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Colin Parte 🇵🇸

@colinparte.bsky.social

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Interests are photography, chess, reading, history. Intolerant to bigotry, racism & other idiocy. Dabbles in selling nice old things. Clinomaniac.

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 12h

Ah! Thanks.

Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 13h

Had a very angry chap in a big van tailgating and flashing his headlights at me for 15 minutes on the way to work this morning.
What gets me is that his company name is plastered all over his van.
I won’t report it this time but I’m never buying anything from Ambulance.

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Äpplesche 💚 @aepplesche.bsky.social · 1d

Huiii... 🤣

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 13h

I was just thinking that Captain Scarlett needs a shave

Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks! Will have a look 😃

Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 13h

Any ideas, @zaichishka.bsky.social or @mortabasi.bsky.social please?

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 1d

I am, now.

Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 2d

Ah! Thank you.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 2d

FB memories have served these work in progress snapshots from 2021, 2020 & 2018 for 6th October. York Minster, 37 Tanner Row, York & Glister Meteor being restored. The pencils are 0.3mm but different makes...

#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing

A Pentel GraphGear 0.3mm pencil resting on an incomplete drawing of York Minster.

A Staedtler Graphite 90.3mm pencil, Tombow Mono Zero eraser and blending stump resting on an incomplete pencil drawing of a 19th century building.

A Pentel P203 0.3mm pencil and Tombow Mono Zero eraser resting on an incomplete drawing of an aeroplane undergoing restoration.

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 2d

Too many dodgy pieces in this but here is my Belfast Flickr album. 😱

www.flickr.com/gp/colinpart...

Belfast

The Big Smoke

www.flickr.com

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! They’re years old back when I had more time lol

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 2d

If you’re a bridge troll like me, you’d enjoy Belfast lol

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Clara @claracloud.bsky.social · 2d

Gustav Klimt #art
Death and Life (1908/15)

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 2d

Nice work!

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: In response to Trump’s DEI bans, Canada’s medical schools will now fall entirely under Canadian oversight.

Until recently, accreditation had been done jointly with the U.S.

Yikes.

canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...

Canada breaks with U.S. on med-school standards

With America veering into new territory, Canadian schools are going their own way.

canadahealthwatch.ca

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 2d

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 2d

French troops with a Russian Maxim machine gun? Did they have those or is it a French version, or perhaps a captured from the Germans one. Just curious.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 4d

On this lovely weekend day, with my spine having given out (off to emergency care, I think - bleh), I want to be like this netsuke cat from Japan, without a care in the world. So here he is for #caturday.

ca. 1800-1850. #V&A
📸 me

The netsuke is a toggle. Japanese men used netsuke to suspend various pouches and containers from their sashes by a silk cord. Netsuke had to be small and not too heavy, yet bulky enough to do the job. They needed to be compact with no sharp protruding edges, yet also strong and hard-wearing. Above all, they had to have the means for attaching a cord. Netsuke were made in a variety of forms, the most widely appreciated being the <i>katabori</i> (shape carving), a three-dimensional carving, such as this one in the form of a cat dozing on an oval disc, with its tail curled over the back part of its body.

Cats were introduced into Japan in the late 9th century, and quickly became a favorite part of their culture, right into the modern era with pop culture phenomena like Hello Kitty and cat cafés.

Japan, ca. 1800-1850, carved and stained ivory.

V&A Museum (A.65-1915)

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 2d

That Circles of Doom Pilates move 🥵

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday afternoon with my best pal ♥️

Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 3d

That’s “mother logic” and very valid. My own Mum, when on holiday in England wanted to visit every M&S she saw in case they had a blouse or whatever that wasn’t stocked in Belfast.

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Leif Боднарчук 🍁 🇺🇦 @leifb73.bsky.social · 4d

Now **THIS**, ladies and gentlemen, is authoritarian fascism from proscribed terror organisations.
My money says the PSNI know MANY identities of this lot. But apparently the easy gig is in GB, arresting pensioners.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/...

Loyalist terror gangs in sinister threat to burn Belfast council facilities over Irish language proposals

Loyalist paramilitaries are planning an arson campaign to prevent Irish language signage from being displayed on Belfast City Council buildings and vehicles.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 3d

**digital hug**
♥️

Colin Parte 🇵🇸 @colinparte.bsky.social · 4d

Forty-six years today 👴🏻