normal words and, thus, stop annoying everyone."
it was over whether "folks" is a more inclusive term than "guys". (it is)
it was over whether "folks" is a more inclusive term than "guys". (it is)
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Fear of women divorcing men helped kill passage of basic income law back in the 1970s. Not only was that conclusion in error, but it turned out it improved relationships. Since then, the evidence has only deepened that the power to exit it provides leads to better relationships and far less abuse.
Does Basic Income Cause Divorce? 50 Years of Evidence Says No.
The 1970s fear that UBI breaks up families came from a statistical error. Finland, Canada, Kenya, and Alaska show no rise in divorce, and instead better relationships with less domestic violence.
scottsantens.substack.com
October 6, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Fear of women divorcing men helped kill passage of basic income law back in the 1970s. Not only was that conclusion in error, but it turned out it improved relationships. Since then, the evidence has only deepened that the power to exit it provides leads to better relationships and far less abuse.
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Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
![Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.
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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nycc7oummopgeptw555s6icn/bafkreicwbyb3msa5cnllbexjrxrmuw2s6qj36aiitv2tp5aos5nsz2pem4)
October 6, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
My work got fed up of the news so someone's put a lovely Michael Palin travel documentary on instead
October 6, 2026 at 12:56 PM
My work got fed up of the news so someone's put a lovely Michael Palin travel documentary on instead
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You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
October 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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Higher education is actively collapsing while Labour MPs report the Green Party to the cops for having opinions they don’t like. A government obsessed with fighting the left while our most successful cultural institutions collapse.
'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.'
A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.
A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.
Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected
Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 6, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Higher education is actively collapsing while Labour MPs report the Green Party to the cops for having opinions they don’t like. A government obsessed with fighting the left while our most successful cultural institutions collapse.
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The Northern leg of HS2 was too ambitious. The upper atmosphere, apparently, is fine.
bsky.app/profile/gile...
bsky.app/profile/gile...
"Experts estimate the cost for a state of the art system for the UK is much higher than the Conservatives’ plan ..."The cost of an Iron Dome..is probably £80bn over 10 years” said General Sir Richard Barrons"
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
When will the Tories get serious on spending restraint
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
When will the Tories get serious on spending restraint
Tories pledge ‘Britannia Shield’ to protect UK from drone attacks
A planned network of radar, command and control systems and interceptor missiles would strengthen defences against aerial threats
giftarticle.ft.com
October 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
The Northern leg of HS2 was too ambitious. The upper atmosphere, apparently, is fine.
bsky.app/profile/gile...
bsky.app/profile/gile...
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Convinced that mRNA vaccines are gonna go down in history like the invention of antibiotics
Looks like there’s an mRNA vaccine against pneumonic plague. Eat your heart out, RFK Jr.
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Novel Bivalent mRNA‐LNP Vaccine for Highly Effective Protection against Pneumonic Plague
The study investigates mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines targeting Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. Combined F1+LcrV mRNA vaccination elicited robust immune responses and protected mice....
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Convinced that mRNA vaccines are gonna go down in history like the invention of antibiotics
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this summer's cultural cross over we've all been waiting for
jimothy x bayeux
jimothy x bayeux
July 28, 2026 at 6:24 PM
this summer's cultural cross over we've all been waiting for
jimothy x bayeux
jimothy x bayeux
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Something that sounds made up but is true is that the first money I ever got for my writing was from Jeffrey Archer, & when I met him just over ten years later he asked for it back.
October 5, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Something that sounds made up but is true is that the first money I ever got for my writing was from Jeffrey Archer, & when I met him just over ten years later he asked for it back.
So, went for a lil nap at 2.30 as I was feeling a bit peaky. Annnnndd I just woke up.
October 5, 2026 at 6:50 PM
So, went for a lil nap at 2.30 as I was feeling a bit peaky. Annnnndd I just woke up.
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Here's the original video from George Brett Olson that got me started on all of this
The fact this is actually happening continues to baffle me
The fact this is actually happening continues to baffle me
October 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Here's the original video from George Brett Olson that got me started on all of this
The fact this is actually happening continues to baffle me
The fact this is actually happening continues to baffle me
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never the wrong time for this classic
October 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
never the wrong time for this classic
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You know, I am quite ambivalent about bsky because it's quite genteel and unbothered in the main.
I have seen FAR MORE OUTRAGE about the Greens motion over the last two hours than posts about Palestine over the last two years.
I have seen FAR MORE OUTRAGE about the Greens motion over the last two hours than posts about Palestine over the last two years.
October 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM
You know, I am quite ambivalent about bsky because it's quite genteel and unbothered in the main.
I have seen FAR MORE OUTRAGE about the Greens motion over the last two hours than posts about Palestine over the last two years.
I have seen FAR MORE OUTRAGE about the Greens motion over the last two hours than posts about Palestine over the last two years.
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There's currently a massive palaver because too many Brits want to see some women-made art about a war we lost
October 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
There's currently a massive palaver because too many Brits want to see some women-made art about a war we lost
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A guy on the tok explained the proper names for them (4 minutes long I swear people gotta learn brevity)
October 5, 2026 at 4:23 AM
A guy on the tok explained the proper names for them (4 minutes long I swear people gotta learn brevity)
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Found a couple pretty good ones in my files
October 5, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Found a couple pretty good ones in my files
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A quick look for sentences passed down (a while ago, yes) for others convicted of bombings in the UK suggests - and I know that the legislation is different - that 15 years is at the lower end of what he might have expected.
Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"
October 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM
A quick look for sentences passed down (a while ago, yes) for others convicted of bombings in the UK suggests - and I know that the legislation is different - that 15 years is at the lower end of what he might have expected.
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It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit.
Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.
Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.
Support the National Trust by voting for Council members by 11:59pm on 30 October 2026.
Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani.
In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.
Quickvote is convenient if you're short of time or worried about inadvertently voting for Restore Trust's Bonigala, Cristea, Goldman, Mealing or Omrani.
In our often bad times, the Trust's doing good things.
Today marks three years since the iconic Sycamore Gap tree was illegally felled.
We're pleased to bring you new images which reveal how the stump is growing, a sure sign that the tree is in recovery.
We're pleased to bring you new images which reveal how the stump is growing, a sure sign that the tree is in recovery.
October 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit.
Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.
Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.
Saw Labyrinth waaaayyyy too young. I was scared of David Bowie's..... hair
In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?
October 5, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Saw Labyrinth waaaayyyy too young. I was scared of David Bowie's..... hair