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Jäkäläsaari
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Londoner in Brexile.


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davidzinn.bsky.social
Craig and Susan are being as patient as can be expected – mostly because they can't reach the ribbons.
sidewalk chalk drawing of two hamsters peering over the edge of a festively wrapped box sidewalk chalk drawing of two hamsters peering over the edge of a festively wrapped box (closeup)
December 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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outilansman.bsky.social
Šiõǥǥ jiõččnažvuõttpeeiʹv!
Šiev jiečânâsvuođâpeivi!
Buori iehčanasvuođabeaivvi!
Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää!
December 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
jakalasaari.bsky.social
Regent’s Park is beautiful today.
Regent’s Park fountain in sunshine set within an avenue of trees.
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
jakalasaari.bsky.social
Morning!
Blue sky and the Fitzroy Square gardens with BT Tower behind.
December 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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minimuslatin.bsky.social
primo die Decembris, Minimus caseum invenit. On the first of December, Minimus finds cheese. #latinadventcalendar
Ink and wash drawing of Minimus, the Latin mouse, with a piece of cheese
December 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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legolostatsea.bsky.social
In case anyone's wondering, this is what a pink sea fan looks like when it's not entangled in marine debris (see earlier post). This specimen's probably nearly 30 years old. #Eunicellaverrucosa
Photograpr of a large pink sea fan being held aloft on a beach, with sand, sea, rocks and sky in background
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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climatologist49.bsky.social
Got up early this morning and the aurora was still going.
November 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]
October 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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dnthomas01.bsky.social
Calling all #biologists on @bsky.app - a great campaign from @rsb.org.uk to highlight the diversity in the biosciences as well highlighting the more unusual aspects of our jobs.
If you are passionate about your biological job it would be great to let others know using #IamABiologist this week?
eg ⬇️
dnthomas01.bsky.social David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social · Oct 13
It is #IAmABiologist Week - organized by @rsb.org.uk
Aim is to highlight the diversity of roles in the biosciences

I study organisms that live in Antarctic, Arctic and Baltic sea ice
over the years has required many curious moments - including sweeping ice floes in the middle of the Weddell Sea?
October 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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londontopsoc.bsky.social
We have just joined BlueSky! Since our foundation in 1880, we have reproduced an unrivalled selection of historic maps, plans and views of London. We also publish books and monographs containing original research. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org
October 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap. "I've always loved museums," she says, "but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards' We do the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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vincentledvina.bsky.social
Good night :)
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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wombatsucker.bsky.social
Troublemakers caught in the act. #raccoon #trailcamera
Two raccoons in a watering pan. One looks guilty as heck.
August 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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hildur.bsky.social
My fellow Icelanders are still adding to this thread, so I recommend you read the comments. They are pretty hilarious.
hildur.bsky.social Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · Aug 11
When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.

This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
Illugi Pétur Ágústsson þjóðhetja
August 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
jakalasaari.bsky.social
Porridge with homegrown hot blueberry sauce.
Hot blueberry sauce is a dramatic dark red over a bowl of porridge on a grey jetty deck. The sauce is fresh blueberries from the garden, a tiny dash of water and a small spoon of lingonberry jam. Delicious.
August 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
jakalasaari.bsky.social
Gull didn’t arrive for breakfast this morning and so she’s probably left for her winter holiday. I like to think of her in Denmark.

Went 40 mins over the lake to village and all the gulls have gone, even near the fishing boats.

The swallows are still swooping and lots of mergansers about.
Gull getting ready to sleep off her porridge breakfast in the sunshine at the end of the jetty. She spends the whole summer here and gets fed well before she has to fly off for winter. Jetty with rippled lake behind, three islands with trees on and poofy clouds in a bright blue sky. Gull going for her afternoon snacks after a morning spent sleeping off her porridge breakfast in the sunshine at the end of the jetty. She spends the whole summer here and gets fed well before she has to fly off for winter. Gull going for her afternoon snacks after a morning spent sleeping off her porridge breakfast in the sunshine at the end of the jetty. She spends the whole summer here and gets fed well before she has to fly off for winter. White tail and belly of gull standing on a handrail. Tiny clouds in blue sky above.
August 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
jakalasaari.bsky.social
Cutest clouds on the way home ☁️
Small white clouds. Look like cartoon clouds over a lake and blue sky. ☁️
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
jakalasaari.bsky.social
Heather is flowering and smells of honey. The bees are loving it.
Striped bee flying towards pale pink heather flowers.
August 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
jakalasaari.bsky.social
Finally, first rain in almost a month.
Dense rain clouds overhead. Islands are separated a little through aerial perspective. The lake is a slate grey with small ripples and raindrops on the surface. It’s lovely!
August 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
jakalasaari.bsky.social
Trees in the garden this morning.

Birch and pine taken from the bay looking up.
Trees in the garden taken as the sun shines though. It’s hard to show quite how big they are! You can see a bit of the house roof lower left corner.
August 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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teroterotero.bsky.social
This was the summer that nearly ended Finns. Yet the world did not even notice.
August 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
jakalasaari.bsky.social
The sky looked like rain.

The ravens have been flying round cronking, the northern divers whooping… gull waiting on the jetty… we’ve all been waiting.

The sky is back to blue now.
Dark water and skies with some big fluffy clouds around the sun. It looks like a thunder storm is brewing. The sunlight is shining on a small boat at a jetty and the light is also catching a gull sitting in her hangout at the end of the jetty. It looked like it was going to rain. It still hasn’t and the sky is back to blue. It’s 28 degrees in the house up in the forest… it’s like an oven down by the water.
July 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM