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joyfoster.bsky.social @joyfoster.bsky.social · 10h

Fab💛

joyfoster.bsky.social @joyfoster.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 23h

Morning all.

Jacques Henri Lartigu, Bretagne, 1960.

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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

💥💞

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 3d

What. A. Man.

Brave, brilliant and beautiful in every way.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 4d

Love this man. #Hero

#Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

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

He will be delighted.x

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 2d

“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 · 1d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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!

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 2d

A new day is beginning.
Let’s find ourselves in it.
Connected to the natural world and all our fellow creatures

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Miss Charles V @misscharlesv.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely delighted to receive this by @jonpountney1.bsky.social beautiful 🤩 #photography #wales

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 6d

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 6d

Quite a few of you have asked what paintings I have for sale at the moment, after my talk a couple of weeks ago. Here are a few, all based in St Ives. Comment if interested!

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Kaz @breakbeatreads.bsky.social · 3d

I recently read Reframing Women Printmakers and can only describe it as essential reading, wish I’d had something like that as an undergrad

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8d

GREAT GIFTS 🧡🎄🎁❣️
As a series or individually...
YOUR choice!!
3 womensart books on your favourite artists,
On textiles, painting & printmaking... 🧡🎄🎁❣️
Via here or your usual bookstore! www.waterstones.com/book/reframi...

Three individual book covers with different images and colours

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

Print featuring a black stylised dog looking up to purple animal ghost-like creatures which float above it

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Joanna Foster @fabticfoster.bsky.social · 4d

Really fortunate to see #Punch at the West End tonight

Of even greater privilege was to be in the audience for a post-performance discussion on masculinity

Actor Tony Hirst walked the walk of allyship as he called out male privilege and the falsehood that the far right are acting to protect women

‘Post Show Q&A’ poster featuring a panel with Tony Hirst, Nico Concha, Dr Kenny Imafidon and Gethin Jones discussing masculinity.

Programme for the play ‘Punch’ at the Apollo Theatre. The orange fronted cover features the photograph of a young man in a white shirt and jeans who is breathing out a cloud of dust/light particles.

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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 6d

I went #Chough hunting with a new friend, to the Deer Park, on the #Pembrokeshire coastal path today. We got lucky with many sightings of my all time favourite bird. So here’s a #painting of mine to mark the occasion. What a fantastic day!!!

Two Chough perched on lichen covered rocks on the coastal path

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

US photographer Dorothea Lange documented female shipyard workers- Kaiser shipyard, California, WW2, 1943 #womensart

#BlackHistoryMonth

Monochrome photograph of a young Black women worker, in overalls and with a welder's visor lifted up on her head, sitting in sunlight against a wall

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