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Helen McCarthy

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · Jul 22

Pakistan has just set aside 98 km² of sea around Churna Island as a no-take marine reserve. The new rule protects Pakistan’s most pristine coral reef system from trawlers and oil spills and nudges the nation closer to the global goal of safeguarding 30% of oceans. buff.ly/0K9gW06
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With coral-rich Churna Island now an MPA, Pakistan takes baby steps on ocean protection

KARACHI — From the sands of Manjhaar Beach on the far outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan, an island is just visible 10 kilometers, about 6 miles, offshore. Mist rising from the Arabian Sea often shrouds…

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July 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM

Helen McCarthy

@glider.bsky.social

#SomethingBeautiful - dark skies and clear nights

Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 3d

Today is #Stunday and I think the milky way is stunning. To stand and look deep into the edge of our galaxy is humbling. Especially when viewed in a dark sky location. It's visible along the coast of North Florida. #photography #landscape #ECK #MilkyWay #stars #astronomy #space #astrophotography

September 27, 2026 at 10:48 AM

Helen McCarthy

@glider.bsky.social

#SomethingBeautiful - a convulvulus hawk-moth

Tony Allen-Mills @taminf.bsky.social · 3d

We've seen lots of Hummingbird Hawk-Moths in our garden this year, but last night as darkness fell, we were treated to a first ever visit from its amazing larger cousin. The arrival of the nocturnal #Convulvulus Hawk-Moth caused panic to find my flash. I set up just in time...

#TeamMoth #Stunday

September 27, 2026 at 11:03 AM

Kettle

@kittenstrudel.bsky.social

#SomethingBeautiful

theartart.bsky.social @theartart.bsky.social · Jul 26

Janet Fish, Skowhegan Water Glasses, 1975 [1280x1227]

#piece #art

August 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM

Writing for Wellbeing

@writeforwellbeing.bsky.social

#SomethingBeautiful
#autumn

September 26, 2024 at 9:58 AM

Ada Palmer

@adapalmer.bsky.social

#SomethingBeautiful

Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 11d

With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking
sun, burning, expanding the air;

With the fresh sweet herbage under foot,
a wind-dapple here and there;

Lo! body and soul! this land!

#poem excerpt: Walt Whitman
#art Thorsten Scheuermann

#resist

the Palouse — rolling
hill-fields of gold & green
winter wheat dreaming

photograph

September 19, 2026 at 7:28 AM

Ada Palmer

@adapalmer.bsky.social

#SomethingBeautiful

E M @ecmcgrath.bsky.social · Dec 21

Sundown on the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.

The sun sinks low across a wintry valley, with light streaking through clouds and reflecting off a river.

December 21, 2025 at 5:06 AM

Kettle

@kittenstrudel.bsky.social

#SomethingBeautiful

Jan de Laat @jandl.eurosky.social · Aug 30

Piet Mondriaan (1872-1944)
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Boerderij bij Duivendrecht, ca. 1916

olieverf op doek

August 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM

Jo Walton

@bluejo.eurosky.social

#SomethingBeautiful a still life by my aunt, Mary Lace

Blue glass bottles, a spoon, and hydrangeas

January 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM

Ada Palmer

@adapalmer.bsky.social

#SomethingBeautiful #HistoryPix

Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Jan 18

Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a little mouse 🐭😍

📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Roman flask made of translucent cobalt blue glass in the form of a mouse. The neck of the flask is funnel-shaped and slightly up-turned to look like a tail. The body of the vessel is rounded and has four tooled trails for feet. A separate blob of glass forms the head with eyes, ears, and a pointed nose. The flask surface is decorated with distinctive trails of glass which have been flattened and notched, known as ‘snake thread’.

January 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM

Helen McCarthy

@glider.bsky.social

#SomethingBeautiful - shine on, harvest moon.

MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Harvest Moon. Photo taken by my iPhone. Normally I don't even try to capture a moon photo with my iPhone, it's lame. But tonight, I got this! Not bad.

Good Night Bluesky.