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James Randall

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between the forest and the city / editor, writer - for adults & children, incl. folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette: shorturl.at/xJBrT, HarperCollins: amzn.eu/d/0iEBWa29. PhD, Goldsmiths (2018).

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Miranda Jans @mmejans.bsky.social · 12h
More Molokai lichen, these were growing on wood posts on the beach at Halawa Valley #fungifriends
Crustose grey lichen with orange apothecia
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Begó!36🅾️Worldwide + Cultural Hu🅱️ @kult360.bsky.social · 23h
😀Everyday culture By Roob Vandenbego WE ❤️ CULTURE Art Design Books Agenda Fashion Gourmet Architecture…
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 13h
Gualtiero Nativi : Me Moi Yo, 1947 tempera on board 52 × 36.5 cm Geometric structures, and clean-lined abstract interactions. Focused study in geometric composition, showcasing early post-war structured forms. More 👇
Me Moi Yo" is a social media concept or board theme—frequently seen on platforms like Pinterest—used to curate personal identity, aesthetics, or self-expression through modern artwork. A prominent piece associated with this curation is an abstract work by the Italian master Gualtiero Nativi from 1947.
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James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the fire outside / impassioned
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Niuno @aeeo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Jarmo Mörö @jarmomoro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ai miksi sininen hetki?
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are up to 8,000 species of katydids in family Tettigoniidae, 255 in North America alone. But this hot pink katydid isn't some exotic species, it's a 'morph', a normal genetic color variant. Here's the weird part: this is the DOMINANT color gene in katydids. (📷: Audubon Zoo)
From Audubon Insectarium article (it's behind a paywall), a vibrantly pink katydid, probably fresh from molting, sitting on broad green leaves.
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James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the fire outside / impassioned
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
13 Monsters Good And True I think there are so many genuine monsters in the world that I am consoling myself by drawing little monsters who are good.
Drawing of 13 little 'monsters', rather cute little critters who wouldn't harm a fly, in fact they'd probably give it a bowl of milk and a tiny bed for the night.
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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
'Hedgerow Sunrise' Acrylic share.google/NIV3GlWRwOue...
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James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
rising
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Rachel Darker @racheldarker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Harvest moon rises in violet and pink skies above flora. This was a phenomenal view having turned from the sunset to see this on the other side. #ColorADay #PinkMon #ECK #photography
Long green grass populates lower two thirds of image and dried wild flowers. A large white flagpole can be seen reaching skyward on the right hand side, and almost centre, a small bright harvest moon rises into a vivid purple and pink sky.
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Joseph Donahue
Something somewhere
is eclipsing something else.
Now, suddenly, looking up,
the sky is different. Some
great joy may be about
to transform your life.
The moon glows red.
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James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
rising
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Mila 🐺 @mila83.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
wishing well
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Steve Palmer @stevepalmer.photography · 17/09/2026
Common reed (Phragmites australis) While individual stems live for only 5 to 8 years, the underground clone network can live for up to 1,000 years. Camera: Sony A7RIII Lens: Sony 200-600mm f5.6-6.3 G Settings: ISO 1000 | f/6.3| 1/4000s Subject: Common reed (Phragmites australis)
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
'Landscape with a Geoglyph ll' by contemporary painter Sarah Lees #WomensArt
Painting of a stylised landscape with rolling hills with fields in browns and creams and  bare trees
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Ian Parsons @ianparsons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sometimes at auction you find some real gems... Dartmoor Auctions next weekend, Lot 1035. Pitminster near you @iand777.bsky.social ? @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social Tempting...
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Oberursheena @twitterrefugerin.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
#BNWmacro #ClassicMono #blackandwhitephotography #SilentSunday #insects
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Я @gertiewentworth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great Performers L.A. Noir (Royalty Hightower) 2016 • Jack Davison
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
noesis ph. Alicia Savage
Photograph monochrome 

A woman in a black dress holds her vintage suitcase facing the camera, her head obscured and in surround by a single cloud. 

She is in a country scape with trees and a rudimentary road behind her, a white house in the far distance, the sea, the sky.
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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good morning with Serbian poetry. Empire of dreams Charles Simic On the first page of my dreambook It's always evening
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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Franci Van der Vyver, Stained Glass Autumn Cathedral
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Infinite Ice Creams - found rocks and pebbles with the addition of a popsicle stick. www.instagram.com/infinite.ice... Simple brilliance
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jean Valentine, wow
Outside the Frame


It is enough, now, anywhere,
with everyone you love there to talk to.

And to listen.
Slowly we can tell each other some things about our lives:
runs, rests, brief resolutions; falls, and lulls;
hard joyful runs, in certainty; dull, sweet
durances, human silences;
                                                        look back in at the children,
the regular, neutral flicker of their blood; pale, solemn,
long-legged animal-gods in their sleep,
growing into their lives, in their sleep.
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James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
today in Bath’s @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let us walk the woods as feral possibility space. Let us walk the woods in hope of strange sights, fantastical encounters. Stories we can tell to those we love as an intimate folklore of hope that wonder is still abroad. That we still have places of constant magic. – #DAKilroy
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today in Bath’s @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social
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Mila 🐺 @mila83.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Marmalade hoverfly on a Chicory flower in the garden today. #Hoverflies #Diptera
An orange and black banded Hoverfly on a pale blue flower, against a blurred green and brown background.
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Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Goodnight, firework moon.
Moon, cloud, contrail
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Rowan MacGregor, UK based artist making delicate copper sculptures #WomensArt
Flat copper artwork featuring a central tree with birds and a human figure either side of the trunk
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Tapetenvogel @tapetenvogel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Flachlandtapir @flachlandtapir.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#Streetart in P
Graffiti. Zwei Ammoniten und ein Frauenkopf.
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Enna Siala@annealais.bsky.social @annealais.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning
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James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
today’s empty shell (squirrels are quick this year)
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Kelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Leaves falling in the forest. #abstract
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James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
finished this eve, uncannily tender… in 8 words: is everything disappearing or is it just me?
Cover, Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police
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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 🥾 @alinagrafik.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
#PalacesAndGardens #MellowYellow The morning fog and sun create a magical yellow glow on my morning hike through the hills. #ECK #Hiking #MorningGlow #LandscapePhotography #Photography #WestCoastKin
The morning sun sits low in the sky, shining through light fog and clouds, creating a golden glow over the land. The view is from trail on a hill, looking down at the fog settled in the valleys and the grass covered with dew. Low-lying shrubs are in the foreground while further away, trees poke above the fog. San Luis Obispo, California
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday
Folklore can ignite enchantment within us. Enchantment that fuels our imaginations. Enchantment that shifts our consciousness, allows us to envisage new and better worlds. It begins the process of manifesting the changes we desire. Re-enchanted, the world is full of new, feral possibilities. Re-enchanted our imagination is an accessible superpower. 

The stories we intentionally absorb, the stories we select to tell ourselves, they allow us to live in the world differently. They allow us to make and remake the world differently.

Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom. We need this space. We ache for the sublime. For re-enchantment is an assertion of wonder and the numinosity of our relationships with landscape. Re-enchantment is an assertion of our collective ability to both imagine and experience better worlds. As a refusal of despair, as a lensing of hope. In re-enchantment we stop dreaming of inevitable apocalypse and find the permissive space to tell stories of hope.

Re-enchantment is personal metamorphosis. The space in which we grow glowing red eyes to patrol our communities against this long night of authoritarian pisspuffinry. The space in which we develop iron-hard fur, immune to the curses reductionist racists, misogynists, homophobes and AI cultists throw at us. Re-enchantment as the permissive circle where we can voyage into ourselves and find the marvels and bravery we need to deal with this age of violent bruising. This is why I walk the territory of folklore. Wear my witch-cloak of swan feathers, hold hag stone to my eye. This is why I created Hookland as a home for stories, a community for Fully-grown Changelings.
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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 23/09/2026
Various forms of and angles on Milkweed, photographed under UV light. As nature intended. #naturephotography #flowerphotography
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James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
under the conker tree, 5.30pm
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
one of the greats by one of the greats: Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s “The Leaving”
The Leaving
My father said I could not do it, but all night I picked the peaches.
The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily.
I was a girl then, my chest its own walled garden.
How many ladders to gather an orchard?
I had only one and a long patience with lit hands and the looking of the stars which moved right through me the way the water moved through the canals with a voice that seemed to speak of this moonless gathering and those who had gathered before me.
I put the peaches in the pond's cold water, all night up the ladder and down, all night my hands twisting fruit as if I were entering a thousand doors, all night my back a straight road to the sky.
And then out of its own goodness, out of the far fields of the stars, the morning came, and inside me was the stillness a bell possesses just after it has been rung, before the metal begins to long again for the clapper's stroke.
The light came over the orchard.
The canals were silver and then were not, and the pond was—I could see as I laid the last peach in the water—full of fish and eyes.
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under the conker tree, 5.30pm
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Alain Truong ♎🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @alaintruong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Louise Bourgeois, Self Portrait (Autoportrait), 2007 © The Easton Foundation, New York www.alaintruong.com/2026/09/loui...
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Greenhouse from recycled church stained glass windows, also known as "Sacré Blur" was made by horticultural installation artists Heywood and Condie from salvaged 18th and 19th century ecclesiastical stained glass. London
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Ruedi-Sigi 📷 SchwarzWeiss Monochrom Fotografie - B/W Photography @schwarz-weiss-foto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Sascha @sash1711.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ausflug
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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rick Cabo - Penguin rock in Joshua Tree National Park
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