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Stuart Jones
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Trains, boats and planes. And music. And wildlife, geology, genealogy, astronomy...
All the right things, just not necessarily in the right order

Flickr: owenthesignal (rail & transport) wildspaces (photography)
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26. REM - Texarkana 1991

A great bass line, Mike sings, and those lyrics ✨

Forty thousand stars in the evening
Look at them fall from the sky
Forty thousand reasons for living
Forty thousand tears in your eyes
November 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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25. Faithless - Insomnia 1995

Well had to happen, after taking a break, I posted two for number 20 in my list! 🤦‍♂️
The story in the post says it all…

So Insomnia becomes #25, #26 to follow
bsky.app/profile/owen...
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24. Alanis Morissette - You Learn

Hold it up (to the rays)
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
#TOTP Christmas 1995, good luck everyone
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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24. Alanis Morissette - You Learn

Hold it up (to the rays)
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Black Friday is a day to boycott billionaires.
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Black Friday / Pieter Bruegel
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I'm not doing Black Friday discounts this year.
It’s just me in my Manchester studio. I can't compete with big brands slashing prices.
Every purchase keeps my tiny business going.
Shop independent this Christmas gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Jeff Bezos will be fine if we ignore him for one day.
This Black Friday, support a small creator.
Artists: drop your shop links below, whether you’re running a sale or not, and please repost everyone else’s.

No NSFW. No AI.

Here’s mine:
dragonsofwales.etsy.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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23. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy 1991

Could have been any of half a dozen of their songs. Seeing them in Bristol was a real (but very wet) highlight

How can you have a day without a night?
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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22. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit 1991

Nearly went for Come As You Are, not least for the bass sound, but, you know

I’m worse at what I do best
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekVforVowels

Elephants (pink variety)

Spotted on a wall in Southampton and flying in a beer warehouse, literally on the BE-NL border

If you are still seeing the the BE-NL border run through the middle of a beer warehouse, repeat with more beer
#beersky #bskybeer
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror / hoofdspiegel

~1/5th scale model

#JWST
#November_kiek
#weerspiegeling #reflection
@ikbendaan.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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21. Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl 1994

Finally have a ticket to see her, next year!

You bet your life it is
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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20. Neil Finn - Sinner 1998

Underrated IMHO

Where's my faith, is it lost
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?

We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.

Find out more:

collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Orange bench (but only in The Netherlands).

Welcom bij Baarle-Nassau (L-NL) / Baarle-Hertog (R-BE) 🇳🇱🇧🇪
See alt-text 🤷‍♂️

#November_Kiek #Oranje
@ikbendaan.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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JA BITTE.

Lufthansa's fantastic 100th anniversary livery will be painted on SIX aircraft types — the 787, 747-8, A380, A350-1000, A350-900 and A320neo.

More of this please.
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Had to take a few days out to sort out a difficult family matter. Planned to post this one last week, seems right

20. Faithless - Insomnia 1995

I write by candlelight, I find insight
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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COP30 BREAKING NEWS: The likely final text of the "global mutirão" has been published, ahead of the closing plenary

Here's the snap analysis from the CB team…see last line

unfccc.int/sites/def...
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Shots fired #COP30 plenary

PANAMA: "Mr. President, Panama is extremely disappointed. We were promised a transparent process. That is not what we're seeing. I raise my flag and you ignore it. I raise a point of order, and you ignore it. I sustain it, and it can be ignored."
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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It's been a bit quiet lately when it should be picking up for Christmas.
If you're shopping for gifts, have a look at what I do.
Everything I make is designed here in Manchester and manufactured in the UK.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester
Discover a world of bold and colourful prints, homewares and stationery by Gail Myerscough, a surface pattern designer and illustrator. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK.
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM