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Mandoline Blue 🕸️

@mandolineblue.bsky.social
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Paint addicted poet, playful philosopher artist on bugs. (Butterflies for preference.) 🛺 I love oddness and snippets, my mind was born as a rat run, now branching out into highways & sacred places. Often to be found hanging out in or near reality.

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ah, what a lovely thing to say, thank you Vicki 😍 I do rather love this one I must say.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ah, thanks for saying. That's so encouraging. Sending you a warm hug, honeybun.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thanks Tim! 🤩
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Mmmm yes, doing my best with that. Some quite difficult triggers in my life at present, which are exacerbating physical symptoms. I remind myself 'this too will pass'... everything changes in time.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's so nice to get your appreciation of my art, Jarl. Warms my heart.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🌺 thank you Larky
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hey dear heart, thanks for your warm message and nice words about Daemon. I feel a bit cheerier, somehow. 😍
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hey Jarl, lovely to hear back from you. I'm not too well at present, but don't want to drop completely out of contact. I realised it's been such a long time since I visited. Daemon is a stunner, isnt it. I was quite bowled over when it arrived. And yes, I was furious when I painted it!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🥰 Thank you dear James
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hi people, not too well at present, just to let you know I haven't died :) or moved to Oz. Still painting, many and much pictures happening, that's the thing about not being able to do much, it does free me up for lots of random creativity! This one is big 150cm x 120cm. I call it Daemon. Love, Mx
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
he said i'm a very naughty boy... very very quick he is
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Thank you love, and hello ! xx
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Loads of misleading posts from leading media accounts about Andy Burnham's supposedly 'hostile reception by MPs' in the Commons today - rubbish, he was welcomed with open arms, & came over as funny, quick and human. I'm sick of the 'tell lies for clicks' crap that passes for news these days.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Exactly.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Loads of misleading posts from leading media accounts about Andy Burnham's supposedly 'hostile reception by MPs' in the Commons today - rubbish, he was welcomed with open arms, & came over as funny, quick and human. I'm sick of the 'tell lies for clicks' crap that passes for news these days.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I bet. Glad I didn't go down that road ;)
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Yes indeed! There's just not enough character space for much nuance, it's a major failing of Blue Sky and Twitter. On the other hand, FB can be a nightmare, wading through over wordiness....
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Elon Musk knows he will never build a city on Mars. Is there any more cynical act than to enrich yourself by selling an impossible dream to a planet full of people who are basically doomed if the powers that be can't get their act together to save our own dear planet home from the profiteers.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Well, my thanks to you and Annette for the tip!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
That's really very smart
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
🫶😂
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I do get the distinction. In the past I have watched if England reached the semi finals...
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We are in the minority, it seems :)
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
gorgeous!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
High five sister!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Me will not be watching any of the World Cup. This is nothing to do with the high moral ground... basically, me never does 😀
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
🫶
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I asked my youngest nephew - who still lives in the hometown I left long ago - to send me some stones from the old churchyard I walked through each week as a child, on the way to my dear grandad's house. The stones feel so potent with memory and loss, I am afraid to hold them for fear of heartache.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The greenhouse was giving away free tomatoes. Made me happy.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Yes. It's been a long journey with my family.....
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🥰
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thanks Dawny xx
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🥰 Thanks Tess!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
🌺 Thanks dear heart!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Thank you love. And there is something in what you say... I don't know why that is, - I've had a very hard life in some ways, but something inside....
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Awwwww thank you! 😍 And it's true I'm graying late, but... I do have some brown lowlights in my hair! So not totally without help
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
It's my birthday - I am 65! How did this happen? 🙃 Some nice moments today, and heartwarming cards and pressies from family who live far away. I feel very loved.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
That's very good to hear Mark. I am always happy to know more about the Briefings and the responses to them!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Well, she does. And we have. Some can still hear though. And some of us are learning, or doing our best to 🌺
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🪹 Words Our Earth Would Speak If She Could There are trees in your eyes acorns rainclouds sky And love…. Ah. That's what I was looking for. Love. 🪺
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thank you!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
That's wonderful Mark 👍🫶 And I think it's genius, the way the Emergency Briefings are being presented, in such a way as to bring people together in person, in community. Gets everyone off line and into the real world. And also people don't have to feel alone with difficult material.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I'm not going to post about politics etc any more. I've been so poorly this past year; & realised that closely following the news was keeping me ill & depleted. So I decided to focus on making the world a better place, with all the skills & love that I have. And guess what? Healing is happening...
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Gorgeous, Felicity. That first rose is a beauty!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I do remember! I love it that you like my art so much.
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thank you Pascal. It's nice to see you too!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
With all my paintings, I have no clue what will appear. I don't know 'how' to paint, you see. I have no learned skills or techniques at all cos they make me afraid of 'getting it wrong'. So I have to create in the moment, trusting impulses & my sense of colour & form. Gotta say, it's never boring!
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Ah, it's always good to see you, mister
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
What really helped me was a total embargo for about six weeks, and then just the odd headline for another month. I cancelled my Guardian sub. I know it sounds drastic! At first, I really was missing it, but books instead helped. Now, I read the odd article, check headlines every couple days
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