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petalpainter48.bsky.social

@petalpainter48.bsky.social
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Paint , sketch , talk and listen to people , like shiny things (magpie) , nature-trees, animals , the sky, the sea , value kindness. Value peace, diplomacy, fairness, compromise, a listening ear , hope .🇬🇧

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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 4h
This is what the young in France do
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 18h
Oh sure, flood the market with the last drops of our strategic reserve to artificially lower prices just before the election and then watch prices skyrocket shortly thereafter.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 22h
Ok . So it's national black dog day .. and we did adopt a black dog ... officially a few days ago .
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Last little pink rose on the bush
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Watercolour sketch .. 6 X 5 inches
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just sketches of vases of gladioli and pumpkins , and marrows .. on big orange flowered back ground .
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Jeffrey Ⓥ @liftforever67.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MondayThoughts
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Jeffrey Ⓥ @liftforever67.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MondayThoughts
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miniature railway for kids .. £1.50 a ride , at garden centre .
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Local garden centre
Red mauve pink  & white cyclamen in potsPurple Michaelmas daisies Orchids, orange outer bloom, bright pink inner , then a little white in centre.
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe it wasn't intelligence led ... just the farmers wife noticing dodgy men
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just when you think the world's biggest pile of Orange shit is sitting in Mar-a-Lago these idiots come back out to try and prove you wrong.
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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It took him two years to destroy everything America has built since 1945—a goal that Soviet leaders dreamed of for decades
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Market square Wymondham ,east England
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nothing is sacred anymore. The people in power shout to the rooftop that they're Christians, yet they are lying hypocritical blasphemous heathens who have no idea what the word Christian means. I see their God is trump. They would be shocked if you told them there were no white people in the Bible.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump: "I’m surprised CNN is here is covering me. You shouldn’t be here.” CNN’s Kaitlan Collins: “The United Nations allowed us in, sir.”
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Europe has seen this circus before. For centuries, it was clowns in crowns and megalomaniacs in uniforms who promised national rebirth and delivered only ashes and chaos.
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Blasé Boylan @blazesboylan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Glad as well, but I'm also disappointed that as in so many other instances, the Milennials and Gen Z's seem nowhere to be found. It's their future at stake, but they seem so passive. At my university, you'd barely know anything is happening by the students' behavior.
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Jeffrey Ⓥ @liftforever67.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#WednesdayThoughts
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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m looking forward to a time when we have a president that doesn’t constantly tell us how smart he is while repeatedly doing stupid shit
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Madeleine @madeleine1016.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Regardless of who is in power, they must be bound by the law. The system is more important than any individual; it is the most valuable asset of a democratic country
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Stewart Macdonald @mrred8691.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No it isn’t the planet will be fine. It’s us who are being killed,a slow painful death and long after we are gone the planet will still be here in much better shape. Tell people THEY are being killed and that THEY will die a slow painful death if we don’t change our ways . See if that helps.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.
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Dr. Dave @drdave1999.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
To be hated here, you’d have to be a world-class epidemiologist who saves millions of lives by teaching people how to survive during a deadly pandemic. Alternatively, you could be an intelligent, kind, successful President respected all over the world, but who doesn’t lie, cheat, and embezzle.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So X has done nothing to suspend these accounts, but Bluesky took action: A Russian disinfo campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms. The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party & vote Republican.
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A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not a narcissist, not a cult
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed. And the fingerprints are on fossil fuel contracts, deforestation permits, and plastic production lines. We still have time to stop the crime. Act like it. #ClimateAction #Environment
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This should be on the front page of every newspaper tomorrow.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yes, this is deplorable behavior, but it is typical of Trump. He is a rude, deranged idiot. What I find more disturbing is the woman's colleagues not defending her. They don't have the excuse of being a sociopath with dementia to explain away their inability to do the right thing.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I hope folks realize this Bab al-Mandab situation will be much worse than the Strait of Hormuz if it’s not sorted out quickly. And it doesn’t currently look like it will be sorted out quickly.
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Just for today .. let's take ourselves less seriously , have a smile , a giggle .
A glass troll and a small vase with red geranium , and yellow and msybe flowers .. on a window sill , trees outside
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Levon Dymond @levondymond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Folding phones! Fuck that, let's save some forest and ecosystems and wildlife and stuff we all need!
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📍Loci: The Magic of Twilight in Ludlow www.digest.andymarsh...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Forests are not just trees. They are climate regulators, water protectors, biodiversity vaults, and home to Indigenous peoples who have safeguarded them for generations. Deforestation is not development. It is self-destruction. Protect the guardians. Protect the forests. #SaveOurForests
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𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 @salix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vinted is the most miserable archive of awful clothes women have bought, worn & failed to see how unappealing they were even brand new, blended with the charity shop entrepreneur overpricing anything with a vaguely designer label. “Brand new unworn George of Asda greige sequinned full brief.”
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Baby Dolphin 🐬 Rescued
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FED UP! @val.sheshed.rocks · 08/09/2026
I’m sick of this shit! I’m sick of his incompetence. Congress better act now! This idiot has access nuclear codes and is not fit to be President…never has been. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, we are #FedUp and need to remove him from office in January. Period! #SheShed #Pinks
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SXRATCH @sxratch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
THIS is sweet!! 🥳🥳🥳
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wild hops .. they were climbing up some tress . Interesting .. I alwsys find them here ... there is a Maltings nesrby.. ( Hertfordshire ) Windy and humid weather .
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
More kissing in the kitchen
A small peach coloured rose in a tiny bottle , and a maquette ( a small clay model ) of a couple  kissing
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petalpainter48.bsky.social @petalpainter48.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
See what hsppens in the kitchen , when the condiments think you aren't looking ?
A tiny peach rose  behind brightly coloured salt and pepper pots (shaped like little people ).. embracing .
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SciCommic @scicommic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Carl Sagan said something similar.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Jacqui @jamelle33.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today
The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Today it’s Lake America, but tomorrow the propaganda coming from south of the border could be both more serious and insidious, and the actions of Google, Apple and other companies show plainly that they will not be on our side." —  @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today
The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 02/09/2026
Remember this going into the midterms.
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