@bbimey.bsky.social
Usability/info design, ocean science, food policy, art, humor, knitting, history, a better world; always on the lookout for the next terrifying leap of faith. she/her
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'Young Woman Seated.' (1910) Writing about William Orpen's draughtsmanship, a critic of The Art News commented: 'his drawings are remarkable not only for their delicacy of handling, but for the loving care with which the pencil has revelled in beauty of form.'
January 3, 2026 at 6:50 PM
'Young Woman Seated.' (1910) Writing about William Orpen's draughtsmanship, a critic of The Art News commented: 'his drawings are remarkable not only for their delicacy of handling, but for the loving care with which the pencil has revelled in beauty of form.'
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Mandy & kids great — but can we get a word for the choir conductor — shown for a bit near the end ? Doing classic kid’s choir arm-inspirations and fulsome face cheers.
Let’s hear it for all the kids’ choir and band conductors/instructors past, present, and future 👏🏼🫡
Let’s hear it for all the kids’ choir and band conductors/instructors past, present, and future 👏🏼🫡
January 1, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Mandy & kids great — but can we get a word for the choir conductor — shown for a bit near the end ? Doing classic kid’s choir arm-inspirations and fulsome face cheers.
Let’s hear it for all the kids’ choir and band conductors/instructors past, present, and future 👏🏼🫡
Let’s hear it for all the kids’ choir and band conductors/instructors past, present, and future 👏🏼🫡
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This is really Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness in action. She's recognized that spending a bit more is worth it.
Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness | Terry Pratchett
Perhaps one of the most popular quotes from the Discworld series is Sam Vimes’s ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-economic Unfairness, propounded in Men at Arms: The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes rea...
terrypratchett.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
This is really Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness in action. She's recognized that spending a bit more is worth it.
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sam vines. The parable of the boots.
January 1, 2026 at 7:04 PM
sam vines. The parable of the boots.
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This is my favorite sentence in a long while. From Doug Varone, whose dance company lost $40,000 by canceling two Kennedy Center gigs planned for next April:
“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
#courage
“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
#courage
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is my favorite sentence in a long while. From Doug Varone, whose dance company lost $40,000 by canceling two Kennedy Center gigs planned for next April:
“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
#courage
“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
#courage
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Something lovely for the weekend!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
December 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Something lovely for the weekend!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616:
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
December 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 71616:
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
If you're struggling to stay creative during the dark part of the year, go back to what you love. Re-read, re-watch, rediscover old favourites. Remind yourself why you're doing this. Find your joy.
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My 14 year old son Luca took me here after cricket training today. He said there is hope in that sky Mum, I’ve never seen anything like it, the locals said there are half a
million starlings here.
Keep your families close, hug your children, help those who need us, do a 1000 piece puzzle, enjoy!
million starlings here.
Keep your families close, hug your children, help those who need us, do a 1000 piece puzzle, enjoy!
December 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My 14 year old son Luca took me here after cricket training today. He said there is hope in that sky Mum, I’ve never seen anything like it, the locals said there are half a
million starlings here.
Keep your families close, hug your children, help those who need us, do a 1000 piece puzzle, enjoy!
million starlings here.
Keep your families close, hug your children, help those who need us, do a 1000 piece puzzle, enjoy!
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How doth it feele?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAC...
The Beths - "Expert In A Dying Field" (Official)
YouTube video by The Beths
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
How doth it feele?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAC...
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.
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Heartwarming
It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love.
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng
Happy Hanukkah
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Heartwarming
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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Ich hope thou knowest that thou art a miracle. Your being heere doth make the worlde a bettir place. Plese be kynde to yourselfe. Give helpe when you kan, and aske for helpe when you neede.
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Ich hope thou knowest that thou art a miracle. Your being heere doth make the worlde a bettir place. Plese be kynde to yourselfe. Give helpe when you kan, and aske for helpe when you neede.
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To lead a better life, I need my love to be here
Here, making each day of the year
Changing my life with a wave of her hand
Nobody can deny that there's something there
There, running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
youtu.be/qBHSl2d-r0E
Here, making each day of the year
Changing my life with a wave of her hand
Nobody can deny that there's something there
There, running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
youtu.be/qBHSl2d-r0E
Sean Lennon singing Here There and Everywhere for Paul McCartney 80th birthday!!
YouTube video by The Warning Guardian
youtu.be
December 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
To lead a better life, I need my love to be here
Here, making each day of the year
Changing my life with a wave of her hand
Nobody can deny that there's something there
There, running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
youtu.be/qBHSl2d-r0E
Here, making each day of the year
Changing my life with a wave of her hand
Nobody can deny that there's something there
There, running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
youtu.be/qBHSl2d-r0E
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In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime." n.pr/4pFYoun
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime."
n.pr
December 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
In matching, brilliant blue suits, David Byrne and his band squeeze behind the Desk to perform four songs, including Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime." n.pr/4pFYoun
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As a knitter, I loved watching this. I’ve become better at ‘reading’ yarn over the years, and learning how different ways of treating the wool will affect the work.
enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
As a knitter, I loved watching this. I’ve become better at ‘reading’ yarn over the years, and learning how different ways of treating the wool will affect the work.
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2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
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That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world.
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today.
So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based.
Image by HEO (from above!)
🔭🧪
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A lovely new in-space music video, on the same guitar I played, from friend and Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu with the Bagossy Brothers - great how many schoolchildren participated: youtu.be/JZYm7lq1NYM?...
Bagossy Brothers Company - Visszajövök feat. Kapu Tibi
YouTube video by Bagossy Brothers Company
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A lovely new in-space music video, on the same guitar I played, from friend and Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu with the Bagossy Brothers - great how many schoolchildren participated: youtu.be/JZYm7lq1NYM?...
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Happy Earth, Wind & Fire Day to all who celebrate.
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
www.youtube.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Happy Earth, Wind & Fire Day to all who celebrate.
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Major yn Englisshe:
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!
September 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Major yn Englisshe:
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!
• focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet
• meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir
• it ys awesome
• books!
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i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
tell me what u are doing
be proud of your work and share it here
be proud of your work and share it here
hearing that we're not supposed to be promoting our stuff on here? seen a couple of posts disparaging that practice. still have no idea what this place is about, what is ok to post or not post, feeling like i'm dog paddling here
September 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here
tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here