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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.
Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road. Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic. Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse). The Cat With The Pearl Earring.
April 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Little reminder that you can pre-order this from @blackwells.bsky.social with free international delivery, and EVERY copy will be signed by me.

blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
A signed hardback of my new novel Everything Will Swallow You at Blackwells.
July 1, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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I am choosing to keep this essay permanently unpaywalled. It's about the general idea of people reaching their artistic peak later in life, and the amazing art my parents have been producing in their 60s and 70s (much of which has made its way into my books): tomcox.substack.com/p/the-magic-...
The Magic Room
It’s been a wet autumn: the kind of wet that, at times, has looked and felt not unlike a trailer for apocalypse.
tomcox.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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April 4, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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universal-sci.bsky.social
The sky you see at night is a window into the past...

The stars you see shone thousands to billions of years ago, their light only now reaching your eyes.
February 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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wonderofscience.bsky.social
A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).
January 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch
"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."
January 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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astrojaz.bsky.social
galaxies are so beautiful 🌌
A massive spiral galaxy fills the image. A bright, yellow galactic core glows at the center, surrounded by spiral arms studded with pink stars and dark lanes of dust. A spiral galaxy, seen face-on to the viewer. The bright center of the galaxy is crossed by a glowing bar, and it is surrounded by tightly wound spiral arms, forming a circular shape with relatively clear edges. Faraway galaxies are visible around it, along with a few bright stars, on a dark background. One star to the right of the galaxy is very large and extremely bright with long diffraction spikes. Slightly oblique view of a spiral galaxy with a glowing yellow central core and two spiral arms that wind clockwise from the center. The arms consist of dark reddish-brown dust trails that are vein-like and hazy clouds of blue stars. The outer regions of the galaxy appear bluer, with bright clusters of blue stars sparsely lining the outer edges of the spiral arms. There are a few foreground stars that have bright white or blue cores with colorful fuzzy halos and four diffraction spikes radiating from their centers. Scattered across the dark background are thousands of faint objects that vary in size, shape, and color. Most appear as small dots, ovals, or lines in different shades of orange, red, and blue. A bright, white galactic core shines near the center of the image with a faint bar of stars extending from it, diagonally to the right. Faint, hazy spiral arms encircle the core, with several distant stars and bright blue foreground stars with diffraction spikes scattered throughout the image, all against black space.
December 5, 2024 at 2:40 AM
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kellyscaletta.bsky.social
It's up!!!! My Explainer video for BlueSky beginners.

I cover how to find your Twitter followers, Starter Packs, Feeds, Lists, some handy-dandy tools, and BlueSky etiquette.

Please watch and/or share with any newbies you know. I think it's helpful.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_V2...
BlueSky for Beginners
YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2024 at 1:18 AM
onelovecandy.bsky.social
September 1, 2024 at 8:29 AM
onelovecandy.bsky.social
This will be a clouds account.
August 31, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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Two observatories united to create this detailed view of the Ring Nebula. Hubble’s crisp vision defines the colorful, detailed view at the center, while the Large Binocular Telescope reveals faint, scallop-shaped material surrounding the ring: bit.ly/3zFuSjO 🔭 🧪
A round, prismatic nebula is on the black background of space, occupying about one-third of the field of view. The center is translucent blue gas with purple wisps. A tiny white star appears at center. Moving outward, the colors transition to teal, green, and yellow. The outermost portions are red, thicker, and very clumpy, and appear more oval, forming an outer ring. Tiny irregular knots of dense gas line the inner rim of the ring and point inward. Beyond the main nebula, faint dark red filaments form a rosette shape like petals on a flower. Dozens of pink stars are scattered across the field of view.
August 29, 2024 at 3:52 PM
onelovecandy.bsky.social
Finally got on bluesky just to follow @darthbluesky.bsky.social I've missed you mate.
August 31, 2024 at 8:08 AM