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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🔗 Gandhi's Wheels: 🕊️ Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869. 📺 Baird's TV breakthrough came exactly 56 years later. What connects them? Three wheels, Indian independence and an Oscar-winning film! www.linksalads.com/2026/10/02/g... #LinkSalads #Linkology #Gandhi #otd

A wide, richly detailed historical illustration in warm sepia, saffron and green tones, celebrating Mahatma Gandhi and Indian independence.

On the left, a large vintage wooden television with a rounded screen, control knobs and speaker grille displays a black-and-white portrait of Gandhi. He is bald, wearing his distinctive round spectacles and simple white clothing.

Around the television, an enthusiastic crowd of Indian men, women and children celebrates independence. People smile, clap, raise their arms and wave Indian tricolour flags. Orange, white and green bunting hangs above the gathering.

In the background, historic Indian architecture resembling Delhi's Red Fort rises beneath a warm, hazy sky. The 24-spoked Ashoka Chakra is visible on the national flags.

The image symbolically connects Gandhi's birth on 2 October 1869 with John Logie Baird's television breakthrough on 2 October 1925.

The accompanying article, Gandhi's Wheels, explores three wheels: Gandhi's charkha, Baird's rotating television scanning disc and the Ashoka Chakra on India's national flag.

This is an imaginative historical illustration, not a representation of an actual television broadcast from 1947.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

✈️ 1924: first aerial circumnavigation. 🌌 1980: Carl Sagan’s Cosmos begins. 🖖 1987: Star Trek: The Next Generation launches. One date. Three journeys. From travelling around Earth to imagining a voyage across the universe. #LinkSalad #Linkology #Cosmos #StarTrek www.linksalads.com/2026/09/28/a...

A wide, cinematic illustration representing three anniversaries connected with 28 September. On the left, a single vintage 1920s floatplane flies above a large view of Earth, representing the completion of the first aerial circumnavigation in 1924. Warm sunlight, clouds and the blue curve of the planet give way to deep space.

At the centre is Carl Sagan, shown in a thoughtful pose with his chin resting on his hand and looking upwards. He is surrounded by stars, colourful nebulae and spiral galaxies, representing the television premiere of Cosmos: A Personal Voyage in 1980 and humanity’s attempt to understand its place in the universe.

On the right, a futuristic starship inspired by the USS Enterprise-D flies forwards through a dense starfield, representing the premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987. Blue engine trails extend behind the spacecraft as it travels deeper into space.

The image moves from warm earthly colours on the left to cooler blues and purples on the right, visually tracing the Link Salad’s progression: ✈️ around the world → 🌍 Earth → 🌌 the cosmos → 🖖 the final frontier

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Invading Martians to Middle-earth to Misery 📚 21 Sept: 👽 1866 — H. G. Wells born 🧙 1937 — The Hobbit published 👑 1947 — Stephen King born Three literary worlds, one date — which ironically is also International Day of Peace. 🕊️ #LinkSalads #Books #Films www.linksalads.com/2026/09/21/m...

Martians to Middle-earth to Misery 📚👽

There’s quite a literary collection attached to 21 September.

👽 1866 — H. G. Wells was born. His The War of the Worlds gave us the Martian fighting machines striding across England and helped establish him as one of the fathers of modern science fiction.

🧙 1937 — The Hobbit was published in Britain, introducing readers to Bilbo Baggins and the world of Middle-earth.

👑 1947 — exactly ten years later, Stephen King was born. From Carrie and The Shining to Misery, It and The Shawshank Redemption, he became one of the defining writers of modern horror and suspense.

So on one date we can travel from Wells’s Martians → Tolkien’s Middle-earth → King’s Misery.

And there’s one more rather wonderful collision: 21 September is the International Day of Peace. 🕊️

Hence our peaceful Stephen King sits outside a hobbit hole, typing away with his International Day of Peace mug, while H. G. Wells’s Martian tripods advance ominously across the countryside behind him.

Three literary landmarks. Three very different imaginary worlds. One date.

#LinkSalads #OnThisDay #HGWells #TheHobbit #StephenKing #Literature #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #MiddleEarth

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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A small boats crisis that we can all support. bsky.app/profile/ianf...

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Pink the Panther 🩷🐾 Peter Sellers was born on 8 September 1925. Pink followed on the same date in 1979. So what happens when Inspector Clouseau meets Pink? Naturally, Pink becomes the Panther. #LinkSalad #Pink #PeterSellers #PinkPanther www.linksalads.com/2026/09/08/p...

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy Birthday Ferdinand Porsche - 3rd September is also the date of the famous swap in driving direction in Sweden in 1967.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Malmö Turning On 3 September 1967, Sweden turned right, swapping sides of the road. It’s also Skyscraper Day, marking Louis Sullivan’s birthday. So where better to meet than Malmö’s Turning Torso — Santiago Calatrava’s iconic skyscraper twisting through 90°? 🔗🇸🇪🏙️ www.linksalads.com/2026/09/03/m...

A night view of Malmö with Santiago Calatrava’s Turning Torso rising above the waterfront. A road spirals towards the twisting skyscraper while long-exposure trails of white headlights and red tail lights cross one another, symbolising Sweden’s switch from left- to right-hand traffic on 3 September 1967. The Turning Torso provides the link to Skyscraper Day, also on 3 September, marking the birthday of pioneering skyscraper architect Louis Sullivan.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Walk Like an Egyptian” turns 40 today — a track Liam Sternberg wrote after watching people on a ferry struggle to keep their balance. “It's so fun to do live because of how it's received,” said Vicki Peterson. It reminds fans of “that time in high school .. a moment of sheer fun and joy ..”

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/08/2026

She was a pro-trans, pro-vaccine, pro-women's rights union member. This "analysis" from a senior writer should be retracted. There are too many corrections needed to salvage anything of value.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Elon is out there talking up putting us on Mars so he will never be forgotten while Dolly was out there living the road map to do that with kindness and talent alone. If there's any takeaway from today, it's that we should all be more like Dolly.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Moon on the Moon 🌙🥁🌍 Keith Moon was born #OTD in 1946. Exactly 20 years later, Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon. Keith Moon → Moon → Earth → The Who. #TheWho #KeithMoon #SpaceHistory #LinkSalad www.linksalads.com/2026/08/23/m...

Black-and-white surreal image of Keith Moon, drummer with The Who, energetically playing a 1960s drum kit on the rocky lunar surface. The Who’s target roundel appears on the bass drum, while a small Earth hangs in the black sky in the distance, linking Moon’s 23 August birthday with Lunar Orbiter 1’s historic photograph of Earth from the vicinity of the Moon on 23 August 1966.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Daddy was an art robber. He never hurt nobody. 🎸🖼️ Joe Strummer was born on 21 Aug 1952. On the same date in 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. The Clash’s Bankrobber provides the link. #JoeStrummer #TheClash #MonaLisa #ArtHistory #LinkSalad #Punk www.linksalads.com/2026/08/21/d...

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Daddy Was a Gallery Robber – Link Salads

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The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🎃 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 Halloween Era @theautisticart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The first film I ever saw Ke Huy Quan in was in The Goonies, where he played Richard "Data" Wang. With his resurgence in the 2020s, he quickly became one of my favorite actors of all time. I love him in everything I have seen him in! Happy birthday to this man!

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Xploshi @xploshi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

the Mario Galaxy planet off in the distance with a boss waiting on it

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So normal has the BBC's both-sidesing of far right talking points become that about half the respondents to this post took it seriously.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Daddy was a gallery robber. He never hurt nobody. 🎸🖼️ Joe Strummer was born on 21 August 1952. On the same date in 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre. The Clash’s Bankrobber provides the link. #JoeStrummer #TheClash #MonaLisa #ArtHistory #LinkSalad #Punk linksalads.com/daddy-galler...

Joe Strummer is imagined walking casually out of the Louvre in Paris with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa rolled up under his arm. The black-and-white punk-inspired image links Strummer’s birthday on 21 August 1952 with the famous theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre on 21 August 1911.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stairway and Gateway 🔗 Born on 20 August: Robert Plant (1948) and architect Eero Saarinen (1910). Plant gave us Stairway to Heaven. Saarinen gave us St Louis’s Gateway Arch. Two birthdays. Two icons. One link. 🎸🏛️ #RobertPlant, #EeroSaarinen, #StairwaytoHeaven, #GatewayArch

Robert Plant performs on a concert stage beside the Mississippi River, with an illuminated stairway rising towards Eero Saarinen’s Gateway Arch in St Louis. The image represents “Stairway and Gateway”, linking Plant’s Stairway to Heaven with Saarinen’s iconic Gateway to the West. Both Robert Plant and Eero Saarinen were born on 20 August.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Going Up ⛰️🛗 On 3 August 1811, the Jungfrau was climbed for the first time—and Elisha Graves Otis, whose safety elevator transformed vertical travel, was born. A century later, the Jungfrau Railway and Sphinx Lift made the Top of Europe accessible to millions. www.linksalads.com/2026/08/03/g...

Mountaineers emerging from the Sphinx Lift at Jungfraujoch Top of Europe, symbolising the link between the first ascent of the Jungfrau and Elisha Graves Otis's contribution to safe vertical travel.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

🥗 Today's Link Salad (2 August): Happy birthday to Peter O'Toole, forever remembered as Lawrence of Arabia. It's also the anniversary of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait (1990), and the birthday of John Tyndall, whose work helped explain the greenhouse effect. www.linksalads.com/2026/08/02/p...

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Friday's #LinkSalad updated! 🌴🥑🎧 Fatboy Slim (birthday 31 July) performing at Koachella, wearing an avocado-print Hawaiian shirt to celebrate National Avocado Day. Hass —the world's most popular variety—originated in California. #FatboySlim #California #Avocado www.linksalads.com/2026/07/31/k...

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yesterday's #LinkSalad: California via Brighton (with a K) 🌴 Happy birthday to Fatboy Slim! 🎧 You've Come a Long Way, Baby featured "Kalifornia". Also National Avocado Day 🥑 and anniversary of invention of water skiing in 1922. www.linksalads.com/2026/07/31/c...

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John O’Farrell @johnofarrell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

With Labour winning the Manchester mayoral election, the final piece of the transition from Starmer to Burnham has been successfully accomplished. The whole process was done very effectively without the division, defeats and chaos and that many predicted. Labour, I barely recognise you.

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Abby Denton is a Rabbit for Halloween Every Year @abbydenton.com · 31/07/2026

This is the most Producers-like plot since the Producers. There's an inside man. I'm making a legal allegation of malfeasance here (not really)

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

31st July Link Salad - "California via Brighton" Happy Birthday FAT BOY SLIM and Happy Avocado Day. Also in 1922 - water skiing invented #linkology #randomlinks #linkoftheday #fatboyslim #brighton #kalifornia www.linksalads.com/2026/07/31/c...

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California via Brighton – Link Salads

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

NEW: We’re very pleased to announce the addition of Anna Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social as an ongoing collaborator with the Urban Truth Collective, author of “When Driving Is Not An Option.” Read her bio and watch for our first collaboration shortly! #UrbanTruth www.urbantruthcollective.com/about-1

Image of the cover of “When Driving Is Not An Option: Steering Away From Car Dependency” by Anna Zivarts.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

BREAKING! Infantino says the FIFA Forward plan, which would have been the private equity takeover of the World Cup, will not go forward after UEFA, CONCACAF and others opposed it.

The FIFA Forward Enterprise project was intended to provide a basis for further strengthening our FIFA Member Associations and our sport worldwide, especially in those countries where support is most needed. And more so, as we said from the outset, to do this only if a majority of the FIFA Member Associations were in support and always subject to a consultation process with them, the FIFA Council, the Confederations and wider stakeholders.

Having listened carefully to all the views, it has become clear that the project has created divisions of a nature that, regardless of the level of support, are no longer in the interest of the objective set out in the first place.

Our purpose has always been - and will always be - to unite and improve.

As a result, this proposal will not proceed.

Moving forward, my intent is to bring all interested parties back together in the coming days and weeks in the spirit of shared interest in our game, and with the objective to continue growing football everywhere, particularly in those countries that mostly need our support.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

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kyleayers.bsky.social @kyleayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The same people who tell me I can’t ever be British because of my name are saying a guy named Nowak is British, but just for a few days while they hold riots

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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan

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Richard Rouse @rickyrouse.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The longer the genesis of Jenrick's career continues, the more revelations of his charlatanism are unveiled.

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Ian Shaw @quantockian.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Facepalm Sunday.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Today’s golfing Link Salad contrasts World Water Day with the first Masters in 1934 — a lush Hanging Gardens-style oasis set against desert scarcity. ⛳🌊 www.linksalads.com/2026/03/22/w... #WorldWaterDay #Golf #WaterScarcity #WorldWaterDay #TheMasters #Golf #WaterScarcity #Sustainability #LinkSalad

Today’s golfing Link Salad image plays on a deliberate contrast. World Water Day exists to highlight the global challenge of water scarcity, yet 22 March 1934 was also the day the first Masters began at Augusta National. That gives us a set of golfing links in every sense: connections between ideas, and a sport built around some of the world’s most carefully maintained green landscapes.

The image pushes that tension further by reimagining the course as a lush Hanging Gardens of Babylon oasis surrounded by desert. It is beautiful, but it also raises an uncomfortable question about the water needed to sustain such spaces, especially in hot and arid climates. In that sense, the image is not just about golf. It is about abundance, scarcity and what green landscapes can hide.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

'Trafalgar Square from the National Gallery' by Alfred de Bréanski (1877-1957) (Private collection)

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Damian Ward @damianward.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Another view of the clump of trees I started the week off with. Buckinghamshire 2026. #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A natural Link Salad for 13 March. • 1781 — Uranus discovered by William Herschel • 1855 — Birth of Percival Lowell • 1930 — Pluto discovery announced from Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Three moments, two distant worlds glowing above Arizona desert, one dog. www.linksalads.com/2026/03/13/p...

A dramatic night scene in the Arizona desert near Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff shows a long-eared dog leaping into the air as if trying to catch two glowing planets in the sky. Uranus appears large and turquoise-blue while Pluto is smaller and pale, floating close beside it. Behind the dog stands the illuminated white dome of Lowell Observatory, surrounded by red desert rocks and saguaro cacti, with distant canyon cliffs suggesting the nearby Grand Canyon. In the deep indigo sky above, the stars form a constellation shaped like a dog bone, linking the playful scene to the astronomical discoveries associated with the observatory.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Anyone suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia?

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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Detail from 'Ulysses and The Sirens' by John William Waterhouse #WyrdWednesday

Detail from a larger painting inspired by a scene from The Odyssey. A siren, a bird-like creature with the head of a woman, is perched on the side of a boat and leaning over one of the crew who is rowing.

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

11 March Link Loop 🔗 SNAP: Birthdays - Douglas Adams & Rupert Murdoch ZOOM: Hitchhiker’s GTTG & The Sun SNAP: Film → Martin Freeman MOVE: Freeman → The Office SNAP: Vogons ↔ paper merchants ZOOM: Papers → The Sun LOOP: “Gorby Takes Over!” (11 Mar 1985) www.linksalads.com/2026/03/11/v...

Today’s Link Salad connects three anniversaries on 11 March:

📚 Douglas Adams — creator of the Vogons
📰 Rupert Murdoch — builder of the Sun newspaper empire
🌍 1985 — the day Mikhail Gorbachev took power in the USSR

Put them together and you get a surreal office scene: Vogons rubber-stamping paperwork in Wernham Hogg, while David Brent dances and Tim Canterbury looks straight at the camera.

The bridge between these worlds?
Martin Freeman, who appears in both The Office and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Sometimes history, media and science fiction connect in the most unlikely places.

#LinkSalad #OnThisDay #DouglasAdams #TheOfficeUK #MartinFreeman #HitchhikersGuide #Gorbachev #ColdWarHistory #BritishComedy #VisualStorytelling

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🎃pumpkinnqueenn🎃 @jasminefayeart.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I would love to get a blood red ink. Like this Like bright red at the edges and dark where the ink is layered or heavier Does that make sense?

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Your Daily Link Salad @linksalads.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Well here's a good piece of #linksalad in a calendar format, although I'm not into star signs myself.

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Romek66 @romek66.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

#StreetArt walking down Via Auteri in Catania gorgeous urban art by Ivano Iade last Sunday #Catania #Sicily #Italy #StreetPhotography #UrbanScape #CityScape #UrbanGaze #murals #grafitti #TagTuesday

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Trump has now conducted 42 boat strikes, killing nearly 160 people. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all.

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Burning Earth Chris 🏳️‍⚧️ @burningearthvfx.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Wow. This is beautiful.

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