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Becca Thorne
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Parent of 2 wonderful autistic boys, accidental artist, occasional writer & mountain-lover (Afraid of heights). #cPTSD https://artachart.com/
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Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · Feb 28
An updated image of some recent work, with me for scale!
A photo of the artist (needing a hair cut) with a collection of recent paintings!
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A heavily Victorianised small church, St Anno's, Llananno in Powys is, from the outside, a humble and largely forgettable building.

However, inside visitors can feast their eyes upon one of the finest pieces of medieval carpentry in Wales.

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January 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Pantomime Jesus with big hands and floating monkey mask
A pencil drawing of a right cheeky scamp of a guy. Broadly symmetrical
January 6, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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ccacireland.bsky.social
Excited to see what this will become over the next few days at the Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. Stay tuned.....
January 6, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Many of those who complain about mining for batteries / solar / wind power have curiously never raised a squeak about the far greater extraction required for fossil energy. Funny how they become concerned about the planet only when fossil fuel interests are threatened.
January 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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beccathorne.bsky.social
New painting! Oil and pastels on panel, 40 x 50cm. #oilpainting #oilpastels #wildflowers #poppies #scribbling
Semi-abstract scribble of a field of tangled wildflowers - predominantly poppies. Layers of green, blue, red and yellow oil paint, with rough sketches of flower, stem and leaf shapes drawn over the top in oil pastel.
January 6, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Canada's PM Mark Carney reaffirms commitment to the Alliance, message to US:

"Canada & Denmark are Allies; partners in our shared responsibility for the security and resilience of the Arctic."

"Canada will always support the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Denmark, including Greenland."
Danish PM left, Canadian PM right.
January 6, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Thanks to everyone for the shouts:

@tjmcintyre.com
@sineadgibney.bsky.social
@rapecrisisireland.bsky.social

all contributing on the News at 5.30 this evening - likely a lot more to follow on this in the time ahead.
January 6, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Gina @createnewpaths.bsky.social shores a wonderful shot and post on the joys of hiking as a nature submersion:
createnewpaths.bsky.social Gina @createnewpaths.bsky.social · 1d
I did a 10.4 mile hike yesterday, 2 miles is my norm. I was working towards this for the spring, but I needed a nature submersion!

It was MARVELOUS.
I was in the woods, prairies & along the streams

And one of my greatest JOYS is watching the sunrise & hiking with the rising sun as my companion.
January 6, 2026 at 12:45 PM
beccathorne.bsky.social
New painting! Oil and pastels on panel, 40 x 50cm. #oilpainting #oilpastels #wildflowers #poppies #scribbling
Semi-abstract scribble of a field of tangled wildflowers - predominantly poppies. Layers of green, blue, red and yellow oil paint, with rough sketches of flower, stem and leaf shapes drawn over the top in oil pastel.
January 6, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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lincolnproject.us
Venezuela isn't about fentanyl or national security. It's about oil and Epstein.
January 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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bertrom.bsky.social
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

William Carlos Williams.
January 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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lsangha.bsky.social
pleased to report I have seen them all IRL!
exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 2d
Today is National Bird Day! 🪶

One of our favourite items in the collections is a 19th century volume containing 76 watercolour illustrations by an unknown artist of birds local to Devon and Cornwall.

📷 EUL MS 23; digitised by @dhlabexeter.bsky.social

#NationalBirdDay #BirdDay #Archives
Opened book, showing two small watercolour illustrations of birds mounted to the right-hand page. Each illustration is annotated with the name of bird. The top illustration features a sparrowhawk and the bottom illustration features a grey wagtail. Opened book, showing two small watercolour illustrations of birds mounted to the right-hand page. Each illustration is annotated with the name of bird. The top illustration features a sanderling and the bottom illustration features a Northern lapwing (the annotation is difficult to read, possibly 'Sea Wader'?). Opened book, showing two small watercolour illustrations of birds mounted to the right-hand page. Each illustration is annotated with the name of bird. The top illustration features a bullfinch and the bottom illustration features a green finch. Opened book, showing two small watercolour illustrations of birds mounted to the right-hand page. Each illustration is annotated with the name of bird. The top illustration features a green woodpecker and the bottom illustration features a yellowhammer.
January 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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Another woodland mosaic 8”x10” oil
January 4, 2026 at 11:32 PM
beccathorne.bsky.social
It's the final week of the Ranelagh Arts (Dublin) Winter Exhibition, in aid of MSF in Gaza. There is still work available (incl mine). Open 10.30 - 5.30 until Friday. Please, please support this critical cause if you're able to. 🙏
Oil painting in greens and golds depicting a hillside at sunrise. Areas of shadow contrasting with light, as the sun appears over the horizon and illuminates a hedgerow of yellow gorse.
January 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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motherjones.com
“Since 1900, every time a Republican president has taken over, economic inequality has increased and the country has become more violent.”
The psychiatrist who warned us that Donald Trump would unleash violence was absolutely right
The vindication of Bandy Lee.
www.motherjones.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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ben.ifhuman.band
Make it harder to become homeless, not harder to be homeless
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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these poor guys started flowering bc december was so weirdly warm and now it’s freezing 😭
photo of a gold lace primula starting to flower - yellow in the middle, with dark brownish red on the petals with a rim of bright yellow photo of fully flowering primroses, buttery yellow with orange in the centre photo of snowdrop shoots starting to emerge from the soil
January 4, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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There's no such thing as bad weather…
A man in casual attire rides a bicycle while holding an umbrella through heavy snow on a street in Delft.
January 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Cowardly & hypocritical
implausibleblog.bsky.social Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d
Lewis Goodall humiliates Labour's Darren Jones who is unable to criticise President Trump for breaking international law by attacking Venezuela

Humiliating, pathetic, soulless - Darren Jones, what a let down
January 4, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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96% of new cars sold in Norway in 2025 were fully electric. "...EVs are now the plurality vehicle in the country, making up 31.78% of the fleet. Diesels are 31.76%, gasoline cars are 23.9%, and hybrids are 12.56%…" electrek.co/2026/01/02/n...
Norway reaches 97% EV sales as EVs now outnumber diesels on its roads
97.6% of Norway's car sales were all-electric in Dec., and 95.9% for the full year. Also, there are now more EVs on Norway's roads than diesel
electrek.co
January 4, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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I find this really beautiful
beccathorne.bsky.social Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social · 4d
The finished piece: oil on panel, 100 x 70cm. Portrait of my late father, from an old photo. I wanted to created a sense of transience, but simultaneously make him part of that place, rooted into the landscape. #portrait #grief #Mawddachestuary #Wales
Portrait of a man sitting on the ground facing the viewer, with his back to an estuary and mountain range beyond. He has his legs stretched out in front of him and hands resting on a walking stick, a pipe in his mouth. The palette is muted: almost entirely French raw umber, dark olive and warm white, with touches of Payne’s grey & ochre. One side is illuminated, whilst the other is heavily shadowed. The idea is to create a sense of transience and stillness (Wyeth was a master of this). The man’s clothes are almost transparent in places, whilst his legs and feet resemble a photographic negative.
January 4, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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#GVerse #FeelGoodMoment #TimeLineCleanse #HappyCaturday
This cat dragged a stray kitten home...but It was a bobcat cub …and then:
January 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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This week's Substack share - True self open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
True self
DEDICATION Take thou this gift from out the grave of Time.
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January 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM