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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hello Everybody

Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Those registered at Companies House for Common Bond Ltd 16523903 (apart from Gaspar Lipsyzc... hey Gaspar! 👋) have resigned. Common Bond staff are professional, skilled, and dedicated. They deserve better. Thanks to them, people like me, paid Common Bond a lot of money. Pls explain. NOW 2/2

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone take Boomcycle, Reformcore, Barrecore, Triyoga (etc.) classes? Yesterday, all classes at every studio in Chelsea, Battersea, Hammersmith, Notting Hill, St Mary's Axe and elsewhere were cancelled. All sites and apps down. LOTS of people out of jobs. LOTS of clients out of pocket. 1/2

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Le Goût, c. 1500 (detail) from The Lady & the Unicorn, rare tapestries identified by Prosper Mérimée French archaeologist & historian, died #OTD 1870; author of novella Carmen; Inspector of Historical Monuments, who is commemorated in French Monuments database Base Mérimée. @museecluny.bsky.social

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him."

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“So you disqualified the animal?” 🤣🤣🤣

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Walking down Du Cane Road in W12 and nearly hit head-on by a cyclist going at least 30mph on an electric bike, ON THE PAVEMENT. If he'd actually hit me, I'd probably be dead. Oh yeah, and he was looking at his phone. Wish I could say this was a new experience, but it really wasn't.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dear God, to my mind, the issue was never 1st-wave, 2nd-wave or 3rd-wave feminism. Human rights are human rights, and women ARE, AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, HALF THE HUMAN RACE.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

..task? ...task? ....task yet? TASK!!!!

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

20% of all mammals are bats and I don't see anyone posting them. Give bats proper representation!

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Holly Hoye 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:

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Rob K @dynastysnarker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You may be cool but you’ll never be Bo Diddley frying chicken in his dressing room cool.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

youtu.be/opkzgLMH5MA?... Unfairly, these guys became a stylistic punchline, because this is a lovely banger of a song.

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A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) (Video)

YouTube video by AFlockOfSeagullsVEVO

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@handpressed.net I haven't come this close to ugly crying over anything, not since learning how to build time/ and or history-specific apps.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'd just liked to announce... That I have mastered Scrivener. About to send my client's 300,000+ word memoir to publisher. Apart from editing, I also checked all citations, designed layout, compiled and colour corrected old photos and designed the cover. Not gonna lie, I feel godlike 😁

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dear God, to my mind, the issue was never 1st-wave, 2nd-wave or 3rd-wave feminism. Human rights are human rights, and women ARE, AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN, HALF THE HUMAN RACE.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Do not be saying feminism is over or got overturned or women are worse off when it comes to rights than they used to be if you're talking about the bad old days before second wave feminism. Thread below:

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just to let all you lovely people with excellent taste out there know that SCTV is now streaming on [cough!]flix Which means, that among so many other things, we can now revisit the genius that is the Soren-Weiss Report youtu.be/K6AiM3vMIKI?...

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SCTV - The Soren-Weiss Report

YouTube video by TVOR - The Voice of Reason

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Timeline cleanse from the Black Flute Brigade of Los Angeles.

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andré @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

a Black family dancing to korn with their astronaut relative who just got back from the moon is, quite frankly, the best thing the internet has ever produced

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Anyway, Brian Eno said it best:

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.
CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The 2012 retrospective at Tate Modern had films of her 'happenings'. One featured a bound, semi-clothed Black man curled on the floor as others (none Black) harassed and possibly struck him. It was disgusting, and all I could think was that if Kusama was a man, it would never have been shown.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/08/2026

Read Peter Wehner, on the significance of Natalie Harp www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This “skidding goat” vase was likely made in Iran c.3500 BCE. Similar jars were made at settlements in mountain valleys that connected Mesopotamia in the west to Iran.

An ancient vase decorated with lines and a 'skidding goat'.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

youtu.be/j8bmjDoziaQ?... The sublime Tim Curry will be so missed. I like to think of him, Dolly and Jim Henson group hugging up there.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I'm Going Home

YouTube video by THIRDPROJECT

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

youtube.com/shorts/GuVtb... An update asking Asante honest questions, far more politely than they deserve imo

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Another Asante Update

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'The Breakfast Tray,' (1910) is arguably Elizabeth Okie Paxton's most provocative work; it is one of the first paintings she made after a decade away from her studio after marrying the Boston School artist William McGregor Paxton.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Oh this is so good... on the brain-body connection and why it's how we're all still here.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This intricate vase was created by Namikawa Yasuyuki, perhaps one of the most celebrated enamellers of the Meiji period (1868-1912).

A blue enamelled vase with detail of a waterfall hitting rocks at the base.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

YES! All of this, but especially MAKE ugly things, because it's the only way we can learn how to make beautiful things. AI can't make s**t. It just generates layer upon layer of iteration

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"They had clear ritual significance...." 🏺

A cache of old Mrs. Butterworth syrup bottles, covered in dust.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

youtu.be/LniOzzEc0sM?... Happy 80th birthday to Ferenc Rófusz who won Hungary's first animation Oscar for The Fly. The artistry, visual storytelling and kinetics here are mind blowing. And shoutout to @ani-obsessive.bsky.social and their great newsletter.

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A légy - animációs film - digitálisan felújított (1980)

YouTube video by Nemzeti Filmintézet

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is the greatest photo I have ever seen

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The good Dr. Glaucomflecken on the loss of the established NICU team in Medford, OR Please watch and share. It's really important. youtu.be/iNpZshNB50k?...

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Hospital Fires All Its Neonatologists

YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

made a silly video because i couldn’t stop thinking about what would a siren sing to a cat

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Van Eeghen family has donated an extremely rare early 17thC drawing book to the Rijksmuseum, the book contains various drawings by Rombout Uylenburgh, a painter from Friesland who worked at the Polish royal court in Kraków and apprentices who trained in his studio.

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Wouter Wagemakers @wouterwagemakers.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m on holiday and therefore not posting much these days, but I’m so happy to finally have seen Erich Mendelsohn’s Einsteinturm in Potsdam (1920-22)

Little brass brain in the pavement in front of the Einsteinturm

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🇺🇦☀️ Hundreds of storks swarm Ukrainian field during harvest A Ukrainian farmer shared incredible footage. In the video, hundreds, or possibly thousands, of birds gathered in the middle of a field. Ukrainians are already calling such a large number of storks a good sign.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Highly recommend Ros Eriera's 2011 film. It's beautifully realised w/ animation, presented by Simon Armitage, Lancastrian atmosphere & Jacobean history. Screened on BBC4, it's available on YouTube, where posters credit the film to Armitage, w/no mention of Ereira, who wrote directed & produced.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Could Apollo Magazine please get the h*** off of the cesspit-formerly-known-as, and open a Bluesky account?? Apollo has excellent content, not least of which is Rakewell's take on the BBC's latest cultural gameshow The Big Deal. Buuuuuht...

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Arms, letters, piety, and...kitties!!! [Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, Triptych of Micault Family, c. 1539-1559 (Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)]

Triptych from the chapel of the Holy Sacrament in St Michael's Cathedral in Brussels, commissioned by Jean Micault, collector-general to Emperor Charles V, and his wife Livine Cats van Welle . Donors appear in the wings while the central panel shows the resurrection of Lazarus,

Detail of left wing of altarpiece showing a member of the Micault family kneeling in prayer in full armor, wearing on surcoat decorated with cats

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Gerrit Dou, Dog at Rest, 1650, Oil on panel 16.5 x 21.6 cm (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A painting of a dog curled up sleeping on a ledge next to a terracotta vase, a bundle of sticks, and a basket

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Love how Karloff looks like he's checking his phone

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A wonderful horse pyxis, a Greek container distinguished by miniature horse figures on its lid. The horses often served as decorative handles and, likely signalled prestige because keeping horses was expensive. Dating 750-725 BC, on display at Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 me

A horse pyxis displayed in a museum case: A low, round lidded terracotta container covered with dark geometric bands, zigzags, rosettes and animal scenes. Four stylised black horses stand in a row on the lid, their long necks rising above the vessel; larger decorated pottery jars are visible behind it.

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