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Aarpee

@aarpees.bsky.social

അങ്ങനെ അതികഠിനമായ ശൈത്യകാലം ആരംഭിച്ചിരിക്കയാണ് സൂർത്തുക്കളേ! (26 ഡിഗ്രി ആണെന്ന് ആരോടും പറയണ്ട, അല്ലേൽപ്പിന്നെ അമേരിക്കൻ ശൈലിയിൽ 26F എന്ന് കരുതിക്കോട്ടെ).

November 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM

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Shweta

@thebluemango.in

Hello! 🍜

I am a baker based in #Mumbai, India. I bake these plum #cakes with rum every Nov/Dec.

Dried fruits and nuts are soaked in Old Monk rum and then finally go into this decadent #Christmas treat. If you want to order or know more, number's in the menu.

Please #repost for reach. Tysm! 💖

A photo of the plum cake with rum on a pink plate. There are Christmas ornaments around (Christmas trees, baubles, pine cones, wreath, candle)

All i want for Christmas
2025

Classic plum cake with rum (500g)
₹ 1599/-

Want to get the cake at last year's price?
Pre-order before Dec 7th - ₹ 1499/-

Delivery charges as per actuals (within city)

(Please note, out of city shipping starts at ₹299)

Photo of the plum cake wedge showing the crumbs, it is placed on a white ceramic plate. Behind there is a larger plate with remaining cake.

November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM

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Shweta

@thebluemango.in

Selling out our stock makes all the difference to small businesses like mine. It's the difference between sinking and swimming.

Please #repost my pinned post - it's quick, easy and free.

My next client might be on your feed - help me reach them?

#India #Mumbai #Bombay #bakesky

Shweta @thebluemango.in · 7d

Hello! 🍜

I am a baker based in #Mumbai, India. I bake these plum #cakes with rum every Nov/Dec.

Dried fruits and nuts are soaked in Old Monk rum and then finally go into this decadent #Christmas treat. If you want to order or know more, number's in the menu.

Please #repost for reach. Tysm! 💖

November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

As sure as night is dark
and day is light
I keep You on my mind
both day and night
And happiness I've known
proves that it's right
Because You're mine,
I walk the line.

Johnny Cash, 20th century

#Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #StreetPhotography #ImageAndVerse #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

It's nighttime and there is relatively little traffic on the road. Four Indian men stand on a crosswalk and look on as a fifth manually operates a specialised machine applying white durable thermoplastic paint for road markings. This is being heated to a high temperature and carefully spread on by the steersman as a hot melt.

The lyrics come from Johnny Cash's first number-one hit which remained on the American charts for over 43 weeks. Bob Dylan described it as "... a song I'd always considered to be up there at the top, one of the most mysterious and revolutionary of all time, a song that makes an attack on your most vulnerable spots, sharp words from a master."

Chengam Road, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.

November 30, 2025 at 6:36 AM

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toritori

@toritorihkd.bsky.social

When the focus hits, there’s no room for doubt—yes, it’s a Black-headed Gull. Same bird as yesterday, just finally in frame. 😎🪶
答え合わせです🤣
#nature #photography #animals #wildlife #Black-headedGall #ユリカモメ #birds #野鳥

A Black-headed Gull in sharp mid-flight over water. Wings fully extended, plumage crisp, identity clear. The same individual as yesterday’s blurred photo, now captured with clarity.
水上を飛ぶユリカモメの鮮明な写真。翼は大きく広がり、羽毛も明瞭。昨日のブレ写真と同じ個体で、今回はしっかりピントが合っている。

November 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM

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Alan H

@alan678.bsky.social

Squeezing in a young #HolidayRobin for Rob’s theme today. I hope that everyone has the best of Sundays. #birds #photography #Stunday #EastCoastKin

A juvenile robin with speckled golden-brown plumage stands alert on a fir branch, its thin pink legs gripping the needles. The bird faces slightly left with a bright, dark eye catching the light. Fresh green and blue-tinted fir needles surround it, some tipped with tiny droplets, all set against a soft, blurred green background that highlights the delicate young bird.

November 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM

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@roshn.me

Rose-Ringed Parakeet
📷 🪶 #Nature #Wildlife #Birds #BirdsInFlight #Photography #EastCoastKin

Rose-Ringed Parakeet taking off from a branch with its wings wide open, revealing the bright green and grey colors under its wings.

November 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM

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@roshn.me

Asian Green Bee Eater
📷 🪶 #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #EastCoastKin

An Asian Green Bee Eater perched on a leafless branch. Blurred greenery in the background. The bird has bright orange, blue and green plumage contrasting against the darker tones of the background.

November 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM

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@roshn.me

Pied Bush Chat + Magical light
📷 🪶 #Nature #Birds #Wildlife #Photography #EastCoastKin

A pied bush chat perched on a tree stump against blurred green and golden background.

November 30, 2025 at 8:35 AM

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manuscrypts

@manuscrypts.bsky.social

Dinjith & Bahul first set up eko's unique ambience (time and place) beautifully drawing us in, then pace the screenplay perfectly, stack it up with an eclectic (and fantastic) cast, and finally provide a knockout climax punch. A very satisfying theatre visit. #malayalam #movies

November 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM

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@roshn.me

Purple Sunbird
📷 🪶 #Wildlife #Nature #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin

A female sunbird with a slender curved bill perches on a thorny branch, framed by soft green leaves and a smooth green background.

November 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM

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@roshn.me

Painted Stork and friends
📷 🪶 #Nature #Birds #Wildlife #Photography #EastCoastKin

A painted stork stands in shallow water of a misty wetland, surrounded by soft green foreground and blurred wading birds in the background.

November 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM

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@roshn.me

Good morning. This morning was supposed to be cloudy but then the sun peaked through the fog for a few minutes.

📷 🪶 #Birds #Nature #Wildlife #Photography

A silhouette of a pair of Mynas / Starlings perched on a leafless, thorny branch against warm glow of the sun through fog in the background.

November 29, 2025 at 5:28 AM

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The Doctor (Commissions open)

@lucidillusions.in

Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you 😊

(Doubt people get that easily convinced by my art)

A very rotund blackbird with red eye perched on a thin branch

#Art #Birds #BirdArt

November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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Helen Bennett 🌿

@helenbennett.bsky.social

A silent figure in the land.

'His eyes are closed, a peaceful stare,
Lost in the sunlit, open air.
He looks beyond the earthly plight,
To grasp a guiding, inner light'.

"Faith" sculpture by South African artist Anton Smit 📷

#Scape #Photography #Landscape #Monochrome #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin

A high contrast black and white photograph of a dramatic 7m tall sculpture called "Faith" by South African artist Anton Smit that is on display at Leonardslee Gardens. it shows a naked man with arms outstretched whose head is bent backwards as he looks up to the sky. The figure stands on grass and appears to tower above trees in the distance.

A poem inspired by the sculpture:
Through verdant vines and ancient wood,
A giant head of stone has stood.
The gardener's touch, the sculptor's hand,
A silent figure in the land.
His eyes are closed, a peaceful stare,
Lost in the sunlit, open air.
He looks beyond the earthly plight,
To grasp a guiding, inner light.
The sculptor's verse, a quiet call,
A sense of faith in one and all.
"I lift my eyes," the stone can say,
"And find my strength along the way."
For faith is not a thing to hold,
But a story to be told.
A journey walked, a path unclear,
Where spirit triumphs over fear.
So in this garden, calm and deep,
A silent promise, you can keep.
To find your own, at last, at peace,
And let the searching soul release.

November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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@roshn.me

I'm loving taking more #LowKey #BlackAndWhite photos. Luckily found a model in the living room watching TV to volunteer for for experiments. :)

📷 #People #Portrait #ClassicMono #Monochrome

November 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM

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@roshn.me

Just a snapshot with my phone. Wish I'd taken a wide angle lens with me.
Kaveri River - Rural Karnataka
📷 #ClassicMono #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #B&W #Landscape

Black and white landscape of a calm river with rocks in the foreground and trees reflecting on the still water under a cloudy sky.

November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM

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@roshn.me

I've been trying to find a solution to automate basic usability tests and heuristic evaluations. Since antigravity can control browsers, it can also identify most usability and a11y issues on a browser based UI. even tested it with a usability test protocol and it gave me decent results.

Screenshot of antigravity IDE with usability report

November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM

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@roshn.me

I just can't stand Malayalam movie interviews anymore - jarring and pretentious. The constant code switching by both interviewers and actors are making it a cringe fest. If you want to speak in English, speak in English. If you start a sentence in Malayalam, finish it in Malayalam.

November 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM

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Shweta

@thebluemango.in

You know what's a funny word??

COINKY DINK 🤣

November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM

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The Doctor (Commissions open)

@lucidillusions.in

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #OnTheEdge, so here's a black stork at the edge of a lake.

🪶 📸📸 🌿🖌️
#Birds #Photography #nature #jungle #safari #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography

a black and white photograph of a black stork sitting at the edge of a water body, there are stones in front of it.

the bird has black (somewhat iridescent) and white feathers - and the beak is mostly red in color

November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM

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@roshn.me

I was up till 2 am last night redoing my photography portfolio
- a new logo
- Removed a bunch of photos (I still have to learn to curate photos better)
- Since I can't define myself as purely a nature photographer, It makes sense to categorize photos as B&W and color.
www.rophotos.com

November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM

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The Doctor (Commissions open)

@lucidillusions.in

Got a couple of test prints done.

#Zine #WIP #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky #BookSky

Me holding 2 different sized zines ptinted and folded

November 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM

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Áine Keenan

@ainekeenan.bsky.social

Before I built a wall
I’d ask to know what I was
walling in or walling out,
and to whom I was like
to give offence ...

He says again, ‘Good fences
make good neighbours.’

Robert Frost, 20th century

#Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Two men paint a dividing-wall yellow in accordance with the instructions of a third elevated on a higher level on the other side.

The one wearing a white vest and green dhoti uses a roller and yellow paint. The other, dressed in a longsleeved orange shirt and blue-check dhoti, uses a simple brush and is having something pointed out to him from above by the third man who has his sleeves rolled up.

[In fact, the painters had hopped over this rooftop wall without the other landlord's permission and were hurrying to complete the task as a fait accompli before there could be any complaints!]

Ramana Nagar, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.

November 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM

RR📷

@roshn.me

One movie that I really loved this year was Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro. Everything was perfect. I would give it 10/10 for storytelling, acting, cinematography, music, special effects, and the way that it pulls on your heart strings. Stayed with me for a long time

November 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM

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