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scare-ah 👻 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“The academy said Carson was surprised by the honour, who was in Iceland ‘listening to the wind’ when they made contact with her.” 👸 💅🏻 🌬️ (no notes)

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This poem. Congratulations Anne Carson, most deserved!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/10/2026

A century after Virginia Woolf asked why sickness had failed to become one of literature’s great subjects, writers are still struggling to put physical suffering into words. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Why Is Illness So Hard to Write About?

A century after Virginia Woolf asked why sickness had failed to become one of literature’s great subjects, writers are still struggling to put physical suffering into words.

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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is pretty cool. A service dog for someone suffering from #schizophrenia. #IllMentally

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Song sparrow 6 cm Alaska Canada continental US to central Mexico. Northern birds Migrate south to Mexico Eat mix of insects, seeds, and fruit female builds a nest on the ground, incubates 12 days, both parents feed chicks14 days, male feeds and protects 2 more weeks, female prepares for 2nd brood

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Killdeer (plover) 8-11cm Shorebird North America Female scapes her nest in the sand lines it with sticks and grass to hide it. Incubation 28 days female sits in the day the male sits at night Chicks are precocial fully feathered capable of feeding themselves. Parents protect them for 30 days.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The media that regularly elevated this guy didnt make a mistake they agree with him.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a dye called canthaxanthin obtained from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae. This is a baby flamingo. Original post

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Definition of prayer: let the perfect be The memory of the good. If all you Have is scissors, everything looks like It’s hanging by a thread. Our days, these Peonies are so brief & bound as fists.” @a-woo.bsky.social “Shiftless” (Poetry, July/August 2025)

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It happened like this. The availability of bread was in a phase of so-called temporary difficulties. There was a crush of many hundreds outside the bread shops. The limit was two kilos per person, and no ration cards had been instituted yet.” —Solzhenitsyn, “Narrow Escape”

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The work of Rathika Ramasamy, India's first internationally celebrated female wildlife photographer #womensart

Photograph of an owl peeping out from a hole in a tree trunk

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't is for anybody who's had to clear a house, who's found objects that must have had significance for someone no longer here to tell their story....

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This week on @screensleuthspod.bsky.social! @lordsteerpike.bsky.social is here to discuss GOTHIC HORROR, femmes fatales, and the brilliant 1944 mystery noir classic, LAURA: silverscreensleuths.riverside.com

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The vibrant painted bunting found in America. Males are very colorful. The females are solid, yellow-green. Diet consist of seeds ,grasses and weeds and insects during the breeding season. The western painted buntings migrate to Mexico during the winter season.

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The fragment of the earth that is now me is only on its way through me. It is on its way from having been a tree, a school of fish, a terrapin, a flock of birds. It will pass through all those forms again. —Wendell Berry, from Farming, A Hand Book (1970)

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Swans might have one of the most underrated landing techniques in the animal kingdom. Original post

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Birding Ralph 🐦🦆🦉🦋🐞📸 @birderbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Totally lucked out the other day when this beautiful female Kingfisher - or is it Queenfisher...🤔? - landed right in front of me. They're such gorgeous #birds, aren't they? #nature #naturephotography #eck #photography #kingfisher #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇩🇪

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, there you go! I never knew about the hoopoe. 🙂

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Hoopoe is the thing With feathers . . . “ 😀 —a Seriously Good poem www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘Four Ways of Looking at a Hoopoe’

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The argument against AI should always start with the THEFT of creative labor the technology was built on. The intent was CRIMINAL. CEOs should be facing charges, not class action lawsuits. The devastation these companies continue to inflict on creative communities demands accountability.

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Still thinking of your amazing poem “Auguries” in @lrb.co.uk — while I have my coffee! ☕️

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RoseRed @thebookishgardener.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

𝙾𝚗 𝚊 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝙰 𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚠 𝚒𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝙰𝚗 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚖𝚗 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 -𝙱𝚊𝚜𝚑ō 𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑑𝑎 𝑛𝑖 𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑠𝑢 𝑛𝑜 𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑟𝑖 𝑎𝑘𝑖 𝑛𝑜 𝑘𝑢𝑟𝑒 -𝐵𝑎𝑠ℎō #art #poetry #haiku

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I like how each stone seems to function as a metaphor for moments in time.

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A male American Goldfinch snacking on sunflower seeds

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Mika Paananen @painmike1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

One of my definite classic horror story favourites is "Oh, Whistle, and I'll come to you, My Lad", by M. R. James, whom I really like. I also recommend the BBC television production(1968, e.g. in Youtube) with the excellent Michael Hordern. Art by James McBryde. #SpookySunday

The short story "Oh, Whistle, and I'll come to you, My Lad", by M. R. James. Art by James McBryde.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

While it’s been many decades since I worked with Michael Moorcock on the Elric books, the character continues to occupy my thoughts. 2/2 www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/20...

Detail from ELRIC AND THE COLD DRAKE featuring a line of black rock leading back to Elric standing on the snowy horizon with a a white dragon coiling its neck behind him. In the immediate foreground, human skulls lay partially buried in the snow that borders the rock.

Figure detail from ELRIC AND THE COLD DRAKE featuring Elric in a wide stance with Stormbringer hanging behind him. His hands grip the scabbard as he stares off to the right with his white hair blowing in the same direction. A white dragon grips a rock with one claw as it coils its neck back in an “S” as if coiled to strike. Its maw spreads in a hiss as if at some threat off-panel.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As it turns out, using AI in your writing raises questions of ownership that make your work untouchable for the publishing and movie industries.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

finally I say okay you try you get high and bright and try then you say oh just praise what you can you smiling bag of death —Anne Carson, “Smile” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Smile’

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

“But these are better than the gloomy errors, The weeds of nations in their last decay, When Vice walks forth with her unsoftened terrors, And Mirth is madness, and but smiles to slay; And Hope is nothing but a false delay” (Lord Byron “Ode on Venice”) 🎨 Lucas Varela

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In fact Odysseus would have been here long before now but it seemed to his mind more profitable to go to many lands acquiring stuff. For Odysseus knows profit over and above mortal men nor could anyone else alive rival him at this. (Odyssey, 19.282-6) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

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Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Alive That Time’

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“The most troubling ethical problem with Nolan’s Odyssey concerns the decision to film part of the movie in the occupied territory of Western Sahara, thus normalising the ongoing violence against the indigenous Sahrawi people.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026

This review is like being Chotiner’d: “Unlike some of Nolan’s other films, The Odysseyis not boring, thanks to the source material, which is impossible to mess up entirely.” First paragraph, I’m dying www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“Nolan, energized by the self-restraining power of modern morality, turns an epic poem prosaic.” Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Leaves the Gods in the Outtakes www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Leaves the Gods in the Outtakes

Christopher Nolan’s Homer adaptation presents a modern, relatable Odysseus, rather than trying to understand the ancient world on its own terms.

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

“I know what this is . . . .” How many times have we done this? How many more times? History is a story of endless carnage, east of Eden.

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Nor can by other means be glorified. May then sin's sleep, and death's soon from me pass, That waked from both, I again risen may Salute the last, and everlasting day.

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

nor shall to me Fear of first or last death, bring misery, If in thy little book my name thou enrol, Flesh in that long sleep is not putrefied, But made that there, of which, and for which 'twas;

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SIRRAH @scaryweird.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“Resurrection” by John Donne Moist with one drop of thy blood, my dry soul Shall (though she now be in extreme degree Too stony hard, and yet too fleshly,) be Freed by that drop, from being starved, hard, or foul, And life, by this death abled, shall control Death, whom thy death slew;

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

SMILER (1978) Acrylic on Masonite - 24" x 16" Inspired by an evening walk through downtown Los Angeles. I was with a large group of authors and artists from the World Fantasy Convention, chatting away as we strolled back to the hotel, when two large rats scuttled by. 1/3 #art #booksky

A skeletal intruder brandishes a long knife with curving blade as it props open a door to peer inside. Its hand appears desiccated—decomposing flesh not bone—as it extends slender fingers against the well-worn wood to widen the gap. A bright red handkerchief is tucked into the neckline of its brown overcoat, concealing chest and throat. A wide brimmed hat completes its disguise. Perhaps from behind it could pass as human, but leering through the door its murderous intent is clear. Blue light gleams from a dark sphere set in one bony socket, and it's jaw hangs open in a grim toothy smile. The view out reveals tall buildings beyond—somewhere urban—and the cool glow of streetlights reduced to hazy saucers runs in a diagonal along a dark street unseen.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"Above the City", Oil and Tempera on Canvas, 47 x 62 cm - Stanislav Plutenko, Russian, born 1961 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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