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Victoria @vixilated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ghouls with no appreciation for anything.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 28/09/2026

"Let's admit it: we are among the beasts." Jean-Paul Aron's The Art of Eating in France (1975) is a savage history of food in Paris in the 1800s. By killing off the nobility, the French Revolution sparked the rise of the restaurant--but that wasn't the end of the violence. neglectedbooks.com/?...

A glutton, from Paris à Table by Eugène Briffault (1846).

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👀 Church of St Mary, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk Mosaic - c1850 The church guide suggests it is based on a design Henry le Strange (of Hunstanton Hall) had seen in Vienna. #MosaicMonday

A corner of the mosaic with swirling stems & white flowers. Bordered by a semi circle of small flowers & then a border of intertwined stems.

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Victoria @vixilated.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ouchies...☕️☕️☕️

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Michael @selmerguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This scythe wielding skeleton was was created for the phenakisticope, a device that was invented in 1832 that gave the illusion of movement. It was operated by spinning a disc decorated with a series of images and viewing their reflection in a mirror through a series of moving slits. #SpookySunday

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hokusai: 'One Hundred Ghost Stories In A Haunted House', 1790. #SpookySunday #ghosts #yokai #Japan #JapaneseArt

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Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

27th September 2021 A hairdresser's model keeps his head down. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Silence of the Sea (2013) by Michiel Schrijver, born in the Netherlands in 1957, and who studied and works in the UK. Acrylic on canvas #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty) @raggamog.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The blog is ready. This week the Witch has battled technology, and had to contend with two ginger cats and a ball of string. After untangling herself, she has freshly brewed tea, poetry and folklore waiting. #Writing #Poetry #Folklore ko-fi.com/post/Wild-Fo...

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The Witch and the Chihuahua published a post on Ko-fi

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hello Sunday. 🖼️ Margaret Tempest

Family of five rabbits huddled under an umbrella with a robin, mouse in red jumper running to take cover, dandelion beside them against rocky outcrop with landscape in distance, illustration.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The glorious and ancient Old Welsh Bridge in Shrewsbury was demolished not long after this painting was made by Paul Sandby. But the county town of #Shropshire still boasts many beautiful old buildings - 600 of them listed - and is home to much ghostlore. [More #SpookySunday

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dee Nickerson, contemporary UK painter who explores themes of living in the countryside #womensart

Painting of a landscape with a small female figure walking amongst bare trees and yellow fields

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Raminou assis sur une Draperie (Ramirou Sitting Sitting on a Cloth) 1920 Suzanne Valadon (French 1865 – 1938) Museum of Fine Arts in Limoges #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BOOK OF DREAMS & GHOSTS 1897 Andrew Lang, best known for the coloured fairy books, was President of the Society for Psychical Research. The book poses some fundamental questions: Do you believe in ghosts? How do you define a ghost? One of the best looking ghost books. That cover! #SpookySunday

Longman cover for Lang's Dreams and Ghosts

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

"When a witch wished to take on the form of a hare she said: 'I sall goe intill ane haire, With sorrow, and sych, and meikle caire; And I sall goe in the Divellis nam, Ay quhill I com hom againe.'" (Margaret Murray "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe") 🎨 Tamsin Abbott #bookwormsat

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Paul Nash @paul-nash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Creation of the Starry Firmament www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/the-cr…

"Paul Nash's 'The Creation of the Starry Firmament' showcases a mesmerizing celestial scene with dynamic, radiant stars against a profound black backdrop. Known for his work during the World War periods, Nash's unique artistic vision often combined elements of mysticism and surrealism, capturing the imagination with its otherworldly quality."

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every other living thing including deer, badgers, rabbits, humans & velociraptors use our paths, but because foxes are the mammal equivalent of 00 Agents they walk ON the logs to not leave paw prints

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Victoria @vixilated.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everyone needs to be vigilant and check your registration!

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Vikki Yeates (b.1973, UK) Hare Trio. - oil on paper.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cyril Power, British (1872-1951), Whence & Whither?, c 1930, linocut print on Japanese paper, sheet: 36.8 x 28.6 cm, image, 31 x 24 cm, The Met, New York City, New York, USA

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rowan MacGregor, UK based artist making delicate copper sculptures #WomensArt

Flat copper artwork featuring a central tree with birds and a human figure either side of the trunk

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Blessed are the Cracked, 2018 by UK anarcho-craftivist artist Carrie Reichardt #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Plate with patterned floral border and central motif of a woman holding up a sign with text ' Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light'

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Rabbits with cell phones? Gorleston Psalter, England 14th century. British Library, Add 49622, fol. 107v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.’ ~ Richard Adams, Watership Down. This #BookWormSat is also #InternationalRabbitDay so we will get lost down our own rabbit hole of the rabbits, hares and all small furry creatures of literature. Do join us. 🐇

🖼️ Rabbits, William Jacob Hays Sr, 1859.
Painting of one rabbit sat upright on a cut tree stump surrounded by six rabbits sitting and lying beneath him / her on the grass, there are leaves on the grass and trees and sky in the distance.

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武政諒 Ryo Takemasa @ryotakemasa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bridge and the Moon (2021) Available as art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

William Morris was one of the principal figures of the British arts and crafts movement. These beautiful pen and ink drawings with watercolour were made by him around 1867. Both of these designs were used for a stained-glass window, dated 1869, in the Church of St Michael, Tilehurst, Berkshire.

A pen, blue ink and watercolour of a Minstrel angel playing cymbals by William Morris

A pen, blue ink and watercolour of Design for a 'Minstrel Tile' by William Morris

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I watched this last night. It's terrifying, but hopeful. I feel it's my duty, as a human, to share it. I'd appreciate it if you shared it too. It's specifically made for people in the UK, but it's about everyone, and, the more people see it, the better chance we'll have. www.nebriefing.org/the-film

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National Emergency Briefing

A 50-min film centred around the National Emergency Briefing. The frank facts, but also the huge opportunity if Government steps up and leads a WW2-scale response. Designed to be watched by communitie...

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Patrick McCormack @patrick-mcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The giant earth ripples of Hambledon Hill last Sunday. Lay in the wind-shade on top, ate lunch and watched kites, buzzards and crows against the blue, isolated cirrus skeins drifting eastward high over Blackmore Vale ☺️ #hillfortswednesday #Hambledon #dorset

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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Eyvind Earle (1916 - 2000) Red Leaves 1988

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Victoria @vixilated.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ugh, horrible. Don't click on it...Don't feed the 👾

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language." ~ Meister Eckhart The Tower of Blue Horses 🎨 Franz Marc (1913)

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Winter Morning" 1903 Andrei Ryabushkin (1861-1904) Russia Gouache on Cardboard 21.6 x 43.9 cm Museum of the Russian Academy of the Arts, St. Petersburg #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Victoria @vixilated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For Fox Day! "Fox" by Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1960: link to a typed and better image version: mastodon.scot/@scotlit/115...

Poem, with paper cutting image of a fox.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 24/09/2026

Not clicking it. Not going to click it. Just gonna say he isn't sorry, he hasn't learned anything, and he will never change. If you're attempting to launder his image, you're either a mark or an accomplice.

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...

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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism

Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.

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Sherry Turkle @sturkle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I really enjoyed my conversation with @samleecole.bsky.social @404media.co. We talked about how my earlier work prepared me for writing Artificial Intimacy. How artificial companions deskill us in our capacity for human connection, and we got to the crucial question: How can we find our way back?

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026

Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.

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Grunion Shaftoe 🅅 @grunionshaftoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, I'm gonna keep my eyes on the November #election at this point.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is so great!

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Victoria @vixilated.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Visited the Morgan Library and Museum today, and came across cards and ornaments depicting Dickens' Spirit of Christmas Present - wearing a red robe!!!! GRRRRR. I just had to write this letter: Dear Morgan Library & Museum,

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Coffin Boffin @coffinboffin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

THE FAIRY FELLER'S MASTER STROKE is on display at the RCA giving access to the stunning detail of a fairy #autumn. Dadd depicts the fairy 'feller' about to split a large chestnut with his axe to make a new carriage for Queen Mab, amid the prickly fruits of the London Plane Tree #FolkloreThursday

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Theodor Kittelsen (1857-1914) Stave Church in the Snow, 1907. Pen and ink wash on paper.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

George Woodward, 'The Dog And The Devil', 1808. Enjoy! #Devil #dog #humour #broadside

A bulldog is leaping on a man disguised as a horned devil, watched by a man in the costume of the early 19th Century and another man with a long grey beard, dressed as a conjurer. Below it reads 'The DOG & the DEVIL!' with the story told beneath.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 24/09/2026

[1992] A Bit of Fry and Laurie - When Timothy is called into his father's study for a word, it is revealed to him that he is the chosen one and he must set out to kill Pewnack the Destroyer - who lives in Saffron Walden.

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fred Masters - Purple Glade. oil on canvas.

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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

SAVE HACKNEY MOSAIC PROJECT! The existence of the Project is under threat as Hackney Council are proposing converting the mosaic workshop on Hackney Downs into a cafe and displacing the Project. Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-h...

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good morning.

A photo of ivy leaves and seed heads with salmon coloured clouds and blue sky behind.

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