Eftersom jag gick hemifrån 7:15 igår morse och kom hem först 12 timmar senare tändes första adventsljuset till dagens frukost istället.

Guten Morgen Bluesky 🕊 Ich wünsche euch einen angenehmen Start in die neue Woche. Kommt gut durch den Montag 🍀🙏🫂🫶🏻

Guten Morgen! Michele Marieschi, * 1.12.1710 in Venedig; † 18.1.1744, war ein italienischer Maler von Landschaften und Veduten 🎨 🇮🇹 Klassische Ruinen an einem Hafen 🖼️ Ulster Museum, Belfast 🏛️ #OTD #ArtHistory #LandscapePainting #BskyArt #History #Museum

Siblyback Lake, Near #Liskeard #Cornwall No wildflowers, but the gorse was flowering profusely earlier in the week. #WildflowerHour

Glad 1a Advent 🕯️ #advent #ankomst

Why are two self-serving US businessmen (Witkoff and Kushner) going to see Putin in Moscow? Do they represent the US? No! Are they suspect of being utterly corrupt? Yes! This says all you want to know about Donald Trump. Should we ignore them? Yes!

Wishing you all a happy First Sunday in Advent 🕯

First Sunday of Advent this carol opens that door for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8z2...

The Ukrainian front is not about to collapse. But the Russians want you to think that understandingwar.org/research/rus...

Det är advent, det är advent!

This is a happy day in the sign of hope and our church is usually filled to the last seat. We celebrate high mass and sing the lovely Advent hymns, both the old as well as the newer ones. Glad Första Advent to you Esther!

Good morning Sunday, friends at Bluesky. Now it's really 1. Advent and I wonder how you from so many parts of the world celebrate it? If it's something you celebrate at all? As the immigrant that I am, I celebrated Danish Christmas this day and Swedish Christmas then

It comes mainly from a small mountain lake in Norway and has during its journey transformed into this mighty river. Photo from yesterday. Wishing everyone a happy First Sunday of Advent weekend!

'Cloud study, sunset.' (1821) John Constable’s interest in the changing appearance of the sky dates to hus early as a student. At twenty-two, newly enrolled at the Royal Academy, he described the London sky as being how ‘a pearl must look through a burnt glass.'

Responsible journalism in the UK wouldn’t be scaremongering about immigration or Labour budgets. It would scrutinize these issues but give far more attention to the far more serious problem of the far right threat to democracy. Which the party currently leading in the polls is fully signed up to.

It comes mainly from a small mountain lake in Norway and has during its journey transformed into this mighty river. Photo from yesterday. Wishing everyone a happy First Sunday of Advent weekend!

"We’re seeing that the Bible is not about some remote time. It echoes all the time, and it really is making people understand where the lines are and which side Jesus is on. We’ve seen a lot of people wake up to that." #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

'River at Sandvikselven,' (c1890) is a good example of Harriet Backer's summer landscapes, which show the glory of the Norwegian countryside. At this point in her career, Harriet had established herself as a successful artist and had opened a painting school in Kristiania (Oslo)

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Close up, St Nicholas, Bratton Seymour, Somerset, hier. 🤓

A former Catholic honor student, Nick Fuentes is now one of America’s leading white nationalists — openly calling for a Christian theocracy, women’s subjugation, and “white demographic survival.” His rise exposes how extremist platforms turn hate into influence and profit. Read more:

Would this have happened to a white resident? Asking for the First Nations.

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Liking this government a bit more when it doesn’t talk about immigration. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As an observer in the UK, this is terrifying.

A very interesting, intelligent & wide-ranging interview!🤔

If fairness really is a British value, we cannot leave families who’ve built their lives here facing the rug pulled from under them. #FairMigration #HumanRights

♥️ A very personal message from filmmaker Howard Burton related to the lasting emotional impact of Raphael's art through the creation of his recent film, Raphael: A Portrait. You can watch Parts 1-5 of the film here: ideasroadshow.substack.com. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #frescofriday 🏺 #art

Passend zum Abend : Lotte Laserstein: Abend über Potsdam Die Spannung am Vorabend des Faschismus - gehen oder bleiben - ist fast mit Händen zu greifen. 

Had an extremely blowy walk this morning to see the first Stolperstein in Scotland - in memory of Jane Haining - in Edinburgh, at St Stephen’s, Stockbridge.

Patti Smith The Roches Dessa Väsen Dreamers' Circus

I sent my Arizona senators @captmarkkelly.bsky.social and @gallego.senate.gov an email letter last night in response to the shooting of the two National Guard soldiers in DC. I thought I might post it too. Maybe I'll start doing that with the letters I write them. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Moose are ACAB

#Scape #CityScape #UrbanGaze #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #EastCoastKin #photography Captured this week, across Westminster Bridge looking towards Big Ben and the Parliamentary Estate Urban, Iconic & Epic

Det handlar inte ”om vad som är bäst för Sverige. Eller för människorna.” @mymlan.bsky.social får än en gång till det.

Fierce looking fellow showing off his #strength for @alan678.bsky.social alternative theme for #birdoftheday. 🪶 Birders i need your help - What kind of bird is he?

100s of thousands fewer people paying to come to Britain to study bringing in much needed foreign currency. Every student who arrives is worth more than selling a luxury car abroad. Their loss is a disaster for the economy caused by obsessive fear of immigrants. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ooh a Dante illustration I didn’t know already! Delightful!

Why do they want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)? The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?

Draußen: Grau, 4 Grad, Regen erwartet. Sonne in euren Freitag und einen schönen guten Morgen ☕️🙋‍♀️🍀

A new ‘national forest’ is promised by government for the Oxford-Cambridge corridor, with a new ‘forest city’ to be located east of Cambridge. Millions of trees are to be planted as part of a £1bn commitment to support the forestry sector, enhancing nature and driving economic growth.

In his book, Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears, Thomas Dixon described the British around the time of Shakespeare as being known for “sweatiness, drunkenness, meat-eating, anger, violence, simple-mindedness and melancholia”.

Not just the end of an era, but actually quite devastating news for anyone interested in the UK. Few people (including native Brits) have the capacity to explain the UK like AD. She has an eye for the problems - but always with deep sympathy, profound knowledge and a desire to truly understand.

We are going to have to remove the Nazi ticks ourselves. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." ― Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887. French classical cellist Gautier Capuçon performs Adagio, ma non troppo, Antonín Dvořák, Cello Concerto in B minor, composed in 1894. 🙏🏼🌎🕊️ #Thanksgiving

"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents. They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..." abc7.com/post/ontario...

"The Dales have the most, and the most impressive, in the county, but there are many beautiful ones all across the Ridings, on the Moors, at the coast and in the Pennine valleys."

#BirdOfTheDay #HeadShots #CommonOstrich #nature #photography #birdphotography #wildlife #outdoorphotography #naturephotography #birdwatching #birds

And now for something completely different.. Akseli Gallen-Kallela ( 1865 - 1931 ) Finnish painter "First Snow" oil on canvas 54 x 54 cm, c.1914

Här har du en spellista för advent (inte jul) vad tycks saknas något? open.spotify.com/playlist/3hW...