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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I think this might be one of my favourite pictures I've ever taken.

A picture of the back of a dining chair with two cat paws poking out from the top and left side simultaneously. I think it's hilarious.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This mouse has buried five husbands under mysterious circumstances.

A decoration of a felt mouse. She is wearing a red dress, a red fur boa, and a gold necklace. She is fabulous.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

An anonymous friend left me a Cacodemon pin badge on my desk and I love him.

A small red enamel pin badge of a Cacodemon from the Doom series. Best described as a 'bitey meatball', he is round, red, horned, and with a single green eye in the middle above a very wide, toothy mouth used to eating people, that he looks very proud of.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

That was taken through a window so I braved the storm outside to get a better picture

A beautiful pink and peach rose surrounded by green foliage.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Latest rose to open, I utterly adore this one. It's called 'Gorgeous', and I think it definitely lives up to its name.

A frankly magnificent rose flower, with bright pink edges, fading to white in the middle of the petals, and then a deep orange at the centre of the flower. It's surrounded by deep green foliage.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I've missed quite a few #RoseWednesday pictures so here's 'Churchill' to make up for it.

An absolutely enormous, fluffy cream-pink coloured rose with a slightly yellowed centre. There's not really anything else in the picture because it's so huge.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

For this week's #RoseWednesday, here's our first flower of 2025 on 'Emma Bridgewater'.

A bright pink open rose flower surrounded by green foliage. The middle has a slight yellowness in it.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It's #RoseWednesday and, in a very happy coincidence, my first rose of the year has opened up today - Desdemona. It smells beautiful!

A pale cream/pink rose flower in full bloom, surrounded by lush green foliage.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I have spent the last three days building this and I am Pleased With It, and it therefore needs to be shared.

A wooden pergola in a garden, with a gravel floor underneath and green plants in a raised bed behind it. It has two wooden chairs and a metal bench underneath, and there is a small half-moon flowerbed in front of it with green plants in it.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Bought The Chief a cat-size couch for Christmas and walked in on this. I think she likes it.

A black cat on a cream-coloured miniature couch. She is on her back, utterly out cold, with all four legs in the air.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm very happy to be speaking alongside @tundeva.bsky.social at an upcoming @advancehe.bsky.social webinar on Using the Framework for Enhancing Assessment. We'll be talking a bit about our GenAI and Multimodal Learning project - do please come along!

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Okay so my piano exam actually went a lot better than I thought it did. Grade 4 might not be the top end of the scale (no pun intended), but this was a big deal for me who never thought they'd do it at all.

A clip of a transcript showing that I achieved a distinction in Grade 4 piano.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Age yourself with your first computer. I genuinely still own, and use, one of these.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

On #NationalBlackCatDay here is Mischief, resting after doing mischief.

A black cat lying on her back on a cream-coloured couch. She is out cold, and her back feet are raised in the air.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

A nice piece of good news to round out what turned out to be a pretty busy week!

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

'Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy' I mean, I think this is fair. Classic meme, but still very applicable.

A view of the back of a pickup truck, carrying a box that says 'complete toilet' on it. Superimposed text above the box reads 'he sounds like a', creating the phrase 'he sounds like a complete toilet'. This is applicable in most situations.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Reskeet with a banger picture of your cat(s).

An extremely comfortable black cat. Her head is resting on my arm, and her face essentially says 'I never want to move from this position'.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

For #RoseWednesday, here's Blue Moon, a climber that has a) flowered repeatedly this year and it gets better every time and b) genuinely smells of sherbet and I *love* it.

A lilac-coloured rose dubbed Blue Moon against some trellis.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Mischief might be a bit of a challenger...!

A black cat with her head on a pink fluffy throw. She looks, and is, extremely comfortable.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Post a perfect album from when you were 21.

Album cover for Thrice - Major/Minor. It is essentially two shades of brown, with the upper three quarters a dark shade, while the lower quarter is almost cream.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

Is it #RoseWednesday again? Here's another from my garden - the Churchill rose.

A set of around 7 peach-coloured rose blooms set against a fence.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

I've just heard of #RoseWednesday so I'm getting in on the act before it's over. I grow lots of roses, but this is probably one of my favourites and one of my newest - Blue Diamond.

A large rose, lilac-purple in colour, with a slightly smaller one emerging underneath.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 06/04/2024

Post a movie from the year you turned 18.

Movie poster image for the film 'Hot Fuzz' (2007), with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, dressed as UK police officers and carrying guns, emerging from a large explosion.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Reskeet with a banger picture of your cat

A very comfortable black cat lying sideways on a cat-shelf. Her face is half-squashed into the surface of the shelf, which is carpeted, and her expression is one of 'what are you looking at?'

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

My weekend was probably better than your weekend.

A view of the ruins of Whitby Abbey with blue sky and sun behind it.

A night view from the mid-point of the 199 steps at Whitby. The harbour below is lit up in many colours, while to the right of the picture the sea rolls in.

A view of the ruins of Whitby Abbey at night, illuminated in pink-purple hues.

A panoramic view of Whitby, with the town on the left and the sea on the right. It is a sunny day with blue skies, but rough seas.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Post your bluesky name and bio in ai and see what it makes of it. Stablediffusionweb.com Crikey.

An AI-generated man in a blue shirt looking somewhat intensely to the right. He is stood in front of some slightly over-romantic out-of-focus lights.

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Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

I still own an original of this game (and the platform on which it is played). Reskeet a picture of the very first video game you can remember playing.

A screenshot of the 1992 Graftgold video game Fire and Ice for the Commodore Amiga. The protagonist, Cool Coyote (yes, really), is located in an ice-world, surrounded by enemies such as penguins and seagulls that drop snowballs.

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