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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
mixing the right shade of grey-mauve to render my 5 o’clock shadow and getting a lil gender euphoria, as a treat
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
painting class is back. a work in progress in every sense (it’s me!)
raw umber underpainting of a guy in a hoodie in 3/4 profilesame guy with some colours blocked out
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
was out shopping, there was a kid, maybe about 8. He points at some toy that looked like a knockoff of an OG game boy and he says “mom, is this what the game boy looked like that old people played?”
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Skeleton Among Us Drip Meme
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Jerry's Map @jerrysmap.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saturday, September 26, 2026: Jerry's Map Section C.X jerrysmap.com
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/09/2026
ME, VISIBLY ANGUISHED AND FALLING APART: It is what it is :)
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
can’t stop thinking about Warrior with Cloak and Shield by Bharti Kher bhartikher.com/warrior-with...
A sculpture of a woman in pale beige tones.she is nude except for a pair of low heeled shoes. She has a large pair of handlers which reach down to her hips and her right hand is grasping one of the times. There is a piece of fabric hanging from the other handle . Her head and gaze look forward confidently. She has a banana leaf attached to her front coving much of her left side but her right breast is exposed.
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
personal artistic and anxiety milestone achieved: sketching in the sculpture gallery at the v&a a lady watched me drawing and smiled and that’s why I do this. Validation is nice but bringing joy to someone in this bleak existence is better
Two pencil sketches of statues’ faces. One has a skeptical eyebrow and giving some side eye
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
london today for my quarterly hospital appointment. I do not miss this commute but I do miss the opportunities for observational sketching
a page of pencil sketches of faces/facial features. a pair of lips serendipitously looks like an eye of another face
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
thinking about the magpie in the courtyard outside my window while I was recovering from top surgery, messily devouring an egg as I came to augury is what you make of it?
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
laughing my ass off at my liked songs this morning
a Spotify playlist featuring a bunch of sad sack songs and then pink pony club at the end
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dee @alchemy.rocks · 20/09/2026
bird need spa day.....
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love garden centres
a wheelchair and the words “access to falconry and hot tubs” in all caps with an arrow pointing upward painted on pavement
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if nothing else, 11 year old me would be amazed that I one-shot Dethl in the original Link’s Awakening just now that asshole gave me so much grief
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
thinking about my mom, who used to attend tea ceremonies in NYC when I was really little and before I was born. This vessel was hers, and this little ritual I’ve made of making these arrangements feels like a nice way to honor her memory.
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
foraged ikebana 8
a twig with four small light free sweet chestnut pods, a sprig of red whitebeam berries, a mauve autumn crocus and a dead beech (?) branch in a shallow stone ikebana vessel
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
today i discovered oat single cream exists and I had it in my coffee just now and that was a good choice
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
it warms my bitter old heart that despite quitting WoW five years ago and not raiding for probably twelve, apparently multiple people still see me as The Shen’Dralar Guy
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
foraged ikebana 7
a thin y shaped branch of holly with three leaves and a cluster of red berries at the top of each fork
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
cross stitched a Korok, hung it up in a weird place in the house and now I laugh to myself every time I walk by the cat’s litterbox
A staircase with a litterbox and other various household items stored in the space beneath it. Hung up on the wall under the stairs near the litterbox is a small framed cross stitch of a Korok holding a berry branch with the caption “YAHAHA! you found me!”
Close up of the pattern
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
foraged ikebana 6
dried curly dock, dried poppy, dried hedge mustard, and cherry laurel fruits in a shallow stone vessel
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Dr Kim Foale @kim.town · 12/08/2026
just reliased i can't remember the last time i heard someone read out aitch tee tee pee colon forward slash fowrward slash double you double you double you dot
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
my kid: “but the grass is supposed to be crunchy in summer, it’s always crunchy in summer” No, kiddo, it isn’t. It wasn’t.
a photo of dried up scorched grass in a garden in the south of the UK
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
foraged ikebana 5 (no wildflowers in this one)
moss, lichen, pinecone, twigs
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
haven’t touched procreate in a few years because 2023-2025 were not kind to me or my family, but I did today Spending time in a studio environment with physical media has definitely helped me work more efficiently
charcoal drawing of a trans guy
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celine @cetaillefer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
anyone else ever get that thing where the desk fan sounds like a barbershop quartet
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
me: the world is a vampire 😢 someone else out there: hey did you know you can make photographs with nettle juice?? www.instagram.com/reel/DbbR5cJ...
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
alt-rock rust belt pixelated imposter syndrome dead-tree
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 31/07/2026
freewriting heavy lifting luxury box northern harrier post-traumatic stress disorder
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
thank you random redditor who recommended this for a studio chair with the words “it looks awful but it’s a proper butt bucket”, you weren’t wrong
An artist’s studio with an iPad on an L shape desk and an ikea Malskär chair
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
well that was exhausting but fun
a canvas with a grid of colours mixed using the Zorn Palette
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
wildflower ikebana no. 4 (missed last week because I was away)
great willowherb, bindweed, purple loosestrife paper birch bark and dried Alexanders (?) arranged in a shallow ikebana vessel
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Every night on Holy Island I spend half an hour or so sat on the shore watching the sea before going to bed. What a privilege.
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
burgs, record fair, arty shops and houseplant store with @rumorsmatrix.com today on Humber Street. my purchases make it very easy to guess my age. oops
a terrarium, a riso print of a SNES and an LP of Nirvana Unplugged in New York
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rumorsmatrix @rumorsmatrix.com · 24/07/2026
Took the pup to a dog-friendly beach today for the first time, it was a hit 🌊 splashing in the shoreline: fun 🪏 not getting told off for digging in the sand, unlike in the garden: even more fun 🍖 cafe that sold doggy treat rabbit chunks: gourmet (photo credit @jackcurlew.bsky.social)
Freyja, my black-and-tan German shepherd puppy, wearing a red and black harness. Her tongue is sticking out and she looks pretty pleased with herself. She’s sat on a sandy beach with a blue sky above.
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
travelling up north to see my brother from another mother and am reminded there’s a direct correlation between my being on a morning London commuter train and being prone to rumination and posting it on social media
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Bluey's Bandit Heeler Says Uh Oh
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
wildflower ikebana no. 3 I like this one a lot, ngl
rowan berries, wisteria vines and a curlywillow (?) branch in a shallow ikebana vessel.
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dee @alchemy.rocks · 18/07/2026
i'm medmaxxing,.,.,,...,,, i'm pillpilled....,..,,,
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
so it turns out a good ward against the temptations of the sweet embrace of death is wondering what future leaves on a variegated monstera will look like. hope that helps
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
oh no
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

@nana_alaouie
In hell you are forced to watch England defend a one goal lead
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
what if we were both boys and held hands while watching the World Cup
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
trimmed some of the plants in my terrarium (the fern was starting to lift the cork lmao) and it smelled all fresh and green like rainy springtime, which was not the smell I expected seeing as it’s been closed since the end of April. Plants, man. What even are they
A terrarium jar with Fittonia, fern, moss and ivy
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I LOVE THE LIBRARY
three books on a chair. One is a book of cross stitch patterns, another is a book on ikebana and the last one is a book about portrait painting
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I guess weekly neighbourhood wildflower ikebana is a thing I’m doing now, I’m ok with that
a shallow stone ikebana vessel holding pineappleweed/wild chamomile, yarrow and two stalks of dried bluebells (they rattle when you shake them!)
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Razorblade Apples 🍎 @applecider.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
You won't like your art if you also just hate yourself. Other people not liking it or not paying attention to it will always be an ache because social media is going to ding that basic self-hate all the time because you will be comparing yourself to others as a way to hurt yourself
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
went on a ‘pub scrawl’ that my painting instructor runs 3x a year. 5 pubs, 5 15-min sketches. now if only I can accomplish this sober. ps Blackwing pencils are totally worth the price and I am SO ANNOYED about it
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
david duchovny's guest appearance on the larry sanders show as himself, being entirely too sexy with larry in his dressing room with just a robe on, crossing his legs like fatal attraction
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jack curlew @jackcurlew.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I grew up in the US, but the 1st time I came to the UK at 21 I developed an internal abscess that would have turned into sepsis had they not operated on it immediately. Cost me nothing. Also shout to the GP who picked up my PCOS instead of saying “diet harder” when I came in for an unrelated issue
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
O to be a ladybird wandering through the moss that grows on a two thousand year old Roman column.
A ladybird walking through green moss
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 03/07/2026
The internet used to be like a database of the world's publicly available digitised knowledge and now it's a third hand heavily compressed jpeg of the same.
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