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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Spindle leaf palette in October, complete with Barbie pinks:

Spindle, Euonymous europeaus leaves in autumn, arranged on a wooden table and with a hand written label

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Pirritin @pirritin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Was driving yesterday evening along a narrow country road and saw many deer. There just wasn't anywhere to pull over, until finally I found a spot. It was the day's last rays of light with magical mist. #Stunday #Deer #white-tailed #Mist #Nature #valkohäntäkauris #luonto #ECK

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 05/10/2026

goodwin apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1905

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

More than 70 people just tasted apples with us at the San Juan Island Grange (I think that's about 10x how many came last year!)

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"To be left-wing you have to read and think a lot. To be right-wing all you have to do is be proud of your own ignorance." - Mary Shelley

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So you're related? Seeds of Common Lime, Tilia x europaea, and Hollyhock, Alcea rosea, both members of the Mallow family, Malvaceae. #WildflowerHour

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A traditional Japanese tea room (chashitsu) featuring tatami mat flooring, rustic earthen walls, shoji paper windows, and a curved natural wood pillar (tokobashira).

Framed within the quiet dimness of an intimate tea room (chashitsu), a curved, natural wood pillar (tokobashira) arches gracefully upward from smooth straw-gold tatami mat flooring. Bathed in soft, muted light filtered through translucent paper windows (shōji), the rustic clay plaster walls feature a traditional white papered base (koshi-bari), creating a clean lower border along the floor. Resting on the tatami, a carefully arranged set of tea ceremony utensils—a stoneware tea bowl (chawan) with a bamboo whisk (chasen), a silk-wrapped tea caddy (chaire in shifuku), and a glazed water jar (mizusashi) with a dark lacquered lid—awaits the preparation of matcha. Suspended in the corner above, rustic floating wooden shelves (tsuri-dana) hold a small vessel in the ambient shadow. The room exudes a deeply contemplative sensory atmosphere: the crisp, dry aroma of woven rushes (igusa) and aged cedar, the faint, comforting scent of damp clay plaster, the soft rustle of silk robes across straw mats, and the quiet, expectant stillness of a ritual gathering. Rooted in the sukiya-zukuri architectural style perfected during the Azuchi-Momoyama period by tea masters such as Sen no Rikyū, this sanctuary embodies the humble spirit of wabi-cha (rustic tea culture). Rejecting the ostentatious luxury of feudal court displays, the design elevates unpretentious, natural materials—unplaned logs, river clay plaster mixed with rice straw, woven rushes, and handmade mulberry paper. The prominent use of an irregular, curved pillar (tokobashira) deliberately honors the organic contours of nature, celebrating timber in its unaltered state rather than square, machine-milled wood.

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Carolina @anilmedeiros.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My beloved cat loves flowers... ♡

Óscar completamente fascinado por um raminho de flores silvestres que eu trouxe da caminhada, mas que amor tão bom ♡

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muttnik @muttnik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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muttnik @muttnik.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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muttnik @muttnik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Cor Wijtman @corwijt48.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

. Saturday Growing older alone isn't easy, but I never want to go back. I’ve let go of so many things. .

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Merlin the Museum Cat — Bert Lee,

Painting of a black cat on a yellow background from the mid 20th century

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Rat Purse — Paul Frey, 20th C. brass, ruby

A brass Queen purse in the shape of a rat the body of the Rat is around bag of chainmail with four little rat legs coming off of it there's a rat tail at the end and the Rats I is a bright red thanks to a little speck of Ruby

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A New Still Life, 2016 by Nathalie Du Pasquier

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NPR @npr.org · 03/10/2026

The famed, Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States. n.pr/3VNx83v

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Theaster Gates bets on fine china

The famed, Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States.

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ArtReview @artreview.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life.

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Yuko Mohri: How to Love Broken Things

The Japanese artist’s symphony of decomposing matter and broken things offers a poetic reflection on the disjointed state of modern life

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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William Butler Yeats @wbyeats.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

I know of the leafy paths that the witches take.

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🤍 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕥𝕖.𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟𝕖 🕊️🌙 @white-nocturne.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It is beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society. Jiddu Krishnamurti Katja Lang _ Vom ersten Herbst (fanal)

A solitary, gnarled tree rises from a misty, dark foreground, whilst its sparse foliage stands out against a light grey, textured sky. To the left of it, a small human figure is depicted.

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Djangosmistress @djangosmistress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A guide for men.

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Anne Vallayer-Coster Still-Life with Tuft of Marine Plants, Shells and Corals

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Theodorus van Hoytema Kalenderblad voor oktober 1913

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yellow Hibiscus and Aster, from the Flowers of the Twelve Months: October, 1670-1710, by #YunBing (#Qingyu 清於; Haoru 浩如; Chinese, Qianlong era, active late C17th–early C18th). Held by Asian Art Museum, searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/5437... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory

A delicate rectangular, portrait-mode painting against a gold background of a stalk of yellow hibiscus above, with two flower blossoms, arching from the right to the left side of the page; and below, as stalk of a plant with two red flowers next to a stalk of a plant with four flowers with blue petals and yellow centers. There are two square-shaped red stamps, one over the other, in the bottom left corner of the work.

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Songes d'été Silvia Lareo-Vazquez

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

André Kértész

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second. Lewis Carrol good night

Photograph monotone

a whirl of movement and suspension Alice in Wonderland b & w cup

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Altar / Charlatan -collage

Anne Vallayer-Coster , "Still-Life with Tuft of Marine Plants, Shells and Corals" & "Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture" + Arecibo radio telescope in 2019, 📸 Mariordo + Medinet Habu, temple complex close to Luxor in Upper Egypt, 📸 Djehouty

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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026

Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)

Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Domenico Tintoretto, Judith & Holofernes (Venice 1577) Judith was one of the biblical heroines. The Bible narrates how this beautiful Israelite widow freed her people from the subjugation of the Syrians by seducing Holofernes and then killing him with her own sword while he slept in a drunken stupor

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Men Explain Rape to Me.

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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Speaking of now-obscure apple varieties: Some years ago, a former student, knowing of my interest in books, art, and gardens, was kind enough to give me this 1851 lithograph of an apple as a gift. No one today has heard of the Pomfret Russet, but it was typical of a favored type

lithograph with three different images of the apple, arranged in a pyramid

top: green apple, cut in half
lower left: ripe, yellowish apple
lower right: green apple

From Ebenezer Emmons, Agriculture opf New-York . . . (Albany, 1851)

available here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Natural_history_of_New_York_.._%28IA_naturalhistoryof31851hall%29.pdf

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 29/09/2026

“I like to think of the teacher Pema Chödrön, who would say: analyse your anger. Go to the bottom up, to the roots of it, and you will always find the same thing at the root of anger: a broken heart.” Laurie Anderson — ‘I learned a lot through blunders. I’m not trying to live a perfect life’:

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Laurie Anderson: ‘I learned a lot through blunders. I’m not trying to live a perfect life’

The pioneering artist answers the Nerve Q&A about Trump’s threat to culture, how she finds inspiration – and her forthcoming first-ever show in Wales. Interview by Jude Rogers

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 29/09/2026

yellow newtown apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Roses, peonies, passion flower & more in a glass vase, plus ladybug crawling up table. And butterfly. All by Carstian Luyckx. It's been his day.

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 27/09/2026

With some of the oldest surviving tarot decks on view, the Morgan’s exhibition traces how a Renaissance card game became something far more powerful.

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Tarot for a Broken World

With some of the oldest surviving tarot decks on view, the Morgan’s exhibition traces how a Renaissance card game became something far more powerful.

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Frances Benjamin Johnston Trade School. Brick laying 1899-1900

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am not here.

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Berlin, 2010

HOW LONG IS NOW
Graffiti on wall, iconic

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Patti Smith Guardian Angel. Berlin, 2013

Photograph monochrome

Angel in stark woods, sat with crossed arms and head lowered

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Injonctions Robert Frank

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2/2 Some glorious spare flowers hanging from a blue ribbon. By Carstian Luyckx of Antwerp.

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Parking for Tower Rcds. Book Soup by Ed Ruscha, 1999 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director's Council and Executive Committee Members: Ann Ames, Edythe Broad, Henry Buhl, Elaine Terner Cooper, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Harry David, Gail May Engelberg, Linda Fischbach, Ronnie Heyman, Dakis Joannou, Cindy Johnson, Barbara Lane, Linda Macklowe, Peter Norton, Willem Peppler, Tonino Perna, Denise Rich, Simonetta Seragnoli, David Teiger, Ginny Williams, and Elliot K. Wolk, 2000

© Ed Ruscha

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#ResistanceRoots Johnny Appleseed was born on this day in 1774 in Leominster, Province of Massachusetts Bay. He was a real person, and he planted a lot of apple trees, but he mainly sold them to make hard cider. He was also a pacifist, altruistic, revered nature and respected Indigenous tribes. /1

Johnny Appleseed. The romanticized image of Johnny Appleseed handing out sweet, shiny apples for children to bite into is a myth popularized much later. In the 1800s, the American frontier ran on alcohol. Water supplies weren’t safe to drink. Because fermenting killed off pathogens, hard cider became the primary daily beverage for entire families — even children. The average frontier settler drank 10.5 ounces of hard cider per day. Because Appleseed refused to graft trees due to his religious beliefs, his apples were genetically unpredictable, small and bitter. Known as “spitters” because you’d spit them out if you tried to eat them raw, these tart apples were perfect for pressing into hard cider. Resourceful frontier families used them for other staples as well, including apple butter, applesauce and livestock feed, and used a process called “freeze distillation” to make applejack. Note, however, that Appleseed rarely sold apples. He sold the young saplings and the land itself.

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