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Culture ship name: GSV Oh No, Not Again
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WELL, THAT'S NOT FUCKING OK EITHER
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A determined Japanese Maple leaf isn't going to let a little snow stop it from its blazing glory! #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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@saskajanet.bsky.social

#craftsky
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Finally I’m able to get back to it! I don’t love the golden bit at 7 o’clock - tone stands out in a bad way - but otherwise it’s mostly blocked in. I have to shade now. I like the movement in the big flight feathers to the right.
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The 11th of November is not a celebration of victory. It's a solemn observance, remembering the dead and the horrors of war.

The day that this fucker's rotten little heart stops beating for good, now THAT'S going to be a celebration.
President Trump criticises France and others for celebrating remembrance day, saying, "We're the one that won the wars"

Surreal, and so very disrespectful to every person who fought in the wars for the freedoms we all enjoy today
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"Can't you see I'm trying?"
"Yes George, you're EXTREMELY trying" #TheArchers
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
All sweets gone by 7pm. I should remember for next year to buy more if there's no rain forecast, especially because shrinkflation seems to have done a number on the selection bags.
St Martin's Day update: kids adorable, homemade-to-shopbought ratio of lanterns acceptable, but they've taken all the mini-Bounties. Those are my favourites! I thought kids hate coconut!
Happy St Martin's Day to all who celebrate. We have our sweets ready for the neighbour kids with lanterns.
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Good luck shaking the earworm now.
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Writing a kid's book called "The Extra Wiggly Smooth Blind Caterpillar" who finds out they're a worm when all their friends metamorphosize and fly away and they're forced to understand that by setting more realistic expectations there's just as much fun to be had in the dirt.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
St Martin's Day update: kids adorable, homemade-to-shopbought ratio of lanterns acceptable, but they've taken all the mini-Bounties. Those are my favourites! I thought kids hate coconut!
Happy St Martin's Day to all who celebrate. We have our sweets ready for the neighbour kids with lanterns.
With apologies, for today’s feast.
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Brother Gregor wouldn't see you later, or in a while, but he might catch you at the burial.
Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🇨🇿 drink white wine, eat roast goose while some miseryguts explains that this was all made up a few years ago to boost the Czech wine industry

🇳🇱 children go door-to-door with handmade lanterns singing a cute little song about cows with tails and girls with skirts and are rewarded with sweets
It is Sint Maarten, so don't forget to get the sweets in! Children carrying lanterns will come to your door and sing songs in return for a treat.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Happy St Martin's Day to all who celebrate. We have our sweets ready for the neighbour kids with lanterns.
With apologies, for today’s feast.
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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“Listen very carefully, 007. This pill is standard issue. It makes you very well disposed to everyone around you, and turns any tune into a total banger. Only drop it when you seriously need to be completely loved up…”
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Here are some nice mushrooms
November 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
You can't go wrong with a book called The Frog Book.
The frog book - Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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I know a Huguenot pub is probably not what I'm imagining, and yet I'd still like to go to what I'm imagining
are writers for the spectator okay?
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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A fun encounter with a Yellow-flecked Glassfrog (Sachatamia albomaculata) last night at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#frogs #amphibians #nature
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Rainy day owl: Video Edition 🌧️🦉🍂

Barred Owl in Central Park, November 2025
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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This is my go-to bongo mag that I like to hide my books inside
November 10, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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One thing I genuinely miss about the past is the experience of falling for a book that's completely outside your comfort zone because you're stuck somewhere with absolutely nothing else to read. Obviously it's better now we can have all the books at our fingertips, but that experience was special.
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Seriously, can we bring back "unswept floor" tiled floors? This is great!
Heraclitus was inspired by an ancient Greek decorative theme known as ‘unswept floor’ (asàrotos òikos). He created this mosaic, seemingly covered with scraps of food from a banquet, for the dining room of a villa on the Aventine Hill in Rome. Read more: understandingrome.substack.com/p/the-unswep...
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Note to my friends who don't follow Dutch politics: this is QUITE the spread of parties. It's interesting to see which ones aren't listed.
4/ NRC reports that the provincial Labour Party (PvdA), People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), GreenLeft (GroenLinks), the Party for the Animals (PvdA), Democrats 66 (D66), Local Limburg (Local Limburg), Socialist Party (SP), Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), Horizon,…
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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My most prized and well thumbed book in my teenage years (at least of those whose pages were not stuck together) was a book of Goon Show scripts.
It pains me that 'goon' has a new, onanistic meaning in 2025
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM