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George
@rodillagrande.bsky.social
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Here we are. Just reading stuff.

Hilltown. Cambridge. The Well. The allotment.
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'Dark Winter Light'

Taken on Murlough Beach, around this time of the year about four or five years ago. One of my favourite beaches in Northern Ireland.
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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"I think the best strategy in the age of AI is: bet on yourself… unique work made well with huge amounts of love is actually going to become more valuable in the AI era." A very heartening story about the brilliant Naomi Alderman buying back “Zombies, Run!” www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Finally some good buyout news: A writer just bought back the game she co-created from a blockchain company so it 'doesn’t end up being turned into AI slop'
Novelist and game writer Naomi Alderman has bought back the rights to the Zombies, Run! exercise app she's been writing episodes of for more than a decade.
www.pcgamer.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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sparklemarkers.bsky.social
this is how you lose the dish war
A set of dish scrubbers shaped like a cardinal and a bluebird
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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An illustration for An Enemy at Green Knowe.

The witches’ cats have driven the birds from Green Knowe’s garden. But one of the boys has painted a banner, lit a lantern and is buying his hair with the hair of Hanno the escaped gorilla (from a previous book). The spirit of the gorilla will help.
A B&W illustration by Peter Boston. A small boy (Ping, the Chinese friend to Tolly. An embarrassing name, but a lovingly written character, and as much of Green Knowe as Tolly and the ghosts) He is cutting a length of his hair for it to fall into a hole where he has already placed the only artefacts he has left from his friendship with the escaped gorilla. In the branches of the tree are the black cats - supernaturally summoned - who have cruelty emptied the garden of birds.
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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soph0517.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekUforUnloved #EastCoastKin #NorthernIreland #photography

Kearney

Once essential to the rhythm of daily life
it now stands unloved and forgotten
swallowed by time
An old, weathered red British telephone box stands abandoned in an overgrown rural area. The paint is faded and chipped, and the glass panels are cloudy with grime. Thick green ivy has climbed up the sides and across the roof, almost entirely engulfing the structure. Surrounding it are tall grasses, tangled branches, and bare trees, creating a sense of long neglect. The scene has a muted, slightly desaturated tone, emphasizing the decay and the box’s gradual reclamation by nature.
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Flounce

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My print ‘Flounce’. In the foreground a running along a pathcompletely black figure strikes a pose against a dark background. In the distance is silhouetted a gothic looking house with just its windows lit, the only points of colour in an otherwise black and white (and grey) drawing.
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Natura i prou. Aigües místiques.
#Fotografia #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Stunday #Scape #RuralScape #EastCoastKin
Vista emmarcada entre dos arbres d'un canal d'aigües tranquiles a l'estany d'Ivars i Vilasana. Fotografia en blanc i negre.
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
rodillagrande.bsky.social
Today I am helping to make a bookshop.

#Cambridge #BoxCafe #BimbleBooks #bookshop
A photo of an unmade flat pack bookcase.
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.
September 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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richardmortimer.bsky.social
Today's flower is a Hollyhock on the walk home from the Shoes
August 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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cambridgediary.bsky.social
8th June 2020
The summer of 2020 saw the stunning installation of King’s College’s Back Lawn of a wildflower meadow. The conversion of the previously manicured lawn, dating back to 1722, has boosted biodiversity as well as being a glorious sight.
Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'.
June 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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To the complaint There are no people in these photographs, I respond, There are always two people:
the photographer and the viewer. (Ansel Adams)

#nature #naturephotography #photography #landscape
#art #fineart #scape #landscapephotography #treelovers
#trees #stunday
A vibrant tree with bright red leaves stands out against a clear blue sky./ Ein lebendiger Baum mit leuchtend roten Blättern hebt sich von einem klaren blauen Himmel ab.
June 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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phonelapsers.bsky.social
Inquisitive #Crow this morning #Weymouth #Dorset checking out the #Timelapse #Camera #BlueSkyArtShow

#birds #travel #photography #nature #coastal #beach #seaside #dorset #bluesky #phonephotography #mobilephotography #wild #sea #rocks #phonelaspe
Inquisitive crow this morning, Weymouth Dorset, checking out the timelapse camera
June 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Experimenting with making folk horror Fuzzy Felt, combining shapes from vintage sets with cutting my own.
Only a work in progress & a tentative first attempt but I’m enjoying working out the process & possibilities
A white hand with a blue human eye in the centre, fingers sprouting colourful flowers, the eye crying blood with the hand emerging from a flouncy white cuff tied with a pink bow and patterned with red hearts, this is made from felt stuck to a black velvet background
May 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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My mum would give me the look for bragging

But bloody hell.

Two BBC TV Series in 2 years is something to shout about!

The Gallows Pole & Leonard and Hungry Paul

Many thanks to our editors Lin Webb & Leonora Rustamova

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May 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Andor: 29 brilliant and *very* minor characters, ranked.
A THREAD

I'm not a Star Wars fanboy at all. I vaguely watched the films and forgot them. But I happened on Andor S1 and loved it - not least because of its conveyor belt of amazing British (and in S2 French) character actors in tiny roles
May 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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2tone4real.bsky.social
The marshmallow fields at the bottom of Tunnock Brae being harvested for 2025's batch of teacakes this morning.

Armed security is needed 24/7 all year round to stop any attempts from the Haggi Community getting their paws on any throughout the year.
May 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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carloslifting.bsky.social
Episode 8 of the wheel of time omg!
Sophie Okonedo and Shohreh Aghfashloo are amazing! 👏🏻 👏🏻
April 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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boscobel1975.bsky.social
I’m with you Tom, I’m right with you x
April 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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maryrosemuseum.bsky.social
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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I'm back on air today, and it is THE time to get behind public radio. You know what we're up against. Stand up for smart, fearless, original, unbowed radio and podcast. 800.525.9917, or donate at kalw.org. (Check out my show Book It on the podcast page.) THANKS.
April 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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For anyone interested in documentary photography… a young boy walking past burning hijacked vehicles during the troubles in Derry in 1981 Northern Ireland… from my old negatives #photography #35mm #documentary #leica #nikon @UCC @NGIreland #Derry #Ireland
April 11, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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The Good Friday Agreement- signed 27years ago today. I’ll admit I cried. There’s now a generation of adults who have known nothing but peace. It’s still not perfect - but how far we have come…
#NorthernIreland #ThrowbackThursday #History #NoGoingBack
April 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM