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Junkshopdisco 🍊

@junkshopdisco.bsky.social
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Reader, writer, gardener 👨‍🌾. Thomas Barrow apologist. Creative from working class background. Queer (she/they) and trans ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Sim Elliott @sim-elliott.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I LOVE Juniper! It has had a dramatic decline on the South Downs; in just one place in Sussex is it abundant - @sussexwildlife.bsky.social NR Levin Down. It is sculpted by the wind here into giant bonsai shapes. The UK gin industry now imports European juniper berries; its more abundant in Europe
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Ladybird book in the Spotlight ‘Smoke and Fluff’ (1941) Artist: Angusine Macgregor
The front cover of the 1970s version of the book ‘smoke and fluff’. The first edition had a dark purple dust wrapper over boards.
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 04/09/2025
Anthony Delaney isn't on here, so here's a shout-out for his new book, Queer Georgians - published today! It looks fabulous . . . 🌈📚🗃️ www.penguin.co.uk/books/460692... @doubledaybooks.bsky.social There's an online event with AD and @thegozfather.bsky.social (The National Archives) on 17 Sept . . .
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Queer Georgians
Mother Clap's Holborn coffee house is open to all comers, a place of companionship and community, until a tip-off leads to a midnight raid. Two women, exiled from their families, set up a utopian hom...
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 03/09/2025
✍️ The quiet power of relational disobedience Resist without hate: from relational disobedience to creative protest, quiet courage can disrupt domination without mirroring its violence By Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social
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The quiet power of relational disobedience
Resist without hate: from relational disobedience to creative protest, quiet courage can dis-rupt domination without mirroring its violence
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
‘Hare’ Artist: Septimus Scott (In Green Pastures, 1945)
A hare raises its ears, alert as if it has just heard the sound of possible danger. Around it, five leverets are grazing
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2025
Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/
Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.
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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The Blackberry or Bramble is a member of the rose family & makes a great habitat for many birds, insects & spiders - and it produces delicious, juicy, black berries in August & September. Hence CRUMBLE buff.ly/JT1XwxA 📷 Hugh Clark FRPS
dormouse on blackberries
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 31/08/2025
We love a parkland walk.
Three colourful Sika deer showing their white rumps and grey, brown coats set against a fir tree backdrop.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 30/08/2025
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
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Skull Issue @amagire.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
WHAT NEWS, BOY? WHAT DAY IS THIS?
a gold and white borzoi standing upright with his front paws on the deck railing, looking down with the sun on his face af chest
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No Context Gillian Anderson @contextgillian.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny Happy Weekend Everyone!
Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny
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Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Cover, catalog for fall planting Holm & Olson, Inc. St. Paul, Minn. 1939 Source: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection of the National Agricultural Library via @archive.org; archive.org/details/CAT3...
A light beige, vertically oriented cover with a light blue vertical bar along the left hand side  with reversed-out illustration of three flowers, stems and leaves  

What looks like hand-lettered text, in maroon:

BULBS AND PLANTS
For Fall Planting 
1939
HOLM & OLSON
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛🤍
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28/08/2025
Positive tipping points for climate, like the UK phasing out coal, show how big steps toward a low-carbon future can suddenly become unstoppable. Can we identify where the next tipping points could happen, and figure out how to help trigger them? These researchers say YES. Read more:
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A method to identify positive tipping points to accelerate low-carbon transitions and actions to trigger them - Sustainability Science
Meeting the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to “well below 2 °C” requires a radical acceleration of action, as the global economy is decarbonising at least five times too slowly. Tipping point...
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CursèdZebra @cursedzebra.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Sonc
A very simple drawing of sonic the hedgehog, imitating the image in the quoted post. He is a large blue ball with his disproportionately small face, hands and feet poking out of the middle.
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Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Please behold my very Pinterest tomatoes 🍅
A cluster of red ribbed tomatoes on a leafy tomatoes plant with a brown can support. A person wearing an olive green cardigan holding four ripe ribbed tomatoes in the hand.
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Jake Case — Mountain Tripper @jakecasephoto.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I can’t even believe I got this photo. I wasn’t supposed to chase that day. I ran out to the edge of the desert at the last minute. I happened across this scene, but this cell wasn’t producing much lightning. Still, I set up the cameras & waited. Finally, it let loose this beastly double bolt. #azwx
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The "Ghosts of Vezio Castle" in Lake Como are moulded off tourists who agree to have white gauze and chalk fitted to them. The sculptures are then left to the elements, where they erode. When a new season begins, the ghosts are cast anew.
A ghostly, hooded figure without a face sitting on a railing. Behind it is spectacular views of Lake Como.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Well, if it’s 30 August, it’s the 121st anniversary of the marathon at the St Louis Olympics, which saw 32 people start, 14 finish, the ‘winner’ get disqualified for cadging a lift, and the gold medallist reach the end only with the aid of brandy and strychnine
The eventual winner of the marathon, Thomas Hicks, being held up as he walks along a dirt road, and looks dangerously exhausted
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The more things I've made, the less I've been interested in publicly criticizing the things that other people make, because once you make a few things you start to understand what a miracle it is that anything gets made at all
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cageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
omg LOOKIT! it IS a very happy calico cat! 😻😹
An artist's conk polypore fungus growing out of the trunk of an old tree. Normally these look like round shelves, shiny brown on top & white underneath. But this one is a riot of rounded, pillowy beige shapes, and the brown shiny top part has arranged itself into the form  of a contented looking calico cat. Thanks to Trish Paton for noticing this
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Other work of the Ladybird artists. Shell Guide, 1955. ‘August’ Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder
An elaborate spray of midsummer flowers frame of view through wheat fields towards an expansive landscape. The wheat has been harvested and stands in stooks while on the hill a white windmill turns under a sunny sky.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
My favourite word for a mobile phone is the Zulu umakhalekhukhwini. It means something along the lines of "the one that wails in your pocket" I should also mention (because I'm currently in Sweden) that in 80s Swedish slang a mobile phone was sometimes known as a yuppienalle, or "yuppie teddy bear"
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Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 29/08/2025
The Freddy Mercury hoovering display team were also a particular highlight...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Remember 20 years ago when you had to use facts, not just use opinions? Lets go back to that.
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 28/08/2025
From Byron to The Beatles, female fans shaped popular entertainment, while finding their voice in repressive times.
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The last 150 years of pop culture would've been dull without female fans
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It can be galling to see one's period misrepresented onscreen but that shouldn't be reason to deny historical truths, like that medieval people shuffled around giving it the whole 'my liege' all the time, unless they had cheekbones in which case they were the king
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Spotted on my last trip to Venice: a model of a tank designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1487. This fighting vehicle was designed to be driven straight onto a battlefield and to decimate the enemy with its 360-degree cannons. It was powered by two large cranks operated internally by four men.
A conical-shaped machine with small cannons attached to it. The hatch is open to show the mechanism inside.
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 27/08/2025
It’s the content you didn’t know you needed: please enjoy these windswept doggos on Pen y Fan. Big thanks to thejoulesdog for sharing this *adorable* clip. [Video description: three windswept brown and black spaniels in front of a stone oak leaf emblem]
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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/08/2025
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The restorative powers of a Bank Holiday by the sea (1958) Father in particular seems to have … blossomed John Bull Magazine Artist: G Critchlow
An illustration in two frames. Above, a family of four arrive at a guest house by the sea looking very pale and tired and worn.
In the bottom frame the same family turn to say goodbye to the guest house owner. The family look bright, tanned and sparky
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/08/2025
HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>
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Big tech’s selective disclosure masks AI’s real climate impact
Google claims to have disclosed new information proving its own efficiency. But it has hidden the bigger picture. Guess what: I’ve got the bigger picture for you right here in this big old po…
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
What I'm doing when I say I can't go out because I "already have plans". Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of a white man sitting in a wooden chair, looking brightly at the camera and cradling a tabby kitten that is sitting up in his lap.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Cats make the world a better place.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 23/08/2025
ICYMI: The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has created a free online guide for non-fiction authors working with factual material, covering themes such as copyright, defamation and ensuring good relationships with interviewees 👇 #BookSky
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The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain creates free guide for authors working with factual material
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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Why it’s time to uncouple the price of a record from its value: A small-hours conversation with an independent record label. medium.com/@petepaphide...
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Why it’s time to uncouple the price of a record from its value: A small-hours conversation with an…
Why are you offering 20% of all your already-released still-available albums over this Bank Holiday weekend? Did you price them too high in…
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Rest Harrow, Cross-Leaved Heath, Heather, Harebell Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder (Wild Flowers, 1957)
In this watercolour mountain scene, husband Rowland Hilder painted the background and Edith Hilda painted the botanical studies
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Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Very strong dancing at a wedding to a normcore song you’ve never heard before energy here.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Roses are red They charm and delight us
Devon Live headline: “Seagulls are getting drunk on leftover booze and throwing up on firefighters”
Subhead: One was so drunk it fell off a roof and could not fly straight before throwing up over firefighters called to rescue it
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A rare, pre-war Ladybird book in my collection (circa 1930) How can you not love the cover?
Two children sit on colourful luggage on the edge of a platform as a large green steam engine hisses alongside
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Susan Lewis @susanangela.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
An excellent no nonsense statement from the Women's Institute.
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The Women's Institute was founded on democratic ideals over 100 years ago and this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion is still central to our ethos today.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldn’t need to beg you.
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