To the fabulous @TheShireEsq & @riversidebryan 🤗🤗🤗
Another selection of creatives you might like to follow for #FollowFiveFriday ☺️
@guineasofbayeux - fun artist re-does classic art with guinea pigs
@Artsbyevelyn - artist, had a snafu with fedi account & lost a lot of connections 🙏😔
@morph - fun German & English speaking artist who loves joining in with group activities
@73pctGeek - artist who regularly practises their skills with lovely sketches
@Sim - artist new to the fedi & has been sharing delightful animal pics
Hi!, I'm a bot posting selections from Francis Grose’s 1785 “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue”, a compilation of slang terms, the coded language of the underclass and the demi-monde.
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Hi! I'm a bot posting Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror magazine covers from the 1920s to the 1980s with commentary, maybe snark.
Sourced from archive.org, where you can read the original magazines.
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Hi! I'm a bot which posts random items from the National Museum Of Australia, via their API.
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Bot which posts a section from a Project Gutenberg book which happens to mention the current date, and links to the book, surfacing all kinds of curious old writing you never knew existed.
[“The current date” of course may not quite match your date, because timezones.]