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Rosalind Ahmed

@21rosa.bsky.social
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Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated

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Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social · 3h
Very atmospheric conditions this morning at Levers Water in the Coniston Fells.
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Bookchat @bookchat.bsky.social · 2h
Abdelrahman ElGendy on Writing From Inside a Prison Cell: On his third night in detention in Cairo, crammed with sixty other prisoners into a four-by-five meter cell, Abdelrahman ElGendy heard the song for the first time. Belly full after being starved for three… #CraftandAdvice #CraftandCriticism
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Abdelrahman ElGendy on Writing From Inside a Prison Cell
On his third night in detention in Cairo, crammed with sixty other prisoners into a four-by-five meter cell, Abdelrahman ElGendy heard the song for the first time. Belly full after being starved for three days, one of his cellmates began
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 4h
In 1842 the Eng. word dinosaur, from the Gk. deinos ‘fearsome’+ sauros ‘lizard', was invented by palaeontologist Richard Owen. Intended to describe Victorian discoveries of fossil reptiles, the word came to include every beast once identified as 'dragon'. The association continues... #WyrdWednesday
"The littlest witch and the wizard, her twin, were both very stubborn and both liked to win . . ." by Helen Baugh 🎨 Deborah Allwright
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 10h
Phrase of the day comes from @theghostmonk.bsky.social You heard 'tweedy spelunker' on #WyrdWednesday first
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 11h
#OnWednesdaysWeWearBlack
📸 'Woman dancing in a London club' Corinne Day (c. 1992)
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 11h
It was speculated in the 17th century that this newly discovered Middle Jurassic fossil, likely from a Megalosaurus, might belong to a Roman war elephant or a biblical giant. In 1763, naturalist Richard Brookes noted the obvious & named the fossil 'Scrotum humanum' #WyrdWednesday
Illustration from the 1677 'Natural History of Oxford-shire' by Robert Plot, first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, who systemically studied paleontology and natural history. Physician Richard Brookes had his 'A System of Natural History', 6 vols. published in 1763 and was a prolific writer and translator. In the 1990s Brookes' description was officially rejected 🎨 The 17th century b&w illustration is thought to be of a Megalosaurus femur but, for now, info remains inconclusive until new discoveries and interpretations are made.
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Dragon-slayer, guardian of humanity and bearer of the scales of divine justice" Today is the feast of St Michael and All Angels #Michaelmas aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-se...
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Four Medieval Texts for Michaelmas
Haddon Hall , Derbyshire (15th century) Today is Michaelmas, the golden autumn feast of St Michael and All Angels. It falls at perhaps ...
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Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#SuicidePreventionMonth Please be kind to yourself ❤️
"SEPTEMBER IS SUICIDE PREVENTION ΜΟΝΤΗ.

THINKING OF THOSE WHO..

ARE FIGHTING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS

HAVE LOST SOMEONE TO SUICIDE

HAVE ATTEMPTED

LOVE SOMEONE WHO IS SUICIDAL

HAVE NO SUPPORT SYSTEM

ARE SCARED TO SPEAK UP"
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Classic and contemporary #WeekMForMachinery in Kirkharle courtyard #AlphabetChallenge
📸 12 April, 2025. Highly polished, midnight blue Riley Kestrel parked next to a new car
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For #OwlishMonday Cornelis Bloemaert's 'An Owl with Books' (c 1625). The text translates as "What's the use of glasses, when the owl refuses to look?"
B&W engraving of a bespectacled barn owl perched on a closed book. The spine of the book faces the viewer. Another volume  lies open with a lit candle in a  functional, brass candlestick. The symbol of scholarship strikes a pose, but is knowledge truly being illuminated if words are ignored or their meaning lost?
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#CoastalBotany along Morecambe Bay this week; Sea Mayweed and Wild Radish #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLookingIn the window, longing for 🍟 This seagull attempted to dive bomb diners but was savvy enough to leave the glass alone after the first foray. It then gave pitiful/indignation until sunset 👀
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"I do desire we may be better strangers." Rosalind "As You Like It" #ShakespeareSunday
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Schitt's Creek: David's Hard Pass
ALT: Schitt's Creek: David's Hard Pass
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I declare you have given us lettuce again. Really, my dear, you must think of something new for breakfast.” Hare being a gourmand in "The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit" by Alison Uttley (1939) 🎨 Margaret Tempest's illustrations for the series #BookwormSat
No complaints about Little Grey Rabbit's baking skills here. And I'd prefer cake to lettuce for breakfast, tbh
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not "someone" ... a far right columnist who initially hid behind a masked account. He also has ties to the hereditarian network that went for Jason Arday. Same players, play again. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...
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His Novel Had a Shot at a Top Book Prize. Then Someone Ran an A.I. Test.
“It Was Either That Or Die,” by the Haitian-Canadian author Thélyson Orélien, was the hit of the French literary season. Now it has been pulled from the shortlist for a prestigious prize.
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Light as the moon’s path over the sea the run of the hare over the land" Anna Crowe from 'A Calendar of Hares' 🎨 'Running of the Hare' Robert Gillmor #BookWormSat
The poem is featured in 'A Secret History of Rhubarb' (Glasgow: Mariscat, 2004) Of her poem, Crowe writes: "I have tried always to keep faith with the creature itself, bearing in mind its behaviour in the wild as well as the mythic, magical values it has acquired in human consciousness over the millennia" 🎨 Linocut showing both stages of 'the run of the hare'. Brown hare on a grassy background.  (1936–2022). Gillmor produced many natural history illustrations, among his other artistic works, over a long and successful career
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Repost for #FoxFriday 🦊🦊 Striking shot by @darkwaterphotos.bsky.social 📸
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#FingerpostFriday Sunny Slopes and cloudy days
📸 Sunny Slopes, Heysham looking across to the Lakeland fells
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Note that arrested far right rioters have been found to have a much greater than average number of convictions for violent offences, including domestic violence meme via We Demand UK
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
‘The Autumnal Equinox was celebrated with the oak, then big with acorns; a tree, from all antiquity thought most sacred.’ William Stukeley "Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects" (1763) #FolkloreThursday
📸 mine 24 September, 2025
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Gah! It's the tiniest of the tiny fawns. #mammals #nature #deer #love #trailcam #Seattle #wildanimals #goodmorning #PNW #babyanimals #nokings #wildlife #fawn #outdoors
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Babs Pease, contemporary artist and printmaker living in rural Scotland #WomensArt
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Gull Meeping, flat footed and bemused (like many juveniles) this young herring gull is currently wandering around Morecambe prom. Very cute 🤎🤍 Thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social for setting
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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#OwlishMonday Owl as the keeper of the way, advising 'The Little Ghost' illustrated by Russian artist, Nika Goltz ( 1925-2012)
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#BlueSkyMonday looking over Morecambe bay to the #Cumbrian Fells 💙 #EastCoastKin
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Stunday on Morecambe bay, Lancashire just now #seascape #EastCoastKin
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MillsTheOne @millstheone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On Annie Dillard and the Influence of Poetry on her Prose theconversation.com/annie-dillar... @blueskypoetry.bsky.social @inkmine.bsky.social @yeehawpoems.bsky.social
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Annie Dillard brought poetry into prose, pioneering a mystical form of creative nonfiction that critics both admired and misunderstood
For Annie Dillard, the sonic intensity of poetry was critical to every form of writing she published throughout her life.
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"It is by virtue of love that everything is produced, and love is in everything: it manifests itself as force and life in living beings... and is the very vigour of living things." Giordano Bruno (1585) #BookwormSat
✍🏻 a translation of one of Bruno's Italian dialogues. Writers used the dialogue form to both create renaissance culture and to represent it. This 1585 text, "The Heroic Frenzies", was composed in verse and prose in London 🎨 "Allegory of  Charity" Francisco de Zurbarán (1655) housed in the Prado Museum (Madrid). Charity holds aloft a flaming heart. She is expensively attired with dark hair, eyebrows and eyes. Her skin is pale, her gaze questioning
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Blue Ted @vicsq.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We on Merseyside have deep rooted contempt for British broadcast and print corporate media. From decades long first hand experience of poisonous fascist lies they vomit into British society. We know what Jason Arday and his family have been through because of yellow coward presstitutes.
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Jason Arday: Poll finds Britain backs ‘much tougher’ press regulation | Good Law Project
Exclusive poll carried out after Jason Arday’s death shows 54% of UK adults are in favour of stronger independent press regulation
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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yep, same as for the Arday case. None of our finest journalists thought to check his publication record (outstanding), his epic athletic prowess (documented at the time in local papers), etc. Just ran with the herd. It took bloggers to do the work monkdebunks.substack.com/p/the-media-...
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The media frenzy that stripped Jason Arday of one of his life-defining achievements.
Plus the available evidence on the 30 marathons in 35 days and the footballing claims
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Have you had a reply yet @litterygeniarse.bsky.social ? And was it, in any way, meaningful?
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/09/2026
“You have to be twice as good to get half as far. Everybody in the Black community knows this.” Powerful words from our member Andrew as he spoke at TUC Congress on the death of our member, colleague and friend Professor Jason Arday. Congress then joined us in a minute’s silence in Jason’s memory.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Delegates at #TUC26 have passed a motion condemning the 'institutional racist targeting, harassment and humiliation' of Professor Jason Arday
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TUC passes motion condemning ‘institutional racist targeting, harassment and humiliation’ of Professor Jason Arday
The motion was proposed by the UCU
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So many of us think of Jason Arday every day, and have been doing since early August when @theguardian.com published its disgraceful piece. This was quickly followed by the sad news of his resignation. And worse. What hell he went through, being made to believe natural allies had turned on him. RIP.
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#BirdOfTheDay. Yesterday being the day, just minus the # 🙄
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La Ood 🏜️ @lmc55g95.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Bazinga ❣️ ((Ed Who? 🧐🤔))
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#OnWednesdaysWeWearBlack
Black walking costume rendered in pen and ink and watercolour. 'Hiver 1913'. Designed by Jeanne Paquin, the first major female couturier
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Repost for #RoseWednesday
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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The English artist Leonora Carrington lived in Mexico and was inspired by Indigenous mythology. She painted her mural ‘The Magical World of the Maya’ (1963-4) for the Museo Nacional de Antropología. The painting depicts imagery from the Popol Vuh, the sacred text of the Maya. #WyrdWednesday
El mundo mágico de los mayas (detail)
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The jaguar, symbol of the night & transformation, was central to Mayan myth. The moon goddess Ixchel was often depicted with jaguar ears or claws. Thrones in jaguar form still survive. The bicephalic Jaguar Throne of Uxmal has 2 eyes for regular vision & 2 for supernatural sight #WyrdWednesday
The centre of the throne forms part of an alignment to view the azimuth of Venus rising as the Morning Star. Not my 📸 Many shots/drawings of the throne are readily available online
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#ThickTrunkTuesday the hollow provides a natural shelter site for the smallest woodland dwellers 🪲
📸 23 September, 2025
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Anna Zona @annazona.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Maddalena penitente (Canova, 1790). #alphabetchallenge #weekKforKn #kneeling #mementomori #eck #mementomoriMonday #Sculpture #anzaa #photography #museum
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Flapping by the funicular, a twofer #WeekKnForKn ... Knitted Knickers by the mysterious Saltburn yarn bombers 🤔 An itchy offering for this week's #CarryOn #AlphabetChallenge
📸 13 August, 2022 A cheeky washing line hanging from a handrail. The pier is prominent; no modesty here!
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thanks @atlanticbirding.bsky.social for today's theme. Am going with "Alt. is #Finches: any bird from the finch family". Family favourites include the cheeky chaffinches that dive bomb the picnic tables in Ingram Valley ☺️
📸 Saturday 13 June, 2026
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not quite ready to leave the weekend behind on #OwlishMonday Etching by George Edward Collins (1880–1968)
Black and white etching signed but undated. The artist was known for his meticulous natural history illustrations, especially of wild birds
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
apparently i’m an ‘intellectual snob’ for disliking gen ai. i mean, you’re wrong. i’m a nobody writer juggling three jobs. i am the furthest thing from a snob. but let’s say i was. better a snob than a lazy thief who can’t think for themselves whilst killing the planet.
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Amnesty National Lifeboats Médecins Sans Frontières Whose next?
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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thanks to @robcrank68.bsky.social for creating today's #BirdOfTheDay #Robins #ForJanet
📸 13 September, 2024. Ambleside
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