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Nina
@swanshapes.bsky.social
🇬🇧🇺🇸 british-american 💙
🎨 ex-graphic designer, now oil painter, sometime crafter
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There was such a great turnout!
Normally protests don’t get this large in my town so it was excellent to see both sides of the bridge completely full, the community really stepped up for this!
February 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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good morning to oscar isaac as victor frankenstein only
January 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Need a coping strategy in the face of *waves arms around*? After seeing more misinformation accounts here, I've been doing a dive on #scicomm best practices. We scientists should triple down on this and dial up our prebunking and debunking efforts. Here's a 🧵 of strategies and resources: 🧪

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January 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Friends, where's a good place to buy books online in the US that isn't lining an oligarch's pocket?

Specifically looking for sources of art & history reference (non-fiction) books.

(I have a library card I do use but want to collect too!)

Can #booksky help? Anyone in academia?
January 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I started a Twitter account as Mr Blobby in 2009. It's a joke that spiralled beyond every expectation, and brought so much joy. Please enjoy some of the absolute treasures that were sent to me in the last 16 years. I'm thinking about a way to bring this joy back, watch this space.
January 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Once again
November 7, 2024 at 8:20 AM
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Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials
January 19, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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In Saqqara, archaeologists have uncovered the sumptuous 4,100-year-old tomb of a royal physician.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/saqq...
January 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Red Carpet. Grayson Perry, 2017.

As a fellow map-botherer, I love Perry's tapestry maps - the way they depict and organise more than just physical landscapes, but landscapes of concepts and culture.
January 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Hi hello I finally made an account here so here's my favorite thing seen on t'internet lately.
January 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM