Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #AmongTheRipples with an alternate of #BestSideEye. Tufted ducks glare at you always, and this female gives us a twofer as she leaves a trail of ripples behind her through reflected railings. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #duck

It is very delicate work figuring out how to start living with and beginning to make space for yourself within another person's long term home and habitat.

At the boyfriend's, and I'm up early of course. Needed to eat and all there is is 1% milk and off brand cereal. I need to come over here more often to justify having some food I like here.

Look at this gorgeous cameo of Artemis, hair back, expression unemotional, ready to kill again. Oh wait, am I doing that thing where I describe myself instead of the artwork?

Happy anniversary of that time the post office asked me to provide evidence that my package was not delivered.

Probably having been the copy chief of Random House for a decade or two would give me reasonable insight into whether "many books are published without typos," but sure, you tell me how it all works. Please.

Small house. Rye Harbour, East Sussex 1/3. Postcard Painting. watercolour. darrenhaymanart.com

The World Cup semi-final lineups are confirmed, and excitement is building..

Amazing stained glass in Cafe Gandolfi in Glasgow

From the top: Charlemagne's Aachen as it was; the physical remains; the area as it is now. From Ley and Schaub, 'The palace of Aachen'

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Now if you’ll EXCUSE me, my actually-correct-permit-this-time permit and I have a MOTH night to run.

Today’s painting from earlier today. A skylark on a 1950s beer mat. darrenhaymanart.com

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

A New York street scene. Watercolour. Finished on this day back in 2020. Still available as a print in my shop

Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣

Let's do Friday before I'm out for a week and try to actually leave roughly on time today

Watched videos about building things by Simone Giertz who is so ridiculously much more functional and fearless than I am and played Tiny Bookshop which I cannot wait to come out on mobile, I'm so glad it is. I have tons of games I wish were doing that, I would pay for them twice easily.

hello! im looking for anyone who would like to be interviewed for my 'What I Do' series, where i detail just what, exactly, people in the video game industry do for a living aftermath.site/tag/what-i-do/ only this one has a catch: i'd love to hear from someone who hates their job, or parts of it

My boyfriend went to sleep at 8pm for some reason, possibly because he is broken beyond measure.

I was told to make dinner for myself but I've only eaten pita chips and hummus and olive tapenade

#art #artsky #abstract #landscape Bubble town

@suzannacrampton.bsky.social Lambs www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWgq...

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My painting TOWERING STORM

Roommate went to a game night at the shop to paint star wars figures and I weirdly have the apartment to myself.

Sketching at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum

When I wake up to go to work most of my internet is the UK/Europe and they are already past their lunchtime, very awake, always surreal because I'm just trying to find pants here and become a person who is alive.

today's word of the day: molybdenum. say it with me. molybdenum.

The map's form: tissue paper It shows: currents Its purpose: to outline

Umberto Boccioni’s “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.” I had to walk around it three times to understand how it moved without motion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_...

I have another way to avoid AI in Instagram and that's to not have an account at all, which is what I do. I just send all my photos and links to actual friends via text and discord. But I get that's missing the point of how people use Instagram.

Lots of near biting episodes today. This sounds so violent and scary to people outside the trade of childcare, but what if you had no words to get space for yourself or a toy that you were playing with that someone else just took? So we shadow the kids who are prone to it, and help them out.

A painting of my mum’s flowers in her garden 1/3. Available now. Super cheap. darrenhaymanart.com

Who's making them? Fucking Aquaman?

Sometimes design is improved by mild heat exhaustion

Made a poster of a collaborative playlist and I'm pleased with how the lettering came out

I took headache meds at 5am and made myself gather frozen food from my malfunctioning fridge for lunch (at least it's cooling things? We put in a maintenance request anyways) and scrounged things that inexplicably did not freeze for breakfast and I'm still trying to become human.

Roadside Greenery (2026) Available as art print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

What would a rainbow look like on Tatooine? Watch the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8r...

One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.

new blog post: "Surrealist automatism" www.todepond.com/sky/automati...

Well, tonight I fell asleep so fast after my shower dinner was delayed until 10pm and then @scarmath.bsky.social had to pull half of it together and I finished it off with the veggies at the end. Then to make up for everything I've done badly lately I did the dishes again.

Woke up so early, needed Tylenol, discovered one capsule left, and a second, empty bottle. Using ice now but need to get ready for work soon.

Beloved British astronomer Guy Ottewell turned 90 yesterday. He's best known worldwide for his appealing #astronomy charts and hand-illustrated yearly Astronomical Calendar. Read about #GuyOttewell’s extraordinary life at: buff.ly/36Wyagf 📸 Guy Ottewell.

This. 🙂 (Though also cf. the wonderful "*What* is this doing in an E. E. 'Doc' Smith 'Lensman' novel" remark, "What boots it?") 😅 (OED def. 3...)

The best game I've gotten this year has been Tiny Bookshop which has real books listed including manga and has a delightful mechanic of offering recommendations to customers. The steam sale was kind to me and I got it with birthday money a friend gifted me.

This week did not go as planned and ennui came busting back in the door right after I got so much done in our house but before I finished it all. I've got a lot of napping done. We might go swimming today but this seems like a stretch. Maybe grill something. Work will consume me starting tomorrow.