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Hilary Fawcett
@hboomer.bsky.social
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Art, design, Italy, football (SAFC), politics, music and coffee. Looking out across the mighty North Sea Artwork at hilaryfawcett.artweb.com
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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · Mar 19
My son took this at Pompeii. I love the composition, the frame, the mysterious quality of the image.
To me it speaks of time, passing moments
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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 4h
devalues is too polite, defiles is more accurate
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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 4h
Been enjoying some of the World Cup qualifiers, although sadly I’d like to see our teams boycotting the finals in the USA if things continue as they are. The thought of Trump presiding over it is horrendous. He devalues and taints everything he touches
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h
Words, Priti Patel this morning. Footage, London yesterday.
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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 1d
Wassily Kandinsky with his painting
Dominant Curve, April 1936
Wassily Kandinsky with his painting Dominant Curve, April 1936 Completed Dominant Curve, April 1936
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Liberal Buddhist @liberalbuddhist.bsky.social · 11h
#nightflight
#MusicSky
#MusicTherapy

youtu.be/WNnb1NfLrK4?...
The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by TheTemptationsVEVO
youtu.be
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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 8d
Pierre Cardin Satellite Cape (1967)
The Pierre Cardin Satellite cape was a revolutionary piece from his 1960s Space Age collections. Glossy scarlet vinyl lined with synthetic fleece, fitted with heavy brass zipper, 2 white bull's eye pockets. Also known as the Target cape.
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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · Feb 17
Hiroko Matsumoto in Pierre Cardin (1966)
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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 2d
Bruno Monguzzi — Odilon Redon: The Nature of the Invisible, 1996.
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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 1d
Diane Keaton, RIP
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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 1d
Anticipating ‘Strictly’ I came across ‘The Celebrity Inner Circle’. Of all the dreadful junk the Beeb throws out on Saturday night this really is the worst yet. Robotic Amanda Holden hosting a truly deadly so called quiz show
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SaRac @sarac222.bsky.social · 2d
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Carmen Harris🇿🇦 @carmenharris.bsky.social · 2d
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2d
Pot of gold!

Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!

Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
My photo shows a pile of shiny Roman gold coins below five fragments from a grey pot
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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2d
I truly don’t know what’s triggered it, but this phrase from Tacitus keeps coming to mind today:

“They make a desolation and they call it peace”.
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 3d
Lion Hunt by Vasily Kandinsky, 1911
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137334
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 3d
You don’t get to bankroll a genocide…

Embolden and cheer on the perpetrators

…and then call yourself a hero for pulling the plug.
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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 3d
Ratcliffe says Amorim needs 3 years to turn things round…
The whole world is mad
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 4d
if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 4d
The uber-rich have never been much into integration. The essence of the Public Schools is separation from the oiks.
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 4d
Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr
The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4d
One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 5d
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 4d
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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 5d
Exactly so
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Hilary Fawcett @hboomer.bsky.social · 5d
Badenoch wants to close “rip off’ degrees such as English. One minute they are wrapping themselves in the Union Jack, the next minute they are wanting to stop the study of our language and literature. Ignorant philistines
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