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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 1h

Thoughts post #USAvAUS mini match

Bos & Haji are looking the goods
Nice stadium
Like the black Reko Rennie kit
Hate head clashes
Close for Irankunda
Good saves from Ryan
Lucky USMNT shoot wide
The home crowd getting fired up over every scrap entertained me
I’m fully jazzed for the World Cup

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Rhys. @rhysshelmerdine.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve seen enough, the name’s free, let’s rename the Socceroos to BOS Nation.

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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 1d

I refuse to believe anything will happen in football better and lovelier than Cabo Verde qualifying for the World Cup.

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Steve Brewer @sjbrewer.bsky.social · 1d

Cabo Verde becomes the second least populous country ever to qualify for the World Cup, with its win over eSwatini

Population: 525k. Only beaten by Iceland (2018) with a population of 340k.

Cabo Verde is also the smallest country to qualify by land area.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 1d

Quantum Wall, VIII (For Arshile Gorky, My First Love In Painting), by Jack Whitten, 2017, 📸 via @TouchlineX

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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 1d

CAPE VERDE, POPULATION 560,000, QUALIFY FOR A FIRST-EVER WORLD CUP 🇨🇻

The second-smallest nation ever to achieve that feat. Every US state has a bigger population, yet the Blue Sharks are on their way to football's big dance. Astonishing and inspiring 🦈

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 3d

Preliminary data suggests that today's
42.5C at Telfer ,Australia might be the world's highest temperature,since maximums in Iran,Senegal,Mauritania and Mexico have dropped.

This would mark the first day of the season with the Southern Hemisphere recording the hottest spot.

Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 5d

Exceptional heat in AUSTRALIA

In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.

Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s ride

Landscape shot with a sandy beach in the middle, green headlands and a very calm turquoise ocean

Three women in bike helmets smiling for a group selfie with the ocean in the background

A woman standing next to her mountain bike, above a rocky creek

The gals on the tools, plugging a whole in a tyre. Set up tubeless, so if you plug the gap, the sealant works its magic and makes everything airtight again.

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 4d

Felt the need get ”The Contraption” into my sketchbook over the weekend.

A fallen branch, propped up on another branch and strapped to a tree - can be a good cast-iron-pot-holder-upperer.

Excellent for slow cooked ribs.

Photo of a campfire with a cast iron pot suspended over it.

In the background there are two hammocks. There’s a person in the closest hammock parting a dog. The dog is laying on the grass behind the campfire.

My bright cartoony recreation of the scene in my sketchbook.

Photo of the same campsite, but you can see my open sketchbook laying on my lap

Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 4d

Some sketchbook happenings

Sketchbook page with a colourful oil pastel drawing of a bearded man in a hat, with sunglasses on top of the hat.

Pencil sketch of the same man from the same reference photo. A pencil and an erase add laying flat on the page too.

It’s more detailed than the oil pastel version, partly because the pencil is more precise, but mostly because I was more patient this time around.

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The Paperback Bookshop @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social · 6d

The second book in our Spring Subscription is now available for pick up (& is heading to the post today)! Thank you to all our subscribers - we hope you enjoy it 🙏

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 5d

This sparks joy!

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 5d

Love to see some Vine Time on the menu!

And maybe a Jada cap!?

And an SK20 return?

#Matildas #WoSo

Squad announcement graphic from the Matilda’s social media accounts, ahead of a friendly game against Wales on October 25.

Squad list is:
MACKENZIE ARNOLD
ELLIE CARPENTER
STEPH CATLEY
KYRA COONEY-CROSS
CAITLIN FOORD
KATRINA GORRY
CHARLOTTE GRANT
WINONAH HEATLEY
MICHELLE HEYMAN
CLARE HUNT
ALANNA KENNEDY
SAM KERR
HOLLY MCNAMARA
TEAGAN MICAH
COURTNEY NEVIN
JAMILLA RANKIN
HAYLEY RASO
AMY SAYER
REMY SIEMSEN
KAITLYN TORPEY
EMILY VAN EGMOND
CORTNEE VINE
CLARE WHEELER
JADA WHYMAN

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 5d

59. Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Alice Law is laser focused on her goals.
She needs to get to Cambridge, study analytic magick under the infamous Jacob Grimes, then get tenure.
She's deeply miserable, but that's irrelevant.

Then Grimes dies and Alice goes to hell to bring him back.

A fun read.

Cover of Katabasis - text on the cover includes 'To hell with love' and 'From the no. 1 bestselling author of Yellowface'.
The cover art looks like an Escher drawing with stairs leading up and down in different directions, with figures running up them. You can also see a cat, sand dunes, prison cells and a big church type building.

Photo of the author smiling, leaning against a green brick wall.

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 5d

59. Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Alice Law is laser focused on her goals.
She needs to get to Cambridge, study analytic magick under the infamous Jacob Grimes, then get tenure.
She's deeply miserable, but that's irrelevant.

Then Grimes dies and Alice goes to hell to bring him back.

A fun read.

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 7d

I think that the copy-cat thing makes it so much easier to get started too!

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 7d

Oh that’s so lovely to hear!
I’ve been enjoying messing around with these bright happy markers so much.

Makes filling up a page very quick and fun.

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 9d

It was suuuper weird. Took me a little while to get into it, but I did end up enjoying my it once I just rolled with the strange swan-ness of it all.

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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social · 10d

It just meant that my whole soccer-mad family thought it was a sport I could watch and enjoy, but not play or participate in.

I reckon families watching today might feel differently, and that’s pretty cool.

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Domestique @domestiquecycling.com · 10d

🇳🇱 Demi Vollering lands 🇪🇺 European title with devastating solo effort 🏆

RACE REPORT📰 www.domestiquecycling.com/en/news/demi...

📸 Cor Vos

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Sarah @norfolkbookworm.bsky.social · 11d

Feeling a bit under the weather today - the poor weather and then having my flu vaccine this morning are not an ideal combination.
However at the end of September I did a little round up of how my #ReadTheWorld project is going. norfolkbookworm.blogspot.com/2025/10/read...

📚💙 #BookSky