@waynrick.bsky.social
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For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.
A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...
#Archaeology
A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...
#Archaeology
January 1, 2026 at 11:17 AM
For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.
A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...
#Archaeology
A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...
#Archaeology
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In 1923, frustrated, under appreciated and broke, David Bomberg travelled to Jerusalem and southern Jordan, having secured funding for his passage from the Palestine Foundation Fund in return for a number of works; this features a rock façade at Petra.
December 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
In 1923, frustrated, under appreciated and broke, David Bomberg travelled to Jerusalem and southern Jordan, having secured funding for his passage from the Palestine Foundation Fund in return for a number of works; this features a rock façade at Petra.
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Bread, butter, & cheese. Cherries. And a split artichoke. All from Clara Peeters, whose day is today.
December 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Bread, butter, & cheese. Cherries. And a split artichoke. All from Clara Peeters, whose day is today.
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As the gales blow us into 2026, time to wish everybody a fun and healthy new year.
2025 was definitely the year of the Great auk for me.
Enjoy your Hogmanay wherever you are and see you on the other side.
2025 was definitely the year of the Great auk for me.
Enjoy your Hogmanay wherever you are and see you on the other side.
December 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As the gales blow us into 2026, time to wish everybody a fun and healthy new year.
2025 was definitely the year of the Great auk for me.
Enjoy your Hogmanay wherever you are and see you on the other side.
2025 was definitely the year of the Great auk for me.
Enjoy your Hogmanay wherever you are and see you on the other side.
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Crescent Moon nestling beside the Italian Rennaissance toppy bit of the McEwan Hall from last week. I love that a fair few (semi) public buildings in Edinburgh were funded by brewers, this one in 1897 by dosh from William McEwan who founded the Fountain Brewery.
@edinburghuni.bsky.social
@edinburghuni.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Crescent Moon nestling beside the Italian Rennaissance toppy bit of the McEwan Hall from last week. I love that a fair few (semi) public buildings in Edinburgh were funded by brewers, this one in 1897 by dosh from William McEwan who founded the Fountain Brewery.
@edinburghuni.bsky.social
@edinburghuni.bsky.social
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Christmas Stress? Family driving you crazy?
Take a deep breath and contemplate this gorgeousness:
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), Madonna
Take a deep breath and contemplate this gorgeousness:
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), Madonna
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Christmas Stress? Family driving you crazy?
Take a deep breath and contemplate this gorgeousness:
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), Madonna
Take a deep breath and contemplate this gorgeousness:
Fra Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), Madonna
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‘Christmas Morning’ (1955) 🎄
by John Philip Falter
by John Philip Falter
December 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
‘Christmas Morning’ (1955) 🎄
by John Philip Falter
by John Philip Falter
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25th December 2021
On Christmas Day, crocheted characters on a nativity post box topper in Histon search for the Star of Bethlehem.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
On Christmas Day, crocheted characters on a nativity post box topper in Histon search for the Star of Bethlehem.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
25th December 2021
On Christmas Day, crocheted characters on a nativity post box topper in Histon search for the Star of Bethlehem.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
On Christmas Day, crocheted characters on a nativity post box topper in Histon search for the Star of Bethlehem.
Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.
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HUMPHREY BOGART & LAUREN BACALL with their son Stephen at their Beverly Hills on Christmas Eve in 1951🎄
December 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
HUMPHREY BOGART & LAUREN BACALL with their son Stephen at their Beverly Hills on Christmas Eve in 1951🎄
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Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
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THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
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'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to oblivion.
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to oblivion.
December 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955)
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to oblivion.
Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to oblivion.
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Contemporary Ukranian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt
December 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Contemporary Ukranian painter Maria Chepeleva #WomensArt
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Here's to longer days ..🌞🍻🥳
#StandingStoneSunday A crowded Winter #Solstice at Stonehenge in 1990, giving some rare human scale to the enormous sarsen stones & lesser - but still massive - bluestone monoliths
📷 My own
#StandingStoneSunday A crowded Winter #Solstice at Stonehenge in 1990, giving some rare human scale to the enormous sarsen stones & lesser - but still massive - bluestone monoliths
📷 My own
December 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Here's to longer days ..🌞🍻🥳
#StandingStoneSunday A crowded Winter #Solstice at Stonehenge in 1990, giving some rare human scale to the enormous sarsen stones & lesser - but still massive - bluestone monoliths
📷 My own
#StandingStoneSunday A crowded Winter #Solstice at Stonehenge in 1990, giving some rare human scale to the enormous sarsen stones & lesser - but still massive - bluestone monoliths
📷 My own
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Possibly the most sublime Roman fresco of a temple.
The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations.
Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance)
#FrescoFriday
The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations.
Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance)
#FrescoFriday
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Possibly the most sublime Roman fresco of a temple.
The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations.
Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance)
#FrescoFriday
The architectural detail of the spiky-topped wooden barrier, the painted relief in the pediment, & the offerings burning on the altar; it’s a symphony of observations.
Archaeological Museum of Capri (no provenance)
#FrescoFriday
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An essay I wrote about the idea of building motorways in London. It is - I am not joking - nuanced. That’s my brand. I hope www.onlondon.co.uk/lewis-baston...
Lewis Baston: What if the London Ringways had been built?
Few regret plans for blasting circular motorways through the capital being abandoned, but the counterfactual is well worth pondering
www.onlondon.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
An essay I wrote about the idea of building motorways in London. It is - I am not joking - nuanced. That’s my brand. I hope www.onlondon.co.uk/lewis-baston...
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It's that time of year, the annual reposting of the Xmas essay.
therumpus.net/2010/12/chri...
therumpus.net/2010/12/chri...
Christmas in Beirut - The Rumpus
My family has always had a love/hate relationship with Christmas. My sisters love it, I hate it.
therumpus.net
December 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It's that time of year, the annual reposting of the Xmas essay.
therumpus.net/2010/12/chri...
therumpus.net/2010/12/chri...
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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Seen any apples still on the trees? Long keeping apples are a fantastic alternative to flying in varieties from the other side of the world. Find out more about growing them in the UK: www.theorchardproject.org.uk/blog/a-johnn... #Apples
December 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Seen any apples still on the trees? Long keeping apples are a fantastic alternative to flying in varieties from the other side of the world. Find out more about growing them in the UK: www.theorchardproject.org.uk/blog/a-johnn... #Apples
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Renovations by #FondazioneFS of a vintage DMU/ALn 772 have revealed scars of its early life in Italy.
Bullet holes have been revealed in the side of the 1936 built vehicle.
Bringing vehicles back to life means recognising & preserving history for generations of today and tomorrow.
Bullet holes have been revealed in the side of the 1936 built vehicle.
Bringing vehicles back to life means recognising & preserving history for generations of today and tomorrow.
December 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Renovations by #FondazioneFS of a vintage DMU/ALn 772 have revealed scars of its early life in Italy.
Bullet holes have been revealed in the side of the 1936 built vehicle.
Bringing vehicles back to life means recognising & preserving history for generations of today and tomorrow.
Bullet holes have been revealed in the side of the 1936 built vehicle.
Bringing vehicles back to life means recognising & preserving history for generations of today and tomorrow.
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Joseph Grimaldi was the first great clown of English theatre, transforming the part into a starring role of pantomime. After his death in 1837 Grimaldi's memoir was written by Charles Dickens. He was buried in the churchyard of Pentonville Chapel at Islington, now Grimaldi Park.
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Joseph Grimaldi was the first great clown of English theatre, transforming the part into a starring role of pantomime. After his death in 1837 Grimaldi's memoir was written by Charles Dickens. He was buried in the churchyard of Pentonville Chapel at Islington, now Grimaldi Park.
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Did you see this? bsky.app/profile/pavs...
that's an excellent article!
musing on this today, a lot of the reluctance of adults to social media is because their kids are not doing what the parent did when they were a kid. and so their parents before them.
this a fabulous article on the topic:
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/free...
musing on this today, a lot of the reluctance of adults to social media is because their kids are not doing what the parent did when they were a kid. and so their parents before them.
this a fabulous article on the topic:
www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/free...
A Brief History of Moral Panics About Kids and Media
Whenever a revolutionarily new means of communication comes along, the young glom onto it and many of their elders believe it is leading to the wreck and ruin of the young.
www.psychologytoday.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Did you see this? bsky.app/profile/pavs...
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Emma Haworth,
contemporary UK painter
'Ice Skating at Somerset House'
watercolour and Indian ink
#WomensArt
contemporary UK painter
'Ice Skating at Somerset House'
watercolour and Indian ink
#WomensArt
December 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Emma Haworth,
contemporary UK painter
'Ice Skating at Somerset House'
watercolour and Indian ink
#WomensArt
contemporary UK painter
'Ice Skating at Somerset House'
watercolour and Indian ink
#WomensArt
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'Wish I had a river' by contemporary printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt
December 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
'Wish I had a river' by contemporary printmaker Fiona Watson #WomensArt