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Graham Jones
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Retired journalist from Liverpool, married for 57 years to Janet, now living in Surrey. Left-wing jazz fan and Humanist. No fascists, god botherers or anti-LGBTQ. No DMs. I won’t reply and may block. No requests for cash. Supports 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈⚧️
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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · Aug 10
#InsectsOfBluesky
If you build it they will come. OK, I didn’t so much build this bee hotel as buy it from John Lewis and stuck it up on a post near our Sunflowers, Cosmos and other insect-friendly flowers and waited … Today my patience was rewarded.
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Very cold this morning when I went to top up the bird feeder and Roberto was absent. Hope he is OK. Meanwhile, here is our other resident #WinterRobin whom we shall call back-garden Riccardo. Was he eyeing up the figs still on our tree or just waiting for peanuts?
#Birdphotography
#EastCoastKin
A European Robin sits on a wooden garden fence its head tilted to the right. The background is a glass door on a neighbour’s garden office that reflects the red brick wall of our terrace house on a sunny day. The foreground consists of thin branches of a fig tree that still bears some unopened fruit. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro
January 6, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract
#ColorADay #BlueTue
#EastCoastKin #photography
The blue sky viewed through a frosted glass roof this morning after overnight temperatures dropped to -6°C in South-East England.
The blue sky viewed through a frosted glass roof this morning after overnight temperatures dropped to -6°C in South-East England.
January 6, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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Alright taking a bow and going to bed 😂😴
January 6, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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@hobadamol.bsky.social poohcountry.com/history/#:~:....
History - Pooh Country
Discover 100 years of history around the Ashdown Forest and it's role in creating the 100 Acre Wood and Winnie-the-Pooh
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January 5, 2026 at 9:46 PM
oldmanrambling.bsky.social
Anyone who thinks the US is anything other than a dictatorship should be forced to watch this brief clip until they come to their senses. I’m looking at you Starmer and other cowardly Western leaders who think they can deal with the felon in the White House. He isn’t a President, he is a Nazi.
brandonfriedman.bsky.social Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19h
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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Sunrise at Stonehenge today (5th January) was at 8.10am, sunset is at 4.14pm
January 5, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Cold frosty morning with just a dusting of snow
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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gutenberg.org
What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome?

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like?

by Konstantine Panegyres

theconversation.com/what-were-bo...

Ancient world at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...

#books #literature
Initiation ritual into the Mysteries. Detail of the fresco in the Villa dei Misteri in Pompeii, painted in the “second style” of Pompeii, circa 60 BC. The fresco is designed as a panel with an elaborate architectural frame. At the top runs a decorative border featuring a Greek key (meander) pattern in gold and brown tones against a light background. The main scene is set against a vibrant red (Pompeian red) background and is flanked by dark maroon or purple-brown vertical columns on either side, with additional decorative borders in green/teal creating a sophisticated framing system. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_fresco_Villa_dei_Misteri_Pompeii_001.jpg
January 4, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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#MinimalMonday
#MacroMonday
Lit by the wintry January sun our Acer griseum, paperbark maple or blood-bark maple, puts on its own colourful show when the garden is otherwise mostly barren and lacking interest.
#Gardening #Trees
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky
The orange colour of our Acer griseum, paperbark maple or blood-bark maple, shines brightly against a blue sky on a chilly January day in Surrey where the temperature has barely risen above 0°C. The texture of the peeling bark gives added interest to the tree all year. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro
January 5, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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I tried to capture the Moon last night but, as so often, failed. However, I caught this eerie, moonlit snowscape in the garden with Orion striding through the blue night sky.
#BlueSkyMonday #ColorADay #photography #scape #sky
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin
The Orion constellation appears in a faded blue night sky as our garden, partially covered in snow, is lit by an almost full Moon. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro
January 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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Good morning everyone, let’s get going, have a great new week ahead.
#MinimalMonday
#BlueSkyMonday #ColorADay #photography #scape #sky
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin
The photo captures a clear blue sky dominated by a single, straight contrail stretching diagonally from bottom right to top left. The contrail glows in vivid orange, creating a striking linear trail against the uniform azure backdrop, with subtle wispy breaks along its length adding texture.
January 5, 2026 at 5:39 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Speckles&Spots. A Spotted Sandpiper at the time of year they actually have spots.

Photographed near Punnichy, Saskatchewan in the 1990s on Fujichrome #Velvia

#EastCoastKin #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #photography
January 5, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Ripples on Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly after sunrise for the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract

#TenMinutesFromHome #EastCoastKin #BruceCounty #photography
January 5, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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Caught this lovely view driving over the Hudson River this afternoon 💛🩵🤍☀️🕊️
#skysunday #sundayyellow #sky #clouds #nature #hudsonvalley #kingstonrhinecliffbridge #newyork #photography
January 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #most; the bird you think you have most photos of. I don’t need to count mine to know. So, here is today’s #WinterRobin Roberto never lets me down at breakfast. Just the three for now. I do have more and that is just Monday. Froze my wottsits off, though. 🥶
A Eurasian Robin in three poses - with a suet pellet in its beak on a snowy surface; on a metal bird feeder full of food, again with a mealworm suet pellet and finally on the edge of a white plastic water bowl, its claws reflected below. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro
January 5, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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According to various European myths, the wren is a fire bird. Its "fire" refers to its legendary role in bringing fire to earth, losing its tail feathers to the heat in the process, which explains its stubby appearance.

#MixedMedia52 #Birds. #Folklore #Watercolour
An original mixed media artwork of a wren, created using coloured pencils and watercolour paints on paper.
January 5, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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Another entry for the new
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbstract
And another chilly one
#ColorADay #PinkMonday #Ice #MacroPhotography
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky
I’ve crystals form on a pink and green leaf after a heavy overnight frost. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro
January 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAForAbstract
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky
Frozen in time. When you leave your gardening gloves out overnight.
A pair of green gardening gloves covered in frost and left stiff and twisted on a blue garden table after overnight temperatures dropped well below freezing. camera: iPhone 15 Pro
January 5, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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🔥🔥🔥 DO NOT BE DISTRACTED BY MADURO & STAY LOUD!!
🔥🔥🔥 DONALD TRUMP IS GOING DOWN!!

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
January 4, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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After Venezuela, some say no one's discussing Epstein any more.

BUT, it was overheard last night these two are all over it:
January 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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There are astonishing things at the British Museum, but it's the 2000-year-old Roman muffin tin that speaks to me. Humans are humans, through time and across continents.

A long time ago, somebody, somewhere undoubtedly got really pissed because she burned the dinner rolls.
January 4, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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“To the left of the stile a hawthorn tree, bent by the prevailing wind, has a rich harvest of berries”.
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
January 4, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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No snowflakes in East Kent this week, but there was one Cow Parsley plant found in flower #wildflowerhour
January 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Something beautiful for this day: Honeybee on a sunflower, Yakima, Washington (September 2025). #bees #sunflowers
Gold and black honeybee collecting pollen on the brown center of a bright yellow sunflower.
January 4, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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Liberty is in a dark place but there are still rays of light

#BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #ArtYear #photography
A black and white photo of the Statue of Liberty taken from the side and far back so there's a lot of sky around it. The statue is mostly dark and part of the sky is black but there are two rays of sunlight shining on it from the left and a rounded area that's lighter.
March 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM