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Reader, writer, gardener 👨‍🌾. Thomas Barrow apologist. Creative from working class background. Queer (she/they) and trans ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Apr 14

Who wants to come with me as I dive into this vinyl collection I inherited? First up, some Hank Marvin, about to club this unsuspecting lady to death with his acoustic guitar. Oh and his nipples are out. It’s a strong start.

A vinyl album showing Hank Marvin, bespectacled, nips out, acoustic guitar held over his shoulder. He’s wearing a green necktie. In the foreground, a woman, possibly also shirtless. Blurred, unsuspecting, a rose protruding from her chin for some reason.

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Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’m glad you’re getting a break, it sounds much needed ❤️

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Sim Elliott @sim-elliott.bsky.social · Sep 6

I LOVE Juniper! It has had a dramatic decline on the South Downs; in just one place in Sussex is it abundant - @sussexwildlife.bsky.social NR Levin Down. It is sculpted by the wind here into giant bonsai shapes. The UK gin industry now imports European juniper berries; its more abundant in Europe

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ladybird book in the Spotlight

‘Smoke and Fluff’ (1941)
Artist: Angusine Macgregor

The front cover of the 1970s version of the book ‘smoke and fluff’. The first edition had a dark purple dust wrapper over boards.

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Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ngl I initially had the red background but that was too similar even for me to differentiate us so I changed it lol

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossb-brighton.bsky.social · Sep 4

Anthony Delaney isn't on here, so here's a shout-out for his new book, Queer Georgians - published today! It looks fabulous . . . 🌈📚🗃️

www.penguin.co.uk/books/460692... @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

There's an online event with AD and @thegozfather.bsky.social (The National Archives) on 17 Sept . . .

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · Sep 3

✍️ The quiet power of relational disobedience

Resist without hate: from relational disobedience to creative protest, quiet courage can disrupt domination without mirroring its violence

By Mike Chitty

@mikechitty.bsky.social

The quiet power of relational disobedience

Resist without hate: from relational disobedience to creative protest, quiet courage can dis-rupt domination without mirroring its violence

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Sep 3

damn that’s a cast and a half

Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Sep 3

WHAT

Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Sep 3

Right? I see a dozen women who look exactly like this every time I go to Co-op

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · Sep 2

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️

"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · Sep 3

‘Hare’
Artist: Septimus Scott
(In Green Pastures, 1945)

A hare raises its ears, alert as if it has just heard the sound of possible danger. Around it, five leverets are grazing

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Sep 2

Sea Level

xkcd.com/3135/

Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.

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Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Sep 1

there was! And roasted green beans!

Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Sep 1

Crumble season is definitely here

Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Sep 1

I had sausage and mash on Friday night, which feels sort of roast adjacent

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Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Sep 1

Currently debating when it’ll be Sunday roast season again. Is next Sunday too early?

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · Aug 31

The Blackberry or Bramble is a member of the rose family & makes a great habitat for many birds, insects & spiders - and it produces delicious, juicy, black berries in August & September. Hence CRUMBLE
buff.ly/JT1XwxA
📷 Hugh Clark FRPS

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · Aug 31

🐈‍⬛🤍

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · Aug 31

We love a parkland walk.

Three colourful Sika deer showing their white rumps and grey, brown coats set against a fir tree backdrop.

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · Aug 30

In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · Aug 30

WHAT NEWS, BOY? WHAT DAY IS THIS?

a gold and white borzoi standing upright with his front paws on the deck railing, looking down with the sun on his face af chest

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No Context Gillian Anderson @contextgillian.bsky.social · Aug 29

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny
Happy Weekend Everyone!

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Junkshopdisco 🍊 @junkshopdisco.bsky.social · Aug 30

they are! They have way fewer seeds and more tomato… flesh, so it’s a more tomato-y tomato!

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Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · Aug 30

Cover, catalog for fall planting
Holm & Olson, Inc.
St. Paul, Minn.
1939

Source: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection of the National Agricultural Library via @archive.org; archive.org/details/CAT3...

A light beige, vertically oriented cover with a light blue vertical bar along the left hand side with reversed-out illustration of three flowers, stems and leaves

What looks like hand-lettered text, in maroon:

BULBS AND PLANTS
For Fall Planting
1939
HOLM & OLSON
Saint Paul, Minnesota

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