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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

I'm giving away this signed 1st edition h/b of my new novel (it has a tiny jacket rip which means I wouldn't sell it) to one person who reposts this.

You might like it if you like:
Folkloric creatures
Old records
Intricate psychedelic stories
The idea of circular time

All shares much-appreciated.

Joe McLaren's fabulous cover for Everything Will Swallow You

A close up of the small tear on this first edition of Everything Will Swallow You

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 1d

We have RU OK day in Australia and it's awful. People are encouraged to ask people if they're OK. If someone asked me if I was OK, I would deck them. On the positive side, our department managed to accidentally steal some other department's mental health morning tea one year.

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Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh! This looks fascinating.

Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds @sspatleeds.bsky.social · 1d

Book Release! 🔖
Dr Jessica Martin has published 'Feminisms and Domesticity in Times of Crisis', via Bloomsbury Academic

The book explores gender inequality, media driven feminism, and a new kind of 'austerity celebrity'

Congratulations Jess! 📖

Check it out here: https://ow.ly/izBc50X8jc5

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 7d

Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuk, 1927–2013) :
Floral Passage, 2007
Stonecut and stencil
62.2 x 73.7 cm. | 24.5 x 29 in.

Ashevak, CC ONu RCA is celebrated as a leading figure of modern Inuit art.

Kenojuak Ashevak was born in an igloo in an Inuit camp, Ikirasaq, at the southern coast of Baffin Island. Her father, Ushuakjuk, an Inuit hunter and fur trader, and her mother, Silaqqi, named Kenojuak after Silaqqi's deceased father.

Kenojuak remembered Ushuakjuk as "a kind and benevolent man." Her father, a respected angakkuq (shaman), "had more knowledge than average mortals, and he would help all the Inuit people.” According to Kenojuak, her father believed he could predict weather, predict good hunting seasons and even turn into a walrus. Her father came into conflict with Christian converts, and some enemies assassinated him in a hunting camp in 1933, when she was only six.

After her father's murder, Kenojuak moved with her widowed mother Silaqqi and family to the home of Silaqqi's mother, Koweesa, who taught her traditional crafts, including the repair of sealskins for trade with the Hudson's Bay Company and how to make waterproof clothes sewn with caribou sinew.

When she was 19, her mother, Silaqqi, and stepfather, Takpaugni, arranged for her to marry Johnniebo Ashevak, a local Inuit hunter. Kenojuak was reluctant, but in time, she came to love him for his kindness and gentleness, a man who developed artistic talents in his own right.

In 1950 a public health nurse arrived in her Arctic village; Kenojuak, having tested positive in a tuberculosis screening, was sent against her will to Parc Savard hospital in Quebec City, where she stayed for over three years, from early 1952 to the summer of 1955. She had just given birth when she was forcibly transferred; the baby was adopted by a neighbouring family. Several of Kenojuak's children died while she was confined in hospital.

In 1966, Kenojuak and Johnniebo moved to Cape Dorset. Many of their children and grandchildren succumbed to disease, as did her husband after 26 years of marriage. Three daughters of Kenojuak, Mary, Elisapee Qiqituk, and Aggeok, died in childhood, and four sons, Jamasie, her adopted s…

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 3d

“We have survived”

At the Bicentenary 1988, as a recreation of the 1788 white invasion of Australia came into view on La Perouse headland in Sydney, indigenous Australians watched the tall European ships approach, and quietly, furiously protested from the shore :

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2d

#TextileTuesday:
Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with #Hawk and Waves
Japan, early to mid-20th c.
Cotton, plant dyes
On display at BMA (2024.374)
“The firefighter who chose this design…valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision.”
#BirdsInArt #JapaneseArt

photo of the fireman’s coat (design: brown hawk flying over blue wave) hanging on display at museum

photo of the gallery label:

“Unidentified Artists)
Firefighter's Coat (hikeshi-banten) with Hawk and Waves
early to mid-20th century
Japan
Cotton, plant dyes
This handmade firefighter's coat, made of layers of cotton stitched securely together, is displayed inside-out to reveal a hawk soaring above turbulent waves. Worn during a fire with its undecorated exterior facing out, the coat was saturated with water to protect the firefighter from flames and debris. Rather than using water to put out fires, late 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese firefighters demolished structures near a fire to prevent it from spreading. After extinguishing a fire, the heroic men turned their coats to display the decorated insides.
The firefighter who chose this design for his coat valued the protective power of water as well as the hawk's strength and keen vision.
Anonymous Gift, BMA 2024.374”

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Peter Clayton @petermclayton.bsky.social · 2d

Grey Heron #birds

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Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 3d

I love this bird, but hate the word 'groovy', but I guess I'll forgive it in this context, because the bird is so good.

Dave Watson @ecosystemunraveller.com · 4d

I’m especially keen to showcase purpletufts, one of the grooviest and most underrated mistletoe specialist frugivores (sister to Tityras and becards)
(pic by Jesus Alferez)

Derpy mottle chested dark grey and white bird perched on a twig with two outrageous epaulette / armpit flanges of bright pinky purple

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Max @paisleystars.bsky.social · 4d

The grey has lifted for the first time in so very long and my goodness it was worth waiting for.

Dramatic pink and orange skies over a small town in the shadow of a mountain

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 3d

Art in the bark: in a race against time, archaeologists worked with First Nations Australians to locate and document boab trees carved with culturally significant symbols in the remote Tanami Desert, recording them before they die.

🔗 from 2022 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Four images of boab trees (large trees with bottle-shaped trunks) carved with snake depictions. Damage to the trees from insect larvae is visible (photographs a–c by S. O'Connor; d) by D. Lewis).

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Kyja Noack-Lundberg @kyjanl.bsky.social · 3d

It took me *so* many days to figure out curtains. Also, my house has curtain tracks and they curve around a corner. :(

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Robin and Arlene Karpan @r-and-a-karpan.bsky.social · 5d

When photographing fall colours don't forget to look down as well as up. The forest floor can be just as colourful. This view is from the Height of Land viewing tower in #PrinceAlbertNationalPark #Saskatchewan #PrinceAlbertNP #ParksCanada #TMACtravel #satw #landscapephotography

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 4d

My hunter/gatherer brain will not let me stop scrolling like what if I don’t have enough bad news to last the winter

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 4d

Great blue heron, Columbus Park, Chicago. It is engaged in gular fluttering, which helps it cool off.

Large heron with long black legs and blue-gray feathers perched on a tree limb. It's beak is open.

Close-up of the heron's head, showing its yellow eye. The beak remains open and its tongue is visible. Green foliage fills the background.

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f*male b*tch 🇵🇸 @ahhmandah.bsky.social · 4d

it's not bad to be a gossip. I think it's crucial for information-sharing and getting a shared understanding of threats and consequences. gossiping should be protected by international law

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Vorath @v0rath.bsky.social · 4d

on the tail end of "gift authorship", there is also the ugly issue of individuals left out of authorship. This is not uncommon as I've heard institutional complaints from students and faculty protesting about being left out of a paper.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4d

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 4d

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 12d

I hand over an invisible ‘Tree Of The Day’ award to the most charismatic tree I see on each of my walks. Here are just a few past winners of this esteemed but still largely unknown prize.

An angry man with branch hands pretending to be two conjoined Sycamore trees.

A tree on Exmoor which has some fucking stories to tell even though it doesn't go around shouting about it.

A tree on Dartmoor which, though old, is still quite cheeky, and likes using its branches to sneakily tickle cattle, ponies and people when they pass it.

A tree which is so endlessly proud of the village where it lives that it stands constantly at the edge of it, constantly welcoming everyone who arrives, with a wave and a smile.

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Aunt Mrgladys @mrgan.com · 7d

I’m gonna say something controversial: I actually don’t think chickpea anxiety is real

Screenshot of NYT YouTube channel introducing a recipe with “chickpea anxiety is real.”

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 7d

Canada still hasn't done anything to address a report detailing unmarked graves of children at former Indian residential schools. thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Canada Hasn’t Done Anything about Unmarked Graves Report, Interlocutor Says | The Tyee

Families need support to bring the remains of loved ones home, according to Kimberly Murray. A Tyee Q&A.

thetyee.ca

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 7d

Weird flex but ok dude 👀

Snippet from James Graham's book of 1779, pronouncing, 'I have not got the finest, most complete, and most valuable collection of drawings of diseased eyes, perhaps in the whole world'

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