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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 15h
The Golden Eagle pub, Marylebone Lane, London #photography
A red fronted pub
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 15h
I do like your labels
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 18h
So what do I do with my hops? I give them to Christophe, the brewer at l'Arras'in, who drops them into his fresh hop ale each year to top up his own harvest #beer #beersky
A glass of beer in a branded glass and a bottle of beer from the same brewery
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 21h
a quiet scene in St Marylebone Church gardens, and the marvelous Daunt Books with its three levels in one view. Marylebone High Street, London, Sep 2026 #photography #booksky
a brick building seen between two trees and a hedgerow partially in shadepeople in a bookshop on three levels
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Ah yes that other Enniscorthy
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
What's going on at Untappd? More often than not over the last week or so my check-ins are being toasted (liked...) by the brewery or someone at the brewery. Willem v. is Willem van Waesberghe, global master brewer at Heineken, no less #beer #beersky
Screenshot from untappd
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Irish DNA Similarity Heatmap Credit: heatmappr More DNA Similarity Heatmaps: brilliantmaps.com/heatmappr...
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Sci-fi brutalism, Bermondsey tube entrance London Sep 2026 #photography
A cavernous concrete subway entrance
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The port one I think is the first where I think yeah that could work
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yum
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
4 Stable Street London, Sep 2026 #photography
A large red 4 on a glass door with reflections of people in the background
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The Underground Map @theundergroundmap.com · 13/10/2026
Escher 📷 Social media meme #ott #offtopictuesday
Escher
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A key, a tube of glue, an Elvis keyring, a small metal tin, a paintbrush, two whiskey stones
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Surely everyone will put beer in both sides
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Crossing, Central St Martins London, Sep 2026 #photography
An exterior wall and street now converted to be an interior
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These are perfect!
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Love this
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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
friday is for kafkaposting
tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug
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Grebo Gray @grebogray.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This little (large) guy (gal, I think) was dangling, by a leg, outside the office window for ages. Araneus diadematus / épeire diadème / European garden spider #spider #photography
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
But my favourite was this exhibit, 'One Hundred Poets / Kashiragaki esho hyakunin isshu'. Even the history of the object itself fascinates: attributed, acquired, purchased, bequeathed
An old book open showing hand drawn images of people and Japanese script The description of the work
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I find I have a preference for St B, but that may be as much about its availability as anything else! I did find Westvleteren (the Blond) on sale in France though this week surprisingly
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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
St John's Point Lighthouse 1. The approach 2. With the Mournes in the background 3. Mournes across Dundrum Outer Bay 4. Tower with the forghorns #Lecale #LeathCathail #CountyDown #SpéirGhorm
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Did you know Winnie The Pooh's real name is Edward Bear?
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
There are marvellous things in the British Library's free exhibition. Anyone can just walk in and see stuff actually handwritten by Da Vinci! van Beethoven! The Beatles! A Shakespeare first folio, a King James bible, the actual Magna Carta, original Winnie The Pooh drawings, & more & more.. #booksky
Leonardo da Vinci, sketch of an insect and studies of ballistics, around 1495-97 and 1504William Shakespeare, First Folio, 1623Ludwig van Beethoven, sketchbook for the 'Pastoral' symphony, op. 68, 1808John Lennon, She Said She Said 1966; and Paul McCartney, sketches of John & George, 1967
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
*to pick...
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Digging around it seems Bosteels official line is tonpick up the stand, but I can't see that on their website now... I'm with you though, that's weird. Pick up the glass
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Books & Beers #15 is surreal... China Miéville's tale of a Paris I guarantee you've never seen before, and an excellent pale ale from Brussels' Brasserie Surréaliste. You can see I'm sure what I was trying for with the photo even though it didn't really work... #beer #beersky #photography
A can of beer, a book and a glass of beer apparently on its side
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yeah, 2
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Great thread!
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
but how do the aliens know which frequency was left open for them... they could have been knocking on the door all this time then shrugging their shoulders and saying "they can't hear us"...
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Couple of the bands from SLBFest last month, a very enjoyable, family friendly, free, rock festival #musicphotography
Secret Garden and The Dusty ManThe Nucleons Project
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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Distribution Of Prehistoric Forts in Ireland Credit: Daniel Kirkpatrick More about them: brilliantmaps.com/distribut...
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah I have the same, but since they conveniently put it very small at the bottom I crop it out
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Shadow play while hiding in rhe hotel room from the heatwave (this was nearly 8pm, and still 35+ degrees outside... Charleroi, August 2026 #photography
2 figures running, long shadows everywhere A man and his shadow separated by a street lamp
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I knew it!
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Find the river
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I've been enjoying Wilde Leeuw beers for a LONG time! Brasserie du Pays Flamand have now spun off their barrel aged line under a new name La Spontanerie. They have put out some wild ales before, perhaps the new name signifies a shift in that direction? #beer #beersky #bière
2017 bourbon barrel aged brown ale and 2019 burgundy barrel aged brett triple2024 bourbon barrel aged Russian Imperial Stout
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Took a little detour on the way home on Saturday to stock up at Brasserie du Pays Flamand. Picked up a couple of faves and some new (to me) Spontanerie / Wilde Leeuw editions. And the sun was out, so... (still a building site beside, expansion?) #beer #beersky
A glass of beer outside with red chairs and people in the background   Brewery tanks
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Big fan of these guys
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Would this image incite you to drink the beer? Does the explanation help? (it's quite good in fact.. contract brewed by De Meester) #beer #beersky #language
A beer bottle featuring a man with a bare bumThe background to the name
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
North does not have to be up #cartography
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Les vestiges de l'abbaye de Mont-Saint-Eloi sous le soleil de fin de journée en début d'automne #photography
A view across a field to a wooded hill with a church steeple on the left and the ruins of an abbey on the right The remains of an abbey in evening sunlight
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy birthday Buster Keaton! Born #onthisday in 1895. Watch his silent classic The General from 1926: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t…
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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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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
I went when I was in town last year, it seemed popular enough
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very interesting, cheers!
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Dave @vip-223.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mens sana non potest vivere in corpore sicco Een gezonde geest kan niet leven in een droog lichaam A healthy mind cannot live in a dry body
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