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Dancing Monk🌻

@dancingmonk.bsky.social
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I'm playing everything in my record collection (@81%) #MonksMusic explores my Classical record collection 800-2024 Here for music & art #ASD but not in a good way. I post UK disability stories but avoid politics. Not a monk, don't dance

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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 6h
ah, the inner circle of ....
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 20h
The home secretary has been asked why she is delaying the implementation of a “long overdue reform” that would take an “important step” towards equality for disabled victims of hate crime. #DisabilityHateCrime www.disabilitynewsservice.com/home-secreta...
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Home secretary delays implementation of ‘long-overdue’ measure on disability hate crime
The home secretary has been asked why she is delaying the implementation of a “long overdue reform” that would take an “important step” towards equality for disabled victims of hate crime. The chan…
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DAREBEE @darebee.bsky.social · 19h
Exercise works on your skin from the inside out. Our latest guide explains it all. darebee.com/fitness/exer... #Darebee
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Exercise and Wrinkles, Explained | DAREBEE
Exercise changes your skin. Regular training thickens the living layer of the skin, improves its elasticity and shifts the profile of substances in your blood toward the ones that keep skin young and....
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 6h
#NowPlaying Consort Songs - William Byrd
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 8h
Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘Ludlow Castle’ (Readers Digest magazine) Artist: SR Badmin
Finely-detailed, mixed-media illustration of Ludlow Castle viewed from across the river. The trees on the hill slope are vivid with autumn colours. 
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 6h
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 7h
#NowPlaying Symphony 3 - George Onslow
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DAREBEE @darebee.bsky.social · 10h
Ab Maintenance is exactly what it says. youtu.be/7RntziT8NPw #Darebee
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Ab Maintenance Workout [ How-To ] [ One Set ] by #DAREBEE
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Cloudland Blue Quartet @misterquartet.bsky.social · 10h
Out Now! Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2026 Vol 40 For #Freakzone afficionados #LateJunction #Unclassified www.mixcloud.com/CloudlandBlu... 7 New LPs of the Week 2 CBQ Items 7 Old LPs of the Week 10 More New Things 10 More Old Things 1 Listen to Podcast 2 Discover Great new music That's it
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DAREBEE @darebee.bsky.social · 10h
Onyx forms in layers, slowly, under pressure. So does everything this workout is building. youtu.be/abTBrbkhWv4 #Darebee
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Onyx Workout [ How-To ] [ One Set ] by #DAREBEE
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 10h
The more I see Americans discuss their #ASD, the more I realise their societal pressures create a completely different response to that which I've experienced with my British upbringing.
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 10h
When I drank, that was always enjoyable
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 10h
#NowPlaying Debut - Bjork
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 11h
#NowPlaying Pat Metheny - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 11h
Strike by night, They are defenceless
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 12h
I blame the Victorian explorers
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 12h
I have a penchant for anything on the Hyperion or Opus 111 labels, but that's probably not what you were looking for
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 13h
They're a lot around Stirling & Dunblane. I know a song about them
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 13h
Brilliant quite often white label as is the case here. I don't know the performers but tbh, they're pretty acceptable
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 13h
#NowPlaying Mother Earth – Time Of The Future
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 16h
Looks like it but without leaves or scale it's a bit hard to tell.
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 19h
#NowPlaying Jean-Luc Ponty Enigmatic Ocean
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 20h
“A full harvest moon is rising, though it is still only twilight” (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL GrantWatson
A barn owl is perched on a wall in front of a small Village at sunset  
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 19h
#NowPlaying Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto 3 in G-dur KV216 Emmy Verhey Eduardo Marturet Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 20h
Morning Andy
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 20h
#MonksMusic 🎻 Year - 1809 Franz Xaver Mozart Work - Piano Concerto 1 In C Major, Op 14 www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...
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Mozart (F) & Clementi: Piano Concertos
<p>Franz Xaver Mozart was born just four months before the death of his father, Wolfgang Amadeus. A pianist of similarly precocious talent, he nevertheless wrote just two piano concertos: coupled…
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 20h
I've got a bootleg but it's a shame it was never released officially
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 21h
What a day
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 21h
Are you sure?
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DAREBEE @darebee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brief But Brutal is a timed circuit that delivers precisely what it advertises and nothing gentler: 15 seconds of jump squats, 15 seconds of push-ups, 15 seconds of jumping lunges and 15 seconds of burpees. One minute of total work per set. youtu.be/JUhSXFriBHg #Darebee
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Brief But Butal HIIT Workout [ How-To ] [ One Set ] by #DAREBEE
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Geisha at Gennin-temple in Kyoto, Japan. Photography by Woosra Kim
Bathed in a brilliant shaft of morning light, a maiko advances along the central flagstone pathway (sandō) within the quiet precincts of Kennin-ji in Kyoto. She carries a small, vermilion oil-paper parasol (wagasa), her hair styled in traditional nihongami and adorned with vibrant floral kanzashi hair ornaments that sway with her movement. Her rich teal-green trailing kimono (hikizuri) features intricate, hand-dyed yūzen motifs and a golden brocade obi, catching the light to reveal flashes of brilliant scarlet silk under-layer (hakkako) as she walks atop high, hollow-carved wooden sandals (okobo). Behind her, a magnificent canopy of pale cherry blossoms (sakura) creates a luminous frame around the dark, weathered roof tiles of the temple gate. The photograph evokes an exquisite, sensory atmosphere: the rhythmic pokkuri-pokkuri hollow chime of wooden okobo echoing across smooth stones, the crisp, cool morning air fragrant with delicate spring blossoms, the damp warmth of sunlit granite, and the solemn, undisturbed quietude of an ancient temple at dawn.

Founded in 1202 by the monk Eisai, Kennin-ji stands as Kyoto’s oldest Zen monastery, situated at the immediate threshold where the spiritual grounds meet the historic Gion hanamachi (flower district). The maiko’s presence within this sacred space illustrates the historical interplay between Kyoto's monastic heritage and its refined world of traditional performing arts. Her ensemble represents the pinnacle of Japanese textile and material craftsmanship (monozukuri), from the laborious paste-resist dyeing and gold-leaf embellishment of her silk kimono to the intricate Nishijin-ori weaving of her sash and the hand-carved paulownia wood of her footwear. Each element of her dress is meticulously selected to reflect kisetsukan—a heightened awareness of the current season—aligning her visual presence with the fleeting beauty of early spring cherry blossoms.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 29/09/2026
I’m Gail, a one woman (and a feline assistant) business, based in Manchester. I create prints, homewares, T-shirts & cards inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk
A grid of twelve illustrations featuring music designs, architecture designs, books, retro abstract designs and swimmers. Bold and colourful.
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spend more time cataloguing
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#NowPlaying Symphony No 73 in D major 'La Chasse' - Joseph Haydn Goodman/Hanover Band
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Cloudland Blue Quartet @misterquartet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Morning Saturday morning... Got 10,144 Bandcamp download credits. 10,144 of you can take an LP for £0. Or 78 could take the catalogue. Or I could boost "supporter squares" under my LPs by giving out free codes but that's cheating? Fill your boots Have a top day... cloudlandbluequartet.bandcamp.com
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Cloudland Blue Quartet
A quartet in name only, initially influenced by Fripp & Eno's "No Pussyfooting" and The Velvet Underground's debut, songwriter & soundscaper David Reilly started musicking in 1977 by creating drones u...
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#NowPlaying Francisco Guerrero - Motets
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The BBC has failed to explain why the host of its flagship current affairs programme Question Time has repeatedly pushed the idea that social security spending must be cut, while ignoring official figures that debunk claims it is “spiralling”. #BBCQT www.disabilitynewsservice.com/bbc-fails-to...
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BBC fails to explain why Question Time host repeatedly fails to debunk the lie of ‘spiralling welfare’
The BBC has failed to explain why the host of its flagship current affairs programme Question Time has repeatedly pushed the idea that social security spending must be cut, while ignoring official …
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#NowPlaying Stabat Mater - Paul Mealor
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
On this day 3rd Oct 1952 the Government announced that tea rationing was soon to end Artist: Harry Wingfield (Shopping with Mother)
Mother, in her smart brown suit, walks into a traditional grocery shop. Two neatly dressed children follow behind. 
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#NowPlaying Concerto For Orchestra - Huw Watkins
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Morning Chris
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#MonksMusic 🎻 Year - 1808 Composer - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia Work - Missa Pastoril Para A Noite De Natal www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...
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Brazilian Adventures
<p>This wonderful new recording casts a dazzling light on composers whose names are as obscure as their music is revelatory. Mozart from an unfettered South America?</p>
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Morning Fraser
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Morning Andy
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#NowPlaying Let's Make Up And Be Friendly The Bonzo Dog Band
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Dancing Monk🌻 @dancingmonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This series is going from strength to strength. It's been a fascinating watch
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Night sky in Japan
Stretching across an endless, sapphire-tinted abyss, a dense tapestry of distant stars illuminates the Japanese night sky (hoshizora), revealing the soft, cosmic ribbon of the Milky Way (Amanogawa). A feather-like plume of high-altitude clouds catches faint nocturnal light as it drifts diagonally across the sky, suspended above the dark, immovable silhouettes of mountain ridges. The scene evokes a cold, crystalline sensory atmosphere: the sharp bite of high-altitude night air, the profound, velvet silence of a remote mountain pass, the faint shimmer of starlight reflecting off dew-damp earth, and the quiet awe of standing exposed beneath an infinite, sparkling expanse.
In Japanese cultural tradition, the night sky and mountain peaks hold a sacred place, bridging the realm of earthly existence with the cosmic order. Since antiquity, the Milky Way—known as Amanogawa (the Heavenly River)—has inspired timeless folklore such as Tanabata and classical waka poetry, where poets mapped human devotion onto the movement of celestial bodies. Mountains have long been venerated through traditions like Shugendō as sacred sanctuaries where the noise of the secular world recedes, allowing ascetics and travelers to experience direct communion with the night sky.
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Along the Kamo River (Kamogawa) in Kyoto, Japan.
Seated quietly along the grassy embankment of the Kamo River (Kamogawa) at dusk (tasogaredoki), a figure dressed in elegant wafuku gazes across the water toward the softly glowing riverside of Kyoto. Her kimono showcases a striking, modernist arrangement of bold crimson bands and slate-grey blocks, gathered by a dark, structured obi that features a golden embroidered crest framed within a circular shippō (overlapping geometric ring) motif. Across the dark, reflective river, the traditional wooden dining platforms (kamogawa yuka) attached to historic townhouses come alive with golden lantern light, casting warm ribbons of amber radiance over the water beneath a lavender and peach twilight sky. The scene evokes a tranquil, multi-sensory atmosphere: the cool river breeze rising off the current, the soft rustle of evening grasses along the stone bank, the distant hum of quiet conversation drifting from open-air terraces, and the calm, lingering stillness of day giving way to night.

For centuries, the Kamo River has served as the cultural and social heart of Kyoto, serving as a gathering place where city life meets the natural environment. The elevated wooden decks—known as yuka or kawatoko—date back to the Edo period, originally erected by local merchants and tea houses during the warm summer months to afford guests cool river breezes (noryō) and scenic water views. The figure's attire embodies the vibrant evolution of Japanese textile culture, where traditional kimono silhouettes embrace graphic, mid-century geometric sensibilities. From the sharp alignment of the dye-dyed panels to the delicate needlework (shishū) detailing the obi, the ensemble honors monozukuri (artisanal craftsmanship and material mastery), bringing high textile artistry into the casual elegance of daily urban life.
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