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Steph' Thorpe

@stephbirdart.bsky.social

Artist who paints the waifs and stray birds that arrive in the UK. Modelmaker, gardener and Derby County fan. ๐ŸšซNo AI๐Ÿšซ

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That would look so much better!

15.10.2025 11:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Remember that time that techbros and major corporations told us jpgs of terrible monkey art were going to change the world, people were like "Nah pal, I'm good", and within just a few years it all fell apart spectacularly? That was rad. Let's do that again.

15.10.2025 10:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 150    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Absolutely fuck that.

15.10.2025 07:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ah๐Ÿ˜ž

15.10.2025 11:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ll see your bleeding mushrooms @sesmith.lol and raise you a mushroom thatโ€™s hiding a totally different type of secret inside.

15.10.2025 04:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress ๐Ÿฆ–

15.10.2025 01:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2541    ๐Ÿ” 799    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

15.10.2025 00:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7507    ๐Ÿ” 2436    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 63    ๐Ÿ“Œ 40

Oh hope you see it, they are very smart little birds and are rare here in the UK too (and getting rarer sadly). I do love buntings.

14.10.2025 23:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What is horrifying to me is that none of this is crazy, impossible to implement policy. Just stuff that used to be normal

14.10.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

14.10.2025 19:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3872    ๐Ÿ” 858    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 140    ๐Ÿ“Œ 46

The inherent corollary of "this is murder" is that we prosecute and punish people who commit murder.

14.10.2025 20:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 427    ๐Ÿ” 115    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

That will do England. Nowt spectacular through this campaign but steady โšฝ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ

14.10.2025 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

People had to complain to get Polanski an interview.

Weird nobody has to beg the BBC to give Farage airtime.

I mean, it's not actually weird. We all know what it is and why it happens.

14.10.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 318    ๐Ÿ” 89    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Struzan by himself

Struzan by himself

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

14.10.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1767    ๐Ÿ” 465    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 60

Latvia could in theory scored in the time๐Ÿคท

14.10.2025 19:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Really don't like the time it takes between the incident and VAR calling a referee review. They played in for a long time there. โšฝ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ

14.10.2025 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is the second time in 24 hours he's said something like this. Yesterday he made that quip saying about Karoline Leavit, "those lips --- they move like a machine gun."

He's losing all inhibitions. Not that he ever had many to begin with.

14.10.2025 19:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2100    ๐Ÿ” 496    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 181    ๐Ÿ“Œ 28
A Short-eared Owl perches on a fence post looking in the direction of the camera.

A Short-eared Owl perches on a fence post looking in the direction of the camera.

We'll be interested to see how many Short-eared Owls cross the North Sea and spend the winter in Britain. ๐Ÿฆ‰ Read about BTOโ€™s research tracking Short-eared Owls here โžก๏ธ bit.ly/TrackingSEO #Ornithology #RaptorResearch

๐Ÿ“ท Short-eared Owl by Liz Cutting/BTO

14.10.2025 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 61    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But he's not demented.
He's called the Democrats the "enemy within" so many times now, he believes Democrats will use tomahawk missiles.

No, really, read that again. This is how advanced his dementia is right now and nobody's talking about it.

He has the nuclear launch codes.

14.10.2025 18:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Oh hay itโ€™s #portfolioday !!!
My name is Rowynn and I love to illustrate monsters and mythical creatures ^^
www.rowynnellis.com

#fantasyart #illustration

14.10.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Its not just ocean life being obliterated
On land humans have destroyed half of world forests and what remains is rapidly being destroyed
Last year, 20m acres of forest โ€“ an area roughly half size of England โ€“ were burned, pulled or cut down
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

14.10.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

๐Ÿคž๐Ÿคž it all gets done for you!

14.10.2025 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FIFA needs to grow someโšฝโšฝ and take away the matches from the US. He cannot just say and do stuff like this especially this close to the tournament.

14.10.2025 18:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I enjoyed talking to myself in a Bob Ross voice while painting the clouds, I think he would approve.

14.10.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 379    ๐Ÿ” 83    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No happy little tree though ๐Ÿ˜‚

14.10.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you Andy. Fantastic bird.

14.10.2025 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Argh. Wish it had stayed longer over the weekend for you. ๐Ÿ˜ž

14.10.2025 12:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cheers Kev๐Ÿ‘

14.10.2025 12:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you! ๐Ÿ˜Š

14.10.2025 12:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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