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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · Dec 31

European Union. Never let them tell you it's not British.

Bio of Captain Arthur Capel from Wikipedia.

Two years before his accidental death, Capel had met in Paris a brilliant young Pole, Josef Retinger, whim he inspired with his talk of federalism and the idea of world government based on an Anglo-French alliance... The seed had been planted in Retinger's mind and, though transformed, it arguably influenced the creation of The League of Nations and came to fruition decades later in the European Union.

Chanel "Carried Away."

Caricature of Coco Chanel lifted off her feet by the dashing Arthur Capel in the form of a centaur polo pony.

Liberty print "Capel" on Tana Lawn. A small ditsy floral suitable for men or women.

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John Vigar @johnevigar.bsky.social · 2h

Ceiling by Stephen Dykes Bower in Hambledon church, Hampshire

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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 14h

Fog lingered on the desert floor last Saturday morning accentuating the ridge layers between Yaqui Ridge and the Salton Sea (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Fog lingered on the desert floor last Saturday morning accentuating the ridge layers between Yaqui Ridge and the Salton Sea. The foreground contains lots of cacti and leafed out ocotillos.

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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 20h

Thinking about the Roman Empire on the commute home.
@durotrigesdig.bsky.social @theduncanmackay.bsky.social

A pub sign for Ye Olde Watling featuring a Roman helmet

A glass signed display of Mithras sacrificing the bull

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 58m

"I guess I grow our garden to catch the seasons, to celebrate the way that constant change makes me feel more myself." www.wildway.info/p/season-cat...

Season catchers

Each morning we wake and immediately look to our daily weather forecast through the three small stone windows.

www.wildway.info

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 1d

Over on Substack I wrote about Lithuania's literary tradition of magical realism: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Discovering the Lithuanian fantastic

Tracing a literary and artistic tradition

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 21h

One of my favorite Halloween time paintings by Fragonard -- The Magician

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Clydeside Wild (Dean) @clydesidewild.bsky.social · 19h

Monday 12th Oct
Took a walk along the F&C Canal to Lambhill Stables/Cafe on the Canal and was rewarded with my first ever patch Streak 😃 The outside lights also produced my first Feathered Thorn of the year. Moth yearlist (all stages, no trapping) #162
#teammoth

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 55m

Autumn + medieval guild hall =

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We are looking at a section of a medieval building featuring orange bricks glowing in the autumn sunshine and a stone mullion window. A bench sits in front of the window and the ground is strewn with leaves.

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 11h

Today, I'd like to say-

The Taino were the people of Borinquen. Borinquen was later renamed to Puerto Rico.

Some Taino words remain today.

Words like hurakán = hurricane, barbacoa = barbeque.

The Taino greeting is

Taino-ti

Which means - "I greet you with love because you are family."

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 23h

Do the frogs in Portland know "We All Stand Together"? If not, there's a rather beautiful wee anthem just waiting for them to pick up.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

New study just dropped linking shingles reactivation and dementia risk.

You know what reactivates shingles? Covid.

Want to avoid it? Wear a well fitted respirator and give yourself the best odds of avoiding Covid infection.

There’s also a shingles vaccine which may help reduce risk!

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 1h

I always make extra to difuse tensions with abundance.

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 10h

Pet peeve:

People who comment “it’s not going to make any difference”

Even if the odds are against you, does the mean you should give up?

Should our people have not fought back? People shouldn’t have fought apartheid? Rosa Parks shouldn’t have given up her seat?

Like what are you saying?

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Stephen Old @stephenold.bsky.social · 1h

I had copied a slide show, with different views of Holy Island (Lindisfarne), including one of the castle, but there are always problems with embedded videos on Bluesky. Here is a picture of the castle.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3h

Faintly amusing that the IFS' argument to Reeves on tax reform is basically: You're fucked either way, so you might as well do something decent for the country while you're taking all this pain www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...

UK's Reeves should use budget to reform tax system, IFS says

British finance minister Rachel Reeves should use her budget in November to carry out a long overdue reform of the taxation system which could help her to raise more revenue while limiting the hit to the economy, a think tank said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 2h

In death as in social media. Everyone ends up as a ghost, but most have no audience and aren't even noticed.

Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 2h

"This one weird trick..."

Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 2h

This⬆️

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 3h

A plea to TV writers and producers: stop ruining your series by making sure there’s enough left ‘open’ for another season. Let the plot be the plot.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 3h

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Cartoon of a plesiosaur. Seen from the side, the top line of its shape is echoed in ripples up the page, reminiscent of the artwork for the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasure. Caption: Unknown Plesiosaurs

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 2h

Spot on 🎯

Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 2h

They are allied to Blue Labour.

two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying he 's not welcome

Alt: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying he 's not welcome

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 1d

"Is Farage responsible for the economy's troubles because of Brexit?"

Farage laughing his socks off while pointing at the pound crashing on the night of the EU Ref

3:35am, June 24, 2016. Sterling is in freefall. And Nigel Farage is beaming

The events of the referendum night, writes JAMES BALL, shine a fascinating light on the world of finance, polling and politics It was the week a major

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Samantha's Silver Earrings @samanthasearrings.bsky.social · 3h

Marty. You're about to be blocked by me for being a professional killjoy.

You don't know what would happen. You don't have the divine power of prescience. Stop pulling ectoplasm out of your bum.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

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