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Ant Dawson

@railwayhobbit.bsky.social

600 followers 170 following 720 posts

Historian, Archaeologist, and Museum Professional who is also an Organist, Unitarian, Rower, Geek, into Boardgames, Reenactment, Heavy Metal and with a soupcon of Long-Covid.

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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 16h

Close the coal house door lad,
There's bairns inside.
Bairns upon the mountain side,
Bairns who saw the blackness slide,
Bairns who had no time to hide.
Close the coalhouse door lad, there's bairns inside.

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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 21h

Agreed. You need that trinity of Kirk Spock McCoy. Nimoy said he'd only do Khan if he had a death scene. Which he got but then regretted it. It's a brilliant film.

Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 2d

That's yer lot. Home time.

Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 2d

Today's steed. Brookes No. 1.

Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 2d

Today's Office

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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 2d

How in earth?!

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juux @juux.com · 2d

Local newspaper In Memoriam section

HAROLD GODWINSON
Last Saxon King of England.
Killed 14.10.1066. RIP

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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 2d

New exhibition I curated about Blenkinsop & Murray and their pioneering work in Leeds on display at the Middleton Railway. Really happy how it's turned out. Leeds the city which got the world in track.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

No more kings. Vimes had difficulty in articulating why this should be so, why the concept resonated in his very bones. After all, a good many of the patricians had been as bad as any king. But they were...sort of...bad on equal terms. What set Vimes's teeth on edge was the idea that kings were a different kind of human being. A higher lifeform. Somehow magical.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 3d

Just found a knock off Lego Star Wars Death Star but it's all Disney characters. 10/10 excellent IP abuse.

A box for a lego style death star but all bright colours and full of Disney copied characters

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 4d

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking. Blue listens intently as Green goes on talking as he talks, leading the way.
Green: Once we get home, I'll read a book, weave two baskets, re-arrange the pantry, learn esperanto-

Blue interrupts Green, who turns to listen.
Blue: That's quite a list. Are you sure you're being completely realistic?

Green takes a momentary pause from being cartoonish, being now depicted as a painstakingly detailed and shaded painting of a fox, with fur texture, whiskers and all.
Extremely realistic Green: Of course.

Returning back to normal, Green keeps walking. Blue follows, looking at Green with suspicion.
Blue: How long did it take you to draw that gag?
Green: A lot longer than I am willing to admit.

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David Turner @railwayhistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations to Beckenham & West Wickham MRC on an absolutely excellent model railway show today. Thoroughly enjoyable.

Their next show is on 14 March, again at Forest Hill Boys School.

#modelrailways #railwaymodelling

A steam train shunts on a dock scene. There is a boat waiting to be loaded.

A blue steam loco waits at a suburban station, followed by some brown carriages. A green loco is behind. They are waiting to leave.

In a small Scottish town, we see high speed and short distance trains waiting to leave a station.

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 4d

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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 5d

He needs to set good examples to the kiddies.

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 10d

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 9d

The Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale has added these (and more) quotations from various papal teachings about care and concern for immigrants to the windows outside its main meeting room. This is the kind of catechesis we need more of in the U.S. church.

A window pane with this text: "...No one would exchange his country for a foreign land if his own afforded him the means of living a decent and happy life." —Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (1891), no. 47

"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, living in exile in Egypt to escape the fury of an evil king, are, for all times and all places, the models and protectors of every migrant, alien, and refugee of whatever kind, who, whether compelled by fear of persecution or by want, is forced to leave his native land, his beloved friends and relatives, his close friends, and to seek a foreign soil." —Pope Pius XII, Exsul Familia Nazarethana (1962), Apostolic Constitution

"The poverty and misfortune with which immigrants are stricken are yet another reason for coming generously to their aid... It is necessary to guard against the rise of new forms of racism or xenophobic behavior, which attempt to make these brothers and sisters of ours scapegoats for what may be difficult local situations..." John Paul II, World Migration Day (1996)

"Migrants present a particular challenge for me, since I am the pastor of a church without frontiers, a Church which considers herself a mother to all. For this reason, I exhort all countries to a generous openness which, rather than fearing the loss of local identity, will prove capable of creating new forms of cultural synthesis." Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (2013)

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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 8d

And then there's the 3/5 compromise.......

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 9d

Oh yay!!!

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Ben Wood /|\🥭🌿✝️ @cosmichope.bsky.social · 9d

'The return, the salvation, for which humanity looks, is the return of the little individual self to harmony and union with the great Self of the universe, but by no means its extinction or abandonment - rather the finding of its own true nature as never before' (Edward Carpenter) 🕉🙏

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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 9d

Socialist, Unitarian and homosexual.

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BaltMatrix @baltmatrix.bsky.social · 9d

Close enough 😁

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 9d

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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Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 9d

That's certainly a unique take. Very singular. But I suspect one which will be latched on to.

Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social · 9d

Oh dear.