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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Putting the books down for a bit to watch #WheelofTime S3. #WotSkies. Can’t decide what I love most about these 3 eps: Morgase is a right Royal bitch ❤️ Elaida, rightest royal-est bitch, is EPIC ❤️❤️❤️ The pretty-boys-Trakand, and their screaming fangirls, lol. (Gawyn even LOOKS like a posh twat 🤣)

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

#WoTShowSpoilers Fan Event well worth staying up late & being knackered at work today! 🤩 The costumes / sets.. The Mega-Aes Sedai-showdown And we’ve still got Elaida to look forward to! Really nice touch having Rafe and Madeleine pop up in the live chat. (Show Egwene > Book Egwene yet again! 😂)

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

On to first read of #KnifeofDreams, this is better! #WheelofTime #WoTBookSpoilers Can’t say I had “Cheering like a lunatic for Galad, of all people” on my bingo card but… Good for you Galad, YOU GO Galad! That man was a scumbag and a half. 😤 (Not a fan of real OR fictional religious fanatics).

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Morning ☕️ I can’t believe my petition is now less than 1000 signatures away from a government debate. I’ve been doing this with no evangelical 💰 media or Twitter. Please share and help get this over the line. Protect us from MAGA fascism petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Screenshot of my decriminalise abortion petition at 99, 056

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Finished first read of #CrossroadsofTwilight. #WotBookSpoilers #WotSkies #WheelofTime Me on the edge of my seat shouting “Bollocks to your 2 rivers morals, she’s a villain SHOOT HER!!!” WOOP WOOP WOOP FUCK YEAH!! *Throws book in the air with joy.. That’s one horrid evil bitch in the ground 🎉🥳🍾

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

#WheelofTimeSpoilers #WotSkies #Winter’sHeart first read through: Puke, nearly forgot that wicked wee bizzom Renna is still alive. I hope she runs into our latest human-nuke, and sul’dam hater extraordinaire. Mat, put that girl back where she came from or SO HELP ME! Cadsuane is still Epic. 🤩

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Za Lord of the Rings of Fires of Heaven @angeloleary.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Here are the visuals to illustrate the parallels I found between shots in the #WheelofTime S3 trailer and artworks from Western Art History. These connections struck me because of my art background, but may or may not be on purpose. Classic art like these live in our collective knowledge. #WoTSkies

An image displaying the visual connection between a shot from the S3 trailer and an artwork from western Art History.

Above is Moraine as Amyrlin cradling dying or dead Rand who has an injury in his side. Below is a Pieta from Spain. Pietas are Christian artworks displaying Mary the mother, cradling the body of her son Jesus.

This shot is obviously on purpose. The Mother is cradling to dead saviour.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

#WheelofTime first read through. Halfway through #WintersHeart: Logan actually not looking like such a bad guy right now. Taim on the other hand, looking like a pure menace. The Rand-love-octagon?.. Aye so I’m with Nynaeve on this one. It IS ludicrous for all but Aviendha. Boot up arse needed!

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

#WheelofTime first #CownofSwords read though. (Spoiler) My favourite plot twist so far: Big, bad, terrifying boss-bitch Elaida knitting when she’s stressed out. I love that. I do actually feel sorry for poor old Mat in this one though - that Queen Tylin is a sex-pest and a half!

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

First #WheelofTime read through and that’s me in the middle of #ACrownofSwords. Holy shit, Cadsuane is a BIG noise isn’t she? This feels like the General-Leia-Organa-of-WOT-universe dragging herself out of retirement to dish out an arse kicking. Still not sure whose, but excited to find out..🤩

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Oh god.. OH GOD!! 😍 It’s as cool as they say it is: I made it to the famous bookshop in Buenos Aires. YOU CAN SIT AND READ YOUR BOOK IN THE OPERA BOXES!! 💙📚 Unfortunately I can’t read Spanish properly, so back to my kindle, and #WheelofTime book #7 I go.

El Ateneo Book shop in Buenos Aires. A classic theatre with ornate decor converted into a book shop. The stage contains a cafe, and the seating area is full of bookshelves. The upper floors also contain bookshelves, and the private boxes are in use as reading/seating areas.

View up into a circular triple height space in el Ateneo book store. Previously the entrance hall of a theatre.
Upper floors have bookshelves, ground floor is the street entrance surrounded by columns. The upper floors have ornate wrought iron balustrades.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

#WheelofTime first read through: finished Lord of Chaos. Ok, EVERYBODY needs a foot up the arse, not just Egwene! *Nynaeve actually does give Mat a proper boot up the arse. 😂 10/10, out-fucking-standing. That’s what I’m talking about. Now do everybody else. And somebody kill that Sevanna FFS..

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Halfway through Lord of Chaos in my first #WheelofTime read-through. I want to give Egwene a foot up the arse in this book. Never go for looks alone hen, those boys are a pair of rip roaring twats… (I know, she’s only 21yo max, but still) The inventors school in Cairhien❤️😃 WAY TO GO NYNAEVE!!

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Am I the only person who actually OPENED their first ever TikTok account this week? I decided to apply the same logic here as I would to books: if the USA are banning it, it’s probably worth checking out…

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Can’t turn around in Doha without bumping into a bit of Simsima limestone. Rough blocks used for landscaping/ garden walls everywhere. Picked up a small bit from a vacant lot with a nice chert lens, and had a look with my crappy little pocket phone microscope. #urbangeology #Doha

Pale brown/off white limestone wall made up of rough limestone rocks approximately 10 cm diameter. Topped off with unpolished limestone slabs of the same rock.

Small piece of Simsima limestone 5 x 10cm. Beige / light brown in colour, with a darker grayish chert lens visible on one side. Broken into two parts, and cm scale ruler on the left of the photo.

Landscaping limestone boulders roughly cut into cube shapes 50 x 50 x 50 cm. Used as outdoor seating with a wooden plinth on top visible to the extreme left of the photo. Scale ruler placed on top of the block.
Limestone is light yellowish brown and finely crystalline in texture.

Microscope photo of fresh broken limestone surface. Pale grey to off white in colour, fine crystalline texture.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Since I don’t know many people irl who will share my nerdy excitement at this, I’ll share it with the other #TROP fans on here instead. My Hammer of Fëanor arrived today, AAAAAAAHHH!! #TheRingsofPower Now to hunt down the hedgehog teapot…

Hammer of Feëanor: silver coloured decorative prop hammer with gold art nouveau style decoration on the handle. Small colourful gemstones decorate the head.
Hammer sits in a black gift box with moulded foam, and has a certificate from the maker.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Working my way through the entire Wheel of Time series - that’s me a few chapters into Lord of Chaos. 💙📚 #WoTSkies Dear god that was the preface to end all prefaces, and is this whole Moghedien thing going to come back to bite Nynaeve on the arse at some point or what… I like Davram Bashere.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

#FossilFriday / #Urbangeology. Fossil bearing limestone pavement slabs at Doha Library, and I found my little pocket scale card 😃 (I do actually go in there and read books too, not just hang around taking pictures of the building stones, honest!)

Pale grey-brown limestone with many fossil shell fragments. Average size of fossilized shells is approximately 1cm.
Scale ruler on left of photo, overall size of paving slab 10 x 10 cm.

Limestone paving slab containing many fossilized shell fragments. Limestone matrix is pale brown, shell fragments are off white. Average size of fossilized shells 1 -2 cm. Overall size of slab in photo 20 x 20 cm.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

💙📚 My StoryGraph 2024 Wrap Up. I’m late to the party with the whole #WheelofTime book series, but I’ll catch up!

StoryGraph 2024 wrap up summary graphic showing the following books: Wheel of Time books 1-5 (Robert Jordan), A Time for Mercy (John Grisham) , Heroes (Stephen Fry), The Psychology of Stupidity, The Jealousy Man (Jo Nesbo), The Book of Lost Tales (Tolkien), Maiden Voyage ( Tanya Aebi), The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for love (Per J Andersson), Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile (Agatha Christie), Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (Philpotts & Ague), The City and it’s Uncertain Walls (Haruki Murakami).

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This was an unusual one in Doha - floor of a funny little old shopping mall called Souq Al Jabor. @pavementgeology.bsky.social I could use any advice you’ve got on this one, bit of a head scratcher! #urbangeology #pavementgeology #Doha

Close up of stone flooring. Dark orangey red matrix with white clasts of approximately 1-2cm diameter. Hand on left for scale.

Stone floor panels, with hand on the left for scale. Each panel is 30 x 30cm. Dark orangey red in colour, with a large yellow and white areas. Worn patches in the polished stone surface are full of grey dust.

Polished stone floor tile, 30 x 30 cm with a hand on the left for scale. Dark reddish brown matrix and orange-red, pale yellow and pinkish coloured clasts ranging from 1cm to 7cm in diameter.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This weekends #urbangeology #pavementgeology sightings in Doha Souq metro station. (It’s a rather fancy metro station, and has some nice paintings too!) Carved travertine panels and grey marble pillars (apparently the marble came from Italy this time).

Travertine wall panel with carved geometric pattern and left hand for scale. Travertine has a striped appearance and is grey, cream and pale brown in colour.

Travertine wall panel close up with carved geometric pattern of small spirals and left thumb for scale. Travertine is striped appearance and grey, cream and pale brown in colour.

Grey and white marble panel with 1cm vertical grooves carved at approximately 4cm intervals. Left hand for scale.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 13/20

Cover of “Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister “ by Gregory Maguire. Illustration of a pumpkin shaped coach, with a man and woman looking out of the window. A mouse dressed in Tudor style clothing is in the foreground.

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Luke Kerr @lukekerr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Which Prime show is your fav? Rings of Power - retweet Wheel of Time - like Incidently, I can't vote because I somehow missed that season 2 of #wheeloftime had been released so I have to catch up. #ringsofpower

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Just some building stones from my own neighborhood in Doha today: polished limestone wall and granite paving cobbles. Not sure of the provenance of these, the limestone may be local, the granite definitely won’t be. #urbangeology #pavementgeology

Close up of dark grey and brown mottled limestone. Polished to a shiny surface, with a hand on the left of the photo for scale.

Small granite paving cobbles with a hand for scale. Each cobblestone is approximately 8 x 8 cm square, and contains large visible K-felspar and mica crystals of around 1cm.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Cover of “Understanding Earth” 3rd edition, by Frank Press and Raymond Siever. Grey marble pattern background with six small insert pictures of the Earth from various angles and different mapping styles.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Parents come over to visit for a couple of weeks and bring my mail - it contained a great treasure!! Mum, to my middle-aged ass: “Aww look sunshine, they gave you a Triceratops card, your favourite!” 😂❤️ #naturalhistorymuseum #Dinosaurs #museums

Membership card for the Natural History Museum in London. Mint green background with a photo of a Triceratops skeleton.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Cover of “God is Not Great” by Christopher Hitchens. Pink background with title and author in bold black and white text. Outline of a cross and an axe in the bottom right corner.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Cover of “The Girl with the Red Hair” by Buzzy Jackson. Watercolor style picture of a foggy, cobble stone street. A young woman with long red hair, dressed in dark clothing is pushing a bicycle.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Cover of “In Praise of Shadows” by Junichiro Tanizaki. A photo of a traditional Japanese room with tatami mats and paper screens.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Cover of “The Glass Palace” by Amitav Ghosh. A wooden bridge on stilts, with several people crossing on foot and by bicycle. Under the bridge are still water and green fields, and in the distance the faint outline of a city skyline.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Many thanks to @pavementgeology.bsky.social for sharing their article on urban geology in Doha - I had to go and check this one out for myself, and was not disappointed! Travertine wall in the University services building. #urbangeology #pavementgeology #travertine #Doha

Close up of travertine wall panel with hand for scale, approximate size 40 x 60 cm. Banded crystalline appearance in reds, oranges and whites.

Close up of travertine wall panel with hand for scale, approximate size 40 x 50cm. Speckled crystalline appearance in reds, oranges and whites.

Close up of travertine wall panel with hand for scale, approximate size 20 x 25 cm. crystalline appearance in reds, oranges and whites.

Photo of travertine wall from a distance of 3m. Banded and geometrically shaped crystalline appearance in reds, oranges and whites.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Cover of “Genji Monogatari” by Murasaki Shikibu. White background with an orange red blurry circle containing ink style drawing of bamboo.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Looking for some help from the bee or nature people in identifying this little fellow. Have checked the UK bee guide but can only narrow it down to 2 types. I saw quite a lot of them in my garden this summer (North of Scotland, if that helps). #bee #uknature #nature 🐝🌿

Close up of a bumblebee on lilac-blue coloured wildflower. Bee is yellow at the front, black/dark brown midsection and orangey red coloured tail.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Cover of “Trillions” by Nicholas Fisk. Dark sky background with multiple small spiky metallic objects scattered across the foreground.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Cover illustration, “Tales from Moomin Valley” by Tove Jansson.
Green waves in the background with a small boat and sea monster popping its head out of the water. Various characters from The Moomins in the foreground on land.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books

Cover of “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson. A pirate ship against a stormy sea background, with a pirate figure in the foreground holding up a lamp.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Book cover of “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino. Downward facing view of illustrated yellow tower block buildings, floating in a blue sky with scattered white clouds.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Cover of “Kafka on the Shore” by Murakami. Black background with red circle containing the outline of a black cat, facing right.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Cover of ‘Five letters from an eastern empire’. Plain white background with an orange circle containing a stylized carved face of an elderly man.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

#WoTSkies Introduce yourself with: (not including any WoT stuff because that seems too easy) One book - Kafka on The Shore One movie - In the Loop One album - Blur: Modern Life is Rubbish One TV show - X Files One Game - Pokémon Scarlet

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I only learned about urban geology this week, but lets give it a go! Local limestone bookcases and stairs in the heritage section, Doha library. ⚒️ #urbangeology #pavementgeology #geology

Limestone wall with gap to act as a handrail. Strip lighting illuminates the handrail gap. Arm in a cream coloured woolen jumper holding the handrail

Close up of polished limestone bookcase. Hand placed at side of photo for scale.
Limestone has a striped and banded appearance and is cream and pale brown in colour. Small cavities of 1-2cm can be seen in the stone, separating some of the bands.

Photo of polished limestone wall panel, approximately 40 x 40cm in size. Hand on the left of the photo for scale.
Limestone is striped and banded, ranging from cream/off white to medium brown, and grey in some places. Cavities of approximately 2cm can be seen in places.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Wow, people really seem to appreciate libraries here (which is nice) so thought I’d join in since Saturday is my library day. Bit spoiled by the local library here, and my life’s mission is now to get one of these chairs for my own house! #library #booksky #books 💙📚

Padded library chair with a reading stand for large books attached to the chair by a swivel arm. Chair is cocooned by sound baffle, covered in padded grey fabric.
Large hardback book is open on the reading stand, and a colourful jacket is lying on the chair.
Library bookshelves in the background.

Foreground: Two parallel rows of library cocoon-style reading chairs arranged in a modern library cafe. Large open plan library in the background.

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Hi all, first PROPER post: looking for #travelsky folks suggestions for underrated destinations / hidden gems. Particularly interested in hearing from other solo female travelers. I found a few good ones this year, here’s Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in beautiful autumn weather. Really nice city!

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Cole17 @cole17.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Ok Bluesky algorithm, please: LOTR Books Libraries Tolkien Wheel of Time Star Wars Rings Of Power Travel Geology Archaeology Astronomy UK (seriously, I’m a little bit fed up with that lot across the pond at the moment). Plants and gardening Scotland Architecture

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