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Martin Coyle
@coylehere.bsky.social
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Not the lead, maybe a side character, sometimes just scenery.

used to be @coyle_mj on Twitter
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Cold walk, hot potato 📷
A wet, grey street. In the foreground there's a sign saying "spud van". An arrow points to a food truck in the background. It has been impressively spray painted with images of Mr and Mrs Potato head. The photo was taken at around 8:30 in the morning. There's no staff, no queue. Just massive, smiling, spray painted potato heads
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Alignment 📷
Through a gap in some trees you can see a tall pile of earth on a construction site below a machine that uses a conveyor belt to move earth. The angle of the pile is exactly the same as that of the belt
November 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Clearing out one of my children's bedrooms yesterday and came across this sound bit of advice that they'd given themself.
#UncomplicatedBeauty
A picture frame containing a piece of paper with a young child's handwriting on it. It reads " Be happy then Stay Happy"
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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... and how the trees were lit 📷
#UncomplicatedBeauty
The colours of the low sun make the autumnal leaves of a clunky of trees even more dramatic. They burn like cooper between lush green grass and a grey sky.
October 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Autumn sunrise dog walk 📷
#UncomplicatedBeauty
Against a grey sky a low golden sun breaks through the clouds. Lens flare picks out long shafts of golden light
October 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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The other side of the Pied Bull Yard clock.

This time we see a punk chasing a woman chasing a hooded figure.
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A black clock attached to an outside wall. Under the clock dial we see the figures in a chase: a punk chasing a woman chasing a hooded grey figure
October 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Original image here 📷

Alt text in this image is slightly better
A handsome London street. A clock hangs high on a wall. It is a black clock with surround details and Roman numerals picked out in gold. If you were to zoom in you would see that beneath the clock face are three holes, through which small figures pass. In this image a suited man is foremost. He appears to be running with a figure of a charging bull just about to come through the next hole
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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I'm in London for a course and am mildly fascinated by the Pied Bull Yard clock

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A black clock with surround details and Roman numerals picked out in gold. Beneath the click face are three holes, through which small figures pass. In this image a suited man is foremost, with a figure of a charging bull just about to come through the next hole
October 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Love that it sounds like the game is happening somewhere else entirely
Picture of a footballer from the BBC Sport app with the headline, "Champions League: Gordon doubles Newcastle lead from spot in Belgium"
October 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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My thoughts keep returning to this bit of GK Chesterton that Margaret Cabourn Smith posted in another place.

"Seriousness is not a virtue."

"It is easy to be heavy; hard to be light "

(Full passage in alt text of the photo)

I love comedy, I think laughter saves us
The swiftest things are the softest things. A bird is active, because a bird is soft. A stone is helpless, because a stone is hard. The stone must by its own nature go downwards, because hardness is weakness. The bird can of its nature go upwards, because fragility is force. In perfect force there is a kind of frivolity, an airiness that can maintain itself in the air. Modern investigators of miraculous history have solemnly admitted that a characteristic of the great saints is their power of "levitation." They might go further; a characteristic of the great saints is their power of levity. Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly... Seriousness is not a virtue. It would be a heresy, but a much more sensible heresy, to say that seriousness is a vice. It is really a natural trend or lapse into taking one's self gravely, because it is the easiest thing to do. It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch. For solemnity flows out of men naturally; but laughter is a leap. It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light. Satan fell by the force of gravity.
September 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Copycat graffiti gets bigger and bolder 📷
Road scene. A bicycle shape and an arrow have been sprayed on the pavement as an instruction to road painters. Beside them, the finished road has the same shapes properly marked on a cycle lane
September 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Durham in a blue sky 📷
Durham cathedral from across the river, framed against a beautiful blue sky
September 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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My plate can't believe I didn't finish this 📷
The tops of two carrots look like eyes at the top of a plate. Below, two slices of onion form a mouth
August 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Over hills, over the lake, clouds and clouds and clouds 📷
#UncomplicatedBeauty
A shot from Windermere. The boat's wake is visible in the water. The sky takes up most of the picture life white clouds dissolve into wisps. The land is a bunch of nested hills.
August 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The Umbrellas of Ulverston
📷 #UncomplicatedBeauty
Colourful umbrellas are strung over a narrow, old fashioned street. The sky is the bluest blue
August 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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... and I turned around and..
📷 #UncomplicatedBeauty
A green path leads down between two wizened trees. Above, the clouds look like they belong in a renaissance painting.
July 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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... and I turned around and...
A view over Windermere with sub turning hillsides golden green
July 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I took a short climb to find endless views 📷
#UncomplicatedBeauty
A view of Windermere and countless hills beyond. Above, clouds mix with blue sky and it all feels kind of limitless
July 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Lake District road block
📷 #UncomplicatedBeauty
Horned luing cattle lie down across a path
July 28, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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White, black and colour 📷
#UncomplicatedBeauty
A cabbage white butterfly, one black spot visible on its wing, rests on a purple and orange buddleia
July 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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"and that was Rally Mid-game from A Shonky Start"
John Peel behind a mixing console
July 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Saw this blue plaque today, what a life 📷
Plaque reads: Halifax Civic Trust ANNE LISTER 1791-1840 diarist, businesswoman, landowner, traveller and, lesbian who recorded much of her personal life in a secret code. She lived at Shibden Hall from 1815 to 1840
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Context is everything 📷
Two signs for "Reception" in a hotel, their stores pointing in opposite directions. Context is that the sign in the left is on a door that has been propped open. If the door were closed the signs would be in agreement
July 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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When the scraggy rose comes good 📷
#UncomplicatedBeauty
A large old fashioned rose bush with pink and peach flowers. The flowers are in sharp focus. Below, a table is covered in scattered fallen petals
July 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Between the cracks 📷
#UncomplicatedBeauty
Close up of small purple flowers and a tiny snail that have emerged from the crack between two bricks
May 27, 2025 at 9:19 AM