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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 3d

"I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences."
~ Virginia Woolf

'Autumn, collecting firewood' (1915)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted

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Kunal 🌅 @poetickunal.bsky.social · 8h

Hello, clear-sighted creators! 💡

The #BlueSkyRelay #prompt for 12 October 2025 is #Lumen ✨

If you'd like to take over and host the relay the week after me, please don't hesitate to reach out!

#Micropoetry #poem #poetry #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

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Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social · 14h

#WildWalkPrompt

Red rests upon green,
Berries foreshadow winter,
Seasons mingling.

#Haiku #nature #poetry #blueskypoet #poem #tree #berries

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Eric @madp03t.bsky.social · 1d

Today's #WildWalkPrompt prompt was #Beak.

I present another #writing experiment:

an acrostic with some #Waltmarie flair, and of course some tongue-twisting fun.

What do you think?

#prompt #writesky #blueskypoets #writingprompt #tonguetwister #poetry #acrostic #skypoetry

Another #writing experiment by Eric Montgomery (@madp03t,bsky.social) (c) 2025. All Rights Reserved.

Brazen blackbird breaks the dawn,
*bold in flight, it bluffs the lawn.*

Echoes stir the sleepy leaves,
*each note snaps, the morning heaves.*

Air spins wild beneath its wing,
*aims to startle, dives to sing.*

Keeps the sky from growing tame,
*clever bird, it plays the game*.

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 3d

For day 9 #spacetober_challenge nebula: Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) a trail blazing woman in #astronomy. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭 #histsci Hers was a real life Cinderella story, where rather than marrying a prince, she made a life & career for herself. Marriage her expected role but she was deemed unmarriageable, 🧵

My Linocut portrait of Caroline Herschel against a starry sky with comet and 5 inset diagrams of her observations

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Chris Thorogood @christhorogood.bsky.social · 1d

Eloise, my 9 year old toad, changes colour with the season. Today she's wearing her best autumn colours. Toads alter their skin colour using pigment-containing cells that expand or contract in response to temperature and light. Soon she'll turn dark brown as the nights get cold.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 8h

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 7h

"And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges"

'Twelfth Night' 5.1.400

#ShakespeareSunday
@hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

a man in a green suit and tie is standing in front of a group of men and says what did you expect .

Alt: Loki, in a green suit and tie, is standing in front of a group of armed men; with a sarcy smile, he says "What did you expect?"

media.tenor.com

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 17h

#EUrOcktober #MusicChallenge #Spain

'Spanish Midnight' - Marc Bolan T-Rex

youtu.be/A2J4TaP34ZA?...

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 17h

Exactly that. They've moved onto county council owned ev vehicles (woke transport) + supporters are clagging their nylon tat onto roundabouts

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 17h

Hope you enjoy it, especially after the stressful summer you had. Let's hope that such annual events can continue and even multiply, despite ...

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 18h

A stimulating day/night at the #Durham #book festival, an eclectic 3 day event that welcomes all to participate in an exchange of ideas. Given what has happened in the county, however, there is fear for #arts & #culture in a place that has been home to an #international population for so many years

Durham cathedral by night (📸 tonight). Although there is no evidence of a formal scriptorium in the cathedral environs, it is highly likely that the cloister was used for manuscript production as well as for meditation. Centuries of literacy, art, education, reflection and connection stand to be devalued by the barbarians, symbolised by the limp, nylon tat they're stringing up by the roundabouts
Reform's Durham County Council performance attacked by Lib Dem Sir Ed Davey - BBC News https://share.google/9nXBpIB3Eg7pM1ddE

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you, glad you enjoyed

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 1d

""My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent"."

'A Case of Identity' in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
(1892)
🎨 Edward Bawden (1984)
#BookWormSat

B&w linocut of Holmes (looking away from the viewer) and Watson in his bowler hat, staring straight at us

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 1d

#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge
Family Affair
youtu.be/5FR-whUUnXA?...

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 1d

#Howl-A-Ween #SpookySeason #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #TheColorBlack as in 'Little Black Submarines'
"...But everybody knows
That a broken heart is blind" (& some will exploit that 🖤)
youtu.be/6k8es2BNloE?...

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Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social · 1d

We’re super-excited to be welcoming Stephanie @brethertonwords.bsky.social to our next #WomenWritersNet #AuthorInterview.
🗓️ Thursday 23 October
⏰ 6pm BST
📚The Fire In Their Eyes @breakthroughbook.bsky.social

Everyone welcome to join in the Q&A.
Please share with anyone who might be interested.

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Jon.B @jonbright.bsky.social · 1d

The handwritten lists had been put together by 2 Swiss botanists, Friedrich Stebler and Carl Schröter,who were investigating the productivity of different meadow types.The plant inventories from 1884-1931 were discovered in preparation for renovations at Agroscope www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Century-old papers saved from the bin reveal changes in Europe’s plant life

Plant inventories dating back to 1884 and nearly thrown away enable unique time-lapse study of biodiversity in Swiss meadows

www.theguardian.com

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 1d

Reskeet with a #frog to scare ICE

Detail from 'the Frog Prince' Jessie Marion King (1913)

A frog sits on a rock with a lake, crags birch trees and golden flowers behind him. What looks like a halo shines around him (and is reflected by the circular, bright light around his princess on the part of the picture not depicted here)

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 1d

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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 2d

The woods smell amazing as the mist recedes: astringent, herbal, smoky. At the risk of sounding all wellness-woo, it feels as if I were inhaling pure mental health molecules.

Redwood trees and autumn-red poison oak undergrowth beneath cloudless blue sky.

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Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social · Nov 13

‘I once had a winter that was wordless’

In 2020 @littletollerbooks.bsky.social published my #BirdsOfFirle: origin story of a decade-long collective project on hope & grief as the things with feathers. I used Twitter to reach people; hope to relaunch here soon

www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing...

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Rod Jones @rodshelf.bsky.social · 1d

Fox under an autumn hawthorn tree in a quiet Yorkshire field. #ThePhotoHour #FoxOfTheDay #wildlife #nature #photography @mammalsociety.bsky.social @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @protectthewild.bsky.social

Side view of a fox standing under the red berries and green leaves of a hawthorn tree and looking into the camera lens.

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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning from The Denton Observatory!

🔭 #Astrophotography

A comment with a greenish tinged nucleus, and, and light yellow tail. There are multiple stars in the background. There are satellite trails through throughout the photo.

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Tom Easton @tomeaston.bsky.social · 1d

Hop not Hate

Three protesters in Portland Oregon in inflatable frog suits. One holds a placard reading FROGS TOGETHER STRONG

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