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Caroline Hack
@carolinehack.bsky.social
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UK based artist making things about Moby-Dick, British Arctic Whaling, S Atlantic whaling research and other museum inspired shenanigans. Projects with museums a speciality - DM me if you’ve got an idea! Current obsession - the Continuous Plankton Recorder
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Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social · Nov 12
For new and prospective followers. Current work at #DiscoveryPoint #Dundee featuring new commissioned work and previously exhibited textile panels.
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New incarnation just dropped
Advert for some sort of perfume with the text Bosp- Horus 2025 New
December 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Finished this wall hanging I’ve been working on for a few months whilst thinking about phytoplankton.

Transfer dyed poly cotton with a variety of techniques including yo-yos, hand embroidery, beading, appliqué.

I’m quite pleased with it.
Oblique close up of textile wall hanging in mostly shades of green with yo-yos, beading, appliqué on a blue transfer dyed background Oblique close up of textile wall hanging in mostly shades of green with yo-yos, beading, appliqué on a blue transfer dyed background Oblique close up of textile wall hanging in mostly shades of green with yo-yos, beading, appliqué on a blue transfer dyed background A3 sized textile wall hanging in mostly shades of green with yo-yos, beading, appliqué on a blue transfer dyed background
December 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Good morning from the @sainsburycentre.bsky.social where Anton Forde’s wonderful installation is Looking gorgeous in the winter sun.
A series of tall wooden figures cas rhythmic shadows from the sun shining through a vast glass wall giving glimpses of the green landscape beyond.
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Happy happy mappy sewing.
Hurrah!
#FreeHandMachineEmbroidery
Undyed calico fabric with a design of an 1800s admiralty map of the Arctic being sewn on a sewing machine. The outlines of the land are highlighted in blue. The lines of latitude and longitude are being sewn in black. The machine embroidered bits (lines of latitude and longitude) of a map stretching from Scotland to the North Pole on undyed calico.
December 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Today I opened a box... of me!!!

☠️👽👻👹🧜‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Queer As Folklore is back in shops and available online from @manchesterup.bsky.social!
Me, in a merman t-shirt holding a box of the paperback version of my book Queer As Folklore!
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Deer of the day. Loving the sunlight through the ear!
The top half of a muntjac deer head is visible over the brambles. Its ears are alert with the sunlight backlighting one making it look quite bright and pink. The little antlers are also visible.
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Finally working on my #CorsetRevivalProject piece. The plan is to cover it with #embroidery imagery of #ArcticWhaling - where the #whalebone used for support came from. First panel will be a map showing where the whaling took place in the #Arctic around Svalbard and Greenland.
Red and black patterned contemporary corset spread out flat. Undyed calico fabric on a lightbox over a drawing of a map showing Scotland, Norway , Greenland up to the North Pole Fabric showing drawn lines in black pen with the lightbox turned off Finished map drawn onto fabric roughly positioned onto the corset to check position and size.
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
carolinehack.bsky.social
Finally working on my #CorsetRevivalProject piece. The plan is to cover it with #embroidery imagery of #ArcticWhaling - where the #whalebone used for support came from. First panel will be a map showing where the whaling took place in the #Arctic around Svalbard and Greenland.
Red and black patterned contemporary corset spread out flat. Undyed calico fabric on a lightbox over a drawing of a map showing Scotland, Norway , Greenland up to the North Pole Fabric showing drawn lines in black pen with the lightbox turned off Finished map drawn onto fabric roughly positioned onto the corset to check position and size.
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Any Shetland folk on Bluesky?

I’m trying to find if there’s a definitive way to pronounce the mainland’s Capital.

My aunt in Catfirth said it was LerWick & ony ither pronunciation wis wrang.

Nae “Lerrick”.

Help appreciated…..
December 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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SIMPLY HAVING A
December 14, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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Yay! Finished the long and wiggly coastline of Shetland. Can get back to the sea now. #HandEmbroidery
Undyed fabric in a hoop sitting on a green mad. The fabric has a feint screen print of Shetland navigation chard overpainted with arc me of blue watercolour and oversewn with a range of blue threads. The outline of the land is picked out in brown threads
December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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This is a wonderful, even spectacular, thread.
bfletcherwatson.bsky.social Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 6d
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
carolinehack.bsky.social
Loving this and also loving the folk learning about the survivorship bias plane for the first time.
ageofoddish.bsky.social Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 7d
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
carolinehack.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Beluga
Blue whale
Sowerby’s beaked whale
Sperm whale
Walrus
hollyandella112.bsky.social Holly 🐕‍🦺 @hollyandella112.bsky.social · 7d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Hammerhead shark
Stingray
My brother
My other brother
Cotton mouth snake
mattsdottir.bsky.social Fi @mattsdottir.bsky.social · 7d
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Giant Monitor Lizard
Wombat
Whale Shark
Cassowary
Kākāpō
November 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🌊 Funded PhD: Advancing Plankton Imaging & Machine Learning to Transform Marine Biodiversity Monitoring 🔬🌍 @plymuni.bsky.social
Bring together AI-powered image analysis, innovative sensors, and real-world policy frameworks.

Two funding options:
1. lnkd.in/e566f8RR
2. lnkd.in/eKPRGhsP
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
carolinehack.bsky.social
So what do we reckon - my guess/hope is

Boat burial!

What’s yours?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
carolinehack.bsky.social
Yeah, deciding I need to sew the outline of the land on the navigation chart around #Shetland is one I am regretting already. So wiggly. So many little islands. #HandEmbroidery #MappySewing
Portion of an embroidery of a navigation chart of Shetland in a hoop. Blue watercolour and thread wash across areas of sea. The outline of the land is being sewn in brown thread.
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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First real frost of the winter here last night. Patches of ice dusted nettles on the green lane this morning.
Green nettle leaves with a dusting of frost.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍

📜
Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Roses are red
That dino looks ill
Headline saying “Fossil vomit contains new species of pterosaur from Brazil”. For additional info apart from the joke, the sub-headed says: “Filter-feeding flying reptile was likely devoured by a dinosaur during the early Cretaceous”
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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It’s #WorldWalrusDay so it’s a good excuse to repost this #HandEmbroidery version I made recently, based on an 1579 illustration.
An embroidered illustration of a walrus with 4 feet, a whale like tail and upward pointed tusks the body is covered in vertical stripes of embroidery and fabric paint.
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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They really don't want to share any interior shots but when they do, you just know that unspeakable acts have been committed within... www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
Check out this 3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale on Rightmove
3 bedroom end of terrace house for sale in 75 Camden Mews, Camden, London, NW1 9BY, NW1 for £925,000. Marketed by Auction House London, Hampstead
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November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
carolinehack.bsky.social
It’s #WorldWalrusDay so it’s a good excuse to repost this #HandEmbroidery version I made recently, based on an 1579 illustration.
An embroidered illustration of a walrus with 4 feet, a whale like tail and upward pointed tusks the body is covered in vertical stripes of embroidery and fabric paint.
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
carolinehack.bsky.social
Starting the #stitching on this scrap of a #screenprint on fabric of a Shetland Navigation chart with some watercolour highlights

#HandEmbroidery #WorkInProgress
Undyed calico in an embroidery hoop sits on a green gridded mat. The fabric had a feint map of Shetland and depth info on the surrounding seas. There are three wave shaped blue watercolour bands horizontally and each of these has some darker blue back stitch in band.
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM