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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 19h

A Goldfinch among the teasels. 😍 What have you spotted in nature recently? Let's fill our feeds with nature.

A Goldfinch perches on a tall teasel seedhead in warm golden light. Its red face and yellow wing flash stand out against the brown seedheads and soft blurred background, creating a calm October scene.

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 02/10/2026

There's a new edition of THE HOBBIT & it's the one illustrated by Tove Jansson which has never been published in English before. (It was pub'd in Sweden where Astrid Lindgren picked her to do the illustrations!) Read more: tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolki... 📖 www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Tove Jansson's cover for THE HOBBIT with a very Jansson-esque Bilbo holding a shield and axe with mountains behind, Smaug flying overhead, and the line of riding dwarves as tiny silhouettes behind.

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jesus fucking motorboating Christ, NO. Fuck off, right to the edge of fucking off, fuck off over that edge, hit the very fucking bottom of fucking off, and then fucking crawl away to die in a fucking corner.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For no better reason than it's Friday, we're going to review wrestlers on how useful they'd be working in the archive. First up: Triple H. He'd probably be great to have in the office, but that water spit thing is just going to raise our humidity levels so it's a no from us.

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The Victorian Archivist @victorianarchivist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alright, time to post the receipts of this gown I've been ranting about. This is my Brunswick, 100% handsewn in silk. I love her and I love sewing, and generative AI could NEVER. Make art, friends. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be you, with your hands. Just make it.

A woman stands in a field at sunset with small mountains in the distance. Her back is to the camera. She wears a blue and white silk gingham gown. It is an 18th century gown called a Brunswick. It consists of a petticoat (skirt) that brushes the tops of her feet, and an overgown with skirts that fall to her hip, a loose, pleated back, long sleeves, and a hood. A high white collar is visible above the hood, and a white linen cap with a dark blue ribbon around it covers her hair.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

that's about £28m a day renewables have saved the UK sending to petrostates since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku

A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing beside a track leading down to a mill. The cow is looking at the camera.

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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 01/10/2026

The Celestine and the Hare 2027 calendar is available for preorder now! I only print to order so if you want one or seven, preorder this month ready for posting mid November. They make great gifts for friends and family, you can sneak write dates on them before you send. A year of joy on your wall

CELESTENG AND THE HARE
CALENDAR
2027 CALENDARS ARE OPEN FOR PREORDER!

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thatcher was only saved by North Sea Oil & the Falklands NOT by her political policies. Also, she should have put our oil into a sovereign fund, like Norway, instead of spaffing it away in tax breaks for one generation. We’re all now still paying for her profligacy & her privatisation mistakes.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All new houses should be built wth doors and passageways wide enough for wheelchairs. Anyone can end up needing one, whether temporarily or permanently.

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OmandOriginal @omandoriginal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's National Poetry Day today, with this year's theme being Wonder. To mark the day, here's a reminder of a poem of my own from many years back, called Questions, Questions... www.omandoriginal.com/2012/10/fife...

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Questions, Questions...

Questions, Questions... - a poem with a child's eye view.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

Brian Bilston

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

Mature oak trees with bare branches in an autumn woodland

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's #buyastrangerabook day. A groovy kind of day all round.. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know. UK only It's a thing! Look. www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

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Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.

The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Witchcraft is not consolatory hokum. It doesn't offer tepid answers to hard questions and even harsher circumstances. It offers us relationships with the land, its spirits and ourselves. Relationships may be rough and require work, but they get us through. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m looking for a paid writing gig to supplement my income from fiction. I’ve previously written articles for The Guardian, Irish Times, SFX, and had by lines in Acoustic and The Engineer, and gained extensive editorial experience with Stars and Sabers Publishing. DM me if you need my skills.

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J Steele @jsavagesteele.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Rough time to be a writer. Thanks to the efficiency of Netflix's AI division the idea I had in the shower this morning was added to voice notes, optioned, picked up, developed, processed, cancelled at 67% rendering, and filed as an insurance write-off before I'd dried off enough to put my boxers on.

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Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Your Daily Dracula – Sesame Street ‘Batty Bat’ (2019) www.youtube.com/watch?v=287O...

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Sesame Street: Batty Bat | Animated Lyric Video

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The BBC's new director general's brain is smaller on the inside.

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We've just launched a new digital resource! Almost 15,000 entries, covering every Fellow, Honorary Fellow, Member and Licentiate of our College from our foundation to 1926. Check it out 👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/phy...

Promotional image. A composite image of nine doctors, text on image reads 'physicians database'

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OmandOriginal @omandoriginal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This wee weasel is weasely recognised but a stoat is stoatally different apparently.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

hello we're about to record a new episode of our podcast. and the category is: listener questions. send us something in the next 45 minutes and we'll try our best to answer!

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Tony Cross @lokster71.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am working on my own experience here so I'm anecdotal but I'm now convinced that if you block right-wing accounts on Meta the Meta algorithm feeds more of them into your timeline. I thought this on Instagram. I think it even more so on Facebook. I think someone should probably investigate this.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A YouTube milestone - 400 subscribers! ❤️ Here's a new short from our extras series to celebrate. Bookmark for when you need a dose of summer.

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Butterflies and bees in a meadow with the sound of cicadas

YouTube video by Radio Lento

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

From the introduction to the Hookland Tourist Board I=SEE STRANGE HOOKLAND book:

REMEMBER:

Don’t go out by yourself at night. Many things in this book are thought to be imaginary, but being out by yourself in the dark can still be dangerous – even if you don’t encounter the Danebury Grim.

If you see something that scares you, tell a parent or a trusted adult such as a teacher. In extreme cases where you can’t find an adult you can trust, you could even tell a police officer.

Don’t provoke Faeries of any type. You would not like people shouting your name, poking you in your bed with a stick or throwing stones in your bath, so don’t do it to Faeries. No-one likes ill-behaved children, least of all the Elves of Hookland.

Don’t signal for UFOs with torches. It is not only a waste of batteries, it can be misinterpreted by the emergency services. Besides, we can’t promise that all UFOs are friendly or interpret your signal as a positive message.

Show some respect for the graves of the dead. If you were buried in the ground you wouldn’t appreciate another child dancing on your grave or trying to dig it up would you?

Remember to take extra care when looking for things around water – both by the sea and along rivers and pools. Even if he is imaginary, the King-Under-the-Sea should be shown some deference and Stay Belows not encouraged to grab at you when dangling your legs or trailing your hands in cool, apparently calm water.

Imaginary things can’t hurt you unless you believe in them with all your heart and then they are really quite dangerous.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feminism doesn't require women to see trans+ people as the enemy. For many of us, feminism has always meant challenging inequality, standing alongside people whose rights are under threat, and refusing to accept that one group's equality must come at another's expense. That's our feminism too.

Woman walking down a street outside, wearing a scarf and shoulder bag. The quote from one of the women who signed our letter reads

“I have grown incredibly exasperated at the portrayal of ‘gender critical’ perspectives as representing all women when my feminism has ALWAYS been inclusive and intersectional.”

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱🇪🇺 @avantgardening.pl · 25/09/2026

I can honestly say, it's not often I agree with a Pope, but on this occasion I'm right there.

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pinned post! My name is Michelle and I’m a UK artist! Clients have included Metallica, Magic: The Gathering, Elder Scrolls online, Boom! Publishing, Werewolf The Apocalypse, and more. I’m a volunteer for Wolf Rescue Wolf Watch UK Website/shop wolfskulljack.com Patreon patreon.com/wolfskulljack

A collection of Metallica posters that I’ve done for the band

Digital illustration, realist suit of armour with illustrative wolf skull and foliage

Me drawing a monsterous wolf head on a wall using Posca pens

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🍁🐉 Please join my patreon & support a writer! Only the price of a cup of chocolate! Daily stories & recipes & a magnificent archive! Today, for example, learn how to make the "Dragon of Kensington Church Street's Restorative Soup for Colds and Influenza." 🐉 🍁https://patreon.com/c/annelouiseavery

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the most important news from history today is that it’s the 39th anniversary of the (US) release of The Princess Bride—and what better way to mark the day than remind ourselves of Cary Elwes’ story about André the Giant and the enormous, life-altering, earth-shaking fart?

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

So today, honor the memory of the guy who wanted to “make the world a little bit better for my having been here.” Go do something worthwhile today. Create something. Collaborate with others. Read something. Or go be silly simply because you can. Jim Henson would want you to.

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Rob Jones - Letterer/Writer/WOTW: Thunder Child out NOW!!! @robjoneswrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Join myself and @benjaminaefilby.bsky.social, @andylanning.bsky.social and @norrie.bsky.social and @matthew-hardy.bsky.social and #GeoffSenior as we weave 3 stories that tell tales set after the last stand of the HMS Thunder Child in a world plunged into inter-planetary war!

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On this day in 1647, a child was born near Edinburgh with two heads, each one with a single eye in the middle of its face, donkey ears, a tree-trunk-like body, arms sticking out all over, talons, male and female ‘secret parts’, and the legs and feet of oxen. Yes, IT’S ALL TRUE

A 1647 pamphlet: Strange Nevves from SCOTLAND,
OR,
A ſtrange Relation of a terrible and prodigious Monſter, borne to the amazement of all thoſe that were ſpectators, in the Kingdome of Scotland, in a Village neere Edenborough, call’d Hadensworth, Septem. 24. 1647. and the words the faid Monfter ſpake at its birth:
Printed according the Originall Relation ſent overto a great Divine hereafter mentioned.
Illustration shows the creature pretty much as described. It appears to have a forearm protruding from each knee.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Your feed now contains one Red Deer and several complimentary ferns. Enjoy.

A Red Deer looks through a curtain of green ferns with its antlers tangled in leafy fronds, giving the impression it's accidentally wearing a woodland hat. The softly blurred background creates a peaceful forest scene.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Where’s Chris?” “I don’t know.” “You told him three o’clock?” “Like ten times.” “Fucking drummers.” “Should we wait a little longer?” “Screw him, take the picture.”

Four squirrels posed together in what looks like a band picture.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Highly informative on many aspects of recent events.

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Quick reminder. The legendary comic book artist Frank Miller has a new book just published. "Push the Wall : My Life, Writing, Drawing and the Art of Storytelling." And we have just a few SIGNED copies left You can get one HERE! biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

Front cover of Frank Miller's book. A black and white drawing by Frank, of a guy in a trenchcoat, in the rain. Likely to be from his graphic novel Sin City.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

Look goddamnit It's entirely possible To eat a plum And not make a poem about it The one I just ate Wasn't even in the Goddamn refrigerator Or anything Sometimes a plum Is just a plum You can just eat it And go on with your life WHAT Why are you looking at me What'd I do now (looks) oh GODDAMNIT

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Karin Celestine @celestineandthehare.com · 21/09/2026

Spoon carving badger was going to have a lovely scene with a log and axe but making the axe ended me up at minor injuries getting my thumb strapped up back together (oopsy) so here he is with no axe for now! Should heal in a week they said and no washing dishes till then, so that’s a silver lining!

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🍂 Today on my patreon, Number Twenty-one of Old Fox's Grand List of Thirty Things to Do in September: Baking an Equinoxial Pie! Join for this and thousands of other stories and recipes! Help a starving writer and feed your soul! www.patreon.com/annelouiseav...

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 21/09/2026

Today is September 21st.

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