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Rachel Deering

@racheldeering.bsky.social

‘The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar’ ~ Lear for #BookWormSat

The image is a cover for the sheet music of "The Owl & the Pussy-Cat," a popular nonsense poem by Edward Lear, set to music by M.J. Worthington Bliss (Miss Lindsay).
Owl is in the boat, cat is on the sail.

July 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM

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Rachel Deering

@racheldeering.bsky.social

🖼️ Rosa Bonheur

Painting of stag in sunlit woodland setting.

July 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM

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Rachel Deering

@racheldeering.bsky.social

Goodnight.
🖼️ Edith Ballinger Price

What greater joyance than to lie
Beneath the marvel of the sky ?
A woman sits beneath the night sky. Illustration.

June 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM

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Nintendo of America [Unofficial]

@nintendousa.bsky.social

In this special edition of #CreatorsVoice, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shares some insights into the creation of #NintendoSwitch2 's custom processor.

Watch more Creator's Voice videos here: www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-sy...

June 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM

Karen ERV

@karenxmx20.bsky.social

¿Por qué no cuento lo que siento? Porque siempre minimizan mi desahogo haciéndome quedar peor... Como si mi momento no fuera importante. Sólo agacho mi cabeza y sigo adelante

January 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM

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Jon W.

@rarefilmm.bsky.social

Here's RUTH, ROSES AND REVOLVER (1987), a documentary from BBC's Arena series with David Lynch presenting clips from early surrealist films that he considered most significant to his own work. Big improvement over Dailymotion's copy. Only aired once! gofile.io/d/CWDkwh

January 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM

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Rachel Deering

@racheldeering.bsky.social

Goodnight.
🖼️ Graham Brown

Painting of white doe sat beneath a tree central within landscape of trees, pasture, snow capped mountains, running up the tree are two white squirrels, stars and a crescent moon peek behind a clouded night sky.

January 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM

Karen ERV

@karenxmx20.bsky.social

Llorar podrá no resolver nada... Pero logrará liberarte de ese peso de tu mente. No lo dejes adentro. Sácalo. Grítalo...

January 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM

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erdobham.bsky.social

@erdobham.bsky.social

To bring some cheer to January have a photo of a pretty gate in Birmingham😍. #Photography #Brum

January 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM

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Elly is 3 birds in a Santa hat

@almost-elly.bsky.social

On this day in 2024: borb.

A dark-eyed junco doing its best on a frigid day! #birds

A very round fluffy dark-eyed junco perches on a wooden railing post covered in fluffy snow. The background is completely white, also because of snow.

January 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM

Karen ERV

@karenxmx20.bsky.social

Desde Chicá, Altos de Campana 🫶 #panama #panamá🇵🇦 Hermosa vista 🌳

November 18, 2024 at 6:26 AM

Karen ERV

@karenxmx20.bsky.social

No es que querramos ignorar los problemas de nuestro entorno... Es que por unos segundos nos queremos despegar de la realidad. Aunque sea unos minutos. Sabemos que hay cosas que hacer... Pero nuestra mente debe tener su descanso.

November 18, 2024 at 6:20 AM

Karen ERV

@karenxmx20.bsky.social

¿Quién de #Panama está en Bluesky? 🤔🇵🇦

November 18, 2024 at 12:14 AM

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Sarah

@norfolkbookworm.bsky.social

When I was little our school playing field was covered in lapwings & whenever we went out to play they'd take flight & dance in the sky, then they vanished. It's only recently we've started seeing them in great numbers again - they still dance in the sky & still make me happy.
#birds 🪶 #photography

A flock of black and white birds flying in front of some bare trees and brown reeds

November 17, 2024 at 6:53 PM

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Mark Hamill

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

Thanks for noticing.

November 17, 2024 at 11:05 PM

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Signe Maene

@signemaene.com

The School of Silence by Jean Delville (1929)

Symbolist painting. Three women sitting and looking at the sky, behind them trees and a lake.

November 17, 2024 at 7:38 PM

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Signe Maene

@signemaene.com

'It lies around us like a cloud,
A world we do not see;
Yet the sweet closing of an eye
May bring us there to be.'
-The Other World, Harriet Beecher Stowe.

🎨Gustave Doré

Painting, Gustave Doré, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Figures dancing in the forest, moonlight.

November 14, 2024 at 1:33 PM

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Rachel Deering

@racheldeering.bsky.social

November 14, 2024 at 4:57 AM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

once again thinking about the fact that this is all just OUT THERE and we can only see it through the eyes of telescopes

$The background of space is black. Thousands of galaxies appear all across the view. Their shapes and colors vary. Some are various shades of orange, others are white. Most stars appear blue, and are sometimes as large as more distant galaxies that appear next to them. A very bright star is just above and left of center. It has eight bright blue, long diffraction spikes. Between 4 o’clock and 6 o’clock in its spikes are several very bright galaxies. A group of three are in the middle, and two are closer to 4 o’clock. These galaxies are part of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, and they are warping the appearances of galaxies seen around them. Long orange arcs appear at left and right toward the center.$ A massive cloud of gas and dust is seen in dark, dusty red, with its outer portions a translucent, ethereal gray. Several stars and distant galaxies are scattered throughout the image.

A massive cloud of gas and dust is seen in dark, dusty red, with its outer portions a translucent, ethereal gray. Several stars and distant galaxies are scattered throughout the image.

A circular-shaped nebula with a complex structure. On the circle’s exterior, particularly on the left side of the image, are curtains of material glowing orange like fire. Interior to this outer shell is a ring of mottled filaments in bright pink, studded with clumps and knots. A greenish loop extends from the upper right of the ring into the central cavity. Translucent wisps of blue, green, and red appear throughout the image.

The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The cluster is seen here above a small portion of the nebula. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster. The strong radiation and stellar winds from from these blazing, blue-white stars also pushes the nebular material outward, creating one of many low-density bubbles within NGC 6357.

November 13, 2024 at 6:45 PM

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lukelukeluke

@lukelukeluke.bsky.social

Here is a nice mushroom

A single white Mycena mushroom grows atop a fuzzy stalk next to a half-rotted log

November 11, 2024 at 1:16 PM

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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics

@compoundchem.com

WIth Halloween coming up, the latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social looks at vampirism and why its oft-cited links with porphyria are wide of the mark: cen.acs.org/biological-c...

#ChemSky 🧪

Many sources claim that porphyria, a rare group of disorders, inspired the vampire myth. Porphyria is a group of genetic disorders. The name comes from porphyrin molecules, which are building blocks to make heme. Porphyria causes deficiencies in the body's enzymes to make heme, so the body overproduces porphyrins. Like vampires, people with some porphyrias experience skin damage and blistering in sunlight. Accumulated porphyrins in the skin absorb light and generate radicals that cause the damage. Unlike vampires, people with porphyria needn't fear garlic. Allyl disulfide in garlic boosts the production of an enzyme that breaks down heme, but not sufficiently to be a problem for people with porphyria.  While mythical vampires crave blood, there's no evidence that drinking blood eases porphyria's symptoms. Most people with porphyria do not need extra heme from external sources. Even if they did, drinking blood would not solve this; intestinal enzymes break down the heme in hemoglobin.

October 28, 2024 at 5:47 PM

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Signe Maene

@signemaene.com

'Then he said to her:
since you are the fairest maiden,
choose your death (while) you still have time.'

But the princess cuts off the head of Heer Halewijn instead and takes it to the castle where his head is displayed on a plate during a huge celebration.

🎨Hendricus Jansen
#BookWormSat