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Silver Jewellery Maker Science, Art, Poetry, Writing, History, Mythology and the Weird, Sterling Silver Jewellery at folksy.com/shops/SamanthaStanley Sussex via Dorset. Please don't DM me. I'm not age verified. Back Binface! Slava Ukraine🇺🇦

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3h
I may be one of the few political philosophers to quote Jeffrey Archer in a published paper. It was from a Sunday newspaper feature. He said ‘It’s such a privilege having money. It gives you such freedom too.” (As G.A. Cohen points out: therefore capitalism is a society of unequal freedom.)
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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 1h
Trees and fields near Peter Tavy early October, 2024, #Dartmoor, #Devon #photography
Early autumn light and fields.
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House of Border Terriers @morrisbt.bsky.social · 1h
Oooh it’s #spookyseason for this week’s #terriertuesday We thought we’d plump for a scary movie… complete with a throwback to Morris’s shark teefies 🦈 🌊 😱 Have a great day pals xx 🎃🧛‍♂️🕷️
A mocked up movie poster for Jaws - with the caption ‘just when you thought it was safe to say “sit”’. It depicts a greedy border terrier puppy snapping for a treat!
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 2h
Under Labour large swathes of the UK outside of London and Manchester are losing access to much of Europe and Britain's cultural heritage. Burnham talks a good game about regional pride even as his government mindlessly watches many of its foundations collapse beyond the Southeast and Northwest
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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 1h
As all the fascists leave the Tory Party for Reform, the Tory Party lurches ever more towards the far right. How does this make any sense?
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1h
They need to be completely banned, except on prescription for visually impaired people.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 13h
You should NEVER speak ill of the dead. Fortunately you don't have to, because everybody spoke ill of him when he was still alive. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Lord Archer died peacefully at home between writing sessions, his publisher said
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12h
🔥 On Mon Oct 12th, MPs will debate the UK applying to join the EU. The responsible govt minister will respond. This is not a vote - but it’s the first time since the Burnham speech on “options” that we’ll see where the MPs actually stand. #Rejoin #EU #AndyBurnham #UKpolitics #Brexit
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 13h
Looking at that list I think declining to have a conversation with the producers was the right call.
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Sir Reginald, Duke of Chutney @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 12h
how close to Martinmas does it have to be to call it "in and about the Martinmas time?" like what is the confidence interval
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12h
Archer came and spoke to my school in the 1980s. Charm personified. Bragged at length about his many achievements and then... something bizarre happened. 1/3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jeffrey Archer obituary
Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.
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Finn Hopson @finnhop.bsky.social · 15h
Stragglers. At the end of the evening, after the sun has gone down and the rest of the murmuration has already called it a night, there's a small group of starlings that keep the party going a little further out to sea.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15h
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Depeche Mode - Your Own Personal Jesus Music Video
Alt: Depeche Mode - Your Own Personal Jesus Music Video
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 19h
Research suggests all of the world’s songbirds can be traced back to Australia. 👉 tcnv.link/cbPOQMd
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19h
Bellingcat has become aware of an individual contacting people via Telegram and WhatsApp from a UK number, naming themselves "Antony Kevin", claiming to work for Bellingcat, and asking for assistance recruiting journalists and analysts working on Syria, in particular Damascus and Idlib.
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 17h
"Favereau" botfrens.com/collections/223/conten…
Alfred Z. Solomon-Janet A. Sloane Endowment Fund, 2007
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"We don't want violent men in ill fitting balaclavas intimidating people and trying to take over – that's not democracy and they're not patriots " via The UK Against Hate
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Byzantine Mosaics @byzantinemosaics.bsky.social · 17h
Petra Church Floor Mosaic www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaic…
Petra Church Floor Mosaic
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 17h
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
My photo shows detail from an ancient Greek red-figure kylix (drinking cup) of a young man shown in profile seated on a stool facing right. He wears a knee length cloak (himation) over his left shoulder, which is shown in folds around his waist and upper legs. His right shoulder, chest, and arms are bare. His dark hair is short, and he wears a band around his head. He is looking down at an open rectangular wax writing tablet which he is supporting in his left hand above his lap. In his right hand he holds a metal stylus pen poised over the writing tablet. The wooden writing tablet is hinged like a book and, from this angle, resembles a modern laptop. The figure is part of a scene depicting school lessons in ancient Athens, painted by Douris around 480 BC. On display at the Altes Museum in Berlin.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18h
#OtD 5 Oct 1789 thousands of women in Paris, angry over the high price and scarcity of bread, ransacked the city armoury for weapons and besieged the Palace of Versailles in one of the opening salvos of the French revolution shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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Wrath of God Bot @wrathofgodbot.bsky.social · 18h
There is a sub-section of the British left who have gotten into a position where doing entry-ism basically is the entire point. They have no plan beyond entry-ism they just want to hollow-out orgs.
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Remember the Goat @rememberthegoat.bsky.social · 17h
Everybody is waiting for the rain. It hasn't rained across most of the north of Kenya for 6 months. This season the wind has been strong and unrelenting. The heat is building towards the rains. The land, and all life, is parched. The wait has almost become unbearable.
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Landis Blair @landisblair.bsky.social · 17h
Twisted.
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Gallovidian @gallovidian.bsky.social · 16h
Does the Conservative Party want to be cremated or buried at sea? At this rate, that will be the only question left for them to tear themselves apart over….
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 17h
In today’s efforts to foster human creativity over cognitive surrender
An article about AI and daring, a scientific article that shows mathematically why AI can’t make new scientific discoveries because it’s not creative or curious, and the scavenger hunt I’m sending my students on today
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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 19h
I do not want it in my words I do not want it faking birds I do not like it in my mail It really is beyond the pale I do not want it stealing art I not want it whole, or part I do not want your AI spam I hate it, hate it, Sam Altman
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 17h
“I collected bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame. In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation." 🧪🫀⚗️
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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 17h
Sick to death of seeing AI images of Art Deco and Art Nouveau dresses on Pinterest.
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 22h
#Poetry #Art #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada
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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 23h
I wrote IN SEARCH OF THE ENGLISH #VAMPIRE for the special Darkness Issue of #HELLEBORE in 2023. A bespoke small press publication devoted to British folk horror, founded in 2019 by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo. Link to this back issue below! #Gothtober #31daysofHalloween
page from Hellebore's Darkness Issue, 2023.
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 18h
Evening from the quay
Blue harbour with moored boats under low autumn sun
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 18h
went to dartmoor. there be mushrooms
A bright reddish orange mushroom pokes through dead leaves. It has white spots on it.Fly agaric mushroom. It has a wide, shallow bowl shaped top which is bright red with white spots. A brown mushroom, partly eaten away. It has a glossy surface that shines in the sun and looks gold.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18h
who has screencaps of the RARE blow up PLEASE for my mental health!!! I need it!!
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18h
Let's talk eels & colonization! In the early 17th C. London was growing fast and needed more eels.The surrounding countryside couldn't provide enough. The Dutch importers could...but the English were nervous of the strong Dutch monopoly. So where did they look? Ireland. 1/5 🗃️🧪
Meme. Photograph of a Monopoly board game in Dutch. You're looking at the starting corner, seeing 2 squares in either direction. The directions on the square read:

Ontvang
Bij het passeren
f2000. - salaris
START

So now you know the (or at least a) Dutch word for start.

The game board is sitting on what is probably a table made of a light wood or wood substitute. You can see the grain running  left to right, or right to left. Or perhaps east to west. It's hard to tell with grain. The board itself is edged in red, but fear not. It's only red paint, not blood. A blood-edged board would be a far darker shade of red. And a far darker game, over all.

Meme text reads:
"Who wouldn't be
Nervous?"
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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Skionar @skionar.bsky.social · 21h
Autumn on my balcony
On a teal green metal table Florentine tomatoes ripen in the sun, and Michaelmas Daisies complete the scene
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The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social · 21h
Drawstring bag botfrens.com/collections/223/conten…
Gift of Katharine S. Pearce, 1973
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21h
The spirit of the stairs told in tug at clothing, sudden rush of jasmine perfume or laughter of children. Told in tobacco fug, in an undeniable, audible wheezing. Told in whispered curse or snide tutting. Told in sudden shove. Staircase spirits are rarely less than bold. – #CJosiffe, 1982 #Ghosts
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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 21h
Bold choice of location there, Sam.
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Lady Macbeth @notinstructed.bsky.social · 22h
Excellent. We have apparently decided not to treat a collapsing criminal justice system by removing bits of the criminal justice system. Now fund the bloody thing.
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M.C. @mcmgoptimist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😁🍁🍂🍁😁
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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#MosaicMonday with Aeneas & Dido in a hunting scene from the Low Ham mosaic, Somerset Museum See more from our Journey taking in Taunton, North Devon & Cornwall >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiGX...
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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 23h
From a suggestion by @antoniab247.bsky.social, here's a manatee portrait for #Whistober I'm drawing random things all month long... suggestions welcome!
Digital drawing in white ink against a black background of the sweet face of a manatee staring out at the viewer. It is drawn with a stipled effect of small dots to suggest form rather than being a detailed, realistic image.
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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 23h
5th of Owltober! Long-Eared Owlet "Ginette" had surgery for a broken wing, with metal pins placed to stabilise the fracture. Clinic Erminea in Switzerland reported she was doing well. Link to donate to Erminea: erminea.org/index.php?na... Source: fb.com/299762959379... #owlsintowels #owltober💛🦉
Arranged in a nest shape is a dusty-burnt-orange towel (in colour only; the cloth is untarnished by earth or flame). Within that nest is a Long-Eared Owl chick draped in a juvenile coat entirely made of ashy-white feathers, with the exception of a bat-shaped mask of brownish-black around her eyes. On the topic of eyes, they're bright orange, like buoyancy rings, around pupils as wide as saucers.An x-ray output (post-surgery) shows a long thin metal rod stabilising the bébé owl's humerus. The metalwork is bright white compared to the rest of the owl's skeleton, glowing pale green on a dark background. The owl's bone structure is surprisingly small, illustrating that owls are 99% fluff. A few dozen feathers are radiodense, likely due to having blood supply as they grow, and so the spines appear bright and rather like fish bones or wide-tooth combs. A cone mask for the anaesthesia is placed around the owl's head. The text "Gauche" appears below the pinned wing which might seem odd commentary from the radiographers, had one not just learned the French word for "Left". Back in the visible spectrum, the Long-Eared Owlet rests on red and orange towels inside a dark-walled container, peering up at whomever is peering down. A pink gauze wrap with purple splotches is around her now pinned Guache wing. She appears startled, and her buoyancy-ring eyes look more lemon than orange in this light.
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CMA: Korean Art @cmakorean.bsky.social · 23h
Embroidered Fan for Wedding Ceremony clevelandart.org/art/1918.559
Embroidered Fan for Wedding Ceremony
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Softsoulcomplex @softsoulcomplex.bsky.social · 23h
Headline today: Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? Because they don't care about us. We're not vote winning for them, they see no benefit in us - we're scroungers still according to a lot of rhetoric. 🤬
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sassy snake A rather cheeky red-crested serpent on a mid 4th century AD #Roman mosaic floor Found in Durngate Street, Dorchester in 1905, he's now safely housed in Dorset Museum 📷 Sept 2026 #MosaicMonday
A crested red and white checkered snake facing right on a Roman mosaic floor
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The ‘rainbow arch’ and the remains of the 12th century church at Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #LindisfarnePriory #HolyIsland #Northumberland
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The ‘Dorchester Prison Mosaic’ which was discovered under the Dorchester Prison cemetery in 1856. Now part of the collections at Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #Dorchester
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Prehistoric fridge! This approximately 4,000-year-old storage vessel once served as a kind of fridge. It was kept in a pit and sealed with a wooden lid, likely to store perishable food. Unfortunately, there weren't any residues left to tell us exactly what was stored inside. 🧵1/2 📷 me
A large, coarse pottery vessel with a rounded body, a wide opening, and a decorative band of regularly spaced perforations around its upper section. The beige surface is cracked and uneven, and the vessel is displayed against a dark background.
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