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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Emerging from the fire and smoke of raku - Borealis Bear 🐻 Deep browns, violet, blue and gold shimmer across a surface transformed by the magic of raku. Your reminder that strength can be quiet, grounded, and beautifully shaped by the elements. #bear #eastcoastkin

A deep brown and copper coloured raku bear sculpture. Right side

A deep brown and copper coloured raku bear sculpture with distinctive marks left by the raku firing. Left side

A closeup of the face of Ted E. Bear, a deep brown and copper coloured raku bear sculpture.

A ceramic bear sculpture being placed among the flames of the raku reduction container.

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Last summer was a severe drought and so the fungi was missing. But this year . . . I’ve never seen so many varieties and volume of fungi! #fungi #mushrooms

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another mostly wet week in the northwest so this #SixOnSaturday is wearing its rainy day diamonds (see alt-text for details). Have an excellent weekend sky-folk 😀🌱 #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Raindrops #UKGardening #GardensHour #EastCoastKin

Top left to bottom right: primula vialii, dahlia 'Pink halo', kniphofia 'papaya popsicle', osteospermum, water forget-me-nots and calendula 'citrus', yellows, oranges, reds, pinks and blues all captured in moments the sun broke through after heavy rain and decorated with shining raindrops

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RK @rodsclicks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Clicked a pic of a cat watching me walk by… #Caturday #Cats #phonetography

Black & white cat sitting on an irrigation pipe in a field that is watching me

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We only have a short time above ground.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The bronze head of the goddess Sulis Minerva which was discovered in 1727 during the construction of sewer under Stall Street in Bath. Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Bath

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AQUAHUMAN! A hybrid figure merging human and fish-like features: scales, wide-open eyes, downturned corners of the mouth, distinctive traits reminiscent of sturgeons. Discovered at the Mesolithic settlement of Lepenski Vir, the sandstone sculpture dates to approximately 6200–5950 BC. 🧵1/3 📷 me

A rounded, roughly oval stone sculpture of a hybrid human-fish figure, featuring textured scales, wide-open eyes, and a mouth with downturned corners, displayed in a dark museum gallery

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy weekend! 🦛 ❤️ Two ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 3,800 years ago! Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows two blue-green Egyptian faience hippopotamus figurines displayed on a white museum surface at the Neues Museum in Berlin. The larger hippo on the right sits upright on its haunches with short front legs planted forward, head turned to the left with mouth open, as if smiling. It is 9 cm in length. The smaller hippo on the left lies in a reclining or resting pose, with body close to the ground. It measures 4.8cm in length. Both are decorated with black lotus flower and aquatic river plant motifs. The museum display makes them appear like a mother and her baby hippo! 🥰

Egyptian blue faience is a ceramic material made of ground quartz. The decoration depicts Nile river plants such as water weed and lotus flowers found in their marsh habitat. In ancient Egypt lotus flowers were associated with regeneration as they open in the morning and close at night, symbolising rebirth. Whilst ancient Egyptians were well aware of the danger and destructive power of hippos, they were also seen as an animal with revitalizing power. An animal from the fertile mud of the Nile, fiercely protective of their young, hippos embodied divine powers guaranteeing rebirth. Blue faience hippos have been found in Middle Kingdom tombs of high ranking officials. It's thought they were placed in the tombs to aid the rebirth of the deceased.

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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

These are my latest one-of-a-kind raku pieces. No one’s buying right now, and I understand - art isn’t always the priority in difficult times. But I’m still making, and sharing a little beauty feels worthwhile. A like or share might help these pieces find their people. 🙏

A 6 panel image on white with 4 raku vases and 2 spirit animals. All were handmade by Alchemy.

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Mark D Alexander @mad7500.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Happy Sunday, I hope you are all well and having a wonderful weekend. I went for a walk and just kept on walking, clear the mind 😕Catch up later, I’m off to wave at Polar Bears, laugh with goats 😎 Have a Lovely Day 💚☀️ Woodbridge, U.K. 📷 Sept ‘26 #Stunday #ECK #SkySunday #Nature #Photography #Scape

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Challe Hudson @challehudson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Borage flower embroidered ca.1615-25. Where the central black anthers form a cone, silver threads remain, but the black silk is lost, degraded by iron in the dye, leaving just a pale brown stain and some holes in the linen ground. Victoria and Albert Museum T.13-1956 #FlowersonFriday

Close up detail of an embroidered flower with five petals of dark and light blue and a central column of dark silver that is now almost black. The flower grows from and is encircled by a twisting gold stem from which springs a green leaf. Above the centre of the flower the off-white linen ground onto which it was stitched is slightly discoloured, and the material pierced by several tiny holes, showing where stitches once passed through the cloth.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Georgia O'Keeffe, "Lake George, Autumn", 1927, Oil on canvas, 17" x 32"

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 08/09/2026

Feels great to be getting back into a painting groove with some new monochromatic pieces, including this new one! Tisha Mark ©2026, Untethered, oil on linen, 20"x16" This one-of-a-kind original seascape painting is available: tishamark.com/product/unte... #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Untethered" oil on stretched linen canvas, 20"x16" (2026). This atmospheric seascape painting is monochromatic (black & white) and vertically oriented. It has a diagonal coastline with the sea on the left meeting a shore on the right. There is much texture throughout the painting, and there are moody cloud formations in the sky as sunlight is rising or setting far off on the horizon.

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MechMischief @mechmischief.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

my girl's name is Azura I tell you friends I adore her and when she zoomies oh brother she's a hurricane in all kinds of weather #caturday

Azura the cat lying on her cat tree with her butt sticking in the air

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Lady-Rain @lady-rain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If I could bottle a moment it would be the way the world softens around you… #RomanticSaturday #photography #ArtInNature #BloomOnPurpose

A delicate rose holding the sweet secret of two hearts finding each other.

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Judy³ 🇨🇦 @doolitzphotos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Monarchs are all over Toronto before heading south to Mexico. #bloomscrolling #flowers #photography #butterfly #wings #pollinators

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let life surprise you. #fungi #mushrooms

Yellow fungi in brown leaves and a foresty green background

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE.......

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Kelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Some lazy loops from the canoe. #blue #evening

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Got room for some mushrooms? 🧐🍄‍🟫 #fungi #mushrooms

Soft soft white mushrooms straddle a stick in a very green forest.

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Builder of Spine one call at a time!! @oldfraildems.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

That same morning, the Financial Times revealed that, for the past three years, Russia has been helping Iran build a supersonic cruise missile capable of blowing our ships out of the water, and Putin said he’ll continue to supply Iran with “the necessary goods” that can be used to kill Americans.

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@mariasteuer.bsky.social @mariasteuer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gentle Beauty….

A Monarch Butterfly On A Purple Butterfly Flower , With Greenery In The Background

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Green is a mission @greenisamission.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1,277,500 sunrises, 1,277,500 sunsets experienced. The oldest olive tree in the world is on the island of Crete, about 3500 years old. 💚☘️🌿🌱🌲🌳🍀💚

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 05/09/2026

Art for your small spaces! I have a few small original seascape oil paintings that are still looking for a home. Available on my website: tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #SciArt #TraditionalArt

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Unmoored" oil on Ampersand Gessobord, 6"x6" (2026). This loosely painted abstract-leaning seascape painting is monochromatic (black & white). It has a wild textured sky over a dark, wild sea. There is much texture throughout the painting.

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Coastal Dream" 10"x8" oil on cradled panel (2026). A textured seascape painting with orange cloud formations in a bright blue sky over a dark sea with waves meeting a rocky coast.

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Breathless" 8"x6" oil on linen (2026). This loosely painted seascape painting is monochromatic (black & white) and vertically oriented. There is much texture throughout the painting, and moody cloud formations in the sky.

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year. 🥰

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Lady of Elche. This remarkable 2,400 year-old limestone bust of a woman with elaborate headdress and jewellery is an icon of Iberian culture from pre-Roman Spain. From La Alcudia, Elche, Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a famous Iberian limestone sculpture known as ‘La Dama de Elche’ / The Lady of Elche, on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid. Here is a description by the museum:

“Female bust that features a lady's face with very perfect features and that preserves traces of polychromy on the lips and specific areas of face and clothing. The lady is richly dressed: on her head she wears a headdress formed by a pointed tiara covered by a veil and on top of it a strap that joins the two side “cases" that frame the face, where the hairstyle and a headband would be collected on the forehead; the back and shoulders are covered with a mantle that forms folds on the front and exposes three necklaces with amphoras and amulet holders; the earrings of plates and infulas that hang on the sides of the face, and a small fibula that closes the tunic on the neckline. At the back, it has a hole whose function has given rise to numerous interpretations. It was richly painted with red, blue and yellow tones and application of gold sheets, of which hardly any traces remain.

Technically and stylistically it is considered a work of strong Greek influence, possibly made by an artist of this origin, perhaps linked to the nearby town of Santa Pola, after receiving the commission of a high-ranking Iberian character.

It has been speculated about its function but with a posterior opening it suggests a use as a funerary vessel, just like the Lady of Baza. At the same time, it has been interpreted as the representation of a goddess, a priestess, or some royal character or of the aristocracy adorned for a special ceremony and dressed in her best clothes that could constitute her wedding dress composed of three necklaces, diadem and fibula, comparable to those found in several treasures”.

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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

3x the indifference from Purrebus, our latest raku pottery sculpture! Happy #Caturday! #sciart #pottery

A raku pottery sculpture of a cat with 3 heads. The sculpture is brown, grey and violet. Front view

A closeup of one of the faces of a raku pottery sculpture of a cat with 3 heads. The sculpture is brown, grey, red, and violet.

A raku pottery sculpture of a cat with 3 heads. The sculpture is brown, grey, red, blue, violet. Back view

Purrebus going into the reduction container

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FunnyVia @funnyvia.com · 05/09/2026

😂 😂 😂 😂

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Grotta di Lord Byron in Portovenere, Italy, 🇮🇹 is a dramatic open sea cave known for its sheer black cliffs and deep emerald-green waters. Tucked in a rocky cove beneath the historic Chiesa di San Pietroand Doria Castle in Portovenere (Liguria), Italy 🇮🇹

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Someone lives here. ❤️

Looking up at the hills of a mushroom cap and seeing a spider

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Every Day Is A Good Day ☀️ @everydayisagoodday.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Good Morning ☀️ and have a great day. Daily #Zen #Buddhism 🙏 📷 by I Do Nothing But Love unsplash.com/photos/brown-and-white…

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Panda @blackpandacult.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🤔 That M.R. is a bit naughty. Had to read up. My intro to Buddhism was NKT, another dodgy sect. Left them after I saw all the arguments about the DS issue, which introduced sectarianism to gelug. I think the DL is right to pursue the Rime path.

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Alissa Morgan @yogagoddess.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am finally starting to feel better. Please be extra careful with your food and take these recalls seriously. One of my elderly friends who was affected is still very ill.

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Tech bros don’t care about us. Let’s return the sentiment 🖕 #tech #ai

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Alissa Morgan @yogagoddess.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Sorry I have not been online as much everyone. Unfortunately I have had a horrible case of food poisoning. I was very diligent in trying to avoid recalled food but it seems someone at my temple was not and 14 people from our recent potluck gathering are all very ill. Stay safe my friends!

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot of Pluto.

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Violet @violetbunnikins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Gnite Richard

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Bill Stedman @steddybirds.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This male eastern bluebird is all puffed up as he proudly takes claim to being one of the #ColourfulCharacters for Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme. #birds #bluebirds #colorfulcharacters #backyardbirds #birdphotography #ECK 🪶

A bright blue eastern bluebird puffs up his orange and white breast as he perches on a feeder pole facing right.

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ballistics are flying almost nonstop lately. There were ballistic missiles tonight. I woke up and couldn’t sleep anymore. And now - in the middle of the day - They’re flying toward Kyiv and the region again. I’m sitting in our hallway. That’s all we can do.

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JPSea ..✳️🈶 @jpsea83.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Some pics from the week.. ..have a peaceful weekend all.. #photography

The late sun lights half the gorge turning the trees autumnal colours..

A pastel blue sky & orange clouds..over a Scot’s pine grove..

Sheltered from a late downpour beneath a sycamore & my umbrella..streetlamps glow softly in the distance..

..the tree line zig zags to a Halloween setting sun..

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Hello :) @piezostatik.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A moment of life.

A white cosmo with a yellow centre and some other pink flowers

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