Writing a semester timetable for three overlapping modules and two staff, after four months off.... errr....

We've been working with @metoffice.gov.uk to analyse 10 years of #NewYearPlantHunt data. The analysis provides the clearest evidence yet of how rising temperatures are impacting the British & Irish flora, with knock-on effects for all our wildlife. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Donate to your places if you can again

OK OK Mercury now actually in Capricorn and, contrary to my slightly aggro-sass previous post on the matter, all signs of the zodiac will *benefit* from fortuitous cosmic alignment encouraging better communication and strategic thinking (not are encumbant to demonstrate this, lol). Until 19th.

I've given it some thought and while at first extremely abstract, this could be, in fact, very promising... 🤔 @merriam-webster.com

Poodle Years Day almost over...

- x7 recorded wildflowers - x5 certain IDs - x4 successful convos - many stood-in dog poos - much thwarted desire for chickweed flower - x3 causes to use new hand lens - x1 beautiful big waxing gibbous moon! #NewYearPlantHunt @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Twice listened to this new 40 min trance-y eerie textured industrial number to time my #NewYearPlantHunt reccy this morn. A solid 6 wild flowers to record for @bsbibotany.bsky.social + a couple in bud. Waiting for a degree or two more temp increase before I head out for real, incase it helps... 🙏

Not long now until #NewYearPlantHunt starts! Everything you need is here: bsbi.org/take-part/ac... Spotter sheets, Top Tips for successful hunting, info about group hunts, guidance on taking photos for #WildFlowerID, links to the #BSBIRecordingApp for uploading your finds & info on how to get help.

Mercury is about to transition into Capricorn tomorrow night - it's all about sharp thorough communications and strategy. And so I write this advice as an autistic spectrum Capricorn with a moon calendar: you have about 20 days to say what you mean and mean what you say, or you're fucked. HNY 🎉

Must. Find. Print.

this is pure ghoul shit. trans people are people. not an ideology. my life is not an ideology. you trying to end my life is. go get fucked, suzanne.

Suzanne Moore in 2020: "As a feminist, I would argue that gender is socially constructed, and it can be reconstructed." And in 2025: "This must be the year Britain finally kills off trans ideology." Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.

We are now at 75k signatures, with many messages of support on Instagram, Facebook and here. This is a genuine groundswell of love over hate, and a call to focus on the real harms faced by women and girls. Thank you all who’ve signed and shared. Let’s keep it going 💜 notinourname.org.uk

I recur a donation to a press/arts org for a year each year. I'm leaning into @punctumbooks.bsky.social for 2026 bc they are open source, para-academic, v transparent processes + had a weird visual essay published by them in a collection called Bodies That Remain years back and gave me #confidence

In 2026 I hope to find red dead nettle and borage in flower, among other things.

Huge thanks to everyone who shared pix through 2025 for #WildFlowerHour: you've brightened our Sunday evenings! Big thank you to @botanybeck.bsky.social who leads the @wildflowerhour.bsky.social team! Hope you'll all take part in #NewYearPlantHunt starting on New Year's Day! bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

Always tagging but forgetting hashtag, and then I use the hashtags to find everyone else's 🙃 #wildflowerhour #winter10 (not quite + berries)

Just a few spotted whilst out on a recce for the upcoming @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt Clockwise from top right Scentless Mayweed, Common Hogweed, Bush Vetch, Common Daisy and Hazel catkins with a pale female flower. #wildflowerhour Will they still be in flower next week? 😀

My #PlantoftheYear for 2025 is the fabulous Tufted Saxifrage, one of our rarest arctic-alpines. I helped survey the known sites for this plant in Scotland for @plantlifeuk.bsky.social - this beauty was in a grotty gully just under the summit of Ben Nevis 😍 Merry Christmas everyone! #wildflowerhour

A sweet little ten petal pink flower in ditch by a wall, red campion, I think. I never noticed one before #wildflowerhour

So very excited to have found and identified 9 berries for the 10 wildberry challenge - an extra for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social Top left going clockwise: snowberry, barberry, haws, holly berry, rosehip, honeysuckle, privet berry, cottonester and sloes in the middle.

End of the year monk gunk featuring The Piss Superstition, Gaël Segalen, Glass Matter, Dylan Burchett, Todd W Emmert and the festive freebie comp ‘Calibre Five’ featuring Adam Buffington, Hali Palombo, Nimmo, S*Glass, Andy Heck Boyd, Cody Brant, The Conduits, karen & myself.

28th December is the feast of The Holy Innocents. Here the flight into Egypt & the massacre of the innocents are represented. Note the devil whispering in Herod's ear. #HolyInnocents BnF MS 1186; Psalter of St Louis & Blanche de Castille; 13th century; f.19v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

Met stepson's first girlfriend today. She answered all my questions with impeccable interview technique. Like.

Whitworth particularly excellent at the mo, if ur thinking of paying Manc a visit.

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

I got some fun #gardening themed #Christmas ornaments as gifts this year. A chonky #MonarchButterfly caterpillar, a beautiful Hummingbird on colorful #bloomscrolling worthy glowers, a Dove of Peace for this #birds lover, & a beautiful Eastern Tiger #butterfly. 🌱

I'm trying for a winter wild berry challenge as an extra for next @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social - I've got 5 so far...

Happy Christmas from this owl carved from a piece of coal

Excellent

Only seven more days to sufficiently undo your ideas of yourself using a mixed methods approach of self sabotage, subterfuge and historical revisionism

Our EOY sale continues! Get 25% off across silverpress.org with the code EOYSALE2025 🚀 Explore our titles including 💙 the award-winning Space Crone by @ursulakleguin.com 💙 The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson 💙 Audre Lorde's Your Silence Will Not Protect You 💙 Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry

Made a Lego seal

150ml negroni took 2 hours to drink and was rewarded by a slightly unorthodox maraschino cherry. We're on.

I'm proud to find x4 for #wildflowerhour really tried this morning I think I've got wildflowers #groundsel (?) #ragwort (!) and garden jump #potmarigold (😅) not sure of white one - can you help #wildflowerID

Posh yuletide greetings from our red regency room! Just couldn't finish last piece of felt cheese with worms in! Left it in the kitchen - staff gone home! #TowneleyHall, #Burnley

Yule is upon us

Date specific listening recommendation for tonight 🌙

When those who hate trans people win - or pretend to win, cf Sandie Peggie - it's all over the media, even if it's just a tribunal decision. But when they lose, even in the Court of Appeal, it's absolute bloody tumbleweed. So here's our blog about Allison Bailey latest loss. goodlaw.social/3uyd

Hot wings

Guys I sold at CALA who will now become forever immortalized in sticker form

Noa is a total legend of my heart 😍

My page turning mind lingering novel The Wastes has earned a place on editor in chief of frieze, Andrew Durbin's best books read in 2025 list along with Burley Fisher Books best of 2025 list too. And it's on sale here! bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...

13 Sept Gwgia Reservoir, Tregynon, Wales 20 Sept Harting Down and Petersfield, England 8 Nov Moorfoot Hills, Edinburgh, Scotland People disappearing protected white tail eagles 🦅 in reintroduction scheme

“The independent MP Jeremy Corbyn put the request for a meeting to the justice minister, Jake Richards. When Richards replied “no”, laughter was heard from some MPs in the chamber.” Read that again. For shame. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Going Blackpool with a flask of tea to see the 'luminations' Third cup is for the dog.

I’m not exactly saying the weather’s been weird lately, but I went to check the birdfeeders and the black sunflower seeds have sprouted.

Attention ⚠️

Want to find out if there's an organised #NewYearPlantHunt happening near you 1-4 January? Here are the ones we know about so far: bsbi.org/take-part/ac... Details of the Lincs Hunt led by @sarahlambert7.bsky.social will be posted there tomorrow! Organising a Hunt? Let us know, we can help promote!