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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com · 8h

A Longtailed Shrike painted onto a ‘’Smiths - 3 Range Hand Tachometers” Beer Mat from the 1960s. Beer mat painting. watercolour and acrylic on card. darrenhaymanart.com

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 9h

For I know this night the dead will have words for the living and they shall speak them in tongues of blue fire. – Dr. Bron

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Henri Matisse @henrimatisse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ropes on the Beach at Etretat, 1920 botfrens.com/collections/48/content…

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zhinxy and 1 other @zhinxy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

You NEED to read Gene Wolfe. It's GOOD for you. It's IMPORTANT for your BRAIN and/or SKELETON. Get a massive library of the best of sci-fi and fantasy master Gene Wolfe! Choose what you pay, and support Alzheimer’s Research UK with your purchase! www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima... via @humble

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Humble Book Bundle: The Ultimate Gene Wolfe Library by Tor Books

Get a massive library of the best of sci-fi and fantasy master Gene Wolfe! Choose what you pay, and support Alzheimer’s Research UK with your purchase!

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

War is target fixation. War is concrete cicatrix. War is an unbanishable ghost. Hookland knows this. It pillboxes remain manifestations of invasion fears. The abandoned sound mirrors of its salt marshes still listen out for phantom planes. There is no psychic peace. – #DAKilory

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most people have a devil and an angel on their shoulders. I just have a dragon – a fabulous firedrake – that lives in my bones. It's much more wonderful and its flame burns away bullshit like you wouldn't believe. – #EmilyCBanting

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'Prospect of Whitby' (wood engraving) by John Bryce www.re-printmakers.com/member-information/john-bryce-re/

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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is also why i'm concerned about the bipedal robot trend. it's not really a practical design, now everything you want it to do is harder because it has to stay upright. but futurists are adamant that it has to be bipedal because it should feel like owning a person.

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eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I can't quite believe that October has arrived already (as has the autumn) & with it the shorter days to come but, one can't "stop the clock"! Here's our traditional start to every #SaturdayMorning: "Interior" by Brynhild Parker from 1930. #BrynhildParker #EastLondonGroup

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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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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Books are ghost magnets. This means every good library has it phantoms. A density of Dewey Decimal Classification is spirits what a saucer of beer is to slugs. Of course we understand ghosts desire to haunt libraries. Thousands of books and the time to read them is a heaven. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spent some time this morning drawing a raven. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Art. Black and white drawing made of abstract shapes and lines showing a raven or crow in flight. It's wing is above it, caught mid-flap, and it's feet trail beneath it. It's eye is fixed ahead, looking at the horizon and the future.

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rich uncle skeleton @alexeptable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nothing quite says “innocent” like blackmailing a country to get away with systemic cheating

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Goodnight from Davey Smith, excited by the air being thick with bonefire incense sending smoke-wraith prayers to boundary gods. Goodnight from the midnight sisters of Bramble Street, sharing cigarettes, gossip and protective charms against the wounds of the night. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's definitely the kind of thing an entirely innocent entity would do.

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Simon Hewitt @hewsim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have a Scottish great great grandfather. Should I work out how much flesh 1/32 of a human is so I can chop it off and pop it in the post back to Cromarty?

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

London’s thrilling underground network, 1961. “Visitors are always fascinated by the escalators, the brightly-lit stations, and the rush of the trains from the dark tunnels”. Artist: Robert Ayton (1961)

Passengers wait on a platform for a train that is approaching around an unlikely bend in the tracks. Some of the passengers are dressed formally with suits and bowler hats and some are looking very groovy.

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com · 02/10/2026

A pigeon painted onto a World Cup beer mat from 1966. Available now darrenhaymanart.com

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Rush Hour Rain' by Diana Croft dianacroftart.com

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com · 02/10/2026

Painting on these today…

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We walk passed buildings that leak ghosts. We are window watched. We are scratched with shadows. A psychic toll is paid for our navigations in headache, in a pressing into the back of the neck. This is our phantom reality. – #DAKilroy #Ghosts

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com · 01/10/2026

A blue tit painted on to a World Cup 1966 beer mat. Available now. darrenhaymanart.com

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ladybird book in the spotlight. The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen (1968) Artist: Robert Lumley

The front cover of the ladybird book, featuring a smart red hen winding up the drawbridge on her treetop Home as a fox approaches

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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's one of my cat propaganda posters. If you like what you see please follow me here for more and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com - Thank You, Cats of Yore.

A cat poster done in the style of a mid-20th-century communist propaganda poster. A line of three cat faces face left in unison. Below them is a large crowd of cats marching. They represent various kinds of cats, ages, and jobs. The background is a large red flag. Text at bottom reads: The purrletarians have nothing to lose but their collars. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, Unite!"

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In Argenteuil, Monet painted railways, bridges, and factories—proof that modern life could be as beautiful as nature.

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hi, 👋🏻 I’m Chloe I am an artist and I try to sell these little ones directly, to help me and my family be alive and have things Here are small scale artworks that will fit on a crowded wall or in a little room Endorsed by animation directors and wrestlers ✅ www.chloecumming.com/inkwater

Pink dove and big blowsy brown flower, mixed media drawing with alive textures

Andy Burnham and a real life man fox , pencil drawing

Three skulls piled up, earth toned ink drawing after a Cézanne painting

My dearly departed red teapot, vibrant watercolour painting

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The man who boasts that his editor son (who works for him) watched LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on a phone, and who designs his company product to be background noise, doesn’t understand what people like about movies.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ITS READS LIKE RAVINGS OF A NUT CASE. HAVE A NICE DAY.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026

‘Over the course of a century and a half the English effectively erased the old society from the island’s lowlands, founding a Germanic enclave in what had been Celtic land for more than a millennium. How this happened remains obscure.’ Pablo Scheffer on the Britons. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Pablo Scheffer · Frightened Chicks: Britain before the English

Olives didn’t take; the wine wasn’t as good as it was back home. Other industry remained limited. Despite building...

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The library here is double-glazed.

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 01/10/2026

This image from No Surrender graphic novel expresses a view from 1910 that is still widely held today. It ignores the structural inequalities that steer women and girls into the jaws of the criminal justice system: poverty, abuse, homelessness and mental ill-health

A panel from the graphic novel of Constance Maud’s No Surrender, a story of women’s suffrage. In it, a prison chaplain smugly pontificates, “Experience has taught me that women who are sent to prison are invariably bad.”

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW | Another day, another columnist selectively quoting Orwell… ALLISON PEARSON’S ACTION MAN FETISH A deranged defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/allison-pe...

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Allison Pearson’s Action Man fetish

A deranged and bloodthirsty defence of the SAS and a dismissal of war crimes accusations is exactly what we can expect from one of the Telegraph’s worst.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There’s a Ladybird book for every occasion. “In 1850 there were quite a number of Football Clubs. Each club drew up its own rules at a special meeting. The rules were not the same for every club” From ‘The Story of Football’ Artist: Jack Matthew (Man City)

By the light of yellow gas lamps, a group of men with impressive sideburns sit down at a mahogany table, ready to write notes with quill pens

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Spoo Keidick @donkeidick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I move that we rename “America” as “Amathia”

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On this day 30th September 1868 the first volume of 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott was published. Artist: Terry Gabbey

Two houses stand at dusk in a snowy street. One is smaller and brightly lit. The other is larger and mainly in darkness.

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rain, Midland Hotel, Manchester, painting by Paul Lloyd.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Last Stand, 1965, painting by Clarice Hall Pomfret, 1930-2014 (Bolton Library & Museum Services).

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eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For day three of our portrait themed week here's a lovely study by Cecil Osborne for "Pamela from Billericay" which is undated but I suspect that it might have been completed at the evening art classes in the mid 1930s, but I can't be sure. #CecilOsborne #EastLondonGroup

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Goodnight from High-on-the-Hill Farm, where the Trigg family are enjoying a stubble-goose feast after having paid their quarter day tribute to Faery. Goodnight from Ralph Shenwood calling on the Archangels for strength to resist answering the Hoarse Hag’s call. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Simon Hewitt @hewsim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The mono is what the Beatles intended.

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Simon Hewitt @hewsim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The original 1965 mix was unnatural -weird separation of vocals and instruments - but George Martin put that right in 1987.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And you’re *sure* they’re patsy proxies for Iran and not, you know, fuel thieves.

Laurence Taylor, the national head of counterterrorism, said on Tuesday night: “Those vehicles have been subject to extensive examination, with the support of military assets and forensic experts, and we can confirm that no improvised explosive devices were found. However, a quantity of petrol was recovered.”

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, bunch of lads in vans with a fake version of the logo of a fuel company on them, caught with fuel but…

Fears of an imminent terrorist attack were downgraded when experts found fuel, not explosives, in the three vans the men were driving. Sources dismissed online speculation that they were fuel thieves.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For when they hold the Feast of the Archangels and they make much in their sermons of St. Michael defeating Satan, I ponder why so many churches resemble nothing other than forts. Angels and saints that need stone security against the world fail to impress me. – #CLNolan

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Free newsletter: When will the AI bubble burst? When the money runs out. Raising debt for AI data centers is becoming untenable, infrastructure break-even points keep getting further away, and many of VC's AI investments look like dead money. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/

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