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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Michaelmas Day 29th September. ‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas (Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis 1958)

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Paul Nash @paul-nash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landsc…

Paul Nash's "Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase" depicts a surreal and dreamlike landscape with a haunting moon cast behind abstract hills in a palette of earthy twilight hues. Nash, known for his evocative war landscapes, skillfully blends natural forms with a sense of mysticism, reflecting his fascination with the esoteric nature of the English countryside.

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Miss Binks and the Monkey enjoying #Caturday morning. They were gathering their strength before an afternoon of climbing fruit trees 😸

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's European Day of Languages, so here are some of our favourite untranslatable and wonderfully-specific words from across Europe that we wish we had in English ✨

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sleeping Antelope, Saharan Rock Art, Algeria, ca. 9000 BCE

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R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Welsh poet RS Thomas died #OnThisDay in 2000. Here's a tribute by Rowan Williams (patron of the RS Thomas & ME Eldridge Society)…

Text of poem -

Deathship.
(In memory of R. S. Thomas)
The last years, words from a window smoothing the sea, the iron back and forth to probe the fugitive wrinkles carving a path down to the lost gate.
What hid in the pale clefts till now feels for the light, a soft uncertain lingering as if through stone, through furrows of flint.
The tides pressed neat as for an evening out: time to drag down a black boat from the shed, off through the gate, to balance on the slow sea at dark, ready to sail.
The smoke will rise, the cloudy pillar wavering across the sky's long page At dawn, somewhere westward, the boat flares in a blaze of crying birds.
- Rowan Williams

A black-and-white close-up portrait of an elderly RS Thomas with tousled white hair and a deeply lined face, wearing a dark coat. He is looking slightly off-camera with a happy expression.

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Glorious Godwin. For the cover of 'Remains of Elmet' and 'Elmet', responding to Ted Hughes' poems. #faygodwin #tedhughes #elmet

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The giant earth ripples of Hambledon Hill last Sunday. Lay in the wind-shade on top, ate lunch and watched kites, buzzards and crows against the blue, isolated cirrus skeins drifting eastward high over Blackmore Vale ☺️ #hillfortswednesday #Hambledon #dorset

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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces." - Carl Sagan ....and here we are 🙄😒

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My first morning in the Omaze house. I didn’t sleep. I could hear crying from behind the door I’m not allowed to open.The only thing to eat is frozen prawns. I went for a wander round the 4 acre garden and found a box of VHS tapes marked ‘For the next one’. I’m sure it’s fine. I’m sure it’s all fine

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

On coming home from my week in #Meirionydd #Cymru, Mr Monkey has been seeking me out to give me lots of head butts, nuzzles and plenty of lap-work #caturday #merioneth #wales

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Farage's Reform never lets the truth get in the way of a publicity opportunity.

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

More postcards from #Meirionydd #Cymru ##merioneth #wales Thankfully, the rain held back on my annual pilgrimage to Cwm #Ratgoed and most of the shrines were visited.

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Mid Wales is damp, and pleasingly so 😊

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We should put this sign on every politician's desk

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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026

J'accuse - Will Self names individuals contributing to the Jason Arday pile-on and calls for action. HT @johnnyninefingers.bsky.social and the excellent thread by @monkemma.bsky.social linked below. willself1.substack.com/p/2089334077...

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Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media

After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Paul Nash, Eclipse of the Sunflower, 1945

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The cat was on the stairs to-night. I think it sits there always. There is no kitchen cat." 'The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral', M. R. James #BookwormSat #Caturday 🎨 Arend Hendriks - The Trap (c. 1930s)

Drawing of a flight of stairs going up into shadows and darkness. At the top a cat with glowing eyes is peering round.

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The mulberry crop is now in full flow 😁 So messy, but such a unique flavour 😋 #mulberries

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today may be #internationalcatday, but Monkey hasn't noticed. After all, everyday is Monkey Day! #caturday

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...

salon.com

Trump and Musk both want to control America's history

The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Rain is forecast🤞 But Binks is asleep in the outdoor chair, so I can't bring it in! What to do? 😸 #caturday

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A scene from Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, photo by Fergus Bourke, Irish documentary photographer (1934-2004).

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Larry likes his breakfast at 9, brunch at 1030 and lunch at noon with plenty of snacks in between. The rest of the job is a doddle"

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

First mulberries of the season .. mmm! 😋 #mulberries

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Mr F_ing Useless, aka Monkey, making his gardening contribution this #caturday

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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We laugh in the face of cattlegrids 🐑

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

An authentic Pountney I think? In Treorchy today

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Good morning. May your shelves be filled with kittens and books.

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Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

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Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I've not even got a cardigan on.

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Happy Adlestrop Day! "Yes. I remember Adlestrop The name, because one afternoon Of heat, the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June." May the blackbird - and all the birds wherever you are - sing for you today 🐦‍⬛🎶 #adlestrop #poetry #edwardthomas

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Kateration @kateration.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Someone has been projecting images all over D.C. “It’s swampier than ever.” The Kennedy Center one is pretty hilarious. 😂😂😂

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 16/06/2023

“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past”. The Ulysses quote that sticks with me most as I find it reassuring to conceive of myself as a portal through which time passes. Here’s the great sweet mother sea at Vico Road. #Bloomsday2023

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Summer 1940, painting by Sheffield artist Harry Epworth Allen, 1894-1958 (Glynn Vivian Art Gallery).

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

RIP

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Brendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Padraig Mulholland of NIPSA has said if the attacks on migrant workers do not stop, the Unions will bring the country to a standstill.

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Life is good (when you're a cat). Monkey enjoys the evening air in the field. #caturday

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

" .. and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again." Given the choice, I would have been much tempted to remain on the isle, and not return to Milan's "brackish joys" 🏝

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Looking across to Ynys Enlli / Bardsey Island from Porth Ysgo. Have a great weekend all. #Cymru #Wales #Sea

A shimmering light, cast on a quiet coastal bay. Small islands are dotted around and the coast is a vivid green.

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