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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 46m

Brief browse of the Tate Britain yesterday (got distracted from the art by a good baby entertainment section) and I appreciate that they have a room which is just like "birds are good, here's some pictures of them"

BIRDS

This display brings together a selection of art from the Tate collection to celebrate the wonder and beauty of birds.

Birds have been a popular and enduring subject of art for thousands of years. Birds have been seen as bringers of good fortune or ill omen They have symbolised freedom, love and life. Artists have depicted the variety, movement and plumage of birds. While some artists might revel in precise depiction, picking out each feather in detail, others suggest form or movement with a shape or line.

This room shows British art from the 17th century to now. In the 17th and early 18th centuries, Birds were used to tell morality tales or to show the bounties of the hunt. Over time, observation replaced mythology about birds. Trading ships brought back species of birds not seen before in Britain from newly colonised parts of the world. The realistic depiction of birds by many 18th century artists reflected an increasing interest and curiosity in the natural world, and a scientific drive to observe and classify different species. More recently, artists have highlighted the challenges birds face in a changing environment, such as the effect of chemical use and habitat loss. Conservation efforts offer hope that birds will thrive, and continue to inspire artists into the future.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 1h

jamesofwalsh.com/2025/10/10/t...

The Magnetic Fields play 69 Love Songs at Brighton Dome

The Magnetic Fields, 2025 edition. In the future, will there be nostalgia shows? Or will we run out of past to celebrate? Thoughts such as these always go through my mind when I battle myself over …

jamesofwalsh.com

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 1h

congrats! I don't think you should have a pint in the breweries, I think you should go home and go to bed

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 3h

Can't wait to tell my friends. They don't have a rock this big

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 5h

I actually found one today in our normal midsize Sainsbury's! It is the day for fake duck

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 20h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10h

I don’t want a surprise.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 23h

that escalated quickly

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 1d

good evening EXCLUSIVELY to the irish

There is also early Irish literature about female pissing contests. In the story "Aided Derbforgaill" several women compete to see who can urinate deepest into a pile of snow. The winner is Derbforgaill, wife of Lugaid Riab nDerg, but the other women attack her out of jealousy and mutilate her by gouging out her eyes and cutting off her nose, ears, and hair, resulting in her death. Her husband Lugaid also dies, from grief, and Cú Chulainn avenges the deaths by demolishing a house with the women inside, killing 150.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 23h

this is such a good photo tho

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Oct 27

Can't believe I've never seen this tiny Roman food before

Picture of Roman miniature food - Terracotta votive food: pomegranates (open and closed); grapes; figs; almonds; cheeses; focaccia; honeycomb; mold; long bread (360 BC), Agropoli. Parco Archeologico Di Paestum

This plate containing terracotta models of food comes from a tomb unearthed in Agropoli, a town just outside the originally Greek city of Paestum, Agropoli, which was taken over by an Italic tribe in 400BC and later the Romans. These Greco-Italic tombs were often decorated with scenes of food -related funerary rituals as well as clay replicas of food that the tomb's inhabitant might feast on in the afterlife.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Oct 21

I've discovered the way to infiltrate any NHS setting and it's simply to wear a lanyard, everyone is making small talk of the "Monday morning again eh?" variety

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 1d

the next sentence is "Instead, she has written a paean to the depthless kindness of other people: the solidarity of fellow mothers who sustain each other with pastries and sound advice". so it's funny that the author of the review is being like "not me though. i'm actually very nasty"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

"Thousands are still buried beneath the rubble. We don’t even know all their names. These aren’t just numbers. These are entire families erased, students who will never return to school, newborns who never made it past their first cry." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.

We in Gaza will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

www.thenation.com

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 1d

wow this strikes me as a remarkably mean thing to say

Mother Ship stands out most of all for its refreshing absence of solipsism, that sanctioned self-obsessiveness of new mothers who believe their experience to be the most significant in the world.

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 1d

i will no doubt be posting many more things to similar effect in the next 2 days

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 1d

Me at work this time last year, the day before being detained in hospital to expel the baby

Me looking grumpy in the rain wearing a baby on board badge

Toilet mirror selfie of me wearing a green dress, not-too-visibly pregnant

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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 1d

Does anywhere except Lidl call breakfast stuff "Morning goods"

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 1d

any product that depends on the long term stability of its maker is inherently defective

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

They brick you because they can.

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · Jan 24

In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.