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Barbara Carrara

@2barsand1a.bsky.social

170 followers 230 following 230 posts

EN&FR-2-IT freelance translator. Also, transcription, adaptation, proofreading and copy-editing (Italian only). Art, heritage, history, architecture, fine&fashion jewellery, product and interior design.

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The Reading Agency @readingagency.bsky.social · 8h

Our latest research confirms that reading is a wellbeing tool.

Readers are significantly more likely to feel connected, happy and relaxed. Make time for reading, in any form, and give your wellbeing a boost.

Explore our full adult reading report 👉️ bit.ly/46ItklZ

#RedefineReading

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 8h

Came to see the site of a proposed solar farm in the Scottish Borders. What I’m showing you is only about half the site.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 14h

The wonderful Jane Goodall.

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The Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social · 1d

Tristram Shandy's birthday! - born, as the book says, #onthisday into ‘this scurvy and disasterous world of ours’ "the fifth day of November 1718" #OTD #TristramShandy www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/sterne/tristram-shandy/

Tristram Shandy - The Laurence Sterne Trust

www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk

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Animal Defenders International @animaldefenders.bsky.social · 1d

🎪 Organize a protest: www.stopcircussuffering.com/get-involved...

💻 Contact venues: www.stopcircussuffering.com/news/keep-wi...

🗣️ Urge your reps to support the Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act (TEAPSPA) to ban wild animal acts nationwide. bit.ly/SupportTEAPSPA

www.stopcircussuffering.com

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Animal Defenders International @animaldefenders.bsky.social · 1d

NO FUN FOR ANIMALS 🎪 Camels & zebras at Loomis Circus show clear distress—resisting, trying to escape, yet forced under threat of violence. Circuses confine, abuse & deny animals’ needs. This isn’t entertainment, it’s cruelty. #SupportTEAPSPA #CircusBan

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Barbara Carrara @2barsand1a.bsky.social · 2d

If you missed the @nationaltheatre.org.uk production of #SuzieMiller 's play #PrimaFacie and the solo performance of the incomparable #JodieComer, you can stream it here,

archive.org/details/prim...

Thank you, NT, for allowing a wider audience to access this compelling play.

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · Sep 29

#MargaretAtwood, #Canadian author of #TheHandmaid’sTale, interviewed in the 90’s about #USA government “actually” becoming a #totalitarian country.

Asked, “you don’t see the USA actually going this route? “. She says, “wanna bet?”

#usapoli #cdnpoli #Democracy

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Barbara Carrara @2barsand1a.bsky.social · 3d

Start your day with the energetic taiko drum 'heartbeats' of Kodō (鼓童)

tinyurl.com/y89rhjva

Kodo - "O-Daiko" - HD (japanese drummers - Taiko - tambours géants Japon)

YouTube video by AgoraVoxFrance

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Barbara Carrara @2barsand1a.bsky.social · 4d

Anna Magnani with son Luca Magnani at an award ceremony.
13 Sep. 1953

Close-up photograph of a young man looking sideways at the camera and a woman

Barbara Carrara @2barsand1a.bsky.social · 4d

Horst P. Horst
Hands, Hands, Hands
New York, 1941

Composition of cascading (black) human and (white) mannequin nail-polished hands alternating against a black and white background.

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Barbara Carrara @2barsand1a.bsky.social · 4d

Paolo Di Paolo
Piazza Navona, Rome
1960

Photograph of a bespectacled man reclining (seemingly comfortably) on the railing and stone bollard surrounding an elaborately sculpted baroque fountain while reading a newspaper.

Barbara Carrara @2barsand1a.bsky.social · 6d

Never have I seen Carrara marble used more distastefully.
If only Maurizio Cattelan's 'America' hadn't been stolen, it would have been the perfect crapper for that creep.

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 8d

Bookbanks is a wonderful new charity giving books to people at food banks. A simple, brilliant idea that everyone in the book world should get behind: open.substack.com/pub/samj/p/b...

Bookbanks

A good deed in a weary world

open.substack.com

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Barbara Carrara @2barsand1a.bsky.social · 10d

An anTEAbag if there ever was one.
And yet, somebody must have 'designed' it, and somebody must have greenlighted it. What a world, eh!

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 10d

Farage: epic grifter

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Animal Defenders International @animaldefenders.bsky.social · 11d

🐱Write to your MP (UK) or Congressperson (US) and tell them you want to see urgent replacement of animal use with advanced, non-animal methods. Instagram: (Link in Bio)
US: bit.ly/47NsiW7
UK: bit.ly/4eN4Udr

#EndAnimalTesting #UnreliableUnethicalUnneccesary #AnimalDefendersInternational

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Barbara Carrara @2barsand1a.bsky.social · 14d

@leemadgwick.bsky.social

Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 14d

Painting by Lee Madgwick ‘Urban Beauty’
Oil/acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions 60 x 60 cm.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 14d

Painting by Lee Madgwick ‘Urban Beauty’
Oil/acrylic on canvas.
Dimensions 60 x 60 cm.

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Literature Ireland @literatureireland.bsky.social · 23d

We are happy to share our New Writing from Ireland 2025 catalogue, which showcases a selection of the finest Irish writing published each year.

You can read it here: www.literatureireland.com/books/new-wr...