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Cosmic Clau @cosmicclau.bsky.social · 3h

technically awake but really just sleepwalking through this day because fuck it

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 6h

Goodnight from Edgar Bord, looking forward to committing some serious sin ahead of tomorrow’s tide-washing mass. Goodnight from those squatting Coreham’s derelict Roxy Cinema, unaware in sleep of the tuts and swooping torch beam of its phantom usherette. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h

Portland 🔥

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2h

This Is Fascism

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

I love this image.

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JD is on the case 🕵‍♀️ @flackjd.bsky.social · 1h

"For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother
Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
Thy rankest fault, all of them..."

The Tempest
Act 5, Scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday
Theme: Forgiveness & Revenge

a dog is sitting next to a cat on a couch .

Alt: A Golden Retriever pats a grey striped tabby cat on the head. The gif is captioned "ITS ALL GOOD."

media.tenor.com

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Beth Death and the Dumb-Belles @shoebillmansion.bsky.social · 1h

Inflatable costumes as a sign of resistance. Frogs, I salute you!

I'm also reminded of that person in Spain during the first (and in Spain, extremely punitive) Covid lockdown, who took out their rubbish everyday wearing a dinosaur costume (there'll be footage somewhere). I applaud you once more.

🫡

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 8h

Before we're even passed the title page of this 1825 manual on astrology and the occult, we encounter an instance of the dark arts at work — this second edition has been cunningly labelled the “seventh” to make it look like a runaway success: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 8h

Goodnight.
🖼️ Julia Geiser #31DaysOfHalloween #Gothtober

A ballet dancer ~ Anna Pavlova ~ suspended in mid-air. The dancer, wearing a dark tutu and a headdress, is held aloft by thick ropes that are attached to three large, bats. The ballerina has one leg extended and her arms outstretched. The scene is set against a blurred, dark green and brown background of trees and hills.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 8h

On #BookshopDay

Ladybird book character Jane, choosing herself a new Ladybird book

Artist: Harry Wingfield,
(Read and Write, 1965)

Jane stands browsing at the stand of Ladybird books in a small shop. She is wearing her customary outfit of pristine white frock, bright yellow cardigan and red shoes.

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Beth Death and the Dumb-Belles @shoebillmansion.bsky.social · 8h

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

7/20

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

Stanley Spencer, The Lovers (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle)

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Suzanne the Spooky 👻 Slacker @suzannef.bsky.social · 12h

“You were led to expect a road, a river, a boat, a gate, a guardian. All were supplied, though none was what you imagined. The road was indistinguishable from the sidewalks you’d so often trudged along.”

Margaret Atwood - Gateway

#BookWormSat

🖼️ Mouth of Hell from Hours of Catherine of Cleves

Mouth of Hell from Morgan Library - a gaping lion’s mouth opens its bat- like lips. Demons cast dammed souls into its terrifying entrance to hell, above rises castle of death decorated with skulls. Burning towers heat caldrons into which burning souls are thrown

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 9h

❛ When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing.

Jean Cocteau, who died #OTD in 1963.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 20h

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 12h

OK, come on. How can you resist a book called 'Things With Claws'? 1961 Ballantine paperback anthology with a cover by the incomparable Richard Powers.
#BookWormSat #vintagepaperback #vintagepaperback

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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 13h

""My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent"."

'A Case of Identity' in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
(1892)
🎨 Edward Bawden (1984)
#BookWormSat

B&w linocut of Holmes (looking away from the viewer) and Watson in his bowler hat, staring straight at us

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Elmtree @elmtreem.bsky.social · 13h

“All my life," he said, "I have been strangely, vividly conscious of another region—not far removed from our own world in one sense, yet wholly different in kind —where great things go on unceasingly…….”

- The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

#BookWormSat 💙📚

Front cover to The Willows, (technically a novella but at only 70 odd pages thinks an sneak this one in 😁)

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Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · 16h

"Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge." -- Flannery O'Connor, 1962

#bookwormsat #FlanneryOConnor

🎨: Self-Portrait, 1952 by Flannery O’Connor

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 16h

"Your voice carries power."

Our #WriterInResidence Matt Goodfellow is passionate about giving children access to a range of accents, dialects and voices in what they read.

Here, he explains why - and shares some reading recommendations too:

https://bit.ly/4h3Mx6p

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Beth Death and the Dumb-Belles @shoebillmansion.bsky.social · 16h

If only.

Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 16h

Just been to the church where Lorna Doone was shot.

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Beth Death and the Dumb-Belles @shoebillmansion.bsky.social · 16h

Post a picture of you that's not actually a picture of you.

Me from another era (not me, age 19-29).

Catwoman in Batman Returns (1990-something). She is dishevelled. Caption reads: All good girls go to heaven.

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 17h

#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow

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Tippi Hedren Collider @linanneblack.bsky.social · 22h

Let's just say that I have lived my life in such a way that it would be impossible to notice if I began having a mid-life crisis.

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Crystal Ponti @crystalponti.bsky.social · 18h

A short story is a single held breath, a life, a death, a revelation, all in miniature. From Chekhov to Shirley Jackson, the best of them end before you’re ready, leaving the echo of a door closing. #BookWormSat

Art: Van Gogh

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 18h

For #BookWormSat, here's a shelfie of vintage paperback and 1930s anthologies of short stories; most of which, of course, come under the ghost, strange, weird and creepy categories.
Most of them stumbled upon by luck, a few sought out. The 30s omnibuses have great charm and hide a few scarce nuggets

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