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curiousmuseum.bsky.social @curiousmuseum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
themuseumofcuriousobjects.substack.com/p/eleanor-se... Another snippet from a book I have been writing called the Museum of Curious Objects. #booksky #magicalrealism #literature
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curiousmuseum.bsky.social @curiousmuseum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
themuseumofcuriousobjects.substack.com/p/eleanor-sa... A new chapter of a book written and narrated by me over on substack. I am still finding my way over there (and here! I only joined the other day!), but please have a listen/read. #booksky #art #writingcommunity #magicalrealism #stockport
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Eleanor says hello.
The beginning of a new chapter and the introduction of a new character, Eleanor. This is the text version.
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La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible @larwoolf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Agnès Varda, Portugal, 1956.
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Megan O'Matz @megomatz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A report shows which Florida insurers claimed losses as affiliates made billions. The state Senate demanded the Orlando Sentinel & Sun Sentinel destroy the report, released in response to a public records request, or face legal action. / By @skylerswisher.bsky.social @davidfleshler.bsky.social
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How Florida fights to hide insurers’ finances
A secret report shows which Florida insurers claimed losses as affiliates made billions. The state Senate demanded the Orlando Sentinel and Sun Sentinel destroy the report or face legal action.
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curiousmuseum.bsky.social @curiousmuseum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One of the greats!
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curiousmuseum.bsky.social @curiousmuseum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This bird is a full on gangster.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Winter Evening in Ghent - Evgeny Lushpin
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Poetryb#Painting #Autumn Grief is as long and wide as life. Watch the autumn river. Listen to it flow. Li Shang-yin (813-858) 🎨 Xuan Loc Xuan
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties” ― John Muir
A dirt road curves throught the wetlands with a single tree on the right. There are grasses along the left side of the road with water next to it.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hello there
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barbara b. @lunazuna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hughie Lee Smith | The Beach, 1962, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design, 2009.28
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
© Haidee-Jo Summers. 'Kitchen Interior.' Oil on canvas, n.d. 11 x 8 inches.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ural owl N Europe, East Asia owlets are about 5 weeks old when they leave the nest and move around on the ground or climb branches before they can fly They use their claws and beaks to climb and hop around on the ground or in low vegetation. They fly at 6 weeks of age Owlet on the ground:
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is the Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba) - one of Central America's most unique and fascinating bats: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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curiousmuseum.bsky.social @curiousmuseum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Has anybody seen my pants?
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Poetry #Painting #EverdayMagic Nature is not stingy with her miracles We simply forget to look 🎨 Otto Frolicher (1840)
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Twai @twai.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well then, little Fiat is done! Might still add something because I got a fun idea… But for now it’s done 😁 #italiaGB #histscalemodels
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Amanda Parker @amandaparker1995.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A breathless twilight of liquid dreams 🖤🧡💜 #photography #lakescape #dreamy #intoxicating #beauty #twilight #sunset #colours
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curiousmuseum.bsky.social @curiousmuseum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is it shocking tho
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Autumn Into The Thicket Deep in our bones, we feel the forest vibrate in omen, but as we’ve no one near to confide in, we must worry - M. Bartley Seigel 🎨 Ivan Trishkin
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Nicole Adams SideEye-Photography @blathin384.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Per @helenbennett.bsky.social, today's #BirdOfTheDay is #CaptionThatBird "Get a blowout, they said. It's so relaxing and fun, they said!" #ECK #photography #birds
Photo of a Snowy Egret who got caught in a short wind burst that made all the feathers look completely out of shape
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Barbara is fun
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
zzzzzzzzzz... #CaptionThatBird #photography #wildlife #ECK #birds #birders #BirdOfTheDay #birdsky #conservation #biodiversity #nature #ecology #spoonbill #sleepy
This beautiful roseate spoonbill was resting and falling asleep in a good spot at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in the Florida Panhandle.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The embroidery work of May Morris (1862-1938) influential English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor #WomensArt
Embroidery featuring a plant with orange trumpet shaped blossoms and interlocking stems and leaves all against a gold background
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John @birdingjohn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CaptionThatBird "Excuse me, waiter - could I see the dessert menu?" #birds #birding #nature #wildlife #photography #birdphotography 🪶
A jackdaw standing on a wooden table outside a cafe. On the table are used cups and a plate with a spoon and cake crumbs in it. One of the bird's feet is resting on the edge of the plate. It is looking up, as if conversing with a waiter out of shot.
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The Mountains Win Again @mtswinagain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Last year - Colorado fall colors. Love this time of year! #fallcolors #nature #Aspens #Colorado #gold #naturephotography #fall
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Lyndy Lambert @lyndyphotos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“You call that a stick? How am I supposed to build a nest with THAT?” For the #CaptionThatBird theme of #BirdOfTheDay #ECK #birds
This is a mated pair of great egrets. The males gather large sticks for nest building. This male brought a wilted leaf to his wife and she appears to be complaining.
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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pretty tangerine colored dahlia 😍🧡 #ECK #bloomscrolling #photography #flowers
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First Amendment Girl @firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Olive Trees by Vincent van Gogh, 1889, MoMA-The Museum of Modern Art #ArtHistory #ModernArt #PostImpressionism
In the blazing heat of this Mediterranean afternoon, nothing rests. Against a ground scored as if by some invisible torrent, intense green olive trees twist and crimp, capped by the rolling, dwindling hillocks of the Alpilles, beneath a light-washed sky with a bundled, ectoplasmic cloud.

After van Gogh voluntarily entered the asylum at Saint-Rémy in the south of France in the spring of 1889, he wrote his brother Theo: "I did a landscape with olive trees and also a new study of a starry sky." Later, when the pictures had dried, he sent both of them to Theo in Paris, noting: "The olive trees with the white cloud and the mountains behind, as well as the rise of the moon and the night effect, are exaggerations from the point of view of the general arrangement; the outlines are accentuated as in some old woodcuts."

Van Gogh's letters make it clear that he created this particular intense vista of the southern French landscape as a daylight partner to the visionary nocturne of his more famous canvas, The Starry Night. He felt that both pictures showed, in complementary ways, the principles he shared with his fellow painter Paul Gauguin, regarding the freedom of the artist to go beyond "the photographic and silly perfection of some painters" and intensify the experience of color and linear rhythms.
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🌈Marlena🕊️ @marlena-love.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A fantastic blue morning!💙🩵 #bluesky #love
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Northern Cardinal 22cm southeastern Canada E and C US parts of Mexico Central America. Diet Seeds, grains, berries, and occasionally insects Female builds the nest, incubates for 11 days, both parents feed the chicks 12 days in the nest After fledging they the parents feed & protect for 5 weeks
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20/09/2026
1937 Airmobile macsmotorcitygarage.com/streamlined-...
a car, shaped a bit like a lobster 1937 airmobile sedan c
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Does your dog bite? No, he blesses. Original post
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JT @jaatee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Stunday #SundayYellow #FlowersOnSunday #scape #ColorADay #OrangeSun
Orange, yellow, and red coneflowers in a garden. Hostas with purple flowers, a stone birdbath, and a forest of trees are in the background.
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RoseRed @thebookishgardener.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today’s dahlia is Bloomquist Amazing. #BloomScrolling #Dahlias #Photography
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shout out to the Miccosukee Tribe for shutting down Alligator Alcatraz. I didn't see them get credit. Their efforts should be recognized. ✊🏼
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East London Kingfishers @londonkingfishers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Standing to attention Kingfisher in east London. #nature #wildlife #birds #kingfisher
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Morning I saw the red fox asleep under the green branches of the pine. It flared up in the sweet order of its being, the tail that was over the muzzle lifting in airy amazement - Mary Oliver 🎨 Vicki Mount
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Moby Dick by French artist Gérard DuBois,
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Paul @paulst001.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A red rose from the garden this afternoon
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Elmer C.Teodoro Photography - Nature’s Living Light Images @natureslivinglight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wings rise with quiet wonder. Feathers lift the moment upward. Soft motion carries a tender ascent. Each rise feels like a gentle awakening. Nature answers with a calm embrace. #Hummingbird #birds #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Northern Cardinal 22cm southeastern Canada E and C US parts of Mexico Central America. Diet Seeds, grains, berries, and occasionally insects Female builds the nest, incubates for 11 days, both parents feed the chicks 12 days in the nest After fledging they the parents feed and protect for 5 weeks
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Dave @albatrossity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CaptionThatBird "Which way did they go?" #Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #Photography #BirdPhotography #Bustards #Africa #Tanzania
Kori Bustards, Tanzania 2018. Heads of two long-necked birds with yellow eyes and black crowns protruding from tall grass and looking in two different directions
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julielfrost.bsky.social @julielfrost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A ruby-throated hummingbird fuels up for migration. #Stunday #OrangeSun #ColorADay #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Hummingbirds #BirdsOfBluesky
A ruby-throated hummingbird approaches a sunlight orange canna flower. The background is a bright medium green.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Malabar pied hornbill large 65 to 92 cm South Asia, specifically across India and Sri Lanka Diet: mostly fruit figs, forests fruits occasional insects strictly monogamous mating for life Only the Male feeds the female and nestlings for 45 days both parents feed with them for 3 more weeks.
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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Archaeology News Online Magazine @archaeologynews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rare Roman painting reveals an unusual use of Egyptian blue A study of Roman wall-painting fragments from northern Italy has found an unusual use of Egyptian blue. Roman craftsmen mixed it into the lime mortar beneath a marine scene... More information: archaeologymag.com/2026/09/roma...
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Rare Roman painting reveals an unusual use of Egyptian blue | Archaeology News Online Magazine
Roman craftsmen in Italy mixed Egyptian blue into lime mortar beneath a marine painting, revealing a rare Roman wall-painting technique.
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A 7th Century pillow name stone in St Hilda's church, Hartlepool, an Alpha and Omega above the name Hildithryth. It's one of a number from the cemeteries of the Anglo-Saxon monastery that stood on Hartlepool Headland and which are occasionally unearthed under streets and in peoples gardens. 1/2
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