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Patrick McCormack
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A wanderer, wonderer and picker-up of unconsidered trifles.
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yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social
Just A Hint Of Sunlight. 8°C with rain approaching. Starlings.
Just A Hint Of Sunlight. 8°C with rain approaching. Starlings
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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slipperyjack.bsky.social
The bounce on these fellas...
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
patrick-mcc.bsky.social
Monkey has collapsed on my lap after washing himself thoroughly.
#caturday #proofofcat
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
patrick-mcc.bsky.social
A fine day on the Quantocks. Views to Dunkery, Rhossili, Gower, south Wales coast, Bannau Brycheiniog, Sugar Loaf, Skirrid Fawr and new Severn Bridge. Not inconsiderably pleased 😊
#Quantocks #landscape #exmoor #Gower #bannaubrycheiniog
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Add a pot of tea and a companionable cat, and it would be bliss indeed 🫖 🐈
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Give me sunlight, a comfortable chair and a wall of books! This makes me declare myself a most satisfied soul. For the library is a territory of wonder. It is home to a thousand wise voices who know words that open gates to the imagination. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934 #Libraries
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Horizontal slabs of pressure-hardened seabed, halfway up a mountain.

We live on such a wonderful planet 🌍
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
patrick-mcc.bsky.social
A chilly, but bright, pilgrimage to Cranborne Chase. Having paid my respects to The General in Tollard Royal, fine views (and frost-bitten ears) walking to Win Green and back. My reward: tea, cake and books in Shaftesbury 🫖🍰📚
#pittrivers #cranbornechase #Shaftesbury @foldedorset.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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philolithia.bsky.social
First snow on the mountains this winter: view up the Dysynni Valley to Craig Aderyn / Bird Rock and Cadair Idris.
Bright red berries on an otherwise bare silver-branched hawthorn overlook a field of long scrubby yellow dead grasses bordered by muddy-green-leaved willows and alders. Beyond, the dark hump of the distinctive outcrop of Craig Aderyn looms up and, beyond this, the snow-covered slopes of Cadair Idris disappear into white snow clouds.
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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drtobydriver.bsky.social
The old lane to the coast path at dawn...

Treen, Cornwall, on Thursday 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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hjm.bsky.social
HERE IT IS!!!!!
H Is For Hawk - Official Trailer
YouTube video by LionsgateFilmsUK
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November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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jonpountney1.bsky.social
Was pretty stunned to come across these Paul Nash trees yesterday
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social
An Evening Wander. 8°C and a cold wind. The hoot of an owl.
An Evening Wander. 8°C and a cold wind. The hoot of an owl.
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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humanists.uk
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media — the 30-second sound bite (now down to 10 seconds kind of celebration of ignorance.”
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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maxmoran.bsky.social
Ynys Enlli / Bardsey Island, Gwynedd, Cymru / Wales 23.03.24

#BlueSkyMonday #scape
#landscape #seascape
#landscapephotography
#photographersofbluesky
An island with a small hill bordered by sea with passing cloud shadows and cloudy blue sky.
October 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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irishlisa.bsky.social
Blue sky, ghost of moon
empty branches remember
how light used to feel

#Haiku #Senryu #Moon #Sky #Trees #Nature #Poetry #Haiga #Photography #Micropoetry #Skyscape #ImageAndVerse
A faint daytime moon floats in a clear blue sky beside the upper branches of a bare tree.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Liquidambar leaf palette just now👇🏼. Pause for a moment if you’re feeling anxious-your brain’s likely to release dopamine due to a positive response to colour gradation, certain bright colours & looking at images our brains find appealing. A pause here will make your day slightly easier to tackle 🍁
Liquidambar leaves laid out in order of colour, green through to deep red, on a buff coloured linen background
October 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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annealais.bsky.social
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October 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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klimtgustav.bsky.social
University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings (Medicine), detail showing Hygieia
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28526
This detail from Gustav Klimt's "Medicine," part of the University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings, vividly portrays Hygieia, the Greek goddess of health, in vibrant reds and golds adorned with symbolic medical motifs. Klimt's work, controversial for its time, integrates allegorical figures and lush ornamentation, reflecting his unique blend of symbolism and sensuality.
October 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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theguardian.com
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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desdelboy.bsky.social
Morning all.

Photograph by Martin Parr, Isle of Rhum in the background, Isle of Eigg, Scotland, 1998.
October 9, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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quintinlake.bsky.social
Cadair Idris lost in the mist from the flanks of Rhobell Fawr #442mountains
October 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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amndw2.bsky.social
I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror
A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read: "Spiders Terrible hotel stay Narrator makes fun of golf Latin passages Eerie disembodied voices Confirmed bachelor main character Vengeful spirit Evil magician Working-class character as comic relief Bleak East Anglian coast Visit to an archive Narrator in guidebook mode FREE SPACE Unholy doings in a church Frogs or toads Queen Anne style house Cursed artifact Don't buy that rare book! Something hairy and horrible Someone gets too curious Tentacles Story told via old manuscript Research trip gone horribly wrong Beds are scary Tactile horror
October 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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mclees-fiona.bsky.social
Pattern made by high winds and suburban parks
A puddle on tarmac on which manifold leaves float
October 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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ashhiggins.bsky.social
This. Is. Why. I. Paint.
"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."
October 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM