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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.

A nihilistic sheep, who, like so many other sheep, just wants to watch the world burn, staring at me insouciantly, moments after it has set fire to a large portion of the United Kingdom.

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Birds, including swans, are of course evolved from dinosaurs.

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Out with the dogs before 5am.

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's 8.40pm and I'm in bed, and it's nice and I'm tired and looking forward to sleep. The sun won't set for an hour, but luckily I have blackout curtains. My teenage self would be appalled. (Tbf, it seems a pity to waste a lovely summer evening, but - tired.)

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

That’s the perfect name for this time of oligarchs: “the Re-Gilded Age.”

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SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and the children’s book world, is saddened by the news that author, mentor and friend, Jane Yolen, has died. She was 87 and her loss cannot be measured. Please find the full obituary here: www.scbwi.org/remembering-...

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

What a nasty bruise! Goodness me! I wonder who gave him that? Richly deserved, regardless.

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

If you'd like to support my writing & ongoing treatment, why not visit my little Etsy shop which has dozens of Shell County & Natural History posters for sale, Japanese prints, English etchings & rare books: prices from £10, with more items added every day! Offers welcome. etsy.com/shop/Sourisd...

Shell Guide to Life in the Meadow. An original 1956 poster by John Leigh-Pemberton.

An 1816 aquatint of the Royal Exchange, Cornhill.

Keisai Eisen (1790-1848) woodblock print, ca.1838. "Bamboo" from the series "Three Beauties as Pine, Bamboo and Plum."

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Old Fox's recipes are always lovely in themselves, but also full of his time and place in the world too.

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

For sale! I've just listed a new collection of 19th century, Edo-period Japanese prints on my Etsy shop, including a spectacular Kunisada triptych and a series of exquisite Genji-e. If you like something, do feel free to make me an offer! etsy.com/shop/Sourisd...

Prince Genji stands by a flowing river under wisteria blossom. Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III), Chapter 33, Fuji no Uraba, from Genji monogatari (Tale of Genji), 1853.

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The same people who anointed Starmer, and are trying to anoint Farage, are looking for all and any kompromat on Polanski. When you read weird stories in the papers against Polanski, and they seem desperately thin, know that they went dumpster diving and that rubbish was all they could find.

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Lots of lovely references to #indigo and African and Indian #textiles.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Western Africa in general has a rich textile tradition. The noted Arab traveler Ibn Battutah once visited Kano, an ancient trading city in northern Nigeria, where he remarked on the indigo dye pits of Kofor Mata. Six hundred years later, those same pits are being used today.

Three men wearing striped white-blue indigo-dyed fabrics

A bunch of women wearing navy and light blue indigo-dyed fabrics.

Someone wearing a dark indigo-dyed head wrap.

Some men wearing traditional African garb and dark indig-dyed head wraps.

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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

STOP TELLING ME AI IS THE FUTURE OH MY GOD

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eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

As the job rejection list grows longer and more disheartening after 8 months of applications, if you are in need of a researcher or tutor please do get in contact. I have over a decades worth of research and teaching experience as well as a strong publication record.

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Early start (before 7am) for a walk today, but still too hot to walk up Pendle. So we went round Lower Ogden reservoir and paddled in the river at Barley. Back home by 9.30 for another quiet day in the garden.

Gate with reservoir and hill beyond, dog with her head through

Green field, reservoir, Pendle Hill reflected

Stream with one dog paddling, other watching

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cofax @cofax.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

National Rescue Dog Day! Arthur, enjoying the breeze on the way to Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales.

Collie dog with his head partly out of a car window, enjoying the breeze of the speed!

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SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Can anyone who lives within striking distance of Thames Ditton help give an elderly cat a loving home? #CatsOfBluesky

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is cat check point. Relinquish the most recent cat picture on your phone.

Three cats on the back of my sofa, the garden through the window behind. Nearest is the malevolent black Nina, then black Goblin, finally ginger/white Sirius.

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Jan @janstreit.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Ukrainian artist, Maria Polyakova

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone.

Arthur, a handsome and debonair chap, sitting by a stone lion.

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I never read #GameofThrones (too derivative and overly dramatic for me (but there's some excellent ff out there addressing plot holes)). However, here's a lion and a direwolf. Most people don't even remember the connection now. GoT hasn't lasted.

Carved stone lion and living wolfy dog, sitting next to each other at Harlow Carr garden.

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vrunt @vrunt.social · 15/05/2026

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

a big old bear, paws on the base of the camera

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Genuinely angry that the police are just shutting down half of Glasgow city centre on a Saturday afternoon because they're incapable of controlling football fans. I bet the local retailers won't be happy either.

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yarndale.bsky.social @yarndale.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

🧶Worldwide Creative Project 2026🧶 Inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s interactive Obliteration Room we're making an array of bright woolly dots. We invite you to make circles to create swathes of colour at the show. Help us to support UNICEF & their vital work for children. yarndale.co.uk/.../yarndale...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening.

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

In woods in deepest darkest Gloucestershire yesterday, doing a Lime Bast Day with @sallypointer.bsky.social . Her new book on this is excellent.

A woodfire, a kettle boiling over it , in green woodland

Lime bark, freshly pulled out of a retting pond

My cordage, made from lime bast, the beginnings of a bag, and a small hawthorn comb, laid on my blue sweater

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This deserves to be circulated. A former Red Cross staff member got in touch. She testifies about @zackpolanski.bsky.social's role. For transparency: her name is Brea Thibodeau. The whole thing is a desperate smear.

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Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🧵The curse that kept a church door unlocked for over a century… In 1801, an innocent Romani man, Joshua Scamp was hanged for a crime he didn't commit; framed by his own son-in-law. When the local clergy later desecrated his grave, the furious Gypsy Queen laid her curses. Every single one came true.

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Scotia met one of her littermates again today, plus some older female family including her mum. Great shenanigans ensued. #NorthernInuit

Silver Northern Inuit dogs playing on a lawn.

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

@pottedhistory.bsky.social Can we please have hedgehog-holding-bowls? With this expression on their little faces?

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

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two men and a woman are standing next to each other in front of mountains

Alt: End scene of Last of the Mohicans; three people on a windy mountaintop, looking west.

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Haul from this year's #Wonderwool: a pair of small purpleheart spindles, grey Icelandic lamb roving, coloured Corriedale fleece, fibre from Arbon's, yarn for the SWW hat, and a lovely Welsh basket. I thought I was v restrained. The fleece was the only thing I shouldn't have got.

To clear plastic bags of pale coffee coloured fleece, another bag of grey wool roving, two small spindles, a small willow basket, three small bags of blue and yellow wool tops, five 25g skeins of primary colours yarn, paper bag with more wool tops.

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Debbie T Knits 🧶 @debbietknits.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

When you realise that yarn you’ve had for 15 years will actually be perfect for using right now 🧶 #knit

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Kat Bristow @kathrynbristow.uk · 31/03/2026

Horrific, but typical. Labour stopped Rosa's support workers from assisting her in council meetings, then as she was unable to attend, removed her from her seat. They were fine with her support until she did inconvenient things like speak against disability benefits cuts and genocide in Palestine.

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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

There’s a new term approaching and there’s still time to sign up if you want to study either of my 10 week online folklore courses Study at your own pace. All materials online. And no exams! learnforpleasure.com/subjects/int...

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(HIST051) Introduction to British Folklore - Learn for Pleasure

Overview Course start date: Monday 20th April 2026 Course end date: Friday 26th June 2026 Price: £150 BOOK NOW Tutor: Mark Norman Course Code: HIST051 Level: Non-accredited, non-credit bearing Assessm...

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Friday night's gig was Mark Chadwick (The Levellers), solo at Barnoldswick. I stood by the bar, singing along as I finished spinning some merino/silk that's been hanging around a while.

Stick with singles thread wound together from spindles, ready for plying

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I don't have any knitting on the go, so during this afternoon's lectures from the @folklorepod.bsky.social Magical History festival, I filled this pair of matching spindles with thread. They're small enough to use when I'm cross-legged on the sofa. #spinning

Two small Goldingd spindles, with equal amounts of thread

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Freyalyn @freyalyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Scotia is getting better at posing. #DogsOfBlueSky

Same dog, lying in a green field, Arthur and a treebeyond

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