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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 9h

Waterstones have picked Pagans as one of their Paperbacks of the Year, so in all stores at 20% off!

Cover of Pagans, as one of Waterstones' Paperbacks of the Year

Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had a mid-life crisis. Told the hairdresser to cut my hair off because I am an idiot. Expecting Teela to walk through the door at any moment to berate me for me poor life (hair) choices.

It me. Adam, Prince of Eternia, experiencing HAIR REGRET

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Somehow this bluesky post now has a date of transmission (29th October) and official artwork.

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Firescribe @firescribestudios.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

New website is live ✨ Firescribe Studios now has a new sibling: Kern & Fable, for prints, cards and slightly strange little illustrated worlds. First collection is up now. Glass shop still to come. kernandfable.co.uk | firescribe.co.uk

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We finally pulled our fingers out and got some of these printed Available as cards and art prints, they don't look too shabby. We’re taking some to the market on Saturday, and they’ll be up on the website soon

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If you like art, glass, folklore and looking at nice things, please consider following us As AI has steadily eaten away at our old way of making a living, we’ve been building something new: a small creative business where people can make art and soothe their souls a little through creativity

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This one though, deserves special mention: 'Poronkusema (Finnish) - A traditional unit of distance: how far a reindeer can travel before needing to urinate.'

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This makes me so fucking mad. CIS women - especially those of us unlikely to be challenged - it's up to us to call out this behaviour. I'm very non-confrontational but I'm so ready to fight any of these bitches who cause grief for folks who literally just want a piss in peace. Fucking state!

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My botanical illustration & mental health w'shop's going ahead on zoom this Sat 29,6.30pm UK If you enrol this wk I'll send you a FREE kit (sketch book,illustration pen,botanical specimens) Learn to draw plants & how creative activity improves mental health: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Happy weekend! Here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up blue hedgehog! Look at the little face and paws! 🦔💙 Made of faience around 3,600 years ago. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows an ancient Egyptian hollow blue spherical bead in the form of a hedgehog curled up in a defensive ball displayed on a grey background. It is made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material with a shiny blue glaze. The hedgehog's snout, ears, paws and tail are shown in relief, and the quills are represented by black dots painted over the surface of the bead. A smll hole for threading runs through the sphere - it can be seen on the right hand side of the bead in my photo. The hedgehog's long ears suggest this is a desert hedgehog. Desert hedgehogs may have symbolized rebirth to the ancient Egyptians because they reappear after hibernating. Dated c.1985 - 1650 BC. On display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Trans friends: if you're worried about being bothered by wrong'uns in the lav and if you’re near our Cornwall workshop (just off the A30 outside Launceston), you’re always welcome to use our loo. No expectation to buy owt or do an art. Message first though as we're a bit tucked away. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 19/08/2026

This is all highly relatable.

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Been busy with the paints and crayons. This one made me cry a bit. If you remember my dog, Timber, you'll know... 'The Wood Holds What Was'

Mixed-media painting of Little Red Riding Hood and a large wolf sitting side by side on a log in a misty, enchanted forest. They are seen from behind, small within the landscape, surrounded by dark twisting trees, oversized patterned leaves, mushrooms, seed heads and glowing botanical forms in greens, blues and muted reds. The forest opens into a pale clearing behind them

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Crafty Cow Cat Sofas @craftycow.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’m really struggling to sell anything at the moment .. any useful suggestions? craftysharp.etsy.com #catsofbluesky

A collage of 4 images of a black cat on each cat sofa. First she is lounging on a pink velvet retro looking cat sofa with gold detailing. She has her front paws crossed in front of her. Second is a pale floral cat sofa also retro style . The cat has her head resting on the seat cushion. Thursday is a pale green cat sofa with a fan effect back. And fourth is a colourful patchwork chesterfield design cat sofa.

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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Some of you had inquired how the Bambi BBQ (raki firing) went the other day. I think she came out looking delicious! Introducing 'Bambi'. Amateur botanist, woodland icon, garden grazer, originator of the 5 mile diet. What animal would you love to see in raku? #sciart #art #pottery #furryart

A closeup on the face of Bambi, a brown, blue, violet, red and metallic textured raku deer sculpture. In the background you can see a couple tree trunk and some of the forest floor and leaves

A full body shot of Bambi the deer. This time she is on a path in the forest and you can see the forest in the background.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Wait folks are now mad about The Odyssey movie? A 2700yo fantastical tale about mythical creatures and magic and the Gods and translated/ debated/ taught in 100 different ways? Y'all sit down. It's a damn movie. Things can be enjoyed. It will put students in our classes. It seems great!

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Cat Distribution System has spoken. It has been mutually and cordially agreed that the neighbours' cat is now officially our cat. She's a wriggly, bitey ball of chaos, which is probably why on her first night sleeping on the bed, I dreamt that she was in fact an albino cobra called Julio.

A very, very relaxed black and white cat lying on her back asleep, tummy exposed, legs akimbo.

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Ever look at all the pointless objects in the world and get a kind of existential vertigo from the scale and futility of it all? Anyway, here are some flaars I picked from m'garden

'Rustic' hand-tied bouquet in pink, blue and lime green containing ferns, climbing green/white hydrangea and blue hydrangea macrophylla, perennial sweet peas (so no scent), alchemilla mollis, verbena bonariensis, cosmos and hedge woundwort

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Top tip heatwave, kids: I have spent today slathered in Biofreeze to survive the heat, then suddenly remembered agua de colonia exists and is basically what I used to douse myself in when I lived on the continent. Far safer than accidentally getting menthol on your flaps and briefly seeing God.

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Want to go out for a sea swim but I haven't been in the sea/rivers in years b/c it's turned into a game of 'log or not?'. Open-water swimmers: do you find those live maps genuinely reliable, or are they more of a rough guide alongside rainfall, tide, and local knowledge? I dunno whether to risk it.

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

About to start up new TikTok and IG accounts for our workshop, which frankly gives me the ick. I’m not about to start narrating my brilliant life b/c my life is just as shit as everyone else’s. I know we need FB to pull in the local crowd but how do I deter all the racist aunties from coming over?

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

There’s a loneliness in holding a truth that others never witness or refuse to see. Narcissistic abusers are very good at being charming. That doesn’t diminish the abuse you suffered, or make it untrue. Doing that work for yourself while helping someone else really brings home how common it is

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__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Jesus, this country's governance disgusts me. Disabled rights are our rights are your rights are my rights are trans rights. It is a circle.

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Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Have a slot to present at the big giant conference in my academic field in July and I have mostly been really hoping, throughout the year, to get enough work to pay for it. This has not happened. If you do have the disposable funds to help I would be very grateful.

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Zee Zom @fnafilms.com · 26/05/2026

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Screenshot from TUC on Facebook

Reform-led Durham council cut off funding to the annual Pride celebrations.
So trade unions launched a fundraiser to save it, eventually raising more money than was cut.
Which means this year's Pride will be bigger than ever.
In the 1980s, the LGBT+ community raised thousands of pounds to help striking miners and their families.
When we stick up for each other, we can achieve anything.

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Robin Wilton 🇱🇧 @komadori.eurosky.social · 26/05/2026

Chives are my favourite of the onion family. Not of all plants... just inter allia. 😬

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“This is not a hypothetical. You are less free now. Your security, dignity, and safety is in the hands of nasty, petty, monumentally stupid bigots. They can take it from you at a whim. And that should bother you.” Save this article. Share it, again and again.

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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 26/05/2026

Also: if you must walk your dog in a heatwave, do it first thing in the morning. The hottest part of the day is usually between 4-5 and it doesn't even really start to cool down properly until the small hours of the morning. Most heatstroke cases I have seen were late afternoon / early evening.

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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I'll be at the Bournemouth Bug Show next Sunday, selling prints, postcards and greetings cards. It's at the Littledown centre.

A hastily-made poster, showing 3 of my lanternfly drawings and details about the event. Text reads: Bournemouth Bug Show 2026, 31st May, 11-4, Littledown Centre.

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The reason the sunny weather makes me feel depressed is the same reason NYE used make me feel like shit-it's the idea that if you don't have the best time ever then what's the point of you? Like, fuck off, Debbie, I'm ginger, I'm staying out the sun cos I dont want a face like a leathery old handbag

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Literally no one is going to guess what we're doing today (except for those in the know)

A travelled courtyard and wooden shack with trees to the right of the pic. A blue sky above

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Found a tiny friend amid the rubbish outside the workshop today. Had to move the rubbish but cobbled together a wee hoos and garden in advance of the heatwave. Meet my new pal, Persephone

A female common toad with beautiful green and russet markings and characteristic party skin.

A makeshift toad habitat. Blue tarp beneath which is a brick and terracotta construction filled with moss, two plant pots with wood stacked between, and a shallow tray of water.

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Fucking hell, men, you've no idea how lucky you are that sexuality isn't a choice otherwise we wouldn't go anywhere near your ridiculous genitals

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Legend has it Poundland adopted the laurel wreath as its logo because Scipio Africanus used to love to pop in to pick up some glitter pens and a multipack of Tangy Toms for the lads in between Punic Wars.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

And how the merry fuck are they going to police that then? I’m not going to carry a gender ID for anyone, neither am I going to show them my fanny. Leave trans women alone, ffs.

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Ann Galvin @elfworldcreations.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Ella is a magical fly agaric toadstool Gnome, just arrived in the #GnomeVillage ... folksy.com/find/item/86...

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 04/05/2026

Would you like this notebook? Know someone who would? 😍 Shares appreciated, thank you!

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 03/05/2026

Great advice in this piece about a clever scam it would be all to easy to fall for. Just one thing to add to it: a malware scan won't pick up any remote access software you've been tricked into installing if you did call the number: you'll need to find and remove that yourself.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

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Lu Lapin @squeezy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I’ve been my mum’s on/off carer for 25+ years, and if I can offer one piece of advice to new unpaid carers it’s this: gloves, a face mask, and a menthol sweet are your friends. When confronted with a commode containing anything of particular heft, a degree of visual disengagement is extremely useful

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