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Twitter was great, but so was Gawker: this too shall pass. Not buying, not selling: here for the news and views. Cittidano della Republica di Londra. European. Posted photos are my own.

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
James Dean (8 févr. 1931 - 30 sept. 1955) 🖤🌟 Times Square, New York, 1955 © Dennis Stock
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nina theda black @ninathedablack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
12x12 mixed media on wood
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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 23h
Mood
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20h
The work of contemporary potter Evelyn Ward (of evelynwardpottery, Instagram) #Womensart
Ceramic blue paint with white circular design
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 18h
"Abel" is weeding and thinning in the beets in the Cuyama CA area. "We earn CA minimum wage of $16.70/hr. This is exhausting work as we are bent over all day long so our backs ache. There isn't shade in the fields, so the sun beats down upon us and makes it even harder." #WeFeedYou
Workers weeding in the beets
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Steve Lombardi @smlombardi.bsky.social · 21h
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James @bradley5969.bsky.social · 10h
I took this at the Atlanta Aquarium.
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Spend your winter in Juan-Les-Pins in the Antibes, c. 1930. Poster by Bernard de Guinhald.
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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 23h
Rita Hayworth by Ned Scott (1946)
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the beginning was the word and the word was bullshit. —William S. Burroughs
William Burroughs sitting down in a suit with a shotgun on his lap
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Steve Lombardi @smlombardi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'Top of the Entry (Ogden Road)' Charcoal & Varnish www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/blog/thehigh... The photograph below is Ogden Road, from Regent Road; I've always had a fascination with it. A local writer described 'workers houses cheek by jowl with the factories' and this is the situation in actuality!
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LithiumChaser @lithiumchaser.bsky.social · 20h
Lana Turner by László Willinger (1942)
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 5h
#GlassObjectThursday 🏺 Delicate #Roman blown glass flask with polychrome snake-thread decoration. 3rd C AD. Made in Rhineland, Cologne area. In British Museum
Translucent glass vase with fine rounded body, and remains of small foot. An elegant narrow neck bows out slightly at the top, and is flanked by delicate handles either side, together forming a heart shape. The body is decorated with gold and light blue coloured threads of glass, in irregular swirly patterns
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 9h
Octobre Le Palais du Louvre, Paris In a field by the Seine, a man sows seed, raked into earth by a stone-weighted harrow behind a horse; magpies & crows ignore scarecrow archer & peck stray seeds. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry 1412-16 Musée Condé Château de Chantilly
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 17h
September 24, 1954: The first remake of "A Star Is Born", starring Judy Garland & James Mason premieres at the Pantages Theatre, Los Angeles.
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The Masked Connoisseur @missinformed.bsky.social · 18h
I should vacuum. youtu.be/2I7GkHy5iOA?...
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Noah Bressman, PhD @noahwithfish.bsky.social · 12h
My favorite emails from students are those with the subject, “What fish is this?” Here, we have a skilletfish, our local clingfish species that uses is suction cup-like pelvic fins to stick under crevices and in shells.
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 19h
Angie Dickinson was born September 30th 1931 in Kulm, North Dakota.
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Museum Stories @museumstories.bsky.social · 15h
A 7-inch clay bowl, hand-built from coils around 4000 BCE. The sun is painted on the side. The turtle is painted on the bottom, where nobody would see it while eating. The placement was the point.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 7h
“The Strange Adventures of Captain Quinton” Robert Quinton, 1912 archive.org/details/stra...
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a deepsea diver wrasslin an octopus
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Ameskoa @ameskoa.bsky.social · 8h
🎨 Tsuchiya Koitsu Famoso pintor y grabador del movimiento shin-hanga (Japón) #Art #Pintura #Grabado
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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 5h
'Entry (bottom of Ogden Road)' Bitumen Private Collection
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plantes.bougeret.fr @plantes.bougeret.fr · 4h
Orchis miel - Gymnadenia albida - site
Orchis miel - Gymnadenia albida
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 6h
1 October 1975. World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali beat Joe Frazier. The fight ended when Frazier’s corner men threw in the towel before the 15th round began. It was the most brutal of their 3 epic fights in the 1970s and was dubbed the “Thrilla in Manila”.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 8h
Ghost, Hester Cox.
Deer amongst trunks of trees in forest, painting.
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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 20h
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20h
‘Galgenhumor’, (Gallows Humor) “Die Muskete” Karl Alexander Wilke, 1906 anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/...
a hanging man having his feet. tickled by an old woman
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🪬🌙🐈‍⬛Pythia Uidliua🐦‍⬛⭐️🧿GNOTHI SEAUTON ♐️⚕️🍷 @krymsynreine.bsky.social · 14h
Celtic glass bead 120 BC– AD 20, Dziewięcioły, Poland, Moravia Archaeological Museum in Kraków #druidsky /|\ #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #heathensky #archaeology #celtic #bead #Poland
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 8h
🎃 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween
Vintage Halloween postcard, two green elfish, devil-like creatures carrying a witch with a broom in a pumpkin carriage against a night sky. Underneath it says, ‘Halloween Greeting’
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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 6h
🙊 Recueil de divers oiseaux étrangers et peu communs A Nuremberg: Chez les Héritiers de Seligmann, 1768-1776. [Source]
Mongoose illustration from historical archives
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 6h
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you." -- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. NEWS: "China turns to classic English novel to teach teens about romance." #novels #literature #feminism #gender edition.cnn.com/2026/09/16/s...
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Love is in the Eyre: China turns to classic English novel to teach teens about romance | CNN
When teenagers went back to school in China earlier this month, one book on their new mandatory reading list stood out: the 19th century English novel “Jane Eyre.”
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This animated map by @milos_gis shows how firey and smokey the last three months in Europe were. We see wildfires and aerosol spread over the last 3 months.
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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 20h
Running in the mornings has turned me into one of those weirdos with a desire to share their sunrise pics. Here, planes are coming into the city.
Just before sunrise over Lake Michigan with planes coming in for safe landings.
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 6h
1 October 1949. The founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was proclaimed by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party of China at 3:00 PM in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, the new capital of China.
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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🐠 Atlas ichthyologique des Indes orientales néêrlandaises: Amsterdam: Frédéric Muller, editeur, 1862-1878 [Source]
Historical illustration from "Atlas ichthyologique des Indes orientales néêrlandaises" showing two angelfish species. The top fish is yellow with broad, dark brown vertical stripes and an elongated dorsal fin that extends backward in a slender curve. It has detailed scale patterns and expressive, large orange eyes. The bottom fish features a rich orange body covered in numerous thin, dark horizontal stripes with blue outlines on the fins and facial markings. Both fish are depicted in side profile with finely detailed fins, scales, and coloration typical of scientific plates from the 19th century.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'View Subterranea 6: Clapham North' (2014) by Rebecca Coleman rebeccacoleman.co.uk
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Tony Borroz @nemounruhe.bsky.social · 13h
Citroën DS 23 Pallas 1975. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The graded shading that radiates outwards from the hip has created the impression of a firework launched into the night sky in a starburst of silver. You can almost hear the crackle of the sparks as they fade. Early #1920s #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
A flapper style 1920s evening dress of black chiffon decorated almost entirely with silver beadwork in a firework design. It centres over one hip and then burst outwards in shaded silver lines
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 21h
This animated map by @AaronJBecker shows the average colour of Europe from September 2024 to September 2026 based on satellite images. It's fun to look at your region changing colour through the seasons.
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Steve Lombardi @smlombardi.bsky.social · 17h
In these color photos for Life magazine, you can see that Creature from the Black Lagoon's Julie Adams had a strong red tint to her hair at one point in her career. When author Lydia Lane commented to Julie that she preferred Julie's natural brown hair color, Julie replied:

“Wasn’t that red hair awful? That was the studio’s idea but it was so wrong for me. But when you’re under contract, you don’t argue. I feel no good comes from destroying a person’s basic individuality.”

In fact, it was the movie studio that made her start using the stage name "Julia" instead of her birth name, Betty May Adams. She didn't like the name Julia, so she persuaded the studio to let her modify it. She explained, "The studio picked Julia, but I never have felt comfortable with it. I just like the name Julie better, and the studio gave me permission to make the change."
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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 21h
Late September showers aren't all bad 😍 A double Rainbow 🌈 arcing over O'Brien's tower at the Cliffs of Moher. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours
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World Travel Posters @worldtravelposters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Terrazzo today.
A starburst of green and white terrazzo tile floor.
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
China’s growing control over critical minerals and industrial inputs, is creating a new “China Choke” in which Latin America could gain leverage as a supplier of food, energy and minerals but risks exporting raw commodities without building domestic capacity www.americasquarterly.org/article/from...
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From China Shock to China Choke
The Asian giant is reshaping the global landscape with its trade preferences. Latin America and the world have a great deal at stake.
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chivirin.bsky.social @chivirin.bsky.social · 14h
De las plantas que podemos encontrar con flores en el centro de México en estos días. Roldana lobata (creo, jaja), más o menos común en bosques, matorrales o zonas con poca perturbación.
Inflorescencia de Roldana lobata. Sus lígulas son amarillas, las flores del disco del mismo color. La planta alcanza los 3 m de alto.
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Steve Lombardi @smlombardi.bsky.social · 20h
Carole Lombard in a promotional photo for the 1933 pre-Code horror film SUPERNATURAL.
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Leticia García 🇵🇸 @ms-golightly.bsky.social · 18h
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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 8h
West Berliners (or tourists) peering over the wall into East Berlin in 1971 (Bernauer Strasse). Photo by Bob Mardling.
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