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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The meaning is in the waiting. R.S. Thomas
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Tomb of Willem the Silent, drawing patriotic tourists to the Nieuwekerk In Delft, 1651. By Gerard Houckgeest, whose day is today.
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#FindsFriday Among treasures from recent excavations in Regio V #Pompeii was a woman's small chest of wood and metal. It held this lg #Roman selection of beads + amulets of crystal/faience/bone/amber/metal, in shapes eg phallus, scarab, amphorae to repel sickness, ill fortune, evil. Plus...see /2
A large selection of small objects is displayed. These include human figures; various body parts including phalluses and a ?liver; mini amphorae; numerous rings and discs; bones and teeth; shells and beads.
They are displayed as an array around four pieces on a metal plaque.
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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: two people are laying romantically in the grass on a clear day. The girl asks the guy, “where does the wind come from?” Panel 2: the guy calmly replies, “pressure changes?” The girl says, “ahh…” Panel 3: Professor Propeller, a small, rotund mustached man in a skin tight suit covered in rotating fans blowing air around, peeks out from behind a tree. He says deviously, “that’s right, you morons…”
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/06/2026
Perhaps the greatest newspaper editorial of all time theonion.com/i-work-very-...
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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
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Rachel Taylor MP @racheltaylormp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My statement on the EHRC Code of Practice and why I have chosen to sign the Motion of Regret.
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a chimpanzee in an enclosure is sitting on the ground and painting abstract streaks of color on a canvas lying in the grass. Panel 2: a couple is standing outside the enclosure, looking in. The girl says about the painting chimpanzee, “aww, that’s cute.” Panel 3: the chimpanzee is alone in his dimly lit studio, head in hands, holding a lit cigarette. He looks completely dejected, feeling misunderstood. There is a pair of glasses, a glass of whisky, crumpled paper, and an unfinished painting laid out on the desk in front of him. The walls and floor space of his studio are covered in his abstract paintings on canvases and paper. There is also a marble sculpture of a banana beside him.
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minion of midas @minionofmidas.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
My neighbor told me his MPs keep getting appointed to the Chiltern Hundreds so I asked how many MPs he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and elects a new MP afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding MPs to the Chiltern Hundreds and then his daughter started crying.
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Amy McEuen, Ph.D. @mceuen.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com
Bird mom admiring her “smooth round children” which hatch and become a loud handful
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
ELMER FUDD: ahhhhhwwwaa..... da spice mewange.... found oenwe on da desert pwanet of awwakis
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/04/2026
when you've siezed the means of production and aren't sure what comes next
a cat sitting on a chair at the dining room table looking nonplussed by a large plate of blini
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Strawberries, 1696. A little miracle of simplicity, for Adriaen Coorte's day.
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
My traditional Easter reading, from James Tate.
Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dreaming so deep there was nothing left in his head. What was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn't afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How 'bout some coffee? Don't mind if I do. Take a little ride on my donkey, I love that donkey.
Hell, I love everybody.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
William Hawkins (American Artist, born 1962)
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Dan @scifinch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Screenshot of tweet by @jon_snow_420:
God: I have made mankind
Angels: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. Look at it. It's got anxiety
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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Punchy editorial from the Health Service Journal calling on Streeting and Milburn to go "Put bluntly, those that were dying waiting for an ambulance are now doing so on a trolley in a hospital corridor."
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The Streeting/Milburn era must end to give the NHS a fresh start
It has now been exactly a year since Labour began its reform of the NHS, and the succeeding months have proved a poor advert for its central idea of giving government more control over the service.
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Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
How we see ourselves: values, family + state of mind. Importance of demographic characteristics lower + varied. Faith and cultural heritage matters a bit more to black people in Britain & to people of Asian ethnicity than white people. Sexual orientation higher/middling importance if not straight
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The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
PODCAST: Is government rhetoric on reform matching reality? @rachelsylvester.bsky.social​​ and @hughalderwick.bsky.social​​ join @jenniferthf.bsky.social​​ to look back at the last year in health policy and politics. Listen now 🎧️ bit.ly/3NjGkIL
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Cardón, State of Oaxaca — José María Velasco, 1887
Painting of a man standing on a hillside in the shadow of an enormous cactus
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Marie Wilson (1922-2017), “Pillar of the Central Void” (1961-1962), oil on canvas, 45.5 x 58.5 cm.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
William Bronk
EASY COMPANY


Knowing your solitude is there,
my solitude consents here
not needing what it needs.
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Four oil paintings by Lu Jian Jun (b. 1960).
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IF a Stone @dougray7.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Post a book quote that you love. #booksky #bookchallenge #writers #authors #readers #booklovers
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Arsenal title challenge update.
maybe next year is the year
maybe last year
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Iva Hladis (Czech-American, b. 1965). Origins Extinct #152 (2014, mixed media).
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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Seraphim (study for St. Vladimir's Cathedral, Kyiv) — Viktor Vasnetsov, ca. 1890
Painting of an Angel a human figure dressed in white robe folded in between enormous wings mostly colored red and brown and the wings have many eye spots along them
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Georgia Beaumont (British, b. 1996). The Spirit Moves at Its Own Pace (Diptych) (2024, oil on plywood panel with aluminium frame).
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
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molly tanzer (I guess!!) @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:
Philip K Dick movies all have names like CORTICAL IMPASSE and are based on short stories called like "Let's See What's Going On Down at the Brain Factory"
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Alan Smith @theboysmithy.ft.com · 26/11/2025
New: 'Shark's fin' chart reveals the uneven impact of 'fiscal drag', the stealth tax beloved of recent chancellors. Plus use our interactive calculator to see how fresh freezes announced by Rachel Reeves at todays Budget could affect you on.ft.com/3KqOYUL
A chart of the projected percentage point increase un share of income paid as income tax and national insurance from 2025/25 through to 2029/30. It whos that 'fiscal drag' is set to hit those at or near frozen personal tax thresholdsScreenshot of financial times fiscal drag calculator.
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ben driscoll @daisyowl.com · 24/11/2025
maybe i am going insane
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Stuart Hoddinott @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Public Accounts Committe published a damning report about NHS progress on elective waits I couldn't agree more with this section: the NHS and govt is hoping that shiny tech improvements will solve everything, while ignoring the fundamentals committees.parliament.uk/publications...
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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The latest Public Services Performance Tracker from @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on the NHS is long but well worth a read. It is full for good skeptical analysis and some absolute crackers. Some quotes below: ...
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 14/11/2025
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
This is absolutely hilarious from Young Master Wesley: the NHS middle managers in question haven’t been sacked yet, because there’s no redundancy budget www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Access Restricted
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads 

They Oz you up, your mandyias.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you vast and trunkless legs
A sunken shattered visage too.
But they were Ozzed up in their turn
By Mandyias upon the sand
Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command.
Oz hands on mandyias to man.
Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can
Ye mighty and despair yourself
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/10/2025
By elections are odd things, so before drawing wide ranging conclusions you need to think very...Caerphilly
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
What Bastiat called the "broken window fallacy"; a pretty shocking indictment of GDP measurement. I wonder how this compares to other countries www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Aftersun - Bardo - Drive My Car - Joyland - Return to Seoul - Paris, 13th District - Ballad of Wallis Island - Bottoms - Are You There, God, It's Me Margaret - Full Time - Shiva Baby - One Night in Miami - His Three Daughters - I'm Still Here - Julie Keeps Quiet - Red Rocket - Theater Camp...
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Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🧵1/ Kicking off my #HotAlphabet with A is for Artes Radium Cream. Launched in 1932, it claimed to hold “The Secret of Facial Rejuvenation” — and, yes, that secret was radium. #GlowAndTell #RadioactiveBeauty
Black and white photograph of a pot of Artes radium cream and box. The pot, which is shown with its lid off, is black with white lettering. The box is white with black lettering. The style is very moderne and art deco.
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
From @maxread.info, amazing how true this is
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