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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 4h
"Even when I'm in Kyoto, I wish I was in Kyoto"
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oxo @martinwellbourne71.bsky.social · 4h
Blocking any adult who uses the word "scary."
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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 7h
Your windpipe is that of Anubis, your chest is broad with gold, your breasts are two eggs of carnelian, which Horus has streaked with lapis. Your forearms glisten as glass, your shoulders are firm in their protection, your heart is gladdened every day. (BDQ)
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oxo @martinwellbourne71.bsky.social · 20h
Gibbon said something incredibly rude about this lass.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/person…
Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird
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Frightful Porpentine @bcky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Catchpole is one of the best surnames, in my opinion.
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oxo @martinwellbourne71.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And he was swallowed and ingested and became one of those creatures who, many winters later died, and came back to rest in the earth to nourish another generation of you young fellars...It's not so bad. It's like a great cycle - if you look at it in a certain way...
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 30/09/2026
Shhhh Sneak preview of @beckbook.com's exegesis on Philip K. Dick Don't tell my editor 🤫 beckbook.com
THE LAST TEMPTATION oF BECK

Dick and Hubbard--two more different science fictior writers Can
scarcely be imagined. And yet, both claimed to have received visions, to
have been granted prophecy.

What do you do if God speaks to you? What do you do once you've
glimpsed the ultimate Truth?

Dick died in 1982, never having come to a conclusion about what had
happened to him. He left a record of what hed experienced, but left it to
his readers to form their own opinions. His work remains in print: no
church has declared it to be scripture.

That said: Dick did, in fact, invent a religion. It's in his novel Do An-
droids Dream of Electric Sheep? (later the loose inspiration for the film
Blade Runner). In the world of the novel, a new faith emerges after a
nuclear apocalypse. Its adherents call it Mercerism

Mercerism's practices revolve around a machine-the "empathy box"--
that one has to interface with by holding two handles. It bears an uncanny
resemblance to an E-meter. But this fictional device doesn't measure your
emotions: it stokes them

When you grasp the handles of the empathy box, you suddenly feel as
though you are a man named Wilbur Mercer, who is climbing up a
treacherous hill, only to be pelted with rocks by mysterious and evil fig
ures in your periphery. People use the machine to experience Mercer's
physical and emotional pain-as well as the emotions of all the other
worshippers using an empathy box at that moment.

In real life, this is what art does. It's what art is for. Art, at its best.
makes other people real to you. It gives you a glimpse into something
outside yourself, but just as real as you are, It's proof that we're not sur-
rounded by automatons
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oxo @martinwellbourne71.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
She lives in an English country home, and pours tea from a silver teapot - equipped with a two-way phone.
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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I take the table with three vases containing the water of youth; I pour it on the altar of your ka. This libation comes from the two caverns, the gods live from its exudations. (OGC)
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hope of a Condemned Man II www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/hope-o…
Hope of a Condemned Man II
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Made an appointment at le salon du kitchen scissors & once again, I’ve given myself a fringe that’s a cross between the Dave Hill in a Romulan Slade tribute band & something a cruel 17th century priest might inflict on a woman accused of pridefulness, consorting with imps or strumpetry
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The mistral made painting in Arles a fight. Van Gogh drove 50cm iron pegs into the ground and roped his easel to them so he could work in the wind. He blamed it for Cézanne's clumsy touch too: "It's his easel that's wobbling."
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Open Art @open-art.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ogata Kōrin's 'Plum Tree' dates to around 1700. It's a hanging scroll painted with ink on silk. The artwork resides in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Edo period, Japan.
A hanging scroll depicting a plum tree with twisting branches, painted in ink on silk, showcasing traditional Japanese art style.
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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ekphrastic. Bronzino portrait in James’ The Wings of the Dove. “…splendid as she is, one doubts if she was good.”
1540 Bronzino of Lucrezia Panciatichi

James: 
The lady in question, at all events, with her slightly Michelangelesque squareness, her eyes of other days, her full lips, her long neck, her recorded jewels, her brocaded and wasted reds, was a very great dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. "I shall never be better than this."
He smiled for her at the portrait. "Than she? You'd scarce need to be better, for surely that's well enough.
But you are, one feels, as it happens, better; because, splendid as she is, one doubts if she was good."
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Open Art @open-art.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Turner's 'Queen Mab's Cave' was painted after 1846. It references Queen Mab from Shakespeare and Shelley's 1813 poem. The work does not depict a specific scene from either.
A landscape painting by J.M.W. Turner titled 'Queen Mab's Cave', depicting a fantastical scene with ethereal elements, referencing literary works by Shakespeare and Shelley.
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Dog Barking-at the Moon www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/dog-ba…
Dog Barking-at the Moon
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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Her chapel is fumigated with myrrh and incense, ducks and geese are cut up on her altars; sparkling gold and faience powder are scattered on the ground amidst cereals, wine is sprinkled around her domain, music and joy! (OGC)
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
St Cuthbert's Way, walking route Melrose to Lindisfarne, named as one of the world's top experiences. Enjoyed doing it a few years ago. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
St Cuthbert's Way gains global recognition as a travel experience
St Cuthbert's Way - from Melrose to Lindisfarne - rubs shoulders with the world's top travel experiences.
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Ian Walker @fenlandgent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My tip is don’t overthink things.
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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don't be evil, kindness is good, make your memorial last through love of you. (Instruction of Merikare) (ALL)
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Naguib Mechawar @naguibmechawar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
La tour de Montaigne.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Category is Books just had its window smashed in AGAIN. Fuck every person on the fence. Fuck every Just Asking Questions. Fuck every Labour MP, MSP, councillor and member.
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Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Don Cherry, Paris 1967. Philippe Gras.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 22/09/2026
Night of the Living Dead Chipmunks
Night of the Living Dead Chipmunks
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oxo @martinwellbourne71.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bluesky
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Olive Grove - 1889 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
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Paul C. Dobbs @steadytiger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Over the last few weeks I have watched or rewatched all 12 Gainsborough melodramas listed on the Wiki page. It has been a fun ride, and they consititute a great body of British genre cinema. I would rather watch one of these than an Ealing comedy or a Hammer horror, but then I am a soppy old tart
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Woman in Front of the Sun www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/woman-…
Woman in Front of the Sun
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Leroy Fouquet @fouquetleroy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Zissou et son bob 📷 JACQUE HENRI LARTIGUE
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Van Gogh used repetition not as habit but devotion—wheatfields, trees, skies—the same subjects prayed through in different colors.
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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I refuse to believe that Scoot McNairy and Walton Goggins aren’t the names of gold-prospecting guinea pigs from a Tex Avery short
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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
signifier hehehe
Street sign for the Rue de Saussure (un bad Dad joke)
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Monsieur Rossi, c’est moi
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Olivier Mannoni @oliviermannoni.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
Adieu à Catherine Ringer, immense dame de la chanson. music.youtube.com/watch?v=ubL_...
music.youtube.com
Bernard Lavilliers, Catherine Ringer - IDEES NOIRES avec Catherine Ringer
YouTube video by BernardLavillierVEVO
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Jean-Michel Basquiat @basquiat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Guilt of Gold Teeth, 1982 botfrens.com/collections/27/content…
The Guilt of Gold Teeth
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Farm www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-fa…
The Farm
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Jeremy Allen @jeres.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I've not actually read the article yet but this picture of a two year old Alexei Sayle is still the best thing I've seen all weekend www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bizarre that ‘John Wick’ is a successful action franchise. It sounds like a Lincolnshire haulage company- the kind of name you see on the side of a lorry on the eastbound A14 in sideways rain.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Marge Simpson bollard. #WorldBollardAssociation
A concrete bollard painted to look like Marge Simpson.
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Revisiting this idea from Chuck Jones that it's not merely that comedy is down to timing but the level of precision can be quite extreme.
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Flight of the dragonfly in Front of the Sun www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-fl…
The Flight of the dragonfly in Front of the Sun
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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Bull Fight www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-bu…
The Bull Fight
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Mountain Landscape - Vincent van Gogh - 1889
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ItIsStevenRhodes @400footghost.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to think that every single one of us is descended from either Fred & Wilma Flinstone or Barney & Betty Rubble.
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 10/09/2026
Hey you, yes you! Buy my book!
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Dead Teenager Movie
In this YA slasher, a horror-obsessed girl joins a group of wealthy teens for a wild weekend in a remote house, only to discover that the local murder rumours may be far more real – and far closer – t...
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 09/09/2026
“For heaven’s sake, Elroy! Now look where the earth is! … Move over and let me drive!”
“For heaven’s sake, Elroy! Now look where the earth is! … Move over and let me drive!”
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