I think that might be it for this year, cheers all, you've been marvelous. Hopefully see you in the next.

👋 Farewell 2025. I've known better years but you did excel in Nightshades 🤗 🎄🍒, Thorn 🍏, 🍏of Peru, Duke of Argyll's 🫖plant, ☠️, 🪵, 🖤, & 💚Nightshades, Henbane, Small, Tall, & Sticky Nightshades, …& ❤️Nightshade to end the year See ALT for scientific names. #Botany #Solanaceae @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#StreetArt by Yeko Yekills

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

Ageing French actor finds himself overshadowed by his own belongings, while also fighting for his memories and insights to prevail Watch this filthy genius documentary for free until tonight only with ArteKino: dmovies.org/2025/12/01/i...

again with the cocaine France, c. 1900, artist unknown

www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-... 16:27 😎

14th November 2019 At the end of another day, the Coffee Bug is all packed up and ready to go home. Picture from my book 'Cambridge - Time & Space'. Available at cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-ti... and all bookshops.

17th December 2022 The prolonged spell of low temperatures in December 2022 brought freezing fog to the ancient town of Reach. Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

19th December 2022 Lode Mill - The Arctic maritime air mass brought one of the most significantly cold spells to the UK since December 2010. Picture from my new book 'Cambridge - Light & Shade'. Available at www.cambridgebooks.co.uk/cambridge-li... and all bookshops.

🚨 This has been a test of the North American Wolf System. This is only a test.

#StreetArt by IRONY in #London, #UK

#StreetArt AFZAN PIRZADE, #Tbilissi, #Georgia

Here's something I never knew before ― the Ottawa River (Rivière des Outaouais, or Kitchissipi) has the longest underwater caves in Canada. Too bad I got rid of my SCUBA gear, but I still would've needed special training. hwtproject.ca/ottawa-caves...

How did Ottawa's city manager decide that everyone had to return to the office? As usual, it's all top secret. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The STCA remains a deadly farce, C-2 will remove the 14-day waiting period, while Haiti is in a violent shambles & the US of Russia looks to capture & deport Haitians...

We’re starting this season with a BANG! 💥 The Rideau Canal Skateway opens tomorrow, Wednesday December 31, at 8 am! We’re in the home stretch of preparations to open a 3.4 km section between Somerset West and the Bank Street bridge. The Bank Street stairs will not be open for now.

A reminder that when Carney says 85% of our exports are covered by CUSMA, he's wrong & they're weasel words. It's actually somewhere between 38 and 50%. It's also not easy to be certified, which hurts small businesses. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Arabesque | Debussy guitar: Roxane Elfasci youtu.be/OQqEg7Yu-_E?...

The brutal respiratory infection has infected tens of thousands and killed at least 13 people in the U.S. in 2025

Good Morning! On this day, (Tue) Dec 30 in 1929 Rosalinde Hurley was born. She was a British physician, microbiologist, pathologist, public health and medical administrator, ethicist and barrister. She was knighted in 1988 for her services to medicine and public health. #HERstory #WomeninSTEM 🧪

30th December 2025 Probably my last picture for this year. Wishing you all a brighter 2026.

www.vancouverisawesome.com/events-and-e... #TwinPeaks

Patti Smith at the Hotel Chelsea (with Sam Shepard) - BOTD

Morning

Paris #photography #blackandwhite

Breton Landscape (The Moulin David) | Paul Gauguin

Cyanotype using pva glue as the base. It’s lost its detail over the year or so when I made it.

Painting by Sarah Carvell. ‘Crisp Morning on the Allotment’ Oil on linen. Dimensions 70 x 60cm.

#StreetArt By Rustam Qbic

Drawings discovered in Peru would have been made more than 2000 years ago. curioustuff.com/new-geoglyph... #aliens #ancientaliens #ancientastronauts #ancienthistory #UFOs #ufosightings #UAPs #Ufology #ufolovers #extraterrestrials #mysteries

Formally categorised as extinct on the IUCN Red List in 2025 🔴 Slender-billed curlew 🟡 Christmas Island shrew 🟠 3 Australian mammals 🟤 a species of ebony tree and Hawaiian lobelioid ⚫ a cone snail news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

#StreetArt by Remix Uno 📍Lurcy-lévis

Votive Plaque: Swallow (Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BCE) Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

This week on Counting Stuff, to close out the year a hobby post on how gemstones are cut if you ever want to do it, with lots of hands on photos! #hobby #gemstones #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/making-shiny...

The Santa Fe F3A 19-L diesel passenger locomotive hangs over Aliso Street after running off the end of its track at Union Station. January 25, 1948, Los Angeles California. #train #accidents #oldtime

Botsford / Clarenceville Farmington Hills, Oakland County Michigan. Same tree, looking north instead of south. 📸 Holga 135FC 🎞️ Fujifilm 400 ISO #photography #trees #roads #scenes #analogphotography #film #filmphotography #holga #farmingtonhills #oakland #michigan #puremichigan

Gorgeous, female Inca figure 1400-1532, gold alloy ... she's mighty but tiny ... #tinyjoys @sainsburycentre.bsky.social

200-year-old condom, believed to have been made around 1830 from a sheep’s appendix/gut. The condom is decorated with an erotic etching depicting a nun and three clergymen in a provocative scene, alongside the 🇫🇷 phrase “Voilà, mon choix” (“There, that’s my choice”).

scopOphilic_micromessaging_1418 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new MicroMessaging series: small, subtle, & often unintentional messages we send & receive verbally & non-verbally. (2025) #scopOphilic #micromessaging #streetart #graffiti #brooklyn #nyc #photography #ArtistsOnBlueSky #Red #PhotoShoot

Canada gets buzzed Ottawa Citizen, 1906-09-13 while i can find no documentation on this particular brand, it was almost certainly a cocaine wine in the style of Vin Mariani the ingestion of cocaine and alcohol causes the liver to produce cocaethylene, which see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaeth...

Store front, South Grand, St. Louis, Missouri #iphonephotography #mobilephotography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #stl #StLouis #SouthGrand #bnw #blackandwhitephotographty #streetphotography #monochrome #noirphotography

Rob Pointon (British, b.1982) "Chimney Stack," 2025 Oil on board 50 x 40 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt