Jonathan Bliss
@jonathanbliss.bsky.social
Wildlife watching, birds, bugs, spiders and the rest of the natural world, photography, books, a bit of history, learning French. Leeds.
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The Nobel committee have just launched a football prize and made Diana Ross their first recipient.
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The Nobel committee have just launched a football prize and made Diana Ross their first recipient.
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
Just thought I’d share this lovely blog about my late dad’s painting.
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Ian Bliss Loving life in Nature
Born in 1930, Ian Bliss takes inspiration from his family and familiar surroundings, his home, his garden and the field by his house. His love of fishing as a boy is the creative force behind his s…
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December 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Just thought I’d share this lovely blog about my late dad’s painting.
fishinkblog.com/2012/06/09/i...
fishinkblog.com/2012/06/09/i...
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
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🏺 I look at this gorgeous piece of materiality and performance, and think that we don't consider eccentricity enough as a motivator for unique, beautiful things in prehistory...
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🏺 I look at this gorgeous piece of materiality and performance, and think that we don't consider eccentricity enough as a motivator for unique, beautiful things in prehistory...
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Pictures that explain things.
Making pompoms
(More things to Make, 1973)
Artist: Eric Winter
Making pompoms
(More things to Make, 1973)
Artist: Eric Winter
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Pictures that explain things.
Making pompoms
(More things to Make, 1973)
Artist: Eric Winter
Making pompoms
(More things to Make, 1973)
Artist: Eric Winter
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All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'.
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
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We're dreaming of sunny days at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with this Lynn Chadwick sculpture!
The artist was born #OnThisDay in 1914 🎈
'Little Girl' by Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images 📸 Jonty Wilde. Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The artist was born #OnThisDay in 1914 🎈
'Little Girl' by Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images 📸 Jonty Wilde. Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We're dreaming of sunny days at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with this Lynn Chadwick sculpture!
The artist was born #OnThisDay in 1914 🎈
'Little Girl' by Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images 📸 Jonty Wilde. Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The artist was born #OnThisDay in 1914 🎈
'Little Girl' by Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images 📸 Jonty Wilde. Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park
In only four weeks time the days will
start getting longer again. You have managed this long, you have got this.
start getting longer again. You have managed this long, you have got this.
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
In only four weeks time the days will
start getting longer again. You have managed this long, you have got this.
start getting longer again. You have managed this long, you have got this.
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The best way to decide a Most Prolific Illustrator competition is to draw lots.
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The best way to decide a Most Prolific Illustrator competition is to draw lots.
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I genuinely hate having to plug my work on here. I would rather post my cartoons and drawings without a link to my website, but unfortunately social media is an important element of our business, so I have to do it. I do appreciate the reposts and thank you for the support since I came to Bluesky.
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I genuinely hate having to plug my work on here. I would rather post my cartoons and drawings without a link to my website, but unfortunately social media is an important element of our business, so I have to do it. I do appreciate the reposts and thank you for the support since I came to Bluesky.
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'Wren in Winter' by Sarah Bays, UK printmaker who is inspired by the nature she encounters on her rural walks #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 23, 2025 at 5:36 AM
'Wren in Winter' by Sarah Bays, UK printmaker who is inspired by the nature she encounters on her rural walks #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 PM
You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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A year ago today, Hancock was 'testifying' again at the UK Covid Inquiry. The inquiry felt compelled to lay on muscle to protect him from five peaceful protesters (three of them pensioners), when it was our loved ones who needed protecting from him.
#ThrowbackThursday
#ThrowbackThursday
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A year ago today, Hancock was 'testifying' again at the UK Covid Inquiry. The inquiry felt compelled to lay on muscle to protect him from five peaceful protesters (three of them pensioners), when it was our loved ones who needed protecting from him.
#ThrowbackThursday
#ThrowbackThursday
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Erratum : les agriculteurs et les chasseurs, une menace pour le loup
Un spécimen du canidé à la recherche de nouveaux territoires à coloniser vient d’être vu en Seine-et-Marne. Une menace pour les agriculteurs et les chasseurs. →https://l.lefigaro.fr/kQvI
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Erratum : les agriculteurs et les chasseurs, une menace pour le loup
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I often see people saying we have to be careful about using the term evil. But fuck it, if you support a policy that brings potential harm to a vulnerable minority or just makes their everyday life extremely difficult I'm going to call it how I see it. It's YOU that needs to take a look at yourself.
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I often see people saying we have to be careful about using the term evil. But fuck it, if you support a policy that brings potential harm to a vulnerable minority or just makes their everyday life extremely difficult I'm going to call it how I see it. It's YOU that needs to take a look at yourself.
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Dick Advocaat is the head coach of the Curaçao football team, who will be the first ever alcoholic drink managed by an alcoholic drink to play at a World Cup finals.
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Dick Advocaat is the head coach of the Curaçao football team, who will be the first ever alcoholic drink managed by an alcoholic drink to play at a World Cup finals.
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Happy International Mens Day. Men still do the most dangerous jobs. Are more likely to take their own lives. Experience perceived social penalties for being paternal, caring, sensitive etc. So, with consent, hug a man today. Fixing the patriarchy is in the best interests of men too!
November 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Happy International Mens Day. Men still do the most dangerous jobs. Are more likely to take their own lives. Experience perceived social penalties for being paternal, caring, sensitive etc. So, with consent, hug a man today. Fixing the patriarchy is in the best interests of men too!
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Not a #Sphagnum but what a display! We usually see a couple dozen of #Curlew at once but that many is incredible!! 🪶 #Bird #GreatNorthBog (credit: Beth Thomas)
November 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Not a #Sphagnum but what a display! We usually see a couple dozen of #Curlew at once but that many is incredible!! 🪶 #Bird #GreatNorthBog (credit: Beth Thomas)
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I love that this is expanding to include books, music etc. I’m not curating it or making any judgments, it’s not *my* preferences, anyone who makes stuff is welcome to reply to my original post. (Not this one, far fewer people will see it.)
A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain
Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.
www.worldofmoose.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I love that this is expanding to include books, music etc. I’m not curating it or making any judgments, it’s not *my* preferences, anyone who makes stuff is welcome to reply to my original post. (Not this one, far fewer people will see it.)
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Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”
November 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”