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Just quietly watching the world go by, sharing the cheerful and interesting, free of Twitter nonsense.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 2h
In Herbert Badham's 'The Night Bus,' (1943) the interior lights highlight the different figures and their gestures, all still, fixed in the moment. A woman reads a magazine, a man smokes, the conductor chats to a passenger.
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Nostalgic Things that go bump in the night @nostalgicthing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"You crossed the wrong people, motherfucker."
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 7h
The image is of a four panel comic. The title is "Satanic Ritual".
In the first panel we see a little red devil in a bubble bath.
In the second panel we see the devil with a towel wrapped around its head, standing in front of a mirror doing gua sha.
In the third panel we see the devil putting on a face mask.
In the fourth panel we see the devil wearing the face mask sitting on its bed watching a show and drinking a glass of wine.
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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪 @chateaucat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Paul Klee, Intoxication, 1939
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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 11h
As I age, I increasingly lean toward dressing like a dazzle ship: I care less about looking good, and more about ensuring my enemies cannot fathom what I am doing, where, and at what speed.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Your daily moment of zen: Rescued bear cubs at the Kilham Bear Center in New Hampshire are given a donated pile of apples & acorns every year to fatten up before their first hibernation. Kilham is focused on rehab & release, run by competent rehab experts.
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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 22h
Nepal was hit by ANOTHER flash flood today. Disgusting, black, debris-filled water surged through the Budhigandaki River valley, eating up houses and bridges in its path. It comes less than 2 months after a massive flood killed nearly 1,500 people w/ 5,000 still missing.They just can't catch a break
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 18h
Time for another ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 300, f. 95r
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 16h
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Tom Stables photo from Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2016, titled Head Shot: a Cape buffalo looks at camera as a cattle egret stands on its head, looking left (in the image). The egret has shat on the buffalo, and an almost perfectly centred white stripe extends from between the bird’s feet and the buffalo’s horns down to a point between the buffalo’s eyes
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The most fun thing ever to randomly see
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 15h
Morning all. Photographer Shirley Baker, Salford 1960s.
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 15h
Painting by Peter Hurd. ‘Blue Mountain’ 1950. Oil on board. Size 55.8 × 44.4 cm.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 15h
Some of those kids have been stranded for quite a while now.
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Honywood pupils left at roadside as school bus crisis deepens
Children have been left at the roadside after Honywood School buses arrived full, parents have warned.
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Snarky Robot, but Halloween-themed @snarkyrobot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Middle age is realizing those little glass pudding cups are cheaper than anything you can find at IKEA or whatever and also have pudding in them.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I'm deep down the rabbit hole on FROGFISH, 60 species of anglerfish in family Antennariidae. They are deeply, utterly WEIRD & MARVELOUS. Most walk on modified fins. Others use jet propulsion. Some are capable of air-breathing. Some are "hairy", others blend perfectly in sargassum.
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London SE1 community website @se1.news · 11/10/2026
As part of this year's London Literature Festival, the Southbank Centre is hosting a free book swap in the Royal Festival Hall foyer southbank.london/news/southba...
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Southbank Centre's free Book Swap at London Literature Festival
A host of celebrity names, including Dua Lipa, Anish Kapoor, Holly Blakey, Jacqueline Wilson, Marin Alsop and Michael Rosen are donating books to the Book…
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Mars Rover @marsrover.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sure I'll go and impart all of my worldly working wisdom, boss.
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Tooting Newsie @tootingnewsie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Anyone missing a parrot? This friendly bird was just spotted opposite #Tooting Bec Lido entrance.👇
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Katie @katieest1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
On Thursday a remarkable woman won a by-election. On Friday a remarkable woman won the Nobel Peace Prize. The coverage has overwhelming been focused on the men who lost. It's 2026. Yet still.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." — Albert Einstein, German Physicist.
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
May 29th, 1412: The day Roger decided that wild swimming really wasn’t for him - 15th century, BnF, Latin 9585, f. 38r
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Herne Hill Music Festival @hernehillmusicfest.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Don't miss @tuomo.karjalainen's soothing acoustic 🎸 with A/V projections 😌 & @ritat.music's heartfelt folk pop stories - hopefully incl 'The Stars' ͙͘͡★ - today in the #brockwell_greenhouses Barn from 3pm. 🎟️https://tinyurl.com/4nm2nkdk or just walk up! 🚶🏻‍➡️🚶🏻‍♀️‍➡️🌳 #HerneHill #MusicFestival #London #inthepark
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Keith @keith70.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Sunday.
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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out these guys are real
A fish like a child would draw, no fins, just a tail an eye and a little smile
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My Lord, London is just absolutely throbbing with life and colour and fun right now. I’ve been wandering all day, renewing the songlines, and it’s been glorious! What a city! NY... You’re very nice, but London is the world city. 😅
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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Mushrooms are out :) Fly Agaric at St Leonards Forest near Horsham. Looks like there's a light on inside. #mushrooms #fungi #photography
Red and white topped mushroom.
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Alan Muttley @alanmuttley1066.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Been sketching glasses w charcoal
1st attempt on the right, 2nd of the left
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1937’s utterly gorgeous Penguin Books building in Harmondsworth, Middlesex. Several decades after Penguin moved to central London, this lovely, historic Art Deco gem was pulled down. Which was just wrong.
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
friday is for kafkaposting
tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Diablo’s lax attitude made him the kingdom’s most sought after chaperone by young courting couples - 13th century, BnF Français 14969, f. 5r
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 10/10/2026
Morning!
Speedy Gonzales, the cartoon mouse character, wearing an oversized yellow sombrero and red bandana around his neck, with his tongue out in an enthusiastic smile. He's posed energetically against a background of concentric tan circular rings.
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nick Park spent the '80s making A Grand Day Out mostly alone. It was a school project that got out of hand -- he wanted to quit many times. But Park stuck with it and fulfilled his dream of bringing a cinematic feel to stop motion. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/wallace-an...
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Keith @keith70.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Saturday!
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought: ‘You know what this needs? A leg!’ Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆 Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows an ancient Greek pottery bowl with a rounded, deep body, wide open mouth and flared rim. It has a large handle shaped like a human leg, extending from the left side of the bowl in my photo, bending at a right angle and ending in a flat foot. The bowl has a camel-coloured surface decorated with dark brown geometric patterns, which include zigzags and meander motifs arranged in horizontal bands around the body of the bowl and along the leg. From Attica, Early Geometric period, circa 850 BC. It sits on a light stone coloured surface in a display case at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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Jonathan Roberts @jonroberts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is now the scientists turn to hide www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
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GMB Union @gmb.org.uk · 09/10/2026
School support staff in Merton get less in London weighting than teachers. It’s not right - and it must change 💪 That’s why they marched on the Department for Education #LondonWeightingNeedsInflating
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The entire theory of evolution, explained by The Simpsons. Original post
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Friday
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Tooting Newsie @tootingnewsie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ned is still missing – has anyone seen him? #Tooting
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JC 🇺🇦 @melodiousthunk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dope
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
‘Should’ve gone to Specsavers’ - 14th century, British Library, Royal MS 19 C I, f. 7r
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Emma Westcott @ecwestcott.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Friday!
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Welsh Bollocks @welshbollocks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Doris Rees & Beti Llewellyn celebrating 65 years of membership with the Trimsaran branch of the W.I.
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Shihab S Joi @shihabsjoi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Quote of the day:
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One more octopus thread for World Octopus Day.🐙 All octopus species are venomous, even this little flapjack octopus. Most make neurotoxins specific to arthropods, called 'cephalotoxins'. Let's learn about another component: OCTOPAMINE! Our story starts in 1948... (📷: Schmidt Ocean Institute)
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Paul D Coombs @pauldcoombs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“PEOPLE’S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED ‘LIVING’.” Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent (1998)
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Postcards of London @postcardslondon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Have not got the sack yet, so am living in hopes of lasting the week out." ----- Postmark: 4 May 1915
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wojciech Krupa (German Artist, born 1966) "Gold Autumn", 2024 Oil Pastels, 42 × 30 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Max now wished he’d asked a few more questions before agreeing to be blindfolded - 14th century, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 8, f. 92r.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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