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Cornucopist
@cornucopist.bsky.social
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Writer and humanitarian. Optimistic realist. When you sleep you wake up eventually. Politics, philosophy, humanism, books, photography, history, football, post-punk. And cats of course.
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Morning! Today is a blank canvas. Looking forward to painting it.
Man sat in front of window with sea view and white sky
November 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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#birdoftheday #ducksoutofwater
Duck asleep on tree branch on water
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Morning!
View of calm sea with red sailing boat, blue sky, Victorian lampposts and grass verge in foreground
November 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Morning! Shop window of the day
Horizontal mannequin in swimsuit above a shark’s head in a shop window. Wonder how much the shark costs?
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Morning! Gothic
Black & white framed photo by Mark Lamb of woman with bat spectacles in the art gallery at Whitby Museum. Black & white framed photos of Goths by Mark Lamb in the art gallery at Whitby Museum. Black & white framed photo of Goth with bird skeleton on his top hat by Mark Lamb in the art gallery at Whitby Museum.
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Evening
Moon shining over the sea
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Morning! Iconic
Whitby Abbey early morning through the whale bones arch
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Whitby’s old-fashioned charm 😉
Alleyway called Arguments Yard
November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Morning! At the Whitby Literature Festival this weekend seeing Miriam Margolyes and Lee Child 👌
Lucinda Hawksley, great great great granddaughter of Charles Dickens, on stage with Miriam Margolyes Lee Child signing books after the show with his interviewer Rob Rinder
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Morning! Are you getting up? it’s #caturday
Painting of a black cat standing with paws on a beige bed looking at a person in orange and blue lying down
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Morning! Parallel lines
Artwork of Debbie Harry’s head in orange with overlay of black parallel lines in a homage to Blondie’s song
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Evening
SuperMoon through the clouds
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Morning! Fire in the sky, fired earth (but no wind) by the light of the silvery SuperMoon
Sparks from a fire with moon in sky shining through clouds
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Sweet dreams are made of this, who am I to disagree, I’ve travelled the world and the seven seas, everybody’s looking for something 🎵
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Morning! A hopeful one too.
Poster from Green Party congratulating Zohran Mamdani
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Turnstones #birdoftheday
3 Turnstone birds on a concrete path overlooking a beach
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Morning! A visit to the Roman baths in Bath yesterday.
Steps down to the water green with algae
November 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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This morning’s show! #birdoftheday
Robin at the window with garden behind Robin with wings spread Robin flying into the window
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Morning! This beauty turns up daily for breakfast. Despite feeding it, keeps flying into the window trying to get in 🙄 #birdoftheday
Robin on chair with stone table behind
November 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Sunshine and rain today on our 8 mile walk in the Mendip Hills of Somerset.
Cloudscape above Glastonbury Tor Rainbow over woods A couple walking their ponies with Bronze Age barrows in the distance
November 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Morning! #sunday
View of trees plants blue sky through arched stone window in garden of Wells Cathedral in Somerset
November 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Morning! Ranthambore National Park, India in 2013. Walked past our vehicle without batting an eyelid. I couldn’t breathe #caturday
Tiger on dusty path in the wild
November 1, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Wild is the wind
Foil surfer in rough sea off Cornish coast
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Morning! The Egyptian House, Penzance. Gaudy & quirky
Built in the 1830s by explorer and geologist John Lavin. You can stay in apartments on the first floor.
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Definition of Coddiwomple - old English slang word meaning ‘to travel with great determination to a vague destination’
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM