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If you are shopping for loved ones this weekend, please consider adding a present for mothers and children who will spend Christmas in a refuge. @refugecharity.bsky.social Thank you.

donate.refuge.org.uk/page/180196/...
Buy a parcel and help give mums and their children in our refuges their first Christmas of freedom.
When a child arrives at a refuge in the countdown to Christmas, they’re withdrawn and in shock.
donate.refuge.org.uk
December 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
venetiajm.bsky.social
Planted some Paperwhites indoors about a month ago when I was thinking about planting bulbs being a hopeful thing. And here they are
A stem of Paperwhite narcissus against a windowpane. A cluster of small flowers like miniature white daffodils. They have a strong scent and are determined to cheer me up
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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This is a ridonculous bargain, go for it
loulayorke.bsky.social 𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚊 𝚢𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚎 @loulayorke.bsky.social · 1d
90% off my full digital discography on Truxalis today, includes Volta, LDOLS, Time is a Sucesssion of Such Shapes. Nine excellent albums for £5.90 ✨
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A woman stands in a corridor doing a groovy pose with her arms
December 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
That perfect silver cup from Simon Luttichuys. Today is for him & his brother Isaack.
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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simonguy.bsky.social
This morning.
A photo looking towards a snow-topped hill reflected in the still water of a loch. Blue sky above.
November 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
venetiajm.bsky.social
Currently reading My Friends by Hisham Matar. It’s so quietly, beautifully written. The understatement makes it all the more tender and moving. This from the narrator, on whom a life mostly alone in exile was forced:
“We need our families and the obligations of others to silence the unsaid and the unsayable. I imagined children. I imagined a variety of voices. I imagined rituals and routines. I imagined cooking not for myself alone and I imagined being cooked for. I wanted, more than anything else, the wants and demands of others. Those are versions of myself that continue in the dark. I called Hannah and it was like opening a window and breathing in the air.”
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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biobabbler.bsky.social
Morro Rock sunset.😍
sunset at a beach with dark pink clouds, Morro Rock is black against the sky, and the water is reflecting the blue sky and pink clouds. There are shorebirds foraging at the edge of the waves.
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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midgie.bsky.social
river tay looking silvery
plus bonus helical clouds over dundee
looking out to newport from broughty ferry. it’s nearly dark and there’s a fiery orange sunset over still water dundee silhouetted against the sunset. in the sky some clouds have formed a wispy helix close up of the fun helix clouds
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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traviata.bsky.social
Stars. The moon is in Aquarius. Did you know that, MacIntyre?
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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100% worth the complete soaking that inevitably follows being caught out on the moor in light conditions like this.

God, I love the moor this time of the year...
A shaft of bright winter sun pierces through low rain cloud, illuminating an otherwise heavily overshadowed piece of Dartmoor.
November 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social
Moon, cloud, and trees this evening
A curved sliver of white moon in a dark blue sky, with a dark cloud underneath it and trees below.
November 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
venetiajm.bsky.social
Finally some Vitamin D
A sunny hour. Blue sky, the odd wispy cloud. A lake just visible at the bottom of the picture. Trees lining it are at various stages of leaf loss. Lapwings dotted around the sky (a red kite had just gone over).
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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But I was going to listen to cricket alllllllllll weekendddddd😞 #Ashes
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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2025. Sigh. Just all of it
(Another great London Centric story though.)
jim.londoncentric.media Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 16d
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…

I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social
Heavy Snowfall On The Wolds. 0°C. Sheep on the hillside.
Heavy Snowfall On The Wolds. 0°C . Sheep on the hillside.
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Waves in Margate: Bridget Riley Streak 3, Turner view of Margate in a storm, the North Sea.
Bridget Riley painting, undulating lines of red, green and blue against white. Turner oil of Margate front under a stormy sky, waves breaking into foam. The sea from Margate West Pier, light fading in the sky and a strong offshore wind.
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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municipaldreams.bsky.social
Another example of decipherable housing history in Detling, Kent.
Brick facade, one window bricked up, with timber and plaster rear
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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A bit of Sir Walter Scott poetry on Prebend’s Bridge in Durham
GREY TOWERS OF DURHAM YET WELL I LOVE THY MIXED AND MASSIVE PILES HALF CHURCH OF GOD HALF CASTLE GAINST THE SCOT AND LONG TO ROAM THESE VENERABLE AISLES WITH RECORDS STORED OF DEEDS LONG SINCE FORGOT Stone plaque on Prebend’s Bridge. The towers of the cathedral visible on the far bank of the river above the tree line.
November 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Durham at night: the river was high, spirits were high
Durham cathedral and castle, lit up at early nightfall, above the centre of town and the River Wear. River was running high. Lights reflected in the water.
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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I would like a book collecting all the epigraphs in Colin Dexter’s Morse books. Does one already exist, and if not….?
November 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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stevedoherty.bsky.social
They’re running Under Milk Wood as originally broadcast, for the first time, this weekend on R4 Extra. Obviously, it’s brilliant. And I highly recommend a listen. It still sounds amazing; truly timeless. The most dated bit is the credits - but, oh, those character names.
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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alanderminna.bsky.social
One of the reasons why Finland is the happiest country in the world is that the public broadcaster Yle sends a live feed of the first 8 weeks of a pack of puppies every fall. It’s already the fifth edition of ”Finland’s most therapeutic live feed”.

This is what I call value for my tax money
Pentulive 24/7 | Pentulive
Pentuliven pikkuiset kehittyvät vauhdikkaasti ja jokainen pentu on saanut nimensä! Kahdeksan viikkoa kestävässä suorassa lähetyksessä seurataan englannin­springer­spanieli Murua ja tämän pentuetta.
areena.yle.fi
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Last gasp
A London park. A row of large trees (planes? I think) on the left and about half their orangey-red leaves on the grass, which is mostly in shadow. At the end of the row, in the distance, a small tunnel-shaped gap in the trees through which late afternoon sun is lighting up the air. A tiny figure is walking away in that bright pocket. A tiny bit of sun, visible from behind the trees and clouds, is casting long shadows. An extremely very autumn and everything ending feeling.
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Some bits of autumn before it all disappears
A beech tree giving it some autumn welly. Yellow through to fiery red leaves. Against a blue sky it pops even more. Green leaves this time but some sunshine still lighting them up Sunlight through the branches of an oak, the leaves of which are mostly still green. Some leaves around it on the ground. More orange trees in the background.
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM