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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 8h

Debbie Criswell - October Moon. Acrylic on canvas.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22h

The work of contemporary potter Evelyn Ward (of evelynwardpottery, Instagram) #Womensart

Ceramic blue paint with white circular design

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Takako Yamaguchi (Japanese, born 1952) Trap, 2024 Oil paint and metal leaf on canvas 60 x 40 in (152.4 x 101.6 cm) Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 23h

Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chac Mool, a reclining warrior figure associated with Maya ritual practices. In this photo, the vessel on the figure’s abdomen can be seen particularly clearly. It was used to hold offerings such as pyrite or turquoise disks symbolizing the Sun. #Maya #Archaeology

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Moonlight on the Lake by John Atkinson Grimshaw.

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🪬🌙🐈‍⬛Pythia Uidliua🐦‍⬛⭐️🧿GNOTHI SEAUTON ♐️⚕️🍷 @krymsynreine.bsky.social · 18h

Seated Hitite sun goddess Arinna with child 14th-13th century BCE, Central Anatolia, now held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #archaeology #Hitite #goddess #sungoddess #Arinna #Turkey #Anatolia

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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Decapitated Ball Player with Seven Serpents Sprouting from the Neck carved stone relief c. 400-700 CE Classic Veracruz culture Aparicio, Veracruz, Mexico #handmade #carved #stone #relief #Mesoamerica #MesoamericanBallgame #Aparicio #Veracruz #Veracruzculture #decapitatedplayer #sevensnakes #symbol

The Aparicio site was built by the Classic Veracruz culture (sometimes called the Gulf Coast culture).
This civilization flourished in the modern-day Mexican state of Veracruz during the Mesoamerican Classic period, roughly between about 400 to 700 CE.
This civilization was intensely focused on the Mesoamerican ballgame. Their largest and most famous urban center was El Tajín, located further north of Aparicio, which boasts at least 18 individual ballcourts.
Aparicio is an archaeological site located in the municipality of Vega de Alatorre in Veracruz, Mexico.
The site is famous for its well-preserved, relief-carved stone plaques (ballcourt panels) depicting ball players.
These famous carvings frequently depict a decapitated ball player with seven serpents sprouting from their neck, symbolizing fertility and ritual sacrifice associated with the game.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Noelle Thomas, contemporary UK textile artist #WomensArt

Colourful textile artwork with central stylised horse morif , as well as circles a
and triangles on a dark background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22h

Self Portrait with a Cat, 1938 by Swedish German painter Lotte Laserstein #WomensArt

Painting featuring a white woman with short dark hair wearing a white overall and holding a tabby cat on her lap while painting at the easil and looking outwards

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22h

Setting Sun, (mid 20thC) by English painter Laura Knight #WomensArt

Painting featuring a golden sun setting behind a tree by a river

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 20h

My painting CLOUD TOPS

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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 21h

A #Roman figurine of a dog with a raised paw, looking upwards to an unseen viewer. Dogs were popular in the Roman world as both working animals & pets, as well as being associated with healing #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Erin Hanson (b.1981, USA) "Autumn in Gold" 2014. Oil on canvas.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 17h

Meditation 2 (2024) - Thomas Bossard (b.1971)

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 21h

A prehistoric basalt steatopygian figurine, often called a mother goddess, dating back to 4th Millennium BC from Saudi Arabia. The figurine known for steatopygia (exaggerated hips and thighs) and stylized facial features, reminiscent of other ancient Venus figurines. (H. 22cm) Private Collection

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Andrii Frolov @artandriifrolov.bsky.social · 19h

"Behind The Trees" - my oil painting

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please share widely! We all need to know our rights! #momsky#sheshed

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT

I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.

Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cyril Cox (Canadian Artist, born 1958) "Blue Shadows", 2025. Acrylic on Canvas, 36" × 36". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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The Byzantine Legacy @thebyzantinelegacy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Emperor Heraclius defeating Sasanian Persian king Khosrow II and cherub depicted in a enamel plague from a cross from the Meuse Valley in France 1160-1170 Now at the Louvre

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One artist, a rake, and a tide clock. Andres Amador's massive geometric sand drawings vanish before the day ends, and that's the whole point.

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A Maya zoomorphic vessel. The sculptural details make this vessel fascinating. #Maya #Archaeology #Ceramics

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) Autumn at Saruiwa, Shiobara, 1949. Coloured Woodblock.

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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a fake screenshot from the game Final Fantasy Tactics with Rapha saying "why is a woman's future never as promising as her abusers?"

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

John Atkinson Grimshaw (British, 1836–1893) "October Gold", 1889. Oil on Canvas, 59 × 44.5 cm Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Poetry #Art #BlueSeason O suns and skies and flowers of June, Count all your boasts together, Love loveth best of all the year October’s bright blue weather. - Helen Hunt Jackson 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.

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RoseRed @thebookishgardener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🖌️ Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1901 My obsession with Danish interiors continues. #art #painting

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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sarah Lees (b. 1962), “The Sacred Landscape,” oil on panel, 92 x 61 cm.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hugo Henneberg (Austrian, 1863–1918) "Der blaue Weiher (The blue Pond)", 1904. Linoleum Cut on four Plates (blue, purple, black, brown) on Japanese Paper, 29.4 × 29.8 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A zoomorphic vessel depicting a deer, dating to the Late Classic period (1000–1350 CE). The vessel combines the shape of the animal with incised decoration on its body. #Maya #Archaeology

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Daniel Álvarez @dalvarez-01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I find Maya censers extremely interesting. There are so many different designs, shapes, and sizes, and many are very detailed. I particularly like how some were made in the form of faces or figures. #Maya #Archaeology

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Roman Sites @romansites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Autumn (with his rake) from the Four Seasons mosaic at the excellent Yorkshire Museum in York seems seasonally appropriate today. The staff positively encouraged me to walk on this - although shoes aren't allowed. 3rd or 4th century CE. 📷 my own 2026 #MosaicModay #RomanBritain #RomanSites

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Harvest Light' by Laura Holden, contemporary artist from Somerset in the UK, inspired by folklore #WomensArt 🌞

Photo looking up at a silver metalic radiating sun with a face, on a pole. against a blue sun

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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gustave Caillebotte Fruit Display in Front of a Shop, 1882 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cyril Cox (b.1958, Canada) Autumn Warmth. 2020. Acrylic on canvas.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cyril Cox (Canadian Artist, born 1958) "Late Afternoon Light", 2022. Acrylic on Canvas, 48 × 36 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ancient Yemen Limestone Funerary Stele, c. 2nd Century B.C. – 2nd Century A.D. www.reddit.com/r/AncientCiv...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Colour etching by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami (1911-2004) #WomensArt

Print featuring a stylised tree with round shape and coloured circular fruit under which a bird with blue wings and black head

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Nathan Fowkes Art @nathanfowkes.com · 28/09/2026

Painted for DreamWorks El Dorado.

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

René Magritte (1898-1967) The Princess of Autumn, 1963. Oil on canvas

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sometime around 30,000 years before the current era, somewhere in the midst of the land that would become Germany, a human sat in a cave and sculpted a horse. Later, we would call it the Vogelherd horse: the earliest horse sculpture ever found. Original post

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This 👇 👇 👇

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@indra.dahal24 does tiny construction projects: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

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