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Helen Macdonald

@hjm.bsky.social

Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she

created May 8, 2023

11,325 followers 749 following 690 posts

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Profile picture Ben Ansell (@benansell.bsky.social) reposted

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

19/9/2025, 10:25:18 AM | 2572 832 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture m john harrison (@mjohnharrison.bsky.social) reposted

I heard "unfortunately you can't not do this thing in fiction" & have been determinedly not doing it since

18/9/2025, 8:38:05 AM | 39 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

quentin blake, photojournalist

Camilla, charles, trump, melania in poses and expressions that resemble the pen, ink and watercolour illustrative style of the illustrator Quentin Blake
17/9/2025, 4:15:14 PM | 31 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Re: last RT. See also: Frank O’Hara

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16/9/2025, 4:25:59 PM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Walker (@fenlandgent.bsky.social) reposted

But most of all, I loved how Redford held a phone. How he righted wrongs with a phone. How he made holding a phone so fucking sexy, so morally righteous.

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Profile picture Sathnam Sanghera (@sathnam.bsky.social) reposted

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

15/9/2025, 7:32:52 AM | 3919 968 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

Hahaha

13/9/2025, 7:50:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture L (@banalplay.bsky.social) reposted

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

12/9/2025, 7:55:04 PM | 19441 5090 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli (@banditelli.org) reposted

cApItALism BReeDS inNovATIOn

A display in a grocery store for Reese's Oreo hybrid cups. Even worse there's both white chocolate on top outside of the Oreo peanut butter filling and dark chocolate on the bottom. I can't believe I wrote that. The price on it is already if you buy for the 99 Cents otherwise they're a $1.50. AI ass candy bullshit
12/9/2025, 3:59:12 PM | 195 29 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James R Macdonald (@jamesmacdonald.bsky.social) reposted

Storm over Surbiton

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12/9/2025, 4:57:04 PM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

My brother is the great @jamesmacdonald.bsky.social Genius cartographer and absolute joy of a person

12/9/2025, 4:53:19 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

My brother just filmed this over surbiton oh my GOD

12/9/2025, 4:51:00 PM | 64 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

This is an extremely plausible dream for me to be in. 10/10

11/9/2025, 11:45:13 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Toby Miller (@tobytram.bsky.social) reposted

The second pair of pinholes from the Radio Telescope. Understanding that exposure was steady at about 25 seconds allowed me to start fiddling about with bit of glass in front of the pinhole. More in ALT I’d like to take photos that look like what the object does, or what the object sounds like.

8/9/2025, 7:31:00 PM | 93 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean

Snorky the Banana Split with pink sunglasses and phallic trunk-end, saggy fur fabric fur-suited actor wearing a tiny red fireman's hat and NEVER ALLOWED TO SPEAK unlike the others Boris the Animal from Men in Black 3: Snorky was clearly a Boglodite hybrid
8/9/2025, 6:53:02 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Snorky *shudder*

8/9/2025, 6:50:17 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Professor Peter Matthews (@urbaneprofessor.bsky.social) reposted

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

Bram Stoker 1847-1912 A PENGUIN SINCE 1979
7/9/2025, 9:20:05 PM | 2527 767 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture brandon (@dimcheff.wtf) reposted

rantch

8/9/2025, 11:56:30 AM | 20 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh Oliver. I'm so sorry. John and I unaccountably fell out of touch in recent years, for which the blame must be on me (I am the world's worst correspondent) He was the very best of men; I was so lucky to have known him, and I will always remember him with the greatest warmth and affection.

8/9/2025, 7:58:51 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Echoes in the Sky (@exoticaviation.bsky.social) reposted

apparently, yesterday was National Hummingbird Day, and it reminded me of something I saved off the other place a few years ago - someone (I’ve lost who, sorry) made this KC-135 Hummingbird feeder! It got me thinking about a fighter-sized bird.. 1/3

colour photo. A hummingbird hovers in front of a drogue-like fitting on a model KC-135, possibly 1:48 scale - suspended from a garage door or porch roof
7/9/2025, 6:50:17 PM | 268 86 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

As @sinblache.bsky.social has pointed out, how am I expected to understand how old people are in a world where no-one smokes and drinks

7/9/2025, 11:49:38 AM | 31 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Forget "policemen look young" I've now reached the age where I'll chat to some fresh-faced person at a film festival, assume they have some junior role, then find out they're a studio head.

7/9/2025, 11:48:24 AM | 57 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture m john harrison (@mjohnharrison.bsky.social) reposted

list of things that don't make anyone else think of anything else

7/9/2025, 11:21:03 AM | 20 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Damon Young (@damonyoung.com.au) reposted

Graham Greene, bungling literary futurist.

Peake designed the logo for Pan Books. The publishers offered him either a flat fee of £10 or a royalty of one farthing per book. On the advice of Graham Greene, who told him that paperback books were a passing fad that would not last, Peake opted for the £10.
7/9/2025, 10:11:44 AM | 113 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Fuller (@katiefullerart.bsky.social) reposted

I’m very pleased to announce that my new Curlew #linocut prints are now available! - limited edition of 10 prints - handmade original art - plant-based inks - no AI involved! - A4 size paper, easy to frame - ready to send to you now in plastic-free packaging. Head over to katiefullerart.etsy.com

Linocut print showing Curlew feeding in saltmarsh creek
6/9/2025, 5:01:24 PM | 46 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social) reposted

What do the virtual pet games of my childhood have to do with the ethics of being mean to LLM chatbots? Arguably, a lot, as I explore in my latest piece on cute virtual dogs, AI-powered waifus, and campaigns against (digital) animal abuse:

5/9/2025, 12:45:08 PM | 86 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Author, Séamas O'Reilly (@seamas.bsky.social) reposted

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

6/9/2025, 2:10:39 PM | 4175 930 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alice Bell (@abeewords.bsky.social) reposted

I'm reading Prophet by Helen Macdonald and @sinblache.bsky.social and they appear to tricked me by hiding a dysfunctional gay romance inside an episode of The X-Files, and frankly more of you should be doing the same.

3/9/2025, 9:05:01 AM | 31 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

So many!

2/9/2025, 6:00:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Me, at the time: well now this is a commendably smooth and well-organised group photo session; I suppose film people are really good at taking direction. Me, now: WTF I AM IN THIS PHOTO

Group shot of the attendees at the 2025 Telluride Film Festival. A wall of famous actors and directors and other film royalty with my face in there somewhere
2/9/2025, 5:42:13 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richy Craven (@richycraven.bsky.social) reposted

2/9/2025, 5:21:52 PM | 41 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Angus Main (@angusmain.bsky.social) reposted

This has perked me up.

2/9/2025, 1:16:51 PM | 7 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CerberusXt (@cerberusxt.bsky.social) reposted

Really makes you think.

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2/9/2025, 4:59:28 AM | 928 140 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rose Ruane (@regretteruane.bsky.social) reposted

Also this gorgeous Puffin paper bag

1/9/2025, 7:03:38 PM | 141 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

A brewers blackbird, petrol-gleaming black plumage with tones of purple and green, a pale eye with a black pupil, the bird stepping across a yellow-painted kerb in a patch of sunlight that casts an upright shadow of the walking bird
1/9/2025, 1:02:35 PM | 103 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rabih Alameddine (@rabihalameddine.bsky.social) reposted

A rare first edition of Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind” used to conceal a .32-caliber pistol. September 24, 1941, Phoenix.

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Profile picture rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social) reposted

This is amazing. I love crop art

31/8/2025, 4:40:43 PM | 155 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

H IS FOR HAWK PREMIERE in TWO MINUTES aaaaaaaaaaa

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30/8/2025, 12:13:09 AM | 85 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

Exactly this! Before: yeah, I quite like peaches? After: I never want to eat anything else ever also why am I weeping

29/8/2025, 9:56:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Holy shit palisade peaches 🍑 I had no idea they were so delicious I am FURIOUS

29/8/2025, 9:50:59 PM | 20 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you!

28/8/2025, 9:11:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

What’s with Colorado and tents

Tented ceiling of Denver airport Excerpt from Prophet by Sin Blaché and Helen Macdonald in which Hunter utters the line “what’s with Colorado and tents? Denver airport, now this. It’s crazy” in response to her surroundings (a fictional corporate canteen designed around an orientalist conception of a Bedouin tent)
28/8/2025, 9:10:39 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

So THRILLED am on my way to Colorado this very moment theplaylist.net/2025-telluri...

Headline from The Playlist: 2025 Telluride Film Festival: 15 must-see movies to watch Photo of Claire Foy and goshawk in gorgeous evening light with a précis of the film from the accompanying link
28/8/2025, 3:44:23 PM | 46 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peg_Erman 🐾 📷 🌿 🎨 (@pegerman.bsky.social) reposted

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

Screen shot of Neil Fish posting
28/8/2025, 9:22:49 AM | 2336 726 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ewamore, Quoth the Raven (@ewacat.bsky.social) reposted

i love this account, some of the things feel like whole short stories in one phrase

28/8/2025, 8:52:40 AM | 48 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Holmes (@annabookwriter.bsky.social) reposted

I will be doing this as soon as I have an address. Fellow expats and folks outside the US, I really encourage you to do this. This could have a real impact on whether they gather the audacity to do this again.

28/8/2025, 7:34:08 AM | 123 82 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

So exhausted this week I heard myself refer to drainage pipes as “water tunnels” after a desperate few seconds of trying to conjure the right words

27/8/2025, 10:48:18 AM | 68 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Barry Burns (@barry.mogwai.scot) reposted

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26/8/2025, 7:36:14 AM | 1155 273 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ewamore, Quoth the Raven (@ewacat.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I DIDNT GO THROUGH THREE YEARS OF A PHILOSOPHY DEGREE FOR PEOPLE TO DRIBBLE OUT PISS POOR HALF-BAKED THEORIES OF MIND ABOUT A HUGE FINANCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL CON

26/8/2025, 7:22:14 AM | 214 37 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ewamore, Quoth the Raven (@ewacat.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

ABSOLUTE JOKE OF A TOPIC FUCKING STOP THIS RIGHT NOW

26/8/2025, 7:20:57 AM | 108 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ewamore, Quoth the Raven (@ewacat.bsky.social) reposted

NO IT FUCKING CANNOT

26/8/2025, 7:19:02 AM | 252 41 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

SPAMMERS PLEASE GIVE ME A BREAK EVERYTHING IS HARD ENOUGH WITHOUT EMAILS LIKE THIS

Feel Off Lately? It Gets Worse
25/8/2025, 6:48:23 PM | 20 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Solomillo Alcachofón (@vercingetronix.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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25/8/2025, 2:17:34 PM | 75 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Thrilling bank holiday day out with @sinblache.bsky.social at a local Anglo Saxon village reconstruction

A hut at the far end of an arid, sandy field. Blue skies, September pines and bushy field maples behind. Bit of wooden stock fencing, a wooden bench
25/8/2025, 3:44:07 PM | 23 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sin Blaché ♣️ (@sinblache.bsky.social) reposted

PROPHET by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché (2023)

24/8/2025, 9:09:01 AM | 18 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

UGH I'm so sorry

23/8/2025, 11:44:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com) reposted

what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

23/8/2025, 9:18:40 AM | 3006 488 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture alexis simpson (@amutepiggy.bsky.social) reposted

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

21/8/2025, 4:30:47 PM | 10864 2570 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Yawn

Yellow shouldered Amazon Parrot perched on the headboard of a beech ercol bed, yawning
21/8/2025, 4:33:36 PM | 44 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) reposted

If you are a trans academic, or an academic who feels you cannot apply for these fellowships because they are trans-exclusionary, you should consider writing to Newnham College to let them know.

21/8/2025, 1:28:56 PM | 166 70 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kingfisher & Wombat (@tkingfisher.com) reposted

All this talk about how infodumping is a neurodivergent trait—listen, we grew up reading SFF in the Nineties, OF COURSE we infodump. Y’all are lucky we’re not a full on italicized prologue.

19/8/2025, 6:08:58 PM | 1336 193 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Jersey Tiger in my Suffolk garden ❤️

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19/8/2025, 1:24:10 PM | 37 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NE Ohio Regional Sewer District (@neorsd.org) reposted

not changing our name to NOW RSD.

18/8/2025, 3:31:13 PM | 158 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Fsyco (@fsyco.bsky.social) reposted

The reason fascists are able to exploit your "ew thats icky!" Response is because your sense of morality is tied to your sense of disgust. Things you find "gross" will also seem morally wrong, even if the logic doesn't hold up to scrutiny. But you *can* learn to recognize that response!

18/8/2025, 1:49:51 AM | 1087 473 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Karen James (@kejames.bsky.social) reposted

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

17/8/2025, 4:41:17 PM | 6767 2100 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Des (@desdelboy.bsky.social) reposted

Monday

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Profile picture Rose Schmits (@roseschmits.bsky.social) reposted

Look at that solidarity gets the goods

18/8/2025, 9:57:54 AM | 1739 371 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture 🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) (@timhenke.bsky.social) reposted

Nice argument. Unfortunately, I already depicted you as the rider on the shocked tiny horse and me in my top hat on the gigantic horse

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Profile picture Sadiah Qureshi (@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social) reposted

This is a perfect indication of how shallow some understandings of colonialism, decolonialism, racism and activism are. Even when the bar is in the ground, it is possible for it to sink further.

17/8/2025, 11:52:25 AM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael Seely (@mpseely.bsky.social) reposted

Well! Saturday Morning Press is very happy with BBC Archive on You Tube. R.3 co-creator Stephen Black interviews A for Andromeda's ideas fountain Fred Hoyle in Meet the Cosmologists. Books exploring both programmes still cheaply priced from link under. www.youtube.com/watch?v=peUy...

17/8/2025, 11:19:17 AM | 11 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Niko Stratis (@nikostratis.com) reposted

Just had a literary festival try to assuage my concerns about their workshop with a “decolonially trained AI” by assuring me the AI isn’t getting paid for their session, as if my concern was grounded in the pay scale for the robots

16/8/2025, 7:32:43 PM | 1672 260 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Haine (@paulhaine.bsky.social) reposted

The only difference between our reality and a Philip K Dick novel is the characters in a Philip K Dick novel don't choose to live like this

Woke up because my Al controlled bed is too cold. Went to adjust temperature and I can't because the Eight Sleep app is currently broken. Can't adjust by hand because I have a Pod3, not the upgraded Pod4 with physical controls. Now I am stuck in a cold bed. This feels dystopian.
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Profile picture Matthew Parkinson-Bennett (@matthewpb.bsky.social) reposted

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play. ‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.’

ted. In this context I feel obliged to state once more that - like the hundreds of protesters arrested last weekend - I too support Palestine Action. If this makes me a
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Profile picture Sacha Coward (@sachacoward.bsky.social) reposted

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

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Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Still one of my favourite photos. took this in Uzbekistan in 2016 I think, but definitely before 7am

a foggy morning in salty, tamarisk-dotted desert in Uzbekistan. A donkey, a russian ornithologist with a moustache, a patterned sweater and unlaced boots, a driver in a dark shirt, all walking away from each other as if they'd had a huge argument. One empty plastic water bottle on the sandy, dewy ground, pointing out o frame.
15/8/2025, 12:29:22 PM | 37 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

[whispers] a fable

14/8/2025, 6:05:43 PM | 20 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Thiago Krause (@thiagokrause.bsky.social) reposted

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

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Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Interminable barking roe deer

13/8/2025, 9:08:06 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture m john harrison (@mjohnharrison.bsky.social) reposted

what I call worldbuilding that beckett such a maximalist

13/8/2025, 11:26:05 AM | 63 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matthew Kirschenbaum (@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social) reposted

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

12/8/2025, 4:33:57 PM | 822 285 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brendel (@brendelbored.bsky.social) reposted

One of the things that has pretty annoying is that if you have any kind of bullshit meter, if you have anything inside of yourself that doesn’t enjoy being lied to, the last couple of years of almost every area of public life have been driving you up a fucking wall

12/8/2025, 2:15:54 PM | 6375 1539 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

H, stop watching videos on the hand-making of lacquerware tablespoons and obsessing about the origin of MIL-SPEC-33558 and do something productive

12/8/2025, 3:03:30 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ryan North (@ryannorth.ca) reposted

This article was a supreme delight: grab a cup of tea, set aside 10 or 15 minutes, and enjoy this story about The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan. aresluna.org/the-hardest-... (via @ferociousj.bsky.social)

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Profile picture Ross Sayers (@rosssayers.bsky.social) reposted

Transphobes used to say things like 'if you have a vagina, you're a woman, end of discussion' and now they say things like 'if your gametes are diagonally haplodidic and they fall between 0.4 and 0.9 on the Strasburger Faultline, you're a woman, and I really can't be any clearer than that'

12/8/2025, 9:39:16 AM | 2608 525 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social) reposted

oh goddaaaaaaamn

7/8/2025, 2:47:30 AM | 269 78 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Leila Molana-Allen (@leilama.bsky.social) reposted

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

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Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely! It was very eerie — I took the photo and couldn’t stop staring

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Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes, shadow on cloud beneath. Had this the other morning

High aircraft contrail with a darker line below it that is the contrail’s shadow on a layer of thin cloud. In the mid ground, a streetlamp
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Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Quiet evening near Bury St Edmunds and I hear something unexpected, high over the house. It’s a pair of very vocal ravens having a lovely time soaring and chatting in the blue. Not seen them anywhere near here before ❤️

Blurred silhouette of a raven against a blue sky The eaves of my house, a blue blue sky with two black dots in it that are ravens
10/8/2025, 4:39:31 PM | 41 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jess Nevins (@jessnevins.bsky.social) reposted

See, this is why I don't do cruise ships.

Stephen Hickman's painting of Cthulhu
10/8/2025, 11:28:48 AM | 353 64 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture James Elder (@jameselder.bsky.social) reposted

I am becoming increasingly anxious about: 1) The Government’s lack of meaningful response to this, and indeed the pandering to it. 2) The way it’s being covered by broadcasters.

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Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

I can hear them buzzing OUR NEED IS GREATER THAN YOURS OUR NEED IS GREATER THAN YOURS

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Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Today's ADHD echolalia is

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Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

Just read it. THANK YOU. Hugely enjoyed it.

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Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social) reply parent

I have not and I absolutely should

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Profile picture Helen Macdonald (@hjm.bsky.social)

Winces in "what it's like to be British"

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