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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Flowers in a Chinese bowl. By French painter Jacques Linard, whose day is today.

Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Guido Gezelle’s house on Verversdijk 20 is up for rent, so (again, thanks to estate agents) we get to look around an historic Bruges property

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"To challenge wholesale an autistic person's account of the facts of their life can therefore amount to something considerably more invasive than ordinary fact-checking: it can become an assault upon the narrative structures through which that person understands who they are." Worth your time, IMO.

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Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media

After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Moby Dick by artist Gerard DuBois

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The casual way in which Godelieve is being strangled by her own scarf makes you wary of your cupboard

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Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Control panel at Brouwerij de Coureur, Kessel-Lo, Leuven

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

'Transcribe Bentham began in 2010, and another 20,000 or so manuscript pages require transcription. We’d like to invite your readers to help us complete the project and to explore the writings and correspondence of a figure of enormous historical importance.' #Skystorians

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Join the crowd digitising Jeremy Bentham | Letter

Letter: Dr Tim Causer invites readers to help complete a transcription project and to explore the writings and correspondence of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sint-Annarei 19 in Bruges is up for rent which means we get a rare chance to nosy around this historic house – home to influential English expats like Mary Constantia Clifford, and to the English girls' school. Huge garden for central Bruges!

Victorian era drawing room with large windows and wooden floor

Walled garden, large, gravel paths, trees

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 08/08/2026

Today is Duodi the 22nd of Thermidor in the year 234. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate capers. #JacobinDay See today's page

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Fortune teller & her fascinating friend the fool in his striped hat. Like him a lot! By Lucas van Leyden, whose day is today.

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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Italian researchers found that semi-transparent solar panels over olive groves increased olive yields by 12%, reduced water evaporation by 19%, generated clean electricity, and even improved olive oil quality. 🌿⚡🫒 #Agrivoltaics #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #ClimateSolutions

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A good clamber around the Mercator in Oostende today

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In April 1888 boys at the English St Laurence School in Bruges rioted, breaking dozens of windows of this building and covering the walls in graffiti. cobblesandgables.substack.com/p/bruges-sch...

Tall Victorian era building, a former school overlooking a canal in Bruges

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Gem of a little museum on the outskirts of Bruges – built by and filled with the art of Constant Permeke.

Four photos of the Permeke Museum interior and grounds – modernist sculptures, African art, oils, 1920s building

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

What Bruges politicians are arguing about this week – we only have 50 swans currently, which puts us below the 52 needed to keep off a (likely fake) mediaeval obligation put on the city after Bruges citizens beheaded Maximilian's enforcer Pieter Lanchals in the market place.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Perfect accuracy in European firefighting: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@romania_cg1 (TT) captures a Eurasian Hoopoe showing off its crest and unique "hoop-hoop" call: 🔊 #AGoodPlace

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Well, this has tipped me over into serious worry about the decline of Britain because how far have we strayed that Rum & raisin is at 5%, a mere 1% ahead of pistachio. Lament, for all is lost!

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. - Raymond Chandler, Farewell, my lovely born on this day, 1888 #RaymondChandler #BookSky

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 25/07/2026

There's a breathless hush in the close tonight...

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 24/07/2026

One of our favourite spots in the Hall when it’s a sunny day. The shadow patterns created by sunlight streaming through the East window. 💛

We are looking at a close up of the Chapel’s East window. Sunlight is streaming through creating geometric patterns on the surrounding stone window frames.

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Wordle exhibiting the very behaviour it claims is not a word

Excellent Wordle run where the third line should in most likelihood be cunty but it's "not a word" according to Wordle. But Trump is.

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The first time in ages I've seen the word fissiparousness in something I'm reading

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This book. I'm not okay. So good, so many devastating strands on colonialism, environment, love, grief.

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Reject trumpist & fifa corruption, RETVRN to Original Rules Football (half of a whole working class town against the other half, played over several miles on Pancake Day, you're allowed to shank your neighbour if you write an apology to the pope, chance of the game starting a 6 month civil war)

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Club Brugge has had five players in World Cup 2026. But did you know that the club's first-ever opponents were boys from the short-lived English school of Bruges?

Nineteenth century photograph of school boys playing a football match on a field, trees in the background

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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Better things are possible

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Interesting this, and I think we're going to see more of it – a local record store saying it's no longer allowing local events posters that use AI. "Support your locals. Bruges has many designers and artists that will gladly help with a great design".

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Not enough people talk about the mosh pit bottle deposit machines at Albert Heijn supermarkets

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

All references to the moon and stars in One Thousand and One Nights, translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton, in order of occurrence, starting at 12 o' clock position. Moon references shows in sequential phases.

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Codex @codexgator.space · 14/07/2026

Found in one of my dad's old woodworking industry magazines from the 1990's.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 08/07/2026

🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves confirms the Clacton by-election will go ahead "It is a farce and a desperate distraction. But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him"

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Count Binface is going to win isn't he

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Even the local butcher is having a laugh at America rn

Mincer with In Belgium we don't eat waffles we eat Americain

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

My god. What a game. Good luck to all the Brits in Belgium who get to do it all again tomorrow.

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Afropean @afropean.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Anthony Chima on Masculinity, Brotherhood, Crime and the Quest for Male Recognition in Nigeria. [MUST READ!] afropean.com/is-cultism-g...

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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Stopped at the village cricket. I think the real appeal of village cricket is the rope. The game, especially when amateur, can be a beguiling mix of a Midsummer Night’s Dream and a clock made by Lewis Carroll, and I like that all that is just held in place by a rope (which isn’t even in a circle)

A cricket match. It is out of fovous, while the white rope of the boundary, is in focus.

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Dawn @itsdawn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Paddle up pizza in Gent in case you need one

Sign reads Otomat paddle in Kayak pizza pick up stop

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/06/2026

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

A victorious Andy Burnham MP (24,937 votes), as the result of the Makerfield by-election is announced, flanked by defeated candidates Count Binface (a bloke in a vaguely sci-fi costume with a large bin for a helmet; 95 votes) and Robert Pownall (who is in a full body fox costume, holding a sign reading "Protect British Wildlife"; 18 votes). There are some other candidates there just out of shot but that's not important right now.

Photo: Jon Super/AP

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I was digging around on wikipedia today and happened to come across this very good painting of Fancy Men Bamboozled By Egg

Columbi ägg (1924) by the Swedish artist Nils von Dardel

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I love the World Cup, whole world was rooting for Cape Verde tonight 🇨🇻🥰 #ESPCPV

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