iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chris Otto (Papergreat) @papergreat.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Another picture of Hilda Trevelyan

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GEM (Group for Education in Museums) @gem.org.uk · 13/01/2025

We are on BlueSky! Follow @gem-heritage to stay updated about GEM's new training, opportunities and news! We look forward to building a welcoming online community here!

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I have more or less finished the dreaded dissertation. Frankly, if I pass it will be a miracle, but having got there in the face of chronic fatigue and other fun health issues is an achievement in itself. I am now doing absolutely nothing. Not. A. Thing. Zilch. Diddly squat.

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Briefly popping in to say how much I hate Harvard referencing. Or, in fact, every other flavour of the same. *departs. replaces nose on grindstone *

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Andy Hardy #JoinEU 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andyhardy40.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

See BBC Springwatch 2024. I thought I had my numbers wrong BUT “one monthly flea treatment for a large dog can kill 25 million bees!”. I’m a dog owner BTW, luckily my boy has a tablet, not a droplet. Goes someway to explain some of our insect decline. 25 MILLION 😳 beevive.com/blogs/bee-bl...

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Do Our Pet Flea Treatments Kill Our Bees?

Shops are stocking more flea treatments than ever before to prevent any pests from entering our homes. In the UK, we have an estimated 11 million cats and 12 million dogs in 2023. There are currently ...

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

So there’s a finite time you can spend editing your dissertation, isn’t there?!? Somebody crowbar me away from it, I have a bibliography to finish…

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I (the queen) enjoyed meeting Morna and hearing about her book.

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It was lovely to perform as Queen Victoria yesterday for the fabulous Heartwood Inns. The Royal Forest is absolutely stunning, fit for a Queen!

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Alexis Paton @dralexispaton.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This. We don't get dying "right", right now. How will we manage assisted dying too? So many traumatic stories being shared about bad deaths, but if we got palliative care right, would they still be traumatic? My fear is it becomes either/or, when it needs to be sufficient funding & support for both.

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m back from reformer pilates, in which I horrify myself anew at how my body doesn’t bend. I’m a rusty old bucket.

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Wales this weekend – climate collapse happening before our very eyes . We need to get serious . It’s why I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads . lovera.ge/ban-ffa 🧵

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 24/11/2024

IT'S #WOLFHALL O'CLOCK.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My dear friend Ethel, looking up at the slowly appearing moon, asked me if I navigated by the stars.. Peng, she said, Peng, how do you know where you're going, under water, how do you know what bit of land you've landed on, it seems frightfully difficult. Well, said I, even a bird has a brain.

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Is there a museum of emotions? Anyone know? #museums

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Essie Fox Writer @essiefox.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

For the short story lovers, these are the first few pages of my story, The Inheritance, which is featured in the @goldsborobooks.bsky.social anthology '25'. Can anyone guess the inspiration?

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David Cairns @dcairns.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Is this really a BICYCLE THIEVES reference in Scorsese's HUGO? dcairns.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/t...

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It’s been lovely to reward myself with Powell and Pressburger after a day of dissertation writing. Please can we have a Powell and Pressburger channel?

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Leg warmers though. They’re great.

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I decided I wasn’t going to go out today, so put on a pair of pyjama bottoms, leg warmers, thermals and a poncho. Then I went out. I’ve got to that age where I’m invisible anyway, so no one pointed and laughed.

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I’ve got that point in my dissertation where it feels like I’m writing utter nonsense. I probably am writing utter nonsense. And I keep remembering Prof. Hunter, during my ill advised undergrad dalliance with philosophy, reading my first sentence out to the class as an excellent example of a fallacy

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Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Where are all the #gardenhistorians? Would love to follow you!

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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

*nods thoughtfully*

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Scale of the problem: 'Children accounted for the biggest rise of any social group falling into poverty, the report found, with an extra 260,000 on the breadline since before the Covid pandemic, meaning a record 36%, or 5.2 million children, were in deprivation.' www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high

Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 18/11/2024

A corset of white cotton sateen with corded sections across the bust. Made by Corset Parisien à la Sirène, a brand that must have been popular as many extant products of theirs from the late 19thc/early 20thc survive. 🗃️🪡

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Harriet Rycroft @harrietrycroft.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Good morning, as a small contribution to keeping this place cheerful here’s my robin

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’m here but I’m not here. I’m bumping right up against a ferocious deadline for my dissertation and am stranded somewhere between 1820 and 1857. I’d feel happier if my supervisions had been more positive! (Daft old bird doing a masters anyway…).

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Abandoned steelworks at Redcar under a brooding sky, with fishermen’s huts from South Gare in the foreground.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I’m excited to share #EARTHTALK a course, community & a book that offers a rich set of tools for effective conversations & creative activities about the Earth Crisis. I'm inviting people to join to access: 1) A network of like-minded others to share practice and challenges, and find collaborators

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Earth Talk — new course, group and book

Earth Talk is a course, a community of practice and a book that offers a rich set of tools to hold effective conversations and creative…

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ntheowl @ntheowl.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Hm. Rather like humans in the Neolithic.

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, New York in 1957 by Richard Avedon. He knew that they were great dog lovers so during the portrait session told them a lie that on the way to meet them his taxi had run over a little dog. He took this famous photo as they reacted to the story.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

"LOOK AT MEEEE!"

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 22/08/2024

Ladies, gents, small mammals, have you eaten your daily 'succulent repast' yet? Serving suggestion

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Good evening peoples. I hope you’re all chipper. It would appear there is a rat in our attic, which is fun. It chooses to stomp about in the wee small hours, so one is even more fatigued than usual. What’s going on in your neck of the woods?

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Also, I shall be eating no more Brussels sprouts for the foreseeable future. Or, in fact, chestnuts.

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

Late to the party (as usual!): Happy New Year, Blue Sky! I am trying very hard to shake abject lethargy and get on with ‘stuff’. Tomorrow. Maybe it’ll happen tomorrow.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

"Mary, posed by a small Christmas tree." Ca. 1935. www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Imag...

Colorized photo of an adorable longhaired ginger cat sitting next to a small christmas tree on a table. The tree has red ribbons and other garlands strung about it and a gold ball ornament sits on the table next to Mary and the tree.

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Art Heart History 🪬 @arthearthistory.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Christmas Fathers.

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

A butterfly! That’s jolly. I hope you’ve successfully foraged and are ready to feast. I’m exhausted already (but then I usually am). Last Christmas was horrific and flashbacks to that are not fun, but I expect I’ll get through it.

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Update on the university debacle: apologies have been received and all has been rectified. I am, once again, a student. Stressful few days.

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Ok, my tv viewing standards suitably lowered, Quality Street cracked open, I’m doing festive. I’m scheduling in a lot of sleeping.

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

just for the halibut (hell of it) (terrible old joke) (not even a joke) (what is wrong with my brain today?) here are three scissor-paper-cuts made by Lotte Nicklass, circa 1918, to illustrate an edition of A Thousand And One Nights

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

It’s a wild and woolly solstice hereabouts. Stay safe and hold fast for the return of the light as the wheel of the year turns. Image: Sarah Greenman.

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Emmaeli @emmaelie.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Good night 🕊

Jane E Brown, photographer
White flowers in a field, soft focus,
warm light

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AHappyFlower @ahappyflower.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Aggrieved. My university has withdrawn me from my course without telling me, or consulting my supervisor. It’s entirely their error, but they’re expecting me to sort it out. If they actually answered their phones or emails, it might help. So today, I emailed the boss.

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The 37th Wombat 📚🐝 @wombat37.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Now I'm home I hope to quickly publish my latest novel, Mythily: "Oh my god it's brilliant!" "Sci-fi horror set in 1937, with Nazis, zombies & giant spider-crabs, along with aliens & lots of humour." "Bonkers, but it's fast paced & compelling too." Just for you lot, here's a preview of the cover:

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