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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 16h

Dolphins doing high jumps this morning in the intracoastal waterway near Clearwater, Florida. I've probably captured close to 1,000 jumps on camera over the years but I think these might be the highest I've filmed.
#nature #amazing #animals #awesome #dolphins #wildilfe #thanksforallthefish

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 15h

Bravo

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Bertis Downs @bertisdowns.bsky.social · 20h

Kind of a unique take on a“lyric video”

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Footage from the earliest days of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, with sounds from 1981 and 2025!

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R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe 2025 (Jacknife Lee Remix) RFE/RL Dispatch

YouTube video by remhq

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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 19h

Freshly washed up seaweed on Killiney beach, Co. Dublin shows off autumnal shades of reds, greens and browns.

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Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social · 20h

Fab

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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 20h

The handwritten draft of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” on a San Pellegrino napkin. @slowberlin.bsky.social

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Oxford Academic @oxfordacademic.bsky.social · 1d

📘 Prague is more than a city—it’s a story. In her sweeping new history, Cynthia Paces uncovers the soul of the “Mother of Cities” and the people who shaped it. Hear her on New Books Network podcast. #skystorians

🎧 Listen: oxford.ly/3WkcTHI

New Books Network interview with Cynthia Paces, author of "Prague"

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d

Join us on 8 Oct for Collecting Ireland’s History, a lecture for the Dublin Festival of History in collaboration with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

Explore 700 years of Irish manuscript collecting.

Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 1d

Really pleased to see my & @benjaminredding.bsky.social article on the much beloved BBC Shipping Forecast is getting some traction - we loved writing it! Read it @uk.theconversation.com here:
theconversation.com/why-the-bbcs...

Why the BBC’s Shipping Forecast still entrances people after 100 years

Designed to ensure safe sailing for those on the sea, a dedicated shipping forecast was first broadcast by the BBC in 1925.

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Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social · 2d

#Slavery was a family business. Uncovering a network of familial relationships between #Irishslaveholders in South Carolina. tinyurl.com/4t76e8ep #speirgorm

Irish slaveholders, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Pennsylvania 1670-1865 - Google My Maps

Database (incomplete) created by Martine Brennan, Ireland. Star icon: names of enslaved people attached. Green tags: known or reputed county of birth in Ireland. Blue tags: unknown place of birth in ...

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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 6d

Come say hello to WP 11 as part of @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Sat Nov 8, all welcome

dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social · 6d

A highlight of the Irish publishing calendar each year, join us as we launch @winterpapers.bsky.social Vol. 11 at our Festival Hub this November 🎟️ bit.ly/46TicTx