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Caroline Hack
@carolinehack.bsky.social
UK based artist making things about Moby-Dick, British Arctic Whaling, S Atlantic whaling research and other museum inspired shenanigans. Projects with museums a speciality - DM me if you’ve got an idea! Current obsession - the Continuous Plankton Recorder
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For new and prospective followers. Current work at #DiscoveryPoint #Dundee featuring new commissioned work and previously exhibited textile panels.
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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is just to Say

I have eaten the Lee and Perrins, honey and mustard coated sausages
that were in the ice box

and which
I was theoretically
saving
for tomorrow’s lunch

I have forgiven myself
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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A little side project/work in progress working up ideas from my various visits to Shetland. This is Bressay Lighthouse (where I stayed from a month in 2017). The shape is inspired by the architecture of the Shetland Museum and Archive.
#WIP #HandEmbroidery
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A little side project/work in progress working up ideas from my various visits to Shetland. This is Bressay Lighthouse (where I stayed from a month in 2017). The shape is inspired by the architecture of the Shetland Museum and Archive.
#WIP #HandEmbroidery
November 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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SUPPORT YOUR LIBRARY
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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But what if we kissed inside the giant taxidermy cetacean?
November 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for 30 Seconds Before Vanishing Day to all who celebrate! #SciArt
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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We're #hiring! We have an exciting opportunity for an #EarthObservation Scientist - on a one year fixed term appointment (Maternity cover) - to work on topics related to #phytoplankton #PrimaryProduction, #PhytoplanktonDynamics and #biodiversity. Find out more and apply: pml.ac.uk/working-with...
November 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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I was in a situation where a guy had lost his arm. He had put on a tourniquet and I administered his morphine. We were waiting for his airlift and I said I hope thats not your wanking hand. He replied I don’t need one I know your Mum😂
August 9, 2024 at 9:01 AM
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50 years ago, today, a whale exploded on an Oregon beach. 20 years later, before social media or video sharing sights or smartphones, it would become the first viral Internet video.

We sent it to each other in the mail.

The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
The History of Exploding Whales Is the History of the Internet Itself
My first whale video came in the form of a VHS tape mailed to me by a stranger from the internet.
www.vice.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Happy Exploding Whale Day to all who celebrate!🐳💥☔️
55 years ago today, the Oregon State Highway Division had a whale of a problem on its hands. How it solved it is the stuff of legends.

In other words: Happy Exploding Whale Day!
The Exploding Whale: An infamous moment in Oregon history creates a strangely beloved icon
YouTube video by KATU News
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November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Teeny tiny #Embroidery sample of mostly greys.
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Since it's the only time of year when all these legends gather in one spot, here’s your friendly reminder of the years served in office by the past eight prime ministers of the United Kingdom.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Oh wow, someone has done a 3D print out of the save icon!

#WDPD2025
It's World Digital Preservation Day.

Don't worry folks - we've got this digital preservation thing completely under control. 👍

#digipres #WDPD2025
November 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Small abstract #HandEmbroidery playing with #FrenchKnots #SatinStitch and #BlanketStitch with variegated thread on green transfer dyed polycotton twill
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The perfect dog costume does not exi-
October 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Excellent spooky cappuccino in Ori, Milton Keynes today!

Assuming my coffee wasn’t actually haunted… 👻
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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the National Trust said it’s an unprecedented year for acorns and I love this for him
October 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Loving this #BlanketStitch variant with variegated thread

#HandEmbroidery #SatinStitch
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It was a bit chilly when I got into bed last night so it’s first time this autumn for the hot water bottle tonight!
October 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Finally sussed how to do this net-like blanket stitch. First go, and with variegated thread to complicate matters! Pleased with the result.
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Just under two weeks left to enter the annual GBP Short Story Prize - one of the highlights of our year, and where, for 2025/26, we'll be joined by two brilliant writers and one brilliant literary agent as judges (Sam Mills, Selby Wynn Schwartz, and Sebastian Godwin:

www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM