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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 2d

I have never before had the slightest desire to visit the USA but I suddenly want to go to Portland after all the posts I have seen recently… 😘

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 2d

Yes,we are in danger from these ridiculous people, they will reduce our culture to flags and fish and chips and impoverish our arts sector, which is world renowned and brings more cash into this country than most, but since they can’t even spell Britain I’m not surprised at all

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 3d

#inktober day 7 'starfish'

A chance to honour my favourite poet, Mary Oliver

Starfish
In the sea rocks, in the stone pockets under the tide’s lip, in water dense as blindness
they slid like sponges, like too many thumbs. I knew this, and what I wanted
was to draw my hands back from the water

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3d

Part Two is live.

Project 2025 isn’t just an American story anymore - it’s being rewritten in Westminster under a new name:

The Centre for a Better Britain.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/resolute-1...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 3d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 4d

Bid the fern sing an emerald song
While the trees walk in procession along.
Spider,spin a wreath for his head;
In gossamer garland the delicate dead.
Wind, wait and mourn him as you pass, And with slow steps make musical the grass.

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#inktober #inktoberday5 #deer

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 6d

#inktober day 4 'Murky'

I started from fog and wandered... as I sometimes do, into a place of dreams and memories x

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

Steampunk dragon by US artist Sue Beatrice who creates steampunk sculptures and jewellery by recycling old watch parts #WomensArt

Photo featuring a tiny sculpture of a winged dragon created with small metal cogs resting on the end of a white finger

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 6d

In 2024 Gaza became the deadliest place on earth to be a child. theorkneynews.scot/2025/10/04/i...

In 2024 Gaza became the deadliest place on earth to be a child.

This year, since 27 May 2025, 2,580 people in Gaza have been killed when trying to get food and other supplies at an Aid centre. 18,930 have been injured. As of 1 October, 455 people in Gaza have …

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you x

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 7d

#inktober day 3. 'Crown'

Inspired by a poem by Annie Finch, Mabon Crown

extract:

Here is my crown
Of winding vine,
Of leaves that dropped,
That fingers twined,
another crown
to yield and shine
with a year’s
fermented wine.

the half finished stage is on the left, I almost wish I’d left it there

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 9d

#inktober day one 'Moustache'

I went with something literal today, because who doesn't love a Tamarind with a Tache 😉

Indian ink and a wee bit charcoal

#inktoberday1 #inktober2025 #drawing #ink #artchallenge #keepartalive #keeparthuman

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 10d

Love in the sky this morning x

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10d

US photographer Margaret Bourke-White on top of the Chrysler Building, New York, 1931 #womensart

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10d

Minami Keiko (1911-2004), Japanese artist, aquatint engraver, and poet #womensart

Print featuring a blue and black bird standing facing left by a neat small tree on a rounded mound or hill top

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 10d

Last day today to order cards and mugs from my website before It closes to orders until January 1st 2026!

Please share! 😘😘

katherinesoutarillustration.com/art-card-set...

Art cards (and mugs!) to buy

Sets of 4 cards drawn from some of my favourite illustration and print themes Cards are 6ins (15cm) square and blank inside, all come individually wrapped and with a plain white envelope. Each set …

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 12d

Lunchtime stroll in Clissold park. I used to bring Tam here in his pushchair pretty much every week when he was tiny. It’s still lovely, and still full of families out on a Sunday ❤️

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 12d

Fantastic afternoon at the Tate yesterday.Ithell Colqoun, Turner, lunch in the members room( best soup ever!) and art stash from the shop 😉

Happy me

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Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 13d

I don’t know whether this has relevance but, here in the UK paracetamol (tylenol) is very very cheap as it’s a generic medicine. I’m guessing someone stands to make money pushing alternatives. Follow the money folks

Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social · 13d

Happy #Caturday 😘

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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 13d

Petition to Stop the Cuts at UHI theorkneynews.scot/2025/09/27/p...

Petition to Stop the Cuts at UHI

A petition has been launched after the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) announced cuts in an attempt to make £2million of savings. The trade union UCU Scotland are concerned that the p…

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13d

Native American Acoma pottery, vase, by ceramics artist Paula Estevan #WomensArt

Round ceramics vase with narrow neck, with red, white and black triangular repeated pattern in vertical lines

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