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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This video of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) was taken by Sondre Eriksen Hensema (@itseriksen on IG). There are 4 species in genus Lynx & what's striking is that 2 of them are in North America, 2 in Eurasia... but the lynx line originates in Africa. Let's learn more about these right-sized kitties.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Cranes in Kushiro-shi, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. Photography by Toru Kona on 500px

Standing side-by-side upon a blanket of pristine Hokkaido snow in Kushiro, a pair of red-crowned cranes (tancho) throw their beaks to the winter sky in a synchronized, trumpeting courtship duet. Their arched necks and gleaming crimson crowns (tan) project a striking graphic silhouette, their jet-black secondary feathers fanning outward like flared kimono sleeves against their snow-white plumage. In the soft-focus background, another crane stands in quiet witness across the frozen field. The photograph captures an electrifying, elemental sensory experience: the piercing, clarion bugle of their call echoing across sub-zero wetlands, steam condensing instantly into mist from open beaks, the dry rustle of wind-ruffled plumage, the blinding glare of winter light reflected off fresh powder, and the sharp, freezing bite of northern air settled over the marsh. Captured in Kushiro-shi, Hokkaido, by photographer Toru Kona, this scene celebrates Japan’s most sacred avian icon in its ancestral winter sanctuary. Known to the indigenous Ainu people as Sarurun Kamuy (God of the Marsh), the red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) has long endured as a cornerstone of Japanese cultural iconography, symbolizing longevity, good fortune, and marital fidelity due to its lifelong pair-bonding. From Heian-period court textiles and Edo-period gold leaf screens (byōbu) by masters like Ogata Kōrin to modern heraldry and ceremonial origami, the crane’s posture is woven into the nation's visual heritage. Once feared extinct in Japan during the early twentieth century, a small resident population was rediscovered in the un-freezing spring-fed reed beds of Kushiro Marsh and saved through decades of local community winter-feeding programs.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Last one for today. Autumn in Halifax by Tim Green. I love the geometric composition of this image. CC BY 2.0

The image shows traditional Yorkshire gritstone and stone-slate terraced buildings rising above a tiered dry-stone retaining wall, set against a backdrop of autumn-coloured woodland hills.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/10/2026

The grammatical 'colon' and the anatomical 'colon' are not etymologically related. The anatomical 'colon' comes from the Greek ‘kolon’ which means “large intestine.” The grammatical 'colon' comes from the Greek ‘kōlon’ which means “limb.” Both are a means to an end.

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 05/10/2026

🌊 “Direct” — By Jon Foreman at Poppit Sands, Wales, UK 🇬🇧 Strange Finds (8 Photos) streetartutopia.com/2026/10/05/unus…

Direct by Jon Foreman at Poppit Sands, Wales: pale stones arranged in graduated rows form a nearly closed ring on wet sand, with the sea beyond.

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Christina Evans @christinae.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) male for #BirdoftheDay theme #BlueSkies. #birds #Florida

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Granite outcrops are such an amazing environment to explore… they may look rather lifeless and boring at first glance but they’re actually bursting with biodiversity #ozflora #orchids #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Picture of a granite outcrop with patches of moss and low green grassy-like areas with a wooded area in the distance

Thelymitra antennifera - lemon-scented sun orchid

Utricularia multifida - pink petticoats- an almost all white version of the usually pink bladderwort

Elythranthera brunonis - purple enamel orchid

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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Snippets from a 171-images, 360° Mastcam panorama captured two days ago by Curiosity #Mars Oct. 2, 2026 - Sol 5032🧪🔭 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

An ochre toned image capturing a Martian landscape, with the UHF antenna of the Mars rover Curiosity in the foreground.

An ochre toned image capturing a Martian landscape.

An ochre toned image capturing a Martian landscape, with the instrumented turret of the Mars rover Curiosity in the foreground.

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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You can’t eat that….

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 04/10/2026

The dragon watched the girl climb up to its mountain lair. She stopped to catch her breath, then shouted: "Oi! I've got some questions." "Ask." "Princesses, why?" "They're educated and smell nice." "No noble blood?" "All humans are humans." "Yes! The revolution is go! Cheers!" "Good luck."

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Russians tried hauling a helicopter across a field on a limousine and, unsurprisingly, it didn’t go to plan. Wonderland.

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A new red sails photo from this summer in Greenland ⛵️🧊 #photography #nature #art

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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Composer & Singer…..

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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Rain Hayes @rainhayes.com · 30/09/2026

I find photographing flowers very uplifting. When I was younger, doing creative work helped me cope. These days it feels much lighter. (I guess it worked?) Passiflora 'Susan Brigham' under UV light.

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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

on a road through #mountain #wilderness by a #river in a #forest. #WildernessWednesday

flowing down from its headwaters in the Trinity Mountains, the upper Trinity River moves swiftly through the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
if you're not fond of wild nature, never drive this road. deer, squirrels , & chipmunks, oh my!

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku

A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing beside a track leading down to a mill. The cow is looking at the camera.

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Zoe Lawless Art n Photos @zoeoeoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#This right here is the sickening truth most choose to ignore or simply not believe about life as a girl or woman in this world.

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Walking around in the bush with my head down again this morning. I’m absolutely in love with the gills on this mushroom. I think it might be a type of oysterling. 🍄🌿

Looking at the underside of a frilly oyster mushroom. The different lobes overlap, each other kind of like a nudibranch, it’s tan gills form, beautiful, ripping patterns.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yabusame’ mounted archery, an old warrior tradition in Japan

Frozen in mid-gallop against a soft blur of dust and greenery, a Yabusame archer rises with fluid grace from the saddle of a white charger, drawing a towering asymmetrical longbow (yumi) with absolute focus. Clad in traditional Kamakura-period hunting attire (hitatare) patterned in vibrant emerald green and gold brocade, the marksman wears spotted deer-hide chaps (mukabaki) and a wide, black-rimmed hat (igasa) secured beneath the chin. A blunt, turnip-headed wooden arrow (kabura-ya) rests aligned with his steady gaze, held at full draw as horse and rider thunder down the course. The contrast between the muscular power of the white horse, the crisp geometric line of the drawn string, and the fluttering patterned sleeves creates a high-stakes sensory moment: the thundering beat of hooves, the rushing wind, and the held breath before the release.
abusame (流鏑馬) is an ancient Japanese ritual of mounted archery dating back to the late Heian and early Kamakura periods (12th century), codified under Shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo to cultivate samurai discipline, mental focus, and spiritual devotion. Performed as a sacred rite at Shinto shrines, the archer must shoot three wooden targets in rapid succession while galloping down a narrow, two-hundred-meter track. The arrow's bulbous wooden tip—known as a whistle-arrow—produces a high-pitched hum as it cuts through the air, signaling a prayer for peace and driving away evil spirits. The creation of the archer's specialized gear, from the laminated bamboo bow and eagle-feather arrows to hand-woven silk brocades and custom leatherwork, represents a living continuum of monozukuri (artisanal mastery and material craft), where feudal military tradition is preserved as sacred performance art.

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Zoe Lawless Art n Photos @zoeoeoz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spaces In between. Inspired by @sophiecarr.bsky.social and her fine photography and love of pebbles between the cracks of rocks. #photography #rocks

Small bits of multicolored gravel between the 4 corners of cobblestone. A few very tiny succulents are taking root in the spaces in-between.

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Matt Payne @mattpaynephoto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meet David Lloyd, our guest this week on F-Stop Collaborate and Listen. David’s approach: keep it honest, minimal, and rooted in the real encounter. He’s spent over fifteen years capturing wildlife with a philosophy shaped by patience, humility, and a deep respect for nature itself.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An urn containing human ashes is displayed in Block 8 of the new main exhibition at the Auschwitz Memorial. It is surrounded by empty frames that symbolize the victims of the camp whose faces we do not know, and whose identities may never be recovered. - Photo: www.instagram.com/inkeddem._

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New Road, Downham Market, Norfolk Common Ivy with bee. 🐝 #WildflowerHour

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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

McClelland Barclay cover art for Motor magazine from 1927.

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Leaf Pattern Franklin Carmichael 1922

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Debut of maiko Satohina. Photography by Onidide on Flickr

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mars2020 - Sol 1920 - MastCam-Z - White Balanced - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2spaYAJ

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RRose @dawphin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

John Currin

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Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The pink granit coast in my region of Bretagne, under a moody sky 🌧️ #photography #art #nature #landscape

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hoshi-wajo standing wooden statue. 11th century, Japan. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction

Carved from a single block of timber, a monk standing in solemn monastic robes reveals a miraculous inner metamorphosis through a deep vertical cleft down the center of his head and face. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction, and his left hand, holding a slender ritual water vase (suibin), the figure exudes a quiet, poised presence. The aged surface of the sculpture is etched with deep vertical wood grain, tool marks, and age-worn fissures that catch dramatic, directional light, capturing the physical tension between the outer human countenance and the divine radiance hidden within.
Dating to 11th-century Heian-period Japan, this extraordinary wooden sculpture depicts Hōshō Wajō (the Chinese monk Baozhi, 418–514 CE), a renowned Buddhist master of the Southern Liang Dynasty celebrated for his eccentric wisdom and miraculous deeds. According to Japanese Buddhist folklore recorded in collections such as the Konjaku Monogatarishū, when Emperor Wu of Liang sent court painters to capture the monk's portrait, Baozhi used his fingers to rend open the skin of his face, revealing the Eleven-Headed Guanyin (Jūichimen Kannon) beneath to demonstrate that true Buddhahood cannot be captured by superficial physical likeness. Sculpted in the ichiboku-zukuri (single-block wood carving) technique, this work represents a pinnacle of Japanese religious monozukuri (artisanal mastery), translating a literary legend of spiritual transfiguration into a startling, physical masterpiece of sacred art.

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Vicky Veritas @vickyveritas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“The pencil allows us to bring our thoughts to life, stroke by stroke." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson This image titled Coleman isn’t a photograph. It’s a pencil portrait. Equally impressive: the artist, Shania McDonagh, is only 16. Link in ALT

Hyper realistic pencil drawing of a smiling elderly man wearing a hat. His face is wrinkled by his great smile and age. Link: https://www.fastcompany.com/3029271/this-stunning-ultra-realistic-portrait-is-the-work-of-a-16-year-old

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Charlie Ludwig @chuck4242.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My first educational video. This is something I’ve been wanting to do now that I’ve improved my video capturing abilities. So I present a Green Heron hunting. #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #ECK #Video #Videos #Educational

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson was born on this day in 1936.

Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks', but the man and woman at the counter of the diner are now Fozzie and Miss Piggy. The guy with his back to us is now Bert, but Bert is being operated by Frank Oz, who is crouched down in front of the counter. The waiter/server is now Jim Henson who is looking intently at Kermit, and Kermit, who is occupying half of Jim's right arm, is looking intently at Jim. The diner is now called "JIMMYS".

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Florence 🍂 @fra1964.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dreamer #art #ai #mj

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sunrise song. You'll want the volume up for this one, but not too high. Every coyote within a half kilometre radius decided to make themselves known this morning while I was enjoying the sunrise from the kayak. A truly magical moment. #mammals 🌿

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I wish ill on ___ @monicarooney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I will be contributing to the #TOPhoto feed as much as possible. My first entry is my attempt to capture morning #TorontoHenge that didn’t work because the sky had other ideas.