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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Haven't been scolded like this since school, lol

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll.

Shot of seashore with brilliant blue sky above

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ok I've had like a very difficult month or so, for various reasons, so I'm posting this, for approval. It's sad, it's pathetic, but..it's where I am. (And fuckin hell, I just looked at that photo, and where I am is not actually bad)

Middle-aged white woman taking a dressing-room shot at Gucci. The dress is clearly too small for her; but also...phwoarr

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cannot speak highly enough of this book. Quite painful to read, at times, but so engrossing, and so informative; and so, so skilfully written. #booksky

Book cover: Here Where We Live Is Our Country' by Molly Crabapple

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Your last fleeting thought between falling off your horse and being trampled

Blue marker graffiti scrawled on a black lamp-post: 'The End Is Neigh'

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I know - I know! - I should not touch his paws, but...

Furry black and white cat looking slightly alarmed and/or threatening

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Text exchange w gf, who is watching the City match

'There's a ref that looks like granit xhaka'

'Honk! Part of City's punishment for their crimes should be they have to be refereed by Granit Xhaka every match.'

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Oh but my favourite goats are not those on the roof, but the two who live in the shed/pasture behind the restaurant, who are there year-round!

Brown and cream goat with black legs and horns, standing in a snowy enclosure

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Ours were smaller, simpler, mind

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sat in the cockpit on the floatplane home from Comox, and just absolutely buzzing!

Deliriously delighted woman sat in the cockpit of a plane that's just alighted in Vancouver harbour

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Pub I'm watching the game at seems to think the Tartan Army are still about.

Dozens of beer kegs filling a passageway

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Spotted on Granville Street, Vancouver 😂

Sticker showing Sol Campbell and Eberechi Eze in similar poses, wearing Arsenal shirts. The text reads: Tottenham Hotspur/It's happened again

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Pretty sure cracking into these at halftime helped the lads get it over the line. #RSACAN

Lays Bacon Poutine flavoured crisps with image of Richie Laryea and Nathan Saliba on the packet

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Belated, but happy father's day. I do not know if this is a father or a mother, but like, who cares?

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Went to Vancouver Aquarium's Fish & Sips last night, and it is easily one of the best events Vancouver has to offer! 🦦🦭🐠🍷

A large grey Steller's Sealion swimming toward the camera, teeth and whiskers on majestic display

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It's done now. 💪 Love all you gooners 💋

Two arms posed together with Arsenal cannon tattoos freshly done

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Gf n I have the tattoos booked for next week regardless 🙌

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

You have to punch NIMBYs directly in the face right away. These flyers were removed within minutes, lol.

Very objectionable flyer advertising a NIMBY rally against an overdose prevention site 'Rally to stop failed provincial drug policies', covered over with blue sticky notes reading in black marker: 'wildly inappropriate use of bldg communication'; 'I guess this is a free for all, so...'; 'free palestine'; 'land back'

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Picture, if you will, an Albertan 'lawyer' who wants to join the US. Yup. Exactly what you pictured.

Large, bloated, pink chud in a ridiculous cowboy hat, apparently being strangled by his shirt collar. You can almost feel the angry spittle emanating from his tiny petulant mouth.

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Trophy lift cellies, like four hours after the actual trophy lift, lol

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Have an early-morning ferry tomorrow, gonna have to be poured on board like

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Kings of more than just London today. Cheers all you gooners! ❤️

Lady on a sunny patio holding the remains of an espresso martini, wearing a red t-shirt that reads 'Arsenal Kings of London' in white

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Omg this is a follow-up. FROM A HARDCORE LIFELONG CHELSEA SUPPORTER

Text: That said I really wish City and Chelsea were demoted to the 1st division and fined some serious money

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

From my Chelsea-supporting friend

Text message reading: 'Unfortunately Spurs have the best run in too. West Ham are hooped.
As for Chelsea, they should be blown up'

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Saw one sunning itself last week

Dark turtle with sunlight glinting off its shell luxuriating on a gray rock surrounded by water

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Looking like I won it myself [I did not]

Extremely ecstatic looking woman mugging with the NSL trophy

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Had a great time at the @crowcollectivesg.bsky.social season kick-off party, and got this fabulous scarf! Looking forward to the Rise FC home opener Friday at Swangard!

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Ok. Enough bad news. Here is Stella 'PantsyLoo' Bumkins, sadly now departed but forever in our hearts. Beach lover, prodigious snorer, astonishingly adept footballer.

Adorable black pug seated on the beach, some sand speckling her, looking straight at the camera, ears perked

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

@barryglendenning.bsky.social Even as an Arsenal fan, I would much rather paint a picture than watch us lately.

Watercolour of a pinkish-orangey freesia

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Oh my dear god, that's...apparently not off the table, actually?! 😹

'New reporting reveals the Pentagon threatened Pope Leo XIV's ambassador over the Pope's anti-war statements:
"America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side."
Photos below show the Pope looking jolly and beneficent, and Pete 'KegsBreath' Hegseth looking angry and deranged.

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Having a cheeky round of pitch & putt to stave off The Horrors

Pink camellia bush foreground against a white cherry blossom tree and blue sky

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The US bombing Isfahan is like bombing the Vatican

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

At the pub for the Arsenal match. Happy Easter!

2 girls in a pub wearing Arsenal gear and bunny ears

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Search your camera roll for 'hell' 😅

Interior dive bar with two seated figures, backs to camera in AC/DC gear

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I only came on here to post this lovely pre-spring photo, and ohh god.

Beautifully spread out lavender crocuses

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My Chelsea dude still doesn't rate Havertz 😅

Kai Havertz calmly slotting the goal that sends Chelsea out

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Someone on Pt Grey road is really in the spirit! ❤️

An evergreen tree covered in colourful heart-shaped ornaments, each with a Valentine-themed motto: Be Mine, Kiss Me, U R Cute, etc

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Went to the Vancouver Goldeneyes game last night, and while I will say hockey is not necessarily for me (too cold! too many random breaks in play! don't understand the rules! 🤷‍♀️) it was such an amazing crowd, wowwww go'wahn womens sports!!

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I don't even drive, but I attempted to buy this beauty, because whoaaa look at it

Overly-excited woman posing with a beautiful dark-blue vintage Jaguar

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Also saw this lil absurd creature 😅💕

A sort of white and pink axolotl, with a red flash over its shoulder. It does not look like a real thing, honestly, but it is!

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Ok, ok, so being seven points clear is still good, whatever; but I was in a very bad mood after that display against Nottingham Forest. So we took ourselves off to the aquarium, and that did the trick 💕

Two women looking awed and delighted in front of a tank of luminous jellyfish

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Shona Black @shonablack.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Listening to @amylawrence.bsky.social on Handbrake off referencing the Grace Jones Slave to the Rhythm image re Big Gabi and omg yes!! 😍

Cover art for the Grace Jones single Slave to the Rhythm. It elongates her jaw/mouth in a roar shape, which resonates with Big Gabi's roar of delight when he clears a ball

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