What a day on Orkney! The sun finally graced us with a decent amount of exposure after months of nothing but the rare tantalising glimpse. I was so distracted I forgot to catch a photo! Here's some broccoli instead, harvested today from the polycrub. Great day in the garden!

"Red human against the geometry". Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej, Warszawa. 🎞️ Kodak Gold 200 📷 Canon AE-1 + FD 50mm f/1.4

double shots desert rocks joshua tree national park 10.23.25

Blue sky inundates me with art suggestions and I am greeting with joy ❤️

Illustration of peacock fountain, from a 14th-c edition of Al-Jazari’s Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices

The surface of Comet 67P as seen by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta lander in September 2014. (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA; J. Roger – CC BY SA 4.0)

Incredible commentary from this Swiss announcer, who accurately characterizes the Israeli team as "Self-defined zionist to the core...who posted several messages in favour of the genocide in Gaza...calling it ‘the most morally just war in history.’” Solidarity to a real one.

Yes! What if we treated extremely normal human variation as something other than a "disorder"??? www.positive.news/society/yout...

Bryozoa, or sea mats, are colonial animals. Depending on the species, they can have planktonic larval stages that look like the first video (a coronate larva), or the second video (a cyphonautes larva). Both are super fun to watch! #marineplankton 🦑

Amazing! Geophysicists utilise existing earthquake detection technology to monitor space debris falling to Earth. Based on a technique initially developed in studying surface activity on Mars, it's a great example of how space exploration can provide solutions to challenges here on Earth.

This is a real timelapse video of the Moon transiting in front of the Earth. It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth. The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪

"…the major enemy, the strategic adversary is fascism [...] the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. ― Michel Foucault #StreetArt Banksy, London

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I can remember how much this flipped my stomach. An excitement for the new space tech undercut with horror as my anxiety reflected on McCandless isolation, floating around untethered in space... unnerving and thrilling combination. Thanks for the reminder @astrojaz.bsky.social

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Read about these crazy creatures a while back now but still can't get my head around the concept! If I remember correctly it's eyes are directed upwards to keep a look out for predators, that's why it has a transparent head!

Wonderfully articulated by the lovely Robert Reich.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Today is #NationalSweaterDay so let's enjoy 'The Fair-Isle Jumper' painted by #Orkney-born artist Stanley Cursiter in 1923. Stanley Cursiter (1887-1976) was Keeper of the National Galleries of Scotland from 1930-1948 and was appointed the King's Painter and Limner in Scotland.

NASA has a 24 hour live stream setup for the Artemis II launch site.

“So what was Glasgow like to a young gay writer in that period … You don’t go silent. You circumvent, you encode, you enfabulate … You work by methods not unlike those used by dissidents in authoritarian regimes.” —Edwin Morgan, “Transgression in Glasgow” #LGBTplusHM 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ asls.org.uk/publications...

The Orkney News providing excellent journalism with excellent articles. Love it!

It was only a matter of time before they targeted our waters.

Stunning and heartbreaking image.

More snowfall through the night in Orkney but with the sun finally making an appearance ...holy moly, breathtaking ❤️

Good morning from Orkney. Schools closed for the day. Nothing happening out there at 9.40am. But beautiful ❤️

Plenty of powdery snow and wind on Orkney at the moment which means staying out. Roads drifting as soon as they're cleared. Gorgeous light though.

Earthrise This photograph was taken on Dec. 24, 1968 by astronaut Bill Anders as the Apollo 8 crew orbited the Moon

Frantic rush to the end of the term as usual.

Barely a soul on our wee Skaill beach meander this afternoon. Tony finally exudes festive cheer with the help of Birsay Tearoom neon signage.

Funky colour contrasts on the airport bus!

That's the barriers going up in Kirkwall in preparation for this year's 'Ba'. An epic sporting battle between the 'Uppies' and 'Doonies', literally two halves of the town play for the 'ba' and rather beautiful hand crafted hefty leather ball. The whole town is given over to the spectacle.

Eternal whirlwind of lovers in Hell. At least they have each other! Fab illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy by William Blake, who was born on this day in 1757.

Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...

Cracking sunrise on the ferry commute from Kirkwall to Sanday this morning! #Orkney #hotpalette #sunrise #landscape #seascape

A little bit of cloud obscuring, but the sun is just about setting between the paps of Hoy now. Still a month until the shortest day to go.

We've had unseasonably warm air sitting over us these past few days, stuck between a high and a low pressure bringing the haar (sea fog). As beautiful as it is, our vitamin D levels are taking a bit of a hit.

Quite a clamour of rooks at dusk. Now autumn has well and truly arrived in Orkney the rooks congregate, reel and roost in large numbers.

Ma Biche sur Le Toit, Toulouse ❤️

It was a gorgeous commute by boat early Wednesday morning. It did mean a 5.30am rise and a drive in the dark but worth it. Barely a pitch or a roll and Stronsay was enveloped in a stunning light.

Gorgeous walk up the hill track behind our field. Cracking view of Hoy, some unfamiliar flora, heady scent of Heather blossom, butterflies galore. Joyous.

📸 Gabriel Puyana

Another flurry of strawberries, albeit modest.

Tomatoes are finally starting to blush after listening to my da and snipping the tops and removing some leaves. Huge!!!