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Foul Owl
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"The man was either mad or both."
Terrible sleeper. Likes theatre, trees and cats. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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stoopalu.bsky.social
New favourite artist. Strongly recommend this book, which was produced for a MOMA exhibition in 2018 and seems to be readily available online. 80 pages of plates with good quality photos
Book cover: BODYS ISEK KINGELEZ One of the plates One of the plates One of the plates
October 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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maryhrovat.bsky.social
Moon and power line.
A waxing gibbous moon in a twilight sky appears to be hovering just above a power line. Another power line crosses near the bottom of the photo.
August 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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kirkdalebooks.bsky.social
FURIA IN CURIA
vistagmedia.bsky.social Steven E Schend @vistagmedia.bsky.social · May 7
Pugna en Basilica?
May 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
foulowl.bsky.social
False dichotomy?
Two signs pointing in opposite directions: "to the loo" and "to adventure".
April 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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davidwaywell.bsky.social
Late night crosshatching...
March 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
foulowl.bsky.social
It's not Burns Day until you've read Buddo's poem
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · Jan 25
Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a pannic's in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi' bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee, Wi' murd'ring pattle! I'm truly sorry man's dominion, Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth-born companion, An' fellow-mortal! I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve; What then? poor beastie, thou maun live! A daimen icker in a thrave 'S a sma' request; I'll get a blessin wi' the lave, An' never miss't! Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin! It's silly wa's the win's are strewin! An' naething, now, to big a new ane, O' foggage green An' bleak December's winds ensuin, Baith snell an' keen! Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste, An' weary winter comin fast, An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell- Till crash! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee bit heap o' leaves an' stibble, Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! Now thou's turn'd out, for a' thy trouble, But house or hald, To thole the winter's sleety dribble, An' cranreuch cauld! But, Mousie, thou art no thy-lane, In proving foresight may be vain; The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me The present only toucheth thee: Buddo! I backward cast my e'e. On prospects drear! An' forward, tho' I canna see, I guess an' fear!
January 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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mrnotmoro.bsky.social
Don't know about you but I'm going to the pub
January 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
foulowl.bsky.social
Nice to see so many of you still in 2024 from here in GMT+1 land. So charming, so old-fashioned
December 31, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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bobfry.bsky.social
Very funny and wonderfully absurd. Kafka’s “old man” is not as big as his old man’s “old man.” www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Drama on 3 - Kafka's Dick - BBC Sounds
Alan Bennett's comedy about one of the most miserable writers of the 20th century.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 29, 2024 at 11:40 PM
foulowl.bsky.social
"No one ever leans out of a passing car window to shout 'from each according to his ability and to each according to his need!' at me. I wish they did."

- "Not Even a Mouse" by John Finnemore
Short Works - Not Even a Mouse - BBC Sounds
Adrian Scarborough reads John Finnemore's specially-commissioned short story for Christmas
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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johnfinnemore.bsky.social
Geeeeettttt…. DRESSED, you merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay! For it is Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Day!
December 25, 2024 at 9:36 AM
foulowl.bsky.social
For anyone else who didn't expect to spend their Monday evening laughing at a reindeer's face made out of a British public figure's private parts, and YET
davidwaywell.bsky.social David Waywell @davidwaywell.bsky.social · Dec 15
Reposting but this time with the right hashtag. My entry for @martinrowson.bsky.social's #DrawGreggWallace challenge.

Also on Youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIJG...

Longer version too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN9T...
December 16, 2024 at 8:52 PM
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plsoc.bsky.social
‘Your letter this morning was a delight – until I found how mine had fallen into your mood like a bullet into a soufflé.’ Philip Larkin to Monica Jones, 2-12-54
November 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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ricardoautobahn.co.uk
"Judas!"
December 4, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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maryhrovat.bsky.social
Cloudy sky at sunset, with deep pink visible clouds in the bottom half of the image. Treetops along the bottom of the image.
December 4, 2024 at 10:58 PM
foulowl.bsky.social
To whomever sees this: read the alt text.
kirkdalebooks.bsky.social Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · Dec 2
Buddo says you're nearly home & dry.
Fashoined from whalebone thousands of years ago on Orkney, Buddo might seem an unlikely means of conveying the bookseller's strange mixture of sadness and joy at contemplating the sixty minutes which remain of this day's trade. And yet, who knows what profundities of human expression might be conveyed by, well, frankly, various holes which have been positioned on the body of Buddo? What pleasures, what torments? What insatiable hungers, what implacable hostilities? What desires for things like tomatoes, potatoes, tobacco, and so many other stuffs that Buddo could never yet have apprehended from his Neolithic fastness? Know what I mean? Eh?
December 4, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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davidlancecallahan.bsky.social
Very much meant this to be my Christmas single but circumstances have not permitted. It's got a robin & everything, so why not? That's all you need for a card, isn't it? It's also a(nother) belated tribute to William blake, whose birthday it was last week:

davidcallahan.bandcamp.com/track/robin-...
Robin Reliant, by David Lance Callahan
from the album Down To The Marshes
davidcallahan.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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extraunknown.bsky.social
Mood today
December 2, 2024 at 4:56 PM
foulowl.bsky.social
Ancient fossil of Earth's once domninant species, now relegated to seating purposes.
A life-size, usable couch carved into a massive stone wall. The wall faces an outdoor path and is half-covered in moss.
December 2, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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echomachineone.bsky.social
“No Human Is Illegal” A fundraiser for Bradford Refugee Forum at the world famous 1in12 Club, Saturday 7th December 2024.
November 25, 2024 at 11:08 AM
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zoewatsonartist.bsky.social
Local autumnal scenes in Cheshire this week

#photography #nature #naturelovers
November 28, 2024 at 8:14 PM
foulowl.bsky.social
The music sounds exactly how the poem feels (to me, at least- and quite a few other people, clearly).

Happy Blake's b-day to all those who celebrate. Remember to leave some cookies and milk (or possibly cold mutton and porter?) out for Billy tonight.
November 28, 2024 at 9:22 PM
foulowl.bsky.social
When you're a statue and you've seen too much
Small statue of a dragon with their tongue sticking out and a seemingly frowning or shocked glance. Small statue of a unicorn with their mouth's corners turned down and a seemingly perplexed glance.
November 28, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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jfarrers.bsky.social
Thursday
Simon Munnery in “Attention Scum”
July 18, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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john86l.bsky.social
John Finnemore being brilliant as always.
November 16, 2024 at 12:51 PM