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Jay d’Hawke

@jaydehawk.bsky.social
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Older, but still curious, living in The Low Countries.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
We have a brand new series of Digging for Britain ready for your delectation, and an expanded team of expert presenters bringing you the latest on a range of exciting discoveries from across the UK.
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Jay d’Hawke @jaydehawk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Gathering Gloom Noordhollands Duinreservaat
A faded green grassy path, framed by silhouetted bare branched trees, leading of to a pale golden glow on the horizon. The sky is mostly white clouds with patches of blue.
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Ivan Aivazovsky @ivanaivazovski.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Shipwreck www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/…
"Ivan Aivazovsky's 'Shipwreck' captures the tumultuous power of the sea as a lone ship battles towering waves under a stormy sky, showcasing his masterful use of light and movement. Known for his dramatic maritime scenes, Aivazovsky's work often reflects the sublime and unpredictable nature of the ocean."
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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Last 14 hours for free worldwide shipping for print orders over 30$ ✨️ Have a nice rest of your weekend! - Simon
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Laura Siadak @fallenlights.net · 04/12/2025
Did you know I love the color green? Yes? What gave it away... @everydayoriginal.bsky.social is having a holiday sale and I've got these paintings listed! Each come framed :) everydayoriginal.com/winter-sale/ <- all the art! everydayoriginal.com/artist/LauraSiadak/ <- MY art Ends Dec 10th!
watercolor painting of two fairy like rabbits. They have extra ears and are perched upright on wiggly branches in purple and green. The rabbits are greenish white, like they have feathers instead of fur.A calm large woman cloaked in the forest. She holds up a small child who's dressed in red, and peers up at the giant with her hands on her hips, not afraid.A teal raven with a feather in his beak, holding it over a quiet pond or puddle. There are green and blue roots and branches all around.An orange fox peers at the viewer from his perch on roots and branches. They are olive green and gray.
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Melissa Sue Stanley : Dragon Con Art Show 🌿✨🍄 @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The four stages of "Hungry for Knowledge", my book-loving Woolbeast troll sculpture at Beinart Gallery this month. Lumps -> doodle -> lumps -> "draw the rest of the owl". #artprocess #sculpting
Artist sketchbook: the page shows three blobs. Under them is written "Books", "Plants", and "Yarn"Artist sketchbook: a graphite doodle of a horned creature readingArt studio WIP (with xmas tree in background): A lump of clay with a folded piece of cardstock jammed into itArt sculpture on grey background: A blue creature with horns and yellow eyes, reading an ochre-colored book with more multicolored books behind it
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A. Faë @anaisfae.art · 06/12/2025
Another birb on a branch for #ArtAdventCalendar
watercolor painting of a crow perched in a tree in autumn colors. The crow is holding a gemstone pendant in its claws.
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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view of a geometric formal garden. It has rows of trees, stone paths and beds of pink, purple and green plants.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/12/2025
Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/
Comic. Doing a task using a company or organization’s website: [flowchart] Go to website, try to log in → Did it work? → Yes → Try to do your task. → Did it work? Yes → Nice! Done! If logging in did not work → Spend hours troubleshooting account / login. If that works, go to Try to do your task. If no → Give up and call customer service. If spending hours troubleshooting doesn’t work, also give up and call customer service. After calling customer service: Hold message: “Did you know you could do all this more quickly and easily on our website? Just go to w-w-w dot…” → Throw phone and laptop into the sea.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 03/12/2025
I'm relaunching Dominion of the Fallen in the US with @awfulagent.bsky.social Magnificent covers by @fringe-element.net Deliciously gothic atmosphere, queer characters from across the world, and high intrigue--in a Paris wrecked by magical cataclysms March 10th, 2026! awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h...
Cover of the House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard: a banyan tree with grey heraldry showing Notre Dame bisected by a sword
The text above reads "Enter a Ruined Paris", and below "March 10, 2026"Cover of The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard: a dragon wrapped around grey heraldry showing a crowned hawthorn tree. The background is blue with spatters of grungy black
The text reads "Ruled by Fallen Angels..." and "March 10, 2026"Cover of The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard: a tiger in flames wrapped around grey heraldry showing a hawk above a tower The background is blue with spatters of grungy black
The text reads "And Dragons of the depths", "March 10, 2026"Covers of all three books, The House of Shattered Wings (banyan tree and Notre Dame), The House of Binding Thorns (eastern dragon and crowned hawthorn tree), The House of Sundering Flames (tiger in flames and hawk over tower)
The text reads "Read the Complete Trilogy", "Available in Ebook and Trade Paperback March 10, 2026"
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Jay d’Hawke @jaydehawk.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Always love these wind walkers… tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay...
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Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)
Attached: 1 video Art? Architecture? Engineering? Whatever, this windwalker is simply mesmerizing ... and blows me away 💨
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
All of my art is 25% off until Wednesday #BlackFriday www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/-memb...
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* From The Archives * "George Hearts Maria" Miniprint set — Molly Crabapple
This stunning mini-print set, curated by Lori Zimmer for her 2012 show at Helium Cowboy in Germany, brings together pop art tributes to the Lovers Eye. Molly’s print joins works by Allison Sommers, B...
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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
This is one of those places that are more majestic, evocative, moving, from a distance, as here. We did go inside and through (amid crowds), climbed up to top, the view was superb, but the glory is seeing it from a ways away. The imagination set free. San Gimignano is like that for me, too.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 29/11/2025
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Foretelling the Snow. Hannah Willow.
Painting of brown bear who sits on the forest floor, looking upward into the dark, snow-dusted trees.
Snow is falling gently around the bear. Bright, golden, circular lights, resembling glowing snowflakes or lanterns, hang from the bare branches,
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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Guillaume Bonnet @zazb.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
To be selected as arcano-bombardier captain in one of the Queen's floating citadels did "wonderful" things for Octavia's ego.
A middle aged wizard in an outfit resembling a WWII bomber crew uniform with leather jacket, but with a wizard hat and a spell book on her belt. 
She has a mischievous magpie familiar with glowing eyes and beak on her shoulder.
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Joel Chaim Holtzman @joelchaimholtzman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Turned 33 yesterday and had a great time celebrating! I understand the ancient laws on this website states I can ask for retweets for my work on this special day? Haha. Cheers!
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Our forthcoming Lands of #RuneQuest: Sartar book has a section on Creating Duck Adventurers, with art by Ossi Hiekkala @ossihiekkala.bsky.social. There's also more Duck art coming by Mark Smiley. Ducks, Ducks, and More Ducks.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Addendum: I quickly wrote something partially about the results, and the potential for misunderstanding, but also about history's profound irony. open.substack.com/pub/arutherf...
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The Irony of Hitler’s Junk
A slightly different take on the news that Hitler’s DNA reveals some genetic anomalies. The most interesting thing to me is that history has a profound capability for irony.
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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.
Full-color image of the Cathedral of Barcelona, composed on a typewriter by Montserrat Alberich Escardívol. Image from WikiMedia.
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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This future imagining is sobering and important
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Astronomers have captured the earliest shape of a supernova explosion, revealing an olive-like geometry just as the blast broke through the star’s surface, offering new insights into stellar death.
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Unique shape of star's explosion revealed just a day after detection
Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star's surface.
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Moorish Garden @moorishgarden.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Eleven of the parties in the provincial parliament of Limburg have now requested the Limburg government to look into the possibility of creating a (temporary) memorial for our Black American liberators in cooperation with Eijsden-Margraten (where the cemetery is located). www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Limburgse Statenleden willen tijdelijke herdenkingsplek voor zwarte bevrijders
Statenleden willen een gedenkteken voor zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders nu hun informatiepanelen in Margraten zijn verwijderd
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I hate having to wait a whole year for China Miéville’s new book, but I think it will be worth it. www.thebookseller.com/rights/picad...
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Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
Picador will publish a new novel from award-winning author China Miéville. The Rouse will be Miéville’s first single-authored novel for an adult audience since 2011.
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
'Early Autumn in Itako' - Kawase Hasui, 1942. #JapaneseArt
A sail boat on a lake at dusk. A crescent moon in the sky, tall trees on the shore.
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A new digital map expands the known Roman Empire road network to nearly 300,000 kilometers, offering the most detailed and comprehensive dataset of its kind to date.
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Digital map increases Roman Empire road network by 100,000 kilometers
A new high resolution digital dataset and map—named Itiner-e—of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data.
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Analysis of ancient wetland sediments on Rapa Nui indicates a centuries-long drought began around 1550, challenging the idea of societal collapse and highlighting community resilience to climate stress. doi.org/g99dnv
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What really happened on Easter Island? Ancient sediments rewrite the 'ecocide' story
A new study led by researchers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory offers the clearest evidence yet that a centuries-long drought transformed life on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) beginning around the year 1550.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
An interesting study into deathbots. Eva Nieto McAvoy & Jenny Kidd conclude: “while you can talk to the dead with AI, what you hear back reveals more about the technologies and platforms that profit from memory…. than about the ghosts they claim we can talk to.” theconversation.com/can-you-real...
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Can you really talk to the dead using AI? We tried out ‘deathbots’ so you don’t have to
Chatbots and voice avatars are being used to preserve the voices of the deceased.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 05/11/2025
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
A picture of a red moon with a tower and the steps leading to it, in black and white
The caption says "The keep and keeper"
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 03/11/2025
this one from @greatdismal.bsky.social is a new one on me and will stay with me
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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
You should be kind
A human asks an oracle “How can I live forever?”

The oracle responds “Be difficult to forget.”

The human asks “How?  Should I create art? Should I be famous?  Or powerful?”

The oracle responds, “You should be kind.”
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Jay d’Hawke @jaydehawk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
A rather interesting take on why the Netherlands has so few castles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adtc...
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Why the Netherlands Has So Few Castles
YouTube video by Mapped Out
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 29/10/2025
Oh wow
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Nicolette Jones @nicolettejones.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#NewIllustrationOfTheDay Sumptuous handmade image by Molly Crabapple whose work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. From Tiger Slayer, the story of Nur Jahan, 17th-century Empress of India. Text by Ruby Lal. Norton Young Readers Sept. @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought” thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
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Stacy Cashmore @stacy-clouds.net · 26/10/2025
This gives me goosebumps every single time I see it. I could cry that I'm 2025 we still need to listen because too many people still focus on hate of others, rather than helping each other. youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...
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The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"Crabapple is a time traveler, a necromancer and an unclassifiable genius. She beckons readers through a portal to an irresistible,lost world, one bound together by passion, solidarity, and a burning hunger for justice.“- @naomiaklein.bsky.social Preorder www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320...
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Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple: 9780593229453 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The dramatic story of the Jewish Bund—a revolutionary movement from a vanished world—and their radical vision of solidarity in an age of division. “Molly Crabapple beckons readers through...
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 23/10/2025
Eight of Cups 🍷
illustration of the "eight of cups" card from the upcoming Vampire's Tarot. The image shows a vampire in a long cream gown ascending a stone staircase. Eight brass cups trail behind her in the dark water and there is an eclipse in the sky.
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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Updating my LEGO White House
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
For Diwali, all of my Tiger Slayer prints are on sale. These are some of my favorite illustrations of all time - scenes from the life of the glamorous Nur Jahan. www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/molly...
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'The Tiger Hunt' Art Print — Molly Crabapple
Inspired by the glamorous world of Mughal India, this battle scene was featured in the pages of Tiger Slayer , Molly’s young adult book with acclaimed historian R uby Lal . Hunting tigers w...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/10/2025
Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/
Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.
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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
this is what we could have
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The @wtpress.bsky.social Kickstarter campaign has a lot of fun stories from Welsh history and mythology. They are best read in order, so I am going to make a mega-thread of them, starting with @julietemckenna.bsky.social on why she used Welsh folklore: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
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Update 2: Juliet McKenna on Welsh folklore · They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)
As promised, here is the first of our updates about Welsh history and legend. This one is from Juliet McKenna.I was drawn to the Welsh myths underpinning The Green Man’s Gift for several reasons. Firs...
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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
‘The False Knight on the Road’ process video. Don’t know where the Black Knight came from….!
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