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@deanafitzgerald.bsky.social
Kindness matters. Animal lover. Nature. 🦜🌷🐝. Mixed results in the kitchen. I love my family and friends. Art and all the interesting stuff. 🇬🇧
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"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences." – Robert Louis Stevenson
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November 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences." – Robert Louis Stevenson
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This week’s kitchen diary… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This week’s kitchen diary… observer.co.uk/style/food/a...
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To knit together two stories: through intimidation, litigation & extortion, Trump is clearly trying to create a media ecosystem where nobody asks him about Epstein - or indeed anything discomfiting. It is appalling to see so many UK media individuals & institutions aiding & abetting his corruption.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
To knit together two stories: through intimidation, litigation & extortion, Trump is clearly trying to create a media ecosystem where nobody asks him about Epstein - or indeed anything discomfiting. It is appalling to see so many UK media individuals & institutions aiding & abetting his corruption.
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I wonder when he will start suing news outlets for describing his barefaced lies about the 2020 election as barefaced lies…
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I wonder when he will start suing news outlets for describing his barefaced lies about the 2020 election as barefaced lies…
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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With gratitude to those who served. #Remembrance 🌱
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
With gratitude to those who served. #Remembrance 🌱
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And this morning the Shed is a carousel, deep in the heart of a forest. Ivy grows around it now; the gilded horses leap and prance over a frieze of shadows.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
And this morning the Shed is a carousel, deep in the heart of a forest. Ivy grows around it now; the gilded horses leap and prance over a frieze of shadows.
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November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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September 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Annie Lennox the woman that you are!
I have heard many versions of this, all beautiful but Annie's voice is a gift from Eru Ilúvatar himself and none sing it better.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvF3...
I have heard many versions of this, all beautiful but Annie's voice is a gift from Eru Ilúvatar himself and none sing it better.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvF3...
Into the West
YouTube video by Annie Lennox - Topic
www.youtube.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Annie Lennox the woman that you are!
I have heard many versions of this, all beautiful but Annie's voice is a gift from Eru Ilúvatar himself and none sing it better.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvF3...
I have heard many versions of this, all beautiful but Annie's voice is a gift from Eru Ilúvatar himself and none sing it better.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvF3...
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Good morning . Your #FoxOfTheDay today is from @lucasbarribalwild , thank you Lucas !
July 24, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Good morning . Your #FoxOfTheDay today is from @lucasbarribalwild , thank you Lucas !
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A very worn Common Blue butterfly at Castle Water, Rye Harbour yesterday... before the deluge.
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
#butterfly
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
#butterfly
July 24, 2025 at 10:33 AM
A very worn Common Blue butterfly at Castle Water, Rye Harbour yesterday... before the deluge.
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
#butterfly
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
#butterfly
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Happy Spoonerism Day to all those who belly crate.
July 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Happy Spoonerism Day to all those who belly crate.
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How many villages can one courgette plant feed?
July 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
How many villages can one courgette plant feed?
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Rosa Hyde Hall from today’s trip to Hyde Hall ♥️ . #RoseWednesday
July 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Rosa Hyde Hall from today’s trip to Hyde Hall ♥️ . #RoseWednesday
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The subject of John Singer Sargent's portrait from 1883 is Albert de Belleroche, who he studied with in Paris and is depicted wearing a square open neck tunic typical of the early 16thC - it was a work Sargent refused to part with and kept it throughout his life.
May 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The subject of John Singer Sargent's portrait from 1883 is Albert de Belleroche, who he studied with in Paris and is depicted wearing a square open neck tunic typical of the early 16thC - it was a work Sargent refused to part with and kept it throughout his life.
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These mega corps are the reason America is struggling.
$278,000,000,000 in avoided tax.
Not the poor.
Not immigrants.
Not workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
$278,000,000,000 in avoided tax.
Not the poor.
Not immigrants.
Not workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years
Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
These mega corps are the reason America is struggling.
$278,000,000,000 in avoided tax.
Not the poor.
Not immigrants.
Not workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
$278,000,000,000 in avoided tax.
Not the poor.
Not immigrants.
Not workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Our beautiful birds of prey are routinely and illegally slaughtered on driven grouse moors . If you are as sick of this criminal persecution as me then please sign this @wildjustice.bsky.social petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please RT
April 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Our beautiful birds of prey are routinely and illegally slaughtered on driven grouse moors . If you are as sick of this criminal persecution as me then please sign this @wildjustice.bsky.social petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please RT
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Unsolicited writing advice no. 13:
No artist needs artificial intelligence if they have the real thing.
No artist needs artificial intelligence if they have the real thing.
April 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Unsolicited writing advice no. 13:
No artist needs artificial intelligence if they have the real thing.
No artist needs artificial intelligence if they have the real thing.
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'The Water Tank Boy.' (1889) Wandering back to Heidelberg station from Templestowe in Melbourne, where he had been painting, Arthur Streeton saw this young boy on his walk sat staring into a pool of water and decided to capture the moment for posterity.
April 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
'The Water Tank Boy.' (1889) Wandering back to Heidelberg station from Templestowe in Melbourne, where he had been painting, Arthur Streeton saw this young boy on his walk sat staring into a pool of water and decided to capture the moment for posterity.
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When artist Ronald Searle's wife fell ill with cancer and began chemotherapy — an experimental treatment at the time — he made her a love drawing after each session. She lived another 40 years. Ronald died a few months later, at 91.
Artist Ronald Searle’s Tender Illustrated Love Letter to His Wife Recovering from Cancer
What a tender true love story has to do with medieval illuminated manuscripts and experimental medicine.
www.themarginalian.org
April 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
When artist Ronald Searle's wife fell ill with cancer and began chemotherapy — an experimental treatment at the time — he made her a love drawing after each session. She lived another 40 years. Ronald died a few months later, at 91.
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For the evening shift, I spoke with a number of #BlackLibrary authors about their thoughts on Meta’s “use” of their work in training its AI. Their thoughts- and why we should be alarmed in my latest for GH.
Reposts gratefully appreciated. 🤘
#Warhammer #Nerdlings #BookSky
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#Warhammer #Nerdlings #BookSky
We spoke to a number of Black Library writers across the industry about the specific scraping of their work in a pirated LibGen library and larger issues with AI in...
Black Library Writers Respond to Meta Scraping Their Work
We spoke to a number of Black Library writers across the industry about the specific scraping of their work in a pirated LibGen library and larger issues with AI in...
www.goonhammer.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
For the evening shift, I spoke with a number of #BlackLibrary authors about their thoughts on Meta’s “use” of their work in training its AI. Their thoughts- and why we should be alarmed in my latest for GH.
Reposts gratefully appreciated. 🤘
#Warhammer #Nerdlings #BookSky
Reposts gratefully appreciated. 🤘
#Warhammer #Nerdlings #BookSky
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Nothing has given me more consolation in these unworlding times than Maya Angelou's poem "A Brave and Startling Truth," which flew to space to hold up cosmic mirror to the best in us and the worst in us and the possible in us
A Brave and Startling Truth: Maya Angelou’s Stunning Humanist Poem That Flew to Space, Inspired by Carl Sagan
“Out of such chaos, of such contradiction / We learn that we are neither devils nor divines…”
www.themarginalian.org
March 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Nothing has given me more consolation in these unworlding times than Maya Angelou's poem "A Brave and Startling Truth," which flew to space to hold up cosmic mirror to the best in us and the worst in us and the possible in us