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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 12h

‘The Prayer’ - #RSThomas (Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan 1975)

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Blackberries in a Vase, Lilly Martin Spencer, 1897.

Blackberries in a silver vase on a red tablecloth, painting.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Post 10 books that feature a #Witch for 10 days. #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #Reading #KidLit #PictureBooks Post a WITCH 🧹How could I not mention the wonderful Sir Terry Pratchett and his witches? Here is Witches Abroad in all its humour, depth and general wonderfulness.

Book cover of Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett. Shows two old witches in black with red and white stripey stockings running towards us with broomsticks through a murky swamp, with a third, witch, who is young and blonde and in New Age style robes, zooming in overhead.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watercolour studies of Glasswort and Sea Blite from the salt marshes at Teesmouth this week. 🐡 #wildflowers #botany

Watercolour painting of Purple Glasswort, Annual Sea Blite and Long-stalked Glasswort

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Jenn R-J @jennfel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

country road gone in a flash the deer’s tail #DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Post 10 books that feature a #Witch for 10 days. #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #Reading #KidLit #PictureBooks Post a WITCH 🧹 The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy continues to be popular in spite of several TV adaptations that change it as completely as possible.....

Book cover of The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy. Black silhouette against a mauve background of a young witch in traditional pointy hat and long robes, with a broomstick that has a satchel with a cat sitting in it hanging on the back. She is looking at a spell book as she walks up a hill.

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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you want to support the RNLI best to set up a direct debit. Christmas cards give almost nothing to any charity as do many mass produced calendars. This is why all profits from my 2027 photo calendar will go to Tavy food bank. Giving 5 - 10 % is pathetic imo 🤣.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Post 10 books that feature a #Witch for 10 days. #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #Reading #KidLit #PictureBooks Post a WITCH 🧹 Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll delighted me as a child. Jan Pienkowski is a favourite illustrator - there's nobody quite like him. These simple pictures are a joy.

Book cover of Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski. Deep blue cover with a black and white cartoon image of a witch in traditional dress flying on a broomstick, with a cauldron hanging from it and a striped black and white cat with yellow eyes riding on the back. Around them are a big yellow crescent moon and three big yellow stars.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Post 10 books that feature a #Witch for 10 days. #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #Reading #KidLit #PictureBooks Post a WITCH 🧹 Ruth Manning Sanders 'A Book of Witches' with illustrations by the amazing Robin Jacques was a firm favourite when I was young - and still is!

Book cover of Ruth Manning Sanders A Book of Witches with drawings by Robin Jacques. Shows three traditional witches, two old and one young, around a cauldron with a fire underneath it and a black cat and a toad watching them.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

BREAKING: Yesterday morning Tiananmen activists were sentenced to prison for organising peaceful vigils. The sentencing of activists who organised peaceful vigils to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown is a triple tragedy.

Tiananmen activists - including Chow Hang-tung - sentenced to prison for organising peaceful vigils

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Post 10 books that feature a #Witch for 10 days. #BookChallenge #booksky #Books #Reading #KidLit #PictureBooks Post a WITCH 🧹 From Dorrie and the Wizard's Spell by Patricia Coombs. Does anyone else have fond memories of the Dorrie books?

Page from Dorrie and the Wizard's Spell by Patricia Coombs. Text reads: "This is Dorrie. She is a witch. A little witch. Her hat is always crooked and her socks never match. The Big Witch is her mother and Gink is her very own black cat. One Monday, Cook was away and Dorrie was trying to think of something to do when the Big Witch said....." Illustration in pastels of a little witch as described in the text with her black cat, standing at the bottom of a staircase, leaning on the banister.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. - Wendell Berry (RIP)

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Vast data centres are using up massive amounts of resources and disrupting local communities. And the government doesn’t have a plan for how to deal with them. Tell the government to get a grip on data centres. @friends-earth.bsky.social foe.uk/38h0y

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Stop data centres draining our precious resources

Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...

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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📚💙 ‘The Weight of Glory’ by C. S. Lewis: The Thing Itself - C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/01/c...

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The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing

“…only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited.”

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the last bean flowers lost tribes of wandering bees hope against reason

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Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

between light and dark I am giddy with wishes to tell the first star #DailyHaikuPrompt (fading light)

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Martina Matijević @vientoverde.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

autumn sky adding more stars her gown

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

last warm day— an old dog sleeping through the squirrels #haik #poetry

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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Stars rise. Moths flutter. Apples sweeten in the dark. ~Eavan Boland

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Lucid Metta @lucid-metta.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source, it dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings, but never of natural death.” — Anaïs Nin, “The Four-Chambered Heart”

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My daughter Mary embroidered this bag as an old library record card for my birthday with all my favourite books, the authors and their signatures. You'll notice The Lollipop Shoes by @joannechocolat.bsky.social is overdue because I won't let go of it! Such a wonderful present.

Canvas bag embroidered to look like an old library record card with 'Library of Favourite Books' at the top. Book titles are followed by author's signature and the date is the author's date of birth. There's an embroidered coffee stain on one corner ad an Overdue sign in red on The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris. Other books are: Middlemarch (George Eliot), Bleak House (Dickens), Melmoth (Sarah Perry), Mansfield Park (Jane Austen), The Owl Service (Alan Garner), The Bostonians (Henry James), The Bedlam Stacks (Natasha Pulley), Unsheltered (Barbara Kingsolver), Collected Poems (R.S. Thomas) The Lollipop Shoes (Joanne Harris).

Detail of embroidered bag, showing a coffee stain and The Lollipop Shoes

Detail of embroidered bag showing dates of authors' birth and a red Overdue stamp.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Writinge about literature ys not undirstondinge a booke completelye and then sayinge somethinge clever. It ys, by contrast, failinge agayne and agayne to undirstonde a booke completelye and makinge the moost descryptive notes possible about the resultes. Meaninge ys a process, not a schoolboy prize.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Does anyone else get the urge to poke their finger into these little whorls of petals? Not just me, surely? I love these pompom dahlias.

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Ibrahim Khan @iakhan13.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

‼️🙋‍♀️The forgotten 20 million: why is the world neglecting Afghanistan’s girls and women? 🙋‍♀️ ‼️https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02454-z

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The forgotten 20 million: why is the world neglecting Afghanistan’s girls and women?

It is shameful that half the country’s population continues to be overlooked by the international community.

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Jo Monk @jomary10.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Simple yet cool way of viewing the eclipse.

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