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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just got a reply-all email at work to an "unsubscribe me" sent to the entire group to say "how to unsubscribe" (CAPS were involved in both). I was going to send it to a colleague as a lighter-moment in our stress and realized he might be too young to have lived through listserv meltdowns. ifykyk

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The problem with this book release is it's midweek. So I read late, then have to read at lunchtime, because I have to keep doing the money-work, so I can keep buying the books. #GoodProblems (I was going to say "QualityProblems" but I think that hashtag could be misconstrued). Strong recommend.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Chad Johnson is CEO of 'Grain Weevil'. His son did robotics competitions in high school, which inspired this little fella that breaks up hardened surfaces & levels grain to ensure it behaves like a liquid, avoids clumping. This probably saves 10-30 human lives a year. NO BOOTS IN THE GRAIN.

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The map's form: knotwork It shows: flood history Its purpose: to track

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Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

2 replica Bronze Age beakers made yesterday drying in the sun outside our Rothbury workshop potted-history.co.uk. How good is your archaeological beaker knowledge? Both from famous sites in the same county. In front is 1 of 5 from the same burial, the back 1 considerably larger. 🏺⚱️ #AncientBluesky

Two replica Bronze Age beakers, drying in the sun. A large one with impressed comb decoration in a geometric pattern. The other with impressed cord in close horizontal lines from top to bottom.

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

For those interested, my bees are in their hives. The weather has turned unsettled and we've had warm sunny days for them to go out and explore, but more cold and wet, especially in the evenings. So for now, I'm letting them do their bee things, & replenishing the feed as needed. Pics in the future.

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

@shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social Thinking of you. Thought I'd share something a bit different. Here's one of my 2 brand new hives (well the bit up top was previously loved, but new to my bees and me). The grass is temporary keeping the entrance small while they orient. The jar is sugar water for food.

Close up of a white Langstroth hive (the square box kind). There are bees clustered by the entrance and on the side. There is fresh long grass blocking part of the entrance and a Boardman feeder with a clear glass mason jar full of very pale yellow or tan sugar syrup on the other side of the entrance. A reel push mower can just barely be seen behind the hive. The bottom box is bright white freshly painted, there is an unpainted board, then abox with very worn paint

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CK DexterHaven 🍂🍁🍂 @ckshowalter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Potat interpretive dance

Brown tabby kitten being held in foster mommas hand as kitten stretches backwards

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Have been assembling and painting the hives for the bees. Took nearly 30 minutes to build the first one, but less than 20 for the second. Also I'd found the instructions by then. Today's task is prepping the site. #beekeeping

Pine box with no bottom or top resting on short pieces of 2x4 on a concrete driveway. A stopwatch rests on the corner, reading 28 minutes, 45 seconds

Several parts of a hive are suspended on pieces of wood between two metal storage shelves in the process of being painted white. There is newspaper spread on the floor below them to catch drips.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10/04/2026

Trying to figure out invisible forces constantly skewing my monitor. Must be poltergeist.

Black cat's tail sticking up from behind monitor

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Stepped out my front door to check the weather this morning, and said an audible " uh-oh "at the sight of a long strand of dried grass dangling at eye level. Sure enough, it looks as though one of our neighbors is considering nesting on top of the light beside the door.

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Boo London @cmdrsue.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The hardest room to escape.

Chalk board with a conversation.
Me: This escape room is hard.
Friend: This is a bookstore.
Credit: Daisy Chain Book Company

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

5 weeks ago, M had emergency eye surgery (detached retina) and has to go back for a do-over. M recounted doing pre-intake today with the nurse. "It was Nurse Sarah" Me: "I think she was there last time" M: Yes, she took note of when I was there. Then she checked my contact info. 1/3

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Dear authors (probably you don't follow me but in case you look back in my history when I follow you), please do mention your book days. I try to pre-order but sometimes get distracted. Also if first week reads matter (idk everything is metrics) then I remember to read. It's never a bother.

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Who could be dropping Q-tips in the sunk, I wonder?

Three q-tips are scattered by the drain hole of a white sink.

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

From the Point of View of a Cat
This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some!
He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs.
Let me out!
I don’t know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime.
He keeps my rooms clean for me.
In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love.
Often at night when I can hear mysterious and magic voices, when I can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don’t imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and I meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood.
But don’t think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices.
Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Since we appear to be arguing about whether there should be animals on banknotes, and if so which animals, I'm going to point out that this is the five-pound note issued by the Dundee Banking Company in 1845, and it had dragons on it.

Mid-C19th five-pound banknote including a coat of arms with dragons.

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Barnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Today is #NationalNappingDay We'll be back with you shortly 💤

A colourful vintage advertisement shows a brass bed with an ornate headboard, covered by a patterned, orange quilt. The text promotes "McLintock's Patent Down Clothing, Extremely Light With Great Warmth.

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Opened the kit boxes to assess what I need to do.

Pine boards with finger joint cut outs and a gripping space cut

Lots of pine pieces of wood for a beehive kit

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Blasted time gremlins have stolen an hour of daylight from me.

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Entering my husbandry phase to go along with the gardening. Have ordered 2 sets of bees (enough to start 2 hives) for arrival late April. We've considered chickens - we enjoyed the neighbor's chickens & fresh eggs - but they take more daily attention than I can give right now.

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Always a bit nervous when 2 people in hard hats and high-vis walk by shining a light on the pipes over your head. #OfficeLife

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

ok but why does this owl at a watering hole in the Namib desert (which I saw via the watering hole's webcam) look like a little old English lady-owl on an evening walk who kicked off her shoes but left her stockings on to cool her feet in a pond on the outskirts of the village?

Nighttime picture of a human-established watering hole in the Namib Desert. It's round, apparently concrete, with a small concrete "island" in the center, and there is an owl at the edge, which we see from behind. The owl's wings are folded against its body in a manner that suggests a short jacket; its legs look like the owl is wearing white stockings, and its head is turned to the left; we can see one eye (shining in the watering hole's low light), and a very little bit of its beak.

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Andrew "TmsT" Kepple @theoddkepple.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I've always seen half of Australia as a dog's head but only today did I realise WHICH dog and what the other half resembled. You might say it was a "Woah" moment #australiaisanelaboratehoax #tintin

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Stressful days - M had to have emergency eye surgery yesterday for a detached retina. Sameday/outpatient but didn't get home until almost 11pm . I still have to do all the driving which is almost as stressful for M as the surgery, lol. Seems like okay at the follow up, but scary. 1/2

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

If you look closely, Mother, you will see I am not in fact on the counter.

Close up of cat sitting very precisely on a folded dish towel on a countertop. Her tail is wrapped around her feet not touching. Next to her are a small clear glass bowl of water and four limes.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

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Big Finish Insider @bigfinish.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Can I just say something...? 🧣

A tweet from the @ArchaeologyArt account which shows a knitted belt from the Byzantine Empire, dating from c.420-600 AD. It looks a lot like Tom Baker's scarf from Doctor Who.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Get lost, I am reading.

A Dutch tile from the seventeenth century showing a person standing and reading a paper. The person is supposed to be a "Stads- en Dorpsomroeper", an kind of spokesmen of the past. The source for this, and many more Dutch readers and cries may be found here: https://www.spijkertegels.nl/mensen-beroepen/stadsomroepers

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It's been a stressful day for all with contractors here, and things are still a mess while I try to put things away. Dustbunny (high anxiety kitten) tried to play with something on the floor that didn't move so I made a crumple-paper-ball toy for her and tossed it right to her. 1/3

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Buddha_aka_me @buddhaakame.eurosky.social · 04/01/2026

I needed this. Watching this is a balm to the soul.

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Growler was less than pleased that I interrupted her nap. #caturday

Dark striped tabby cat on a comfortable nest made of fleece blankets. There are green and red bins behind her head.

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MachinePix @machinepix.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

3M bow tying machine at D.G. Bremner & Co.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Daughter has found her baking soda has inexplicably disappeared from her cupboard (essential for Christmas eve cookies). M is transporting her on a hasty mission to get some before the store closes (they have a half hour to do it).

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

@buddhaakame.bsky.social @shropsfidgetpie.bsky.social @transguysteve.bsky.social Holding you in my thoughts as always this time of year and especially this year, what with *everything*

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LNR @lnr.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Devastating footage from one of the boaters only 100 metres away: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FuN...

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Massive Breach on the Llangollen Canal

YouTube video by Narrowboat Life Unlocked

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Up well over an hour before sunrise since animal breakfast must be provided, regardless of the light levels. That said it's also cold out, so Puppy's trip outside post-breakfast was a short one and she's taken herself back to bed.

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A poem for Winter Solstice: "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper, author The Dark is Rising and numerous other luminous books. The image is from www.thelostland.com. The poem is © Susan Cooper.

The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper: And so the Shortest Day came and the year died / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away. / They lighted candles in the winter trees; / They hung their homes with evergreen; / They burned beseeching fires all night long / To keep the year alive. / And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake / They shouted, reveling. / Through all the frosty ages you can hear them / Echoing behind us—listen! / All the long echoes, sing the same delight, / This Shortest Day, / As promise wakens in the sleeping land: / They carol, feast, give thanks, / And dearly love their friends, / And hope for peace. / And now so do we, here, now, / This year and every year. / Welcome, Yule!

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Nick Petrić Howe @nickpetrichowe.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

'Tis the season for some festive science songs. If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 17/12/2025

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

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Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

*cranky* It's annoying that now when I see a cute animal picture I need to worry about provenance.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 11/12/2025

Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:

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