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Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social · 10h

I can finally reveal what I’ve been working on for over a year and a half! It’s BIG……💥💥💥💥💥

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 19h

I am writing this while sitting in Woolworth's in Oxford Street, where I have just had my dinner.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 19h

I have got very sore sunburn sholders.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 11h

You deserve a postcard.

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 12h

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 54. Solitary Bee stings tend not to be as strong as those of larger social bees. Having no large nests to defend these bees only need enough ‘sting’ to fend off the odd rival or an attack by other insects. Only female #bees sting. #nature #insects

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 13h

Mornin’. Always a good one when sunshine finds you amongst trees in the mellifluent company of birds. Hope this finds you well. #trees #sunshine #birds #morning #wednesday #october

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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology @maacambridge.bsky.social · 15h

The wearable bake challenge on last night's #BakeOff has inspired us to take a look through our collections portal to see which hats we'd like to see edible versions of. The shape of this hat makes it a deceptively simple choice - you know you'll run out of time trying to recreate that pattern!

A short cylindrical-shaped hat made from woven cotton fabric. It has a dark blue, mid blue and white striped pattern, with fainter white stripes woven in perpendicular to the other stripes to create a checked design.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 16h

We have something old and interesting to show you today. This is the Geneva Bible or Breeches Bible. It dates to 1607!

We are looking at a slightly beaten up and aged leather book witt broken hasps.

We are looking at the same leather bound book from the side showing the yellow, aged and worn pages. Remnants of two leather hasps and their fixings can still be seen.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 16h

My dear pal Michèle Noach is putting on an event at the Royal Geographical Society on 3rd Dec dedicated to ice. (Not ICE.) Art, science, music, film, literature. I'll be performing songs about ice & snow with my bestie Keith Adams, his first gig in an eternity. Whoop! www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

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Ice Station RGS

Join us for an immersive late-night celebration of ice, where beauty meets urgency.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 16h

My October gigs: 7 Croydon 8 Deal SOLD OUT 9 Norwich 10 Colchester SOLD OUT 14 Loughborough SOLD OUT 15 Manchester 16 Ulverston 21 Kidderminster 22 Glasgow 23 Aberdeen 24 Stirling SOLD OUT 28 Stamford 29 Bury St E 30 Corsham SOLD OUT 31 Oxford SOLD OUT More details here: brianbilston.com/events/

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Events

Here’s a page dedicated to forthcoming events where I’ll be out and about, reading poems, signing books and generally inflicting myself on an unsuspecting or unreceptive public: Autumn …

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 19h

Continuing my career as a serious journalist by trying out M&S’s false nipples for a week inews.co.uk/opinion/unst...

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The unstoppable rise of nipples - and why you are seeing them everywhere

Kate Lister: I tried a pair of stick on nipples in the wild to see what the fuss is all about

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 17h

Hope Tuppence is O.K.

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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 17h

7th of Owltober! A glimpse BTS at South Island Wildlife Hospital in Chch, NZ. "Although bursting with beautiful birds and passionate people, [SIWH] runs on donations and the smell of an oily rag" Want to donate? www.wildlifehospital.co.nz/help-us/ Source: 1news.co.nz/2023/10/26/s... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

This Little Owl in both name and nature is wrapped in a cornflower blue tea towel on a white table.

She's held secure by eight fingers belonging to a reporter in a pink top and black jacket. The owl's black pupils reflect tube lights, and her irises and beak are matching limoncello yellow. They're in alignment due to the low camera angle and the owl's lifted chin, which accentuates a look of immense suspicion at the photographer: bombastic down-the-beak eye. From this vantage too, the owl's black rictal bristles look like short steep-angled eyebrows. The rest of the owl's feathers are dark brown, cream-streaked, and masked around the eyes, with bunching around the quote-unquote "jawline", like sideburns.

Small stature + sideburns + black & yellow accents = Owlverine

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Last Exit to Nowhere @lastexittonowhere.bsky.social · 19h

On this day in 1984, the Ghostbusters contain their first class VI free roaming vapour and hit the front pages the next day. LastExitToNowhere.com

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 19h

The peppermint creams did well and those paper baskets were lovely.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
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I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Flight hijacked, forced landing at Luton, but managed to escape.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Having a wonderful time. Scenery is beautiful. Wish you were here. (No glasses.)

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Cat Irving @anatomicalcat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In a couple of weeks I’ll be talking about the Medical History of Monsters at Leith’s Argonaut Books argonautbooks.co.uk/event/dxktKi...

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Having a day at Alton Towers. Dad has been on the corkscrew, roller coaster, log flue, swing boats, airoplanes, chair lift, giant slide, helter skelter. If you believe that you believe anything.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Spooky Pants preorder is LIVE Signed copies at theartofpants.com

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/10/2026

He just can’t help himself

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Witchy Annie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"JK Rowling is already a billionaire and everyone already knows about Harry Potter, what's the point of boycotting?" Nobody thinks boycotting will bankrupt her. We know she's gonna die rich. We're just asking you to show a shred of solidarity with trans folk. Absolute low bar bare minimum shit.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My contribution to this evening’s Locally Sourced new material comedy night P-themed raffle. It’s a panda fight! Come along, laugh at comedy, buy a raffle ticket you could be walking home with this succulent drawing.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A thread of excellent birds I have met, and their backstories, in 20 photographs.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We stayed at home for Christmas and had relations.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 06/10/2026

A little view that you can no longer see. This glimpse of a medieval window from inside a quadruple Tudor chimney stack was only visible 10 years ago whilst we undertook some flood recovery work. This space is now a much needed cupboard!

We are looking at a corridor made of brick, it leads to a dead end of a limewashed wall and glazed stone mullion window.

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 53. On returning to the nest foraging #bumblebees fly back and forth fanning their wings secreting a pheromone which encourages other workers to go foraging on flowers with the same scent as the returning bee. Scentsational #bees! #nature #science

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Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Special K. For #EpigraphyTuesday, we look at two instances of the archaic K in the word EVOKATVS, normally EVOCATVS, recalled veterans who were "called out" of retirement to re-enlist, with many privileges for doing so. This one, Ingenuus, was a career soldier. #AncientBluesky 🏺

FUNERARY MONUMENT FOR AN EVOCATUS, 200-250 CE. CASINO DELL'AURORA LUDOVISI

A weathered marble funerary altar standing outdoors, surrounded by the fallen leaves of autumn. The front face features a carved relief of a standing Roman soldier wearing a heavy military cloak and proudly holding the baton of his rank. Below is a Latin inscription which translates to: "To the departed shades. For Quintus Vetius Ingenuus, veteran of the Third Praetorian Cohort, from the province of Lower Germany. Marcus, an evocatus (recalled veteran), his heir and fellow citizen, made this for a well-deserving man." Unlike many Roman epitaphs, Ingenuus's sole heir and dedicator is a fellow soldier and countryman. This suggests a life wholly dedicated to military service, devoid of a traditional family structure. According to epigraphic analysis, the monument dates to the first half of the third century CE.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Will not be writing again.

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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

6th of Owltober! While examining 'Snowy' the Snowy Owl for injuries, staff at Woodlands Wildlife Sanctuary in Canada couldn't help but take a picture. And we're all glad they did. Want to donate to WWS? woodlandswildlifesanctuary.ca/donate Source: fb.com/260048249491... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉

"Snowy" the Snowy Owl is on their back partially wrapped in a white towel looking up at camera with eyes bright yellow + slightly crossed. The half-open mouth on Snowy, or on any beaked animal for that matter, kind of makes it look like they're smiling - due to the consummate V's of the upper and lower beak forming a happy arrowhead shape "⮟". The reality of course is Snowy is likely very agitated, vocal, and causing a scene. Such is wildlife work. Snowy's feathers are white, save for some bow-shaped bars across the chest, as if someone tried drawing roof tiles with a black pen. If I'm not mistaken these marking indicate Snowy is female. Snowy also has very thick white 'moustache' of rictal bristles, which as the original caption says adds to a look of "adorable fierceness!"

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My parents made this bird sculpture from various bits of wood and old metal they found in their shed and made a perch for it on the sawn-off trunk of a dead tree, and it makes for some great folk horror winter sunset photos.

My mum and dad’s metal bird sculpture in their garden, earlier this year.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My next tour date is October 25th @ Brighton Komedia. One of my favourite venues in the country, would love you to come along. I promise to wear EPIC shoes. TICKETS: komediabrighton.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Giles Yeo @gilesyeo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They made us fat, and now they are selling us thin. The new episode of A Matter of Fat is out today! Please follow us on Apple Pod and Spotify, or hit subscribe on YouTube #obesityisnotachoice #amatteroffatpod youtu.be/k1BykHVbweQ?...

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They made us fat. Now they're selling us thin. | A Matter of Fat Podcast

YouTube video by A Matter of Fat — with Giles Yeo and Rose Stokes

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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 52. Bumblebees have hearts but they are not ❤️ shaped. Bee hearts are straw shaped organs and run the entire length of the body. #bees #nature #biodiversity #bumblebees

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We got a new publisher for MADI a little while ago! @imagecomics.com So I thought Id put up a link in case you were interested in this graphic novel that @alexdecampi.bsky.social & I made a few years ago. The art is seriously good & the story isn’t bad either! imagecomics.com/comics/relea...

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Madi TP

"A long and bloody road trip, one well worth taking." — AIPT Set in the same world as the films Moon and Mute , MADI is a cerebral cyberpunk graphic novel about a team of veterans who have taken on co...

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I seem to be everywhere.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don't forget heel ball for brass rubbings.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the 70s Sister Sledge used to drive around in British cars. Their favourites were the Austin Music and Cortina Trap.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A few old favourites.

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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026

we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OOH. Ever since the National Maritime Museum installed their huge Ocean Map (the Spilhaus projection), I've been encouraging them to design matching ocean merchandise & here's a start: an A2 wall print & a 500 piece jigsaw. Ocean ppl, encourage more by buying these! 🌊🌊 shop.rmg.co.uk/collections/...

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At 6pm on Tuesday join @sociabledog.bsky.social and me for a webinar where our fabulous dog trainer will explain how he persuaded #sophiefromromania to come out from behind the sofa. Sign up at patreon.com/sociabledog - all proceeds go to Cure Parkinson’s

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Raksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yup there certainly is….😳 Here’s our first offering for #Halloween 🎃 month 🧙 #Archaeology #History #BuriedEvidence #podcast #salem

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