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Ceri Shields

@cerishields.bsky.social
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Painting, drawing, printmaking. Also music, food, and long walks on wild moors. Move slowly and make things.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If, like me, you’re thinking; ‘Wait what? That’s not Santa Croce,’ then no, it’s not THAT Santa Croce, the famous one in Florence. This picture shows another Basilica di Santa Croce in Lecce, down on the south-east corner of Italy. Now we know 🙂
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
We have done up the bedroom as we planned to do.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Also, as yet Amazon’s search functionality is still markedly better than Waterstones’. So I sometimes use Amazon for searching and then buy from Waterstones or a local indie bookshop, online or in person. Click-and-collect can be useful too.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Well amazingly the ‘Board of Peace’ turns out to be more dodgy than the fairground dodgems at Dodge City run as a wholly owned concern by dodgy impresario Dodgy J Trump. Thread:
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Live tweet Trump speech thread. All the salient points:
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The NYT reports that Air Force One has turned around due to a situation officials are describing as “creature on the wing”
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 21/01/2026
Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Though he was ‘intensely discreet’ about his parts, I have just read on Wikipedia.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Benson, the famous airforce base and Edwardian novelist?
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I don’t know how the entire country doesn’t curl up behind the sofa in embarrassment at their leader but apparently they don’t.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Does the Trump’s government decide who wins the Oscars? I dunno, I’m *assuming* that’s not a serious question.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Look everyone! Macron did not call Trump a c__t in a text message! Let the hot takes flow.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
‘I want your clothes, your boots and your spray tan.’
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Oh, by the way, people are saying there’s a major solar storm going on at the moment so high likelihood of more Northern Lights tonight. If the cloud clears where you are then worth a look out, at least. Especially if you are somewhere without street lighting?
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Last night was rather a fairie experience. On my walk through dark Devon lanes, intermittent pools of mist at ground level so the reds and bright cerulean blues from above filled everything with a hazy pearlescent glow. And shiny green above Dartmoor just to the north from horizon to horizon.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Everybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
PS, wow, some of the replies to Nadine’s post. Guys, guys…
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John Michael White @johnmichaelw.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Lad's hungover. Popped the local for a couple last night with Brigitte after a long day, a couple turned into "fuck it", and them only leaving the pub when the landlord interrupted them singing to remind them they all had homes to go to. bsky.app/profile/nadi...
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Channel4 news reporting that he strode away from the podium, jumped into his Rafale jet and flew off to do battle with the massive alien spacecraft.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I have an RP English accent and in cosmopolitan bits of the States like NY and Boston I’ve had people do that pained ‘I’m finding it hard to understand what you’re saying’ face and ask me if I’m French. Or German. So I’m taking that bit of the story with a massive pinch of salt.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
If I was an early medieval scribe writing up last night’s entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle I’d definitely be saying that dragons had been seen in the sky.
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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Insane Auroras over Stonehenge
Insane Auroras over Stonehenge
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I’m afraid this is true. Trust is hard earned, quickly destroyed and seldom fully won back.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I’ve never managed to see it anywhere in the UK before. A long time ago we saw it absolutely spectacularly in the north of Norway one freezing February. Last night wasn’t as extravagant but still pretty good, and also magically otherworldly, fizzing around over Dartmoor.
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Grace @graceldn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Brooklyn and Nicola to the dance floor as they share their first dance as a married couple.” Victoria:
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Medical examiner: ‘An autopsy is not required in cases like this.’ Snaps shut laptop.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump can’t be bought? What hilarious nonsense: ALL of the evidence says the opposite.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
‘A lot of good people are on a hook over Donald Trump.’ On the other hand, a great many much better people have never been on the hook over Donald Trump.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Elevator pitch: ‘A permanently angry man just can’t be told.’ Studio exec: ‘Yep, this is an evergreen plot.’
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Thread — you’ll need popcorn. I haven’t spotted Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in the video clips but I believe this is part of their franchise?
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Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Aurora seems to have finished in Exeter now - 3 surreal photos from my iPhone earlier - handheld 3 sec exposures through the oak tree in my garden
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The Naked Haggis @nakedhaggis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
😂😂
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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:
Threads post from Channel 4:

@channel4
 Because we did not win the BAFTA for best TV
channel ever we have decided to try and claim
ITV as ours.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
He’s saying what they’re thinking. Or something. 😐
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Aurora Borealis in South Devon in England right now. Never seen it this far south before. Quite subtle and hazy, but definitely worth a look for my couple of followers in this part of the world 🙂
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Konrad Cox @konradcox.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
From the quire of Winchester Cathedral. I took the source images for this several years ago, was curious to see if I could find anything new or improve upon the original pictures made. #winchester #photography #architecture
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Hahaha! 😂 Now this is my *idea* of a prize worth having. Whoever wins is not to give it to Donald Trump, even though he knows the least about anything, so does actually deserve this prize.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Nobel Prize Derangement Syndrome
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Many small shots sometimes add up to a big shot. Also, half the big teams boycotting the World Cup really would be a poke in the eye for FIFA, so worth it just for that. (Disclaimer: I know less about football than Ian Dunt does. So.)
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I suppose in those roles there is a deeply ingrained culture of ‘respect for the office, if not its holder’. Incidentally, looking in from across an ocean I long ago learned from The West Wing the phrase, ‘the dignity of the office’. Doesn’t that seem hilariously quaint nowadays?
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
In other words, all of this may already be doing the US material harm and they won’t be aware of it— an unknown unknown.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Of course we will never know, but one wonders how much allied nations’ intelligence services have already quietly dialled down the information they share with the US? Even, here in Britain, our GCHQ and MI-6, supposedly inextricably intertwined with their US counterparts?
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
That kick in the last second looks like it accidentally connected.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Just reminded of this bsky.app/profile/poli...
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
[quick whispered consultation with my lawyer] Well I have no idea about that. Though I’m fascinated Farage said they have turned down some defectors: ‘no really’. If they accepted Rosindell who the hell did the turn away? (Other than Loopy Liz, obvs.)
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Hours of video of him in an interview suite saying ‘no comment’ again and again with his lawyer at his side.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Or having to go to the White House to hand it over.
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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Chef’s kiss 🤌 THIS is what we need in international affairs. (BTW, you’re sick of hearing it but I still miss Cakewatch. Helped keep our chins above water in those previous darkest days. Cheers, man.)
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I wanted to call it the Tariff Disaster Blaster or the Orange Bluster Buster so Trade Bazooka was a compromise. (Not my area and way after my time, alas, so nothing to do with me)
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