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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. Rumi (Nigel Fletcher)

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Mark Dudley @markdudley.bsky.social · 9h

Oh great. Just what I needed. Firefox have given me a brand new update I didn't ask for. Now they want me to see what's new... Why?

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Isn’t this beautiful. Thank you @luluallison.bsky.social A Bluemoose Bell celebrating 20 years of Indie publishing. Magic.

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The Saturday Morning Podcast 🎙️ @satmornpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In “V”, the visitors came to Earth to take our water. I have to assume that it’s because the visitors have many AI data centers and have turned their world into a desert because they had computers making pictures of sharks wearing sneakers. This is a cautionary tale for our times.

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m Ukrainian from Donbas. So when someone online Explains to me that Donbas “Was always russian” I remember one inconvenient little number: 83.9%. That’s how many voters in Donetsk region Supported ukrainian independence in 1991. #ukraine #donetsk #donbas #russian #ukrainian

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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺🇬🇱 @simond1954.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chris Philip was Immigration Minister Sept 2019 - Sept 2021 Among other things he was in charge of Channel Crossing Strategy. Asylum seeker arrivals: - 2019 1843 2020 8466 2021 28526

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark trolling Trump epically. 👏🇩🇰👏🇩🇰👏🇩🇰😎

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Benjamin Wolf

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Vincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Green Cypresses, 1889

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yorkshire-based artist and printmaker Pippa Dyrlaga who creates intricate paper cut artworks #womensart

Photo of seven three dimensional paper cut red flowers on green stems

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" It's easy to forget that Tony Blair had been in power since 1694 when the Bank of England was founded. Good job Brain of Britain Liz Truss is here to remind us.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Boys playing marbles, Leeds, 1962, photo by Paul Berriff.

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Pink Paradise at Dawn. This morning on Glastonbury Tor shortly before sunrise.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Suiseki (水石) are small naturally occurring or shaped rocks which are appreciated for their aesthetic or decorative value. It's also the name of the art of arranging them into meaningful forms. [📸 Szilajka Erzsébet] Original post

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gerhard Nesvadba (b.1941) Autumn Pathway

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Vera Kober Art @vera-kober-art.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My painting of a flower

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"The Wind" Painting created in 1988 By Pang Maokun

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Eight Days in September 1066 - 5 The Battle of Stamford Bridge 🧵On 25 September 1066, Harold Godwinson’s army appeared at Stamford Bridge, catching Harald Hardrada and Tostig by surprise. The Norwegians had left much of their armour behind, believing they had time before the

This famous 13th-century manuscript painting illustrates the climax of the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Created around 1250–1260 and attributed to the chronicler Matthew Paris, it depicts the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada wielding a massive battleaxe. True to medieval artistic traditions, the figures wear anachronistic 13th-century chain mail and armour rather than accurate 11th-century equipment, reflecting the era of the artist rather than the event. Image: The Battle of Stamford Bridge, from The Life of King Edward the Confessor by Matthew Paris. 13th century. Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, 1250-1260

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Don’t allow anyone to tell you that your dream of going off the grid and becoming a bookstore owner with a mysterious backstory who has a quaint shop on a cobblestone side street in Edinburgh is “unrealistic."

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It can be hard to really stick to your creative guns sometimes, when The Market it howling in your ear, and the external world of bestseller charts and instagram round ups of incredible successes. But the longer I do this the more I think it's the only way.

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Paula Hammond @writerpaula.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's a wild and windy #Wales today, so today's #photography share is from earlier in the year... with a #Noir capture of one man and his dog...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We shall grant Piddington independence. Then we will colonise it and civilise its inhabitants until they achieve the kind of maturity required to govern themselves inews.co.uk/opinion/pidd...

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Piddington, you're welcome to leave the UK. Don't let the door hit you on the way out

Ian Dunt: The village that ‘roared’ has swallowed the far-right’s lies

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Mark Dudley @markdudley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#FirstBirdOfTheDay - a jackdaw on a chimney, struggling to stand on the narrow ledge by the pot - looked like a cat burglar on a ledge.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What an arrogantly vile man Harborne is. How patronising to describe his entitled buying up of our democracy as ‘philanthropy’. Get over yourself and go and build some hospitals, fund children out of poverty, eradicate disease… Sticking your grubby wealth in Farage’s pockets can only do us harm.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Holmewood mining village, Derbyshire, 1973, photo by Don McPhee. After the colliery closed, many houses were boarded up.

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Beyond the Hills and Far Away - Amanda Rackowe British, b. 1964 Oil on linen,

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Jane @theeternaloptimist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've just heard Nick Ferrari, LBC, say (I paraphrase) do you really want to give funds to a migrant taxi service? He refers of course to the RNLI bringing migrants safely to the shore. The most amazing volunteers of whom we are incredibly proud. How dare he undermine this non-politocal organisation

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Mark Dudley @markdudley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When I heard the clip I thought at first it had been taken out of context. Horrific.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

George IV was a drug addled, capricious, delusional monster obsessed with hyper gaudy interior design. He retreated from the real world and became convinced that he had defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think this kind of dehumanising rhetoric is very common from people who consider themselves compassionate - people don’t even notice their own dehumanisation of others.

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Take a seat and admire the view. This morning was just incredible here in Glastonbury. Intense colour that started well before sunrise. I took quite a few so will post more later. When I see intense colour like this, I tend to rush around & panic that I can't be in ten different places all at once 😂

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

From the new Private Eye

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One piece of folklore I refuse to believe in is the waking of England's stone and wooden nights when the country is in peril. We keep lurching right, we keep lurching toward authoritarianism and they don't even show any signs of twitching. – #MattAdams, 1982

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Helena Bonham Carter reading Rumi's poem "The Guest House," at Belcombe Court, England. This is part of a project for Allie Esiri's poetry book, 'A Poem for Every Autumn Day.' The poem compares human life to a guest house, encouraging people to accept emotions and thoughts as visitors. #poetry

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Morning I start the morning gently In a quiet sort of way Just grateful for the time And another beautiful day - Sarah Sarna 🎨 NC Wyeth

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

May turn ugly, as this leaves a power vacuum that the other Dons will move in to grab.

Vacancy at BBC
Gardeners' World as
Monty Don steps down
BBC Gardeners' World will enter a new era as its longest-serving "head gardener" Monty Don steps down.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is why science class was the best and science teachers wizards 🪄 🧙 🧪🧑‍🔬🧬🧫🥼

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