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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 57m

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 1h

Friday Wisdom.

You never know how drunk you are until you're alone in the toilet.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 1h

Quick dunk, just now.

The sun blasting a wave, blinding me in the process.

Looking across the sea to a beacon, a perfect air brushed sky

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

Farage is saying all teachers are Marxists. They're not. They just teach that we should care for one another. But that offends his fascist instincts. The result is he is turning on a profession that teaches about compassion and empathy - because he loathes it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness

According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of “poisoning our kids” and predicted that they would go o...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 6h

A Tour of the New David Bowie Archive Featuring 90,000 Artifacts from His Life & Career

With the tenth anniversary of David Bowie's death coming up early next year, more than a few fans will have their minds on a pilgrimage to mark the occasion. Perhaps with that very time frame in mind,...

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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 6h

I think Thunberg would be the funniest possible choice

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 6d

Norfolk Wildlife Trust is calling on South Norfolk residents to share ideas for a long-term wildlife recovery plan | East Anglia Bylines

Trust asks residents to help shape new wildlife vision

Norfolk Wildlife Trust is calling on South Norfolk residents to share ideas for a long-term wildlife recovery plan

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 7d

“Violence, threats and intimidation are unacceptable. Norfolk deserves better.”

Read how flag rows are escalating from streets to County Hall.

Owen Sennitt reports

Women followed by ‘mob’ after removing flags

Flag disputes are escalating from lampposts to council chambers, fuelling heated clashes and political debate

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · 6h

With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero? #Climate

With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero?

Only 15 of 100 MPs surveyed knew of IPCC report that CO2 needs to peak this year to keep global heating to 1.5C

www.theguardian.com

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 2d

Save the East Midlands Parkway cooling towers!

Sign the @c20society.bsky.social petition about the Ratcliffe-on-Soar site in Nottinghamshire.

👉 www.change.org/p/save-brita...

cooling towers bathed in golden sunshine next to the platform at east midlands parkway train station

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 4d

Couple moved in next door. Old bloke lived there before had a beautiful garden. He spent every day in it. New guy ripped out everything & put fake grass in. So I've planted trees next to the boundary that will fill his lawn with dead leaves in the autumn. This one's for you Alf

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 18h

Best of luck Andy 🍻

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Mar 23

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence

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Daniel & Clara @danielandclara.bsky.social · 22h

Online Studio Visit coming up this Saturday at 1pm!

We'll be speaking about the motif of figures sleeping, dreaming and falling in the landscape in our work and some of the art that has inspired us 🍂

✨ To attend, sign up via our Patreon:
www.patreon.com/danielandclara

Everyone welcome!

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 1d

Blow me down, they've sold another.

Where I End You Begin - all about love, the upward reflections of a person's legs underwater (mine) swirl and extend into fantastical shapes.

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ann @annpersand.bsky.social · 1d

Nobuya Shida, Travel (nihonga technique on wood panel, 2000)

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 1d

The amount of extra heat humans are adding to the ocean is 14 zettajoules which is equal to 7 atomic bombs detonating every second of every day for a year.

Since 1955 oceans have absorbed excess heat enough to boil 60 billion Olympic swimming pools

www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

Ocean temperature is rising. Here’s why even small increases have massive effects

How much are oceans warming? Imagine 7 atomic bombs detonating every second for a year

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t sleep a wink, so am commenting on Instagram, maybe people will think I have a glamorous late night life. In reality I turn into a slug about 6pm most days.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 1d

In a bit of an artistic block. Not worried though, like I used to be, it is just a shift in direction usually. Waiting it out is resulting in frantic gardening, cleaning and cooking.

Painting titled Brainwave.

Brainwave painting, wiggly worms of light revealing a face.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Arts degrees are only “worthless” because tech cunts revalued the highly desirable product of freelance artists at close to zero, cos it made running the digital supply pipes look cheaper on the spreadsheets. Pay properly for the arts, and see how worthless artists are.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 1d

Just seen at least ten pheasants in a field, with a buzzard sitting in the middle.

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 2d

Racists when people see through their racism

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 2d

"He invokes white faces. He is the one who chooses this as his metric."

Robert Jenrick defended his comment about not seeing "another white face" in a Birmingham area, saying he was only criticising the lack of integration, not focusing on skin colour

'Jenrick's 'white faces' comment would have once been enough to get an MP sacked' | The News Agents

Robert Jenrick has defended comments made in March 2025 about the lack of white people in an area of Birmingham he visited – and Tory colleagues have rallied to back him. But do his comments make…

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

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