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Optimistic pessimist.
RA & sjögren’s. 📖🧶🎮🐸
Knits a lot. But also not enough.
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natalka57.bsky.social
Spotted these three tonight, they were rather quieter - understandable with all the other fantastic spooky scary goings on in the bookshop (which gets better every year)!
pfieldbookshop.bsky.social The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social · Oct 29
During the set up for Halloween it appears some of the pumpkins may have taken on a life of their own!!
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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gwenckatz.bsky.social
I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.
The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse.

Newspaper clipping, 1906.
A newspaper clipping from 1906 that reads: "Noisy, Hungry Frogs Sadden Farmer's Life. They scare his cattle and they also eat his flannel shirt."
October 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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sharrow.bsky.social
Like a Goose!
May 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
It's May the 4th and that's all the excuse we need to re-post this classic. 🤩
🔊
May 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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verybadllama.bsky.social
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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medmilmedicine.bsky.social
The original twelfth-century inspiration for the popular 1980’s video game ‘Frogger’ - 12th century, France, Bibliothèques d’Amiens Métropole, Ms. 108, f. 042v
March 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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minimuslatin.bsky.social
#stpatricksday #minimuslatin
Sanctus Patricius serpentes ex Hibernia agit... serpentes eum maxime vexant! (St Patrick drives the snakes out of Ireland... the snakes are annoying him a lot!)
Drawing of St Patrick driving a donkey cart with three snakes in. The snakes are saying "nonne iam advenimus?" (Are we there yet?); "necesse est mihi mingere" (I need a wee); "nauseo" (I feel sick) and St Patrick is thinking "miserere mei" (Have pity on me).
March 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
Simple but powerful. The Symbol of Tanit, Chief Goddess of Carthage, on the floor of a house in Kerkouane, Tunisia.

It was possibly installed as an apotropaic symbol to ward off evil

#MosaicMonday 🏺
A close up of a mosaic floor made of irregular pieces of multiple colours. Centrally is an outlined figure in white pieces with a circular head, two straight arms out the side and a triangular body
March 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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stephencollins.bsky.social
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]
March 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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markscherz.bsky.social
Bluesky has not yet had any Rhombophryne testudo. Let’s fix that. I think it will do all of us some good. 🐸🟤
Look, I’m gonna break it to you, it’s a real shame you’re hearing or reading alt text and not seeing this incredible frog. It’s just… imagine a pancake, slightly burned in an intricate kind of pattern on top. Now puff it up like it’s some kind of incredible dumpling. Now put some legs evenly spaced around the edges, with stubby digits. And put some little bronze eyes in there for good measure. Now imagine that the pancake is deeply nonplussed, as is plain to see across its very flat face. That is what this frog looks like. It is perhaps one of evolution’s greatest achievements.
February 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard.

#MosaicMonday
A horrific image of a someone who seems to have his hands tied behind his back. A big cat (the predator kind, not the overfed pet kind) has jumped up at him and is devouring his face. Blood splashes on the floor.
January 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
natalka57.bsky.social
Knitted mitts. Wore mitts. Remembered should photograph mitts. 🧶
This is a pair of fingerless gloves knitted in maroon with colourwork of yellow suns at the wrist.
January 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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pessimistsarc.bsky.social
Great question
November 15, 2024 at 6:05 AM
natalka57.bsky.social
Oooh, this feels like a small corner that might be nice to settle into, for a bit.
November 17, 2024 at 11:04 PM