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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You two are clearly proof that marriage is a blessed state 😁

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In Greece it's "tipota", which can mean "nothing" or "anything", which in context sounds very warm

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#PortraitThursday – Marble portrait of an unknown ruler, possibly Sauromates II of the Cimmerian Bosporus, from the late 2nd century AD. He has idealised features, including flowing hair and a short beard. It was discovered at the Theatre of Dionysus in the 19th century. 📍 Acropolis Museum, Athens.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

youtu.be/b4jFpNIgjYY?... Directed by the hypertalented Philip Cairney. Airs October 11. CANNOT WAIT

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Pet Cemetery Murders | Official Trailer | HBO Max

YouTube video by HBO Max

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

www.ibtimes.co.uk/common-bond-... "Gaspar Lipszyc, a Spain-based Belgian national, is now listed as the company's sole director. [...] a principal at investment firm Nectar Capital LLP. The change leaves Lipszyc as the only director currently recorded on the company's public register."

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Barrecore, Boom Cycle and Kobox Abruptly Shuts All London Studios 'Until Further Notice'

Common Bond has closed all its London studios until further notice, as members seek clarity over prepaid packages and more than 100 Triyoga workers pursue unpaid wages.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876

A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I did, 6 months ago, albeit at a discount. Have already started a claim.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Scaramouche is a definite mood

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is bad enough what they are doing to their excellent staff and instructors, who are the sole reason people like me pay up A LOT OF MONEY up front to secure their instruction and support. How exactly do they plan to address our financial commitment??

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

Hello Everybody

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Accidentally read this as Batplug and it made it no less, in any way

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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

This, followed by the reminder that other important icons have been moved at Putin's behest and used as propaganda tools, even carried in quasi-religious processions to promote the war against Ukraine. Oh yeah, and Patriarch Kirill is totally cool with all of this. Obscene.

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

Arts writer Sofia Bagdasarova: “Regarding the photo circulating online that shows a crack in an icon with a strange substance oozing out, my sources have assured me that it is not a fake but a genuine image—what is being squeezed out is restoration glue caused by the swelling of the wooden panels.”

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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 · 14/09/2026

Extraordinary to me as a 60-year-old is how many people cannot grasp that feminism is integral to human rights. Women are, and have always been, half the human race. Men, likewise. When women talk about feminism, they mean humanism. Often, men, when they speak of humanism, they mean ... men

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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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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Nope. We're used to the idea of monks recording all the important stuff that it's an easy mistake. But yeah, women stitched that bad boy and and what's more, they did it with a consistency of technique & materials unknown outside of much later RELIGIOUS manuscript or altarpiece commissions

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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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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is that the speckles? (looking up glass disease...)

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

She's so alive and engaging (typical Ducreux, right?). I imagine the old glass rests on an inner fillet so it could be removed without lifting the surface?

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Ghouly 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

Just liked to announce... That I have mastered @scrivenerapp.bsky.social. About to send client's 300,000+ word manu to publisher. Apart from editing, I also checked citations, designed layout, colour corrected old photos, designed over, and actually COMPILED all. Not gonna lie, feel godlike 😁

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

Or Innervisions, but good call

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andré, but scarier @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 · 29/08/2026

Not many real surveys of his work, but Danny Katz Gallery had a lovely show, like, over a decade ago. Catalogue is very rare though. I couldn't even get one from him.

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Andréa Gates @andreagates.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

These remind me so much of Algernon Newton en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerno...

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Algernon Newton - Wikipedia

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