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johnasavoia @konatachan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

110 day exposure overlooking the Green line tracks by Fenway, facing toward the muddy river.

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One view/multiple views Brasserie Le Luxembourg, Charleroi, Aug 2026 #photography

Photo from inside of a restaurant exterior with deformations caused by the cut of the glass panes

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the one I always remember is a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. Try moving any of those to any other position in the sentence... #unwrittenrules #language

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A handful of Belgian breweries wrap their bottles in paper, presumably originating from a desire to block out light. This is the Tripel from De Vranckaertshoeve. The wrapper is almost entirely in Flemish, except for le minimum légal en français and a handy motto in Latin! #beer #beersky

The paper unwrapped from the bottle and the beer poured in a glass

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, I'll believe you. 'For medical use' indeed. #whiskey #adverts #medical #Victorian

A full colour advertisement for "Gilbert & Parsons' Hygienic Whiskey, For Medical Use". It has a foliate border and there is a tranquil rural scene below some guff about the whiskey's properties. It dates from 1866.

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aaaaand that's it for this go round, all my Kernel #beers are gone. This India Double Porter is super roasty, gorgeous. #beer #beersky @kernelbrewery.bsky.social

A bottle of dark beer, a postcard and the beer in a glass

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eat spaghetti to forgetti your regretti I think some of these words may not actually be pure Italian.. #language #photography Charleroi, Aug 2026

Photo from outside a restaurant showing the counter on the inside and some reflection in the window

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Where I live was so close to the front line... #map #cartography

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have a few labels, and – shocker – a glaas or two ...

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Speaking of Mortons I dug out an old photo of the Morton Red Heart Guinness sign at The Duke of York in Belfast because why not #beer

Metsl sign on pub wall advertising Guinness stout with heart shapes

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IrishBeerHistory @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So, they were over in May 1969. A team of four horses and the dray for the Royal Ulster Show. I'd say as part of the visit they may have gone to a few pubs for promotional purposes, just taking 2 horses to make it more simple ...

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The same view of The Groomsport Inn today

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

While researching the old map I found this photo. Thwaites was at the time, I think, a reasonably large regional brewery in Blackburn so I'm a little surprised to see they were delivering #beer in Down. @beerfoodtravel.bsky.social any thoughts if this was usual or not? Source discovergroomsport.com

An old photo from 1960 with 2 shire horses pulling a red cart. Photo credit Rev Dr David Irwin and Mrs Maureen Irwin, discovergroomsport.com

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Was intrigued by the spelling of Groomsport as GromsPorte on Thomas Raven's 1625 #map of the village but the history is much stranger. The 1st recorded name was Anglo-Norman Mollerytoun (from O French), translated into Irish Port an Ghiolla Ghruama, then (badly..) anglicised. #cartography #etymology

1625 Thomas Raven map of Groomsport on a history booklet of the village

Page from a dictionary of Ulster placenames open at G

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From that hour I clove to Queequeg like a barnacle; yea, till poor Queequeg took his last long dive.

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Les vagues de l'estuaire de la Somme Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme, juillet 2026 #photography

A view from on high over a river estuary

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Brouwerij Biermaekers are (for now at least) a cuckoo brewery. Their website says they brew at DECA though this bottle of their excellent Tripel says it was brewed at De Meester. Dikke Jan (Fat John) is modeled on Toby Fillpot of Toby Jug fame #beer #beersky

Screenshot from the website showing a fat man drinking beer

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Anders Dreyer gets his grandkids moment.. "I played in a game where Lio Messi and Luis Suarez both scored. I scored 2"

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missscarlett2024.bsky.social @missscarlett2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Blagdon Inn, Paignton (Devon) - 4 January 1978 - The #ghost burns down the pub. It was rebuilt, but closed in 2022 and is being converted into private apartments. #SpookySunday

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, juillet 2026 #photography

A colourful row of houses in a little street leading down to the estuary

The mouth of a river with a blue boat ashore in the foreground and sandflats in the background

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They're now tackling - and doing a good job of - the G's (Green Day/Basket Case, Guns 'n Roses/Sweet Child o' Mine) #nowplaying

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Watching a free gig in the town square this evening ( #nowplaying I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - no gospel choir accompaniment unfortunately), the drummer was acting the lig and drumming while standing on his stool.. Result: tumble, crash, sore leg, 5 minute interval..

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I won't get to see the Bayeux Tapestry but at least there are lots of photos of some of its best panels. #BayeuxTapestry #EHShepard #Pooh

A mock-up of the tapestry incorporating E H Shepard-style representations of characters from Winnie The Pooh. Unfortunately, I don't know who drew this.

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I haven't had a pint of Kilkenny for a long time but I don't remember ever having a 2 part pour before? #beer #beersky

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So I harvested the garden #hops today and in the end it was quite good. I'm glad now I didn't have as many to work on as that wild plant #beer #beersky

The hop vines cut and lying on the ground

The cones all harvested and in a paper bag

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Torn poster art Amiens, Jul 2026 #photography

Torn billboard posters and graffiti, making a mess

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A little bottle that came back from Switzerland last year, an oak aged Grappa from Matasci Vini e Distillati. They don't give an age, I guess a couple of years at least based on the colour it has picked up. Nice intense, woody flavour

A small glass with a dark spirit, beside a small bottle with some of the spirit

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El Eremita @dinamitteros.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Vasilij Kandinskij. Curva tranquila. 1924

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Stuff By Mark @stuffbymark.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In an effort to outstay my welcome even further - here's yet another four entries from Volume 3 my 'Beatles Film Posters Series'. There's now 63 entries. You can see them all, and also buy prints, over in my shop.

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Stuff By Mark @stuffbymark.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One last post about The Beatles Film Poster Series and then I’ll shut up, I promise. Here’s a little video showing all 63 entries across Volumes 1, 2 and 3!

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What am I missing? Its 37 seconds long.. #music #nowplaying @bandcamp.com

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The coffee version is probably the better of the 2 (more pronounced stout and chocolate flavours) , though it's a bit too coffee for my taste.. #beer #beersky

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Got a 3x box set of @dotbrew.bsky.social 's collab stouts with Liath, except the box was missing an OG, with an extra The Double instead! Please send me an OG 😁 Collab also with @imbibecoffee.bsky.social and The Proper Chocolate Company #beer #beersky

Three bottles of dark beer, one poured into a tulip glass, and a presentation box behind

One of the bottles with the details of the beers on the side panel of the box

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Imagine having a hall like this all to yourself for half an hour or so! There were others in the museum but no one came in here. The large painting opposite is Lady Godiva (oil on canvas, 1890) by Jules Lefebvre. Peeping Tom (a tailor in the standard legend) is shown here as the baker #art

A large museum gallery with ornate decorations, a red wall, large skylight and many paintings hung all around

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Presumably "Strong-Waters" here means #whiskey and other spirits?

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#AI will cure cancer! (see exhibit 1) How? You may ask Well it's obvious right? (see exhibit 2)

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

And don't the @kernelbrewery.bsky.social bottles fit my panorama colour scheme rather well? #beer #beersky

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Despite a bagful of books, I did manage to bring home a couple of @kernelbrewery.bsky.social bottles too. This is the Export India Porter, bottled at 5.3% (the one I had last week on draft was at 5.8%). Very dark & roasty. The smaller Double India is the Export "turned up to 11". #beer #beersky

2 beers bottles beside a poured glass of dark beer

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The digestive system as a tube map Original design by Jack Anderson www.radiologycafe.com/blog/digesti...

This infographic reimagines the human digestive system as a simplified subway map, using coloured lines to show how food and digestive secretions travel through the gastrointestinal tract. The red line traces the main path of food, beginning at the oesophagus, passing through the stomach, continuing into the duodenum and small intestine (represented here by the ileum), before reaching the caecum and then travelling through the colon to the sigmoid colon and rectum. Separate coloured branches represent organs that feed digestive juices into the system: the green line shows bile flowing from the liver via the gallbladder into the duodenum, while the yellow line shows digestive enzymes entering from the pancreas at the same location. The blue line outlines the large intestine (colon), which frames the small intestine before ending at the rectum. A short purple branch depicts the appendix extending from the caecum. By presenting the digestive tract as an interconnected transit network rather than an anatomical drawing, the graphic emphasizes the sequence of digestion and the convergence of food, bile and pancreatic enzymes in the duodenum while making the overall layout easier to understand.

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How about this library, #book fans? The reading room of the Picardy Society of Antiquarians in the Museum of Picardy in Amiens La Société des Antiquaires de Picardie au musée de Picardie à Amiens #booksky

A well lit wooden library room with piles of books on the floor, bookcases and a ladder

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Last time leaving #Ireland I bought a little #whiskey sampling pack from Teeling Distillery. But wait what's that behind? Oh, only a still-aging bottle of Galway Bay Brewery's 2022 Two Hundred Fathoms, an imperial stout aged in... Teeling whiskey barrels. The perfect pint & chaser? #beer #beersky

A pack of miniature bottles of whiskey from Teeling, and a bottle of beer with a golden wax seal

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Stout! Damsons! What's not to like here? @kernelbrewery.bsky.social 's Export Stout is based on an 1890 Truman's Brewery recipe. The fruited version you see poured here was aged 6 months with 200g/l of whole English damsons #beer #beersky

A glass of dark beer beside the bottle and a postcard from the brewery

A bottle of beer with a plain printed paper label

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hanna-Barbera’s animated series “Hong Kong Phooey” (whose title character was voiced by Scatman Crothers, who also sang the program’s theme song) premiered on September 7, 1974.

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Picked up a couple of vintage @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social paperbacks on the Portobello Rd on Sat. Osbert Lancaster was a cartoonist in the @dailyexpressnews.bsky.social, this volume was published in 1945 hence contains many war-themed gags. I present the 1 #beer themed cartoon too #booksky

Osbert Lancaster Cartoons and Franz Kafka's The Castle (Das Schloß), two well used vintage paperbacks in yellow and orange

2 cartoons by Osbert Lancaster featuring a gent discussing his health with his doctor, and a couple having a private conversation in a bar with pints of porter in hand

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's your round, what are you getting? Neckahi? Hawkoni? Jubudvar? I just couldn't let pass the chance of a Guinnents tbh... #beer #beersky

A confusing set of beers on draft in a pub

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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When in London, a visit to the @kernelbrewery.bsky.social Spa Road is obligatory. Here are the Export India Porter, the Dunkel, and the Oud Bruin. All 3 are perfect, hitting the respective regional spot. Cheers! #beer #beersky

A pint of dark beer (Export India Porter) on a bar, beside the beer menu

A pint of reddish beer (Dunkel) on a bar, beside the beer menu

A half pint of dark beer (Oud Bruin) on a bar, beside the beer menu

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