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A. Markov @abigailmarkov.com · 12h

2/16 Bebe Fountain Pens in Cobalt Bermuda Blue.

Very blue fountain pen with cap on held in hand

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Sheffield Events @sheff.events · 03/10/2026

Worth a wander down Kelham for this one. Cathal is co-curating a show at KIAC's Gage Gallery and will be there most days, so pop in and say hello.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thor's representatives would like you to know that the care bears started it

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ArtCan @artcanorg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Very proud to say ArtCan is a winner for Artist-Led Creative Excellence in the Great Companies Awards 2026 🥳 Congratulations to our entirely volunteer team and our wonderful members 💛 #ArtCanOrg #AwardWinners

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Sheffield Events @sheff.events · 02/10/2026

Halloween is on a Saturday this year, and Sheffield's programme runs from 20 October into 1 November: free family trails, concerts, theatre, drag, live music and club nights. Our guide sorts it by the kind of night you want. sheff.events/halloween-in...

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Halloween in Sheffield 2026: family events and nights out

Halloween events across Sheffield for families, grown-ups, film fans and late-night crowds.

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Sheffield Events @sheff.events · 02/10/2026

October half term runs 24 October to 1 November for most Sheffield schools. Free city-centre fun, family theatre, hands-on museum science, Halloween trails and rainy-day backups, all in one planner. sheff.events/october-half...

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October half term in Sheffield 2026: things to do with kids

Plan Sheffield October half term 2026 with confirmed family events, free activities, rainy-day ideas, travel advice and school holiday dates.

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hmm today was definitely a day. Pictured is a detail of my current "this is taking much longer than you'd think" artwork. Playing around with terms. Definitely is intended to be a palimpsest. Clár scríobtha iomlán or Tabula rasuris plena. They don't feel quite right. Maybe tablet full of history

Mdf board covered in straight lines. They are scored into and marked with pencil and marker.
This photo has been taken play into the diagonal nature of the marks.

The lines are a grid of horizontal and vertical lines spaced an inch a part. The diagonal lines are set at 60°.

This is the second layer. Looking closely you can see faint markings of hexagons with hatching. These have been sanded away.

The next stage is to resand the surface to remove much of the markers and pencil lines. Then to redraw the hexagons. This is to serve as a cypher key to my hexglyphs.

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 02/10/2026

"Pick a dead woman artist, find an old photo of her looking wise and non-threatening, and don’t forget to quote the European man who discovered her." — Gautami Reddy, artist and writer

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How to Write About an Indian Artist for Western Readers

Pick a dead woman artist, find an old photo of her looking wise and non-threatening, and don’t forget to quote the European man who discovered her.

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Violence exceeds the physical, operating structurally and pervasively, to the point that it is naturalised as the very air we breathe.”

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The Interview: Gabrielle Goliath

“Violence exceeds the physical, operating structurally and pervasively, to the point that it is naturalised as the very air we breathe”

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@abigailmarkov.com to a lesser extent of expertise and level of technical need; the further i get into my hexglyphs the more I find it need to create my own tools. This has only increased my admiration for your innovations. On an aside if you like odd cover versions. The Legion soundtrack is 👌

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James Ryan @jamesryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#HorrorWritersChat Question Four: “Lay down all thoughts Surrender to the void It is shining…” Conversely, what would the plot be for a horror story from you based on a particular piece of music?

Two tone red image of close up on an electric guitar

Text:
Question Four
“Lay down all thoughts
Surrender to the void
It is shining…”

Conversely, what would the plot be for a horror story from you based on a particular piece of music?
Quote post your answer and include the hashtag
#HorrorWritersChat
NO self-promotion until the end.
Don’t harsh the mellow, man…
Like, share, comment, and make this go viral.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is it. Today my new book was published! It's The Fall of The West: How They Really Lost It. I'd love to hear your thoughts! You can order here 👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/468587/

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Andrea Cesari @oldbluedoor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Progress report on the purple balaclava for an elderly lady. I really think this is going to need to be accessorized with Dame Edna style sunglasses 🧶

An older white woman wears a purple balaclava in the process of being knitted. The balaclava is knit from the top, and is designed to cover both the nose and mouth, leaving only the eyes visible. Right now the balaclava reaches just to the bottom of my nose.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/10/2026

Oh yeah this is the good stuff… I wanna see your freaky little hat

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life.

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Yuko Mohri: How to Love Broken Things

The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/10/2026

The Wayback Machine lets you travel through more than a trillion saved web pages. 🏛️ ‣ Find an old website. ‣ See how a familiar site changed. ‣ Recover something that's disappeared. ‣ Check what a page looked like years ago. The web has a history. Go explore it. web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse

Four "Tools You Can Use" Wayback Machine campaign tiles arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top left, a cream and blue tile with a folder icon reading "Wayback Machine" and "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over time." Top right, a cream tile with bold black text: "Explore more than 1 trillion web pages saved over 30 years." Bottom left, a cream tile with a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage, with its search field circled in red. Bottom right, a cream tile with bold black text, "See how the web has changed over time," and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building.

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A. Markov @abigailmarkov.com · 01/10/2026

Not fountain pens, but Cobalt Bermuda Blue continues to be glorious. Prepping for the initial wave of shipping - Fidgets. Then it's working on the Bebe Fountain Pens already in progress.

Bright blue ballpoint pens on black with labeled gift boxes

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 30/09/2026

In Source Material: Genspace Biomaterials Studio BioArt Exhibit, a three-day show at Flux IV in Queens during Climate Week, artists from Sunset Park’s Genspace lab centered the artistic potential of natural pigments, algae yarn, and alternative clays.

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Four Artists Exploring Sustainable Alternatives to Synthetic Art Supplies

In “Source Materials: A Bioart Exhibit,” artists share their visions for a future of art-making rooted in local ecosystems, scientific inquiry, and collaboration.

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some of my favourite photos from today protests in Sheffield 📸

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Sheffield Tribune @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week's Tribune briefing is now out! Featuring: 🗞️ Fallout continues at Hallam FC 🪧 Pro and anti immigration demos descend on Sheffield city centre 🏡 War of words erupts between freehold firm Tixerbon and Sheffield MP 🚶 Millhouses river path row decided 🎷 Plus, home of the week, and things to do

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Fallout continues at Hallam FC

Plus, war of words erupts between Tixerbon and Sheffield MP

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Andy Kershaw Media @andyksheff.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Well, done to the guys at the magnificent Hawley Collection for this piece in this month’s History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine with this article by Nick Duggan. The Hawley Collection is an entirely volunteer led museum collection within the Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield Highly recommended!

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@visitsheffield.bsky.social It would be excellent if you could help promote this. KIAC (Kelham Island Artits Collective) do a great deal to bring vibrancy and love to Neepsend and Kelham. It looks like we might not be able to for much longer due to gentrification. @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social

Exhibition poster

I AM GREATER THAN THIS

A KIAC GROUP SHOW

Opening Friday 23rd Oct 7-9PM

Gage Gallery - KIAC

Kelham Sheffield

Exhibition open 1130-1500 daily 23rd - 30th October

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am co curating an exhibition in Kelham Islands Artist Collective's (KIAC) Gage Gallery. It's in Sheffield, UK but don't let that put you off. I'll be there most days. #Sheffield #SheffieldEvents #artcan 🖌

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@glytxh.bsky.social tidal.com/album/636564... If you want to add drama to any journey. This is the album. The one Scott did with sunno))))))))))))))) inhale )))))) is pretty neato too. Love a bit of the 30th century man

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Scott Walker - The Childhood of a Leader

Listen to The Childhood of a Leader on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service

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En sorts författare @beardonaut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hörde Cory Doctorow prata om detta i en intervju med Jon Stewart. Hur man minimerar lönerna för sjuksköterskor baserat på hur utsatta de är finansiellt. Ren ondska.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've mainly been getting arsey with a hexagon grid. Think ive worked it out now but it's too late to start hammering holes in it so it will have to wait. I'm going all out on a palimpsest vibe so ive sanded the first one down to the second photo. #cypher #hexagon #grid

A slightly askew photo of my hexglyph key. The reddish umber of the mdf is covered in a grid of 8 by 8 hexagons. various parts of each hexagon are shaded with crosshatching. This changes from hexagon to hexagon.

Here is another slightly askew photo. Its the same mdf board that I have erased and sanded to obscure the hexagons from the previous photo.
Im working towards a palimpsest vibe.

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not a moan. Just stuff ive found out. I find my energy levels fluctuate wildly. 3 days of manic activity, and then wipe out. Im in wipeout phase. It's to do with BPD. The fight/flight response is in overdrive most of the time. 1/2

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 22/09/2026

Dana Mashoian Walrath’s work of graphic nonfiction, "The Book of Genocides," points to historical patterns across 10 genocides, from Germany and Turkey to Gaza.

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What “The Book of Genocides” Teaches Us

Dana Mashoian Walrath’s work of graphic nonfiction points to historical patterns across 10 genocides, from Germany and Turkey to Gaza.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The US was warned that arming Islamist extremists would end in disaster. They did it anyway.

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mostly diy, parenting and general adult ingredients at the moment. Though I did eat some slightly rude looking salad. It smelled a bit and made me a tad quesy. Then I sat and recovered. Did some pencil doodles that might be developed into a thing or two. #sketching #studies

Sketching of axlhuman figure from the side and slighy above. The figure is straining to drag something not seen. Around the figure are basic anatomical sketches to help me work out what is where and how the limbs and torso all work together.

Ive slightly messed up the right leg. Looks a bit off and dislocated.

Abstract architectural sketch. Landscape.
5 oblong forms sit one stop the other in a rough stepped pyramid form.
Behind this a sphere, with a segment removed from it floats.
A strange isolated arch way seems to hang over the horizon.
The image is sketched in pencel with very rough pen cross hatching

The figue study from the first image has been used here.

Portrait orientation.
2 huge massy blocks take up most of the image. A segment of an empty landscape and grey sky can be seen in the top right corner

The figure is dwarfed by the huge blocks and is straining to attempt to shift on one its side. The figure pulls on taunt ropes or cables that are tied to the block.

An impossible task.

Again the right leg is a bit askew.

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Crushing the hell out of yesterday's to do list.

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A. Markov @abigailmarkov.com · 18/09/2026

Okay, I am just going to leave this here because the marketing department has said I am not sharing it enough. If you aren't a fountain pen person, but want a *really nice* pen and like mystery boxes? Maybe for bullet journaling or planners? This is for you. www.abigailmarkov.com/product/quar...

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Quarterly Fidget Pen Subscription – Abigail Markov

We are temporarily unable to ship to the EU due to the new EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) fees and registration requirement costs. Dismiss

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 16/09/2026

A show in Maine on art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and their diasporas touches on themes of colonization, enslavement, migration, and more.

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The Many Islands of “America”

A show on art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and their diasporas touches on themes of colonization, enslavement, migration, and more.

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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Long live the activists for Palestine #FreePalestine

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran - you are a coward. And history will remember your cowardice.

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Slow progress still on the new work. But it's progress. Spending a lot of time parenting and DIYing. But I think the worst is finally passing and my kids seem settled.

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Hex-cyphered words. One layer is English, using black sharpie. The other layer is gaelic using sliver graffiti marker.

The image shows a series of concentric hexagons drawing in marker and pencil on a orange background. The hexagons have various edges emphasised with marker.

Sliver concentric hexagons over lap the black hexagons.

The history of the marks made and errors are visible.

Hexglyphs
A close up of a section of the work that clearly shows the smudges of human error and working out of composition elements.

I don't know why I like to show the history of the work . It's something I shall ponder.

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Artist Sim Chi Yin explores the limits of firsthand knowledge, research and the pursuit of historical truth.

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Sim Chi Yin’s Revisionist Impulse

The artist explores the limits of firsthand knowledge, research and the pursuit of historical truth

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A. Markov @abigailmarkov.com · 09/09/2026

Left to right: Oleander Underground x2 Invictus x2 Muted Impressionist's Spring Just tackling small tasks this morning before getting to the heavy hitters. There's a Moon Banded Bebe Fountain Pen and some piece work gluing up next.

Hand crafted ballpoint twist pens in pink, purple, wire, black, and blue Grey

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finished my upstairs hall floor. Now i need a person to sort out my woodchip papered walls. If I can't get that I'm going the experimental route.

My cork tile upstairs landing. Done by me. It's very beige and white. Boo hiss.

Same floor from a different angle. I've sealed the floor and begun painting small blue squares and light yellow patches on the cork tiles.

The finished floor. It's very shiny. thanks gloss varnish.
The once beige floor is now decorated in a slightly chaotic abstract fashion.

Painted on the cork tiles seemingly at random are
Blue squares, yellow and orange patches, tonal areas, pink diagonal stripes, red diagonal stripes, circles outlined in black, short green vertical and horizontal lines, black lines, very translucent blue triangles and silver circles with silver dots contained with in.

The sliver circles , green and black lines were an attempt to establish a visual rhythm to the floor, without losing the chaotic feel. I think it worked

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Cathal Lindsay @cathallindsayart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In ecclesall woods watching the high wire antics of professional squirrels. So fluid. Grey against the early green. The hush of activity and verdant gradients. The cool damp forest smell of life .

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