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Karen
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Historic buildings. Rugby. Nonsense.
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karengwilliams.bsky.social
Just sitting here weeping through #thepiano 😭
@channel4tv.bsky.social
August 23, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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dreyesceron.bsky.social
Absolute cinema watching that jar of Nutella escape contain behind the backs of the astronauts after packing other things away
April 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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alexsteffen.bsky.social
I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com
Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan
April 6, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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bgs.ac.uk
A geomagnetic storm is expected from tomorrow, 31st March, due to the anticipated arrival of an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME). Additionally, enhanced geomagnetic activity is possible in the coming days due to the arrival of fast solar wind from a coronal hole.
A geomagnetic activity alert, which has a stylised aurora and stars across the right hand side of the image. To the top right is the BGS logo, to the left it says 'geomagnetic activity' in white and 'alert' in gold. The graphic itself is blue.
March 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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loriemerson.net
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
March 25, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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rspb.bsky.social
Hen Harriers and other birds of prey are still being killed illegally.

Enough is enough.

Join us and call on the UK Government to license gamebird shooting and help protect these incredible birds before it’s too late. 👇

action.rspb.org.uk/page/185536/...
January 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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tutty352.bsky.social
Castlerigg stone circle under an inversion this afternoon.
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
karengwilliams.bsky.social
Dunlin murmuration, Sunday 15.30, Clevedon seawall
#murmuration
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
karengwilliams.bsky.social
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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romanpalace.bsky.social
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.
A map of part of Britiain and northern europe showing loads and loads of roman roads, picked out in red.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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miceal.bsky.social
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Handsworth Revolution by Steel Pulse on Apple Music
Song · 1978 · Duration 5:21
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October 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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catalinafernandes.bsky.social
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez voiced his support for pro-Palestine activists who had protested at Spain's La Vuelta cycling tour. Their demonstrations had forced an early end to the tour, with organisers cancelling the tour's final stage in Madrid.
September 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
karengwilliams.bsky.social
ØXN on the soundtrack to #TheGone! On BBCIplayer s2ep3. Perfectly haunting.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYC...
ØXN - The Trees They Do Grow High
YouTube video by xalsr
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August 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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tom.voros.ca
For anyone looking for an alternative: Wormhole is free and uses end-to-end encryption. (I have no affiliation with them!)

wormhole.app
Wormhole - Simple, private file sharing
Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires.
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July 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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bobmarshall.co.uk
Happy #PortfolioDay!

I'm an Architectural Illustrator and 3D Reconstruction Artist from Edinburgh. I enjoy a bit of time travel!

My work involves many months of meticulous research, guided by archaeology, measured survey data, and close collaboration with historians.

Website: bobmarshall.co.uk
Digital reconstruction of the medieval Great Chamber at Belsay Castle in Northumberland, showing how it might have looked towards the end of the fifteenth century. The Middleton family occupied Belsay Castle for more than six centuries until Sir Charles Monck built Belsay Hall close to it in the early nineteenth century. There is fragmentary evidence that this interior was elaborately decorated with geometric patterns below a dado, and above it, a mock tapestry depicted trees set against a dark-coloured background. Their lopped branches support several heraldic shields associated with the Middleton family. There is an instance of a wildman or woodsman commonly referred to as ‘Wild Man of Belsay’. This was a figure that the Middleton family began using in their heraldry in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Above the window opening on the upper part of the south wall, there are paintings that have been identified as carracks, a typical three-masted sailing vessel used in the fifteenth century for trading and warfare. The depiction of the painted timber ceiling in the reconstruction is speculative and is inspired by other surviving ceilings that were fashionable in this period. Artist: Bob Marshall. Copyright: English Heritage / Historic England 2023. A digital reconstruction of Bury St Edmunds Abbey showing work being completed on the Chapter House around 1220. © English Heritage Trust / B Marshall, C Lemos, S Brindle 2022. Contact Historic England Archives for Licensing enquiries. A speculative reconstruction of the incomplete timber castle at Howden Motte (c.1305-10) near Selkirk (NT 4584 2686). This is the castle of Alexander Baliol of Cavers - one-time Chamberlain of Scotland and the uncle of King John Baliol, r.1292 – 1296. Howden was an oval enclosure on the ridge top, surrounded by a ditch and bank. Excavation in 1957 revealed the post-holes of a wooden palisade around the rim of the mound and a stone floor. Around the edge of the enclosure was a timber palisade, and it is possible that the enclosure was revetted in stone where the gate entrances were. A timber tower may have been provided with an adjacent hall or solar along with stables, kitchens, and accommodation for the garrison of 30 men-at-arms. Personal project © Bob Marshall 2022 This is a large aerial view digital reconstruction depicting the events of the siege of Stirling Castle in 1304. Edward I of England's army demonstrates the power of his mighty war machine, the giant boulder-throwing trebuchet or catapult 'Warwolf'. It was state-of-the-art weaponry for its time and considered to have been the largest trebuchet ever built. Personal project © Bob Marshall 2020.
July 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
karengwilliams.bsky.social
Dan Biggar is such a good co-commentator, informative and interesting. It’s like he’s been doing it for years.
#WARvLIO #Lions
July 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*
A news story: "Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise"
July 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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thenighttrain.co.uk
The outfits, the audience. Freddie Stewart and Larry Graham's dance moves, Sly's voice, Greg Errico's trad grip on the drumsticks. Larry's bass tone, the horns, Rose Stone, all of it. SO GOOD.
June 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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trevorthebotanist.bsky.social
Oh my word! Botanist about to explode! Just unboxed my presentation copies of Urban Plants & I’m as giddy as a bee in a bellflower. It’s a beautiful thing, from the gorgeous Carry Akroyd cover to the photos kindly provided by many lovely people. Hope you enjoy it www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...
May 27, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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tuc.org.uk
Why does Nigel Farage want me to lose my job?
April 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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pandamoanimum.bsky.social
Is this still my favourite Finnish tradition?

Absolutely.
A picture of a page from a newspaper with the wording: NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY'S PAPER In Finland, a tradition of getting drunk at home in your underwear is so commonplace that there's a word for it, "kalsarikännit." The rough translation is "pantsdrunk."
April 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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kremlplots.bsky.social
Sammelthread der "Hands Off" Proteste in den USA. Gerne ergänzen...

Louisville, Kentucky
April 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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squidgerugby.bsky.social
What excellent news
March 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Nobody ever planted a tree in this photo. It was a working gravel pit 30 years ago.

We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better.

It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍
December 9, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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carlosfilm.bsky.social
KNEECAP, one of my favorite movies of the year, is streaming on Netflix now! It’s Ireland’s Oscar entry & it’s a propulsive, anti-colonialist music-driven comedy. I reviewed it for Variety and interviewed the band and director Rich Peppiatt for NYT. I’ll put links in the thread.
December 2, 2024 at 11:48 PM