Ceri Shields
@cerishields.bsky.social
Painting, drawing, printmaking. Also music, food, and long walks on wild moors.
Move slowly and make things.
Move slowly and make things.
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Ceri Shields
@cerishields.bsky.social
· Nov 1
QRT with your black & white art.
Oh OK, here are some animal skull sketches
Oh OK, here are some animal skull sketches
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Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?
January 20, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?
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Everybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.
January 19, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Everybody knows Franz Kafka, but almost no one knows his sister Ottla. She was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz on Oct 7, 1943 after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.
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Lad's hungover. Popped the local for a couple last night with Brigitte after a long day, a couple turned into "fuck it", and them only leaving the pub when the landlord interrupted them singing to remind them they all had homes to go to.
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International rules based order collapsing and its Macron giving a speech like this - inexplicably wearing sunglasses - that has truly sent me over the edge
January 20, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Lad's hungover. Popped the local for a couple last night with Brigitte after a long day, a couple turned into "fuck it", and them only leaving the pub when the landlord interrupted them singing to remind them they all had homes to go to.
bsky.app/profile/nadi...
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If I was an early medieval scribe writing up last night’s entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle I’d definitely be saying that dragons had been seen in the sky.
January 20, 2026 at 12:36 PM
If I was an early medieval scribe writing up last night’s entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle I’d definitely be saying that dragons had been seen in the sky.
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Insane Auroras over Stonehenge
January 20, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Insane Auroras over Stonehenge
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“Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Brooklyn and Nicola to the dance floor as they share their first dance as a married couple.”
Victoria:
Victoria:
January 19, 2026 at 11:20 PM
“Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming Brooklyn and Nicola to the dance floor as they share their first dance as a married couple.”
Victoria:
Victoria:
Thread — you’ll need popcorn.
I haven’t spotted Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in the video clips but I believe this is part of their franchise?
I haven’t spotted Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in the video clips but I believe this is part of their franchise?
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Thread — you’ll need popcorn.
I haven’t spotted Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in the video clips but I believe this is part of their franchise?
I haven’t spotted Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in the video clips but I believe this is part of their franchise?
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Aurora seems to have finished in Exeter now - 3 surreal photos from my iPhone earlier - handheld 3 sec exposures through the oak tree in my garden
January 20, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Aurora seems to have finished in Exeter now - 3 surreal photos from my iPhone earlier - handheld 3 sec exposures through the oak tree in my garden
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Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:
January 19, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:
Aurora Borealis in South Devon in England right now. Never seen it this far south before. Quite subtle and hazy, but definitely worth a look for my couple of followers in this part of the world 🙂
January 19, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Aurora Borealis in South Devon in England right now. Never seen it this far south before. Quite subtle and hazy, but definitely worth a look for my couple of followers in this part of the world 🙂
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From the quire of Winchester Cathedral. I took the source images for this several years ago, was curious to see if I could find anything new or improve upon the original pictures made. #winchester #photography #architecture
January 19, 2026 at 2:30 PM
From the quire of Winchester Cathedral. I took the source images for this several years ago, was curious to see if I could find anything new or improve upon the original pictures made. #winchester #photography #architecture
Nobel Prize Derangement Syndrome
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Nobel Prize Derangement Syndrome
Or having to go to the White House to hand it over.
Today is a good day. Because I didn’t win a medal in the Chelsea Flower Show, I never have to think about gardening again.
January 19, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Or having to go to the White House to hand it over.
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I wanted to call it the Tariff Disaster Blaster or the Orange Bluster Buster so Trade Bazooka was a compromise.
(Not my area and way after my time, alas, so nothing to do with me)
(Not my area and way after my time, alas, so nothing to do with me)
January 19, 2026 at 1:47 PM
I wanted to call it the Tariff Disaster Blaster or the Orange Bluster Buster so Trade Bazooka was a compromise.
(Not my area and way after my time, alas, so nothing to do with me)
(Not my area and way after my time, alas, so nothing to do with me)
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Neighbourhood beef.
"No fucking parking. How the fuck do you expect me to get my car in and out the garage. Fucking #/@. You lot are taking taking the fucking piss now."
"No fucking parking. How the fuck do you expect me to get my car in and out the garage. Fucking #/@. You lot are taking taking the fucking piss now."
January 19, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Neighbourhood beef.
"No fucking parking. How the fuck do you expect me to get my car in and out the garage. Fucking #/@. You lot are taking taking the fucking piss now."
"No fucking parking. How the fuck do you expect me to get my car in and out the garage. Fucking #/@. You lot are taking taking the fucking piss now."
I know it’s silly but in the midst of all this catastrophe I just love that it’s called the ‘trade bazooka’. Shades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail — ‘bring up the holy hand grenade!’
Germany backs France on its so-called trade “bazooka” - be ready to strike back at Washington if Trump presses ahead with his threats of increased tariffs against EU countries.
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
www.politico.eu/article/germ...
German finance minister supports Macron on readying EU trade ‘bazooka’ against Trump
All eyes are on how far Germany and France can align on a riposte to Trump.
www.politico.eu
January 19, 2026 at 1:22 PM
I know it’s silly but in the midst of all this catastrophe I just love that it’s called the ‘trade bazooka’. Shades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail — ‘bring up the holy hand grenade!’
It’s a nice idea and we should do it. But I visited the Soviet Union in the early 1980s when 66 countries had recently boycotted the Moscow Olympics over their invasion of Afghanistan (yes indeed) and, honestly, that boycott made not the dammdest bit of difference.
We need much stronger measures.
We need much stronger measures.
It might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.
January 19, 2026 at 11:39 AM
It’s a nice idea and we should do it. But I visited the Soviet Union in the early 1980s when 66 countries had recently boycotted the Moscow Olympics over their invasion of Afghanistan (yes indeed) and, honestly, that boycott made not the dammdest bit of difference.
We need much stronger measures.
We need much stronger measures.
By today’s standards this thread counts as comic relief. Does she still have some capacity to do material harm? I don’t know; I hope not.
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss tweets that Robert Jenrick is a "trojan horse" who is "getting his orders" from some unidentified shadowy force of global conspirators
January 19, 2026 at 11:07 AM
By today’s standards this thread counts as comic relief. Does she still have some capacity to do material harm? I don’t know; I hope not.
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The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
January 19, 2026 at 8:47 AM
The Nobel Peace Prize becoming so prestigious that wars are fought over a head of state coveting it is some real monkey paw stuff for Alfred Nobel.
When we were kids we’d come to London to visit my dad and he’d take us to the *original* Hard Rock Cafe back when, briefly, rock glitterati actually went there and he’d say, ‘look, there’s Jimmy Page, there’s Ronnie Wood,’ and we had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.
The Berni Inn in Shrewsbury. When I was very little, I just had chips and peas, and when I was a bit older I was allowed a rump steak. Then an ice-cream sundae with an umbrella and a cherry.
Sunday night timeline cleanse
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there
January 19, 2026 at 10:35 AM
When we were kids we’d come to London to visit my dad and he’d take us to the *original* Hard Rock Cafe back when, briefly, rock glitterati actually went there and he’d say, ‘look, there’s Jimmy Page, there’s Ronnie Wood,’ and we had absolutely no idea what he was talking about.
The only people this image doesn’t deeply disgust are the unreachables who are going to vote for Farage come hell or high water.
This photo should form a core piece of every election in the UK until the day Farage quits
January 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
The only people this image doesn’t deeply disgust are the unreachables who are going to vote for Farage come hell or high water.
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I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
January 18, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I think the White House badly underestimates the strength of the pan-European folk memory of 1930s appeasement, and how deep it still cuts. I suppose this is what happens when you learn in school that WW2 started in 1941 in Hawaii.
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This photo should form a core piece of every election in the UK until the day Farage quits
January 18, 2026 at 10:36 AM
This photo should form a core piece of every election in the UK until the day Farage quits
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Dear Editor, I'm writing to let you know how much I enjoy reading your lovely paper. I buy it every week without fail cause somehow Sunday without 'Sunday People' is not the same. I don't know about other readers, but I enjoy it back to front.
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Dear Editor, I'm writing to let you know how much I enjoy reading your lovely paper. I buy it every week without fail cause somehow Sunday without 'Sunday People' is not the same. I don't know about other readers, but I enjoy it back to front.