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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 11h

Nice thread! I think as well there’s been a move by TS (and her backing crew etc) all moving from ❤️ to ❤️‍🔥 which I think could be taken as the Catholic Sacred Heart symbol. The emblemology around this album really is interesting.

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alyssa! @alyssapashya.bsky.social · 14h

the art historical concept of 'vanitas'/'memento mori' and the showgirl era

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 6d

SPOILERS AHOY, if you have seen the Fate of Ophelia video yet….

Ok so, 🧵 because I’ve been obsessed with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood since the last 80s (1980s not 1880s), and I’m flappy hand excited again. Some of this you’ll know, but maybe some you don’t. So why am I showing the 2nd tableau?

A tableau from the Fate of Ophelia video. Taylor Swift in white medieval-style gown with huge bell sleeves, poses beside a table of her own baked sourdough bread, behind her is landscape that looks out of place, like a French or Flemish landscape, her hand is extended like a falconer, and a red dove lands on it

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, Ben Ledi stands like a guardsman to the Highlands.
I like how Loch Lubnaig has been developed enough to offer a pitstop, but no shop etc

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 13h

Glencoe. You probably won’t see the photostalker centre right of the middle ground. He strode past me without a word, and two minutes later I’d lost to him to the heather.

Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 13h

It is. I love the way it feels so enclosed, in a way that eg nearby Loch Iubhair does not.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 15h

Love how there’s a ray of sunlight smiting that small outcrop across the water

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 15h

Loch Lubnaig again.
#daysofboyhood

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A near-complete skeleton found on Dorset's Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the oceans.'

Fossil found on UK coast is unique 'sword dragon' species

Scientists say the newly discovered species of marine reptile probably met a grisly end.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 2d

Just when I commit to driving a 4hr journey:

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Dylan Houlihan (he/him) @houlio77.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting perspective on Jane Goodall to balance the accolades out

Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 3d

This is from a very prominent conservationist from Kenya

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 2d

*looks at sky*

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you - ashamed to say I’d already come across it!

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a part of me feeling wistful for being a good two decades too old for all the Taylor Swift discourse, bc it is all so weirdly fascinating.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 3d

216 hours and 45 minutes until departure.

a man standing in front of a house with the words " it 's nothing to be concerned about " below him

ALT: a man standing in front of a house with the words " it 's nothing to be concerned about " below him

media.tenor.com

Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 3d

Meadhan an Dàmhair, Dùn Èideann, an feasgar. Is toil leam gu mòr flùraichean ach a bheil seo àbhaisteach ma-thà? #speurgorm

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 3d

Tickets not yet released for a train I’m hoping to catch in 9 days time. Mild panic is setting in.

garfield is looking at a calendar that says monday on it

ALT: garfield is looking at a calendar that says monday on it

media.tenor.com

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 4d

Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf. “There,” said Frog. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

Frog climbs a ladder and hides the cookies high on a shelf.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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🖤 Taylor Wright 🖤 @redlamp.org · 4d

The full moon made a beautifully eerie silhouette of the rooftop architectural elements in my 1800's Edinburgh neighborhood.

Photo of the full moon rising from behind the silhouette of metalwork and a architectural urn on the roof of an Edinburgh flat from the 1800's.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 4d

It doesn’t seem that widespread rollout is planned yet. But prima facie a progressive move.

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The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 4d

When you erase words, you erase worlds that were, and worlds to come.

Readers resist

#BannedBooksWeek #books #livres #censorship #FreedomOfExpression
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg

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scott lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 6d

Reading MacDiarmid's A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle again. It was published 100 years ago next year. Kenneth Buthlay's annotated edition from 1987, published by @asls.org.uk, remains the best guide. The poem itself is as thrilling, ambitious and flawed as ever it was.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 4d

An interesting, and also very moving, article on the Irish Government’s Basic Income for Artists pilot.

A BAI would perhaps also help to counteract the depredations of AI?

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