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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 16h

Clare Leighton, Ploughing: November (1932). Seen today at Pallant House Gallery.

Engraving of figure guiding plough pulled by two horses.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 14h

Abb’s Head lighthouse (1862) and fog signal (1876; decommissioned 1987). Never seen a foghorn!

Short lighthouse and red foghorn in black cliffs above blue see and sky.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 16h

One of my favourite pubs. Lovely to see it in the setting it once sat in. Built around 1520

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Prospect of Whitby - Wikipedia

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 17h

He should definitely move to Merseyside and hire himself some Scouse Nanas 💪

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 17h

Poor Milos - what a thing to say about him 😱 #LFC 'He's a bit thick, but 100% for effort'

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 19h

It’s 186 years to the day since a man called Thomas O’Conor wrote a report about a stone figure on a church in Kiltinane, County Tipperary. This would be unremarkable were it not for what the statue looked like, because this was the first written use of the term Sheela-na-gig

The Kiltinane churchSheela Na Gig – a strange, naked, stone female figure, with one hand raised, and the other holding open her vulva

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 18h

Unpopular opinion: Fleetwood Mac are the musical equivalent of candy floss -overly sugary, fluffy and a lightweight cloud that dissolves into a puddle of goo. Can't stand them.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 18h

Lambrettas out today, lads. Passing the Saracen's Head

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 23h

The leather bag that held the trial records of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters, now at The National Archives. For more on this and the other records detailing the punishment of the plotters, cone along to my online talk on the evening of 4 Nov 2026. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

Leather bag with Latin writing on it, 17th Century [TNA KB 8/59]

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Arthur Brand @artdetective.bsky.social · 23h

The heirs of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker have collected two paintings we recovered, looted in WWII. One hung for decades with an SS general’s descendants. The other was found with the bulky waste. Little Max, aged six, was there too.

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Steve @portaspeciosa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lovely door lock plate in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nightcap. Liverpool's own, The fabulous Cherry Boys from 1981 with a live version of Man to Man.

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The Cherry Boys - Man To Man (1981)

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The Solar Pavillion @sylvanshine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the meantime, I know this is the longest shot ever, but if you know any rock band who might be willing to do a gig in a very small village in west Normandy, do let me know. If previous manifestations are anything to go by, they'll be well fed (two retired chefs see to the catering here)

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 02/10/2026

We've all been there.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A very special moment! I didn't have my phone when it took the first one so I was thrilled when it came back for the 2nd! 🥰

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Marilyn Monroe's minaudière compact containing 8 Philip Morris cigarettes, a lipstick, a clear plastic comb and loose powder.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lennon himself later told Playboy: "Once I accepted the reality of the situation, something greater than me took over. I started to shout out old sea shanties in the face of the storm, screaming at the thundering sky." He later described the voyage as "the most fantastic experience I ever had"

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The Storm, the Stars, and the Sea: John Lennon’s Sailing Voyage to Bermuda in 1980

In 1980, John Lennon sailed 700 miles through a force-eight gale to Bermuda and wrote 25 songs. Here's the voyage that produced Double Fantasy and ended his five-year silence.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Volkswagen might be on the skids today, but back in 1959 they were manufacturing Volkswagen Beetles fitted with dashboard-mounted coffee machines 🗃️

b&w news clipping with photo of a car dashboard with a metal coffee machine attached and a ceramic cup beneath

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ‘Malone Hoard’ - 19 polished stone axe heads from the Neolithic which were found at Danesfort House, on Malone Road in Belfast during the 19th century. Now part of the collections at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Archaeology #Belfast

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'So that's the book finished. All you need now is a title.' 'I was thinking about calling it "DIE." 'Just DIE? Nothing else?' 'No. Why?' 'Hey don't get me wrong, it's a good title. I'm just not sure that it's clear enough that it means a MURDER story.' 'So what do you suggest...?'

A large print paperback titled Die - As in Murder

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The Solar Pavillion @sylvanshine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And finally my favourite, Sulking Anguished Corner Guy accompanied by his friend, Electrickery Box Rock, who to be honest he doesn't really like very much and is thinking of unfriending on Livejournal, which he still uses, it's actually great for the long-form stuff

In the bottom left corner is an electrical cabinet of some years with an ochre rock perched on top of it. Alongside it some kind of earth wire in a duct runs up to the gutter where a lone head with an aggrieved expression lurks in the shadows

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

National Gallery of Prague puts two Egon Schiele drawings on rare display. Seated Woman with Bent Knees (1917) which features Schiele’s wife, Edith Harms, is so fragile, the original normally remains in storage english.radio.cz/national-gal...

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is by the same photographer as my mood photo yesterday, Cristina García Rodero

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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’

Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’

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The Art Exhibitions Blog @blogexhibitions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A huge number of exhibitions in our October preview, starting in London with Painting the French Riviera at the Royal Academy, Renoir at the National Gallery and Hokusai @dulwichgallery.bsky.social. Lots more round Britain and Europe as well: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/09/new-...

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New Exhibitions in October

A blog about current art exhibitions in Britain and Europe with reviews and guides to future shows.

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James Goss @gossjam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OH MY GOD (they're playing this on 6music and wow) youtu.be/PS9Bc_GQBEs?...

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Joshua Idehen - Mum Does The Washing OFFICIAL VIDEO

YouTube video by Joshua Idehen

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was only saying recently that I wish our doctor's surgery was run by the elderly volunteers who run our local library. The surgery staff are inefficient, rude, and a waste of time, whereas the library volunteers are friendly and efficient, and also host a large number of events and exhibitions

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ooh I've earned the regular 89p again this year in Royalties for a track that's on an Indie compilation, pushing up the total carried over to £21. Carried over again, because the minimum payout has also been raised from £50 to £75. (It's an Indie label so I really don't mind)

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Lyn Green @wadjetweret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, September 30th, is the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation in 🇨🇦

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Blimey "It is claimed that the explorer has spent more than a year living under assumed names in a succession of care homes and that even attempts by the king to check on him had been rebuffed by Fiennes’s wife."

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Ranulph Fiennes’s stepson says he is in contact with police about explorer’s wellbeing

Exclusive: Alexander Millington-Cotes says call from police has given him hope concerns are being taken seriously

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We know you love lemons around here, but do you know what they mean? 🍋 Symbols is our new series uncovering the hidden messages in our collection, presented by Sascha, our museum guide. 👁️ www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/se…

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mood (Cristina García Rodero)

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not high on my list of wants 😅

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Carol Drinkwater @carol4olivefarm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our Mad Old Chateau has only one half of a tower. The other one and a half were destroyed during the French Revolution.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For anyone who listened to the podcast, or to the radio serialisation of the book I linked to in the thread below, I'm posting this preface to the manuscript of Stefansson's book "The Adventure of Wrangel Island" Poor Noice. alt text for each. There wasn't enough space on each image for alt so

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This wonderful 16th-century jar is in the shape of a pinecone. Jars like this in the shape of pinecones, both lustred and unlustred, were a popular Deruta product in the first half of the sixteenth century.

An earthenware jar in the shape of a pine cone.

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Museum Stories @museumstories.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1916, near the French front lines. Raymond Duchamp-Villon, a Cubist sculptor serving in the army, carved a plaster rooster crowing at a rising sun. It was meant to hang over the entrance of a temporary theater built for the troops.

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Museum Stories @museumstories.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Push the turtle's head and a bell rings downstairs. The butler comes up. Carved from a single piece of milky agate, 3 inches long, an inch tall. Gold, silver, diamonds, rubies. Made by the jewelers of Fabergé in St. Petersburg sometime between 1895 and 1915.

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sunday Lettering edition from Stamford, Lincolnshire #street #typography #tiles #uk

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The PM backing fish farming at universities, according to the helpful subtitling on the BBC.🤦‍♀️

Prime Minister Andy Burnham giving a speech from conference in Liverpool. Subtitle "scallops [as in shellfish] pouring out of our world-class universities"
It's meant to be scale-ups.

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Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This a fascinating read about the folding bed, (one of 6 beds found in his tomb, and the most unusual) complete with images and videos of the closing mechanism!

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The entranceway to a #Roman house in #Pompeii, with a striking black & white mosaic leading into the rest of the house - still in the place it was first laid nearly 2000 years ago #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #MosaicMonday

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MosaicMonday The #Roman mosaics of Villa del Tellaro near Noto, Syracuse, #Sicily. The villa, dates from the 4th C AD. The floors of the three rooms are taped with mosaics depicting mythological, hunting and dancing scenes. #Archaeology #History #Art

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