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Chris Frazer

@cmfie.bsky.social
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Derry girl (we never grow out of it). Doting abuela to twin boys. I'm curious about everything. Alliance Party NI supporter. Veg grower with limited success. I try to do my bit for the environment.

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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social · 23h
As it's #BannedBooksWeek, a photo courtesy of a customer who last night attended the opera adapted from Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary. Easy to joke that it's a bit "Down With This Sort of Thing" but it illustrates that there's still a strong, active conservative element in Irish society.
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Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Once again this year’s Excluded Voices report makes for sober reading. Let’s use #KidsBooksFriday to celebrate the marginalised authors we should all be buying, borrowing, reading and sharing with our young people. #KidLitUK #KidLit #UKKidLit www.inclusivebooksforchildren.org/excluded-voi...
Cat School: Odd Cat Out by Rose RobbinsOutlaws by E. L. NorryThe Other Boy by Hamed AmiriKorobá: The Case of the Missing Kolo by Àlàbá Ònájìn
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 6h
Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a frontal view of a clay flask with warm-yellow coloured slip with black hand painted decoration depicting an octopus. The octopus is swimming diagonally with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional black painted motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the 'Marine Style'. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side and a small base so that it can stand upright.

“Its shape is somewhat unusual, constructed by slipping together, while still leather hard (clay that is not quite dry), two shallow plates which had been made on a fast spinning potter’s wheel and with highly refined clay. The circular bases of these shallow plates are still visible in the center of both sides of the flask” (Smart History article “Octopus Vase” by Dr Senta German https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/)

The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The excavations between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.
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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 06/10/2026
We ain’t ‘fraid of no ghosts. www.flightradar24.com/N1810R/42004...
A ghostbuster capturing a ghost, Slimer perhaps? And the word Halloween spelled out in a flight path.
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The Air Current @theaircurrent.com · 05/10/2026
FAA will accept more risk to aircraft from space debris under new policy theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf... (via @elanhead.com) #staycurrent
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FAA will accept more risk to aircraft from space debris under new policy
As space launch tempo increases, U.S. regulator eliminates rolling limit intended to mitigate risk to aircraft
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Very cool and normal that this is apparently taking place in a council building
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In 1534, antiquary John Leland visited Sheriff Hutton Castle and was struck by its grandeur, declaring that he had seen “no house in the north so much like the palace of a prince.” Built in the late 14th century by John Neville, Lord of Raby, the castle was one of the great strongholds in the north
Sheriff Hutton castle was built in the 14th century, it served as a royal residence for monarchs including Richard III and Henry VIII, as well as the headquarters for the Council of the North.
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Chris Frazer @cmfie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think this might be it, taken near St Jean de Luz in the Basque Country.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
j.lulu_photography ..Lulu🦋 📍Anna Maria Island, FL Sunset, Gulf of Mexico
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M Dv-us @drdvus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Aerial Archaeology Research Group @aerialarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh my 😍 #hillfortswednesday
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Andy Sawyer @sawyerxx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
King Menkaura and Queen, 4th Dynasty, 2490-2472 BC Sculpture Museum of Fine Arts - Boston
King Menkaura and Queen
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Chris Frazer @cmfie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Posh and Becks
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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Beautiful fan vaulting over the South Door at Tewkesbury Abbey. It's a reconstruction dating from the late 19thC on the site of what would have been the cloisters and uses the fan vaulting at Gloucester Cathedral as a template. #TraceryTuesday
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Chris Frazer @cmfie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ice in Ballymena this morning!
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Seattle sky looking out across Elliott Bay towards Bainbridge and the Olympics right now is… lit.
Colorful sunset over the bay, clouds with pink and orange, above a mountain line with clouds hanging below the top of the mountains along the water.
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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 06/10/2026
So playful! "Parisian Kittys with bird shadows #2" (Oil on canvasboard 20x16”) by Timothy Adam Matthews - head to his page to see some close up details of this wonderful painting! #beautifulbizarre #art #kittens
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
© Louis Lozowick. 'Seattle.' Oil on canvas, 1927. 76.5 × 56.2 cm.
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This ruby-red amber sculpture is Etruscan and portrays a deity holding two plump hares upside down. You can make out the long ears in particular on the animal on the right. The translucence of the amber makes the colour even more vibrant. 🕰️c600 BC 🏛️📷 Getty Museum 🇺🇸
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Philip Guston, Painter in Bed, 1973 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…
Gift of Edward R. Broida
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary," ~ Pablo Picasso
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Andrea (I have friends everywhere) @ninedragons99.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Another #MosaicMonday. This is the changing room in the baths of Herculaneum.
Ancient changing room, around the walls are still benches and shelves for clothes, on the floor in the middle is a black and white mosaic with a triton and various sea creatures.
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) October, 1935. Oil on canvas.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Three Sounds by Vasily Kandinsky, 1926 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Beware of the dog! The Cave Canem entranceway from #Pompeii is such a timeless #Roman mosaic; the dog still symbolically protects his owner's house, nearly 2000 years after it was destroyed when Mt Vesuvius erupted in AD 79 🐶 #Archaeology #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky
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Chris Frazer @cmfie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Brilliant article! www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/silent-...
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Silent majority versus street protests... why most of NI wants nothing to do with identity wars
Silent majority in Northern Ireland resists identity wars as Sinn Féin, IRA history and Orange Order parades clash over community, power and a border poll.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the Internet today:
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
My photo shows detail from an ancient Greek red-figure kylix (drinking cup) of a young man shown in profile seated on a stool facing right. He wears a knee length cloak (himation) over his left shoulder, which is shown in folds around his waist and upper legs. His right shoulder, chest, and arms are bare. His dark hair is short, and he wears a band around his head. He is looking down at an open rectangular wax writing tablet which he is supporting in his left hand above his lap. In his right hand he holds a metal stylus pen poised over the writing tablet. The wooden writing tablet is hinged like a book and, from this angle, resembles a modern laptop. The figure is part of a scene depicting school lessons in ancient Athens, painted by Douris around 480 BC. On display at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#MosaicMonday The #Lion and stag mosaic from room 4, south west wing, Building XXI 2, Verulamium (late 2nd Century AD. Verulamium museum). #Archaeology #RomanBritain #artwork #art #History
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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.
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Chris Frazer @cmfie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A lovely quote from Mark Little “raw emotion shapes politics far more than elite wisdom”
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A #Roman figurine of a dog with a raised paw, looking upwards to an unseen viewer. Dogs were popular in the Roman world as both working animals & pets, as well as being associated with healing #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky
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Chris Frazer @cmfie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does it seem a bit mad to say that there is a party here of smart, empathetic politicians who want to help everyone and it’s called Alliance.
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Chris Frazer @cmfie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the bad guys.
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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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Cory Laran @corylaran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Think hard on this when you vote on Tuesday 3 November.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sometime around 30,000 years before the current era, somewhere in the midst of the land that would become Germany, a human sat in a cave and sculpted a horse. Later, we would call it the Vogelherd horse: the earliest horse sculpture ever found. Original post
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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Nancy Lucía López @cybergata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cat on perched on a papyrus flower, glazed terracotta, from Egypt, Probably Ptolemaic (possibly Saïte, 26th Dynasty), George Ortiz Collection #CatArt
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Compare this to how one-off 'drone incidents' are treated as evidence of escalating hybrid warfare. "We cannot keep treating extreme events as one-off emergencies, simply repairing the damage while people continue to live in fear of the next major event." www.rte.ie/news/2026/09...
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Ireland must prepare for climate extremes, CCAC warns
Ireland must stop treating floods, storms, droughts and extreme heat as individual emergencies and begin preparing systematically for a climate of increasingly severe extremes, the Climate Change Advi...
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Chris Frazer @cmfie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our dysfunctional political system leads parties that are unable to make progress, down a path which ends in dead cats being hurled onto tables. I’m pretty sure that’s what this current stand off is about. I wonder what will happen when Donaldson’s sentence is announced!
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Duane Keiser (American Artist, born 1966) "Water and Lemon", 2022. Oil on Board, 9" × 7.5". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A 5,000 year-old arrow has emerged from melting mountain ice in Norway, offering a glimpse into prehistoric hunting in the high mountains 🏹❄️ archaeologymag.com/2026/09/5000...
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5,000-year-old arrow emerges as Norway’s melting mountain ice reveals older archaeological finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A 5,000-year-old arrow is among 48 prehistoric finds recovered as melting ice reveals older archaeology in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is awesome
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Pumpkin mosaic of David Attenborough breaks world record
A British farm used more than 10,000 pumpkins and squashes to create a portrait to celebrate the 100th birthday of Britain's most famous naturalist.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gerard Byrne (Irish Artist, born 1958) "We're All In This Together", 2020. Oil on Canvas, 75 × 50 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Philippe Janin (French Artist, born 1959) "Landscape with Ochre Lands", 2019. Oil on Canvas, 100 × 65 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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