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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Iliamna. She made a new best friend, who happens to be a balloon. Really thought they would have more time together. 12/10 (TT: andreal.corbin)

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Matildas Active Support @matildasactive.bsky.social · 17h

The Matildas will be playing their friends from across the ditch in front of the palm trees at Gosford on the 28th of November. 💚💛

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CommBank Matildas set to face New Zealand in Gosford

Football Australia is thrilled to announce that the CommBank Matildas will host New Zealand, the F

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LiteraryChick2 @literarychick2.bsky.social · 18h

Making Australians cringe again.

LiteraryChick2 @literarychick2.bsky.social · 18h

Look at these #AbsoluteUnits @themerl.bsky.social

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Paul Mozur @paulmozur.bsky.social · 1d

When a Microsoft data center opened next to the small Mexican town of La Esperanza, locals say electricity outages and water shortages grew severe. The local doctor rushed patients a half hour to the nearest hospital when blackouts cut off his oxygen concentrator. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 20h

900 of those words are "asbestos"

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 23h

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 21h

Resharing for #InternationalSlothDay 🦥:

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Oct 20

Happy #InternationalSlothDay 🦥
The #Sloth, 1968
from _A Paper Zoo: A Collection of Animal Poems by Modern American Poets_ selected by Renee Karol Weiss, illustrations by Ellen Raskin.
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#WomenArtists

illustration from a children’s book of animal poems, sloth hanging from flowery foliage, brown-red/lime green/black on white background, vintage mid century modern style

Accompanying poem by Theodore Roethke:

The Sloth

In moving-slow he has no Peer,
You ask him something in his Ear;
He thinks about it for a Year;

And, then, before he says a Word
There, upside down (unlike a Bird),
He will assume that you have Heard --

A most Ex-as-per-at-ing Lug.
But should you call his manner Smug,
He'll sign and give his Branch a Hug;

Then off again to Sleep he goes,
Still swaying gently by his Toes,
And you just know he knows he knows.

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 1d

Old Fox's series of ghost stories begins on my patreon today with "The Scarlet Crown"! A collection of blood-tingling, gothic stories of unquiet graves, haunted rings & long-dead Roman legions. Join for these & thousands of other tales & recipes! patreon.com/annelouiseav...

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Hedgehoggrl 📎🦔 🐈 📷 🎨 @hedgehoggrl.bsky.social · 1d

Ici repose Vincent.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France

#PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #MementoMoriMonday
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQforQuiet

A simple tombstone against a stone wall surrounded by green ivy. The stone reads Ici repose Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890.

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Franken-Pattern @franken-pattern.bsky.social · 21h

She turned out better than I expected. I had to shorten her neck joint a little bit, but other than that, she was a perfect match for the body, and she wears bright colors well! Fashionista #91 face with a MTM Tennis Player body.
Good show!

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Tim Ritchie @timritchie.bsky.social · 22h

On this lovely spring morning, I have a gift for you.
It is tiny, but it’s the thought that counts.
This little begonia flower is a delight.

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Friends of Toowong Cemetery @fotc.au · 21h

#31DaysOfGraves Day 21 - Bronze

A Bronze Green Man on the headstone of John Joseph Thompson.

Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 15, Section 12, Grave 48.

A Bronze Green Man on the headstone of John Joseph Thompson in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia - Portion 15, Section 12, Grave 48.

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Vintage Movie Posters @zaksyrak.bsky.social · 3d

Our Betters (1933, USA) 🇺🇸

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 5d

If Jane mentions baked beans again I'll throttle her.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 5d

Weather arctic. Seas septic. Companions acerbic. Food bubonic. Wish you were here.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 4d

Nicky fell out of our friend's car.

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 23h

Traditional owners win a decision against a multinational weapons manufacturer after finding one of the company's missiles at a heritage site in the remote South Australian outback.

Maker of missile found in outback 'directly linked' to human rights harm

Traditional owners win a decision against a multinational weapons manufacturer after finding one of the company's missiles at a heritage site in the remote South Australian outback.

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Peter Thomas @hakeafan.bsky.social · 1d

Calyptorhynchus banksii (2)
on Grevillea banksii,
Pimlico, Townsville
Queensland, Australia.
20th. Oct 2025
#CalyptorhynchusBanksii #Cacatuidae #Red-tailedBlackCockatoo #birds #ausbirds #AustralianBirds #wildoz #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #birdwatching #birding #OzWildlife #Nature #Aves

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis #OnThisDay in 1968. The bride wore a cream silk crepe pleated sleeveless dress with a chiffon and lace overlay, and white and gold tone buttons on the cuffs, from Maison Valentino's 1968 White Collection. Sold via Bonhams. #fashionhistory #wedding

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JoeA64 @joea64.bsky.social · 1d

Christian Dior's go-to illustrator in the glory days of the New Look, Rene Gruau. #fashionhistory #vintagefashion #christiandior #vintagedior #50sfashion

Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 1d

René Gruau

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

The bus-stop (1956)

(Vignette from ‘Tootles the Taxi’)
Artist: John Kenney

Pen and ink monogram vignette of six people waiting at a bus stop in 1950s Britain including the businessman with his newspaper, gossiping matrons and elderly lady

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 1d

The sense that a subject has been seized from life’s continuum became one of the essential criteria of Edwardian portraits. In this work of 'A Cornish Boy,' (1917) Harold Knight painted his sitter wearing a hat typical of Newlyn fishermen.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Diwali to all those celebrating! 🪷

Also known as the ‘festival of lights’, this Hindu festival celebrates the victory of light over darkness, of good over evil & of hope over despair.

Lakshmi depicted standing on a lotus flower in the water.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23h

Did Aelbert Cuyp just not like this patron? Why else has man been basically decapitated by his horse? Very strange painting from 1650 by Cuyp, whose day is today.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Aug 31

Newspaper property sections are always like "Sebastian, Pancetta and their son Eugenics moved from the city to the country to live their dream" and then there's a picture of them outside their new mansion with their new cow and you can tell the cow is going "I fucking hate my life."

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