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Alec Coakley
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🌐 Somewhere down the crazy river
📔Spinoza
🎼 It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
👁️ 'I don't believe in coincidences' Clotho
🍔 I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
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Alec Coakley @aleccoakley.bsky.social · 8d
Fleece Navidad 🐑
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ronanhession.bsky.social
It's an Irish twist on chilli con carne. A chilli con Donnycarney, if you will.
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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ditzkoff.bsky.social
Bob Dylan attempts to explain Willie Nelson in The New Yorker's profile of Willie: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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morbuscriticus.bsky.social
Out now: Almost 70 years after the first German edition, Günther Anders' masterpiece ›Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen‹ is finally available in English 👇 upress.umn.edu/978151791265...
Huge thanks to my brilliant colleague Chris – you did a fantastic job!
December 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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ciaraioch.bsky.social
Just want to find someone who knows me as well as the Irish husbands who, after 50+ years of marriage, still burst into shops at 5pm every Christmas Eve, wild panic in their eyes, yelling that they need "SOMETHING FOR A WOMAN"
December 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
aleccoakley.bsky.social
What a day that was, the weather made it
boschbot.bsky.social BoschBot @boschbot.bsky.social · 2d
Garden of Earthly Delights
Garden of Earthly Delights
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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burrddoh.bsky.social
Idk what religion this is but I’m listening
#Solstice #Stonehenge
Black cat at Stonehenge for winter solstice 2025
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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xingwu.bsky.social
In Chinese folk paintings, “Fishing, Woodcutting, Farming, and Studying (漁樵耕讀)” symbolize both rustic peace and quiet ambition. Beneath pastoral scenes lies a yearning—not just for harmony with nature, but for the scholar’s path to courtly honor. 1/2
🎨 《漁樵耕讀圖》清
🎨 《漁樵耕讀圖》清
December 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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itsabbyyep.bsky.social
Escalate any disagreement by saying “here we go” whenever someone starts talking
December 13, 2023 at 2:45 PM
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alerigolon.bsky.social
The Wasatch Back
Mountain views with clouds
December 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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bakerart.bsky.social
A woman writing on Eastbourne beach with the pier in the background. Some large-looking gulls are looking disappointed she hasn't got a bag of chips for them to steal. it was great to explore Eastbourne and bring a sketch home.
#art #pleinair #watercolour #Eastbourne
A watercolour drawing of Eastbourne pier done while sitting on the beach
December 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The Stretch is on the way...
December 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Solstice Sunrise 🌄 #SpeirGorm #WinterSolstice
December 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae
Shadow / Scáth
A green leaf partially covered in a shadow.
December 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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kjshepherd.bsky.social
It's your birthday, Duane.
Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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demandavoider.bsky.social
Beef up your charisma stats by calling people "big dog" now and again. People like being called big dog.
December 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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pleaseimprisonme.bsky.social
I never thought, as a 60 year old lesbian, that I’d be falling in love with two drunk frat guys, but here we are 🤷
December 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
aleccoakley.bsky.social
Let he/she/they who has never stolen and hidden a bra cast the first stone...
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5d
On a happier note, though, stuffed in a pocket at the back of the same notebook:
Press cutting: Zoo sues over racoon 'suffering shock' after role in erotic film. Tom Parfitt, Moscow “A zoo in Moscow is suing a film studio for using one of its racoons in an erotic video and photo shoot. The petting zoo said that the creature named Tomas had been left in shock and "humiliated". In response, the studio said that it might issue a counterclaim because the racoon had chewed some underwear. Keepers handed over the racoon believing that it was to feature in a commercial for pillows and duvets, they said. Photographs were later published by the studio showing Tomas in the arms of a blonde model sitting on a bed and wearing only her knickers. In its application to the Nikulinsky court in Moscow, the Beasties Are Not Toys zoo demanded that images of Tomas with the woman be deleted from the Art-Msk studio's website. Viktor Kiryukhin, a spokesman for the zoo, said it appeared that Tomas had been induced into being held by the model using treats placed by her breasts. "Straight after the shoot, we began to notice that he started to strain towards women's chests," he said. The photo and video shoot was amoral, Mr Kiryukhin added. Valery Bogatov, of Art-Msk, said that the accusation was absurd. "The fact is that the racoon himself stole a bra and hid it under the bed," he said Several observers said they suspected that the dispute was a publicity stunt by one or both of the companies.” At the bottom, a handwritten note: Another classic - Times, Friday 17th
December 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Now that I've spent December celebrating everyone else's books, it seems only fair to mention my own! Here’s my trilogy of visual grimoires exploring magic, darkness, and wonder for occult enthusiasts, gothic souls, and fantasy world-builders unquietthings.com/buy-my-book/
December 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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clodaghtait.bsky.social
Nice to see that Age of Atrocity, which I edited with David Edwards and Pádraig Lenihan, is being reprinted by Four Courts Press. It will be available just in time for Valentine's Day next year! www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/archiv...
Four Courts Press | Age of atrocity
Violence and political conflict in early modern Ireland by David Edwards, Clodagh Tait & Padraig Lenihan, editors
www.fourcourtspress.ie
December 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
aleccoakley.bsky.social
This little fkr found and ate an always ultra knicker sticker after getting into the girls room last night. He's grand today but he's got some thirst on him
A black labrador pup
December 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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im-all-id.me
Whatever make it 10 factor authentication.. I don't want to be able to sign into anything ever again
December 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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leemadgwick.bsky.social
The Jetty (2022)

Oil and acrylic on canvas
A path leads from a tall white house to a river or lake edge. Several gulls gather on the edge of the jetty.
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Don't steal pies this Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM