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Susan Matthews

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 5h
Henrietta Lacks didn’t choose to save the world. She was a normal, beautiful woman whose life was cut short at just 31 years old. She didn’t know her cells would change medicine, but those who knew her say that giving life to others matches the generous, nurturing spirit she showed every day. /end
Henrietta Lacks statue in the heart of the University of Bristol campus. The life-size bronze statue captures Henrietta standing with her hands on her hips and a steadfast, determined expression. The statue made history as the first permanent public sculpture of a Black woman created by a Black woman in the U.K. It was sculpted by local Bristol-based artist Helen Wilson-Roe, who had begun researching Henrietta Lacks and reaching out to her descendants in 1997. The University of Bristol commissioned the statue because it relies on HeLa cells in its medical curriculum and research labs and sought to confront the problematic history of medical exploitation while honoring Henrietta’s irreplaceable gift to medicine. Because the Lacks family shares a long relationship with the artist, they traveled to the U.K. to attend the emotional livestream event. Three generations of her family were present for the unveiling. Photo credit: 14GTR.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 5h
#ResistanceRoots Henrietta Lacks died on this day in 1951 in Baltimore, Md. She only became well-known for what she contributed after her death. However, she deserves to be remembered as a beautiful young mother who was much more than her immortalized human cell line used in medical research. /1
Henrietta Lacks, ca. late 1940s. Lacks is the unwitting mother of modern medical research whose exploitation forced the world to reinvent medical ethics. As the source of the HeLa cell line, she unknowingly gave humanity its first “immortal” human cells, enabling medical advances that have touched millions of lives worldwide. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is the stark reality of paternalistic, Jim Crow-era medicine, where a poor Black woman’s body could be harvested without her knowledge or informed consent. For decades, Henrietta was reduced to an anonymous laboratory code. Today, her descendants, artists and global communities have fought to ensure she is remembered as a person. Her final resting place is marked with a granite headstone honoring her not just as a medical miracle, but as a mother who loved to cook, wear bright red lipstick, and take care of her family.
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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 4h
Place de la Republique #postimpressionism #edouardcortes
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This Warbling White-eye was feeding on a bottlebrush tree at Liyu Lake, in Hualien, Taiwan. #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #birdphotography #birds #taiwan #asia #eastcoastkin #photography
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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Good morning, Bluesky. 🌞 A sunrise over the Asia-Pacific from Hualien, Taiwan. #landscapephotography #landscape #seascapephotography #seascape #naturephotography #nature #sunrise #ocean #island #taiwan #asia #eastcoastkin #photography
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mjlinde.bsky.social @mjlinde.bsky.social · 14h
#Stunday #landscapephotography #seascapephotography #naturephotography #Hualien #Taiwan #ECK 📸 JB Garrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social
"I captured a cumulonimbus cloud, aka a thunderhead, while looking out over Hualien, Taiwan's coastline. Its "anvil" top is characteristic of these powerful storm cloud formations."
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Jon Baker @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
RANKED. COMPETITIVE. POOPING.
Royal Highland Show sign that says “Toilets For Competition use only”
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 6h
New York at Night, 1932, by the great Berenice Abbott.
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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 5h
IT'S NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN YET. 😡😒
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Queernan the Barbarian @meatpopsicle.bsky.social · 7h
That's how I feel about blue jays. People say they're a garbage bird but if you didn't know that you'd think they were the prettiest bird in your yard. I love em
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 7h
Hate it when you see what you think is a cool bird and you look it up later and it’s called like the Common Dumb Asshole. “Birders throughout history have hated its guts. It can’t even fly right.” I thought I saw an interesting guy.
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Earthling 🌍 @guevara23.bsky.social · 23h
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
76 years ago today, Snoopy made his first appearance in ‘Peanuts.’
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 8h
Good Afternoon🌧️
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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 19h
Potentilla fruticosa 'Primrose Beauty', a popular cultivar of the shrubby cinquefoil, is a tough, deciduous small shrub known for its silky grey-green leaves and pale yellow flowers. It’s nectar-rich #flowers blossom from early spring to the first #autumn frosts #BloomScrolling #StunDay #Garden
Pale yellow five perales flowers cascading over a stone wall
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Museum Objects @museumobjects.bsky.social · 8h
Three men digging; folio 51 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F) (ca. 1812–20) Creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) 🏛️ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (object 334032) #MuseumObjects #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt #TheMet
Three men digging; folio 51 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F) (ca. 1812–20) by Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes).
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
When people ask me if I have any good stories from when I used to interview rock stars for a living my mind often goes a bit blank, and to be honest a lot of it was quite ordinary and unremarkable, but on the other hand there is this.
24 years ago I was sent to a London pub by a newspaper to interview and drink whisky (no “e” over here) with Lemmy, who was in the band Motorhead and, before that, slightly less famously, Hawkwind and, before that, much less famously, Sam Gopal. We had a good chat: about being from the part of the Midlands north of the River Trent, about books, and about roadying for Hendrix in the mid-60s (him, not me; I was minus nine at the time). When the record company PR sidled over to tell me my time was up, Lemmy waved him away. “No, no, I’m enjoying this,” he said, commandingly. I realised at this point that I had another question I’d been meaning to ask but hadn’t. “Are you scared of anything?” I said to Lemmy. “Nothing,” he replied. Then he paused and frowned for a moment, as if an idea had suddenly occurred to him. “Oh, maybe snakes,” he said. “It’s because they’ve got no shoulders.”
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 20h
View from Sgùrr Alasdair, Isle of Skye. Pic: Anna Lubomirska
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I swear social media has addled the brains of so many parents, its terrifying to behold. What do you mean youre feeding the photos of your underaged children into this app
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Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · 16h
Farmhouses with Birch Trees botfrens.com/collections/109/conten…
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Three Cottages in Saintes-Maries - 1888 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tom Gauld.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'Chinese lantern' by Oda Krohg (1860 – 1935), Norwegian painter #Womensart
Painting featuring a paper lantern hanging from a thin tree above a green field
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sancta Francisca by Vasily Kandinsky, 1911 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten…
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Writing a piece for @thebletherscotlit.bsky.social and was reminded of Jackie Kay’s poetry about Bessie Smith. Bessie was the 1920s ‘Empress of the Blues’ who toured the American South in a Pullman railway car. Really interesting themes of inherited and imagined memory in Kay’s work on Smith.
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Salvador Dalí @salvador-dali.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Skull of Zurbaran botfrens.com/collections/63/content…
Skull of Zurbaran
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Toulouse-Lautrec @toulouselautrec.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Morning After
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's "The Morning After" captures a contemplative figure seated at a table, next to an unfinished bottle and glass, evoking a sense of introspective reflection. Known for his depictions of Parisian nightlife, Lautrec's artwork often delves into the nuances of intimacy and solitude.
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Woodcutter after Millet - 1890 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 03/10/2026
Mark Rothko, Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea, 1944 #museumofmodernart #markrothko
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Joseph Alleman,Born (1975)American “Prairie Sky” Oil on canvas, 16 x 12” Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Scotstober2026 Missing @drmdempster.bsky.social Each day in October has a Scots word for you to make a poem, a story, a picture, a joke, anything! On Halloween we use 1 of the Scots words for turnip/swede (the traditional item to make a spooky lantern with). Use the hashtag & please share!
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ohannapecos Falls campground Mt. Rainier National Park Pacific Northwest #PNW
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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cliffs of Sainte-Adresse, grey weather - 1881 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…
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Egon Schiele @artistschiele.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Portrait of Albert Paris von Gutersloh, 1918 botfrens.com/collections/88/content…
Egon Schiele's "Portrait of Albert Paris von Gütersloh" is a striking depiction characterized by bold, expressive lines and a rich, warm color palette, showcasing his signature style and intense emotional depth. The painting captures the subject sitting with raised hands, embodying a sense of theatrical flair and psychological complexity.
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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At 06:30 this morning a large fishing boat ran aground close to the base of Old Man of Hoy. A Mayday was transmitted and Stromness Lifeboat - Violet Dorothy and Kathleen - was quickly on the scene.
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laura vilas @lauravilas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ștefan Câlția. Rainy Day, 2019
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Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hullo! I'm appearing at my local @portybookfest.bsky.social this Saturday Oct 3rd at 7pm. I'll be chatting to old pal Mary Paulson-Ellis about all things Skelfs, then playing a few songs with my son Aidan. Tickets are FREE but going fast: portobellobookfestival.com/2026-2/ @orendabooks.bsky.social
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Edinburgh, 30th January 1954. Pic: Haywood Magee
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Study for âhkamêyihtamowin (Determination) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2026
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
me watching this without sound: nope, too big. snuggly? apparently. but terrifyingly big. big as hell me watching this with sound: that's just a lil guy
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Whatcha' doing?" Downy woodpecker checking on Pileated woodpecker: #AGoodPlace Source : @wallybipster (IG)
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Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nepo baby won fat bear week 🙄
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Scroll @scroll.in · 30/09/2026
Discover 30 works of fiction translated into English from Indian languages, from Assamese and Bengali to Kannada, Konkani and more, spanning stories of love, memory, caste, migration, identity, history and belonging. Check the full list here: scroll.in/article/1095... #InternationalTranslationDay
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/09/2026
Théo Forestier Pictorialisme, circa 1905 - 1910 www.tumblr.com/gacougnol/82...
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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FIVE IN MILLIONS (1978) | player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-f…
An image captured from FIVE IN MILLIONS (1978)
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Ryan @ryansimmons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
uhh i was digitizing a box of old VHS tapes for my uncle... you guys ever hear of something called "The Mayonnaise Channel"??
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Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Persian Nightingales (1917) by Paul Klee
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