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Tam
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lapsed academic, avid reader, photographer (they/them)

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Tam @eater-of-books.bsky.social · Oct 14
I have launched a little print shop with a selection of photos, a mix of film and digital, which I aim to rotate regularly. I’m bad at self-promotion but please take a look:

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a film photo of a covered bridge in Glasgow. The railings have a serpentine curve which draws the eye into the distance, and the photo is full of warm orange tones a black-and white photo of a jetty on derwent water, in the Lake District. There is a sleepy duck in the foreground, and snow-covered hills in the background a macro photo of water droplets on a fallen leaf a photo of a highland cow, with their tongue poking out
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Cartoon of stylised drawings of a pig seen head on (labelled Pig) and a hedge (labelled hege) seen in section. The area where they overlap forms the shape of a hedgehog. Caption: VENN DIAGRAM
December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
my generation was sold student loans at 17 on the basis that we’d be earning more money after uni so paying the loans back wouldn’t be a burden. this makes us actively worse off for having believed that
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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matpringle.bsky.social
O is for Owl Service from my linocut #folkhorroralphabet inspired by the 1967 novel by Alan Garner which he adapted from Welsh folklore. There’s a television series from 1969 which holds up surprisingly well.

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An illustrated linocut block and print of a young woman with long hair in chunky knitwear holding her open hands up to her face. The palms have owl eye patterns on them.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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deathbybadger.bsky.social
ARTHUR: so you put the sword in the stone, that I might pull it out and be king
MERLIN: yes it was quite the jape
ARTHUR: and you turned me into a fish
MERLIN: hilarious
ARTHUR: merlin I need you to be more serious
MERLIN: your best friend is fucking your wife
ARTHUR: less serious than that
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
finding new and extraordinarily boring ways to cause myself back pain at work (an hour standing at the counter tying 200 individual shoelaces into bundled pairs)
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
decided to have a go at linocut for the first time, with an idea very loosely based on a photo I took last week. not perfect, but we’re learning!
a clean linocut block, with the intended outline of two snipe with their beaks crossed, in amongst reeds and water the finished print, including a row of little snipe from a test block that I did the original photo, with two snipe standing with crossed beaks
November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The BBC, quite consciously, sets out to demean and belittle trans people. This is both morally contemptible and in breach of its Charter obligations. We've made it super easy for you to write to the BBC and tell it to stop.

Please use - and share with your networks.
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The BBC must stop attacking trans people | Good Law Project
The right wing accusations of ‘pro-trans’ bias are back to front. It’s time for the BBC to live up to its duty to be impartial on trans issues.
goodlaw.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
went to the lake district for a few days last week, saw some cool things
a barn owl flying over a grassy rise, with the blurry ruin of a castle in the background a bearded reedling, or bearded tit, perched on a wooden tray of birdseed a baby seal, slightly muddy, with their tongue poking out derwent water, seen from Keswick, with a flooded jetty in the foreground and hills in the background
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
seeing an owl in the wild is something close to a spiritual experience
a barn owl in flight, standing out pale against an autumn background of dark orange bracken a barn owl in flight, face turned towards the camera a barn owl in flight over the distant ruins of a castle a barn owl flying past its natural prey, a barn
November 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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the shovelerrrr
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 29d
Shovelers scoop up today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight! 🦆

With their oversized, spatula-shaped bills, these quirky ducks join UK wetlands in autumn, swelling in numbers with arrivals from the continent.
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
*boing*
photograph of a kestrel landing on top of a telephone pole, wings folded, looking as though it has taken a jaunty little hop in the air with its hands in its pockets
November 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Was an absolute delight being on the horror jury this year, and congratulations to a very worthy winner! It was a very strong list
britfantasysoc.bsky.social British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · Nov 1
Lee Murray presents the award for best horror novel:

Nominees are:
Withered Hill – David Barnett
The Ravening – Daniel Church
Among The Living – Tim Lebbon
Bury Your Gays – Chuck Tingle
My Darling Dreadful Thing – Johanna van Veen
Feast While You Can – Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻

Enter if you dare...🚪
A black background decorated with gold illustrations of branches, stars, swords, ravens, and tiny ghost shapes. In the centre, bold text reads: “BIRDS BUT THEY GET SPOOKIER EACH TIME.” Two ravens perch on bare branches at the bottom, with candles glowing beside them.
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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mjpcuervo.bsky.social
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
Snickers bar and a metal whistle
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
mushrooms and a little goldcrest from a walk in the woods today
a partially-opened fly agaric mushroom, with a woodlouse crawling on its stem a cluster of small brown mushrooms with long thin stems erupting from a bed of moss a close up of the cap of a large ink cap mushroom a slightly blurry photograph of a goldcrest perched on a branch
October 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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eater-of-books.bsky.social
I have launched a little print shop with a selection of photos, a mix of film and digital, which I aim to rotate regularly. I’m bad at self-promotion but please take a look:

ko-fi.com/certhia_phot...
a film photo of a covered bridge in Glasgow. The railings have a serpentine curve which draws the eye into the distance, and the photo is full of warm orange tones a black-and white photo of a jetty on derwent water, in the Lake District. There is a sleepy duck in the foreground, and snow-covered hills in the background a macro photo of water droplets on a fallen leaf a photo of a highland cow, with their tongue poking out
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
I have launched a little print shop with a selection of photos, a mix of film and digital, which I aim to rotate regularly. I’m bad at self-promotion but please take a look:

ko-fi.com/certhia_phot...
a film photo of a covered bridge in Glasgow. The railings have a serpentine curve which draws the eye into the distance, and the photo is full of warm orange tones a black-and white photo of a jetty on derwent water, in the Lake District. There is a sleepy duck in the foreground, and snow-covered hills in the background a macro photo of water droplets on a fallen leaf a photo of a highland cow, with their tongue poking out
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
need to see one of these lads asap
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · Oct 10
Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the Jack Snipe…master of the stealth and wobble! 👀

These charming little waders sneak into wet meadows and bogs from northern Europe, bobbing up and down as they feed along the water’s edge.

How's that for a Friday smile?
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
matching tonight’s read to my chocolate
the recent vintage classics rerelease of the novel Black Magic, by Marjorie Bowen. the cover features a photograph by the artist Claude Cahun, edited to have a background of brightly coloured stripes. propped against it is a bar of Tony’s chocolate, with a very loosely similar striped design
October 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
I have been in bed all week sick with covid, and today I am looking at the photos of highland cows I took a couple of weeks ago to cheer me up. look at their little faces!
a highland cow partly obscured by bushes, munching on some grass, the tip of her tongue just barely poking out as she looks directly into the camera The same highland cow from a sideways angle, poking her tongue out even further to reach some delicious leaves a different highland cow, with a darker rustier coat (said coat also has burrs stuck in it) seen from the side. We see over the cow’s shoulder to one rolling eye and a long tongue reaching out for leaves a lighter brown highland cow with magnificent horns and a very long fringe covering both eyes, scratching their chin on some dried stalks
October 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Tawny owl
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
eater-of-books.bsky.social
some highlights from today’s outing with the camera
a frog’s head peering out through a mass of pondweed. he’s got very striking markings, including a bright green stripe down the middle of his head a dragonfly in flight a common lizard, curled into a spiral. a coppery-brown head and body fades into a verdigris tail, in a very pleasant colour gradient a hobby (medium-sized bird of prey similar to a kestrel) in flight
August 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed - Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed of the Magbinogi
Low angle of a man with a white wolfhound with red eyes and ears coming over his shoulder and a stag behind him with a spear to the side, in the background is a tangle of branches creating a circle around his head with a moon against a red sky in the centre.
August 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM