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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 10h

Does #radio get any more joyful than @cerysmatthews.bsky.social speaking with Hamza Yassin about the beauty of the natural world and the power of music to unite

Or should that be the power of the natural world and the beauty of music to unite?

#SelfCareSunday

#WildAboutNature

#hope

Wooden digital radio displaying on its screen BBC Radio 6 Music and the track ‘Isla’ by Beluga Lagoon.

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 7h

The Dunnock may be a common bird but it’s still very beautiful when you look closely at its feathers. Here’s my portrait of one in watercolour from my #1000postcards artwork, depicting the biodiversity of my land, 700ish done so far & still so many waiting to be painted

A watercolour of a Dunnock sitting on Ivy

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

NEED A GIFT? 🎄🎁 🧡
Be quick - While stocks last....
The newest womensart book, #BestSeller #MostGifted !..
At any online or local bookstore.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16h

'Cool blues' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bottles of different shapes in a row all filled with blue flowers and resting on a surface with a busy pattern in blue

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 15h

Morning all.

Photograph by Bruce Davidson, Wales 1965.

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 14h

What a photo.

Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman?

Show me a time when it hasn’t been, especially for working class women.

Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 15h

Morning all.

Photograph by Bruce Davidson, Wales 1965.

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joyfoster.bsky.social @joyfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Fab💛

joyfoster.bsky.social @joyfoster.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Jon for dropping off mine and Joanna's books, and one of your paintings. Thrilled with it and can't wait for the next edition.
Keep up the great work! 👏👏Love it.
Ps I will pass on Joanna's when I meet up with her in November. I know she will also be super delighted with them. Yeeeha !

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Nigel Bishop @ashroplad.bsky.social · 2d

VALLEYS by @jonpountney1.bsky.social -This lovely photobook arrived today! A wonderful record of everyday life in South Wales by a fabulous photographer... Thanks Jon :-) #Photography #documetaryphotography #Cymru

A picture of a photobook with the title VALLEYS on the cover

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 3d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 1d

Morning all.

Jacques Henri Lartigu, Bretagne, 1960.

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 3d

Get ready to see the smallest tiniest snails I’ve ever found. There are three babies and a mummy snail just wondering about about amongst the lichen on this twig I picked up. It’s a little bit of paradise saved from getting crushed by a car on our farm track. Who needs to go on Safari 😂

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 5d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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joyfoster.bsky.social @joyfoster.bsky.social · 2d

💥💞

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 4d

What. A. Man.

Brave, brilliant and beautiful in every way.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 5d

Love this man. #Hero

#Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

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joyfoster.bsky.social @joyfoster.bsky.social · 2d

He will be delighted.x

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 4d

Another fabulous signed, first edition #book from the Cleeve Bookshop

My father is going to be delighted when he opens this on Christmas Day

#ShopIndie

thecleevebookshop.co.uk

Hardback copy of the book ‘Cat: On the road to find out’ by Yusuf/Cat Stevens.

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 3d

“We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us."

~ Jo Cox

Image by Ben Jennings

Image of a Jewish man and a Muslim man sat on a bench overlooking a city shadowed in smoke. Both are holding a coffee cup. The Muslim man says,”I’m so sick of people thinking all this violence is done in my name.” The Jewish man replies, “Tell me about it.”

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 3d

Morning all.

Photograph by Martin Parr, Isle of Rhum in the background, Isle of Eigg, Scotland, 1998.

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING Congratulations to María Corina Machado on winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize! Her courage, resilience, and unwavering fight for democracy in Venezuela inspire the world. This honor celebrates not just her struggle, but the enduring power of hope, justice, and human rights.

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chumpski @chumpski.bsky.social · 4d

Say @jonpountney1.bsky.social that’s a nice bit of work!

Jon Pountney’s photo book ‘Valleys’ - full cover view

Jon Pountney’s photo book ‘Valleys’ - centre spread view

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 4d

So pleased to donate Beacons Cymru 10% of the Valleys book money- £1325! Overseen by one of my oldest pals Simon Griffiths, Beacons Cymru is Wales’ leading music talent development organisation, working with young people to shape the future of music. Based in Treorchy!