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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 3h

A red kite following the plough this afternoon.

A red kite (milvus milvus), in flight, wings spread, against a blue sky.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h

Time for this classic again.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 29/09/2026

You just bought some hand carved lettering from my shop, here's how to light it so it pops: www.youtube.com/shorts/7Mx7h...

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Displaying carved lettering - It's all about the light!

YouTube video by Frank Raw

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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Language Matters. Remember to focus on the perpetrators.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#SkyStorians: Question for the native German speakers who are also practising historians: how would you translate "Kaufmännische Tüchtigkeit" in the context of technological developments during the Industrial Revolution? Commercial efficiency?

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you're free, the wonderful Mrs Jamison (& her gang of musical marvels) are doing a concert of her series of Modern Folk Songs and Dances based on stories of Welsh Witches. S. Brent Village hall on 17th October (see poster). DM me for tix. #Folklore #Witches #FolkMusic #OneNightOnly

"Don't Slight the Witch". A collection of Songs and Dances by Sian Jamison. Performed by Y Gwrachod. Saturday 17th October, 7:30 South Brent Village Hall. Pay what you can afford - £10/£8/£5.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 28/09/2026

A couple of red kites mooching around over the farm opposite this afternoon. #birds #canonr5

A red kite, milvus milvus, in flight, soaring against a pale blue sky.

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Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The world turned when I read: 'it's worth noting that “Market Harborough” can be substituted for “California” or “San Francisco” in any song title where they appear. So we have Market Harborough Dreaming, (I Left My Heart) In Market Harborough and...Market Harborough Man.' Life is suddenly better.

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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This marvellous #skullsaturday is from the monument in Chichester Cathedral to Margaret Miller (died 1701) wife of Sir John Miller and two of their children. Other members of the family, including Sir John himself (died 1721) and his second wife Ann (died 1709) were later added to the inscription.

Black and white photo of a carving of a skull. On top of the skull is a small foot from a chubby cherub.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 25/09/2026

A live mannequin in a shop window in York yesterday. I have no idea why.

A model wearing a sparkly dress sits in a large shop window at street level, posing very still like a shop mannequin.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Another (F?) stonechat at Flamborough Head #birds #CanonR5

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 25/09/2026

A group of Northern gannets passing by at eye level, seen from the top of Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire, Tuesday.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Stonechat (F?) taking off from its perch on some dried shrubbery. Flamborough Head, Wednesday.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 25/09/2026

A pair of Northern Gannets on their (rudimentary) nest, bonding by tapping beaks. Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire, Tuesday #birds #CanonR5

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 25/09/2026

A kestrel hovering against a pale blue sky, looking for a meal. Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire, Tuesday #birds #CanonR5

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 25/09/2026

A kestrel flying back to shore, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, Wednesday. #birds #CanonR5

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now, as I've finished with the lecture, I can spend some time working on the calligraphic ideas that were waiting for me. That's only the beginning. #brush #calligraphy #design

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today! 🔩

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Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 23/09/2026

Husband was browsing guernseys on the RNLI website yesterday (they have exceptionally nice jumpers, decorations, and Christmas cards to send to Reform HQ without stamps on) and it was very heartening to see that you couldn’t get express delivery as an option due to “exceptional demand and support.”

High Demand Affecting Delivery

Free UK delivery on orders £50 and over
100% of profits support RNLI lifeboat crews
Shipping to Ireland: Customs Charges Apply

High Demand Affecting Delivery
Please note that due to exceptional demand and support for the RNLI, deliveries are currently taking longer than usual. We apologise for any inconvenienc

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Even the niches have vaulted ceilings at King's College Chapel, Cambridge. #TraceryTuesday

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An Ave Maria tile, c1300 from the floor of Whitby Abbey church, North Yorkshire. Now on display in Whitby Abbey Museum. #TilesonTuesday

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Alright — here's another Sunday harvest of street name plates! I hope this set will be approved as a neutral and beautiful one 🙂 Seen in Ely #typography #street #design #cast #cambridgeshire

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Apparently it is now a political act to wear RNLI branded apparel. We're off to the Yorkshire coast imminently so I'll be stocking up at the nearest RNLI station/shop: shop.rnli.org If anyone feels the urge to disparage my RNLI hat / bag / scarf they can do that, but I reserve the right to reply.

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RNLI Shop | Lifesaving Gifts

We have the perfect lifesaving gifts for you and your crew. Order them online at shop.RNLI.org and help us to save lives for another 200 years.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reading a fascinating pamphlet printed in Boston in 1788 about how to save someone who has drowned. The method is mostly warmth and vigorous rubbing. You do blow into them, but it's tobacco smoke up the butt, not air through the mouth.

1788 printed text:
Whilst these means are using, one or two assistants are to be employed in blowing up tobacco smoke, into the fundament, with the instrument provided for the purpose, or a Tobacco-Pipe, if that cannot be had — the bowl filled with Tobacco, and properly lighted, being covered with a handkerchief or piece of linen so as to defend the mouth of the assistant in blowing

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FAFO news: Looks like Piddington is about to get 5000 masked fash descending on it. You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 17/09/2026

I'm rather hoping some of these people drown off the coast near Portsmouth.

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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now that it has at last been delivered, I can share this (belated) wedding present that I carved over the summer. #Lettercutting

Rounded slab of slate engraved "Lisa and Matt" Ampersand gilded.

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Worn Victorian encaustic tiles in The Round Church, Cambridge. #TilesOnTuesday

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Helsbels @helenus3.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Lovely old milepost I met in Tarporley high street the other day #Cheshire

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Go on, look at my shop and make me an offer. What's the worst that could happen? OK I could tell you to bugger off, block, report you and then cry into my coffee all day, but apart from that, we're all good 😀

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 15/09/2026

I'm accidentally needing to replace my camera, so I need to sell something. Make me an offer: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop 10% of all takings to SalivaryGlandCancer.uk

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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-. Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 14/09/2026

I'm wine +ve, Mrs Raw is watching footy. A relaxing end to a tiring day.

A glass of red wine on the arm of a sofa. The TV in the background is apparently showing Premiership football.

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