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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Slowly getting there, for @skullsandsheets.bsky.social amazing auction to raise funds for domestic violence charities. Adding Mari Lwyds in appliqué & embroidery to this 1950s floral tray cloth, layering fabric fragments & embellishments from other eras, enjoying the enthusiastic amateur approach

A white lace edged tray cloth embroidered with pink blue purple and green flowers and grey spider webs, with two Mari Lwyds added in black thread embellished with pieces of a white lace doily, pearls, white buttons and beads, and a scroll with the words memento Mori embroidered in black on a scroll across the middle, the cloth is resting on a hot pink quilt

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They call me the Mistress of Bubblewrap. The much under appreciated art of wrapping and shipping ceramics! I’ve gotten pretty good at it over the years if I may say so 😉

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Buy a pot you know u wanna www.roseschmits.com

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Shooting Squares @ishootsquares.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So many squares my hands are shaking. #windowsonwednesday #aofoto #square

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Shooting Squares @ishootsquares.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Laundry day in Burano (3) Washing line with bonus drainpipe #aofoto #square

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Laurette @laurette1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Black Swan at Benbow Pond, West Sussex for #BirdoftheDay #BestBeaks #WestSussex #Swans #Photography

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today’s word in #Scotstober2026 #wheen #Haiku A wheen o epples Pared, biled an gied awa An still wiv hunners Plenty apples Peeled, boiled, given away And still we’ve got hundreds

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An seein as ere’s mair nor a pucklie #Scotstober leets on ih go, here’s another shottie: #bahoochie Ah hitered an fad Hurt ma dock, ma erse, ma dowp, Oh, yer bahoochie! I stumbled and fell Hurt my bottom, my backside, my rear, Oh, your buttocks!

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hae mind gin ye fancy takkin pairt in #Scotstober an ur wantin a wee prompt, here a leet o wirds for ye, yin for ilk day o the month. OR DAE WHITIVER YE LIKE! Mon tae. Gie us a wee bit Scots 😀

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Kim @kimaldis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Exeter, September 2026 #streetphotography

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Robynne Limoges @robynne-limoges.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

©️Robynne Limoges ‘Upwards, Backwards’

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Robynne Limoges @robynne-limoges.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

©️Robynne Limoges “Smoke Cloud Above Mwnt”

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I press the shutter button, but these photographs are made by members. Without their support, the free shoots at churches, skilled crafts and historic buildings would not exist. Can you help support me and create the next image? See what membership makes possible - www.digest.andymarsh...

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026

Human beings became the apex predator on this planet for one (1) reason: we work together better than any other species that has ever existed. That's why primates were so successful and that's why humans emerged as the primate that stands so far above the rest.

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

through the tinted window

View out of a public building onto a plaza beyond; above a concrete wall,.all of the visible.window is covered blue red green yellow filters in circles and half circles. Makes eveything look nouvelle vague, New Wave even

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Jane Horton 🇺🇸 🇦🇩 🇺🇾 🏳️‍🌈 @janebhorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Red slate dagger with a bear head, from Pyhäjoki, Finland. Neolithic Stone Age (c. 5200-1800 BCE). Found in a gravel pit excavation site. This artifact is well-preserved with no signs of wear. Perhaps a ritual implement?

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Saying no" is the 1st step in bringing change as it unleashes your personal power and contributes to the collective power of all people. History has shown that collective power has the ability to bring down governments! VOTE!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/

A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

She's here! After a bit of solo pass the parcel/delicate surgery as I removed the layers of packaging, my beautiful tentacle pot from @roseschmits.bsky.social is free.

A pink and grey ceramic pot with many tentacled legs strides across a black surface. Behind is a white wall with patches of blue paint (I've been choosing paint colours for my living room)

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So, today’s #Scotstober2026 word is #Mollicate (batter in English). Here’s my #Haiku “Ah’ll mollicate ye!” Sez ih loon fa’s affa foo. But he’s foo, so ca “I’ll batter you!” Says the boy who’s very drunk But he’s drunk, so can’t.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 01/10/2026

would thi prisoner in thi bar please stand fur thi aforesaid crime uv writn anuthir poem awarded the certificate of safety by thi scottish education department … —Tom Leonard from GHOSTIE MEN, in INTIMATE VOICES: Selected Work 1965–1983 (Etruscan Books, 2003) #poem #poetry #NationalPoetryDay

Tom Leonard
From GHOSTIE MEN

would thi prisoner
in thi bar
please stand

fur thi aforesaid crime
uv writn anuthir poem
awarded the certificate of safety
by thi scottish education department

fit tay be used in schools
huvn no bad language
sex subversion or antireligion

I hereby sentence you
tay six munths hard labour
doon thi poetry section
uv yir local library
coontn thi fuckin metaphors

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Super pleased to see this out (and open access!). Moluag was clearly an important figure in Pictland, here we got to help the team who made such important discoveries at Moluag's monastery get the word on the street about the importance of Lismore and the new findings! tinyurl.com/5cb9vf3p

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A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain - Volume 100 Issue 413

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David W. Pippy @davidwilliampippy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good morning! This is a barred owl hunting from a powerline in Stillwater Lake, Nova Scotia photographed by Jason L. Dain on September 22nd..

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

National Poetry Day, you say? It has to be this:

Kim Addonizio
TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY
IN THE NEXT STALL
If you ever woke in your dress at 4 A.M. ever
closed your legs to a man you loved opened
them for one you didn't moved against
a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach
seaweed clinging to your ankles paid good money for a bad haircut backed away
from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled
into the back seat for lack of a tampon
if you swam across a river under rain sang
using a dildo for a microphone stayed up to watch the moon eat the sun entire
ripped out the stitches in your heart
because why not if you think nothing & no one can / listen I love you joy is coming

Tattoo on my arm that reads “listen I love you joy is coming”

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This morning’s misty scenes

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1 October 1541 – 7 April 1614 El Greco, Greek (1541-1614), View of Toledo, 1596-1600, oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trying something a bit different with ink and bleach. I’ve been using fountain pen ink (specifically black Quink) and bleach in combination for years and wanted to make some imaginary landscapes in a slightly more ‘decorative’ style. I’m not sure this is the right paper though.

Landscape of rolling hills drawn in ink with areas lightened with bleached lines

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#PictishSymbolStone from Dead Man’s Howe near Insch, Aberdeenshire. Surviving part of a larger stone, with the Z-Rod and double disc symbol remaining. On display on the ground floor of Duncan Rice Library, Aberdeen University (open to public).

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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Avian Face-Tool 🦡 @beakmoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nearly pulled a muscle just now scrolling back to my date of birth on a website.

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On National Poetry Day, here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

The Power of Poetry

with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,

it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,

so he reached for his copy
of The Complete Works of Yeats

and bludgeoned the President
of the United States

Brian Bilston

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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thursday Bins. #AOFoto

Looking up a dry grassy bank to a wooden frame with four dustbins, two green, two blue against a clear deep blue sky.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Heronry, 2022, etching by UK printmaker Janis Goodman #WomensArt

Print in blue and white featuring a tree lined still river or pond with reflections and a flying heron to the top right in silhouette

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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The stars at night on Glastonbury Tor. St Michael's tower looking like it might take off.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All this, 😒:

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Bad news, everyone - Brexit has apparently caused the entire United Kingdom to detach from Europe and drift several thousand miles west. We are now slowly approaching Newfoundland. Can someone please let Eurostar now there might be some issues.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Reminiscing about one of my favorite days ever with @coverstorydoowop" Singer Chloe Dalzell (@chloe.dalzell) having fun in a street corner performance in New York City with the a cappella group Cover Story Doowop. 'Stand by Me" by Ben E. King. 🎶🎵🎙️ #streetmusic #acapella #doowop #nyc

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

American artist David Popa creates breathtaking masterpieces on floating ice in the Baltic Sea, using nothing but charcoal, soil, and water as his “paint.” His artwork slowly disappears as the ice melts: #AGoodPlace

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you're in my GP's office any time soon, prepare yourself for what many are calling the greatest mnemonic of all time. Come for E and P, but sit down and clap for I.

A screen in my GP's office advertising a mnemonic of signs to spot SEPSIS.

S slurred speech of confusion
E extreme shivering or muscle pain
P passing no urine all day
S severe breathlessness
I ot feels like you are going to die
S skin mottled or discoloured

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Elizabeth Catlett, Mother and Child, 1944 #womensart

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Capital punishment is wrong. The “Justice” system often gets it wrong. Subramanyam Vedam spent over four decades in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The FBI withheld exculpatory evidence. He was finally released in 2025 and immediately grabbed by ICE. There’s no “justice” to be found:

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Wrongfully imprisoned for more than 40 years, Pennsylvania man now faces deportation by ICE

Subramanyam "Subu" Vedam was freed from prison after being wrongfully convicted for a 1980 murder.

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WillieMillersMoustache @williemillersm1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can we stop for a second and enjoy, all the people pointing out that Euro adoption can at the very least be deferred indefinitely. While the current prime minister in 2014 not only screamed that an independent Scotland would *HAVE TO* join the Euro but also drive on the right. The ****.

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Scotstober2026 Missing @drmdempster.bsky.social Each day in October has a Scots word for you to make a poem, a story, a picture, a joke, anything! On Halloween we use 1 of the Scots words for turnip/swede (the traditional item to make a spooky lantern with). Use the hashtag & please share!

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