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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spot the moth 🫥 Meet our 'Wonder of the Day', the Merveille du Jour (Dichonia aprilina)! Its pale green colouring and black markings allow it to blend in perfectly with lichens and mosses. 📷: Clive Jones #MothMonday #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

A moth perfectly blended in with pale green lichen on a tree

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Jenny @jenneke1961.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Shadow play this morning. #AOFoto #Urban

A rider on a black e-bike with fat tires moves past a white wall with a yellow stripe at the top under an overpass, casting a distinct shadow on the wall under warm sunlight.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The room represented in this painting by Albert de Belleroche is the dining-room belonging to John Singer Sargent when he was living at 33 Tite Street, Chelsea, London.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Van Gogh left Paris in mid-February 1888 for Arles. When he stepped off the train, he was confronted by a snowy landscape; here, the patchy coverage of the snow is implied through daubs of brown paint and the purplish light of an impending snowstorm.

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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Let everything happen to you. (Rilke)

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Moby Dick by French artist Gérard DuBois,

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

'Manhattan Nocturne.' (1930) In the 1920s and 1930s, Joseph Stella returned to city scapes and portraits that often combine drawing, painting and printmaking media. He frequently visited New York and lived there permanently from 1938.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Paula Rego, 'Hey Diddle Diddle', from the series 'Nursery Rhymes', 1989 #FridayFeeling #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

That ordinary reality is too often missing from the public conversation. More than 110,000 cis women agree, and have signed our letter - Women in support of the trans+ community - to help make our message of inclusion visible. ✍️ Add your name at notinourname.org.uk Share this far and wide folks 🙏

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Home - Not in our name

Not In our Name: Women in support of the trans+community

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

How your email finds me

Pier Francesco Mola, Caricature of a man with four flying letters, pen and ink drawing, ca. 1647-1657 (Victoria and Albert Museum)

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 10/09/2026

Three angels visit Abraham (Genesis, XVIII, 1 8), 1956 #chagall #marcchagall

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I can't sign this, cos I'm not British. But these are your rights, British friends. These are rights established by Churchill and UK to help all Europeans Don't let any fucker take your rights away @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @andrewcutting.coe.int www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition

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Act now to protect the UK's place in the ECHR

Sign the European Movement UK's petition now if you agree: Britain must remain in the ECHR

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 03/09/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_K...

English

When I was a boy, he says, the sky began burning,
& someone ran knocking on our door
one night. The house became birds
in the eaves too low for a boy’s ears.

I heard a girl talking, but they weren’t words.
I knew one good thing: a girl
was somewhere in our house,
speaking slow as a sailor’s parrot.

I glimpsed Alice in Wonderland.
Her voice smelled like an orange,
though I’d never peeled an orange.
I knocked on the walls, in a circle.

The voice was almost America.
My ears plucked a word out of the air.
She said, Friend. I eased open the door
hidden behind overcoats in a closet.

The young woman was smiling at me.
She was teaching herself a language
to take her far, far away,
& she taught me a word each day to keep secret.

But one night I woke to other voices in the house.
A commotion downstairs & a pleading.
There are promises made at night
that turn into stones at daybreak.

From my window, I saw the stars
burning in the river brighter than a big
celebration. I waited for her return,
with my hands over my mouth.

I can’t say her name, because it was
dangerous in our house so close to the water.
Was she a boy’s make-believe friend
or a beehive breathing inside the walls?

Years later my aunts said two German soldiers
shot the girl one night beside the Vistula.
This is how I learned your language.
It was long ago. It was springtime.

- Yusef Komunyakaa

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

2 from Sappho (tr. Peter Whigham)

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Last of the summer wine ... Dandelion about to unfurl #YellowThu #ColorADay #EastCoastKin

Home made wine is (mostly) delicious and foraging for ingredients is (mainly) relaxing. Dandelion wine is sunshine in a bottle, but the 'golden' rule is to exclude the leaves as they will add a bitter note https://charnwoodforaging.co.uk/dandelion-wine/

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

2/2 Madonna & Child w / Saints Ignatius of Antioch & Onuphrius, splendidly framed, 1508. By Lorenzo Lotto, whose day is today.

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David Brown @dbrownprintmaker.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sorry I don't know whose photo this is. So marvellous ..

Green and black frogs poking their noses out of the holes of a brick-vent.

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Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My watercolour drawing looking down Magdalene Street, Cambridge from 1990 (sold). This was completed on the spot, sitting on the wall of St Giles' Church. Those old buildings are a precious survival, described by Pevsner as the best group of pre-classical domestic architecture in Cambridge.

Plein air watercolour of Magdelene Street, Cambridge.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It was recently revealed that this diminutive self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi as St. Catherine was purchased in February by billionaire Ken Griffin. The work will be lent to the exhibition “Artemisia Gentileschi: The Triumph of Painting” in Denmark in 2028. news.artnet.com/market/billi...

A self portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi looking out at the viewer, wearing a crown, holding a palm and next to a spiked wheel, the attributes of St. Catherine of Alexandria

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David Brown @dbrownprintmaker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oh, I'll be along to that!! I don't know anything about asemic writing - looks intriguing - and the Keate Family Arts Trust is a great little place with a good collection.

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Daily Rothko @dailyrothko.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tawny Chatmon, American (1979- ), Redemption, Glory, 2019, acrylic and 24 karat gold leaf over photograph

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I went to a really delightful exhibition of @dbrownprintmaker.bsky.social prints (plus Sutherland, Hepworth, Piper et al) on Saturday, at the quirky Keate Family Arts Trust in Cambridge. Open til Aug 31st by appointment.

Invitation with address: 7 Trafalgar Road, Cambridge, CB4 1EU, and email address for arranging to see the exhibition: keatefamilyartstrust@gmail.com Plus beautiful image of blue and yellow speckled feather, and abstract yellow shapes on dark background.

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AmyLou on a StreetDeck @transbusgirl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

These 2 assholes decided it was a good idea to assault my partner and subject us both to transphobia. It happened in Castle Meadow, Norwich at around 16:55 and the next 15 minutes after they came back twice to subject us to transphobia and tell us to die in a river. . Make them famous.

White man wearing black shorts and vest walking in road

White man walking wearing white t-shirt and blue shorts

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Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'm off for the weekend so here's tomorrow's #ButterflyWeek today. We rejoiced last week in the arrival of the very first White Admiral ever spotted in our garden. I do like it when butterflies visit and you don't have to chase them halfway around France.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Nigel Farage hypocrisy "the state has consistently refused to provide me with any protection at all" After he'd specifically rejected a package including a bodyguard, car and trained driver Meanwhile, Reform have no problem with their councillors saying others 'should be shot'

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

450 years after she sat for her portrait, this old woman’s look is still piercing. By Bartolomeo Passarotti, whose day was today.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Laura Knight first became fascinated by gypsies at Ascot race meetings, they later invited her to their camp on the Common in Iver, Buckinghamshire where this work, of a Mr Smith, was painted in 1938.

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Good morning and Happy Monday, Flying into Monday and a new week with ‘Woody’ a beautiful Brown Wood Owl at #SuffolkOwls U.K. Have a lovely day, hopefully catch up later… 🌿💛🦉🤎🪶💚☀️👋 📷 Jun ‘26 #Owls #Birds #Nature #Raptors #Photography #EastCoastKin

A brown wood owl in flight, wings out wide, open and down heading towards the camera, against a background of a hedgerow

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Dr Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Today (22 June) is World Camel Day! For #mosaicMonday this amazing fragment of a Byzantine mosaic features a grazing camel. It is said to be from Syria. #worldcamelday Art Institute of Chicago 1970.1065 www.artic.edu/artworks/353...

Roman mosaic of a single-humped camel. It faces to the right and bends its neck down to graze; it's mouth partially open as it chews. A bell is tied around the animal's neck.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Strong Thoughts Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk 2024

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Museo Privado 🔻 @museoprivado.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Casas en Auvers, junio de 1890 Vincent #vanGogh pintor neerlandés (1853-1890) Museo de Arte de Toledo, Ohio

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

2/2 17th-century graffiti. As signed by Pieter Saenredam, whose day is today.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

🖼 The Yerres, Effect of Rain, Gustave Caillebotte, 1875.

Rain on canal, trees in background, canal path in foreground, painting.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Tulips, roses, and and iris in a glass. With some cherries lying around. By Jacob van Es of Antwerp, whose day is today.

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Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Please drop a line to your m.p. Suicide rates among trans people are staggering - think what a message this awful code of practice sends, especially to young people. Nadia Whittome MP has tabled an Early Day Motion. Ask your MP to sign it. www.thirdsectoragainsttransphobia.org/oppose-the-e...

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Oppose the EHRC draft Revised Code of Practice

We believe the third sector has a responsibility to uphold dignity, equality, inclusion and human rights for everyone - and to actively challenge discrimination and exclusion wherever it appears.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Newcastle upon Tyne, 1969, photo by Robert Blomfield.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Died (alas!) on this day in 1568, in Antwerp, painter Willem Key. Like yesterday's artist, his work was a victim of the 1566 iconoclasm. Most of what's left are portraits, like this one. With flower.

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Stewart J. Brookes @stewartbrookes.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Has anyone got any clever ideas as to what this might say? Adam… Chava… ??? It’s on an endleaf in MS. Canon. Liturg. 216 medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/manu...

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