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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m calling it now. Somebody, an RNLI volunteer, a person in a car or a park or on the street who happens to be brown, is going to be killed by a mob of idiots whipped up by the online rage machine soon. “Understanding their concerns” isn’t good enough. The authorities need to take action.

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 8h

All are superb. My favourite is the pumpkin fox 🦊🎃 #FoxFriday

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's always worth looking up in Shambles, York. The hooks under the canopy were for hanging wares outside the shop & in the windows of butchers etc. A detail for #ADoorableThursday. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

Pencil drawing of hooks under a wooden canopy covering a doorway and window. A sign on the door jamb reads Potions & Poison £4.99.

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. - Frank Herbert, Dune #1 born on this day, 1920 #BookSky #FrankHerbert

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#OTD John Cowper Powys was b. in 1872. "To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader"

An early 1930s portrait of novelist, poet, diarist, essayist and philosopher by his sister Gertrude Mary Powys. JCP born October 8, 1872, Shirley, Derbyshire, England—died June 17, 1963, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merioneth, Wales. Cambridge educated, he was a university extension lecturer for 4 decades and a passionate advocate for the power of reading

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#WeekNForNeon wavy neon with a reflection, at that. Maybe I get an extra point from @sheena-mck.bsky.social? 🤔🎖️Whitehaven harbour #Cumbria #AlphabetChallenge

28 March 2024 at night so the sky and water are dark; the green neon provides a striking contrast. A flotilla of swans drifts by a C2C sign. Boats are moored; while the white colour of one in the foreground is distinct, the third in the row is bathed in blue-purple neon light

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@Above96th @above96th.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, autumn is on its way. Another beautiful October morning highlighted by a young Red-tailed Hawk perched atop a street light. Just a few trees are beginning to flaunt fall colors. 🍁🍁🍁 #Hawks #CentralPark #birdsseenin2026

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you see this post a Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️🧹🪄🎃⚗️🪄🔮

'Girl and a Witch' oil painting created sometime between 1886–1917 by London artist Beatrice Offor

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, lovely to see my chapter on Gray's queer Celticism written up in the Year's Work in English Studies - thanks to the authors and editors! (DM/email me if you're interested in the piece and can't source it in a library)

Kaminski-Jones, meanwhile, revives Gray’s medievalism alongside another longstanding discussion about his sexuality, refreshing work by George Haggerty and Robert Gleckner with new insights into Gray’s Welsh connections. Where in the past ‘The Bard’ has seemed ‘a hirsute epitome of masculine national fortitude, embodying Celtic resistance’, Kaminski-Jones returns to the eighteenth-century reception of Gray’s bardic hero as suspiciously effeminate (at least according to Johnson) (p. 168). Evidenced by the rarefied obscurity and temporal slipperiness of ‘The Bard’, by letters that use Celtic tales to loosen gender distinctions and by later commonplace-book entries constructing Wales as England’s ‘definitional other’, Gray’s Celticism belongs to a transgressive, androgynous, even perverse figuring of Wales against a hardy, hetero-patriarchal England at a time of heightened national self-consciousness (p. 181). Defined by such taste-making commentators as Johnson as a delicate outsider to the publishing mainstream, Gray found in Celtic history and literature a repertoire for representing marginality in ways that correspond to our modern understanding of queer experience and expression.

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

October 7 #OTD in 1993 Toni Morrison became the first Black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. She concluded her Laureate lecture with: "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." #literature #BlackHistoryMonth

📸 Toni Morrison portrait by Jack Mitchell (1979)

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"excessive grief" leads to a restless sleep for the dead. Not sure who gets to determine what excessive grief is, or even what it means. Too deep? Too long? Too visible? Too inconvenient? This powerful ballad can stand alone without the need for moralising 🧵 2/2

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Later commentators were unable to resist interpreting this ancient ballad through a homiletic lens claiming that the already wealthy mother had no need to send her sons overseas to make more money. Her greed therefore led to their deaths. A more common claim is that ... 🧵1/2

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In one of the starkest Child ballads a mother's lamentations summon her dead sons home. But the reunion is with revenants & terrestrial time is short: ‘The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin’ worm doth chide; Gin we be miss’d out o’ our place, A sair pain we maun bide.’ #WyrdWednesday

To paraphrase: Before the cockerel crows at daybreak, the grave worms scold the revenants to return, not to their former life but to the tomb. If they remain above ground or accept any mortal foodstuff the punishment will be bleak. In this illustration, an elderly woman looks up imploring at three spectral images who are turning to leave. The viewer can see the night sky through the window and a candle burns as precious time passes.
'The Wife of Usher's Well' forms part of the Child collection, 305 traditional ballads anthologised by F.J. Child and published in 1860 🎨 Henry Matthew Brock's lithograph in 'A Book of Old Ballads' Ed. Beverley Nichols (1934).

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely agree (I think there's some overlap in our conversation but the skeets are now in sync)

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

David Koster 1926–2015 is the artist. Yes, Mark Hearld's work is excellent

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

October 6 is #NationalBadgerDay 🦡🎊🦡 Right now they're building up reserves of body fat to live off during winter. Once temperatures freeze badgers will enter torpor for 2-3 days, slowing metabolism, lowering body temperature, stirring to forage during milder times, then returning to deep sleep

🎨 A pair of badgers amongst bronze fronds. Lithograph by David Koster (1926–2015)

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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves

Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'Ghosts' one of Paul Nash's illustrations for 'Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk' (1658). Its author, Thomas Browne, crafted many a funerary banger: "But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave" #SpookySunday

🎨 Hand coloured lithograph of ‘Ghosts’ (1932)

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am determined to prove a villain And hate the idle pleasures of these days. King Richard in Act I Scene i #ShakespeareSunday

Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Harvest home: “The farmer paid his men starvation wages all the year & thought he made it up to them by giving that one good meal. The farmer did not think so, because he did not think at all, & the men did not think either on that day; they were too busy enjoying the food & the fun" #BookWormSat

Despite her reputation for being a 'cosy countryside' writer, here Flora Thompson exposes the underside of the rural idyll in 'Lark Rise To Candleford' (1939) 🎨 George Clausen 'Winter Work' (1883–4) oil on canvas. Men, women and children literally scrape their subsistence from frost-locked furrows, working land that belongs to others. Their share of any bounty, even earlier in the year, such as at harvest time, is minimal

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are! See you tonight at the Cumbrian Heugh

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oooh, that's a goodie! Any info available about it? With or without context, what a find

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Classic! Both the novel and that adaptation 😍

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“It was a sumptuous, oh, truly sumptuous autumn day, all Byzantine coppers and golds under a Tiepolo sky of enamelled blue, the countryside all fixed and glassy, seeming not so much itself as its own reflection in the still surface of the lake" John Banville 'The Sea' (2005) #BookWormSat

Here, Banville speaks of the interplay of nature and memory 🎨 Frederick Richard Lee. Section of his 'Near Redleaf, Kent' oil painting created in the 1830s.

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks for finding & sharing this dramatisation 🙏🏻

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@johnnycampbell.bsky.social is currently touring with this: John Clare's Dream | Johnny Campbell share.google/TXGd9cPfUn2K...

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John Clare's Dream, by Johnny Campbell

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David Willoughby @davidwilloughby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Going into weekend like

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#31DaysOfHalloween #Spooktober Still haunting York, Dick Turpin and Black Bess prepare for the Midnight Ride

📸 York's annual Ghosts in the Gardens trail, 2023. York Museum Gardens

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great shots! You have beautiful neighbours 👀

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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

An October photo of Grasmere for #NationalPoetryDay “The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors the sky.” From W B Yeats The Wild Swans at Coole #October #LakeDistrict #Autumn #Fall #Landscape #Photography #Reflections

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My lovely wife discovered the cutest mushroom family living in a tree cave. So I discovered her discovering it. #love #tree #pnw #Seattle #fungi #fungifriends #photography #mushrooms #nokings

Photo of my wife taking a photo with her phone of a tree with a crevice grown in it that is filled with a little spate of mushrooms.

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Lu @rendernev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Interested in a tiny drawing event for October? Join us for Guild Eleven’s fourth annual Mysterium! Only three prompts on the dates listed below. Create and post with us for a haunting good time!

A flyer with orange pumpkins for a drawing event on October 8, 15, and 22. The prompts are: Autumnal Arboretum, Creature Confirts, and Potions and Pastries.

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こまちみゆた @comatimiyuta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

嵐の日はさまよう人魚のお祈り夜の海のような瞳

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The trample of robins and woodlarks on the brown leaves. and the patter of squirrels on the green moss; The fall of an acorn on the ground, the pattering of nuts on the hazel branches as they fall from ripeness" from 'Pleasant Sounds' John Clare #NationalPoetryDay #Autumn

🎨 "At the Fall of Leaf, Arundel Park, Sussex (Woodland Scene in Autumn)" William Samuel Jay (1843–1933)

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welcome October, paintings by Edith Holden, Edwardian naturalist.

Two books open at a kingfisher paint if and a fly agarics

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