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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Live Bluesky visualiser - this is excellent. Great work by @cee.wtf Made me think of the metaverse in Snowcrash.

Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ah, no way. Rest in Power, Jennifer - what a legend. Back in my roadie days, I was lucky enough to spend an afternoon hanging out + drinking with the band at Hellfest, about ten years ago. The band I was working for, was on after them + our dressing rooms were next to each other...

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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump ADMITTED to doing 9/11 live on the air, as he calls for war on Israel. 🚨 Hear the stunning confession now!!!

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Hope For Ukraine @hfu.org · 04/07/2026

A Ukrainian drone operator uses their drone to drop food for a dog in war-torn Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Courage is contagious. Read the proof in Defiant Hope: hfu.org/defianthope/

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Sometimes, if you're lucky, you have one of those nights where everything comes together + you smash out a tune live and actually remember to record it.. Then your awesome mates help with mixing, mastering and a visualizer.. 😀 Recorded live, vid filmed in Ceredigion, Wales. youtu.be/8CMO8urAZH0?...

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IO - Norse Horse

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Giving this another bump, as I don't know if anyone saw it last time... I made a vid! Play to your kids, it's awesome - big screen and big speakers recommended (I would say that, I'm the bass player. I wince when I hear this through a phone). My dogs 🥰 #music #shelterdogs youtu.be/ZGzttQaTVWU?...

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IO - Fantastic

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Thanks to whoever's been buying our EP on Bandcamp - you're great you are. It seems to be the only app worth using tbh. High energy pop songs, polyrhythmic prog grooves, angry sludgey Bristolian dub rock, we got it all. Check us out. Perfect hot weather tunes. io-moon1.bandcamp.com/album/live-f...

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Live From a Hairy Lounge, by io

3 track album

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My band have just released a track in aid of dog rescue charities, please enjoy! A sunny funky tune perfect for a summer's day. All recorded live in the heart of the Forest of Dean. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGzt... #dogs #animalrescue #adoptdontshop #rescuedogs

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IO - Fantastic

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

International Rescue Dog Day innit. Such great photos of all your dogs, thank you... Here's my girl, I got her a year ago, happy anniversary you spectacular beast

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

One more week till I drop some awesome tunes... io live ep 'Live from a Hairy Lounge' coming next Saturday. Recorded in one night by Bristol's finest supergroup - all profits to Bristol Animal Rescue Centre - please standby

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KirklandDave @kirklanddave.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 23/03/2026

In the ancient Near East from the time of Assyria and Babylon onward, dogs were associated with protective magic and spellcraft, associated with the goddess of healing Ninisina. Dog is man, and god's, best friend, it seems. #MythologyMonday

A famous holy symbol of Ninisina, showing a seated mastif-looking hound, complete with collar, covered in cuneiform invocations to Ninisina, a bowl on its back. The dog is alert, as if on the lookout for something to bark at; what else is new?

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Hi @bsky.app I'm loving all the posts about wildlife, the natural world + rescue dogs, can you please tell me how to tweak the algorithm so that I don't keep getting posts from weirdos dressed up as dogs talking about doing strange sexual things while pretending to be animals, please + thank you

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Holy shit. We're providing our own surveillance. This is worth a watch, especially if you're thinking of getting a Ring doorbell. bsky.app/profile/wera...

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Olive the rescue Kangal is enjoying the Cambrian Hills - she was kept in a house for three years before I got her + now she's discovering the outdoors she's a happy mountain dog

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I've just found out the hard way that you're meant to back up your iTunes. I've just got a new laptop and while copying everything over from the old one, apparently the data was corrupted + the computer shop lost ALL my music. Over sixty solid days' worth, a five decade collection gone. *pooof*

Edvard Munch's The Scream painting - a horrified ghost like character holds their hands to their face in terror

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This is mint. A nice way to lose an hour or so bsky.app/profile/upbe...

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I've just heard on the old dog and bone it's National Cat Day. Here is the street legend mackerel tabby that is Keith, curled up with his best girl, Olive the Kangal. She's careful not to move & squash him. Both are rescue animals and I'd be lost without them. He's fifteen and she's four years old.

An autumn scene: a grey and white tabby cat curls up between the belly and the back legs of a huge sandy-coloured dog. The dog is careful not to knock him as the cat is fast asleep.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The urban foxes round here are just taking the piss now... they had a rave on my car last night, there's pawprints and slidey marks all the way up and down the car, and a little poo in front of the windscreen. Cheeky bastards. We built over their land, they'll tapdance all over our vehicles.

Fox prints and smear marks all over the bonnet and windscreen - the cheeky buggers had a rave-up on my car last night

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Scary wildfires going on right now in Ceredigion, Wales - it's only April but the ground is already bone dry and the wind is spreading them across the hills really quickly. I can taste it in the air. The poor wildlife - all those birds, insects and little mammals running for their lives

The sunny valley of Rhos Y Gell in mid Wales with a huge cloud of smoke in the background hanging over the hills. I didn't see a cloud all day until this started and the smoke rose miles into the sky really quickly.

Wildfires in the woods by Devils Bridge, Ceredigion

A huge plume of smoke rises over the Rheidol valley next to the village of Devils Bridge from a fire that's been going for three days. I knew it was serious when the pub was evacuated

Looking south at the vile twenty mile long smoke cloud over the Cambrian Hills, at least the wind was blowing out to sea

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 01/04/2025

Here are my Top 10 WORST Dogs!

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I snapped this on the substation (not on fire. Not that bit anyway) on Turbo Island in Bristol's legendary Stokes Croft today. For those who aren't local, Turbo is a special kind of cider, for those who want to get the job done. If the job in question is losing your eyesight.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

When these brave Ukrainians ran out of grenades during a battle with a group of Russian invaders, they improvised with a bee hive. "It is when a conqueror seizes its prize, only to realize it is holding a hornet's nest." — Heather Marsh #3E #StandWithUkraine

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

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Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Here's a giant slime mould snot fungus that I nearly stepped on in west Wales yesterday

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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase

I wake up in the morning.
I sit at my computer.
The internet screams at me that the world is on fire.
I am overwhelmed by the deluge of bad news and faceplant in front of the computer.

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I've seen a huge number of cat pics here on Blue sky so I guess I should join in. I present Keith the Speedwell street cat and his minder, Chompsky. They're surprisingly affectionate with each other despite the 50 kilo weight difference

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

New years' day on the welsh coast - the 5000 year old petrified forest near Ynyslas, Ceredigion

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

My rescue dog Chompsky representing for Bristol in the December sunshine 😍

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Every Videogame From 1954. Happy Holidays!

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Me, 55, finding my way round Bluesky

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Storm Daraaaagghh! I've just spent the weekend in the eye of a 90mph storm, an entire welsh hill dumped its rain into my sittingroom, and we had no power for three days. I've come back to the city and now all I can think of is getting back out there. These pics are from the drive back down south.

Trees down over the road at Devils Bridge, Ceredigion. My car just squeezed under.

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Al Cross @speedwellstar.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Hello Bluesky, I'm new here, anyone got a light?

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