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The pub where Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto is now a Be At One
The Be At One where Marc and Engels wrote the Communist manifesto
July 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Happy Father’s Day
Father from the show Raised by Wolves
June 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
samuelfuller.bsky.social
Buddy I’m thinking it’s chicken of the woods time #foraging #mushrooms
Big chicken of the woods Close up of Big chicken of the woods Big chicken of the woods On a cutting board Big chicken of the woods On toast
June 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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ellamchawk.bsky.social
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.
May 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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hairy-son.bsky.social
ancient sumerian stand up comedian: who heckles from beneath me? do you not see how high my ziggurat is? the gods look upon me!

(realizing that comedy comes from shared humility) but they look at me with disdain
May 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Chicago Pope Leo XVI or XVII to IV
May 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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imbeccable.bsky.social
bill de blasio in park slope, ordering his breakfast sandwich as “mi sandwich especial” and quoting the onion headline omg

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Screenshot from The New Yorker: One morning a few weeks ago, I met de Blasio at his regular coffee shop in Park Slope. He had just come from the gym—the same one that he’d insisted on commuting to every morning from Gracie Mansion, no matter how much grief the press gave him for it—and was wearing sweats. He held forth among his fellow-patrons with a spirit of magnanimous, possibly unreciprocated camaraderie, greeting a startled man by the door with a familiar “How you doing, brother?” and ordering his breakfast (scrambled egg whites, cheddar, ham, and tomato on multigrain toast) as “mi sandwich especial.” These days, de Blasio most often makes the news for his love life or for such momentous moves as dyeing his salt-and-pepper crewcut. But he’s sensed a bit of de Blasio nostalgia creeping into town. “Since I left office, the No. 1 thing that people come up to me on the street and talk about is pre-K,” he told me, lacing his iced espresso with a heavy pour of simple syrup. “The No. 2 thing that people talk about is that Onion headline.” He quoted it for me, savoring every word: “Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit, huh?”
May 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
samuelfuller.bsky.social
The evil river & its priory
The Strid Strid emergency throw line Bolton Priory Some trees
May 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Happy May Day
Star Trek ds9, when rom reads Marx after talking to O’Brien
May 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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They're calling it "the best idea in baseball history." defector.com/the-national...
The Nationals Know What Goes Great Together: Dogs And Fireworks | Defector
Bark at the Park is always a fun promotion. While a dog might not fully appreciate the crack of the bat, the pop of the mitt or James Wood's opposite-field power, they can perhaps enjoy a little piece...
defector.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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My partner got weirded out by how much my new calathea plant wiggles during the day, so of course I had to capture an 11 hour timelapse of it wiggling.
April 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Sitting around with my wife debating what country Mike Grella is from - I guessed Brasil. Not looking up the answer
March 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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With Spring well under way in the northern hemisphere, here’s a beautiful garden scene to cheer the spirits: birds happily chirping, verdant foliage, clear blue skies.

📍 House of the Golden Bracelet, Pompeii
📷 mine
#FrescoFriday
March 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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It's Timberdoodle Tuesday!!
March 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Branded vape @hkesvani.bsky.social @phoeberosaholly.bsky.social ?
Vape from Dalston in London branded 10k puffs
March 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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American dipper I saw recently on the frying pan river #birds #bird 🦉🪶

“He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters…”

- John Muir, The Mountains of California
March 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Found this yesterday in Any Amount of Books on Charing Cross Road. Considering I’ve recently started illustrating some heraldic animals, it feels serendipitous. A very interesting book.
A secondhand book called “heraldry for the designer” by William Metzig. The cover displays an illustrated knight and his steed who are adorned with colourful (red, blue and gold) heraldic markings.
March 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Homesick Luka Doncic Gazes Longingly At Photo Of Barren Dallas Office Park
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Homesick Luka Doncic Gazes Longingly At Photo Of Barren Dallas Office Park
March 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Duolingo Italian screenshot of the translation for “There are many beautiful shirts here.” A man with a shirt from "Dan Flashes", a store that sells expensive shirts with complicated patterns
March 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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miloedwards.bsky.social
first ever recorded instance of a sinking ship fleeing onto a rat
financialtimes.com Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Mar 4
Immigration lawyers cited Donald Trump’s return to power as one of the changes contributing to a surge in applications. www.ft.com/content/e20a...
March 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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leedstours.bsky.social
OTD 1905: death of architect Cuthbert Brodrick.
Born & educated in Hull, he turned down a partnership with Henry Lockwood, with whom he'd trained.
Instead, he opened his own practice.
His 3 main Leeds buildings are his most noted works.
He was not successful in architectural competitions elsewhere.
Photos of Brodrick's three most prominent Leeds commissions - all became Grade I listed buildings in the 20th century. Central section of the front of Leeds Mechanics' Institute, which became Leeds Museum in 2008. Tower of Leeds town Hall, showing two of the four faces. Upper windows and roof feature of Leeds Corn Exchange. All were built from sandstone.
March 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Leeds Corn Exchange, designed by Brodrick in the early 1860s.
It’s built in millstone grit – the same stone used to grind corn.

It replaced a 1828 exchange that stood at the top of Briggate. The old building was demolished in 1869.
March 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
samuelfuller.bsky.social
Recently saw this recreation of the she-wolf mosaic in Denver - this time sans Romulus and Remus. Perhaps this is a before / after?

📸🏛️ Denver, CO / Leeds, UK

#MosaicMonday
A she wolf mosaic in Denver, modeled off the mosaic found in Aldborough (UK), about 300-400 CE (now at the Leeds City Museum). The original mosaic, found in Aldborough (UK), about 300-400 CE (now at the Leeds City Museum).
March 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM