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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 9h
"Why don't you come up and see me sometime"
A green mantis lounging seductively on a green leaf
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the utter inhumanity of these evil people dear god
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I’ve posted a lot on social media about Akihiko Okamura and his remarkable photography of Ireland during the Troubles. Now there’s a fascinating documentary which is well worth watching vimeo.com/1197413135
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The Memories of Others: Akihiko Okamura's Ireland
A short documentary film uncovering Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura’s extraordinary work in Ireland during the Troubles, and the artistic and emotional impact of its recent rediscovery. After a ...
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Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is such a beautiful photo. And the description in the ALT is worth reading too.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
houses near me open directly onto the street but this one has created a tiny front garden always planted seasonally - Michelmas
potted plants outside a terraced house, with its seasonal display of michelmas daisies
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Saunas, cinnamon buns and coastal scenery on the new rail route from Malmö to Oslo
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Saunas, cinnamon buns and coastal scenery on the new rail route from Malmö to Oslo
A new direct train service connects the far south of Sweden to the Norwegian capital in just over six hours, with the option of stopping off in the seaside town of Varberg or lively Gothenburg en route
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Odd to think that this headline might have appeared decades ago because he was deep in the jungle or polar wastes but now it’s just a sad case of elder abuse.
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Feast of the Archangels Michael, Raphael and Gabriel
The three Archangels and Tobias by Francesco Botticini, 1485c 
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HERE IS A LOVELY STORY: a friend lost his wallet on his way home from work the other day. (that's not the lovely bit) 1/2
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
I think Willie's reedy voice suits this song so well www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIdb...
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September Song
YouTube video by Willie Nelson - Topic
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 28/09/2026
❌ WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR We and 120+ organisations and unions across Europe are calling on our governments and the European Commission to scrap all existing public sector contracts with Palantir. Read the open letter here: www.globaljustice.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Text reads: 120+ organisations and unions across Europe call on governments and the European Commission to SCRAP Palantir contracts. Palantir provides support to warmongers, drains our public wealth, deepens our dependence on tech billionaires. WE SAY NO TO PALANTIR.
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Avant Music News @avantmusicnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Café OTO: October 2026 Café OTO has an October programme in London spanning contemporary composition, free improvisation, noise, and experimental electronics. The selections below include an Evan Parker matinee and the three-night Discrepant vs Keroxen festival. All shows are at Café OTO; times…
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Café OTO: October 2026
Café OTO has an October programme in London spanning contemporary composition, free improvisation, noise, and experimental electronics. The selections below include an Evan Parker matinee and the three-night Discrepant vs Keroxen festival. All shows are at Café OTO; times are local. October 1, 7:30 pm — Charles Curtis and Dafne Vicente-Sandoval. The cellist and bassoonist perform works by Tashi Wada and Éliane Radigue; Curtis also plays solo music by Alvin Lucier.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
this is vg
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
I dreamt that Judi Dench popped round to install some time-saving apps on my computer, even though I asked her not to. I kept asking her to stop and she kept lying that she would. The apps worked btw but I hated her now. Also my screensaver and lock screen were pictures of little fluffy creatures
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m doing a talk at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Culture on October 14 at 5.30pm. It’s open to the public and tickets are free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-news-i...
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The News is Dead: Why the media is broken and what you can do about it
Journalist and author Mic Wright on what's really going on behind the headlines, why we don't get the news we deserve.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
one September day www.youtube.com/watch?v=xToQ...
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One September Day
YouTube video by Nina Simone - Topic
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
music streaming 'services' preening themselves for tagging AI generated product, is rather sheeranesque dyt
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 25/09/2026
🚨I got to interview Danny Tommo for The New Yorker. "I try to explain the Redcrosse Knight, a man of flawed virtue who must endure spiritual collapse before defeating his dragon. 'He sounds decent. But in my one, the dragon is the RNLI, yeah?'" www.thenewworld.co.uk/henry-morris...
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My day out with Danny Tommo
An encounter with the far right activist and amateur pirate
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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One from the book wot I wrote.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
fruit flies particularly troublesome atm, deploying traps
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean The Sopranos isn't on the list, presumably because the first season launch was 1999 but it kicked the door down for all those that followed. Probably they say that in the write-up, I don't subscribe to NYT
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
I mean, bless him and everything but The Observer's recipe writer has been doing the same piece at the start of autumn since ...
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Johnny Borgan @johnnyborgan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was on third row this night in 1987. With this song the highlight of the evening. Bob Dylan live, Tomorrow Is A Long Time, Gothenburg 1987 youtu.be/RYH5vRJGjyU?...
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Bob Dylan live, Tomorrow Is A Long Time, Gothenburg 1987
YouTube video by Irenehilda
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ЗИТА. @zinoky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ornithologists have discovered that Siberian chiffchaffs have adopted a new migration route. Now, with the onset of cold weather, part of the population migrates westward and spends the winter in southern France and neighboring regions.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
What a gift!
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
made this for tea 👍😍 www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes...
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Bhindi bhaji recipe
Bhindi bhaji is an easy okra sabzi (vegetable curry). This one is rich with coconut milk and very quick to make, so perfect for weeknight meals.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
from opener to kicker - a masterclass in stand-up www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZjr...
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Are We Building Our Own Extinction?
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
my favourite morning radio show is of course devoted entirely to the music of John Coltrane today - Morning Glory on sohoradio.com (it's the centenary of his birth)
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Home - Soho Radio
Soho Radio is an online radio station broadcasting live from Soho and New York to the world, featuring two channels: Soho & NYC + Culture.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
just about OD-ing on Bayeux tapestry content tbh
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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our Cost of the School Day Calendar helps teachers identify cost barriers during the academic year, & find alternatives to make sure all children & young people can fully participate & make the most of their time at school. Please share with any teachers in your life. cpag.org.uk/education/sc...
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Cost of the School Day calendar
Helping schools to identify possible cost barriers during the academic year, and think about alternatives to make sure all children and young people can fully participate in education.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
🎯
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
The Calling of St Matthew by Caravaggio, 1600
Today is the feast of Saint Matthew, a tax collector who became the writer of the first gospel in the new testament.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
made me smile www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DVI...
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Charles and D.I.A.N.A. | SNL UK
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
early in the supermarket scoring a few weekend treats, salving my conscience with thoughts of rationing and shortages right around the corner
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
bsky upstream timeout again for the 10 millionth time this week
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
my tribute to the late great Annie Dillard; thanks to @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social and @sojo.net for running it sojo.net/articles/opi...
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The Pilgrimage of Annie Dillard
The celebrated author, who passed away this week, had two great themes: seeing and suffering.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
posted a snarky thing about Tom Watson earlier which I've deleted. I see that he's had terrible mental and physical health struggles including cancer which might have influenced his thinking behind P*lantir, I dunno. But it looks like he's been bought and that's sad.
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BRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
JUST IN: 🇮🇪 Ireland to boycott Eurovision 2027 and will not broadcast the contest.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
Adieu to this magnificent spirit - from This Writing Life
"Wrie as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon> What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its trivliality?
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026
chilling
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Heddiw rydym yn cofio Owain Glyndŵr, a brwydrodd dros hunan-lywodraeth i Gymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dros 600 o flynyddoedd yn ddiweddarach, mae'r uchelgais hwnnw'n parhau. Bydd Plaid Cymru wastad yn sefyll i fyny dros Gymru a'r pwerau ac adnoddau sydd angen i lunio dyfodol ein hunain ✊
Owain Glyndŵr on horseback and "Owain Glyndwr Day" in bold white text.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
good heavens R*form seems to be imploding in Wales!!
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
who hasn't driven across the Severn Bridge and marvelled at its creation? This is a wonderful, moving programme www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Timeshift - Series 16: 1. Bridging the Gap: How the Severn Bridge Was Built
The inside story of the design and construction of 'the most perfect suspension bridge in the world', and how its unique slimline structure arose by accident.
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Vivien 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 🇮🇷 🇨🇺 🇱🇧 @vivb.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
sorry to read that the PM's dad has died - huge, no matter who you are
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14/09/2026
#OtD 14 Sep 1940 protesters occupied the air raid shelter at the luxury Savoy Hotel in London to protest against the stark differences in bomb shelters for rich and poor. The action resulted in improvements to shelters for working-class Londoners stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8627...
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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🐦 In the birdsong game Dawn Chorus Quest we time travel to the solar punk era, when we've rewilded parts of our cities to welcome back the birds. "Not magic. Just gardening, at city scale, by people who care enough to try" says Pip bird-times.lovable.app #IndieDev #Gamedev #Rewilding #Birdsong
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