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little baby granny 🏳️‍⚧️ @stveronicaphoto.com · 4h
Niagara Falls (New York Side) 📷 Kodak No. 2A Brownie 🎞️ Ansco Plenachrome (expiration: January 1957) 🧪 Df96 3min at 80F Catalog No. R0217-003 #photography #expiredfilm #antiquecamera
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 9h
We stayed at home for Christmas and had relations.
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 21h
© Owen Rival. 'Purgatory.' Oil on canvas, 2025. 48 × 36 inches.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19h
Book Cover of the Day:
Grey cover: Spectropia - Surprising Spectral Illusions showing ghosts everywhere and of any colour. White ghost illustrated, hooded, pointing.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2h
Flight hijacked, forced landing at Luton, but managed to escape.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
90 years ago, the Jarrow Crusaders marched nearly 300 miles to London in protest at unemployment and poverty. Thomas Cantrell Dugdale’s 1936 painting captures their arrival from a Piccadilly interior (possibly the Ritz).
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Giggie @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 2h
on the one hand, fuck you Florida on the other, i don't have anything nice to say about Canadians who choose to live there 🧐 www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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Giggie @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 2h
oh dear god not the Voynich again 😑 www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?
Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text
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Giggie @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 2h
charming. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Only the beginning': Anti-immigration group says Ottawans should 'brace themselves' | CBC News
For weeks, posters and stickers across Ottawa advertising the anti-immigration group Dominion Society of Canada — which is calling for mass deportations of millions of people — have been generating co...
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Giggie @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 3h
Blackie and Whitey
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Helen Alexander @bawley.bsky.social · 4h
Ricepaper rolls? Delicous.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 3h
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Medieval leprosy hospital uncovered in Lincoln
Walls at the site have been unearthed as part of a three-day dig by Time Team experts.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 12h
It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized. Religion does have a place in health care, but only when it applies to respecting rights, not denying them, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized
Religion does have a place in health care, but only when it applies to respecting rights, not denying them
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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Peter Ackroyd - BOTD
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 9h
The Beersheba Venus carved ivory c. 4500-3500 BCE Beersheba culture Israel #handmade #carved #hippopotamus #ivory #Beersheba #venus #figurine #fertilityfigure #Negev #desert #Beershebaculture #Israel #chalcolithic #period #pregnant #woman #ivoryfigure #ivorycarving #Egyptian #predynastic #influence
The Beersheba Venus, a small prehistoric figurine of a pregnant woman carved from hippopotamus ivory. A fertility figure.
Discovered in Beersheba, Israel, and associated with the Chalcolithic period (circa 4500–3500 BCE).
The headless, 12 cm tall statuette features a polished surface, hands resting on the hips, a prominent pregnant belly with a drilled navel, and decorated pubic markings.
It is currently part of the collection at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
A group of objects made of hippopotamus tusks was discovered in Beersheba. In a workshop found in a subterranean dwelling, a complete canine tooth was revealed, together with a stone worktable, cutters' tools and ivory splinters. This evidence of a local ivory industry, in addition to the large number and variety of ivory objects that were found, suggests the existence of a prolific and creative school of highly skilled artisans.

Carved from a single piece of tusk, this mysterious figurine – beautifully preserved though headless and missing part of the right arm – is a nude female, apparently in an advanced state of pregnancy, with a large circular aperture in the place of her navel. Her hands rest on her hips, and her legs are slightly flexed as if moving; her pubic hairs are marked by drill holes, which were probably originally filled with bitumen or another material. The figurine, which is curiously lifelike, has a smooth, highly-polished surface. It somewhat resembles Egyptian Predynastic ivories.
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Jimmy @stink67.bsky.social · 8h
Roxy Music
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 15h
Published in 1812 as part of Katsushika Hokusai’s revolutionary instructional manual Ryakuga Haya-oshi (略画早指南, Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing), this page illustrates the master’s pioneering methodology for art education.
Displayed across a open two-page spread, a remarkable pedagogical demonstration contrasts geometric scaffolding with organic artistic realization. On the left page, Katsushika Hokusai dissects a complex scene into fundamental geometry: overlapping circles (maru), triangles (sankaku), and straight lines construct the underlying anatomy of a traveler mounted on a packhorse beneath clustered circular pine needles. On the right page, these rigid compass-and-ruler guidelines dissolve seamlessly into a fluid sumi ink rendering, bringing forth a weary traveler wearing a broad straw hat (suge-gasa) slumped gently atop a grazing horse under a textured pine canopy. Surrounding the figures, delicate calligraphic annotations guide the student's hand. The woodblock print evokes an enlightening sensory atmosphere: the rhythmic scratch of a brass compass pivoting on fibrous washi paper, the smooth glide of a bamboo brush loaded with dark indigo-black ink, the quiet concentration of an Edo-period apprentice in a sunlit workshop, and the intellectual joy of discovering order hidden within natural form.   Published in 1812 as part of Katsushika Hokusai’s revolutionary instructional manual Ryakuga Haya-oshi (略画早指南, Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing), this page illustrates the master’s pioneering methodology for art education. Designed to democratize drawing for amateur enthusiasts, textile designers, and aspiring artisans across Edo Japan, Hokusai demonstrated that any subject—from human figures and horses to ancient pines—could be reliably constructed using simple drafting tools like the compass (bunmawashi) and ruler (shaku). Rather than relying solely on intuitive copying, Hokusai’s analytical approach broken down visual reality into modular geometric building blocks.
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Skot Armstrong @skot.bsky.social · 5h
#NationalBadgerDay The Badgermin www.nervoussquirrel.com/badgermin.html
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 10h
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 06,1949
P1- ITS A COLD BLUSTRY AND CLOUDY DAY 
NANCY: WHAT A DREARY DAY --- GUESS
I'LL VISIT SLUGGO
P2- NANCY IS AT SLUGGO’S HOUSE AND SHE IS LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW 
NANCY:FALLING LEAVES GIVES ME THE BLUES
SLUGGO NOT ME--I'M GLAD TO SEE
'EM GO
P3-SLUGGO: I CAN'T SEE MY NEIGHBOR'S TELEVISION WITH A LOT OF LEAVES IN TH' WAY
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Patric Bates @patricbates.bsky.social · 5h
Using markers in this thing that I’m working on #art #drawing #drawings #illustration #cryptids
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Giggie @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 5h
"Believed [to be] by Cherilea Toys [f. Lancashire UK 1948] – Rare matching pair of plastic Scottie Terrier Dogs – likely promotional models for Dewar’s Black & White Scotch Whisky (though the Scottie and West Highland White Terriers are represented by just the one moulding)"
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 7h
By Chris Reccardi
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 9h
'Winter Dusk in London' (2013) by Nessie Ramm nessieramm.co.uk
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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 8h
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 10h
Simon Palmer, British (1956- ), An Ancient Right of Way, watercolor, ink and gouache on paper, 80 x 59.5 cm
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 10h
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 06,1944
P1- SLUGGO SEES NANCY STANDING ON THE CORNER AND SHE IS HOLDING A STICK UP IN THE AIR
SLUGGO: WHATCHA DOIN’ NANCY?
NANCY:I JUST FINISHED ANOTHER PAINTING 
P2- NANCY: AND I WANT TO GET A GOOD PRICE FOR IT
P3-SLUGGO SEES THAT NANCY HAS HOOKED HER PAINTING WITH A PIECE OF STRING AND IS HOLDING IT INSIDE THE WINDOW OF THE MUSEUM OF ART
NANCY : NOW I CAN TELL PEOPLE THAT IT ONCE HUNG IN THE MUSEUM
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 11h
#Painting by Nathalie Orselli #art
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 9h
Hans Leinberger (attributed), German (active 1511-1530), Figure of Death (Memento Mori), 1520s, boxwood, 34 x 11 x 11 cm, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 8h
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead It's #MadHatterDay. I can't think of a mourning hat much madder than this diabolical 1906 hat and veil in crepe and nun's veiling, made by Jas. McCreery & Co., New York.
Photograph of a model with her head lowered, looking upwards, wearing a black bodice, and a horned black hat with veil  down the back.Photograph of a back view of a mourning hat and veil, with wings or horns on the hat and a draped veil down the back.
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 12h
Created in 1992 by Yuka Taguchi (田口由花), this painting stands as a masterwork of contemporary Nihonga (traditional Japanese-style painting)
Reclined in quiet grace upon a shimmering ground of dusted gold, a sleek black cat gazes with vibrant green eyes toward an overarching vine of brilliant blue morning glories (asagao). The composition masterfully balances the dark, velvety silhouette of the cat with the rich lapis hues of the fully blossomed flower, framed by deep green foliage outlined with fine, golden veins and a single emerging pink bud. The painting exudes an intimate, serene sensory atmosphere: the cool, soft texture of fine silk beneath delicate paws, the faint rustle of garden foliage catching a gentle morning breeze, the dew-drenched freshness of an early dawn bloom, and the quiet, rhythmic purr of a feline resting in watchful solitude.
Taguchi utilizes traditional natural pigments alongside sunago (dusted gold leaf) to construct a luminous background that illuminates the deep black tones of the cat's fur. The painstaking precision in the individual whiskers, fine claws, and intricate leaf venation showcases monozukuri—the unwavering devotion to artisanal mastery and technical discipline.
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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 10h
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 9h
The Moundville Cat Pipe carved Glendon limestone c. 1000-1500 CE Mississippian culture Moundville, Alabama, USA #handmade #carved #stone #GlendonLimestone #Moundville #cat #pipe #Mississippian #culture #MoundvilleAlabama #USA #precolumbian #ancientart #art #sculpture #mythology #zoomorphic #effigy

This zoomorphic artifact is the Moundville Cat Pipe, a famous Mississippian-period effigy pipe carved from limestone.The Mississippian culture was an advanced Native American civilization that flourished from approximately 800 CE to the 1600s across the Midwestern and Southeastern United States.
Recovered from the Moundville Archaeological Site in Alabama, USA.
Mississippian culture (dating roughly between 1000–1500 CE).
It portrays a stylized feline (often interpreted as a panther or underwater cat) with bared teeth and coiled, swirling lines around its face.
A heavy ceremonial pipe bowl, featuring a characteristic cavity in its back used for smoking sacred tobacco rituals. The original artifact is currently housed in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.
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Giggie @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 9h
black and white in colour terriers
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Now, when it comes to k.d. lang's powerful and distinctive voice, all I can think is that it sounds like Canada: its vastness, its depth of emotion, its ability to express beauty and pain and longing, sometimes all at the same time." — Jill Barber www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/entertainmen...
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'Sounds like Canada:' k.d. lang toasted at Ottawa tribute concert
OTTAWA - A chorus of k.d. lang's friends and admirers turned the tables on the serial cover artist Friday, serenading the Alberta-born singer with renditions of her own songs at
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New cartoon from Michael de Adder. Sorry if my American friends don't get this one, but Michael is a Canadian who occasionally speaks in Canuckish.
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Giggie @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 10h
still morning in Canada, thanks for the heads-up (albeit face-down 🫢)
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twistopherrobin.bsky.social @twistopherrobin.bsky.social · 14h
#Photography #Monochrome #DavidMoore
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Giggie @ottawaensis.bsky.social · 11h
today's terriers
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17h
Durham Station Road, painting by Eric Thompson (b.1947).
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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spider’s web on the lamppost in the garden. Misty start to the day in the Surrey Hills. #31DaysofHalloween #Autumn #Fall #ClassicMono #SurreyHills #Photography
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little baby granny 🏳️‍⚧️ @stveronicaphoto.com · 05/10/2026
Kodak factory - Rochester, New York 📷 Kodak No. 2 Brownie Model E (1920 rev) 🎞️ Kodak Ektapan 100 🧪 HC110B 5.5min at 20C Catalog No. R0215-011 #photography #kodak
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17h
Remembering Barbara Castle (1910-2002), born on this day in Chesterfield, raised in Pontefract and Bradford. MP for Blackburn. Held several cabinet roles under Harold Wilson and is the only woman to have been First Secretary of State. Painting by Ruskin Spear (Walker Art Gallery).
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 23h
by Robert Czerwik
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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · 21h
© Owen Rival. 'Stair.' Coloured pencil, 2023. 11 x 14 inches.
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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 17h
'Dawn in London' (2008) by Stefan Bleekrode behance.net/Stefanbleekrode
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CT Million @ctmillion.bsky.social · 23h
Otto Yamaoka, who plays Tracy's valet Ching, was imprisoned with his family during WWII at the Heart Mountain internment camp in rural Wyoming, despite being born in Seattle. #TCMParty #LibeledLady #EverythingOldIsNewAgain #HistoryRepeatingItself
Actor Otto Yamaoka with Spencer Tracy in a scene from Libeled Lady
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French_Etchings @frenchetchings.bsky.social · 21h
chair #art #photography #streetphotography #believeinfilm #filmphotography #bwphotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #BW CONTAX III A | HELIOS-103 53MM F1.8 | KODAK VISION3 200T | RODINAL 1:50
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 21h
Daily bunny no.3463 is going to fix the place up
Two bunnies go through the ruins of a small stone house of sometime. The building is ruined and has no roof. One bunny looks through the top window, assessing the damages.
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 18h
This ruby-red amber sculpture is Etruscan and portrays a deity holding two plump hares upside down. You can make out the long ears in particular on the animal on the right. The translucence of the amber makes the colour even more vibrant. 🕰️c600 BC 🏛️📷 Getty Museum 🇺🇸
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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ㅤ Ancient intaglio depicting a grasshopper driving a chariot being pulled by two butterflies — Roman, 1st c. bce - 1st c. ce, carnelian ㅤ
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