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Martyn Warren (he/him) @martynwarren.bsky.social · 6h

I FUCKEN FINISHED!!! As always, it took me 2 months, but I got there in the end.

The final illustration of a pink silkmoth with beige and brown upper wings and vibrant pink lower wings. Oh, and an incredibly fluffy body.

A close up showing the detail of the furry wings.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 7h

Haha — I got a Like from OGWN Podcast. I wonder if that was @nndroid.bsky.social ? Hiya! Not quite sure that this has the makings of a nerdy Bunker episode, but… 🙂

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 9h

Hahaha — I think you speak for very many!

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13h

1. There is something about Conservative men wanting female leaders to be their mummy.
2. Conservatives like Tim are now spreading the Matthew Syed gobshitery that Farage is a socialist (ergo, the Tories are to the Right of Farage).
3. The F word. He means Farage but it also works with Fascism.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 13h

😂

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 13h

*shudder*

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 13h

A personification of Tory voters I wasn’t expecting today

A still from modern era Dr Who series 1 episode 9, The Empty Child. A child in a World War 2 gas mask pointing towards the viewer: text at the bottom reads, ‘Are you my mummy?’

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 14h

If so then we have to conclude he thinks he might get lucky with his sister. I have… questions.

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Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 1d

Aberdeen Steakhouse.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, there, what a handsome fella you are. This guy is wearing a gorgeous cuirass with inlaid silver and niello patterns, and copper inlaid lips. Beautiful swoopy hair, too. Soft features and superb craftsmanship, probably made in Gaul and imported into Britain.

Can you guess who he is? 🏺 1/

📸 me

Copper alloy statuette of an emperor in the guise of Alexander. Silver and copper-plating and deliberately patinated black bronze detail. The figure, which is hollow cast, stands with the weight on the right leg whilst the left foot is raised and may have originally rested on a globe or helmet (now missing). The right hand originally held a spear or sceptre (now missing) and the left arm is also missing. The figure wears imperial dress of decorated boots, a short tunic and a cuirass which is richly adorned with inlaid silver and niello patterns. The face is full and plump and the hair upstanding above the brow; the lips are slightly parted and the eyes, originally inlaid with colours (now missing) gaze upwards.

British Museum

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 1d

While China was building a massive network of "re-education camps" to imprison and torture Uyghur Muslims and wipe out their culture, Britain was welcoming refugees from Hong Kong.

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 1d

“While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors.” Kemi Badenoch www.conservatives.com/news/kemi-ba...

Kemi Badenoch announces Stamp Duty Abolition Policy

In her remarks closing Conference Kemi made one more major announcement

www.conservatives.com

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 1d

Doulton’s headquarters & factory building, #Lambeth #London
Architect - R. Stark Wilkinson - 1878

High #Victorian #Gothic architecture, with decorative details of Doulton’s terracotta.

#Exeter born, Stark Wilkinson designed the Digby Hospital, #Devon in 1886.

#WallsOnWednesday
#WindowsOnWednesday

A gothic corner building with turret, many windows & terracotta details.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

How this escaped being a location in one of the Harry Potter movies is a thing of wonderment.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Not crazy for the new look Mystery Machine in the latest live action Scooby Doo.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 1d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

And unless I am very much mistaken that is Roy Barraclough on the right.

Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Is that Harold Wilson on the left?

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1d

two women wearing shirts that read USA drinking team, they are smoking and holding a bottle

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I think all arrivals at UK borders — whatever their nationality — should be placed alone in a room which is empty but for a small table with a tea-cosy on it. If covert CCTV does not see them idly try it on their head as a hat they are not allowed in because they do not share our values.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I think all arrivals at UK borders — whatever their nationality — should be placed alone in a room which is empty but for a small table with a tea-cosy on it. If covert CCTV does not see them idly try it on their head as a hat they are not allowed in because they do not share our values.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Truck crossing the bridge above is coming for them.

Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch here daring to imagine a Britian [sic] without ripoff English degrees

A chocolate bar from a goodie bag issued at this week’s Conservative conference. The wrapper says, “When Labour negotiates, Britian loses”, and is signed in cursive script with Kemi Badenoch’s name. Both the floating comma and the misspelling of Britain have been widely noted.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi is tobogganing headfirst down hill towards her ‘I am a fighter not a quitter’ moment. Surely today her last chance to save herself disappeared.

Screengrab of Liz Truss yelling ‘I am a fighter not a quitter’ at the House of Commons, a day or two before she quitted.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 2d

Also, he said they can’t watch ten hours of video to catch one bike thief. Erm, they don’t need to. Skip through in, say, one hour jumps till you get to the bit where the bike is gone then rewind a few minutes to where the thief is stealing it.

Have these police officers never handled a TV remote?

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 2d

Dunno about media misrepresenting this: I listened to Ian Drummond-Smith of the British Transport Police on the Today prog this morning and what he said sounded pretty much like a message direct to bike thieves that it is going to be very easy to get away with this crime so knock yourselves out.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 2d

That I don’t know. But conservatism, as in the relentless protection of wealth and privilege, yes.

Crassus in first century BC Rome is utterly familiar to any Tory today.

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