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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 2h

An old drawing of mine, titled World Serpent, but one I am returning to. It’s the proportions and warm, natural darkness of charcoal which interests me.

World Serpent drawing in charcoal, of a landscape, with a snake like creek running through it.

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 1d

Climate change: Northern Ireland failing to meet tree planting targets

A new report finds the lack of tree planting is putting climate action, nature recovery and community wellbeing at risk.

www.bbc.com

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Hiking Historian @hikinghistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Highland summit to tackle devastating impact of wildfires
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Highland summit to tackle devastating impact of wildfires

The meeting in Grantown will consider ways to improve resilience and prevent future blazes.

www.bbc.com

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

William the Conqueror killed Harold II at Hastings on this day 1066. Of his Harrying of the North, one writer said: 'So terrible a famine fell upon the humble and defenceless people, that more than 100,000 Christian folk of both sexes, young and old alike, perished of hunger.'

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 1d

Philippine / American artist Fatima Ronquillo
Hand with Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet

#ContemporaryArt #Painting

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 1d

Nope.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 1d

It's like the 1970s round here.

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 1d

Last night I had to go out in the rain, and drive two miles, to send a text.
I wouldn't normally go to these lengths but it was important, job related.
This is what it's like living in a semi rural village in Norfolk.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

These are absolutely horrifying numbers which also tell a grim, grim story of family courts. I hope, as @drproudman.bsky.social and others have been arguing, they cause family courts to rethink how they approach domestic violence and abuse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Majority of family court cases in England and Wales feature domestic abuse, watchdog says

Commissioner’s review found 87% of cases uncovered physical, psychological or sexual abuse of a family member

www.theguardian.com

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 1d

Zoom in on these clouds, they look like they’ve been crimped.

Weird cloud formation of crinkle cut and crimped

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

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Nature @nature.com · 1d

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

go.nature.com/4n8cvHn

Coral die-off marks Earth’s first climate ‘tipping point’, scientists say

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

go.nature.com

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 2d

I think there is a lot of truth to this

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 26d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 2d

Update.

Cardboard box containing a tangle of a cat

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 2d

Most artists were P.E. avoiders at school.

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Victoria Gausden @ancientnmodern.bsky.social · 3d

You know how hard it can be to clean out a pan that has contained mashed potatoes? Not any more! You can hire the Daphne Spudagone 1000 for a mere £10.00 and say goodbye to your grainy pan nightmares. It’s what a cat’s tongue’s for.

A cat enthusiastically licking out a pan of mashed potatoes

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 2d

The former Armstrong Rubber Company building in New Haven, Connecticut, was designed by architect Marcel Breuer. Completed in 1970. r/brutalism

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2d

The Long Neolithic lives as a sense of wonder. It sits in distant fields and summons us to not only witness its stone persistence, but to engage with its slow release of mystery. Its power bends not only the landscape, but our sense of story. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 2d

Hehe

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Claire Cansick @clairecansick.bsky.social · 3d

He spent 20 hours in this box yesterday and hasn’t sat on a lap for four days, since the box arrived. What is it with cats and cardboard?

Quite a large cat (Wolfie) asleep, squeezed into a small, cardboard box.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3d

It's cool how when you try to search for the solution to a computer problem now you can pick from an AI summary, several out-of-date videos by a guy with a shitty mic, or some forum posts on the publisher's site dealing with an obsolete version of the software

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