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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If the Universe was picking the obviously correct and right answer, then the Universe would be a Grand Unified Supersymmetric Theory (SUSY-GUT) with superpartners at a few hundred GeV. This is very clearly the elegant and correct answer.

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Iulus Mayfair @numerius.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If the Netflix adaptation is not called “Messy Steakhouse Franchise Divorce Drama” I won’t watch it

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

… is the same knot, but which cannot be deformed into each other when embedded in either 3 or 4 dimensions.

Two different surfaces whose boundaries are the same complicated knot.

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Annie Brassey @anniebrassey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sunbeam, South #Atlantic #Ocean 4.10.1876. "There were several cries of 'land ahead' during the day, but in each case a closer examination, through a glass, proved that the fancied coast-line or mountain-top existed only in cloud-land." #Brassey #Victorian #Sailing #Yacht #Travel #History #1870s

Page and map from "A Voyage in the Sunbeam" by Annie Lady Brassey, published in 1878. South Atlantic Ocean 4.10.1876.

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Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Before it fell or was pulled over and broke into 4 pieces the Grand Menhir Brisé in Locmariaquer (Morbihan) would have stood just over 20m tall. Estimated to weigh c.300 tons it is made of stone from a source 4km away.

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

[5] Another non-religious work by Clarke is the Geneva Window. It was to celebrate Irish cultural figures. However one character was depicted drunk & the theocratic state decided to renege on buying it. It is now in Florida. It’s stunning.

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Malcolm Wilson @malcolmwilson01.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ask this man. bsky.app/profile/neil...

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wouldn't call a 9-loop calculation in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory a "breakthrough". I don't see a really big payoff. When Lance Dixon did 8 loops, nobody except a few specialists noticed it or called that a "breakthrough", even though he developed a new technique.

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Alerted by Pat Nolan’s soulful “Smoking Poet” cut: today’s the anniversary of W. H. Auden’s death (d. 29 September 1973). I rather admire the chutzpah behind William Matthews’s “In Memory of W. H. Auden,” how it works (slantwise, at least) off Auden’s own “In Memory of W. B. Yeats.”

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Lea Fink @strassenverlauf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Zum Todestag des Malers Hans Baluschek werfen wir einen Blick auf sein Berlin. Der sozialdemokratische Maler Hans Baluschek (9. Mai 1870 - 28. September 1935) lebte ab 1876 in Kreuzberg (später in Schöneberg) und besuchte das Askanische Gymnasium. Großstadtbahnhof, 1904 🧵

Das Gemälde zeigt den Blick von oben auf Bahngleise im Dunkeln: viele leuchtende und Dampf ausstoßende Züge und Lokomotiven fahren auf den viele Gleiseneines Großstadtbahnhofs. Rechts ein erhelltes Bahnhäuschen. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They say point set topology is "dead". But it left us a great inheritance. Like the Alexandroff-Hausdorff theorem: Every nonempty compact metric space is a continuous image of the Cantor set K! That is: for any nonempty compact metric space X, there's a continuous map from K onto X.

Cantor's cube, K x K x K, is homeomorphic to the Cantor set K.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2 x #SaxonSunday from Essex 🏺 Paglesham great square headed brooch is bronze, once gilded, c. 550 AD: v ornate type typically worn by wealthy females, w faces on head, arms + foot. Smaller, simpler but chunky gold Prittlewell buckle likely made for burial of the 'prince' c. 580-605. Southend Museums

Paglesham brooch w cruciform top section, decorated with faces at head and arms, and at foot overlapping rectangular base section. Base has four heads with eyes/noses along the bottom. Proliffic scrolled, intertwining and animal decoration throughout.

Simple but heavy gold buckle, shown with buckle at top on short side of triangular fitting below. Three domed circular features decorate the triangle with a rather shield shaped fitting for the buckle at the top. Said to be the most spectacular of items buried at Prittlewell.

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LeSuPer @lesuper.bsky.uy · 26/09/2026

Skutterudite's crystal structure can be transformed to #Perovskite by putting together the pair of atoms inside the cubes. That is why I was sad to have this Match, because this year I am #TeamQuartz

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John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What I love: “I permit to speak, / Nature, without check, with original energy.” That revery of making a rock into a word.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I started researching ML before I built a synth, but you can get a great intuitive understanding of interaction within a generative system by building a modular analog synthesizer and watching how your components interact, and seeing what surprises emerge and what stays predictable as you scale up.

Steve Porcaro of "Toto" with a wall-sized modular synthesizer - basically a massive nest of tangled wires -- the Polyfusion 'Damius'. Photo by Jim Gardner - https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesthephotographer/120916737/

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Katen, the Fire Deity 十二天像　火天図 Hanabusa Itchô latter half of the 17th to first half of the 18th century MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEHanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper DIMENSIONS90.1 x 37.1 cm (35 ½ x 14 5/8 in.) CREDIT LINEWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

A roaring aureole of stylized, sweeping flames surges diagonally upward behind the four-armed deity, casting a radiant vermilion glow against the uninked silk ground. Standing barefoot upon a floating lotus pedestal surrounded by swirling crests, Katen—the Fire Deity—is depicted as a stern, bearded ascetic with a third eye set upon his brow. His gaunt, deeply lined torso reveals the stark contours of an ascetic life, draped in flowing celestial scarves (tennei), a fur apron bound at the waist, and patterned robes. In his four hands, he holds his sacred ritual attributes: a crystal rosary (nenju), a triangular vessel of sacred fire held close to his chest, a ritual pitcher (suibin), and a long, slender bamboo staff resting beside his feet.
Painted during the late 17th or early 18th century by the celebrated Edo-period master Hanabusa Itchō (1652–1724), this hanging scroll depicts Katen, the Japanese Buddhist manifestation of Agni, the Vedic god of fire. Within the Esoteric Buddhist (Mikkyō) pantheon, Katen serves as one of the Jūniten (Twelve Devas), protecting the cosmos and specifically guarding the southeast direction. Formally trained in the classical Kano school before developing his own vibrant, humanistic style in Edo, Itchō brought a fresh, expressive vitality to traditional religious iconography. His painterly monozukuri (artisanal mastery) transforms a rigid Esoteric icon into a living, deeply expressive figure, marrying orthodox Buddhist iconometry with the fluid, calligraphic brushwork of the Edo urban renaissance.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Van Gogh left Paris in mid-February 1888 for Arles. When he stepped off the train, he was confronted by a snowy landscape; here, the patchy coverage of the snow is implied through daubs of brown paint and the purplish light of an impending snowstorm.

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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wir sind in der aktuellen Ausgabe von Charlie Hebdo! Vor ein paar Wochen besuchte uns ein Team der bekannten französischen Satire-Zeitschrift. Wir liefen einen Nachmittag durch #Halberstadt und sprachen über Antifaschismus und viele andere Themen. Entstanden ist dabei diese Reportage 👇🏾

Screenshot vom gesamten Artikel. Zu sehen sind auch drei Zeichnungen, vom Gebäude der ZORA, von einem Mahnmal in Halberstadt, das an die Deportation und Ermordung jüdischer Menschen aus Halberstadt erinnert, und von einer Gesprächssituation mit mir.

Zu sehen ist die erste erste Zeichnung vom Gebäude der ZORA, links sieht man eine Flagge der Antifaschistischen Aktion, in der Mitte die Sommerbühne, rechts stehen Menschen und reden.

Zeichnung von einer Gesprächsituation mit mir.

Zeichnung von den Steinen der Erinnerung vor dem Dom.

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Paul Hearn @paulxhearn.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

From ‘Indeterminacy’, Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage

Text on page “George Mantor had an iris garden, which he improved each year by throwing out the commoner varieties. One day his attention was called to another very fine iris garden. Jealously he made some inquiries. The garden, it turned out, belonged to the man who collected his garbage.”

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Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Goethite. This mineral forms by the oxidisation of iron-rich deposits. This is just one of the geology specimens on display in our Sargent Gallery. #Bexhill

This is a big chunk of rock with what looks like large black bubbles all over it. They are in fact part of the rock. It is displayed in a glass case against a blue background.

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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy to share our new article on academic freedom. @paulita.bsky.social, Christiane Thompson and Gregor Fabian examine how academic rank shapes experiences, expectations and perceptions of restrictions on academic freedom, based on a survey of 9.083 academics in Germany. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Screenshot showing abstract: This article investigates the relationship between academic career ranks and restrictions on academic freedom. Drawing on a representative survey of 9083 full-time academics at German higher education institutions, we examine how academics across different career ranks assess their freedom in teaching and research. Although precarious employment conditions and professional hierarchies may suggest otherwise, our findings show that doctoral candidates and postdocs on fixed-term contracts do not report experiencing restrictions on their academic freedom significantly more often compared to tenured professors. However, distinguishing between experienced restrictions, on the one hand, and expectations of restrictions as well as broader perceptions of academic freedom on the other, we find that non-tenured academics report more often to expect or perceive their academic freedom to be restricted compared to professors. We explain these rank-based differences with a chilling effect generated by a polemical and polarized discourse on ‘cancel culture.’ Academics on fixed-term contracts are more likely to be receptive to often polemical debates on ‘cancel culture’ and for the concerns that come with it. This suggests that structural employment insecurity plays a key role in shaping how academics assess their academic freedom. Our results challenge simplified accounts of ‘cancel culture’ by showing that discourse and institutional hierarchies intersect to produce differentiated vulnerabilities within academia. Although based in Germany, the findings speak to broader international concerns about restrictions on academic freedom and precarious academic labour.

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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Compared to professors, both postdocs and doctoral candidates are more likely to expect restrictions and to perceive their academic freedom as constrained. We interpret this as precarious employment contributing to a "chilling effect" regarding restrictions on academic freedom.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Poppy' c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published in a book #WomensArt

Image of a white poppy plant against a blue background

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UKRin @ulrich-k-roessler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Luigi Malipiero (1901 - 1975) Portrait frontispiece in the memorial volume for his friend Fred von Zollikofer (1898 - 1937) and its cover.

Black & white drawing of a young man, piblished ten years after his death in captivity.
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Luigi Malipiero (editor & illustrstor): 'Fred von Zollikofer – Ausgewählte Werke. Ausgabe zum zehnten Todestag des Dichters. Ein Gedächtnisband'
Aegis, Ulm 1947.

Cover drawing (b&w) of the memorial book : square prison window with crossed iron bars, seen fom the outside. A bough of a tree, resembling a bit an olive or ash tree, is growing from below obliquely in front of ithe dark black hollow of the window and casting its intricate shadow onto the prison wall.

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is me realizing that the Russian term for the "coven" of witches -- шабаш -- is really a Jewish Shabbat. So "a Shabbat gathering of witches." The word was first used in this way in XIV century in the Alps and somehow migrated to Russia...

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Erik Fossing Nielsen @erikfossingnielsen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Through all the noise about daily changes in yields, I recommend keeping fundamentals in mind. And when it comes to fiscal sustainability in a politically realistic world no chart is more important that this one: interest obligations to pay as percent of revenue.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“We analyzed complete genomes of 38 individuals from the genus Leopardus. Our results clarify the evolutionary history of a complex radiation of wild cats, reveal novel taxa, & serve as a basis for conservation planning on behalf of these elusive wild cats.” Out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social:

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Phylogenomics and museomics reveal five distinct species of tiger cats in South America

Lescroart, Nogales-Ascarrunz, et al. demonstrate that the contentious tiger cat species complex consists of five cryptic species. Based on analyses of 38 whole genomes from the Neotropical cat genus L...

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Navier–Stokes equations describe water and air as a continuum, not molecule by molecule. They are used for aircraft, weather, blood flow. The Clay Institute asks whether a smooth flow — speed with no jumps and no infinite spikes — stays that way forever, or whether the model eventually breaks.

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UKRin @ulrich-k-roessler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Louise Michel in action - histoire-image.org/etudes/louis... oil painting by Jules Girardet, 1871 Louise Michel, as an idealized forceful speaker, is shown agitating the Communards, a small group of common people gathered around her.

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 16/09/2026

Buzludzha, the former House of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Central Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria - Georgi Stoilov, 1974-1981 r/brutalism

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A mix of indigo and clay, Maya blue was very vibrant and durable, and associated with all things fresh and new, particularly highly valued materials including jade, quetzal bird feathers, and water. Ritually potent, it was used to anoint images of gods and sacrificial victims. 🏺 2/ 📸 me

This ceramic figurine depicts a standing male wearing a long textured bodysuit and conical headdress. His mouth is open, as if speaking, and he wears an ornament between his eyes. Incised lines on his cheeks may represent wrinkles, indicating he is a mature individual. He wears a belt and loincloth above the bodysuit, as well as a ruffled collar and large round earflares, or ornaments worn in the earlobes. His pectoral consists of a large round element with a zoomorphic face emerging from the top right corner. He carries a rectangular shield in his left hand; the shield is marked with patterns that probably represent feathers. The right arm of the figurine is broken at the elbow. This figurine is also a whistle; the mouthpiece of the whistle, visible from the sides and back, serves as a third support so that the figurine can stand erect.

His body, face, and parts of his headdress are covered in vibrant Maya blue pigment, while his loincloth is painted in now-faded red pigment. His feet are an equally bright orange pigment or perhaps the raw clay.

Maya, 600-800 CE, Jaina Island, Campeche, Mexico.

Met Museum, New York (1979.206.953)

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Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Patricio Guzmán, a titan of cinema, especially Latin American nonfiction, has passed. THE BATTLE OF CHILE is one of the most important documentary works ever made. Even in more recent films like NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHGT he continued to preserve his country’s historical memory. RIP

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Really sad to hear of the death of the great cinematographer Patricio Guzmán whose documentaries illuminated the horrors of the Chilean dictatorship and the hopes of overcoming its legacy www.france24.com/es/cultura/2...

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Muere el documentalista Patricio Guzmán, narrador de la memoria de Chile

El documentalista chileno Patricio Guzmán falleció en la madrugada de este martes en un hospital de París debido a un paro cardiorrespiratorio a los 85 años, confirmó este martes 15 de septiembre la…

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UKRin @ulrich-k-roessler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Aishwarya Ganapathi statue in Avancha, Thimmajipet, Telangana, 12th Century by a king of the Western Chalukya dynasty Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ga...

Large granite boulder: carved in the shape of Ganesha with painted eyes and tuskers, ornamented with flower garlands, ribbons, a red flag, and yellow-orange-red tumeric dyes.

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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This, together with the 4 year visa and the separate H1B visa fee are designed to kneecap American universities and even more strangely America tech industry. It is hard to contemplate a more foolish and self-destructive policy goal. Or a better way to sabotage US economically.

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 14/09/2026

Hans Holbein the Younger, The bowls of wrath, 16th century #hansholbeintheyounger

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sigh. Another day, another book by a scientist giving the usual crappy "definition" of the Copenhagen interpretation, complete wth "two states at once" and "collapse". I've already written one book explaining why this is wrong, but maybe the message will land with this one.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You may remember that Elon launched a «Grok Imagine Odyssey Contest», searching for AI slop versions of Homer's epic, and the winner is as hilariously bad as expected: cyclops with three eyes, soldiers in Roman armor as if from «Ben Hur», kitschy stock aesthetics, and what's wrong with that bow?

Odysseus being captured by two soldies in what looks like Roman armour

A taut bow, but something’s not quite right

Odysseus and, dunno, Calypso maybe, in the the centre of an incredibly cheesy image, looking at the see

Polyphem with three eyes, a large one in the middle and one on each sided

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 11/09/2026

Today is Sextidi the 26th of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate bitter orange. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Bitter orange.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Gallica BnF @gallicabnf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🌳 Amateur ou non de botanique, partez à la découverte de ce manuscrit du XIVe siècle richement enluminé des espèces végétales dont il présente les vertus thérapeutiques. Cet ouvrage en latin s'inscrit dans la tradition des herbiers médiévaux. 🌿 => c.bnf.fr/YDs

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This smiley bunch of Salvation Army missionaries–Captain Chastagné, Albin Peyron, and Captain Irène Albin Peyron–about to depart France for the penal colony in French Guiana in 1933 (BnF) Missionaries provided humanitarian support to prisoners and ultimately helped abolish the penal colony in 1953 🗃️

b&w photo of three people in dark clothing standing facing the photographer, to their left is a group of women

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

Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706 – 1783), Bavarian painter and engraver known for her still lifes and flowers paintings #womensArt

Painting of a close-up of a thistle with spiked green leaves and two pink flowers with two butterflies, all against a black background

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Dan Moore @danm628.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I remember a sugar cube.

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