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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 17h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 15h

Is she showing her asps?

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 15h

And now I've got a headache. 🤯

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 02/10/2026

Before people learned music with 'do re mi', the sequence once began with 'ut' as the lowest note. The absolute lowest note recognised in medieval music was 'Γ ut', with the Greek letter gamma, and 'Γ ut' came to refer to the full range of possible notes. This is behind the phrase 'run the gamut'.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 21h

And a dozen or more previous broods. Deserves a medal 😱

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 02/10/2026

TVM. I've seen them (and other raptors) with an odd feather or two kinked or frayed, but never like that.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 01/10/2026

This ragged red kite passed over yesterday. The frayed trailing edge feathers and ? the shape of head make me think it is an old bird, but still soaring with the youngsters.

A red kite, milvus milvus, in flight, soars against a blue sky. The edges of both sets of wing feathers are frayed.

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Paracelsian @paracelsian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A few years ago I carved this sheep counting stone for my brother in law's farm... Look who admired it today on a visit to look at tree planting! #NorOnMyBingoCard

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ST. ST. and stunning E (jaw)

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 01/10/2026

I'm assuming that is airline food. It is the worst looking bread cheese and wine combo I have ever seen. On my first trip to Paris in 1982 we had Brie, a baguette and plonk in a park and I bet it was better than the above.

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Vera @infonta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do you remember my Calligraphy Marathon I ran in January? 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ www.infonta.com/calligraphy/... Here is its short overview in @letter-exchange.bsky.social Yearbook 2026 #calligraphymarathon #letterexchange #yearbook #calligraphy #handmade

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felix @felixthefemale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Current mood (yes, I know, the very definition of first world problems)

The word Fuck embroidered in different shades of red, different sizes and stitches and styles, on a grey square, resting on a bookshelf

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 01/10/2026

I think I may have to carve that as-is, on High Moor limestone, infilled with ink-black paste.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Part of @bibsoc.bsky.social's Caxton550 celebration! Caxton ephemera, annotated by Richard Farmer (d. 1797), great collector & @theul.bsky.social Librarian.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Early English printed materials by Caxton? Yes please. There are some glorious little things here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Including this gem at the bottom of an advertisement for some printed books, "please do not take this down" - Supplico stet cedula.

A line at the bottom of an advertisement, printed by Caxton, advertising the sale of some books. The paper is intended to be pasted or pinned up in public.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 30/09/2026

That's expensive even just to dab behind the ears.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 30/09/2026

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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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 30/09/2026

That's a little metrosexual for me. I'm not that fancy.

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Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Handy to keep it in one place though 😶

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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

I grew up in Lytham Road. Next to St Anne's road. In Warwickshire.

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

I only do that if I'm going out somewhere special.

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

I'm pretty anal about keeping and backing up, no idea what happened :(

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

I deleted all my interior photos accidentally 😠

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

Oh sorry, that's a 17 hour drive away from 'East Anglia'. Eeejit.

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

If you are crossing the Humber, St Patrick, Patrington:

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

First gig, Deep Purple, Burn tour, May 1974. Coventry Theatre.

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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