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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 1d

Though that blue notification mark forever below my feed is going to irk me!

Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn’t have thought it would be possible to send a DM to someone who hadn’t verified, perhaps it is a sly welcome-to-Bluesky move? But I’ve no intention to verify.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 1d

Unaffordable housing, and the wider human costs of this.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I think this is right

Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 1d

We were there only bc my son needed somewhere off road to take a pee!

I have a tactic of ensuring that if anything I want to photo has a tree nearby, that tree is included in full (as with the #daysofboyhood photo). Sometimes the tree is the secret subject.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 1d

Persuasive point! Didn’t TS Eliot say something about how feudal / inequal society was more conducive to great art?

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, such clickbait! Pretty sure I see the two step shuffle needed for this, but will await confirmation from stronger puzzlers in the comments…

Chess.com @chess.com · 1d

Your life will branch into two timelines - one where you solve today's daily puzzle, and one where you don't.

It's your future! 🫵 Black to move.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 2d

Well done! 🎯

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 2d

Where am I?

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 2d

Your examples all date from a time before writers / novelists actually existed, though.

Doris Lessing, Vila-Matas, and Ben Lerner might like a word.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 2d

For a while I tried Google-imaging buildings etc described in non-fiction books. I found it quite horrible! Better to stay in the cloud

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 3d

I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,
that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable
and unknowable dangers…

—Marjorie Lotfi, “Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)”
in THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2023
www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)
Marjorie Lotfi

I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,
that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable
and unknowable dangers: sheets of metal ripped
to knife edge, live wires, bloated arms reaching

for light. Her hair, scraped back into a ponytail,
is open to sky; remnants of buildings filter down
one concrete chunk at a time, and the midday bells
of rockets ring out above her. She carries a boy

on her still narrow hips, his legs entwined around
her yellow dungarees. Like a rodeo rider, his left arm
grips her shoulder to steady himself, or her,
while his torso reels back and away; his body

is asking to slow down, to turn back. Instead,
her eyes comb the ground for a next step, fingers
of her free hand curled into a claw, as if
to frighten off what she somehow sees ahead.

A Palestinian girl carries a child across rubble from a building that police said was destroyed by an Israeli air strike, in the Burij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, August 1, 2014. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly. Marjorie Lotfi's poem describes the picture in detail:

Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)
Marjorie Lotfi

I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,
that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable
and unknowable dangers: sheets of metal ripped
to knife edge, live wires, bloated arms reaching

for light. Her hair, scraped back into a ponytail,
is open to sky; remnants of buildings filter down
one concrete chunk at a time, and the midday bells
of rockets ring out above her. She carries a boy

on her still narrow hips, his legs entwined around
her yellow dungarees. Like a rodeo rider, his left arm
grips her shoulder to steady himself, or her,
while his torso reels back and away; his body

is asking to slow down, to turn back. Instead,
her eyes comb the ground for a next step, fingers
of her free hand curled into a claw, as if
to frighten off what she somehow sees ahead.

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Sarah Cole @irny.bsky.social · 3d

I've spent a *lot* of time looking at Paolozzi's TCR mosaics of late (and making my own mosaic pieces inspired by them for a project I'm working on).

Paolozzi's mosaics are remarkable in scale and endlessly fascinating, and really should be listed.

A photo of a mosaic by Eduardo Paolozzi at Tottenham Court Road Underground station. This piece is in the 'rotunda' at the foot of the Central line escalator bank. It depicts abstract patterns, tusked faces, audio equipment, and a bisected human head.

A photo of a mosaic by Eduardo Paolozzi at Tottenham Court Road Underground station. This piece is on the Northern line platforms, in the corridor that connects to the Central line via an escalator. Amongst the geometric shapes, the words 'E. Paolozzi' and '83' can be made out.

A photo of a mosaic by Eduardo Paolozzi at Tottenham Court Road Underground station. This close-up shows the variety of colours, shapes, and patterns in the glass tiles.

A photo of a mosaic by Eduardo Paolozzi at Tottenham Court Road Underground station. This piece is now in a large corridor that runs above the Central line platforms. Within the outline shape of an archway can be seen several motifs, including a moth, geometric shapes, and a bisected human head.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 3d

Will we 2020s people who continue to use Amazon, keep our Facebook & X accounts, and look at TikTok be the “I never knew what was happening” people of the 1930s?

Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 3d

There is no amount of open corruption that will wake up Americans. That family has realized this crucial truth. They broke Senate, media and Supreme Court. Nobody dares to stand up. We live in a Republic of fear and cowardice.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 3d

We were both lost in our two separate worlds at the moment!

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La Femme Merveilleuse Invisible @larwoolf.bsky.social · 4d

" So absurd and fleeting
is our passage
through this world that the only thing
that reassures me is the awareness
of having been authentic
of being the person most similar
to myself that I could have imagined. "
Frida Kahlo

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 3d

Modern stained glass in the Lismore pub in the Partick area of Glasgow.

Cont./

#glasgow #stainedglass #architecture #architecturephotography #lismore #partick #thelismore #window #stainedglasswindow

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 5d

Nice thread! I think as well there’s been a move by TS (and her backing crew etc) all moving from ❤️ to ❤️‍🔥 which I think could be taken as the Catholic Sacred Heart symbol. The emblemology around this album really is interesting.

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Agatha Cakalogika @acakalogika.bsky.social · 10d

SPOILERS AHOY, if you have seen the Fate of Ophelia video yet….

Ok so, 🧵 because I’ve been obsessed with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood since the last 80s (1980s not 1880s), and I’m flappy hand excited again. Some of this you’ll know, but maybe some you don’t. So why am I showing the 2nd tableau?

A tableau from the Fate of Ophelia video. Taylor Swift in white medieval-style gown with huge bell sleeves, poses beside a table of her own baked sourdough bread, behind her is landscape that looks out of place, like a French or Flemish landscape, her hand is extended like a falconer, and a red dove lands on it

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, Ben Ledi stands like a guardsman to the Highlands.
I like how Loch Lubnaig has been developed enough to offer a pitstop, but no shop etc

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 5d

Glencoe. You probably won’t see the photostalker centre right of the middle ground. He strode past me without a word, and two minutes later I’d lost to him to the heather.

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Lynda Haughney @lyndahaughney.bsky.social · 5d

It is. I love the way it feels so enclosed, in a way that eg nearby Loch Iubhair does not.

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