Friends! For the @openuniversity.bsky.social’s free learning platform I wrote a course: Exploring Ovid’s big ideas. It’s about Pacific Islander creation myth, monsters, Brazilian art, how stories change their meaning across time, British-Nigerian poetry, and of course… about Ovid. 💻🏺

Before I post the ancient tombs & temples from our recent trip to Egypt, sit with me at this table in the Fayoum in the morning sunlight, as it warms us & the cats at our feet, dancing across arabesques of wood. The warmth of Egypt comes from its people and their artistry, as well as the 🌞 #egypt

Just a reminder to any racist millionaire football club owners out there that without immigration we wouldn't have any of this

Repost from @‌nbcolympics Nazgul started the day as a regular dog — ended it a #WinterOlympics legend. Safely returned home, sprint form: absolutely elite! Raise your voice for wolves today at teamwolf.org!

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Died (alas!) on this day in 1538, in his home town of Regensburg, Albrecht Altdorfer. Here, Alexander the Great & Persian king Darius clash in the Battle of Issus, painted by Altdorfer in 1529.

After the referendum, the BBC chief Lord Hall ordered the BBC to treat Brexit as a done deal, a decision which all but wholly excluded Remainer opinion from the BBC for around 2 years, thus grossly biasing the Brexit debate. It was a grotesque abuse of democracy. www.radiotimes.com/tv/current-a...

Europe doesn’t need an apocalypse to lose to Russia.All it takes is a”bad peace"in Ukraine&a few well-timed crises in Europe itself.The essence of the scenario isn’t that Russia will”defeat NATO"in a major war.The essence is that the Kremlin can win without a major war 📹17.07.2025/BBC News,chykahlo

Good Morning super followers, wherever you’re going today and whatever you’re doing, stay safe and have a brilliant weekend. Loving you all. xx💃🪗🕺😊#50in26

Message from 1942. 1942. Everything old is still here... (transcript below)

Did you know I give talks & presentations, and I run school workshops & creative writing sessions for all ages? 🖊✏️ I have a PGCE & years of experience as a Museum Educator & freelance workshop leader 👍 I work around the West Mids & sometimes further afield 🧳 😊 www.kateinneswriter.com/activities-a...

We are alarmed to learn that the poet Ali Asadollahi, who featured in recent editions of MPT, has been violently arrested from his home by security forces in Iran. Please join his supporters in raising awareness. www.en-hrana.org/ali-asadolla...

Interesting. Derw in Cymraeg = oak.

Here’s another idea - every adult is given training in how to reduce their carbon footprint and encourage nature. Just a thought, as we are now in a death spiral of ecosystem collapse and environmental catastrophe according to their own report. 🙄 @ukparliament.parliament.uk #UKGovernment

A useful 'roll out’ instead would be training to spot AI produced content and scams - and while they’re at it - training on online manipulation and lies 🙄

WORD FACT The Latin word rivus, meaning stream, gives us both “derive” and “rival”: “Derive” literally means “to draw (water) from a stream”. “Rival” literally means “one who shares the same stream”.

Samuel Palmer was born on this day in 1805. Trees in Lullingstone Park

Driving to deliver books to my aunt, I saw a teenage boy carrying a honey coloured spaniel puppy, tucked in the open neck of his long coat. He was smiling, talking away to the puppy, and bent down to kiss the top of its head. It made my ❤️ sing too :)

From Viz, three years ago: The Brexit Opportunity Detector. Still looking.

Five days left to help the @nationaltrust.org.uk purchase land in Cerne Abbas. Do chip in to keep the Giant's pecker up.

🎓 Calling all UK teachers! The BSA School Teacher Fellowship is open for applications! 👉 www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/fello... Deadline: 27.2.26 #TeacherFellowship #TeachingHistory #ClassicsForAll #BritishSchoolAtAthens #StateSchoolTeachers #EducationEquity

Yet more evidence that the crucial Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC is weakening. Bad news for our climate future. More reason to finally get serious about ending fossil fuel use. As fast as we can.

Chernihiv& Nizhyn were left without electricity due to Russian strikes. There has been no power supply in the cities since 6 a.m. Hospitals,water utilities,other critical infrastructure facilities have been switched to generators. 📹 Suspilne

Helpful thread

1930’s Egypt was fascinating. Discoveries, personalities, espionage, crime, glamour & the privations of the desert🐪 So I’m chuffed to be travelling there (not thru time!) to research the sequel to ‘An Ancient Haunting’ Book 2 of The Lily Ash Series. Ideal for fans of the paranormal & archaeology! 💀

Quick thread on how it is shocking the government has supressed this report, but it is equally shocking that anyone should be surprised by its contents. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524657...

Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK on 22 January 👏

A major study led by Chester Zoo has uncovered new insights into how hedgehogs use gardens – and the impact of feeding them www.chesterzoo.org/news/garden-...

Today’s moment of calm is my pair of Wren icons resting on a shelf. The branch they perch on reads across both triptychs One wren is singing the other gathers lichen for his nest. Male Wrens build up to 5 nests allowing the female to choose her favourite. A gentleman of the bird world

The National Trust is halfway to their appeal to buy Giant Hill, one of the UKs top butterfly sites, also rich in insects and flowers. The last good habitat for Duke of Burgundy in Dorset. Please donate if you can @nationaltrust.org.uk www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...

The Strongman Fantasy, from March 2024. May it break. snyder.substack.com/p/the-strong...

Time for Trvmp and his cronies to pay attention to the Past www.instagram.com/reel/DTas9U2...

Reform told you reducing council tax was easy. They just had to slash Woke policies, and a billion or two would be saved. They wouldn't even need to close care services. They promise you that. And then every single Reform-led council cut care services and increased council tax.

Health concerns grow for Palestine Action hunger strikers www.channel4.com/news/health-...

If you enjoyed my radio play 'The Goblin King and Me' yesterday, could you please post about it or share the link to BBC Sounds with your family and friends..? It's so easy to miss these things and it's available to listen to for the next week. Thank you! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

‘Just because you colonised a country a long time ago, doesn’t mean you own it’ is a dangerous piece of pseudo logic for a *checks notes* American to voice externally…

Kyiv is currently entirely without power and heating after today’s attack. Authorities urged people to leave the city if they can. This is a humanitarian disaster, in case anyone didn’t know

#NowWatching The Phantom Carriage (D:Victor Sjöström,1921) On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life. "Filled with images both chilling and entrancing, Sjöström's masterwork is an unforgettable work of art."

An inspiration from the past for the @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social soon opening in York 🙌

Having the great privilege of being part of Operation Nightingale RAF Valley project on Anglesey also means we hear Paul Hemingway play his carnyx by the sacred lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach, where a different type of IA horn has been recovered. Whenever he plays, I half expect to hear a faint reply 4/..

ice remembers seas a progression of cold waves fold over the land #nature #NaturePhotography #naturelovers #poetry #naturewriters #ice #winter #poetrycommunity #haiku #writerscommunity #notAI #psychogeography #landscape #mapping #mindfulness #noticing #botany #glimmerings #bloomscrolling

An important part of Farage press events is keeping track of his changing positions on, well, everything. It helps to be wildly credulous. thecritic.co.uk/poli...

ge-wǣpnod, adj: armed, equipped with weapons. (yeh-WAP-nod / jɛ-ˈwæːp-nɔd) Image: Lambeth Apocalypse; England, 13th century; @lampallib.bsky.social MS 209, f. 8r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Oceanus, with lobsters emerging from his forehead, vomits up two dolphins Was he *being sick on porpoise*? (apologies) Detail from a 4th century floor found at Withington #Roman villa #Gloucestershire and lifted in 1812 📷 © The Trustees of the British Museum Happy last #MosaicMonday of the year

Spooky tales at the Solstice? Yes please! Also don’t miss the last day of the ‘Primordial Dance’ exhibition - of Helen Garrett’s beautiful art and my poems in conversation.

It’s not too late to get a signed/personalised copy of one of these beauties sent within the UK in time for Christmas! 🎁 FREE badge with each book 😁 Medieval fiction, Children’s adventure & Poetry Last post- 19th December! Order from www.kateinneswriter.com/shop/ Or DM me #historicalfiction

Beneath the #Wiltshire Medieval hilltop town of Malmesbury lies a 9ha Iron Age hillfort Here looking east: Now (© Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard) and then (© Athelstan Museum) A wee thread for #HillfortsWednesday 🧵👇