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Claire Cansick

@clairecansick.bsky.social
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Painter Norfolk, UK Government Art Collection | Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art | Norwich Castle Museum | Cold Paradise | Jacksons 19&24 | Firstsite | Contemporary & Country linktr.ee/ClaireCansick

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 3h
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 5h
Sketch of the Model Posing by Edvard Munch, 1893 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2015 The Munch Museum / The Munch-Ellingsen Group / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11h
Another misty dawn by the Exeter canal. You have to grab these fleeting moments, there aren’t that many of them in a year
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Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social · 9h
“Successive governments have been asleep at the wheel in preparing us for the impacts of the climate crisis,” Shrubsole said. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 23h
Lovely church graffiti of a ship, at Salthouse church, Norfolk.
Outline of a ship scratched into some wood.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 03/10/2026
I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.
Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Satellite data reveal massive scale of routine oil pollution in oceans Oil slicks from ships and offshore oil platforms cover nearly 618,000 square miles of the ocean surface each year, an area slightly larger than the nation of Mongolia. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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Satellite data reveal massive scale of routine oil pollution in oceans. See the map
Satellite data reveal nearly 1.6 million square kilometers of annual ocean oil pollution from ships and offshore platforms.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appearing to chat to a gull
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Long arm at work again, tearing a building up.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 02/10/2026
Letter to the editor: East Anglia is short of water. Could raising solar panels above crops help reduce irrigation while producing renewable energy? A reader argues agrivoltaics deserves serious consideration.
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Letter: Why aren’t we considering agrivoltaics?
Letter to the editor
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 02/10/2026
‘Like caring for a pet’: the open-source tree map inspiring Berliners to water their urban forest
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‘Like caring for a pet’: the open-source tree map inspiring Berliners to water their urban forest
Gieß den Kiez app shows trees in critical need of watering and can be adopted by other heat-stressed cities around the world
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This whale had had enough! See this (angry) whale breaking through the 1610 map and coming for you ...
a map from 1610, showing the sea in front of South America, and a whale is breaking through...
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mount Kolsaas, evening effect - 1895 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…
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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why Should I Hesitate, 2019 by William Kentridge www.instagram.com/williamkentr...
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Small sketchbook drawing.
Icarus
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Avian Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nearly pulled a muscle just now scrolling back to my date of birth on a website.
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 01/10/2026
Preparing to give a lecture about planetary boundaries. I say politicians here, but corporate sustainability, media and much of society have very little interest in the other planetary boundaries (noting that their interest in climate often does not translate into actual action).
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/10/2026
Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action aje.news/zjyo4q
Jewish human rights barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This one is shot looking across the opened heart of a medieval graveyard, towards a building called Gildengate, named after a jousting ground which is nearby.
A single arm ripping at a large brutalist block. Hard silhouette.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Michael Sweerts, peripatetic & rather tormented artist, reminding us that he's going to die. Which eventually he did. But yesterday was his birthday!
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
California rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave and predicted sea level rise
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California rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave and predicted sea level rise
Wave nearing southern California expected to reach San Francisco Bay Area by October as it crawls toward Alaska
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This starts tomorrow- a daily swim raising money for the marvellous Surfers Against Sewage. We are £20 off our target, if you can spare a £1 we'd be super grateful. Link 👇 I'll be posting photos from in the water every day. raise.ing/74801g6z07mrv @sascampaigns.bsky.social
The glorious North Sea, bathed in pink.
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Mattias Karystiano @karystiano.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mark Rothko
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 27/07/2026
🔥🔥🔥Newspaper frontpages🔥🔥🔥
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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 28/09/2026
On remnants of concrete gathered from London’s Aylesbury Estate, Harriet Mena Hill preserves the spaces that once held a community. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/harr...
a collection of a concrete fragments with paintings of housing structuresa concrete fragment with a painting of a room with standing water
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this reminds me of our car getting broken into and they took all the absolutely useless stuff but left my mum's Barbara Dickson cassette tape. absolutely hilarious
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Current view. He has systematically worked his way round the garden over summer, squashing patches of flowers by using them as bedding. Good job he’s the love of my life.
Enormous fluffy cat, legs akimbo, on his back, drooling, amongst the flowers.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They treat those who seek peace as a threat to the public realm, while throwing a defensive cordon around those engaged in genocide. They treat environmental protesters as if they were antisocial thugs, while the antisocial thugs of the fossil fuel industry get a free pass to trash our lives.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come on down to the Council House for International Day of Birmingham, see the Re-Union Jack ♥️ #OneBrum Goldship have repurposed dozens of dirty & torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts to create a huge Union Jack, adorned with the names of people who have called Birmingham home
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GOLDSHIP Re-Union Jack 2026

Repurposed polyester flags/Mixed media.

Re-Union Jack is an ongoing community art project conceived by GoldShip, the creative duo of textile sculptor Clare Elisabeth and event producer Sam Shipman.

Repurposing dozens of dirty and torn polyester flags removed from Birmingham's lamp posts, Clare and Sam, alongside countless contributors from the wider community, pieced them together to create a huge Union Jack.

The flag was then transformed over several months by countless more contributors into a visual celebration of the people and stories that have helped shape the West Midlands. Across its surface are the names of influential Midlanders, spanning from the Anglo-Saxon Beorma, after whom Birmingham takes its name, through to the present day. Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.

Together, these names reflect the region's extraordinary history as a vibrant melting pot of cultures, ideas, talent and communities - and the positive contribution that migration has made to its identity.

The flag has since been signed in black by many of the people whose names feature upon it as a collective endorsement of its message of unity, inclusion and community.Photo of huge Union (Jack) Flag on lighting truss in the hall of the Council House. 
It's glorious and bears many names upon it of the people of Birmingham 
Each has a connection to migration, immigration or the positive influence of people who have made the West Midlands their home.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Artist Draws 9 Portraits on LSD During 1950s Research Experiment
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Artist Draws 9 Portraits on LSD During 1950s Research Experiment
During the 1950s, a researcher gave an artist two 50-microgram doses of LSD (each dose separated by about an hour), and then the artist was encouraged to draw pictures of the doctor who administered t...
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Intimidation tactics by the greediest cat in the world.
Herbert eating while Wolfie sidles in, in a supine position. Don’t be fooled by his casual pose, he means business.
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A reminder I’m doing this every day in October raising money for Surfers Against Sewage. Should you be inclined to splash some cash my way, scuse pun, click the link below. Ta very much. raise.ing/74801g6z07mrv
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Claire Cansick is fundraising on behalf of Surfers Against Sewage
I'm committing to do a cold water dip each day this October to support Surfers Against Sewage. Every dip I take and every pound I raise helps keep the pressure on the water companies and government po...
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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Ivon Hitchens. ‘Damp Autumn’ 1941
Loosely painted Autumn trees, landscape with grey sky
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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 25/09/2026
Joseph Beuys in the swamp - Gianfranco Gorgoni - 1971
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Jeff Sunbury @jsunbury.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shirazeh Houshiary - East Window, St Martin-in-the-Fields Church (Trafalgar Square, London) (2011) mymodernmet.com/shirazeh-hou... www.shirazehhoushiary.com/site-specifi...
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Us at the beach earlier. Love them so much.
Three long shadows cast upon the concrete sea defence, by an orange sun.
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Went past some school kids this morning. All the boys had mushroom hairdos.
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Willem de Kooning @wdekooning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Painting www.moma.org/collection/works/79242
Purchase
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sad to see Daft Punk having to make ends meet like this.
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Hiking Historian @hikinghistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bronze age dig near Gloucester unearths 'very rare' discoveries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bronze age dig near Gloucester unearths 'very rare' discoveries
Archaeologists found pieces of worked timber showing axe marks and wood-splitting, in a waterhole.
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
stop! this is like saying "an oil derrick has gone rogue again" and spilled oil all over the Gulf. humans are responsible for these things. stop treating AI like a mystical uncontrollable sky god. The humans running this are responsible, period.
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Polémix @polemix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"I am the best margarine. Everybody tells me I am the best margarine. Nobody is better margarine than me."
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Giorgio de Chirico, Italian artist who greatly influenced the surrealists. To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits:logic and common sense will only interfere. Once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Even inland, the salt-hag is tide-pulled. Gulls call her to come to shore and see the wave-polished augeries on display. Sea-seasoned winds make promises of things to be summoned at the slack. She walks to her secret cove. Her first glimpse of sea an intoxication. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky
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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Spot the fluffball.
Flower garden, with fuzzy plant squasher
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