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Leon Franç-wasail🎄Dumont
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York based artist bringing creatives together. Not as French as I sound. Community Manager and Arts board member with #Yorkcreatives
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Way home' by contemporary German artist Katja Lang #WomensArt
Artwork featuring a view looking down and across a snow covered rural landscape with a tiny human figure in a field
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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lizwebster.bsky.social
🧵 Ten years after Brexit, data catches up with lived reality.

UK 🇬🇧 GDP 8% smaller. Investment ⬇️ 18%. Productivity ⬇️ 4%. GDP/capita 10% lower than comparable nations.

Not bc of a single shock, but bc Brexit drained confidence, investment, capacity for a decade.
www.euronews.com/business/202...
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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allantadams.bsky.social
Where Little Shambles meets Shambles, York. Number 8 Shambles can be seen, along with a bit of 9 Shambles, between numbers 43, on the left, and number 42 on the right. On the extreme right 1 Little Shambles, one of the few survivors of the street left after the creation of the market.

#drawing
Pen sketch of timber framed buildings on a junction of two narrow streets. Some shoppers or tourists are crossing the road while others look at the shop signs.
December 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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stephenking.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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thenerve.news
You would think the alleged indiscretions of the schoolboy Nigel Farage would have drawn outrage from a just, impartial British media. Strangely, it seems they have not.

This week’s column by Stewart Lee

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Had youthful Farage's youthful alleged racism story concerned a leftist figure, it would not have been disappeared. Stewart lee on the UK mainstream media
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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scriblit.bsky.social
Can't wait for all the free speech absolutists who especially worry about lady ones being cruelly cancelled to be all over this one
ianfraser.bsky.social Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 5d
This is madness.

All books by Normal People and Conversations with Friends author Sally Rooney set to be withdrawn from sale.

The 34-year-old Irish author says: “The disappearance of my work from bookshops would mark a truly extreme incursion by the state into the realm of artistic expression.”
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Volunteers created blankets for elephants during a cold spell in Myanmar, Winga Baw Elephant camp #WomensArt
Photo of an elephant facing right wearing a checked knitted blanket while on sandy outdoor ground under a chill bright blue sky
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
The 'Extreme Knitting' project was jokingly started by Colorado-based knitter Betsy Fitzpatrick who was photographed knitting on her various adventures. Now photos of fellow knitters in far flung places is part of a calender with profits going to charity #WomensArt
Photo featuring a sitting woman knitting on top of a mountain in Nepal with prayer flags hanging beside her and with snow capped mountains in the background
November 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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allantadams.bsky.social
A bit of colour for a Saturday. The Roman column in Minster Yard, York. Part of the headquarters building found under the Minster 1969-71.

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#RomanYork
#pencil #drawing
#ArtShare
Colour pencil drawing of a group of people standing to look at a tall column of brick and stone. In the background is a stone building and three-storey brick house.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.

‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??

news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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unfortunatalie.bsky.social
Not saying I would be caught by sirensong but I would definitely crash my ship straight into a rock if I heard this
twigtechnology.bsky.social Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 12d
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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phillipspobrien.bsky.social
Here is Trump's full 28 point plan for Ukraine. It would destroy Ukraine as a sovereign state and leave it helpless to face a Russian attack in the future. It would also give Putin full vindication and immunity from prosecution.
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
Trump's full 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
The full plan was obtained by Axios and verified by Ukrainian and U.S. officials.
www.axios.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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allantadams.bsky.social
York Mister from Precentor's Court, York. The drawing is 9 years old today. Stepping from the Snicket by the Hole in the Wall pub & you are presented with this view.

#YorkMinster
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
Pencil drawing of a narrow street lined with three-storey brick buildings with a view of cathedral towers and west front looming over trees.
November 16, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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merchantshallyork.org
Bonjour nos petits macarons. It us the Merchant Adventurers' Hall!

Today we are going to talk about Napoleon. Specifically this statue of Napoleon and his adventures in York.

Rejoignez-nous!
We are looking at a close up of a painted advertising statue of Napoleon. He is wearing a smart green, white uniform with a red and gold collar. He wears a large bicorn hat trimmed in gold with a rosette in the colours of the tricolour. We are looking at a painted advertising statue of Napoleon. He is wearing a smart green, white uniform with a red and gold collar. He has large gold brocaded shoulders and knee high black boots. He wears a large bicorn hat trimmed in gold with a rosette in the colours of the tricolour. He has a small snuff box in one hand.
November 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
That final point is absolutely crucial.
robertshrimsley.bsky.social Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 24d
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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bestforbritain.org
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.

"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Trump and his cronies have the BBC in their sights. Leaders can’t stay silent while one of our great institutions is attacked.

We must defend its independence, end political appointments, and remove Robbie Gibb from the Board.
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Regina Pessoa, award winning Portuguese artist and animator #WomensArt
Black and white artwork featuring a standing sheep facing right, illuminated from thd left in a night scene, creating a shadow from the animal which resembles a wolf
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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allantadams.bsky.social
Some of York's war memorials for Armistice Day, 11th November. The North Eastern Railway and York City Memorial. Both designed by Sit Edwin Lutyens. Our employer allowed us to join commemorations at the NER one.

#Illustration #pencil #drawing
Pencil drawing of a war memorial in the form of an obelix mounted on a wall defining a rectangle with urns at the corners. There is a large stone memorial table at the centre at the top of a series of steps. A city wall can be seen in the background. Pencil drawing of a war memorial in the form of an obelix mounted on a wall defining a rectangle with urns at the corners. There is a large stone memorial table at the centre at the top of a series of steps. A building can be seen in the background. A memorial park with a circular walkway around a memorial raised on a plinth and steps. The lark is surrounded by trees, roads and buildings. Pencil drawing of a war memorial consisting of a tall cross with a tapering base and short arms. It stands on a plinth with a tier of stone deliberately turned upside, referring to the chaos of war.
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842), French portrait painter. Her subjects included Marie Antoinette and she enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities #WomensArt
Painting featuring the head and shoulders of a white woman facing right looking outwards, wearing a scarf like hat and scarf on her neck
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social
Over The Gate. 11°C with sunshine and showers. Redwing have arrived.
Over The Gate. 11°C with sunshine and showers. Redwing have arrived.
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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rowntreepark.bsky.social
Exciting news!
Make Space York has been shortlisted for @LNERs community Fund

Please take 2 mins to vote (we’re in Better for People → Make Space York / The Tiny Roar)

Your vote helps create welcoming parks + free events for teenage girls in York!
surveys.perspectusglobal.com?&id=baa0346e...
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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bbka.org.uk
A hive of resin-cast bees illuminated by solar-powered smart lights will form a glowing swarm down Walmgate, York.

yorkmix.com/heres-why-gl...
Here’s why glowing bees will take over a York street
yorkmix.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 AM