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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 20h

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 14h

#NationalPoetryDay ✒️ Roses are red, Water comes in litres, Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres. #Wales

A wooden replica siege engine, stands in front of a stone castle. A piece of purple fabric is wrapped around the tall central support beam.

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 20h

October Country by Ray Bradbury. (for @tomsbrown.bsky.social & all others who love this month)

OCTOBER COUNTRY
... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain....

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 12h

A sunlit south doorway at beautiful St. Mary’s Church in Yelden, Bedfordshire 😍 Not bad for over 600 years old!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23h

Delicate crocheted/sewn leaf sculptures by UK artist Susanna Bauer #WomensArt #October1st #Autumn

Photo of an oval shaped brown leaf with lace like cream coloured embroidery along the outside edge, all against a white background

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10h

You drive by it. For an idle hour you think about buying. Yes, it's dilapidated, will take a lot of work to get it right, but for an hour you dream. Then you think about how isolated it is, wonder why it's been abandoned. For reasons you can't fathom, you ponder its ghosts and let go of the dream.

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 12h

"That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts." (Ray Bradbury "October Country", 1955) 🎨 K. L. Ricks #Spooktober

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 12h

The timeless beauty of ancient glass! This Roman glass scent bottle is around 2,000 years old, yet its elegant design feels surprisingly modern! British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a small Roman scent bottle made of cobalt-blue mould-blown glass in the form of a scallop shell. At the top it has a cylindrical neck with an out-turned rim. There is a thin, curved, handle either side of the neck. The top of each handle is attached to the neck, and the bottom is attached to the top of the scallop shell. Bottle dimensions: height 8.5 cm, diameter 5.2 cm. Dated AD 25-100. It is displayed on a circular, clear perspex (?) stand in a British Museum display case. The bottle was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade in 1869.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22h

Pink Cyclamen (1870) by Fidelia Bridges, US artist #WomensArt

Painting of a delicate pink flowering plant in a terracotta plant pot all against a sage green background

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22h

Book Cover of the Day:

Cover - M R James, Collected Ghost Stories, church ruins, cemetery, tree on cover.

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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 21h

And al watʒ holʒ inwith, nobot an olde caue Or a crevisse of an olde cragge… The dark and forbidding entrance to the cave at Wetton Mill, Dovedale, Derbyshire - a potential candidate for the Green Chapel in the medieval masterpiece Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. #AdoorableThursday #SGGK

Entrance to a cave in a limestone cliff showing vegetation hanging down from the top with grass and bushes surrounding the entrance.

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Joe McCartney @mccartneyjoe.bsky.social · 14h

“ ... I drink to you in smoke-mirled, blue-black polished sloes, savage and reliable ... ” ~ Sloe Gin (1984), Seamus Heaney. [🎨Edward McGuire (1932–1986)] [ 📷Me] #NationalPoetryDay

Portrait of Seamus Heaney, he is sitting at a table with a book in his hands.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 17h

Fishing some 5,300 years ago: a Neolithic fishhook made of a wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. The size of the fishhook is 6.5 cm. It was used to catch pikes. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷me 🏺

The picture shows a fishhook made of wild boar tusk. Only the curved, pointed end and the upper part are visible. The rest is wrapped in fishing line. The fishing line is made of twisted bast.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18h

I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976:

A ripe Conner/horse chestnut/buckeye in my hand yesterday, ready to peel

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 18h

🐭Figurine of a mouse, Roman Period 30 BCE–395CE. Find spot, Egypt. Copper alloy, 5cm length. AN1933.696

While about the size of a real mouse, this bronze one actually weighs at least three times as much, clocking in at over 60 grams. 💪

Ashmolean Museum Collection

Figurine of a mouse, Roman Period 30 BCE–395CE. Find spot, Egypt. Copper alloy, 5cm length. AN1933.696

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13h

Another day spent fruitlessly searching for the Black Library in Weychester Cathedral. Another dozen subterranean rooms visited, but no new clues. It remains firmly occulted. Remains legendary, an engine of the imagination. – #MattAdams

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 18h

"Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow; I shall sing when night’s decay Ushers in a drearier day" (Emily Brontë) #NationalPoetryDay

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18h

Not to piss on anyone’s chips, but Hookland won’t be doing any ‘31 days of spookiness’ malarkey. Halloween is not that big a thing in a county that does hauntings in a matchbox every day of the year. The gothic is not tinsel on this ghost soil, it’s a bone tattoo.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 21h

Universal soldier Damaged fragment of a tombstone commemorating a #Roman auxiliary cavalryman from Whitcombe #Dorset in #DorsetMuseum The full image probably showed the horse trampling on a Briton / Durotrigian 😲 📷 Sept 2026 #RomanFortThursday

Damaged sculptural relief showing a Roman cavalryman with cape and helmet, holding a spear and riding an angry horse

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23h

Heronry, 2022, etching by UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt

Print in blue and white featuring a tree lined still river or pond with reflections and a flying heron to the top right in silhouette

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 21h

On the first of the month, say: "White Rabbit! White Rabbit! White Rabbit!" for Good Luck! 🎨 Yuko Higuchi

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 20h

#GlassObjectThursday 🏺 Delicate #Roman blown glass flask with polychrome snake-thread decoration. 3rd C AD. Made in Rhineland, Cologne area. In British Museum

Translucent glass vase with fine rounded body, and remains of small foot. An elegant narrow neck bows out slightly at the top, and is flanked by delicate handles either side, together forming a heart shape. The body is decorated with gold and light blue coloured threads of glass, in irregular swirly patterns

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 20h

The stars at night on Glastonbury Tor. St Michael's tower looking like it might take off.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22h

There's a type of red clay soil you find on some parts of the county's western border. People call it 'Hookland Red'. It used to be said witches would come from the other side of the county to collect it because it had 'special properties'. I just reckon it's good for growing. – Tom Rudd #VOH

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22h

Ghost, Hester Cox.

Deer amongst trunks of trees in forest, painting.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ahhh, tomorrow, my favourite month begins…Goodnight. 🖼️ Tuesday Riddell

Two eyes peer through the stems of yellow foliage and white flowers in the darkness, in the foreground, a snail walks leaving a trail and one flower has fallen to the ground. A moth flies above the flowers. Painting.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fill in your book, take it back to the tourist centre and get a special Mr. Lookout certificate and badge ...

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Goodnight from the phantoms stuck in the cells below Coreham Crown Court, bemoaning their contemptible state of waiting upon judgement. Goodnight from Eleanor Merril, looking for tide-gifted Blood Lace blooms in the moonlit rock pools of Clinker Cove. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This beautiful Roman glass bowl was found around Vesuvius. Its bold colours and lines make for a striking piece. 🕰️C1stBC-1st AD 🏛️📷 MANN 🇮🇹

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For even the solitary witch never truly walks alone. She may be rarely seen at those guerrilla covens of extreme need, but she travels with the spirits of the land. Her constant companions are genii locorum – whispering, protecting and teaching as she navigate her way. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

""The Monster of 'Partridge Creek.'" ...the story of an encounter which the author and several friends had with no less a creature than the dinosaurs of the Arctic Circle, which, as recently as January of this year, was reported to be still at large..." Bexhill Observer 4.7.1908. #WyrdWednesday

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you like hillforts AND Brochs, here's a fantastic combo for #HillfortsWednesday Edin's Hall: a Late Iron Age broch inside a rectangular enclosure inside an earlier Iron Age bivallate 0.9ha hillfort Scottish Borders / Crìochan na h-Alba Kite photo © Hamish Fenton 2011 🤩 #HillfortsWednesday

Aerial photo looking down at the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with circular stone broch on the left and trees beyond

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This beautiful ring is carved from a single piece of amber. It’s Egyptian and dated to the New Kingdom, so 16th-11th centuries BC. The inscription shows hieroglyphics but I can’t find any information that has a translation. Grateful if anyone knows. 🏛️📷 BM

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

"St George and the Pterodactyl" 🎨 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (1873) #WyrdWednesday

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Setting Sun, (mid 20thC) by English painter Laura Knight #WomensArt

Painting featuring a golden sun setting behind a tree by a river

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WallsOnWednesday 🏺 Quite a few sections of #Roman / #medieval wall survive in City of London - sometimes more than first appears. Along street called London Wall is view on left. But much more is to be seen behind in the rather hidden Salters Company garden - a view both impressive and evocative.

View looking down from walkway above London Wall on Roman, Medieval and later remains of London City wall. In front of the wall are chairs set out on a paved public garden area. Behind is modern Salters Hall.

An oblique view along a substantial portion of the Roman, Medieval and later wall. The Roman stonework is visible at the bottom, with a red brick section at the top.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Footballer hoverfly on Buddleia. #WildWebsWednesday

A yellow and black Hoverfly on a mauve Buddleia flower, against a blurred grey green background.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Re-introducing a Hookland childhood nightmare/beloved icon. Mr. Lookout – the ghost bear mascot of the Hookland Tourist Board's 'I-See! series of books'. The scarrer of many a child's imaginations as depicted by @tomsbrown.bsky.social. #MrLookout #Hookland

A ghost bear. A big, fat ghost bear. Wearing spectacles, holding what appears to be a bone wand. Trust me, it is one scary bear. The text says: Mr. Lookout

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dropped in a Hookland vinegar cake to all at @treadwells-books.bsky.social as a small thank for hosting such a magical evening last week. They still have plenty of signed copies ‘Hookland Fragments’ with a special insert if you want to order from them.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Whilst out and about and cake-bothering booksellers, I saw my first Hookland sticker out in the wild.

A Hookland sticker on a pipe covering up some fascistic filth. The sticker reads: HERNE THE HUNTER HATES YOUR RACIST BOLLOCKS

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WyrdWednesday William Blake (1757-1827) was commissioned to do a series of illustrations based on the Biblical 'Book of Revelations' which is a visionary apocalyptic meltdown featuring 'The Great Dragon' depicted here with 'The Woman Clothed In The Sun'.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Orcadian Gothic A Neolithic couple stand before the chambered cairn of Wideford Hill #Orkney Painting by Brian Lee, spotted on the Historic Scotland site interpretation board, in homage to Grant Wood's famous 1930 painting Well played 👏 📷 Aug 2024 #TombTuesday #Archaeology

A woman with yellow hair and man with grey, both dressed in Neolithic textiles and furs, the man holding a shovel, stand infront of a stone built structure with thatched roof. Neither look happy

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tomb with a view - Taversoe Tuick, a Neolithic chambered cairn on Rousay (one of the Orkney islands). Rousay is often referred to as the ‘Egypt of the North’ on account of its many wonderful archaeological sites. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Rousay #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me

A thick bundle of dried plant roots, tightly rolled into a ring and secured with fibrous ties, displayed on a dark grey museum plinth.

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