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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life." - Hermann Hesse 🎨 Julia Tar
Illustration of a large oak tree with a face on its trunk. A person is sitting on the ground, facing the tree, and there is a reflection of a white stag in the water.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I agree! #BookSky
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A handcrafted 'Doors of Durin' diorama, inspired by The Lord of the Rings, by artist @sergiomodelismo. The scene is built inside a picture frame to create a "living painting" effect. Sculpted putty was used for the rock face and natural elements like rosemary branches for the trees. #art #lotr
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yayoi Kusam's Infinity Mirrored Rooms #womensart #JapaneseArtistsWeek
Four images of room installations in different colours with lights and mirrors giving the impression of infinity
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
'The Albert Bridge' (1966) by Edward Bawden
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I recently purchased at auction one of SR Badmin’s sketchbooks. I had to have it because I’d spotted that one of the pages contained a study for an illustration in the Ladybird book ‘Trees’. As close as I’ll probably ever come to owning original Nature series artwork 😊
A small open sketchpad containing a study of trees and the final illustration from the ladybird book, published in 1963, of the page Ilex and Wild Cherry
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We are sweltering.
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Earthling @ziyatong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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@nluewmist / I’m finally reading Dune. This quote which in the first few pages hit hard; “once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only let other men with machines to enslave them.”
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine
Image of a tartan design with a cross in red abd green thread lines against a dark background
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby—a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist—to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.
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Bríd 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦 @brid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan
As per Wikipedia: Hammerhead shark illustration from 1735, Japan, from the Illustrated Guide to the Products of Oki Province
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio
A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Why art and artists matter.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“My solitude is my treasure, the best thing I have..” •A.S Byatt Yehan Wang art
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
'Woman wiring an early IBM computer' from the 'Documenting Science' series (1938-58) by US photographer Berenice Abbott #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting  white woman moving wires from a mass of wires in an early huge computer
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
So true. #BookSky
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom." ~ Simone de Beauvoir The Sunlit Interior 🎨 Carl Holsøe
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting lively stylised octopuses with writhing arms. All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete.

Top L - Minoan storage jar decorated in ‘Marine Style’ with a wide-eyed octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded body which tapers to a narrow circular base. Short cyclindrical neck with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders. Height 55 cm. From Zakros, 1500-1450 BC

Top R - The iconic Minoan ‘Marine Style’ flask.  Rounded body with short cyclindrical neck out-flared at rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the flask. An almost cartoon-like octopus, with wide eyes and sucker-lined arms. Other motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC.

Bottom L - Minoan alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck with flat rim. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC.

Bottom R - ‘krater’ with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a front facing stylised octopus with wide eyes and tentacles which loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
English artist Vanessa Bell’s book cover designs for (her sister) Virginia Woolf’s texts (1920s-30s) #womensart
Two head and shoulders photographic portraits of white women and two book cover designs
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint." (Edward Hopper) (Edward Hopper, Room by the Sea, 1951)
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Some of the fine illustrations by Edward Julius Detmold featured in Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921). More on the book here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f…
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Illustration from 'The Summer Book', 1972 by Tove Jansson #womensart
Black and white illustration featuring a woman and a child looking out over a body of water with three swans of geese flying in silhouette against a rising sun
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We cannot allow the Epstein files narrative to just fade away. This reading room is brilliant and what they have done here ensures that. #BelieveTheSurvivors
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Strawberry plant from "A Curious Herbal Antique Botanical Illustration", 1737 by Scottish botanical illustrator/author and engraver Elizabeth Blackwell #WomensArt
Illustration of a strawberry plant with several strawberries against a cream background
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Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Penguin Pool, London Zoo 1934 Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton buff.ly/223TxJ8
A colour photograph of the outside of the penguin pool at London Zoo
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Summer It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Queen of #May, 1900, by Margaret Macdonald of the Glasgow School #WomensArt
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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer
A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan
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Nicholas Meletio @nicholasmeletio.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky #libraries #overduebooks
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Eye of Mysterioso @mysteriphoto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert
Kaleidoscopic image of Frank Herbert’s Dune
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
May 24, 1978: American management consultant Marilyn Loden first coins the term "glass ceiling" to describe invisible career barriers for women.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Painting by Javier Mayoral
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Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It's an anniversary! 38 Years in Glasgow karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2026/05/22/3... (Yes, that was me in our first #Glasgow home.)
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38 Years in Glasgow
38 years ago today, we (my husband and I, and the cat) moved from North Shields on Tyneside, to Springburn in Glasgow. I swear the vet hadn’t given Fergie a strong enough sedative for his jou…
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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I’m not financially qualified to give this advice but I think you should quit your job and just come read all day.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The dresses of Frida Kahlo, which have been on display in Mexico City. The artist adopted a brightly coloured folk style reflecting her promotion of indigenous arts embraced by the Mexican Renaissance movement and symbolic of a cultural identity freed by revolution #WomensArt
Photo of a line of long colouful dresses on manikins
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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
If you want a flavour of yer man in full flow, here's a spoiler-free interview i recorded with Simon Crump for Huddersfield LitFest last week, with 2 x readings including the demented unpunctuated opening broadside. youtu.be/6OdcLFbC1ms
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Author of Keshed, Stu Hennigan, interviewed by Simon Crump for HuddLitFest26, plus book reading
YouTube video by Huddersfield Literature Festival
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
'Evening Muses' by Natalia Drepina, contemporary photographer #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring three standing women in a field in long dresses in silhouette against an evening sky all with hands in the air and backs arched backwards
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Anne Welsh @annewelsh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Register now: the first of the RSC’s Countdown Clock webinars takes place later today. Join RSC Chsir Renate Behrens, RDA publisher James Hennelly and RSC Chair Elect Robert L. Maxwell to hear about next steps for your library. Free, but registration required: www.rdatoolkit.org/news/rsc/reg...
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Register Now: Countdown Clock Webinar Today
RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured), RDA publisher James Hennelly and RSC Chair Elect Robert L. Maxwell are looking forward to welcoming you to the first of the Countdown Clock webinars today.
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/05/2026
Excellent opportunity to learn #datawrangling techniques & skills with @cilipmdg.bsky.social's Fran Frenzel facilitating a Library @carpentries.carpentries.org 2-day workshop: Practical Skills for Working with Data: 5th & 12th June #metadata #collectionsdata #training Register: tinyurl.com/22au9z2m
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LAI CMG @laicmg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
📣RDA refreshers/ improvers online training course with Anne Welsh This training is suitable for those who attended LAI CMG's 2026 training or for those already familiar with the basics of RDA Thursday, 28th May from 10 am to 4 pm Tickets available on eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/rda-refres...
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Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Isn’t this wonderful? The head of a stalk of Rye grass, presumably used as a bookmark in this twelfth-century Bodleian MS from Cirencester. Just lovely.
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Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#booksky
Page from a book. Text reads: 
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MARY W. SHELLEY

He sprang from the cabin window as he said this, upon the ice raft which lay close to the vessel. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

[handwritten in pen]
As he drifted away I could just make out his final words.
"It's okay if you just call me' Frankenstein' instead of 'Frankenstein's Monster.
I really don't mind."

The end
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 08/05/2026
France passes law on the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during colonial rule
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France passes law on the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during colonial rule
The law, which fulfills a promise Emmanuel Macron made to a crowd of young African people in 2017, allows the government to approve the restitution of looted artifacts by decree, rather than requiring a specific law for each case.
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Anne Welsh @annewelsh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Strange glitch is not letting me into @juliansshowings.bsky.social (which I manage on behalf of the Friends of Julian of Norwich). I wanted to share the lovely graphic the parish made to let everyone know about their services today. Everyone welcome. #julianofnorwich
Poster sharing services at 10:30am, 12 noon, 5pm and 6pm for the Feast of Julian of Norwich at St Julian’s Church, Norwich
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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 06/05/2026
howard early strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912
howard early strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
For #InternationalDanceDay — pages from a 1700 dance manual depicting a revolutionary dance notation system invented at the court of Louis XIV. More pages from the manual here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d…
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Kelseypaintz @kelseypaintz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Because doing 20-minute paintings of muppets is saving my soul right now. Here's Animal!
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Great Horned Owl mother watching over her owlet inside a Saguaro cactus nest in the Arizona desert. 📸 KRL Photo
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