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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 19h

The words of Mandy Rice-Davies spring to mind.

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Tennis Updates @tennisupdates.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Qinwen Zheng is a WTA 1000 champion for the very first time, and she does it at home defeating Mirra Andreeva 7-5, 6-4 • Back into Top 25 at #23 • 2nd Big Title • Wins Tournament as a Wild Card • 1st Title Since 2024 Tokyo

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Art of Painting 1666-68, by Delft artist Johannes Vermeer 1632-1675. A ‘muse’ in ultramarine, with book & trumpet of fame, poses for artist by window, in room defined by brass chandelier, black & white tiles, tapestry & wall map of Low Countries Leo Belgicus (1636). Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A very stylish #Roman woman's shoe with a decorative pattern punched into the leather. Found in 1907 in a well in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort, dating first half of the 2nd century AD. Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg

The picture shows a single leather shoe with a decorative pattern of holes of different sizes and shapes (e.g circles, triangles).

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at the restaurant inside the high end Mayfair furniture shop RH London. And it’s chaos. Warm water. Can’t mix cocktails. Run out of hamburgers. Dull food for bored oligarchs who don’t eat. Have a few quotes and a pic of a £22 baked potato. www.ft.com/content/5993...

Drift through its rooms admiring the oversized sculptures, the overstuffed seating and the passive-aggressive war on colour. I was tempted to give myself a quick nosebleed just to introduce a splash of red. While there, do take a look inside the utterly magnificent restaurant at the back of the ground floor, housed in what was once a banking hall. The cathedral-high ceilings are coated in gold leaf and dangle with giant golden chandeliers like crystal udders. There are pillars, acres of polished wood veneer and lots of soft curved seating, picked out by pools of light from dainty table lamps. Gawp at it. Gasp at it. But whatever you do, don’t book a table in it. On my recent visit, the whole operation was a bloody shambles.

It starts in the second-floor cocktail bar, designed by Anouska Hempel, where the £16 Margarita comes from a bottle of pre-mix with a hand-scribbled label, and they can’t make any classic cocktails which aren’t on the list. Ask them for a Daiquiri then watch the panic flicker in their eyes. Online, the cheapest bottle of wine offered up here is a Riesling at £68. When you arrive, it turns out to be £86.

Back downstairs in the restaurant a bottle of sparkling water is brought. It’s warm. We ask for ice. None comes. We ask again. None comes. Third time’s a charm. At least we get water quickly; the wait for food is interminable (if you don’t count the £56-worth of mini lobster rolls we didn’t order, that they tried to foist on us). We watch one of our dishes being offered to a nearby table. The diners look baffled. The waiter returns to the pass in the open kitchen where a row with the chef appears to ensue. He waves a ticket at her. Finally, 10 minutes later the plate comes to us. In a functioning restaurant you should be able to spot the person in charge immediately. There is no one in charge of this room. It’s chaos.

Our missing dish is the cutely named “Parisian petite potato”. I wanted to see what a £22 baked potato was like. Small, is the answer, and topped with the now obligatory caviar. Honestly, there’s so much caviar washing around London at the moment, I’m convinced there’s some bloke with a lock-up in Camberwell who has got hold of a surplus that fell off the back of a knackered old sturgeon. Now he’s pushing it out to W1. Anyway, it’s a baked potato with fish eggs. I’m not sure which bit of it is Parisian but it’s definitely petite, I’ll give it that.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

‘The shadow that is cast...’ Alberto Giacometti, Swiss artist, known for his attenuated & expressive sculptures, born #OTD 1901. Tate London

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Third Labour gain from Reform in by-elections in the last fortnight.

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#FindsFriday Alert and sparky, a 4th C BC red-figured rhyton in the form of a horse's head. From tomb in ancient pre-Roman Peucetian city of Thuriae, one of the largest in Puglia. Excavated 1957, in Monte Sannace displays in Gioia del Colle museum.

A drinking vessel in the shape of a horse's head with a cup-shaped behind it at one end to the left.
It has a handle shown on the bottom of the the cup-shaped section of the vessel, with the head pointed downwards to the right at an angle. Mostly glazed in black, the cup has red-figured warriors with white spears and headbands, and red decoration running round the top and the intersection with the head. The horse has a thin bridle in a yellow-gold colour, a wide open red eye and ears standing up slightly forward.

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Honestly its not going to happen. I'm old enough to have heard all this UBI stuff before, and done enough history to have seen how it went in years gone by. Its a myth and a lie, we'll all just be out of work and the people with money will wash their hands of the problem

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Madame Récamier, Parisian beauty, salonnière of Directoire & early Consulate periods, admired by Châteaubriand, friend of Mme de Staël. Painted in 1800, à la Grecque, reclining upon a form of chaise-longue known as a Récamier; by Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). Musée du Louvre

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 08/10/2026

Doesn’t matter how often you see it. Always pretty.

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Birdboy @20thcenturytype.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Shoko Uemura, Night Herons, 1956.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A #Roman glass beaker from Ehingen-Rißtissen, dating to the 1st century AD. It’s amazing how modern some ancient glass vessels still look today. On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg 📷 me

Blue translucent glass beaker, mounted on a black metal rod. The scratched and cracked surface is visible against a softly blurred background.

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can't beat Calvin and Hobbes

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sometimes you see an artefact where myth, magic & reality all seem to converge… Behold, the Iron Age Torrs Pony Cap; pulled from a Scottish bog in the 19thC & dating to the 3rdC BC, the horns were still attached when found. Chariot ponies knew they were cool. National Museum Scotland #FindsFriday

Decorated bronze pony cap with long, slender curving horns

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This beautiful amethyst-tinted serving bottle is made from a type of glass developed during the 1670s that contained a high percentage of lead. This so-called ‘lead-glass’ or ‘crystal’ was much heavier, less fragile and more brilliant than that produced previously in either England or Europe.

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Keith Burge @carryonkeith.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Hi Kemi, it's Michelle from Iron Dome Services."

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I knew he was a pompous liar and sleaze but I didn't realise he lied about so much!

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Tennis Updates @tennisupdates.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

News: Sinner needs treatment for his knee which ends his 2026 season This means Zverev will become World #1 for the first time, the 16 weeks at #1 was basically the only thing Medvedev still had over Zverev on their resumes but will no longer be the case.

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To the surprise of absolutely no one, but to their courage, victims of far-right figures arguing they are “protecting women and girls” from unknown and unseen particular threat from migrants are coming forward to tell their story of sexual and domestic abuse

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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols

Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

bobcat in a box

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Im embarrassed that we breed people like that in this country let alone elect them. Deeply depressing

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy #WorldAnimalDay! Do you have a favourite in the Ashmolean? World Animal Day exists to celebrate animals but also to raise their status and improve welfare standards around the globe. The 4th of October is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One side of my family is Irish, the other English going back multiple generations. So what does that make me? Can I stay 6 months each year, and have to go to Ireland for 6 months?

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Me today.... So glad the weekend is almost here 🫩 Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. 📷 Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana

Small translucent amber figurine carved in the shape of a squatting monkey. The figure has a detailed face with expressive eyes and rests its chin on its hands, appearing thoughtful. It sits atop a rectangular platform supported by four rounded, balloon-like legs.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.

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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The timeless beauty of ancient glass! This Roman glass scent bottle is around 2,000 years old, yet its elegant design feels surprisingly modern! British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a small Roman scent bottle made of cobalt-blue mould-blown glass in the form of a scallop shell. At the top it has a cylindrical neck with an out-turned rim. There is a thin, curved, handle either side of the neck. The top of each handle is attached to the neck, and the bottom is attached to the top of the scallop shell. Bottle dimensions: height 8.5 cm, diameter 5.2 cm. Dated AD 25-100. It is displayed on a circular, clear perspex (?) stand in a British Museum display case. The bottle was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade in 1869.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Frescoed spiral staircase: Scala Regia of Villa Farnese (Caprarola) 1559-1573, designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, great Italian Mannerist architect, assistant to Michelangelo. His two publications on classical orders & practical perspective, helped define classical canon. Polo Museale del Lazio

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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 29/09/2026

Man City statement in full:

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What he means is he can't sit in the back of his air conditioned chauffeur driven car and get dropped right outside the door of every building he wants to visit, whenever he wants

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Staircase of Hôtel Tassel, Brussels, 1893-94, first Art Nouveau building, designed by Victor Horta, influential Belgian architect (1861-1947). UNESCO World Heritage

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Following the news that Manchester City FC has been found guilty of 114 breaches of the PL's rules and regulations, @josimarfootball.bsky.social has lifted the paywall on articles of ours focusing on MCFC and its commercial partners since 2018. Links follow in this thread.

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The Men Behind Manchester City: The Dark Side | Josimar

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🔭🌙 Just 10cm tall, this little clock-watch in the form of a book includes adjustable sundials, signs of the zodiac, tools to calculate the hours of daylight and the phases of the moon, a lunar wheel-chart, and even an alarm! ⏰

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mexicans really know how to do breakfast

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dig the new Barbour x Norbit collection. Great to see Japanese designers lean into Barbour's heritage and make something funkier without straying from function and tradition. IMO, this collection will be up there with Daiki Suzuki and Tokihito Yoshida's collabs with Barbour in the past.

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actually that does sound good. I love breakfast but really it needs eggs... Congee is so not it

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm rewatching Frasier at the moment, this reminds me of Eddie

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I loved maglev. I was the only geek on there who got excited by the speedometer

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

No. Just no. That is not breakfast

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shell48.bsky.social @shell48.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I may have missed something but how would you pay a gas bill? All direct debit these days surely

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please can someone call the burns unit? 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Has Ahmed @HasAhmed_20h

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The only Muslim bothered about you eating this much bacon is your cardiologist.

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It's all about choices!

I've made mine.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I often think of this as a sunrise dress, its fiery layers of tulle replicating the striations of early morning. Today I was treated to this display on my stroll through the lanes, mirroring the Callot Soeurs colours of c1910 #madparisfr #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A full length image of a c1910 evening gown made from layers of pink and orange tulle and with gold embellishment at the bodice and hem. It has a darker pink stole

A photograph that I took this morning of a fiery sunrise in shades of yellow orange pink and purple with the silhouettes of trees in the foreground

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Footage appears to show Danny Tommo slashing an RNLI boat

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