Pollyaula
@pollyaula.bsky.social
Boardgames, dolls houses, writing, art, random stuff. Likes puns. I use a photo from a museum back room as my header as it's a bit like how my brain works. In the UK.
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A touch of #NorthernLights over #Orkney earlier this evening.
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A touch of #NorthernLights over #Orkney earlier this evening.
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Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Behold! The famous Orkney Library & Archive knitted #Christmas tree begins another season of festive cheer in the library! 🎄🧶❤️
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A day and a bit left, would be lovely to raise as much as possible for this wonderful cause, one very close to my heart
Bidding is now open on my fuzzy felt Mari Lwyd, along with so many other wonderful works of art.
All funds go to domestic violence charities, please do bid if you can afford to and feel able, it would be great to raise as much money as possible🐴💀👻
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15748996...
All funds go to domestic violence charities, please do bid if you can afford to and feel able, it would be great to raise as much money as possible🐴💀👻
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15748996...
December 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A day and a bit left, would be lovely to raise as much as possible for this wonderful cause, one very close to my heart
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It's Jenrick so i think it should be read as written.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It's Jenrick so i think it should be read as written.
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24 Hours of Games for World Central Kitchen
YouTube video by Ready Steady Play
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December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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This is a book my moribund ex-publishers almost killed last year by taking it out of print just when word of mouth was building on it (and stopped paying me).
A bookseller recently told me that it's "already an acknowledged cult classic in indie shops". Best to find out for yourself, though...
A bookseller recently told me that it's "already an acknowledged cult classic in indie shops". Best to find out for yourself, though...
Dear Bluesky. I'm giving away two signed paperbacks of my novel Villager.
All you have to do to enter is share this extract from it & pop a reply below.
You also get a free map!
You might like the book if you like:
Ghosts
Social history
Folklore
Lost music
Rivers
Opinionated hills
Earth magic
All you have to do to enter is share this extract from it & pop a reply below.
You also get a free map!
You might like the book if you like:
Ghosts
Social history
Folklore
Lost music
Rivers
Opinionated hills
Earth magic
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is a book my moribund ex-publishers almost killed last year by taking it out of print just when word of mouth was building on it (and stopped paying me).
A bookseller recently told me that it's "already an acknowledged cult classic in indie shops". Best to find out for yourself, though...
A bookseller recently told me that it's "already an acknowledged cult classic in indie shops". Best to find out for yourself, though...
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🎶 Do You Wanna Build A Crowmaaaan 🎶 ☃️
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
🎶 Do You Wanna Build A Crowmaaaan 🎶 ☃️
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Yesterday the postman rang and I opened a window upstairs to say to leave the delivery at the door.
Today I answer the door to him. “Oh I see you’re up today?”.
So now I’m getting passive-aggressive comments on the hours I keep from a fucking postman.
Today I answer the door to him. “Oh I see you’re up today?”.
So now I’m getting passive-aggressive comments on the hours I keep from a fucking postman.
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Yesterday the postman rang and I opened a window upstairs to say to leave the delivery at the door.
Today I answer the door to him. “Oh I see you’re up today?”.
So now I’m getting passive-aggressive comments on the hours I keep from a fucking postman.
Today I answer the door to him. “Oh I see you’re up today?”.
So now I’m getting passive-aggressive comments on the hours I keep from a fucking postman.
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ME: I am a capable and independent adult
ALSO ME: *forgets not to inhale while drinking water and almost drowns*
ALSO ME: *forgets not to inhale while drinking water and almost drowns*
December 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
ME: I am a capable and independent adult
ALSO ME: *forgets not to inhale while drinking water and almost drowns*
ALSO ME: *forgets not to inhale while drinking water and almost drowns*
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Dear BBC
Watching the programme *Civilisations: Rise and Fall - Egypt* and wanted to know what in the name of zarking fardwarks are these outfits?
If only there was a way of knowing what Roman legionaries in the late 1st century BC actually wore 🤔
#Archaeology
Watching the programme *Civilisations: Rise and Fall - Egypt* and wanted to know what in the name of zarking fardwarks are these outfits?
If only there was a way of knowing what Roman legionaries in the late 1st century BC actually wore 🤔
#Archaeology
December 2, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Dear BBC
Watching the programme *Civilisations: Rise and Fall - Egypt* and wanted to know what in the name of zarking fardwarks are these outfits?
If only there was a way of knowing what Roman legionaries in the late 1st century BC actually wore 🤔
#Archaeology
Watching the programme *Civilisations: Rise and Fall - Egypt* and wanted to know what in the name of zarking fardwarks are these outfits?
If only there was a way of knowing what Roman legionaries in the late 1st century BC actually wore 🤔
#Archaeology
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Join in, download, get colouring!
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Join in, download, get colouring!
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Shop Around the Corner and Wonderful Life are a perfect double bill.
The first was made just before Stewart went to fight in WW2. The other after war's end, when he wasn't sure he'd act again.
A young actor at his peak with Lubitsch. Then the same man working out with Capra's help, who he is now.
The first was made just before Stewart went to fight in WW2. The other after war's end, when he wasn't sure he'd act again.
A young actor at his peak with Lubitsch. Then the same man working out with Capra's help, who he is now.
#OldFoxChristmasFilms Day Two: The Shop around the Corner (1940). www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr3n...
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Shop Around the Corner and Wonderful Life are a perfect double bill.
The first was made just before Stewart went to fight in WW2. The other after war's end, when he wasn't sure he'd act again.
A young actor at his peak with Lubitsch. Then the same man working out with Capra's help, who he is now.
The first was made just before Stewart went to fight in WW2. The other after war's end, when he wasn't sure he'd act again.
A young actor at his peak with Lubitsch. Then the same man working out with Capra's help, who he is now.
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just for today
we can choose
to see the world differently
treat myth as memory
find joy in small signs
let sincerity survive sabotage
Just for today, the sky is ours.
—
Mnemosine - Just For Today
#chillwave #micropoetry #newmusic
open.spotify.com/track/1IQLn8... @listigeplaylists.bsky.social
we can choose
to see the world differently
treat myth as memory
find joy in small signs
let sincerity survive sabotage
Just for today, the sky is ours.
—
Mnemosine - Just For Today
#chillwave #micropoetry #newmusic
open.spotify.com/track/1IQLn8... @listigeplaylists.bsky.social
Spotify – Web Player
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November 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
just for today
we can choose
to see the world differently
treat myth as memory
find joy in small signs
let sincerity survive sabotage
Just for today, the sky is ours.
—
Mnemosine - Just For Today
#chillwave #micropoetry #newmusic
open.spotify.com/track/1IQLn8... @listigeplaylists.bsky.social
we can choose
to see the world differently
treat myth as memory
find joy in small signs
let sincerity survive sabotage
Just for today, the sky is ours.
—
Mnemosine - Just For Today
#chillwave #micropoetry #newmusic
open.spotify.com/track/1IQLn8... @listigeplaylists.bsky.social
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Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
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No one is going to pay for this shite. The amount of users will absolutely plummet once it's not a free gimmick. Can't happen soon enough imho.
Exclusive: OpenAI has projected 220 million people will be paying for a basic ChatGPT subscription by 2030 as it follows Slack’s and Spotify’s business playbook.
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https://thein.fo/4insfpg
OpenAI Projected at Least 220 Million People Will Pay for ChatGPT by 2030
To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used to increase paid users. It’s hooking up most of its users—which now number more than 800 million—with ...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
No one is going to pay for this shite. The amount of users will absolutely plummet once it's not a free gimmick. Can't happen soon enough imho.
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A little while ago I found a stack of early 70s Vogue magazines in a secondhand shop and challenged myself to write short stories around six of the adverts in them. This is what I came up with...
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The True Stories Behind The Photos In Some Of The Vogue Magazine Adverts Of The Late 1960s And Early 1970s
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November 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
A little while ago I found a stack of early 70s Vogue magazines in a secondhand shop and challenged myself to write short stories around six of the adverts in them. This is what I came up with...
www.tom-cox.com/the-true-sto...
www.tom-cox.com/the-true-sto...
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"Fuck people who try to reshape the folklore and folk culture of Britain into a bullshit narrative that suits their racist ideology!"
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
"Fuck people who try to reshape the folklore and folk culture of Britain into a bullshit narrative that suits their racist ideology!"
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Shadow Walk
Another photo taken at one of my favourite locations on the London Underground tube map.
If the sun is out, and in the correct position at Nine Elms station, it can project beautiful shadows of the London Underground roundel on to the station floor.
Another photo taken at one of my favourite locations on the London Underground tube map.
If the sun is out, and in the correct position at Nine Elms station, it can project beautiful shadows of the London Underground roundel on to the station floor.
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Shadow Walk
Another photo taken at one of my favourite locations on the London Underground tube map.
If the sun is out, and in the correct position at Nine Elms station, it can project beautiful shadows of the London Underground roundel on to the station floor.
Another photo taken at one of my favourite locations on the London Underground tube map.
If the sun is out, and in the correct position at Nine Elms station, it can project beautiful shadows of the London Underground roundel on to the station floor.
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Portraits on a 4th century #Roman mosaic from Hinton St Mary #Dorset
Their air-blown hair suggests these are 2 of the 4 winds
If so, these are possibly:
Notus the South wind bringer of autumn
Boreas the North wind bringer of winter
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Happy #MosaicMonday
Their air-blown hair suggests these are 2 of the 4 winds
If so, these are possibly:
Notus the South wind bringer of autumn
Boreas the North wind bringer of winter
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Happy #MosaicMonday
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Portraits on a 4th century #Roman mosaic from Hinton St Mary #Dorset
Their air-blown hair suggests these are 2 of the 4 winds
If so, these are possibly:
Notus the South wind bringer of autumn
Boreas the North wind bringer of winter
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Happy #MosaicMonday
Their air-blown hair suggests these are 2 of the 4 winds
If so, these are possibly:
Notus the South wind bringer of autumn
Boreas the North wind bringer of winter
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Happy #MosaicMonday
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“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
“Quiet, Piggy” would be fitting for his tombstone.
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It’s SNOWING!!! ❄️
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
It’s SNOWING!!! ❄️