“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.” — Miles Davis

You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.

'Looking for signs of Spring' by contemporary UK painter Dee Nickerson #WomensArt #February

Twilight Afterglow Richmond Hill: acrylic on canvas

How to change the world from your little place in it?

sunrise jan. 29/24 (unedited, no filters) #sunrise #photography #WestCoastKin

'Running Iris' linocut by Australian printmaker Rachel Newling #WomensArt

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Proper LOLs at Suella Braverman defecting to Reform... The party that’s spent years attacking the Home Office has just welcomed the person who actually ran the Home Office. Brilliant work lads.

Mine too... All dreams though

"The hour of the predator": "wizard of the Kremlin" left me a little cold as I have read much related non-fiction, but this is fantastic. An inside look at the Broligarch techover: Authoritarian Intelligence. He concludes "the struggle continues" #BookSky 💙📘 A really impt read

Semaphore at Garsdale. 2 January 2026. #railway #photography

Lichen, Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca (orange rock posy lichen). NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends The photo covers about 4cm left to right.

Scarlet Elf Cups in the woods this afternoon #mushrooms #fungi #fungifriends #mycology

I've changed my heart rate zones on my #Visible app so I dont have an alarm on my smart watch every time my bpm hits 85 which is just about every time I stand or move, and miraculously I feel so much better! Sadly it's not all in the mind but being free from the doom of #longcovid #ME/CFS is great

Painting by French artist Céline Marcoz.

Oh for some sun on the kitchen dresser...

Pull up a chair...

Sils Lake, located in the Upper Engadine, Switzerland 🇨🇭 at 1,797 meters above sea level, is the largest natural lake in the Grisons. #saturdaymorning

Happy Caturday.

Did someone say #caturday? This is Spare Cat. He turned up, moved in, got comfy, put on weight and then sadly faded away over a year and I lost him.

"This is a real mess!" thought pig. #kidlit #kidlitart

Yet another mushroom in Washington State #photography #nature #macrophotography #mushroom #pnw #resist

A little village of delicate, white mushrooms ... looking like little porcelain figurines. #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #mushroom #forest #MacroPhotography #OMSystem

#fungifriends #mushrooms #mycology #nature #fungi #biology #photography Photogenic Flammulina velutipes (Velvet shanks) a few days ago.

Kyiv. Afternoon after the attack. The Dnipro River is still frozen. No heat, water, or electricity in homes. But hope lives. We have much to fight for and to live for.

Good morning all! Up and about and of course, first breakfast. Getting some help from kitty. Jacqueline Osborne - Spilled Milk #art #food

A man told me yesterday that it was important to "take emotion out of the equation“ when analysing the situation in the US, at which point I told him very calmly that "a woman who disagrees with you is not necessarily emotional". Ladies, it was a breakthrough. I should have done this years ago.

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

Sadly no hangover here, but I did wake with a devil of a headache this morning (new meds I think) and instead of hitting global news, I opted for something less traumatising. This playlist was a joy to listen to. Give it a whirl! #music #groove #cheerupforgoodnessakes www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Here's to everyone reading this facing chronic or complicated medical challenges today-- but still committed to working your trauma recovery, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, choice by choice. I see you & respect you, even if the world often does not.

Good morning!

"Creativity and chronic illness" (from the Chronic Living Therapy newsletter) chroniclivingtherapy.com/creativity-c... Features: - Ballet dancer, @anilvanderzee.bsky.social - Red Tree and ME – international collaborative art project #chronicillness #MEcfs #TheRedTreeandME 1/

'January Thaw' by contemporary US printmaker Jeanne Amato #WomensArt

Fence Post Still Life: A small mushroom grows from a moss covered wood fence post along a country road in rural southwestern #Oregon #macrophotography #nature #mushrooms

Fused glass birds by Emma Butler-Cole Aiken, a stained glass artist working in the Scottish Borders #WomensArt

Riya Naskar prints

This painting is from 1915, but it feels like me in Kyiv, 2026 (only with much more light than we have now) 🇺🇦 Mykhailo Kozyk, A Sleeping Woman

Blossom On The Great West Road: acrylic on linen

This is worth a moment of your time

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: what we need is to keep our eyes on the ball of Ukraine. Today,Kyiv,Kharkiv,Lviv,but also so many smaller cities in Ukraine are being hit by Russian missiles We know that the water supply is down, electricity is down, it is minus 20 degrees in Kyiv as we speak.

So nearly at 100,000 now! Have you signed? 🙏 Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

What Carney said about NATO & trade was hugely important, but it’s what he said about truth that’s even more so. His choice of Vaclav Havel was not accidental. His concept of ‘living in truth’ is an essential guide to this moment open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Quite irritated by this Love Actually description about UK-US relations. It is not about having a tantrum in public then getting twatted for it. It's about taking concrete action to reduce UK dependency on a country which no longer respects us or shares our values.

This has been the longest week so far.

Polish painter Stanislaw Baj (born 3 June 1953)

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

"Fish and Chips", 2015, Oil on Board, 30 × 27 cm. (Private Collection) By John Woodward Lines (British Artist, born 1938)

“Out of a mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” — Martin Luther King Jr. Today, we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His words continue to remind us to hold on to hope. #MLKDay