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Sean Sanderson

@hatmanalchemy.bsky.social
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Old northerner from the mills of Huddersfield. Grew up in black and white soot stained back streets. World maker in Unreal Engine. Optimist.

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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 17h
Peachtober day 12: "bramble" With apologies to @ewacat.bsky.social, whose Bramble I borrowed for this so I didn't have to draw the plant I am endlessly at war with. #peachtober #peachtober26
A small and gruffleish dog named Bramble looks up at the viewer.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 14h
How wonderful 🫶🏼 #BookSky
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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 17h
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Mark M. Weston @markmweston.bsky.social · 22h
Garden by Joan Miro 1925 @marysia_cc
Garden by Joan Miro  
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
UK: "Health bodies ask people to start wearing face masks if they must leave their house after COVID cases rise and flu season starts early." 😷 Source: www.facebook.com/theliverpool...
Liverpool Echo News social media post advising people with COVID-19 or respiratory symptoms to wear face masks if they must leave home.
•	UK COVID-19 cases increased by 34.6%, with the XFG variant reportedly contributing to the rise.
•	COVID-related deaths increased by 47.4%, with nine additional deaths compared with the previous week.
•	Officials warn colder weather and more indoor gatherings could increase winter infections.
•	UKHSA advises symptomatic people to stay home and avoid contact with vulnerable individuals.
•	If leaving home is necessary, wear a well-fitting, multilayer face covering or surgical mask and avoid crowded places.
•	Eligible people are encouraged to receive COVID-19 and flu vaccinations.
•	NHS winter vaccination rollout includes older adults, pregnant women and children.
News graphic from the Liverpool Echo featuring a photograph of people walking along a busy city street, with the headline “People advised to start wearing face masks again.”
•	Several young adults are pictured walking together in a public area.
•	Most are wearing blue surgical masks or patterned face coverings.
•	A woman on the left wears a blue surgical mask, beige dress and black cardigan while holding a drink.
•	A person in the centre wears a black T-shirt and blue surgical mask.
•	A young woman on the right wears a patterned face mask, navy hoodie and grey trousers.
•	Other pedestrians, including a person wearing a white hood and black mask, appear in the background.
•	The Liverpool Echo's red logo appears in the top-left corner.
Large white headline text covers the bottom of the photograph.
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Den of Scholes @denofscholes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I wondered why all the fireworks last night BBC News - Celebrations begin in Oldham for nine-day Hindu festival Navratri - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Celebrations begin in Oldham for nine-day Hindu festival Navratri
Free celebrations are being hosted by the Indian Association in Oldham during the period.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
If you’re still masking… thank you! It might feel lonely but you’re not alone. Many of us are still wearing masks and still trying to break chains of transmission. As the world falls apart…protecting your health and the health of those around you is paramount. It’s resistance and community care.
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What it’s like to be masking in 2026
In which I answer the burning question everyone is asking – “why are you still masking in 2026”?
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Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Miss you, @barackobama.bsky.social .....
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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A few more autumnal shots from my trip to the Westfjords of #Iceland in Sept 2019. #AwesomeFoursome
A small river surrounded by hills and landscape covered in red leaves.A reflection shot of a headland jutting into a fjord, with a layer of fog above the ground - all reflected perfectly below. There is sun on the hillsides in the distance.A winding road heading off into brown hills. The road can just be seen squiggling off in the distance.A fast-flowing river surrounded by autumnal grasses with a big brown pointy mountain above and foggy hills in the distance.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a frontal view of a clay flask with warm-yellow coloured slip with black hand painted decoration depicting an octopus. The octopus is swimming diagonally with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional black painted motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the 'Marine Style'. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side and a small base so that it can stand upright.

“Its shape is somewhat unusual, constructed by slipping together, while still leather hard (clay that is not quite dry), two shallow plates which had been made on a fast spinning potter’s wheel and with highly refined clay. The circular bases of these shallow plates are still visible in the center of both sides of the flask” (Smart History article “Octopus Vase” by Dr Senta German https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/)

The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The excavations between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 09/10/2026
She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Navi Pillay smiling in a red and gold academic gown and black hat, seated at a table signing a book.
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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This being the last hours of #WorldOctopusDay is a great excuse to post this superb Mycenaean stirrup jar with a hallucinogenic-stylized octopus. Somebody clearly ate the mushrooms. 😆 🏺 1200-1100 BCE. Met Museum. 📸 me
A stylized octopus with spiral, hypnotic eyes and flanked by fish covers each side of this stirrup jar, named for the shape of its handles. Mycenaean pottery often reflects Minoan-inspired themes and techniques that originated on the island of Crete. Animated marine motifs adopted from Minoan art began to appear on Mycenaean vessels in about 1500 BCE and were initially rendered in a very naturalistic manner. Here, the symmetrical composition and abstract depiction of the sea creatures are characteristically Mycenaean.

Such jars were commonly used to transport liquids.

Mycenaean, Late Helladic IIIC, ca. 1200-1100 BCE.

H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); diameter 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm)

Met Museum, New York (53.11.6)
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
i always wanted to be a professor of tree nuts, and work in macademia
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How is it, then, with the whale?
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Jen_C☆~♡ @jencallister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Carson called this look "a victorian glory hole for motorboating" and I may have spit my drink out! 😆 #WWHL #RHOC
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Sean Sanderson @hatmanalchemy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Story updated with comment from Carson: Asked by The Globe and Mail for a response to winning the prestigious prize, she e-mailed back a one-word reaction in all-caps: “YIKES!!”
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Early Autumn, Castle Hill from the South-West, James Leslie Brooke.
Early Autumn, Castle Hill from the South-West, lane winding up hill painting.
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bingley567 @bingley567.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 1924 sketchbook of Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-born French artist & textile/fashion designer #womensart
Open sketch book with writing and paintings of zig zag designs
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Teenage life, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy.
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Portrait of Mrs Mills in 1750 (after Constable) www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/portra…
Portrait of Mrs Mills in 1750 (after Constable)
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Max Ernst : Animals of the Night (Some animals are illiterate), 1973, Vence, France 72.5 × 47.5 cm Created late in his career when he was in his 80s for the exhibition of Max Ernst at the Alphonse Chave gallery. Further info in the alt text 👇
The Subconscious and Dream Logic:
 The artwork captures Ernst's lifelong fixation with metamorphosis, primal instincts, and the dream state. The layout features hybrid creatures—fusing properties of birds, beasts, and ghostly apparitions—emerging out of a heavily textured darkness.

Masterful Lithography: 
The print utilizes highly refined lithographic layering and smooth gradations to create an atmospheric, otherworldly haze where forms materialize directly out of a cosmic subconscious background.

Late-Career Evolution: 
While it retains the biting, youthful experimentation of his 1920s Dada and Surrealist periods, Animals of the Night shifts toward a more meditative, cosmic, and mythic framework where dream logic entirely overrides intellect.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One helluva good looking family! And not one bit of corruption in sight.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Girl on a Bradford street corner, 1969, photo by Nick Hedges.
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Beel @beel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Caturday
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Laurie Lipton @laurielipton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every woman you know has taken a longer route, has doubled back on herself, has held her keys in her hand, has made a fake phone call, has rounded a corner & run. Every woman you know has walked home scared. Every woman. ("Inner City 1995", pencil on paper, 27"x38.5", ©LaurieLipton) #iamjanedoe
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Sean Sanderson @hatmanalchemy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'Women's #Smoke 💃🏾Dance. Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino #PowWow - Hollywood, FL' (IG VID: white_corn_wear. Oct 1, 2026) #SmokeDance #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lilian Marsden and her friend Phyllis, 14-year-old workers at Salt's Mill, Saltaire, in 1930. Lilian is carrying a hook on the string round her waist, which was used to wind yarn on to the spinning frame.
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The Cabin in Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Those shits at Cornell have been living the past 2 years thinking they’d suffered the worst of the consequences of their crimes and were looking forward to bright futures but now everyone knows who they are and they’re terrified they’ll end up in prison. I love that for them.
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3FatCats @3fatcats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is a good day. We didn't have to put our cat to sleep ❤️
Long haired white and grey ragdoll cat, with blue eyes
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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Saw Jon Anderson in concert last night. Quite the event, with the *checks notes* 81-year-old singer sounding about as good as when I last saw him perform with Yes in the mid-70s. Not sure how this is possible, but I was convinced by him and the band that Yes music is in very good hands indeed.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The mother’s hip Is the mothership
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I visited our GP practice today, to see the appropriate specialist nurse (I have diabetes and CKD). I was listened sympathetically, prescribed new meds, and given advice and a follow-up appointment. So this is just a simple thank you to the ghost of Aneurin Bevan, and to our wonderful, unique #NHS!
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wigan, 1960s. Brown and Haigh clothing factory at the end of Wood Street (Frank Orrell/Wigan Today).
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Den of Scholes @denofscholes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
RIP Esther Ranzen. May her memory always be a comfort and blessing to her family. She was a helluva campaigner.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That expression you have while witnessing spectacular incompetence.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
Here's footage of Jack Smith at the Iowa vs. Maryland game on February 3rd, 2024 btw
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nick Hedges' images of life in Bradford and throughout the country, taken between 1969-72, remains an outstanding piece of photo-journalism. He was engaged by the housing charity Shelter to record the lives of families living in poverty. See link below flashbak.com/photos-of-sl...
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Photos Of Slum Life Bradford 1969-72 - Flashbak
Photos Of Slum Life Bradford 1969-72
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MAGA gets STUNNED on Monday Night Football! The Chicago Bears had a mariachi band play the national anthem before tonight's Monday Night Football game against the Eagles, and the MAGA cult is melting down.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt
Photo of uneven knitting with much larger amounts of red yarn than green
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Plate, c.1928 by Grete Marks (1899-1990), ceramic artist and a Bauhaus student #womensart
Plate in cream with thin black half  circular lines and green circular motifs
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Schrödinger's C. @pisiku.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🖼️ Joan Miró, The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings, 1953
The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings, by Joan Miró, 1953
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is why "I love Shavo" videos take over your feed. A spontaneous moment between a person and their pet, and the oxytocin rush is mutual.
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