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LGBTQIA+ he/him/his: Green, socialist, actor, writer, modeller, Boo- & Stellar-servant 🐶 #HumanRights #TransRights #EUROPE4EVER🇪🇺

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · Jun 26

after #EMDR for #PTSD, I enjoyed a brilliant #mental-health #breakthrough & resumed #modelmaking by #modifying excisting #Character-Options #DoctorWho #figures into new, unavailable, #Second-Doctor figures
#JamieMcCrimmon #Victoria #ZoeHerriot
original heads on Etsy www.etsy.com/people/92x9s...

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 12h

Bull’s eye …

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t get this. Surely all Royal Mail has to do is send recipient a text saying they have a letter which they can pick up from the sender’s address? bit.ly/4nLsex1 Sorted. Or rather not sorted because it is too expensive.

Why Royal Mail could axe stamps and addresses on letters

Handwritten envelopes may become a thing of the past as the new boss moves to modernise the business

bit.ly

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine that

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 9h

⚡️Estonia closes border crossing with Russia over unusual military activity.

Estonia has temporarily closed the Saatse border crossing following heightened Russian military activity near the area, the Estonian public broadcaster ERR reported on Oct. 10.

Estonia closes border crossing with Russia over unusual military activity

Estonia has temporarily closed the Saatse border crossing following heightened Russian military activity near the area, the Estonian public broadcaster ERR reported on Oct. 10.

kyivindependent.com

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Bristol Green Party @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social · 3h

The surge continues. Welcome to all our new members!

join.greenparty.org.uk

3000+ BRISTOL GREEN PARTY MEMBERS.

Promoted by Tom Hathway on behalf of Bristol Green Party, all at 17 Great George St, Bristol BS1 5QT.

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 4h

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Witches of Essex: Rylan and Prof Alice’s look at one of history’s most shameful periods is unfailingly moving

This engaging if slight show sees the unlikely duo reopen witch trials from 400 years ago on the hunt for justice. It’s Blackadder crossed with CSI – with a sprinkling of Philomena Cunk

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 4h

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘I’m a composer. Am I staring extinction in the face?’: classical music and AI

Technology is radically reshaping how we make music. As I dug deeper into this for a radio 3 documentary I began to wonder if creative organisations are right to be so upbeat about AI. Are we riding t...

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 4h

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 4h

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, has died at 79
www.thejournal.ie/diane-keaton...

Actress Diane Keaton dies aged 79

The news was reported by People Magazine, who cited a family spokesperson.

www.thejournal.ie

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Ary | 迅风掠影 @arylena.bsky.social · 13h

#Weretober Day 10: Dinosaur

#Art | #Furry | #Furryart

A digital pencil sketch of an anthro velociraptor running

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erytau @erytau.bsky.social · 11h

Marooned

#pixelart #ドット絵

Sunset at sea. A big sun reflects on the water. A ship sails along the horizon. On a rocky island in the foreground, a man stands on the cliff edge, saluting the ship with a bottle. A small barrel sits behind him. A grave is visible in the corner.

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ricfrophoto.bsky.social @ricfrophoto.bsky.social · 11h

#abstract #abstractart #geometricart #abstractartwork #composition #geometricartwork #colurs #structure #geometric #mixedmedia

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AREA 6 @area6cgi.bsky.social · 6h

Narrow Escape

#Maxon #C4D #Cinema4D #Redshift #art #cg #cgart #SciFi #SciFiArt #scifisaturday #Svengoolie #BlueSkyArtShow #Glow #ArtYear #ArtByHumans #CanadianArtist #BCArtist #BlueskyArtists

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 4h

what a MESS UK Domestic Abuse law is

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Georgia’s story: how a domestic abuse victim’s suicide was ruled an unlawful killing by her partner

A London coroner found Georgia Barter’s death was caused by years of violence and coercive control by Thomas Bignell. Her family want justice, but the CPS won’t charge him and the police can’t find hi...

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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 7h

Jan Vermeer, View on Delft, c. 1660.
Oil on canvas.

🙏🏼🌍🕊️

📷 Theodor Rosenberg | Mauritshuis, The Hague

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 9h

One more for today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme #glow

This is the first completed piece in a new series that I'm painting. I'll be releasing new work from this series around the 2025 winter solstice.

Tisha Mark ©2025, Lighting the Dark, oil, 20"x20"

Read more:
tishamark.com/lighting-the...

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Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Lighting the Dark" 20"x20" oil on linen (2025). This moody, abstract-leaning seascape painting has a textured, orange-toned, atmospheric sky with textured colors of light on the horizon. Light from the sky reflects in the water below as it meets a dark, rocky, tree-lined coast.

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Tisha Mark @tishamark.com · 10h

Inspired by a stunning sunset on the evening of my son's first baseball game of the season last year, and painted from memory and imagination in my studio.

Tisha Mark ©2024, Sunset on Opening Day, oil on linen, 20"x20"

Available:
tishamark.com/product/suns...

#BlueSkyArtShow #glow #art #painting

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Sunset on Opening Day" 20"x20" oil on linen (2024). A seascape painting with dramatic blue clouds in orange-toned sunset sky over a rocky seashore. Flecks of orange light appear in the sky, and colors from the sky are reflecting in water below.

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 12h

An old watercolour portrait study"

#art #portrait #traditional #watercolor

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World Of Art By Sue @worldofartbysue.bsky.social · 7h

October's theme: Fabulous Gowns in Art
DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ (1599 – 1660), “Infanta Margarita”, 1659. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
#arthistory #art #portrait #Velazquez

I’m very glad that I was not a noble or royal in the Spanish court in the 17th century because there is no way that I would be able to navigate life wearing the “guardainfante” – that amazing cage hip structure that was all the rage in Spain (I would not have done well as an antebellum Southern belle, either). The guardinfante was very controversial when it first appeared in the 1630s (not the least because it was rumored that the structure was used to camouflage secret pregnancies) but the ladies loved it so it became a very visible sign of rank with the width strictly court-regulated. Velázquez painted multiple portraits of the infanta Margarita; this one, in a glorious, blue silk dress with wide silver trim, was painted for the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I who was to marry the young Spanish princess. Margarita Teresa is 8 years old in this 1659 painting – one of Velázquez’ last paintings before he died in 1660 – and she married the Emperor (who also happened to be her uncle: don’t get me started on Habsburgs) when she turned 15. If she looks familiar, perhaps you recognize her from Velázquez’ “Las Meninas” when she was aged 5 (and also wearing a guardinfante even then!). Velázquez was famous for his loose brushwork, especially in his later work, and the silk here glows as it catches the light; the silk, the silver braid trim on the dress, the lace collar and the fur muff are all very loosely detailed but somehow we still feel the different textures. In contrast, the artist has more carefully painted Margarita’s face and hands so that her pale skin and golden hair are emphasized by the informality of the dress handling. Note also that Velázquez includes a background setting in his portrait; most of the portraits we’ve seen this month have plain, solid backgrounds.

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 5h

thoroughly enjoying #Doctor-Who double-bill repeats on #BBC-Three: #Flesh-&-Stone & #Vampires-in-Venice

#Eleventh-Doctor #Amy-Pond #River-Song #Rory-Williams #series-5 #2010 #Weeping-Angels #Saturnynians

#Matt-Smith #Alex-Kingston #Karen-Gillan #Iain-Glen #Arthur-Darvill #TVSky #scifiSky #ScifiTV

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Davesphotos 🇨🇦 🍁🍁🍁 @davesadventures.bsky.social · 7h

Another scene along the Black River (Its called that because the water is black from all the tannins). #Photography #EastCoastKin

red and orange leaves reflected in the Black river

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Randy C @randych.bsky.social · 7h

Sunset in Hlane Royal National ParkNature, Eswatini.

#BlueSkyArtShow #glow #photography #travel

Sun rays behind a dark cloud with an African savanna in the foreground

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Hallicrafters @hallicrafters.bsky.social · 7h

Mists of dawn. #Photography

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dev* @devwild.bsky.social · 7h

Out of all the photos I took that evening, only a few captured the short window of the evening sun breaking through to #glow on the cliffs. 🥰

#photography #blueskyartshow #cliffsofmoher #ireland #goldenhour #longexposure

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