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Stephen 'more a comment than a question' Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 7h

Thursday

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 6h

Nigel, we know you ate all the brie last night. We had artist, Luis Egidio Meléndez watching the fridge! The evidence he presented is undeniable. 👍🏛️🍑🧀 #MuseumBums

LE Meléndez' "Self portrait with academic drawing", 1746, from the Louvre 😁

A painting of a smug looking artist, holding up an academic drawing that looks like someone called Nigel on his way to finish off the brie

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 9h

Updating my LEGO White House

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 5h

Hello Thursday.
Book of Hours, Ghent, c.1300
Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, Walters Manuscript W.85, fol. 46r.

Marginalia - rabbit riding a dog blowing a hunting horn.

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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 6h

🇵🇱 cont.

I've ultimately gone for neither of these things. Instead, here's Blanka with 2023's surprisingly tenacious "Solo". This song once did the Kessel Run in under three minutes. And like the Force, it may be with you. Always...

youtu.be/SEgF1aP-U1o

#EUrOcktober #EUr0cktober #Eurovisioctober

Blanka - Solo (LIVE) | Poland 🇵🇱 | Grand Final | Eurovision 2023

YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 6h

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When you think of Poland in Eurovision there's probably only one image that comes to mind, courtesy of Donatan and Cleo's "My Słowianie". But mostly Poland have been much more conventional (almost anonymously so). That said, they recently found their darker side and I'm very much here for that.

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Indie Stacks but Spooky @oracleatbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

Everything reminds me of — dear mother of God!

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Matt @mattukernow.bsky.social · 16h

"KATE'S IN CHARGE OF THE FARM? YOU LEFT KATE IN CHARGE OF THE FARM?!" #TheArchers

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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 15h

God, that lamé's surprisingly ageing

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Steven Perkins @stevenperkins.bsky.social · 15h

"Celia, you have the casting vote"

*tiny parp* #CelebrityTraitors

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 15h

ARRGGH ARRGGGGGHHHHH ARRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH #CelebrityTraitors

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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 16h

Jonathan Ross cosplaying as Terry Wogan. #TheTraitors

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Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

"AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat" is something from a Final Destination pre-production brainstorming session www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

www.dexerto.com

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Craig @craigare.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s one for Sleeping Beauty in Peterborough in 1969. Way too classy in my view.

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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 1d

🇲🇹 cont.

So which of theirs am I serving you today? Well, I'm serving "Kant" by Miriana Conte: the culmination of everything Malta has been building towards all these years.

Pop a Malteser in your mouth and enjoy the performance:

youtu.be/povnGP6k0sI

#EUrOcktober #EUr0cktober #Eurovisioctober

Miriana Conte – SERVING (LIVE) | Malta 🇲🇹 | Grand Final | Eurovision 2025

YouTube video by Eurovision Song Contest

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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 1d

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Malta joined in the '70s, then very wisely sat out the '80s before returning in the '90s. But it wasn't until the 21st century that they really got going, discovering a party spirit and the power of a big woman belting out a banger. Eurovision isn't over until Malta sings.

Renato (not that one) is singing his song in SuperFuzzovision. He looks like Timothy Claypole: bearded with black hair and wearing a blue crochet jumper thing with cape-like sleeves and big white lapels. He's also in beige slacks. He stands, mic in hand, between four backing singers in long floral skirts gypsy blouses: red-orange, pink, orange-yellow, and acid green respectively. The song, incidentally, is an annoying playground ditty that will drive you insane.

Claudette Pace in 2000 doing a calypso given the German disco treatment (synth steel-drums). If Alma Cogan had lived (and been pickled) this could be her delivering this, but it isn't. It's Claudette in a huge blue overshirt dress thing and set red-black hair. Her hand is raised as if in the act of pushing a pineapple. As calypso goes this is hideously wrong, but it could be a lot worse... She could be shaking a tree...

Ira Losco with dark brown ringlets and a white lace halter that's actually part of a jumpsuit. She sings into the mic with her eyes almost closed in wonderment. What's she wondering about? She's wondering about her Seventh Wonder: a cheesy Steps-ish pop song with a memorable refrain.

Destiny is another act with her palms out, this time while pulling a sort of exasperated, panicked face. Probably because her song seems to have had a mid-sea collision with Moldova's while both acts were practicing their Lizzo and Beyoncé impressions in the mirror. The result is a rather barmy (and unquestionably Eurovision) cut-and-shut full of joy. Destiny is wearing a spangly long-sleeved silver dress and has her hair in a sort of top pony-tail thing that cascades freely. The background is very very yellow.

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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a #DoctorWho fan who cares about sensitive video restoration that preserves the integrity of the original images, and is concerned about the introduction of unintended artefacts from the use of AI, please watch this short video, share widely and discuss.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=24hw...

A.I. - is it worth it?

YouTube video by Pip Madeley

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 1d

shouldnt be surprised really but still funny to see the East Wing of the White House, built 1941 is actually a reinforced concrete frame? When I first saw it last night I thought it was just the 1970s porte cochère but it seems the whole thing is concrete and rebar

View from behind trees from the adjacent Treasury building of a pair of excavators working on the demolition of the East Wing of the White House. A large amount of the roof has been removed as well as the supporting frame under it, with a mass of rebar revealed as the main frame is demolished.

View of the upper part of the structure with the thin white render removed revealing the concrete frame

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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 2d

Coupling, right?

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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 2d

Oops upside your head...

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2d

People on here saying that this would never happen in Britain and they're right because in Britain the building would accidentally burn down before accidentally walking in front of a bulldozer.

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 2d

Seeing the White House torn apart is really emblematic of the times we’re in

Photo of the White House being torn apart

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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 2d

The shop that got their hands on those red coats must've been rubbing their hands with glee that summer. Impressive they managed to keep up with demand...

Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

This shows the Pier Walk - a ceremony which is part of every new academic year at St Andrews

If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

An old colour picture postcard showing a small harbour; in the background a medieval university building. Gowned students walk along the harbour wall

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2d

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 2d

Had a dream where me and an old mate were basically living through the end of Aliens but the fight was so much more involved. The Queen could like split apart and reform. The really weird part though, was that we had the One Ring

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Steph, Destroyer of Words @avwoman.bsky.social · 2d

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