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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We’ve enjoyed the solar eclipse from home. Fantastic!!

The solar eclipse, at around 90 %.
Taken from southwest of France.

At home, some beautiful shadows during the solar eclipse.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

From home, 7h30 pm. Alt👇

A deep orange sun glows through dark clouds over Touvre, France.
7:30 p.m. The sky is tinted an unusual amber colour, due to the thick smoke drifting from the massive and out of control wildfires currently devastating parts of Gironde.
Eerie and dramatic atmosphere.
Highly polluted air. Heavy smell of burned pines.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

New GOP logo just dropped.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Happy #SuperbOwlSunday! Here’s a lovely limestone plaque carved with the face of an owl!🦉😍 From Egypt, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period, 400–30 BC. Met Museum www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a roughly square-shaped piece of limestone with a relief carving depicting a front facing owl on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This relief represents the ancient Egyptian owl hieroglyph ‘m’.

Limestone plaque dimensions H. 10.3 x W. 11.1 x D. 2.5 cm

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Nice out the back

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

For Christmas this year, all the Aloe arborescens are flowering. We are in the southwest of France. Yes, climate is changing, fast.

The 60-80 cm racy inflorescence of the Aloe arborescens is erected and simple. The raceme is conical 20-30 cm by 10-12 cm in diameter, bearing many yellow/orange flowers.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Église Saint-Gervais, Paris. Seen from the Memorial Garden for the terrorist attacks on November 13th, 2015.

The façade of the Saint-Gervais church in Paris is a fine example of early 17th-century French classicism.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The nave of Chambéry Cathedral, Savoie, France. 15th century, flamboyant gothic style.

The cathedral houses the largest set of trompe-l'oeil paintings in Europe (nearly 6,000 m2).

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The future has flown away My son has left To embrace the vast sky Pierre-Louis, 1991-2025

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Paris. Église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont. The rood screen. (Alt for details).

Despite a construction of the choir, then of the nave, spread over about thirty years, the architecture of the building offers a remarkable uniformity, clearly visible at the level of the piles and the vault. The Gothic architectural style is enriched with a Renaissance ornamentation, in a very harmonious marriage.

A magnificent jube (rood screen), the only one left in Paris, cuts the building in two. Architectural and artistic feat, its design dates from the early 1530s.

The tribune, nine meters long, is supported by a basket-ended vault that culminates at four meters.

A typical ornamentation of the early Renaissance (the écoinçons) is combined with the classical Gothic style of the railing and stairs, a style not without a Mooorish influence.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Paris. Église Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, built from 1492 to 1626. Here, the nave-transept crossing. (Alt for details)

The nave-transept crossing is one of the masterpieces of this church, built around 1584-1586.

This vault is a magnificent example of the transition from late Gothic to Renaissance style. The thirds that divide the space are gothic, as are the hanging keys and the openwork discs with fine chisels that furnish these spaces. The other motifs of ornamentation are totally Renaissance.

The artistic fantasy of the whole is typical of the late 16th century.

The central hanging key has a height of 2.40 meters. It is kept in balance almost five meters below the top of the vault thanks to curved links stiffened by an invisible metal reinforcement, present from the origin.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

It was a picnic with a view. West of Paris. 📷 🌞 🍀 🌳

A panoramic photo taken from the edge of a pond.

The various plants and tree species that border this body of water offer a beautiful palette of greens.

The sky is blue with some cumulus clouds reflected in the water.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The garden vista. Lush greens. Peacefulness. 🏡 ⛲️ 🌳 🪴 🫜

The view from the top of our garden, by the terrasse.
On the right is the pond. The left path leads to a pergola, the right path to the arch, which opens onto the orchard.
The vegetable plot is set at the bottom of the land, by the tree line where a river flows.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The swallows have returned in large numbers this week. Such beautiful birds. @manelcamacho.bsky.social

A swallow on an electricity cable, with a clear blue sky

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The dominant color in the garden this week. Spring is an opportunity for the mind. #spring #iris 🌱 💙

At the top center of the photo, a blue iris in full bloom, several others in the background.
At the edge of a pond, the sky is blue with a few small clouds.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A beautiful visitor while gardening : a female Calopteryx virgo.

The body is blue-green metallic iridescent and the eyes blue-green.

The female has brown and fairly dark iridescent wings, adorned with a small white spot near the end. Its abdomen is blue with a bronze part at the end.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In the pond of our garden, a happy frog again, this time croaking, in video. 🐸

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The Euphorbia myrsinites is a feast for some polistes. ☀️ 🐝 🌸

A poliste feasting on the flowers of an Euphorbia myrsinites.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

We have some very happy (and very noisy) frogs in the pond. And hundreds of tadpoles. ☀️ 🐸

A female green frog sunbathing in a pond.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Spring starts here when my Euphorbia myrsinites is in bloom. Lush greens 💚

The center of a flowerbed in my courtyard shows in the foreground a flowering Euphorbia myrsinites. Just behind, with a disc of white marble pebbles at its base, my first homemade bonsai. All around are different succulents.

The different and rich shades of green, together, are visually attractive.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

🕰️Sunday Read is a Genius Loci Digest Special Edition - The Ultimate Guide to Time Travel - 10 Places that slow down time... ✨a #thread to counteract difficult times✨Please share it if it helps you...🪄 - but less of that and more of this..

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The ballet of the cranes. Elegance and endurance.

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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 12/02/2025

Happy 216th birthday to Charles Darwin ! 🎂🎉

The famous photo of Charles Darwin with the caption « Viva la evolution »

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Never heard of this optical phenomena before. I wonder what people in the past would have made of that burst of reflected sun rays.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

📹 I offer you few seconds of peacefulness, far away from the world craziness. I so enjoy living where we are. South West of France. 💙 🦋 🏞️ 🦢

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David Clark @clarkeocrinus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I'm exhausted and this feels like the best option for #FossilFriday this week. This is coprolite. What is coprolite, you ask? It's fossilized feces. It's mineralized, doesn't smell. It's important for science to find pollen or pieces of bone. Also proves you can polish a turd.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My first #FossilFriday post! Here is a nice piece of petrified wood I found in the river that originates in our village. Two more photos 👇🧵

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 30/01/2025

We all need some mušēṣi lemnūti good boys right now.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

🐕 His Lordship resting on the sofa, because his two beds downstairs are not as good as this space, which is less and less mine.

A close up photo of our dog, Borgia, resting on the sofa.
The wrinkles, the hippo nose the long chops, the tiny ears and the stubbornness : yes, he is a real Shar Pei !

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/01/2025

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

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Heil Tesla

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Self-portrait on the bus to the Shoes

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A dog’s paw print on a Roman clay tile 🐾🐕 😍 This imprint was made about 2,000 years ago, when a dog walked across the wet clay tile as it lay out to dry before firing. Perhaps not such a good boy?😂 Richborough Roman fort 📷 by me #TilesonTuesday #Archaeology

A fragment of Roman tile with a dog’s paw print imprinted into the surface of the clay. Excavated at Richborough Roman fort.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin @kennarubin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

After medically transitioning as #MTF I find myself mostly branded a #trans #scientist & my work brushed aside as #DEI, despite 30+ years as a volcanologist, oceanographer, data scientist, science communicator, & professor at leading universities. Let’s celebrate #LGBTQ+ contributions as valid 🧪 🏳️‍⚧️

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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 17/01/2025

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

$A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer.$ $Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.$

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Konrad Cox @konradcox.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

From a freezing December night in #Devon last December. #photography #stars

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Mer de Glace 2007 | 2024 The largest french glacier has lost ~95 m in thickness during this period at 1700 m asl! 😱 This is called collapse! Webcam: Cie du Mt Blanc (@MONTBLANC_NR) Archiving: J-M Friedt and @IGE_Grenoble Credit: EarthBreath Data: glacioclim.osug.fr/Donnees-des-...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 15/01/2025

In 2018, @blkahn.bsky.social said that the warming stripes graphic 'belongs in a damn museum', even suggesting that it was 'fit for the Museum of Modern Art' (see gizmodo.com/this-climate...). Well... Later this month, they will appear in the Museum of Modern Art: press.moma.org/exhibition/p...

This Climate Visualization Belongs in a Damn Museum

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

📷 Fhe wonders of nature by a cold and bright winter morning. 🍂 ❄️ ☀️ 🌍

On a cold but sunny winter morning, the photo in portrait mode shows some oak leaves that fell to the ground last fall, they are covered with frost.

The first rays of the sun illuminate the ice crystals.

Due to the framing, the median rib of the largest leaf is in the vertical axis of the frame, the lateral ribs thus offer a form of relative symmetry.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The exquisitely beautiful Happisburgh handaxe. A utilitarian tool worked from glossy black flint half a million years ago! Found in 2000 by a man walking his dog on a Norfolk beach. 📷 Norwich Castle Museum www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/collections-... #Archaeology

Lower Paleolithic ovate handaxe in black flint with pale grey coarse-grained inclusions. There is a small v-shaped break at the butt. Created circa 500,000 BC. Dimensions 128 x 79 x 37mm

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

If you stop and think of it, if Ukraine had joined NATO, it wouldn't be occupying part of Russia right now. I remain a master strategist.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Mer de Glace from Grand Hotel du Montenvers 1910 | 2024 Jürgen Merz Classical view of Alpine glacier demise by @glacionaut/IG

Comparison of the state of the Mer de Glace between 1910 and 2024

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James Kirkham @jdkirkham.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Exciting to see such a comprehensive analysis of (v. hard to collect!) data on mountain permafrost! The authors show that during 2013–2022, permafrost in Europe's mountains warmed by more than 1 °C per decade in several places, matching the rates of Arctic lowlands. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Enhanced warming of European mountain permafrost in the early 21st century - Nature Communications

Permafrost in Europe’s mountains has warmed by more than 1 °C per decade in certain places, matching the levels in Arctic lowlands. The strongest warming occurred at cold bedrock at the highest elevat...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 02/01/2025

It was another stunning year for global climate and weather extremes. As data is processed and released in the first two weeks of January, you are going to be hearing all about these new historical records. Apologies for my many graphs in advance! 😬 Spiral below produced by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Tonight, watch the sky! It’s offering us, on New Year’s Day, an aurora borealis. Right now, from South West of France. Waiting for the street lighting to be off. #aurora #auroraborealis #northenlights 📷 🔭🌄

A landscape photo showing a shy aurora borealis, due to the street lighting.
Jupiter is on the top right. And the electricity cable all across…

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

At home, from my quiet space where I feel safe, I wish you all the best for 2025. Knowledge, understanding, tolerance, peace, respect, wisdom for the sake of all of us, of our common and fragile home, Earth. #newyear #booksky #skybooks #books #knowledge #wisdom 📚 🕊️ 🌍

The landscape photo shows a wall of my office covered with shelves on which I keep the books I care about.

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Stephane @stephfr.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

🏛️ 🖌️ 🖼️ 📷 Chiharu Shiota. “The Soul Trembles“. An exceptional exhibition within the Grand Palais, Paris.

Shiota's installations transform spaces into emotional labyrinths. She describes her work as a "drawing in the air", where the threads evoke human connections, neural networks and the invisible. Among his outstanding works, Uncertain Journey (2016/2024) immerses the visitor in a maelstrom of red threads, gushing out of metal boats, summoning memories and reflections on human ties, travel and exile.

Chiharu Shiota mainly uses three colors: black, red and white. Black evokes the depth of the universe and introspection, red symbolizes life, death and vital connections, while white, introduced in his work after his illness in 2017, represents a blank page and a rebirth. These chromatic choices reinforce the emotional impact of his installations. Everyday objects, such as shoes, beds or suitcases, occupy a central place in its facilities. By wrapping them in threads, the artist attributes to them a memorial and emotional dimension. These objects become the vectors of a collective memory, both intimate and universal.

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