The dark has begun on this small Island. The magic hour is now 2 o'clock in the afternoon. No city lights to reflect off the clouds, the descent has begun.

Completely besotted with this velvety rhubarb and custard wonder - the Autumn Emperor Moth (Saturnia caecigena) - the highlight of last night’s trap on @greenwingstours.bsky.social Moths of Slovenia 💛🩷💛 #teammoth #mothsmatter #bugsky

The University of Manitoba's Indigenous Studies department celebrates 50 years. My story from today ⬇️ www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

October morning on display, this is my view from my bedroom window. Morning meditations.

The entire budget for USAID for FY2024 was $35 billion, and it was keeping millions of the world's poorest people fed and alive. Trump just sent $40 billion to Argentina to prop up the fascist chainsaw freak in his upcoming election.

Israeli settlers continue to wage war on Palestinians in the West Bank and elsewhere. They are breaking into people's homes, stealing their stuff, trashing their homes and sometimes kidnapping and killing people. This is happening NOW. People should know this.

. From 'Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings' (2015) —Joy Harjo #poetry #poem #booksky

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent. Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income. We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Today is the end of 3 years of chemotherapy for my partner in crime! He's in remission after a misdiagnosis of multiple myeloma. I couldn't get him out of bed Christmas day. Bouts of Covid and then a stem cell transplant but here we are, everyone is going through something as this world turns.

Take the good news seriously too

So Hegseth got the generals in one room to tell them they better shape up!

I am so fucking sick of constantly hearing about the shitshow that is America.

Fall is the odd, uneven time... and I'm of the #autumn people. I was born on the edge of it, or in the middle of it, depending where you live. What I know for sure is that I like bright hills, clear #rivers and the smell of fallen leaves. #scape #forestfriday #photography #yeg #eastcoastkin #beauty

1/ Many of us have followed this extraordinarily compassionate 🇨🇦 doctor throughout the pandemic. Dr. Markland was indefatigable in his advocacy for healthcare & patients, & so much more. Rest in peace, Dr. Darren Markland - www.westernstandard.news/news/beloved...

I admired Dr. Darren Markland. We shared a love of the river valley & a similar manic cardio addiction. (He biked. I ran.) He loved the inner city, too, like me. He was a connector. He spoke up. Everywhere he went, he shone. My condolences to all. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMemories #yegbike #yeg

Memories of Lake Superior Old Woman Bay, Ontario July 2016 #WeekMforMemories #AlphabetChallenge #EastCoastKin #sunset #ShareCanGeo #blueskyphotography #LakeSuperiorPP #LakeSuperior

How to Cut a Pomegranate by Imtiaz Dharker www.divasofverse.com/2021/04/how-...

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

I love the calm of September but last week I plummeted into despair and depression and it took me 3 days to climb out of the hole. I was so negative!

In evangelical churches across America this morning, millions are listening to sermons praising the leader of the new American fascism and warning of the magical rapture and end of the world. It is one of the most nefarious and yet culturally subtle dangers to pluralistic democracy. #rapture #not

Yes, my strength is in solitude. I'm not afraid of pouring rains or great gusts of wind, for I too am the darkness of the night. -Clarice Lispector

It’s the Autumn Equinox officially tomorrow, pears from my backyard.

my window-sill crop of peppers - soaking up the last of the summer sunshine - go red you little scumbags 😁

Mist this morning. Autumn half-light, a complex of summer decay & winter's birth in death. Heartbreaking Brahms on my headphones, matching the uncertain season, the world's sadness known & willingly cultivated. But around me shadows lengthen. Dark. Noise. Ah, these terrible times. How shall we live?

I love a bit of Bulgaria inquinans - Black Bulgar. I seldomly find it. #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

The jetty at Lochinver is always a good spot to watch sunsets.

👋 Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social have joined Bluesky Give them a follow for resources, events and upcoming actions calling on sociological professional bodies to us their platforms to stand with Palestinian If you want to get involved email [email protected]

Careful out there #BritishColumbia

It's a special kind of political malpractice to see the false narrative of Charlie Kirk, Free Speech Martyr getting massive traction across the political spectrum and think what a great pretext for censorship!

I now use my electric bike on the Island for quick trips to the store for groceries, for socializing and biking home in the black of night on that country road. Electric cars still feel out of reach for price and charging stations. I seldom use my car, it's just parked.

Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, 1610

Ninety-nine words for rain in Irish: could it actually be true? www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

A plum torte and our apples just need a few more cool nights before they drop and the woodpeckers find them!

Photos of some of my favorite works/details from the Anila Quayyum Agha exhibit Let One Bird Sing at the Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas Arts District.

Spirit Bird-Wren #5 3 1/4x 4 original art. You hear the Wren. Spirit bird speaks to the innermost part of you that feels unheard.

I’m going to see Neil Young tonight, outdoor concert at Deer Lake Park! No clouds and under the moon 🌕

Find the love in your heart, awaken to it, and beam it to everyone you can.

Kids in Alberta, B.C. and the N.W.T. returned to school this week through a haze of wildfire smoke. In our latest newsletter, managing editor Sharon J. Riley shares how she’s keeping her wildfire anxieties in check as she sends her daughter off to kindergarten: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-b...

I can’t believe medicine hasn’t come up with a better way to do mammograms. That is some primitive shit right there.

Yesterday it felt like the world stood still for a moment after the Labour Day weekend. Summer came to an end on this small Island and everyone is back to school. Rode my bike to the sea as my home is in the trees!

Happiness itself #poetry for #smallpoemsunday The Breathing by Denise Levertov

This was sad news to come home too. RIP Graham Greene

The solar eclipse of 1869, photographed by Henry Morton and published in the first ever edition of Nature. #history #historyofastronomy #photography #space

Everyone should listen to this real talk, but especially my fellow journalists. & consider the fact that a governor, saying this now, is putting themselves at risk. That’s his job. It’s our job, too.

It is the golden season, I think this is my favourite sunflower I’ve grown. A tree frog 🐸 too.

... think about it: when was the last time you got excited about the prospect of a new phone, a new OS, a new app? I can't remember the last time anything genuinely big or interesting or useful came out of it. If anything I have come to dread updates, b/c they just mean more invasive AI slop.