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Pennan Brae @pennanbrae.bsky.social · 2h

Early morning grove of trees in a frost covered field, just past dawn. #saskatchewan #prairies

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Spectacled Langour @spectacledlangour.bsky.social · 2h

It borked

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4h

I was a bookseller in my youth. One of my favorite things to do is boost awesome books by awesome people. If you've published a book in 2025, please let me know so I can read it in time for my annual Weirdly Specific Book Recommendations, shared each December for all your holiday shopping needs.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 3h

Google has ended its support for Full Fact.

Our fact checks are free to read but not to produce. Support independent, impartial fact checking today: donate.fullfact.org/july-rg-ask?...

Google has ended its support for Full Fact. These are critical times for anyone committed to the fight against misinformation.

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Spectacled Langour @spectacledlangour.bsky.social · 3h

Well that's a weekend trip sorted

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Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social · 3h

As everyone knows, the gift shop is the main bit of a museum, and my excellent colleagues at BCLM have just updated ours - now featuring Punks and Chancers teeshirts, exclusive Black Country Type prints, merch from my pub and a lovely book section.

Photographic prints by Black Country Type on a giftshop shelf

Bar towel from the Black Country Living Museum's Elephant & Castle pub

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Spectacled Langour @spectacledlangour.bsky.social · 3h

Be still my beating cholesterol

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Vee @veeistrying.bsky.social · 4h

#VeeMakes

Made a Giant Thing

(Regular sized Thing for scale)

A ginormous (made in a 9-inch tin) golden crunch cream biscuit next to a regular sized one.
The execution is terrible, but the taste is off the charts good.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18h

This seems like a job for somebody on here

Comics Jobs @comics-jobs.com · 19h

Assistant Editor, Manga at Penguin Random House

Full-time | Remote (Anywhere)

comics-jobs.com

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Spectacled Langour @spectacledlangour.bsky.social · 4h

I fit a replacement doorbell earlier. Did I check the volume on the new one to make sure it wasn't loud enough to make me fair poop myself when someone pressed it? Did I buttons

Spectacled Langour @spectacledlangour.bsky.social · 7h

Noone tell him about men playing women and vice versa in Shakespeare.
Actually, maybe do. And stand back while his head explodes

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 8h

From rescue to leading the Nursery line — we are so excited to introduce you to little Arthi, the newest member of our orphan elephant herd!

Can’t wait to discover his story or be one of his first foster parents? Visit swt.bio/arthi

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Spectacled Langour @spectacledlangour.bsky.social · 8h

If you're anti-ANTIFA, simple maths says that you're pro-FA

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 12h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Sundowner 🍋 @sundownerstudio.bsky.social · 15h

What’s this week’s Lino Print of the Week, I hear you* ask?

*no one

Well, steady yourself. It’s the Three Blue Lobsters 🦞

A lino print art piece of 3 blue lobsters, facing different ways. It’s on a wooden table, along with a bronze frog (or toad not sure), shells, a blue and white china bottle with lid.

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Pennan Brae @pennanbrae.bsky.social · 1d

A park bench with a strip of wood missing but it’s still hanging in. #vancouverbc #parkbench

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Spectacled Langour @spectacledlangour.bsky.social · 1d

*me, lying quietly on the sofa watching the football*

My brain: something's wrong
Me: what?
Brain: something's wrong
Me: nothing's wrong, don't be silly
Brain: something's wrong
Me: fine. What's wrong?
Brain: I DON'T KNOW
Me: sakes

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Stick Nation @sticknation.bsky.social · 1d

We are SOOOO close to being on the NYT best seller list! Help push us over the edge!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/778235...

Sticks by Logan Jugler, Boone Hogg: 9780593837528 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The ultimate guide to the art and science of stick collecting. Because nobody knows sticks like the founders of Stick Nation. What makes a particularly good stick? Is it the stick’s length and sturdi...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Spectacled Langour @spectacledlangour.bsky.social · 1d

Need some top quality artists and animators in your lives? Have a looksee at the #portfolioday #PortfolioDay stuff

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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 1d

It’s #portfolioday once again! Hi, my name is Michelle and I’m a British artist in the UK! Clients have included Metallica, Magic! The Gathering, Boom!, Werewolf the Apocalypse and more!
My website is wolfskulljack.com

My art digital, surreal a women and a skeleton

My art digital a large goddess with wings for eyes and a glowing shape of a women with a single antler

A collection of posters that I’ve done for Metallica Volbeat and Trivium

My art digital a women looks into the jaws of a beast

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SAPRO @saproartist.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #Portfolioday !
I am a freelancer always open to drawing for your projects, particularly fantasy and horror!

Please contact me at saproartist(at)gmail for inquiries.

Illustration for Lunacid: Tears of the Moon

Illustration of the OC Strahd created by sabbathism

Design of a jester character for J.E. Lynn

Illustration of original characters created by Goetia

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🦋daria•anako🦋 artist @anako.bsky.social · 1d

This time I won't miss #PortfolioDay, ha! ✨

Hi, I'm Daria Anako! 💜 I'm a digital artist from Poland. I love creating and illustrating emotional & magical stories with amazing characters 🥰

My portfolio, sm & contact:
anako.art
daria📧anako.art

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Jeleynai @jeleynai.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #PortfolioDay ✨

I'm Jeleynai (or Jelly, if you prefer c:), a freelance artist with a special love for all things fantasy, sci-fi and darker themes!

All my links are here: linktr.ee/Jeleynai 🖤
📧: [email protected]

A painting of a woman in black armour and dark skin with a sword over her shoulder and her feathery dragon companion. The feathers on the dragon shift colours like opals in the sun

A painting of a dragon ranger and her companion, a young red dragon. They're looking out over a sea of clouds.

A painting of Ghost, leaned up against a broken piece of concrete as some imaginary spooky skeleton men come to bother him

An illustration of a huntress crouched in shadow and flanked by her two noodly companions. They're eel-gator-hounds, a species I made up for this project <3

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Jimmy Makepeace @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #Portfolioday

My name is Jimmy Makepeace and I am an illustrator and sometimes animator based in Bristol UK.

A woman rides on the back of a dragon with a bow and arrow over a blasted landscape.

A barbarian stands surrounded by skeletons in a throneroom backlit in red

A sleep paralysis demon sits atop a burned out tank against a crimson sky

Elric of Melnibone is gently pushed forward into the future by an unseen breeze, he's stood atop a boat surrounded by candles

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