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natsky777 @natsky777.bsky.social · 1h

#ScarySaturday 🎥🎬🍿
About to settle in for the night to watch an old Hammer flick on TV - 'Scars Of Dracula' 🧛🦇

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horrorposterguy1.bsky.social @horrorposterguy1.bsky.social · 6h

Reed smoulders beautifully in Hammers fabulous adaption of Guy Endores novel Werewolf of Paris. Gloriously told tale of werewolf from womb to tomb. 1961.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #hammerhorror #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam

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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 2d

The train station serving Ostia Antica is to be completely transformed amid plans by Italy to seek UNESCO recognition for the ancient port city near Rome.

New train station for Ostia Antica as Italy plans UNESCO bid for ancient site

Project to be funded with €8.4 million in Jubilee funds. The train station serving Ostia Antica is to undergo a major renovation, the Lazio region announced, coinciding with plans by Italy to seek UNE...

www.wantedinrome.com

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Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social · 3h

I particular like the colours of Vesuvius looking as though someone has fashioned it out of a lump of smooshed-together-different-coloured Play-Doh.

View from up high looking down into Pompeii with the via Nocera gently winding its way up the slope under the arch of the Nocera Gate. Beyond Vesuvius looms with its peak in shadow and its foothills are speckled greens and browns.

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 2h

Pterostylis barbata - Bird Orchid

One of Western Australia's more unusual looking orchids. The orchid's labellum is triggered by visiting pollinators trapping them inside the orchid's hood and forcing them to escape past the orchid's pollinia
#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist

A translucent green and white orchid which is shaped rather like the silhouette of a bird

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Judy Dunlop @judydunlop.bsky.social · 17h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Threatened native animals at risk as rat bait review delayed again

Rat bait poison has been found in threatened northern quoll populations as an overdue report into their use by the federal pesticides regulator is again delayed.

www.abc.net.au

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Kimberly @kimbasgarden.bsky.social · 6h

This story is an invitation to all Australians and a plea to protect murujuga.
Please take the time to read it.

Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 7h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

#Murujuga

Ancient rock art in northern WA shows Tasmanian tiger, Tasmanian devil

There are more than 2 million artworks on the rocks at Murujuga, with more stories under the waves.

www.abc.net.au

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palangrin Dr.OD @palangrin1526.bsky.social · 12h

Sisyphus

#wildlife
#animals
#reptiles
#sonorandesert
#iphonephotography
#gilamonster

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 3h

A rainbow bee-eater briefly sat on the edge of the dam and I managed just a few frames through the shrubs before it took flight.
Such pretty birds.

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 3h

So, I've shown you crimson chats and orange chats.
Now I have a white-fronted chat for you.
This one took an early dip in the dam.

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Mart_the_Gooner @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social · 6h

Deliveroo #Birdsinflight #birds

Eurasian Robin flying over a fence, wings tucked, with two mealworms in it’s beak

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Ann @anneastern.bsky.social · 14h

Love a jacaranda but loves these Flame Trees more.
One from a few years ago…and it did look like a perfectly formed red Christmas tree from afar! 😍

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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Illawarra Flame Tree, 1941
oil on canvas
Adrian Feint (Australian painter 1894–1971)

The painting is part of The Joseph Brown Collection and is housed at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in Melbourne, Australia.

#art #painting #illustration

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Jane Barnes @jane13barnes.bsky.social · 1d

Flames Tree … music connects us, I Love how some songs do that 😂💙🙏

Jimmy Barnes @jimmybarnes.com · 1d

Thanks for a great afternoon on the cruise ship. Felt fantastic to be doing what I love, singing rock ‘n roll in the high seas… well, in the middle of a big ocean.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 7h

And here are the other two. I picked up the tatty one on the left for 50p on a charity book stall and became hooked. Over a few years I hunted down the rest. With the exception of 'The Second Creepy', which was edited by Hugh Walpole, they all appear to have been edited by John Galsworthy.

'The Evening Standard Book Of Strange Stories (in brown boards) and 'The Evening Standard Second Book Of Strange Stories' (in pale blue boards). The titles on the first book is crowned by the face of a young woman looking fearfully over her shoulder; the second book has a weird illustration of crackling energy connecting a skull, at left, and a house under a tree.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 7h

Many thanks to everyone who contributed to #PhantomsFriday! It falls on yer actual Hallowe'en next Friday, so it would be great if some #BookWormSat enthusiasts would like to post something literary (or otherwise) of a suitably ghostly nature. Meanwhile, here are a few spooky 1930s anthologies I own

Three hardback books: 'A Century Of Creepy Stories' (in green boards); 'A Century Of Ghost Stories' (in orange); and 'The Second Century Of Creepy Stories' (in red). The titles, in black, are set within a rectangular frame crowned with a line drawing, in order: a ghost raising its arms; a spooky house; a skull with light rays radiating from it.

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Zeb Cyrus @zbcy.bsky.social · 12h

Fresco from the Palace of Knossos, Crete, Greece

#photography #travel #Hellas #beach #island #archaeology #Minoan

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Ideas Roadshow @ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 3h

For #caturday part of a precious #Roman funerary bed with bone carvings (2nd-1st c. BC) from Fossa Necropolis, Abruzzo, Southern Italy.

Notice the lions, dragons/dogs & last but not least a dolphin! 🐬

🏺 #archaeology 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #cat #catsofbluesky

Part of a Roman funerary bed with bone carvings (2nd-1st c. BC) from Fossa Necropolis, Abruzzo, Southern Italy.It shows a face with lions on each side and dogs or dragons plus a dolphin on top of his head.
http://www.icr.beniculturali.it/

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 7h

My favourite stretch of the Antonine Wall, the Roman frontier in Scotland, can be found at Dullatur. Here the Wall's enormous ditch is remarkably well preserved, tangible evidence of the impressive scale of this 38-mile-long monument.
#RomanSiteSaturday

A stretch of deep ditch with trees growing out of it. A modern stone wall can be seen in the foreground.

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Kate Sheehan-Finn @katesfwriter.bsky.social · 4h

I could not stand here without thinking about those who stood here long ago.

Human terror still leaches from the underworld beneath the #Colosseum floor.

We tourists stand on solid ground that was once sand to soak up blood.

📸 my own
#Colosseum #AncientRome #RomanSiteSaturday

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 7h

They were mainly purchased by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, for display in his ‘Japanisches Palais’ in Dresden which is said to have housed more than 24,000 porcelain objects.

You can see this vase on display in Gallery 37 on Level 2.

🐘🏺EA1992.114

A rare vase with an intricate 'birdcage' body which contains a model of a bird within it. The handles of the vase are in the form of two elephant heads and trunks.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 7h

Only about twenty of these unusual ‘birdcage’ vases are known to have survived to the present day.

They were made in Japan in the 18th century at the famous Arita kilns, but they were designed to be exported to the Western market.

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Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · 6h

Sarcophagus with scenes from the myth of Alcetis & Admetus, in Musei Vaticani 🏺

At the center alcetis is in her death bed holding the hand of her husband alcetus, to the right Hercules holds the hand of Admetus, on the right corner is Hades on a throne

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 3d

Derbyshire Archaeology Day 2026

Talks include:
"Rowtor Rocks: prehistoric art and ritual in the White Peak"
Prof. George Nash and Anna Clark of the Derbyshire Rock Art Group

A special one, this - some stunning new rock art finds at Rowtor!

Tickets here: chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys...

Figurative engraving of a deer, Rowtor Rocks, Birchover. Image credit Anna Clark

Prehistoric cup and ring marks, Rowtor Rocks, Birchover. Image credit Anna Clark

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DerbyshireArchaeology @derbyshirearch.bsky.social · 3d

Derbyshire Archaeology Day

Saturday 31st January 2026, Winding Wheel Theatre, Chesterfield

Tickets here: chesterfieldtheatres.co.uk/shows/derbys...

Around 150 already sold (we usually sell out)

8 talks on current projects in Derbyshire and the Peak.

I'm going to trail the first one shortly ...

A prehistoric ring ditch being excavated at Dove Valley Park, Foston, South Derbyshire, in 2023. Image credit Pre-Construct Archaeology

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