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Pamela Weaver
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Writing for a living, mostly about tech. Historian in a previous life. Politics, history, bikes, books, cricket, gardening, dogs, music. SocDem.
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Hullo from Vic.
Close-up pic of my small staffie-patterdale-somethingorother-cross boy Vic. He is mostly black, but increasingly grey. He has a very impressive nose, which is the main feature in this pic. Close-up pic of my small staffie-patterdale-somethingorother-cross boy Vic. He is mostly black, but increasingly grey. He has a very impressive nose, which he is showing off at an even better angle than the one in pic 1.
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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November. In Normandie. 😟
Photo of orange coloured passion fruit Photo of passion fruit in flower. It is November, this isn’t good. Photo of passion fruit in flower. It is November, this isn’t good.
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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I've seen Tawny & Barn owls in the garden, usually doing a fly-by. Last night, I hit the jackpot with one of these just sitting in a tree. I saw it, it saw me. It looked at me, I looked back. Then it turned and flew off, movie-style. Grey, beautiful - like in this photo by J. Alfonso Diéguez Millán
Photo of a grey tawny owl, sitting on top of a tree stump, in daylight. It is looking directly at the camera, there is blurred green foliage in the backgrounfr. The owl is dappled grey. I saw one in my garden last night and I am thrilled. Photo: J. Alfonso Diéguez Millán
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Nicolas de Staël. 1954
Not sure how to describe this, it’s like a night time winter landscape, frozen water, snow, almost canal lines. When I find out what it’s called, will Google a better description
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Truth eternal. Truth divine.

Also: breithlá sona duit.
Photo of a sticker on a lamppost reading: "Double the garlic in the recipe."
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Even harder to say no to when it's had a haircut.
Close up of my very small terrier girl, making herself comfortable in a folded duvet. She is brown, black and silver-grey, 4kgs and The Boss of all she surveys. She is looking directly at the camera with her big brown eyes and even bigger nose. And you need to kiss her.
October 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Any Bsky #nature buffs know what these are? They seem to prefer oak leaves.
photo of fallen autumn leaves. one is covered in what looks like breafast cereal, tiny little brown donut shapes with a black centre. I'm wondering what they are. Close up of the previous photo - the leaf covered in what looks like breafast cereal, tiny little brown donut shapes with a black centre. I'm wondering what they are.
October 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Easy one for any cops wondering where the jewels are stashed.
Easy job for the cops, not a hidden jewel in sight. "Four lads in jeans" photo of four fellas out on the lash in Birmingham in the world's tightest pants.
October 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Missing my little man big time today.
Photo of my little dog John, sitting on a windowsill and looking out towards the sea. He loved a perch and a view.
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Screen shot on a xitter exchange between tech bro Andrew Yeung and 'E. Rex Shin.' Yeung has posted: I just met a founder who told me she works 24 hours a day. I’m not joking. She’s taught herself how to lucid dream so she can solve important work problems in her sleep. It’s working though, she recently raised tens of millions of dollars and hired a few dozen people. San Francisco is known for 996 but in New York we’re 24/7 ;) E. Rex Shin replies: Do you people ever shut the fuck up?
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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"Dog"
Diego De La Rosa 2022.
From the artist's insta: "Since its beginnings, the majority of the Venezuelan population has been living in extreme poverty. From a lack of care of the political class to ine ective economic models, the Venezuelans have been pushed to search for miraculous solutions found in religion and fortune based activities, in order to cope with their precarious reality. . In this painting, De la Rosa explores how poverty has pushed Venezuelans to rely on mysticism and spirituality for their betterment. The painting portrays an impoverished scenery that is reminiscent of the poor communities that are found outside the main urban areas. . The dog is modelled after a stray that both Diego and his wife adopted from the streets in Caracas. Its appearance is embellished by a halo surrounding its head, and an ornamental collar on its neck. Both items serve to imbue the character with a sense of goodness and dignity. The halo is reminiscent of images of saints, found in christianity, while the collar design is directly inspired by garments worn by the heroes of independence, such as Simon Bolivar and Francisco de Miranda. . To illustrate the benevolence of the main character, the dog is accompanied by two items in front of its feet. A small bag of rice and mangos. While rice has become a product hard to acquire for many Venezuelans, mangos can be found growing on the trees on the street, and are an easy and accessible way of making ends for the hungry citizens. As such, the holy creature brings a humble bit of salvation to a community that has been abandoned by its leaders." .
October 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Screen shot of a typo in a post reading: Patient has an insulin pimp. Some has shared this, saying: Pretty sure that's the opposite of a sugar daddy. I have no idea who came up with this, but how could you not share.
October 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Baby girl 🐶
Close-up photo of my very small terrier girl. She is black, brown and (increasingly) white. She has the most excellent eyebrows. And nose. She is not even one bit spoiled. Close-up photo of my very small terrier girl. She is black, brown and (increasingly) white. She has the most excellent eyebrows. And nose. She is not even one bit spoiled. Close-up photo of my very small terrier girl. She is black, brown and (increasingly) white. She has the most excellent eyebrows. And nose. She is not even one bit spoiled.
October 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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I suppose we should be greateful they went the Blair-Obama knuckle pointer route than the Tory power stance one.
October 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Feels like we're in for a world of pain on vexatious challenges to the #Áras25 selection process.

#speirgorm
photo of enoch burke outside school gates, carrying maria steen's 20 grand handbag. *not for real*
September 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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black and white film still of a woman knitting while watching people being guillotined during the french revolution.
September 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Look. At. My. Dog.
Photo of my very small black, brown and (increasingly lots of) white terrier girl. Sitting on a knee, and gazing into the somewhere. In the bacgkround are trees and a hedge. She is a sports-athlete and she knows it.
September 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Last of the summer stragglers.
Close-up photo of a bright-orange strawflower in a terracotta pot. Close-up photo of bright-orange strawflowers in a terracotta pot.
September 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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The greatest comeback since Lazarus.
Newspaper cutting of an obituary of a woman in the USA, from The Standard-Star, 04.15.1925. It reads: Aged Woman Dies 101 Years After She Was Put in Coffin Mrs. Myria Betsey Farwell Bucklin, who was pronounced dead more than 100 years ago, died at her home Sunday. She would have celebrated her 102nd birthday anniversary June 1. Three days after her birth in 1833, she was pronounced dead, dressed for burial and placed in a white coffin. Hours later, her parents were startled when she began to cry.
September 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Every day is Missing Stair day.

"The majority of rapists average 6 rapes each. We need to shut down the social structures that give them license to operate They don't accidentally end up in a room with women too drunk/high to consent or resist; they plan on getting there & that's where they end up"
Screenshot of a wikipedia entry describing the "missing stair" phenomenon around how known sex offenders are managed rather than dealt with. The screenshot is from a section of this entry, and reads: In a 2014 post on the anti-rape blog Yes Means Yes,[4] lawyer Thomas MacAulay Millar wrote that the missing stair analogy was consistent with his understanding of rapists' motivations and behaviors, based on research carried out by clinical psychologists David Lisak and Paul M. Miller, and by Stephanie K. McWhorter, a researcher with the U.S. Naval Health Research Center. Millar wrote that while a small number of rapists are "one-timers" who may be making a mistake or are confused about consent, the majority are repeat offenders, averaging six rapes each.[5] "We need to spot the rapists," Millar wrote, "and we need to shut down the social structures that give them a license to operate. They don't accidentally end up in a room with a woman too drunk or high to consent or resist; they plan on getting there and that's where they end up."[6]
September 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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The one on the right looks suspiciously like Keir Starmer, but he only wishes it was him.
Photo of two absolute twits, head-to-toe in union jack clothes, kissing dolls dressed as the british royal family babies. the one on the right looks suspiciously like keir starmer, but he only hopes it's him.
September 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Tar Beach 2
Faith Ringgold, 1990.
“This image comes from Ringgold’s childhood memories of summertime dinners atop the roof of the Harlem, New York, apartment building where she and her family lived. In the lower left-hand corner, the artist pictures herself as an eight-year-old child lying with her younger brother on a mattress, contemplating the starlit nighttime sky. She is telling him a story of a young girl named Cassie Louise Lightfoot, Ringgold’s alter ego, who has been given the power of flight. Even more impressive is Cassie's ability to possess whatever she can fly over, which in this case is the George Washington Bridge. Ringgold produced this limited-edition silk-screened quilt at the nearby Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia.” Source: Sajet, Kim. The Chemistry of Color: African American Artists in Philadelphia, 1970-1990. Philadelphia, PA: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2005, pg. 51
July 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I love this photo of Joey Barton holding all the trophies he won during his long and illustrious career in an England jersey.
Photo of English footballer Joey Barton, in a blue-and-white striped football kit, with blue shorts (QPR). He is holding his hands out, side by side. They are empty. Just like his trophy cabinet. Which is why the little shit should stop criticizing the England women's team, whose cabinet has twice as many tophies as the wee fucker has england shirts.
July 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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A Simpsons Ireland fan meme depicting a re-working of the scene showing a sign displaying how many days since the last accident at the nuclear power plant. A man is changing the sign from '1' to '0'. In this instance, the caption is "Days since the Brits were at it again.'
July 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Imperative.
Lee Krasner, 1976
Visual description from the National Museum of Art website: Slivers drawn in black chalk, painted with vibrant green, yellow, and red, or left white are interwoven in this square, abstract composition. The painted areas are too small to make out any objects, and the drawn areas are rounded or angular shapes. The overall impression is that shards from a painting, drawing, or blank canvas have been reassembled like bits of broken mirror. The artist signed and dated the lower center, “Lee Krasner ’76.”
July 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM