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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Tired: hot singles in your area Wired: Thames Water active leakage in your area Either way you’re left thirsty (we have no water supply)

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21/02/2026

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

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Big Art Thread @bigartthread.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Works by Ethiopian artist Aida Muluneh, 2010s-20s, whose saturated self-portraits "express what it is to be an African woman, to encapsulate gender and identity, and to situate it within the colonial experience."

Photo depicting a Black woman doubled, sitting back to back, one wearing a black sheet and one wearing white. Their faces are painted blue and white with black decoration. The wall behind them is deep blue, and a bunch of bananas hang from the ceiling.

Photo depicting a Black woman doubled, with blue painted skin and white head wraps, peeking out from either side of tall red curtains decorated with cut-out eyes. The room behind them is bright yellow, with a blue chair. Several other blue hands are seen holding the curtain back, suggesting some unseen figures.

Photo depicting a Black woman wearing a long blue dress and black head wrap, with skin painted white with black decoration. She stands in a corner on a patch of white in a room otherwise painted all red, filled with white jugs lining the floor. A blue chair holds a small white figurative sculpture, and a blue ladder against one wall has white hands pulling it up at the top. A framed image of an eye hangs on the other wall.

Photo depicting a Black woman with painted white skin, wearing a blue dress and red head wrap, sitting cross-legged within a sandy expanse, on a long black and white vertical striped carpet. A large red textile billows out behind her, resembling wings. A large moon hangs in the smoggy sky.

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I enjoyed this video: “Your Crafting is not Resistance”, & the follow-up. Knitting a pattern that’s a symbol against the far-right is great as a coping device and for feel connection. However these should supplement and aid in confronting power in other ways, too. youtube.com/watch?v=NXYA...

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Your Crafting is NOT resistance

YouTube video by All Homesteading

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Not sure which stat blows me away more. That Donald Trump's name shows up more times in the Epstein Files (38K) than Harry Potter's does in the Harry Potter books (~19K) or that Joe Rogan has had more guests that were named in the Epstein Files (10+) than he's had Black women guests (~5).

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

There’s a type of mood I can get in where I’m antsy, frustrated, and just want to start ruthlessly donating/disposing of clutter and stuff from my house that’s not needed. Craving a blank-er slate. I have that now, but not clear what to dispose of. Think the items are just surface-level coping

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I stumbled upon a website about #weaving from the university of Arizona that has a bunch of free resources, including PDF scans of a Peter Collingwood book about rug weaving that someone recommended to me! www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/wea...

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On-Line Digital Archive of Documents on Weaving and Related Topics

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A software engineer archetype I’ve encountered a few times: Senior (or worryingly, Staff) IC who likes to make it known they don’t know where the team’s tickets are in Jira. Likes: reminiscing about the pre-IPO days, or $LAST_JOB. Dislikes: any team processes or rotas

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Tech CEOs stopped Trump from sending troops to San Francisco which would have been disastrous for their immigrant worker base given the troops come along with massive indiscriminate ICE raids. Who needs Congress when you have an oligarchy?

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Exclusive | Inside the Tech CEO Campaign to Stop Trump From Sending Troops to San Francisco

Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff helped Mayor Daniel Lurie to persuade the president not to deploy the National Guard.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13/10/2025

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

IT’S CALLED “SPLIT WARP”!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️ 👹

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Solution for me: do a line of soumak using half the normal weft (ie half of the weft in the finer areas) to mark the transition between areas of higher and lower epi. Good to use the colour that matches the chunky area, so raised sections match. Better to do soumak back-to-front; blends in more

A small tapestry using white and purple yarn in stripes. Different stripes use either 4 strand of yarn as weft to weave between individual warp threads, or use 8 strands of yarn to weave between groups of 2 warp threads. The transitions between the sections are either a line of soumak (top, bottom) or there is no special handling of the transition and live show as a result (centre).

The same tapestry as in the first photo, but now a final chunky section is woven at the top, covering some soumak that was visible in the first photo.

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Oh yeah my selvedges were all over the place here 😅, but the issue I was talking about is the black warp showing where I swap from the stripes white and yellow at ~10epi and the yellow where it’s at ~5epi. I couldn’t figure out how to address it other than beating down a lot!

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

If anyone knows of good blog posts/youtube videos on this that’ be a big help! I tried googling but it’s hard to do when i don’t know a specific name for what I’m doing 🤦‍♀️

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I started a (very disposable) #tapestry sample to try out combining different setts; ie #weaving w/ 2x the number of weft threads while grouping duos of warp threads in places. A challenge I encountered was getting the thicker weft to cover gaps from the previous pick done at a finer sett. 🤦‍♀️

An in-progress tapestry weaving that has weft made of predominantly white yarn, with a small section of yellow and black warp showing. The white yarn is used in different ways to creat distinct textures in the surface- areas where the weft is doubled and spans warp threads two-at-a-time, soumak using doubled weft, and regular soumak.

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

AI-generated PRs can suck to review when maintaining an open source project, but it’s even more frustrating when people make AI-driven code review bots and then point them at large public repos 😡 At least spam PRs only annoy maintainers, spam reviewers annoy _everyone_

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The company I work for was acquired and I had to visit the new owner’s London office for admin related to transferring employment. It’s a surreal experience to get an office tour when you’re “forced” to be there, and not a starry-eyed job seeker. Or maybe I’ve just seen enough WeWorks in my life

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I needed very little encouragement for this, I'm very excited about it: The colorwork is from the Penguin Classics chart by Catherine Waterfield (mostly) www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

front panel of a knit sweater, the sweater is currently half orange and half white with black lettering. It says "Frankenstein Mary Shelley"

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Lisa Quilter of Things @quiltlovinlisa.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This one, kind of went some unexpected directions but I rather like him. I only have two more toucans and I'm tempted to just tackle and get them done. 14 birds total left to quilt. #quiltsky

A yellow quilted toucan that's part of the larger not yet completed quilt.

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Killackey Illustration @kjkillackey.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

@aroddick.bsky.social is back after a month in Bolivia and has brought me textiles. These are both made by Jalq’a weavers, depicting fantastic beings. See the alt text for more details. #Textiles #Bolivia

A 50 by 100 cm tapestry laid out on a wood table. The weaving is weft faced and made of fine sheep’s wool. It depicts many very colorful fantastical creatures on a navy blue background. The creatures are very geometric and have elements drawing on real species, such as spiders, monkeys, birds, and humans. Many have multiple heads and carry other smaller creatures. Colors include orange, pink, fuchsia, turquoise, yellow, grey, and tan. There is a yellow, teal, and turquoise zigzag border.

A 20 by 40 cm tapestry laid out on a wood table. The weaving is a warp faced double-weave and made of fine sheep’s wool. It is still on a basic back strap loom set up and about 20 cm of its length is still unwoven. It depicts many bright pink fantastical geometric creatures on a navy blue background. The creatures are mostly winged and resemble bats and birds. Because it is a double weave, if you turn it over the colors are reversed, there are navy blue creatures on a pink background.

The tag from the first tapestry which reads “Arte Indigena” and “ASUR” in large print with “Made in Bolivia” in small print below.

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AndreaLiquidArt @andrealiquidart.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Stunning weavings from artist Jan Landrum (1931-2024) a former teacher who spent summers in San Miguel de Allende learning her craft, available for the first time thru an estate sale.Please contact for more info. Thank you! #fiberart #tapestry #weaving #looms #wool #craft #mexico #sanmigueldeallende

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Stunning weavings from artist Jan Landrum (1931-2024) a former teacher who spent summers in San Miguel de Allende learning her craft, available for the first time thru an estate sale.Please contact for more info. Thank you! #fiberart #tapestry #weaving #looms #wool #craft #mexico #sanmigueldeallende

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Left: Louise Haigh, "I will support the government on Tuesday in recognition they've made significant progress, and protecting the incomes of 400,000 disabled people across the country" Right: Rosie Jones, "They're not thinking about the millions of people who will become disabled in the future"

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

As the very disruptive home renovation project in one (1) room reaches its fourth (4th) month, I am beginning to reach my limit 😩 All my leisure time ends up becoming get-sweaty-and-covered-in-dust time.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 19/06/2025

there's an interesting detail in this, which is that *technically* he did not have his visa cancelled for his speech, they used his speech as a pretext to single him out for search and concoct allegations that he'd lied about illegal drug use, and that became the pretext for the deportation.

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Madeleine Shepherd @studioknotunknot.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Obviously I have to go back to my Game of Life Fair Isle project for today's #mathartmarch prompt "game". Here's my knitted portrait of its originator, John Conway, with heraldic bands of pulsars and gliders in traditional Fair Isle colours.

Knitted panel showing a black and white, pixelated, head and shoulders portrait of a white man looking straight at the viewer. He is resting his chin on one hand and is wearing a checked shirt.

Above and below the portrait are bands of colourful motifs. Narrow blue stripes with yellow gliders on either side of red stripes with white pulsars.

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 08/06/2025

The word “tapestry” conjures Medieval constructions in dark, simple palettes, conveying religious rites and hunting motifs — but modern practitioners like Sam Dienst have demonstrated that the form is due for a (second) Renaissance.

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Sam Dienst Weaves the Everyday Into Rich Tapestries

Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving.

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

“We’ve got the sonar signature of a rock!” I need to rewatch this asap

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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

See it: plums in the icebox Say it: lol eating those Sorted: a poem

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kkatkus.bsky.social @kkatkus.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Watermelon shoelaces for a friend! Inspired by a strawberry design from @matchathylacine.bsky.social #weaving #inkle #bandweaving

Detail view of woven watermelon shoelaces.

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

When the Go code finally marshals your json the way you want… json.Mashallah 🙏

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 22/03/2025

"The company is a future adversary" @pfrazee.com #ATmosphereConf

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Women Who Go London @womenwhogolondon.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🔊 GopherCon UK is looking for more women speakers! Representation matters! 💪 If you are interested in doing a talk please submit a proposal 👉 sessionize.com/gophercon-uk... Also if you have any questions please reach out to us and we'll do the best we can to help! ❤️

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GopherCon UK 2025: Call for Speakers

GopherCon UK is a three day event with one workshop day (August 13th) and three multi-track conference days (August 14th and 15th), held at The Brewer...

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Thank you for sharing! It’s amazing how many diseases that article mentions could be cured, many of which affect the people I love 🧡

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I love the amount of detail in the plants, but I don’t think I have the skill or patience to create a tapestry this fine and large

A close-up of plants near the river bank of the Nile. Various shades of green, blue, and cream are used to depict several distinct types of plant. The fact individuals leaves are outlined, instead of treating the plant as a single shape, shows just how much work has gone into this small section

Detail of a tapestry section showing wheat-like crops growing. Overlapping shapes of plants with separate leaves and tendrils creat the impression of a field, made of various beiges, yellow-oranges and browns.

When I look at it I get the impression of dryness, on the edge of where farming is possible outside of the immediate river bank.

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I stumbled on a #tapestryweaving by accident while I was in Exeter this weekend- ‘Fields and Village on the Nile’ by Mahrous Abdou Some parts were incredibly detailed (I’d guess it was ~18epi?) and I enjoyed spotting these figures smoking with big cartoony eyes 👀

‘Fields and Village on the Nile’ by Mahrous Abdou shows the river Nile passing across the tapestry, with lush green plants growing on the river banks. People tend to crops, wash clothes in the river, and sit together in the shade of trees. Further away from the river bank the colours shift from lush greens and blues to dry and hot-looking yellows. There are dunes in the distance where people ride camels, and on the far side there’s a village that’s under a hot red sun that’s surrounded by flame-like rays.

A man depicted in the tapestry who is stood among plants next to the Nile, wearing a light tunic, a brown waistcoat over top, and a cap. The man’s shape is simplified, making his head larger and cartoonish. In his hand is a cigarette, that he holds up to his mouth

Another man from the tapestry who is smoking. He’s sat with other men near some crops, and is wearing a light brown tunic and cap.

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

There was some interesting transparency made in ‘At the length of a season: blood ghost’ with sashiko-like stitching between areas of the warp. #tapestryweaving #weaving

The tapestry ‘At the length of a season: blood ghost’. Two black silhouetted figures carry a long length of wood above their heads, with a dead buck tied by its ankles to the wood between them. Superimposed over the buck is a faint red silhouette of a person who is also strung up to the wood by their wrists and ankles. It’s an eerie ghost, as if the buck being carried is echoing a past misjustice.

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Some details of the pig are made by some soumak

A zoomed in photo of the pig’s face from ‘Prodigal’. The white shape of the pig contains thin blue lines to indicate where an ear, mouth, and nostrils are

Super zoomed in photo of the weavings (showing warp and weft) and the soumak on top

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Forgot to add #weaving #tapestryweaving #textiles I think he uses double weaving (or more?) to swap between two colours when creating large areas of colour, and then superficially weaves wool to create the figures and more details. Peep these photos showing the front and back of ‘Prodigal’:

The tapestry weaving ‘Prodigal’ shows an abstract landscape with a figure and a pig stood before a far-off horizon that features a burning red sun that’s slipping below the horizon. The black silhouetted figure is poised to strike the pig with an upheld knife, which is equally red hot as the sun. The pig is stood calmly by the figure, unaware of its fate.

It’s unclear if the scene is a violent killing about to happen or a ritualistic sacrifice, laden with meaning.

The reverse of ‘Prodigal’. The subdued pinks and blues from the front image are inverted here, so the pig is now blue against a pink landscape. There is no equivalent ‘reverse shadow’ of the black silhouetted figure, nor the sun, as they are superficially woven on the other side.

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Some photos from Diedrick Brackens’s show in Bath - Woven Stories. My favourite piece was ‘If you have ghosts’- the colours are gorgeous and I could inspect it for ages.

Diedrick Brackens’s weaving ‘If you have ghosts’. A black silhouette stands tall with arms and legs spread out. They contrast strongly against the background that contains areas of bright white, shocking pink, and more muted mauve and purple. A the shape of a bridge is in the background, and the central figure in the foreground has a transparent tornado-like shape overlaying it. Shapes like feathers are scattered across the scene.

The image looks mystical, and both chaotic and peaceful to me. This may be fitting, as the title ‘having ghosts’ alludes to having a connection to the past, both good and bad.

A detail of the weaving, looking up at the figure from their hips upwards. The figure’s silhouette is created by weaving black wool ‘on top of’ the pink weaving that forms the basis of the fabric, and the translucent whirlwind over the figure is made by weaving purple wool sparsely in a similar way.

Detail of the bottom left corner of the weaving. The central silhouetted figure’s leg extends down towards an area of light cream, which merges into bright pink further up the weaving.

The background behind the figure isn’t a consistent colour, or treated consistently between the different panels that are connected together to make the final image.

The warp ran top to bottom in this weaving, so the areas of pink and white streaking up and down together intrigue me- how was that achieved?

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I’m due to have 3 different tradesmen visit my house within 24h, 2 of whom are on emergency callout “someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying”

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Michael Nadeau @mnadeau.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My daughter sent this link to my wife, who is a knitter, but I thought it was cool because of the digital preservation connection. digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr...

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Knitting Through Digital Decay: A Collection of Digital Preservation Jumpers No One Asked For (But…

I’ve been truly overwhelmed by the interest in my Digital Preservation knitting patterns — thank you to everyone who has reached out…

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Cherish @fiberartsdecoded.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

8 ways fiber arts and computer science overlap, and why it matters. 👇 fiberartsdecoded.blog/8-amazing-wa... #STEAM #creativity #code #coding #computerprogramming, #computerscience #concepts #crochet #fusion #fiberarts #fiberartsdecoded #Java #mathematics #polarequations

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Sarah (🧶 + 👩‍💻 + 🎨) @gliful.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I’ve been playing with a #tapestryweaving idea based on a bridge near South Norwood. The repeat attempts to cover up graffiti have made a patchwork of different coloured squares, which look almost like a mural. However in my sampler I found that my colours were either too subtle or too saturated 😮‍💨

A small tapestry sample showing a beige-y grey background with overlapping squares of muted yellow and purple/grey, as well as more saturated squares of yellow. The sample sits on a page in a notebook that has notes about the colours used.

A photo taken from a car passenger seat of a concrete wall lining a bridge. The wall has been graffitied over time, and each time someone has painted over with a different paint. The colours are all muted, but vary from browns, yellows, blues, and purples.

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Happy Easter

God entering the tomb: are ya risen, son?

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