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Alec Coakley
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🌐 Somewhere down the crazy river
📔Spinoza
🎼 It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
👁️ 'I don't believe in coincidences' Clotho
🍔 I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
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revdalicegoodman.bsky.social
A dahlia for 14 January 2026.
Dahlia Franz Kafka.
A pink pompom dahlia, named after the author Franz Kafka
January 14, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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ciara2001.bsky.social
Is that an escape claws?
15,000 crabs in escape bid after truck crashes in Donegal
Up to 15,000 crabs made a break for freedom after the truck they were being transported in crashed into a ditch in Co Donegal yesterday.
www.rte.ie
January 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
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acidlich.bsky.social
It’s evidently #portfolioday ! Please enjoy some elements of my portfolio!
A tiger standing on a projective plane in a pond and upon the projective plane is an elliptic curve . There are lotus blossoms with golden fronds and the sky is full of stars with a crescent moon. On yellow paper with black ink and white and iridescent gold accents My illustration reflective plane curves, this one features the reflections of a projective plane and some affine patches in a pond with lotus blossoms as some frogs swim past. The waves of the frog closer in are apparently the dual curve to the curve on the projective plane. On white watercolor paper with black ink and gold accents My illustration to divide is to contain. A space ship approaches a golden lattice in a sky full of curlings clouds and stars. The ship is called the norm, this drawing is about algebraic number theory My illustration of an Alexander horned sphere on brown paper. The horned sphere is in front of a night sky and surrounded by coiling waves. Called tumult. Black ink with white accents
January 13, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
An assortment of semi-recent delights for #PortfolioDay.

🪶🌎 #SciArt #BirdArt #paleoart

Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/tiny...
Digital illustration of a Dark-eyed Junco, a dark brown sparrow with a pink beak, looking down from the background at a patch of red clover. The clover is covered in a variety of insects from Graham's work, including Harmonia axyridis (Asian ladybeetle), Scaptomyza terminalis (a small fly), Altica sp. flea beetles (tiny iridescent green beetles), Forcipata loca (pale yellow small leafhopper), Evacanthus interruptus (yellow and black leafhopper), and Anaspis rufa (small golden-brown false flower beetles). Digital illustration of two pterosaurs flying over a lush forest and lake area. The sky behind them is blue with soft white clouds. Both pterosaurs are the same species - one is near to us with wings lowered as it turns in flight, the other is farther behind with wings raised. They have a brilliant black, red, and yellow display crest, a long red pair of jaws with short teeth, a green crown, golden iris, black eyestripe, and cream-colored breast fuzz. The wings are long and pointed, dark blue-gray with a red band and black tips. They each have a long tail with a red arrow-shaped point. For NorthStar Games: Nature Illustration of a woman in a green floral skirt and white floral cowgirl boots walking through a field of desert flowers lit by sunrise. They glow brilliant orange-gold in contrast to the dark cool blue shadows. The sky is a pale blue, and the background mountains are jagged and barren. Digital painting of a pair of Sandhill Cranes in summer copper-stained plumage. They stand in shallow water running over meadow grasses, next to blooming larkspur, irises, and corn lily. In the background, Ackerson Mountain with its prior burn scar rises above a forest of conifers. The meadow is bordered with clumps of willow.
January 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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stanfordpress.bsky.social
A critical edition of Nietzsche’s first published book, The Birth of Tragedy, with supplemental materials that allow us to see it within the larger context of Nietzsche's early thought, and chart the development of that first book while revealing roads not taken

https://ow.ly/ph3F50XVUaL
Book cover of The Birth of Tragedy / Unpublished Basel Writings (Winter 1869/70–Fall 1873), Volume 1 by Friedrich Nietzsche, Translated, with an Afterword, by Sean D. Kirkland and Andrew J. Mitchell
January 13, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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coralcitycamera.bsky.social
Yellow stingrays are our smallest cartilaginous fish in Coral City. They are also the most fashionably dressed. 😎 #yellowstingray #stingraysofcoralcity #stingray #elasmobranch #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
January 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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wunderkammertales.bsky.social
Foxgloves are said to grow where the fae gather, but famously foxgloves do not bloom in winter.

Or do they?

Let's join Mair the Witch in our 7th #winterfolklore tale, go to a place where Cheshire and Gwynedd meet and have a closer look.

Read Mair's story below.

🎨 Le Rolland
January 13, 2026 at 6:13 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
And here comes “slopaganda”. New words for a crazy world. #slopaganda
January 8, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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theoriajournal.bsky.social
🔔 We're launching our Bluesky account today! Can you help us spread the word by retweeting this post? 😀

#Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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signemaene.com
A Milkmaid on Ice Skates by a Sledge, Henri van Seben (1825-1913)
Painting of a milkmaid on ice skates by a sledge. Red headscarf. Brown and green clothing. Other ice skaters in the distance.
January 12, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social
"Thriving on seams
That tiney island swell
Just hilling from the mud and rancid streams
Suiting thy nature well

For here thy bill
Suited by wisdom good
Of rude unseemly length doth delve and drill
The gelid mass for food..."

From John Clare (1793-1864) 'To the Snipe'

Clip: Isle of Barra 2017
January 12, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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danmulhall.bsky.social
What remains is the long yawn back

to fallowness, this Monday morning’s
grey road …

remote from summer’s deep rustle,
its tussled length of hours.

Only this: the small pony & boy
now swallowed in time, a slow, iced air

breathing from the north,
roots entwined in the dark earth
Mary O’Donnell
January 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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joenoonan.bsky.social
Cork city centre. One dolphin of five.
Dolphin
January 10, 2026 at 12:07 PM
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telescoper.bsky.social
Why don't we all do this?
chrisosieck.bsky.social Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · Oct 31
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.

www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
He said, 'Well, talk to yourself if you like, but don't scold yourself, because you don't deserve it.'
January 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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artofmaquenda.bsky.social
Amur Dreams
January 1, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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artofmaquenda.bsky.social
Pinned post! :D

#PortfolioDay I'm Maquenda, a visionary artist, drawn to the 'wild, weird and wonderful' aspects of life.

💀 Shop: artofmaquenda.etsy.com

🍄 artofmaquenda.tumblr.com
🌌 instagram.com/ArtofMaquenda
🩸 www.furaffinity.net/user/maquenda/
🌱 patreon.com/Maquenda
October 12, 2024 at 6:03 AM
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jiminyspigot.bsky.social
You can have a little optimism, as a treat.
January 4, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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sicburns2.bsky.social
Have we taken over Australia yet I could use one of those ass-kicking kangaroos
January 4, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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theghostmonk.bsky.social
The outlier of the Nine Stones in the #PeakDistrict. It stands between the main circle, on their shallow mound, and Robin Hood's Stride, an oddly shaped outcrop that may have inspired the building of the circle. (Scanned from a photo I took in 2002.)
#StandingStoneSunday #stonecircles #Derbyshire
January 4, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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archaeohawke.bsky.social
#StandingStoneSunday

The Rudston Monolith at over 25 feet (7.6 m) is the tallest megalith (standing stone) in the United Kingdom. The weight is estimated at 40 tonnes. The monolith is made of gritstone. The monument dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age.

#Archaeology
#AncientBlueSky🪨
January 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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dezlink.bsky.social
First standing stne of the New Year, standing stone in Dulane Graveyard, near Kells, Co Meath
#StandingStoneSunday
Standing stone with a white top in a green graveyard with a hedge in the background
January 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Breakfast with the Birds, 1934 by Expressionist painter Gabriele Münter, #womensart
Painting of the back view of a woman sitting at a breakfast table looking out of a large window at a tree covered in frost on which a number of small birds are perched
December 29, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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One trillion of AI investment is riding on this being legal
beardedgenius.bsky.social BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 13d
So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves
January 1, 2026 at 11:34 AM