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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A light brown bunny rests on a striped rug, facing the camera with its pink tongue peeking out.
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a mossy verge @amossyverge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Screenshot from Richard J Murphy's video, it reads "The first conclusion is that this madness is pervasive"
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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CEEFAUX @ceefaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
20.00 FILM: MURDER ON THE PIZZA EXPRESS
Agatha Christie's classic story where the twist is that there was no actual murder - the victim simply topped himself.
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Jim Parrett 🍁 @jymn.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Marquee Club, London, March 2 1967
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 25/09/2026
Dutch governments builds alternative tech for Microsoft based on NixOS for its own IT needs. This is a good news and moving away from abusive big tech firms like Microsoft. Tax payers money should go into FLOSS only www.dawo.community/en/blueprint/
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Blueprint - DAWO.community
The DAWO blueprint: AI, operating system, cloud and collaboration software.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🐒🧵🙏KUKURIZARU🙈🙉🙊 When walking through the neighbourhoods that fan down from Kiyomizu-dera to Gion, you may notice some oddly shaped talismans hung outside homes and businesses. Kukurizaru (くくり猿) are small balls of cloth, most commonly red in colour. #Kyoto #くくり猿
Statues of the 3 Wise Monkeys at Koshin-do.Colourful kukurizaru hung at Koshin-do.Koshin-do is just below Yasaka Pagoda.Colourful kukurizaru hung at Koshin-do.
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico, whose atmospheric metaphysical paintings paved the way for Surrealism. Interno metafisico (Metaphysical Interior), 1917 #GiorgiodeChirico #MetaphysicalArt #Surrealism
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
High five! :3
A black-and-white cat holds one paw up toward the camera as if offering a high five
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)
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Kelseypaintz @kelseypaintz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I was in such a bad mood so once again here is Expressionist Breakdown Bert. A 20-minute study in ink this time!
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Whoa!
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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's tour bus.
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Edward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's last known photo together, circa 1950s.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If a generative AI CEO is telling you something, take it with a grain of salt the size of an iceberg. So if they want regulation now, it is more likely something to do with finances than an immediate existential threat. These dipshits do not care about existential threats other than going bankrupt.
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 14/09/2026
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Chi Pu, Vietnamese Actress, Plays with Bubbles
ALT: Chi Pu, Vietnamese Actress, Plays with Bubbles
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
walked into a grocery store in malibu…the rich people are not ok
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Morgan Davie @fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So the modern history of the world is like * The internet * Rich people put lots of racism on the internet because it helps elect governments that cut taxes * Whoops fascism everywhere
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Enkoji Temple, Ichijoji Temple, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto North garden
Framed within the deep, cooling shadows of a traditional shoin interior at Enkō-ji temple, a tranquil portal opens onto the luminous, moss-carpeted northern courtyard. The foreground is anchored by the muted texture of woven tatami mats and dark timber thresholds, establishing a dramatic contrast against the brilliant green of the sunlit garden beyond. To the right, a translucent shōji screen with delicate wooden lattice (kumiko) partitions the foliage into geometric fragments, while the open doorway presents an unobstructed view of stepping stones (tobi-ishi) winding past a rustic, thatched bell shelter (shōrō) nestled beneath vibrant Japanese maples.

Founded in 1601 by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the foothills of Ichijōji in Kyoto’s Sakyō Ward, Enkō-ji originally served as a Rinzai Zen seminary and a pioneering center of early modern print culture, renowned for its early wooden movable-type printing press. The temple’s famed Jūgyū-no-niwa ("Ten Bulls Garden") incorporates the allegorical Zen parable of the ten stages of enlightenment, using moss, flowing water, and seasonal foliage to evoke a journey toward self-realization. Viewed from the interior halls, the garden functions not merely as an exterior landscape, but as an active partner to meditative practice, designed to engage monks and visitors in silent contemplation.

Aesthetically, the composition is a masterclass in gakubuchi teien—the art of using architectural openings as living, changing picture frames. The deep interior gloom directly illustrates Jun'ichirō Tanizaki’s observations in In Praise of Shadows (In'ei Raizan), where shadow (kage) is deployed deliberately to absorb harsh glare and accentuate the glowing intensity of filtered outdoor light. The timber doorway acts as a physical and symbolic kekkai (boundary threshold), isolating the interior sanctuary of quietude (seijaku) from the external world.
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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
D'Israeli
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fisherman with Nets on the Sea of Japan, 1953. Photography by Fosco Maraini (1912–2004)
Suspended against a luminous, overcast sky, an intricate web of tarred fishing nets hangs like a monumental graphic tapestry, transforming a fishing vessel on the Sea of Japan into a quiet study in line, texture, and light. In this 1953 photograph by the Italian ethnologist and photographer Fosco Maraini (1912–2004), the dark silhouette of a young fisherman stands at the lower left, his hands engaged in the rhythmic, skilled labor of hauling or adjusting the rigging. Sweeping across the frame are heavy, undulating lead-lines anchored with woven glass floats, their bold, calligraphic curves intersecting delicate fields of translucent, knotted mesh.

Maraini’s mid-century photographic work in Japan—most famously realized in his celebrated studies of the Ama free-divers and isolated island communities along the Noto Peninsula—stands as a masterwork of mid-century humanistic ethnography. Living and traveling extensively across Japan during the pre-war and post-war eras, Maraini eschewed exoticism in favor of a deeply felt, participatory vision. This image captures the rugged visual poetry of the Nihonkai (Sea of Japan) coastal communities just prior to sweeping industrial modernization. The nets are rendered not merely as utilitarian tools of harvest, but as hand-crafted extensions of human endurance, woven from hemp, cordage, and glass to withstand the unyielding forces of the open sea.

Aesthetically, the image relies on the classical design principle of miegakure (hide-and-reveal), where the dense, overlapping layers of netting act as an atmospheric veil, filtering the sky and partially shrouding the human figure within his working environment. The stark contrast between the black cordage and the radiant, featureless sky harnesses the power of yohaku (active negative space), elevating functional maritime gear into expressive visual rhythms reminiscent of sweeping sumi-e ink brushwork.
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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.
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MissMarplesBack @missmarplesback.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Who would have thought the BBC would become the NEW FOX NEWS ?
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Sam King @samcking.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Today’s Italy update: we went in a church and there was a big inflatable bug
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/09/2026
almost word for word
Screenshot of tweet from @InternetHippo:

New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Let me get this right: if you're a retired vicar and peacefully hold up a sign opposing genocide, you're a terrorist. But if 1200 morons put on balaclavas and close half of Dover to stop people *escaping* genocide, police "constructively engage." Is that it? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent
Traffic on A20 in and out of port grinds to halt as Kent police say they are in attendance and engaging with group
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This morning's well-organised fascist paramilitary action blocking the Port of #Dover was timed* to coincide with last day of the #ReformUK party conference. The imagery of black-clad paramilitaries exerting brute power and seizing control is designed to appeal to the 'respectable' party members.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan
screenshot from BBC News of people seeking asylum on a dinghy in Orange high there’s a BBC reporter in a white shirt holding a Mic stands in the sea talking to them
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a mossy verge @amossyverge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"BBC News should get in the fucking sea" oh
"Channel migrant crossings" - A BBC News idiot standing in the sea.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dear BBC News, If you'd like to actually fulfill your mandate to inform the public of the reasons people take small boats please feel free to invite me onto any of your shows. I'm a world expert in this with an award winning book on the topic. Or you can just have a man stood shouting in the sea.
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Spencer Green @spencergreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." - Gloria Steinem
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ankokuji Temple (Ankokuzenji Temple) Lighthouse azalea (Enkianthus perulatus) Abbot (Goen-san) Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture”, Japan
Framed within the dark timber threshold of the main hall at Ankokuji Temple in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, this breathtaking composition captures the temple's abbot (Goen-san) seated in quiet meditation before the incandescent canopy of the historic dodan-tsutsuji (lighthouse azalea / Enkianthus perulatus). Positioned in profile upon the polished wood of the engawa (veranda), the abbot’s dark monastic robes (koromo) anchor the right foreground, his meditative stillness reflecting the disciplined posture of zazen. The heavy lintel (kamoi) and vertical pillars (hashira) of the shoin-style architecture create an absolute geometric boundary, transforming the open wall into a monumental, living landscape screen. Above, light filters gently through the paper panes of the transom windows (ramma), while on the veranda floor, a small paper lantern (andon) and quiet tea service sit beside the practitioner, bathed in the radiant crimson reflection.

The ancient dodan-tsutsuji, nurtured through generations of monastic care, becomes a blazing tapestry of red leaves that fills the entire spatial plane. The abbot’s presence transforms the scene from a purely scenic landscape into a profound depiction of spiritual communion, where human consciousness and seasonal transformation exist in direct, silent dialogue.

The deep black shadows of the unlit interior frame the searing, flame-like intensity of the autumn foliage, recalling Jun'ichirō Tanizaki’s observations on the sublime beauty found in the play of light and shadow within traditional wooden architecture. Because the peak crimson phase of the dodan-tsutsuji lasts only a fleeting few days before the leaves drop for winter, the monk’s quiet gaze becomes a meditation on mujō (impermanence) and mono no aware (the poignant sweetness of transience).
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A light gray bunny stands upright in green grass inside a wire enclosure.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Like a prehistoric dance mat, the curiously carved feet of the Pool Farm stone found 1931 From a Bronze Age barrow containing an adult and juvenile dated to 1840 BC Were the two sizes of feet meant to represent them? Replica in the Wells + Mendip Museum #Somerset 📷 Aug 2026 #StandingStoneSunday
A series of feet and dots carved into a large stone nearly 4,000 years ago. A modern replica displayed in a modern museum context with feet painted red to make them clearer
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 28/08/2026
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama, 1998
Poster for an exhibition by kusama in Tokyo. three black cats covered in white dots surrounded by white space covered in black dots
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a mossy verge @amossyverge.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
omg at last, proper rain! 🌧️🕺⛈️ 🌱🇬🇧 youtu.be/_QJHdovVj-M?...
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The Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow (1967)
YouTube video by Beat-Club
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ @chrisstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
♥️
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Gustave Doré - The Circle of Angels, Dante's Paradiso
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