Splitters. From Megan Kenyon at the New Statesman:

3/3...final sample of "new for year" #moths trapped the last 3 nights in my #Norwich garden. Freyer's Pug, Ingrailed Clay, Poplar Kitten & Peppered Moth. #teammoth #mothsmatter #norfolkmoths #bugsky

Gustave Caillebotte, Boats on the Seine at Argenteuil, 1892 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Lord Eight Earthquake, Zapotec urn was found in the House of the Altars of ​​Atzompa, Oaxaca. A young individual seated with his legs crossed and his hands on his knees. His lizard headdress incorporates elements representing a butterfly, which would indicate a metamorphic nature for the figure.

Canada is ordering 60 Swedish‑made Gripen fighter jets, slashing its planned purchase of American‑made F‑35s from 88 down to just 30. Prime Minister Carney is following through on his pledge to reduce the flow of defense spending to the United States. #cdnpoli

A little devil by the snicket to Coffee Yard, Stonegate, York. The red devil carving at 33 Stonegate, at the upper left, from the early 18th century. Thought to be a sign for a printer & publisher in Coffee Yard c1719. The 17th century building has a later rear. #ArchitecturalIllustration #ArtShare

Silver Y 🩶 #NatureWithin

A Meadow Brown Butterfly resting amongst the grasses.

Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI theintercept.com/2026/06/01/a...

The UK could make airspace above pieces of critical energy infrastructure no-fly zones amid warnings that hostile drones have the ability to cause mass blackouts news.sky.com/story/growin...

📷minolta CLE/m-rokkor 40mm f2 🎞️ferrania p33/bellini rdl 📍westminster #filmphotography #streetphotography #b&w

Today's #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #DappledLight. I made so many images of this beautiful black crowned night heron on a beautiful morning in our local wildlife refuge. Here's a soft one. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #ECK #birds #Nikon #Z8 #herons #sunrise

NEW When #Neanderthal remains were discovered in Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan, the fragile and crushed condition of the bones prevented detailed analysis. A year of conservation work helps explore the complex mortuary practices observed at the site. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Well this explains a lot about Ofcom's approach to GB News in recent years www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

The Green Party is the only party fighting back against Labour’s plan to give all our data away to extreme rightwing company Palantir.

Peter Thiel is now in Argentina. The man who controls the puppet strings of JD Vance... ...our next President,as soon as our current 80-year-old potato is relieved of his duties Puppetmaster runs to where the Nazi's ran... ... COINCIDENCE?

In Aachen, voices rose in solidarity with Ukraine, reminding the world that Russia's invasion continues to devastate lives and communities. Public support matters because justice, sovereignty and freedom depend on citizens refusing to normalize aggression and war.

Trump to Netanyahu: “You’re fucking crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.” Trump, of course, would be in prison if the spinless GOP members of Congress were not too fearful to do their duty.

Just love these stories - partly, I know, because I can't help but think of Lance and Andy et al. #Detectorists

Help Mo buy food to keep the shelter cats fed chuffed.org/project/1841...

calm and cool!

What is up when it’s down, and down when it’s up? A Lapwing crest! This one at Buston Links, Alnmouth. #nebirding

A consultant medical oncologist has described the results of a trial drug used in the treatment of pancreatic cancer as "really astounding". The trial found that the pill had been shown to double, on average, the survival time for some patients compared with chemotherapy.

Pseudoterpna pruinata 02/06/2024 E Bosnia-Herzegovina

A bunch of US Far Right influencers, including Candace Owens, are currently in Russia at Putin’s expense. They’re all saying what a wonderful Christian country Russia is and how it should be a friend and ally.

A Bordered Straw from a poor trap this morning. Not the smaller eastern variety I had hoped for. Overnight rain meant the trap was in the porch. Selsey VC13 #moths #mothing #teammoth

"The fact that the party which is leading in all of the national opinion polls is now using the sort of rhetoric previously reserved for the very fringes of the far-right is deeply alarming – as is the fact that this rhetoric is being publicised and normalised by Reform’s media supporters."

Kawase Hasui, Benkei Bridge, Akasaka, woodblock print, 1931 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

@four-torpedoes.bsky.social these are just pieces of gravel from the driveway I soaked in vinegar. It ate away what I think is limestone and left the fossily bits 😁 *VINEGAR. It had to have been the vinegar. Neither borax nor TSP as I have learned those are bases. Thanks Bluesky 🦋

Banstead, Surrey: even us inland moth-ers are getting in on a bit of the migrant action - this Striped Hawk-moth is only my second here (previous 1 Sept 2006) #TeamMoth

world peace now hinges on getting ANYONE from the USA besides Trump to call Netanyahu, telling him to at least hold the current front in Lebanon, then giving Trump a paper for him to sign. but we can't even do THAT

This is a limestone slab held at the British Museum. It is another of these Pre-Sargonic "Ancient Kudurrus" that I mentioned yesterday. I like sharing this one more for the visual than anything else. The cuneiform (very old Akkadian and not Sumerian in this case) is very legible. 1/3 #ancient #law

ENISA gets Mythos access www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The people who wanted you to hate immigrants, Muslims and trans people will never be ‘happy’. There’ll never be a point where they say ‘great! The country is a perfect amount of racist and transphobic!’ They always require a scapegoat. It’s disabled ppl and Sikhs today. Tomorrow it could be you.

Riots are the voice of the unheard.

Refukker Tice will surely be furious when he finds out that his partner fled the UK for Dubai to avoid private school VAT, when the family could easily afford to pay.

THE PRISONER debuted on CBS #OTD in 1968 Patrick McGoohan created + starred as a secret agent held in a mysterious village. "Subtle wit serves as counterpoint to the atmosphere of mystery, uneasiness and tension" TV Guide wrote of this avant-garde action series, originally broadcast on ITV. #TVSky

“White lives matter too” is a straw man so vertiginous that not only can it be seen from space, its head is up there knocking satellites from orbit. I have never seen anyone suggest that white lives don’t matter. I wish I could say the same about black lives.

They had no idea and didn’t bother to determine what all these scientists they fired were doing www.rawstory.com/doge-texas/

Farage has made an emergency outpouring of vitriol from a field that is not in Clacton.

Israel seems to be ignoring Trump’s feeble attempt to manufacture a ceasefire in Lebanon to keep negotiations with Iran on track. The IDF has just issued an urgent evacuation warning for residents in Nabatieh.

📷minolta CLE/m-rokkor 40mm f2 🎞️ferrania p33/bellini rdl 📍westminster this photo is like all of my compositional crutches in one frame and i'm ok with that #filmphotography #streetphotography #b&w

Strategically, you wouldn't need an entire truck full of cement to block the air vents, just a small tactical force at the entrance when they all come streaming out, gasping for air... #ThinkLikeAViking

🚨 Death toll in Dnipro rises to 12, - OVA Rescuers pull woman's body from rubble of destroyed house.

Sgt. Peppers was released 59 years ago today youtu.be/6hMy0ByBiKM?...

Young owl jumping up and down on the letter rejecting the first poems it sent to a magazine.

Left: Nigel Farage using the murder of Henry Nowak to sew division in society, "rights of white people matter less than ethnic minorities" Right: Henry Nowak's father, "We do not want his death used to create further division hated or tension"