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Great News! #BlueSky hits 32 million users

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Literally.

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Your Starting XV to take on Connacht 🍀 🫡 Musk Captain 🔙 Isgró returns ✨ Friday Night Lights 📲 www.quins.co.uk/Article/team-news-quins-name-squad-to-face-connacht #COYQ #HARvCON

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It's the Yorvik Viking Festival 2025 this week. Here are some other Vikings from earlier events & the Viking village at the Museum of Farming at Murton near York. #YorvikFestival #York #drawing #illustration #ArtYear

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Wednesday sunset following rain and heavy cloud. The Philippines average annual rainfall is 2,345mm/92inches (Regional variations 965mm to 4,064mm/38inches to 160inches).

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Two-thirds of the universe’s predicted quantity of lithium is missing and no-one knows where it is. This is known as the ‘cosmological lithium problem’. (Image: W. Oelen)

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@bsky.app Dear, Dear app masters, may we have the edit button? It is so horrifying to post an entry with to when it should have been too. #WritingCommunity

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Nieuwpoort Lighthouse - Belgium 🇧🇪 Draw This in Your Style-challenge by Dieksiee [IG]. Pen - Lumos by Tom’s Studio | Watercolor pencils by Décotime | Waterbased markers by Tombow #sketchbook #sketching #drawing #lineandwash #lineandwatercolor #urbansketching #urbansketchers #ArtYear 23/100-2025

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Newton knew the universe was born in a slipstream for every gun fired there is recoil when life's pendulum swings forward forces bring us back as I age my stubbornness will let someone feel young as I make my mark I also need sleep but at dawn a between and I reflect on cause and effect #vss365

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Don't think you were dreaming ... just watching the news...

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Last night I dreamed an alien algae was taking over the planet and killing everything so I ran with a friend into an enchanted forest. We knew full well lions lived there. What we didn’t know was a giant wood troll ate the forest ranger.

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Lake District - Derwent Water #art #watercolour

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Shakespear's Cliff - Dover Still not convinced this is the best format so I'm gonna try a portrait view next. #Watercolour #watercolor #Art

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What's your sign?

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Lorong Buangkok - the last surviving kampung (village) in Singapore. Painted en plein air with Unison soft pastels on Pastelmat, finished at home 😊 #softpastels #sofypastellandscape #singapore #singaporepastellist #lightandshadow #traditionalart #weareoca

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Plein air painting session at the Singapore Botanic Gardens today ✨ #pleinairpainting #pastelart #landscapeart #art #singaporepastellist #pastelpainting #swanlake #singapore #weareoca

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Air I Respirate #3wordspoet #air #acrostic #PoetryCommunity Please note, nowadays I only follow and only post creative work on BlueSky and/or Mastodon and/or Tumblr.

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Sepia (who said monochrome had to be black and white?) #Watercolour #painting, #postcard size of Bayleaf Farmstead, #WealdDownland Open Air Museum, nre Chichester, West Sussex, England. #BlueSkyArtShow #Monochrome #FebruArty #ArtYear MyArt 🎨 MyPic 📷

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Thank you for another fabulous #QuickQuill event and challenges, Amy @carolinagrl7.bsky.social! 👏👏👏 I have to go now, but can't wait for next month's edition #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

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Mountain dreams to let them be but man takes over and calls that history. #quickquill RDE8

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It’s all in the book My autobiography Never written Never conceived Who even knows What the next chapter may contain? Or where this one is going? Or for how long? Or why? #QuickQuill QQ3ER7 #Allusion #BookNovel #WritingCommunity

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So True !!!

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I studied on Roke isle, I thought that was something. All the while ignoring the truest trial: a shadow dogging my heels, it all feels too real. I ran, I sprinted til the moon glinted, I couldn't escape. Turn back, embrace the self you hate, accept your fate, know nothing else. #quickquill d2r7

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Kindness Is Needed Desperately Now Extensive Selfishness Suffuses #QuickQuill QQ3ER6 #Wildcard #Kindness #WritingCommunity #Acrostic

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She scraped and peeled and sanded until at last, the table was ready for stain. “You should sand it down,” my husband said, pointing to our son’s initials carved deep in the grain. It’s an old table that will look new again, but I can’t get rid of the mark made when he was young. #quickquill RDE5

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Talking with a toddler The old and the young Communicating In what can only be described As gobbledygook Yet each as fluent as the other Each believing the other Understood what they meant But not actually convinced They spoke the same dialect Of gobbledygook #QuickQuill QQ3ER5 #Paradox #OldYoung

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I am older than I was yesterday but I’m still younger than you. #quickquill RDE5

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The signals went down the wires So fast we thought they went at the speed of light One foot per nanosecond Or thereabouts Turned out they weren’t quite that quick But even half that speed Is blisteringly fast #QuickQuill QQ3ER4 #Hyperbole #light #WritingCommunity

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Speak to me I told the song I’m all ears But it wasn’t the words The lyricist penned Or the singer sang It was the rhythms The tones The melodies Which meant the Song had me in tears #QuickQuill QQ3ER3 #Personification #song #WritingCommunity

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#quickquill er2 imagery Forest Thick leaf bends slightly under centipede crawl, Lilting downward, sunlight streams, parted through branches, Mongoose lurches - grabs his insect lunch.

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Gaudy leaves rustle. They’re stiff now in their old age, yet still able to rejoice in the twirling on crisp breezes to October’s floor. They’re ready to nourish those who come after them in the warming rains of spring. #quickquill RDE2

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From above, the forest canopy Wall-to-wall green Clinging to the hills and valleys Nature’s carpet While deep below In limited light Shrubs and shrooms Compete for space Attracting birds and bugs Warning others Yet dependent on each other #QuickQuill QQ3ER2 #Imagery #forest #WritingCommunity

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He goes to the store just to get me a lottery ticket. He thinks I’m foolish but does it anyway. It must be the way I cling to the dream of a better future I thank him and hope for the gift I could give him in return. Love is a lottery ticket filled with dreams. #quickquill RDE1

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Riding on The rollercoaster of life Like love itself The candle flame Flickering in the wind Through all the ups and downs But never going out The flame stays alight The passion, bright #QuickQuill QQ3ER1 #Metaphor #Love #WritingCommunity

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#quickquill r8 She was born of flowers and birds & she grew strong and wise with the knowledge of the ways of the sun & when her child was born she wrapped him in her ways and called the birds to watch over him for she knew that the sun, at times, hides from the night, but the birds watch always.

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Thank you so much @arliden.bsky.social for another fun and inspiring set of #quickquill challenges! 🖋️😀👏 And I've loved reading everyone's widely differing interpretations, thanks everyone! Looking forward to the encore rounds later today (sic) with @carolinagrl7.bsky.social

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I'm lacing up my sleuthing shoes cleverly collecting clues gathering suspects learning their history who committed murder most foul a mystery my mastery at deduction needs no introduction & I know what you don't want to say as you're eyes look away I see you sweat I'll get you yet #QuickQuill R10

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How I long for quiet In this troubled world! Nights of fear and anguish Clawing, scratching, The screech of nails On chalkboards. An empathic nightmare. A soul lying drained And weeping. Until you hold me. And then For just a moment I believe Love exists. #quickquill R9 onomatopoeia

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