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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Marg Dier, Embroidery artist traditionally trained at The Royal School of Needlework, UK #Womensart

Realistic embroidery of a sparrow. A small bird perched on a twig with brown, gray and bkack wings

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Sachs Museum at Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotmuseum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#TheLiteraryGarden This book follows a tiny bug who lived on what he believed to be a purple planet, in which everything seemed the same. He builds a spaceship and after traveling around a star called “a,” he discovered that his home planet was a violet kept inside a book. On loan by Carmen Ulloa

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We placed a trailcam at the meeting place of 3 animal tracks in our woodland The choice was obvious. Evidence of deer, badger & rabbits using the tracks What did we get? Over 1,000 photos of the same two squirrels. Sometimes foraging, but almost all just arsing around 🙄

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 03/10/2026

First time catching a sunset in a squirrel eye. Might make this a thing.

The vertical eye of a squirrel with the reflection of the sun setting over trees in the distance and the reflection of the tree in the foreground

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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Haven’t got tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum? Don’t worry you can visit Reading's full-size copy, faithfully embroidered by 35 women in 1885-86 (plus extra pants!) Or latest blog compares the two tapestries www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/comparing-bayeux-and-reading-tapestries

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Comparing the Bayeux and Reading tapestries

Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry is a full-size copy of the original 11th century tapestry. It was created in 1885-1886 by 35 women of the Leek Embroidery Society 'so that England should have a copy of its o...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Spectacular Roman octopus mosaic from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

My photo shows a monochrome Roman floor mosaic depicting an octopus. The octopus is composed of small black tesserae (tiles) and has eight writhing arms with suckers and narrow curling tips. It is set against a white tesserae background. This octopus detail comes from a monochrome marine mosaic featuring Triton with a cherub and various sea creatures which include the octopus, dolphins and a cuttlefish. From the floor of the women's changing room at the Central Baths in Herculaneum.

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

THIS IS V EXCITING! "Wayfarers", the new book by @levparikian.bsky.social is out next April. And Lev has very kindly agreed to SIGN & PERSONALLY DEDICATE any copies ordered from us. Worldwide postage available. Get your orders in now! HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

The cover of Lev's new book.
It's predominantly blue and has wavy lines over it suggesting movement.

There are whales, penguins, insects, birds, deer (I think) and other animals represented on the cover too.

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does anyone know anyone working on 20mph or safer cycling in Buckinghamshire? Thank-you!

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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Kudos to Oxford's Bodleian Library, for putting the Oxyrhynchus papyri online with expansive licenses permitting quick image-use. 🎉😍 They also automated it, so you can easily obtain high-resolution files. #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky #Classics #OpenAccess digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8017...

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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Listening to Scaramucci saying he was wrong about globalisation Like so many others who are still dominating the airwaves While I and my many friends who were right about it have always struggled to be heard and still do

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/09/2026

So Emma Woodhouse is a pretty girl who is pretty smart, pretty rich, and pretty much has no problems whatsoever. We’re off to a roaring start.

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Adam Zimmerman @profadamszimmerman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1. Twenty-five years ago, I was clerking for Judge Weinstein, who once had a perfect, unobstructed view of the Towers. I arrived in the office early to deliver the keys to the office to his newest clerk, Kaimi Wenger. His deputy, June Lowe, came in to tell me a plane had hit the first tower.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's friday! What does that mean? Time for the weekly good news thread! What's your good news from the week? what's made you smile? My good news is a bit of shameless self promo: I'm coming to Budleigh Salterton Literary festival! Join me if you're close enough! budlitfest.org.uk/event/louie-...

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Louie Stowell: Loki - A Bad God’s Guide To Causing Chaos | Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival

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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

[P] I might suggest “the Muppets must put on a variety show with a different guest host each week. Various shenanigans happen both on stage and backstage.”

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Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Every area needs an Inside Croydon...as local newspapers have been killed by the internet. It is brilliant local journalism

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Jonathan Potts @uccellolirico.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The normalisation of anti-asylum feeling has been much furthered by Governments insisting that spontaneous arrivals are "illegal" which is accurate only insofar as they and Parliament are prepared to ignore the spirit of the international law their predecessors championed and which still binds them.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 04/09/2026

Farage champions the wrong values, lies about them, and fails every test of competence delivering on them would require. This scandal gives us an opportunity and the evidence to say so, and we should. dmitryopines.substack.com/p/on-farage-...

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On Farage, Values, Authenticity, and Judgement

Surprised my computer let me type his name and those nouns in the same line.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge

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Undercover: Exposing Reform's secret donations plot

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Goodnight from the Parade of Hoods at Brockwood, where performers representing creatures of the night and forest in papier-mâché masks are scarring some children for life. Goodnight from Ellen Highsmith, inhaling the phantoms carried on the first moor mist of autumn. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've always believed that an MP's full-time job is to be an MP But then you look at some MPs and see that they just treat it as one of their income streams

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Marty Hades 🔥💀 @smartypantsmarty.com · 12/08/2026

Eclipse from Ibiza. The most incredible thing to experience.

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My standard reply to all ai book scammers that I am a practicing witch and placing a curse on them unless they cease their wicked ways. Highly recommend this strategy to other writers & publishing folk. Twice now I've had scammers email back to ask me to lift the curse.

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RNIB @rnib.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Summer reading challenge 🤝 RNIB Library The Summer Reading Challenge is a free, fun summer activity to do with your children. This year’s theme is ‘read to the beat so we’ve picked some of our faves from our library to inspire you. Check them out rnib.in/SummerReadChallenge2026

‘Summer reading challenge, read to the beat.’ Five small book covers are dotted over the screen. An arrow points to suggest you should swipe and continue reading to find out what these books are.

Book cover for Lucy Edwards book Ella Jones vs the Battle Noise. The cover shows a young, red haired girl and her guide dog in a small circle full of lightning. They look like they’re on an adventure. Braille faintly covers the cover. “Age 9+ Ella Jones must face the god Homodos, who is hunting Hercules' famous shield. His plan is to throw the world into chaos by increasing battle-noise until it's unbearable. Ella is the hero the world needs.”

A book cover for ‘The Horne Section Make Some Noise’ is covered in music notes, instruments with smiley faces and a small image of the Horne Section. “For 9+ The Horne Section, tells you everything you need to know to be a music genius. With funny tales, absurd history and unbelievable facts, this mind-blowing guide to music can help anyone become a sound-making sensation.”

A book cover for Beth O’Brien’s Wolf Siren. An illustration of a very small young girl standing in the woods in a red, hooded coat. Two, large black wolves stand around her staring at her. In the background, tree trunks fade into the background. “Age 9+ A vibrant, evocative and magical debut which centers a positive, empowered disabled character at the heart of a reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood. The woods are hiding a secret, but then so is Red.”

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.

Rolling stacks in the archive with some lovely old archive boxes on them. On the right of the image you can see the handles that have to be pulled to move the stacks, activating the connection with the chain beneath the floor.

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David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com · 04/08/2026

Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI

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LK @lkcreations.art · 28/07/2026

They're finally here ! The two poll winners are now available on Ko-fi. Thank you again to everyone who voted. Until our next journey, the Cat and the Samurai salute you. 🥷🐈‍⬛ ko-fi.com/lkcreations/...

Photo of a print on a green cloth with two indian ink flacons on the sides and a brush below it. The print depicts a round red landscape with a mountain, a body of water and banks. The Samurai sits in a boat and the Cat... well wanders somewhere.

Photo of a print on a green cloth with two indian ink flacons on the sides and a brush below it. The print depicts a blue leave tree blowing in the wind. Under it stands the Samurai and somewhere hides the Cat.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 26/07/2026

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and a distraught alien emerged. "What's happened to the library? It's gone! The one thing your civilization had going-" "They moved to a new building," a passer-by said. "Don't you have ways of finding these things out?" "Yes. I ask at the library."

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Paul Ainscough @pwea.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Useful update if you use Croydon flyover.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/05/2026

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

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Ivy @askylitocean.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Gathering" by artist Michele Poirier-Mozzone

The oil painting captures a dreamlike, bird's-eye perspective of five women swimming together in turbulent, sun-drenched water. Rather than rendering precise bodily anatomy, the artist heavily utilizes expressive brushstrokes and a vibrant palette of turquoise, magenta, and amber to illustrate how water naturally bends light and skews forms. The figures, clad in colorful swimsuits, seamlessly dissolve into fluid abstractions of shimmering patterns, ripples, and reflections, evoke a powerful sense of weightlessness, nostalgic summer memories, and quiet immersion.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12/07/2026

I want the book to sell, but my favorite thing is seeing that it's going to be in LIBRARIES! Public libraries created me, and so it's a full-circle moment. I plan to donate many copies to libraries in the Central Valley of California, where I grew up.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

With immeasurable sadness I must announce that Napoleon, our best boy, went missing a few nights back. if you see a small black kitty with two white toes around Boundary/Markhouse roads in #walthamstow do DM me. if i post no photos of him anymore, this will be why. he was my very best boy 💔

my beautiful black kitty, with white belly patches and two white toes, stretched out asleep in happier times.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 10/07/2026

WAs in the library yesterday and they have a lego club for 6-10 year olds and now I want an adult one

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

No gen AI anywhere in our pipeline. Go feral.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Someone was surprised to learn that I yeet bugs out instead of *gently relocating* them. I appreciate the gesture. But in the tropics, seeing bugs where they shouldn't be is an hourly—not weekly thing. You learn what can survive a yeet to save time. In this thread I'm rating animal yeetability.

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Peter Underwood 💚 @greenpeteru.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Some people complain about me managing my garden for nature...

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Kate Roberts @k8roberts.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Unison are recruiting for a great looking immigration solicitor role ⬇️ unison.org.uk/jobs/2026/07...

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Immigration Solicitor - Legal Services Team | UNISON - the public service union

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 02/07/2026

The Video Game History Foundation has called on trade groups like the ESA to find a way to "legally preserve" digital-only games for research. "Asking museums to download a copy of GTA 6 and hope it’ll run in 50 years is not a preservation solution." www.videogameschronicle.com/news/video-g...

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Video Game History Foundation calls on the ESA to find a way to ‘legally preserve’ digital-only games for research | VGC

“Asking museums to download a copy of GTA 6 and hope it’ll run in 50 years is not a solution”…

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