Clogheen Marsh autumn migration monitoring. 2000 Swallows came to roost last night, caught 196 plus a Sand Martin. Today, 179 birds caught of 27 species inc 28 Blackcap, 12 Chiff, 2 Reed + 2 Sedge also 6 Mallard, 50 Chaffinch, Grey Wag + Siskin @npwsireland.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

Arizona Female Scout, 1886. Photographed by A. Frank Rendell (1854–1916), courtesy of the Huntington Library.

From The Collected Poems of Dilys Laing (1967) You warn of hell but do not know my hell. I warn you: do not come here. It is private and worse than any hell of which you tell.

YOU KNOW WHAT STIMULATES THE ECONOMY YA DUCK KNUCKLE PACK OF GOVT PRICKS? PAYING PEOPLE PROPER WAGES SO THEY HAVE MONEY TO SPEND AT LOCAL BUSINESSES

When Millennials start winning Nobels: *Nobel committee, all hunched around a phone excitedly at 2 AM PDT* *Phone rings five times, goes to voicemail* *everyone looks nervous, redials* *six hours later, Millennial sees 18 voice mails* *deletes without listening to anything from an unknown number*

Would love nothing more than to see the miserable, hateful dingdongs who believe they're gonna get raptured actually get raptured so they can leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

I mention this study in my vid bsky.app/profile/greg...

Listen to what @petitecreature1.bsky.social is saying here. Not just the bit about how good @iambapoet.com is for poets looking to bring their words vividly to life, but also to the really important part about auditions being open RIGHT NOW (and for only the next five days). iambapoet.com/audition

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Adding this book to my to-read list bsky.app/profile/eric...

#3goodthings today: 1. Leaf-peeping in Vermont 2. Ramen 3. Fountain pens

I tried writing in my diary a bit with Uni Zento instead of my usual fountain pen and I have to say that Mitsubishi makes really damn good pen tips and the gel spreads over paper really nice.

How many of the contractors Fatty Trump is going to stiff on the payments for his stupid White House Ballroom so he can pocket the difference...We all know that he steals even from charities, gold medals from Soccer finals and special fountain pens from diplomatic signings...what a scab that man is!

Ukraine insists on tender to buy 20 Korean electric trains - Deputy PM Deputy PM Kuleba announced Ukraine would use open tenders to select Korean electric train suppliers during his Seoul working visit, as the country seeks to expand its high-speed rail capacity. euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/22/u...

K-BEAUTY 🇰🇷 Vos trésors au musée Guimet Et si vos trésors de Kpop et de K-beauty s'invitaient au musée Guimet le temps d'une exposition ? Le musée Guimet prépare une grande exposition inédite sur la beauté coréenne (18 mars – 6 juillet 2026)… et vous pouvez en faire partie ! 💖

Kay Sage, Hyphen (1954)

Starmer announces formal UK recognition of Palestinian state - BBC News

Only a poem can translate a poem. - #AKRamanujan

Technologically advanced a band: Streaming Black Sabbath

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me? - #LeonardCohen

So! Going to try cooking Pajeon Spring onion pancake — wish me luck

Thank you for showing up Friday—your words hold weight. This week’s theme: #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain Memory as protest. Poetry as a promise. Post this Friday. Tag your work + tag us: @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Read. Repost. Reply. Prompts: shorturl.at/oEXAM

Wandering glider. In flight. #WanderingGlider #dragonflies #bugs #insects #entemology #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #photography #flyinginsects

💫🌸💫🌸💫🌸💫 Look what’s just arrived! @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social beautiful debut collection ‘Drench Me in Silver’ published @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social💫 I’m ready to be drenched in this font of luscious poetry✨ Congratulations Saraswati! 💫🌸💫🌸💫🌸💫

Good morning at Blithfield. Blithe Bay - 3 Curlew Sand (5 as per GJM), 5 Ruff, Blackwit, c115 Ringed Plover, c10 Dunlin, 2 Ruddy Shelduck, 2 Curlew, Common Sand, 4 Wheatear, notable increase in Mipits. Tad Bay - Barwit, 2 Greenshank, 3 Redshank, 9 Ruff, Spot Fly @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social

Early TV-referential sketch from It's a Square World.

Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!) #Nostos #Unflattening 2

ICE vehicles waste a whopping 80% of the energy in their fuel. Electric vehicles are propelled by entirely different mechanisms. Energy enters the vehicle as electricity, which directly powers the drivetrain: EVs need not convert one form of energy to another resulting in much higher efficiency.

GHOST Perhaps she wasn't proper Like a fairy in a knot Perhaps she was a message From a conscious A.I bot Perhaps she didn't matter #Perhaps she was a glitch Temptation from the Devil Or the Chupacabra itch Perhaps she wasn't real Like A Poem In A Box #vss365 📦

🦆 Edinburgh journal of natural history and of the physical sciences. Edinburgh [etc.]: Published for the proprietor [etc.], 1835-1840. [Source]

Capitalism makes us powerless and pushes the idea that consumerism is powerful. This is not a new or original thought. But it means the only actual power we have is to NOT consume. So Disney already being $4bn down following the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel feels really fucking great tbh.

Here’s my #Sunday #BlueSkypost #Haiku #Sanryu #Fall #Autumn #poetry #HaikuPrompt #poems #Rose #bloomscrolling #photography O my wilted Rose - once in scented bloom, now just fading memories

I wonder if the Christian nationalists forgot that Jesus was from Palestine. #FreePalistine

Our new policy, passed today, will make rail travel more affordable, reliable, and accessible - connecting communities, boosting jobs, and building a fairer, more sustainable transport network. Read more from @PaulKohlerSW19.bsky.social www.libdems.org.uk/news/article...

How I remember them as a child.

Oak trees and gall wasps have a marvellous secret symbiotic relationship | Mick Channon @sussexbylines.co.uk

⚡️ Ukraine has a massive new sea drone, could threaten Russia's Crimean Bridge. Although the platform had been known for about a year, it was only now publicly displayed.

Just remembered this piece which might just fit #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets Thank you, @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Hello @thebrokenspine.co.uk and host @alanparrywriter.co.uk for this week's #PoemsAbout. Are #SilentPlanets just so, or do they know more than we do.

Hullo @alanparrywriter.co.uk Thanks for being Mission Control for #poemsabout #silentplanet #poetry

It really do be like that www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here’s a #Sanryu for the #prompt #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #Senryu #Haiku #Micropoetry #BlueSkyPoets #Poetry #Vss365 Earth’s babel of noise observed with disdainful mien by a silent Mars

I’ve had a lovely, creative afternoon catching up on the Form and Ideas workshop led by @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and hosted by the Women Poets’ Network. I ended up using Hans Christian Andersen to write a golden shovel, as you do.

LIVE! It’s the #Raunds garage sale. Piano stool, trivet, chess set and Playstation already gone. And added Great Spotted Woodpecker to 2025 garden list.

Walking along small country lane with my granddaughter who found this bit from the end of a fox’s brush. Hope the rest of the fox is okay

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Meanwhile, what's Zuckerberg up to? Advertising 13-year-old schoolgirls to 37-year-old men on Instagram. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Reuters reports that a cyberattack targeting a service provider for check-in&boarding systems has disrupted operations at several major European airports including London's Heathrow,Brussels&Berlin,causing flight delays& cancellations Friends,anyone in these airports right now?What's the situation?

Okay, I figured out what I want to say Stan Lee, whatever his faults, was the victim of horrific abuse and exploitation in his final years His name and likeness, as brands, have long ago been hijacked by unsavory people (and I don't mean Marvel/Disney) This is posthumous elder abuse, basically