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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 9h

Bunty & I have had our legs tattooed too. She has a Val Doonican collage on her left & on her right a dramatic portrayal of Liz Truss trickling down. My legs are covered in moths & conkers with pictures of Norman Tebbit & calligraphy featuring lyrics from Chaka Demus & Pliers.🦵

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 15h

I love Kate Atkinson's work, so much so that when a former dalliance of mine sneered to me that KA was middlebrow (having never read any) well that was definitely a nail in that coffin or maybe it was her own woeful poetry emailed to me unexpectedly one afternoon at work that sealed the casket.

This is the audiobook cover for Our Noble Selves, a historical novel by Kate Atkinson published in September 2026.
• Plot: Set in the summer of 1951 during the Festival of Britain, the story follows war-scarred reporter Harry Flynn as he joins a quirky team preparing for the festival and becomes a suspect when a date goes missing.
• Audiobook Details: Published by Bolinda Audio and read by the author alongside actor Rupert Penry-Jones.

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Julian reading Julian. Well that was a lovely time.

You are listening to the audiobook edition of Departure(s) by Julian Barnes, read by the author himself.
The screen shows that you are on track 8 of 8, with 0 minutes and 0 seconds left, meaning you have finished the book (05:06:05 total running time). Departure(s) is a poignant, reflective work by the Booker Prize-winning author blending fiction, memoir, and essay to explore love, memory, aging, and mortality

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 28/09/2026

The exercises which I have started today are these from the UK’s NHS, including the other three in the series. www.nhs.uk/live-well/ex... 1. I love their choice of model. 2. They seem well-designed, almost as the NHS knows something about health. 3. There was creaking and groaning and mild joy.

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Flexibility exercises

Find out how to do these flexibility exercises that you can do at home to help improve your health and mobility.

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Marc Riley. @marcrileydj.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Chicory Tip with crab hat… CONCLUSIVE PROOF!

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've spent the past three hours plus wracking my brains trying to remember the name of Chicory Tip. No reason, I don't even want to hear one of their songs. Went down a long cul de sac of farm themes and three named bands like Barclay James Harvest. My brain finally spat it out with a jeer.

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough. Conker Season. This beauty picked up in Platt Fields, Manchester. 25.09.26 #conkers #horsechestnut

This is a high-contrast photograph showing two views of a single conker (a horse chestnut seed) resting on a vibrant, solid bright yellow background.Image Structure & CompositionLayout: The image is vertically split into two distinct panels separated by a thin white line, creating a "before and after" or multi-angle presentation.Lighting: A single, strong light source from the top-left casts a deep, soft-edged shadow to the right of the object in both frames, giving it a strong sense of three-dimensional depth.Subject DetailsTop Panel: The conker is positioned to clearly display its large, pale, circular attachment scar (hilum) at the top. The rest of the seed curves downward, showing its smooth, dark brown outer shell.Bottom Panel: The conker has been rolled over, hiding the pale scar. This view highlights the glossy, deep mahogany-brown skin, which reflects a bright point of light (specular highlight) on its smooth, rounded surface.

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I had to make something that doesn't actually involve looking at that odious creepy twerp Chris Mason's face so thought a picture of the lovely and late lamented BBC political news correspondent John Cole would do instead. #chrismason #bbcnews #johncole

The caption in the joke represents a satirical, fictional "passing of the baton" from one generation of British broadcasting to another.🔤 Breakdown of the CaptionThe speech bubble states: "Mason, quit flappin’ on about yourself, you wee wet shite."The Target ("Mason"): The joke directly targets Chris Mason, who took over the prestigious role of BBC Political Editor in 2022.The Critique ("quit flappin' on about yourself"): This is a playful jab at modern political reporting or on-air personality styles, jokingly suggesting that the newer generation talks too much about themselves compared to the old-school, strictly objective style of the past.The Dialect ("you wee wet shite"): The insult relies heavily on traditional Northern Irish slang. "Wee" means small, and "wet shite" is a common, highly colloquial Northern Irish derogatory phrase used to describe someone who is perceived as weak, annoying, or overly soft/feeble.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had a dance Tuesday with one of the bus drivers last dance. He was tall I looked like a little whippet.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Leonardo da Vinci, Caricature of a Man With Bushy Hair ca. 1495, pen and brown ink drawing on paper

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🧵The major exhibition at York Art Gallery, Turner, Wedgwood & Beyond: Inspired by Flaxman opens today. It brings together more than 70 works to explore the influence of Yorkshire artist John Flaxman on British sculpture, illustration and ceramic design.

Image: Turner, Wedgwood & Beyond Inspired by Flaxman at York Art Gallery. Image credit Claire Collinson Photography

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Njal Nova @njalnova.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eric Ravilious Cuckmere Haven 1939 British, 1903–1942 He was one of 300 artists hired by the British War Artists Advisory Committee to cover the second world war, and he was the first of them to die on active service #Art #Artist #Landscape #BritishArt

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another Berlin museum day with @alisonfisk.bsky.social : rooms full of stories, conversations full of laughter, and a beer to toast it all. I’ll leave the rest to this whimsical owl on a silver coin. 🦉🪙 Tetradrachm, Athens, around 450 BC. On display at Bode-Museum

A close-up of a silver coin depicting an owl and the inscription "ATHE" in Greek letters.

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er. That feeling reading a book you know you have to persevere with despite it being seriously low par and definitely not Dickensian as advertised.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ah that's a shame, word going around that Catherine Ringer of the amazing Les Rita Mitsuoko, legit one of the greatest French acts ever, has died. Her partner Fred Chichin died some years ago, so that's a final conclusion to that remarkable chapter. Here's one of their landmarks, just oozing cool.

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Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baïla (Clip Officiel)

YouTube video by Les Rita Mitsouko

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Some recent painting in various stages of progress #irishartist #blackandwhite

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Extended run of our exhibition through the Autumn until the end of the year!

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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

PHOTO OF THE DAY: The 2 people used in American Gothic by Grant Wood stand next to the iconic painting. They were Wood’s sister, Nan Graham, and his dentist, Dr. Byron McKeeby (1942). 📷 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Archives

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

@goodevans.bsky.social Bit of homework if you want to zoom into all the text.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Only a couple of hours left of my exhibition at Nottingham Castle! It’s been such a privilege staging this show there. Big gay working-class art joy! It goes on now to Ayrshire for a homecoming. observer.co.uk/culture/art/...

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The dark, wayward works of the Two Roberts | The Observer

The inseparable Scottish artists and lovers are celebrated in a landmark English show at Charleston

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verity @enbybastillatrauma.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

underrated bruce springsteen lyrics

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Fuck THAT, I think I'll shit in the house today"

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Paperback out now! And autumn / reading weather* seems to have arrived. *all weather is reading weather.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Another of Andy Warhol's portraits of Ingrid Bergman, from 1983.

A painting based on a still from the 1945 film The Bells of St. Mary's: Ingrid as a nun.

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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This hairball comes from the stomach of a donkey. The donkey was quite old and had been unwell for some time without any obvious explanation. On post mortem examination 3 hairballs were found. This one measures 6.5cm in diameter.

A large smooth looking hairball in a glass jar

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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Bees have eye hairs that shield them from pollen. I took this image with my Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM macro lens and a Raynox DCR-250 (2.5x). #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #eastcoastkin #bees #photography

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Mike Trinder @chthonicionic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Many years ago I thought mixing cream into a setting strawberry jelly would make a nice creamy desert for the then toddlers. And meat-baby was born. For the same toddlers 17th birthday, they’ve asked that I make another one…

A strawberry jelly with curdled cream set into it in the shape of a happy sloth. The curdled mixture has set to look just like shiny meat.

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Apparently the next Doctor Who will be a right exhibitionist freak if the new look TARDIS is anything to go by. Currently parked up around the corner from my house. #doctorwho #manchester #timetraveller #mossside #tardis

The image shows an abandoned, damaged commercial double-glass-door beverage cooler (resembling a branded or similar multi-shelf glass-front display fridge) fly-tipped in a narrow, cobbled residential back alleyway lined by red-brick terraced houses and wheelie bins....or is it a TARDIS?

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

More work started - I'll finish something eventually instead of continually starting new things. Does it still count as procrastination if it isn't dusting or doing the dishes? Spray paint on A2 card . #painting #irishart #blackandwhite #art #illustration

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Pirelli bicycle tires 1960 🎨 Riccardo Manzi

Poster illustration featuring a cartoonish illustration of a person riding a bicycle with 24 people of various sizes, shapes, and colors - including purple, green, and blue - inside the outline of the man. Text at the bottom translates from Italian to, "For all bicycle tires".

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The Art Exhibitions Blog @blogexhibitions.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Those Scottish Colourists really were avant-garde, weren't they? This is FCB Cadell's The Boxer (c. 1925, Private collection) in the show about Scotland's own Fab Four at The Arc in Winchester. Read about it on our blog: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/08/four...

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Watching Hobson's Choice. After checking Wikipedia realise I'm three year's older than Charles Laughton was when it was released.

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

More started today to add to an ever expanding incomplete pile. A2 #painting #workonpaper #irishartist #blackandwhite

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Les racines du mal Victor Obsatz

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

L.S. Lowry walking through the back streets of Salford, August 1957. In the background are Oldfield Road Dwellings.

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Brad Holland (b. 1943)

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In the 1950s, Alberto Giacometti turned with renewed interest to painting. His 'Still Life of an Apple,' looks simple enough but he was tireless in his efforts to define simplicity. The great thing about paint, he said, is that whatever was painted retained a sense of temporality

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

'A Venetian Scene.' (1879) Whistler's picture perfectly embodies the wraith-like mystery of Venice, so it appears even more of a fantasy. Many artists have painted from this spot but Whistler gives the city a triumphal view with a sparing use of paint on brown paper.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Blue plaque unveiled to mark 1964 gig at a Manchester railway station by Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the 'godmother of rock and roll'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Godmother of rock and roll's Manchester station gig honoured

The blues guitarist and vocalist Sister Rosetta Tharpe performed at an empty station for TV.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Saw this card & I thought great it's of the beach so I bought it but then I realised it wasn't, I don't know what it is.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Robert Sawyer's painting is based on a story told by his mother, who during WW2 saw a schoolboy on a tram with an chamber pot stuck on his head. The boy's mother was taking him to hospital to have it removed. She was so embarrassed that she put his school cap on top of the pot.

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Twenty Bensons, two pork pies, and a pack of blue Rizlas please..

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Mo Burns @moeybaumbaum.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Now running until September 22nd 2026

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