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Mark Forrest

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It’s not immigrants - it’s billionaires ✊🏼 - he/him • justified & ancient • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - Aberdeen, Scotland

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 14h

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
#BookSky

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 19h

Daido Moriyama, Tomei Expressway, Japan, 1969

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 19h

Illustration from ‘The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects’, 1870.

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 6d

George Lange’s photos of his friend Francesca Woodman shake her melancholic myth.

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 19h

clark seedling apples, painted by bertha heiges, 1898

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Name a protest movement, anywhere or at any time, that has achieved its goals without being annoying and obstructive.
People like this enjoy the freedoms our political ancestors gained for them, while attacking the means by which they were achieved.

Jack @jackdawg52.bsky.social · 1d

Nope, you make protest obstructive and annoying you lose the good will of the general population.
When they ring their local member to complain - they dont tell the local member to deal with the issues raised by the protesters, they tell them to deal with the protesters.

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Phil Kneen @philkneen.bsky.social · 1d

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Mark Forrest @rowiecrumbs.bsky.social · 1d

Ye (4x4):20 Establishment hard by ye Chymical Vapoures Shoppe

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 2d

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 16d

Dr. Seuss, 1941.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Jul 4

Happy birthday to trailblazing American computer scientist 🧪Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932 – 2020) who made foundational contributions to optimizing compilers, optimizing programs & parallel computing. She was the 1st woman to become an IBM Fellow, where she worked from 1957 to 2002 & ….

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My linocut in blue of Fran Allen (woman with short hair, glasses, smiling at viewer) surrounded by green optimization diagrams (with lines, arrows and labels) from her famous 1971 paper.

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Egon Schiele @artistschiele.bsky.social · 2d

Island Town (Krumau Town Crescent), 1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25722

"Island Town (Krumau Town Crescent)" by Egon Schiele depicts a vibrant, angular view of the town of Český Krumlov, showcasing Schiele's distinctive use of bold lines and earthy tones. Inspired by his frequent visits, the piece reflects the artist's fascination with the town's architecture and layout, rendered with expressive distortion and emotional intensity.

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aows @aows.co · 2d

Trillium Flight, II. Oregon, October 2025 #aowsimages #photography #blackandwhite

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A spider waits on its web with its shadow on a Perspex bus shelter nearby

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Mark Forrest @rowiecrumbs.bsky.social · 2d

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 2d

Little Zombie Mari
She is on the look out for Br..ead based products, with her worm friend Theodore

(Channeling the way I have felt today into little mari)

A little Mari crawling out of a grave with a worm friend on her headdress

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Mark @astrangeday.bsky.social · 2d

The Crow
As she leads your soul through the dark
You know that she came to break your heart
But oh, when she moves you fall in love again
And she spreads her wings when she's gonna fly
- Hurts

#crow #bird #nature #wildlife #photography

Crow shot taken a few weeks ago. The Crow was against a white wall, so i added some texture for the background.

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 2d

Some prints gone out today ❤️

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Mark Forrest @rowiecrumbs.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly inevitable. Nature abhors a vacuum.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

'Honeysuckle’ design, 1883 by May Morris, influential textile artist and designer of the Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt

Painted design with a mass of green leaves and twisting vines as well as pink and white blossoms, all on a white background

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 3d

Patient frogs

Two frogs, one behind the other, small, delicate drawing, light touch, pastels and pencils combined carefully, not aggressively

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 3d

My entry for #BlueSkyMonday is an Irish #Rainbow ps. don’t any of you be thinking you can come over here to steal Irish gold. Our Leprechauns will kick your ankles 🍀 #Ireland #photography #EastCoastKin

A vivid rainbow arcs across a softly glowing peach-coloured sky, its bands of colour clear and bright. In the foreground, the dark, twisting branches of a leafless tree stretch upward, their intricate shapes contrasting beautifully with the smooth gradient of the sky. The scene feels calm and ethereal, capturing a fleeting moment of light after rain.

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