One of my favourite paintings is “The Garden of Unclaimed Dishwashers” by Anonymous Bosch.

The Merry Maidens 🌿🪨🌞

+++ Wishing a most wonderful 81st birthday, to 'Debbie' Harry, born on this day, the 1st of July 1945, in Miami Florida. +++ #debbieharry #blondie #OTD #newwave #powerpop #punkrock #pop

Dance of the Sandwich Terns A pair of displaying terns doing their courtship dance to establish a pair bond. Both have full black crowns - whereas most adults have started losing the black feathers. Video speeded up 4 times.

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

Being in a standard classroom with windows that don't fully open on an exceedingly hot day, with 30+ teenagers, makes you feel incredibly unwell. Learning grinds to a halt, tempers flare, misery ensues. Any journalist writing that schools are making a fuss over nothing should spend a day in one 🥵

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You like jazz? Name all the chords

Awesome 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Britain must invest £89 billion to upgrade power grid, operator says reut.rs/4gN6wbh

62 years ago today, a nine-year-old boy saw little men wearing white hats “throwing stones and mud at each other”, and the next day, thousands of people crowded into a park in search of the Liverpool Leprechaun of 1964 and had to be dispersed by police 🧵

Wow, that was truly amazing, the Strawberry Full Moon rising over Ely Cathedral this evening. Seen from Little Downham outside of Ely, Cambridgeshire 😍🌝 I didn’t think it was going to shine through the clouds, but it certainly did 🙏🏻🥰 #Fullmoon #strawberrymoon #ElyCathedral #amazing #Wonderful

"Hence why WDUK has a filter to filter out their endless repetitive bollocks that tries to hijack the narrative and endless debates and discussions in groups and pages right across Social media.... " via We Demand UK

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🚨 MPs should work for us – not for a second paycheck. Some are earning tens of thousands from other work while neglecting their real job: representing their constituents. Sign the petition to ban second jobs for MPs. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ban-seco...

Just finished this - really novel and engaging approach to tell Schwitters’ experience in The Lakes, his indefatigable enthusiasm for life, against all odds, and the remarkable support he received from his companion Wantee. Great personal writing from Jennifer Potter👍 #Inspirational

We really did love #penelopekeith :(

FACT: The mosquito is the only insect made entirely out of wood.

We all know the news media is out of control in the UK. So please sign my petiton calling for a single, powerful, independent statutory regulator for all news media! 1/4 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Don’t see anything wrong with this. (Aldi middle aisle today.)

Going to remind myself of this every time I organise an event

Midsummer, east Yorkshire, 2004, painting by David Hockney.

Monday

On the AfD attack on the Bauhaus in Germany, and why we should take note. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...

Travelling back in time to warn Paul McCartney that by the time he is 64 most appliances will not have replaceable fuses and babies will not be called Vera, Chuck or Dave.

"As a child I never imagined that all of the real monsters in the world would be human." Mobeen Hakeem mobeenhakeem.tumblr.com/my-writing Painting Misty Lindsey

Oh my...

Offer your couriers and delivery drivers water, or check they're OK. One lad delivering to us just now has no AC in his van and around 130 stops to do in a day.

Werner Herzog didn’t drag an actual 320-ton steamboat over a mountan in the Peruvian Amazon so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable.”

MAD! 'A country with nuclear weapons is being ‘bombed’ by the British. Not the British pushing the button, but the bombs come from Britain.' www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Language matters When we use language that denigrates others we fail to respect their essential humanity When political leaders do this they undermine social cohesion and the mutual respect that is essential to a flourishing democracy Badenoch should apologise www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Volkswagen wants to move from making cars to helping fuel Israel's war machine. The deal isn’t signed yet - let’s stop it before the ink is dry. SIGN NOW and tell Volkswagen: stay out of war. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...

We’re calling on government to stage a prime-time televised emergency briefing on the climate & nature crisis. Introduced by the Prime Minister to signal utmost seriousness, and delivered by independent experts. It’s time for a moonshot-scale mission to protect the public & improve lives. #PEBUK

I hear from a reliable source that a solar farm in Cornwall is currently offline because the UK's electricity grid infrastructure cannot take the extra - free - power at present. The UK is wasting an abundance of sunshine. Do better. (Same for Ireland and everywhere else.)

Horgabost, Isle of Harris. Pic: IG/iainsranndach

Sharon Weiser, contemporary US artist known for her bold and colourful paintings of the flora of Arizona and New Mexico #womensart

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An event in London discussing extreme heat has been cancelled due to...extreme heat #ClimateEmergency #ExtremeHeat

Landscape of the Vernal Equinox (III) https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landscape-of-the-vernal-equinox-iii-1944

Brexit cartoon by @robinflavell.bsky.social and me that appeared in The New European (now @thenewworldmag.bsky.social)

Officially too hot, our listings have started to melt.

Hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha! (breathe) hahaha hahahaha hahahaha! (sorry to post a grab from X The Everything App but @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social *loves* to post from apps that allow you to make photo realistic sexual abuse images)

Now I know why it's called Right Move.

Inordinately excited about this year's forthcoming John Clare Society Journal, featuring cover art by Tracey Bush, & new writing from @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social, Richard O'Brien - @notrockyhorror.bsky.social - Martin Kratz, Cassie Falke, Jens Peters, & an index of publications, & reviews.

Ever tried to FOI the Royals? Not easy. An outrageous carve-out in the Freedom of Information Act is letting this institution operate in secrecy, and shield itself from accountability. I am moving to have this archaic loophole closed, as a step to a more modern constitution.

It’s all very well Keir Starmer supporters lamenting the toxic impact of right wing media coverage now. But why did he abandon (after promising to follow through) Leveson 2? Why did he run to the Sun and party with Murdoch? Why appoint the Sun managing editor to a Govt job?