RIP to the very fine actor John Woodvine.

🎼The Party’s over It’s time to call it a day 🎵🎶

'Finding Peace' by Deborah Grice, contemporary award winning landscape painter #WomensArt

Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet for his wife Lucille. #vintagephoto #louisarmstrong #egypt #sphinx

Musk is a serious threat. This action is more than just the usual wind-up, it's another sinister chipping away of objective truth. I hate this ket-addled c*nt.

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Outstanding photography here! From the Swiss Alps to a solar eclipse: the 2025 Bird Photographer of the Year – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Today is the 89th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. On 4 October 1936, ordinary east end Londoners stood up to Mosley and his British Union of Fascists, refusing to let them march through east London. Honour their legacy. Don't ignore fascists. Stop them. They shall not pass. No pasarán.

Morning Bluesky.

Painting by Peter Witt ‘Wave in Backlight II’ 2024 Oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm.

Dame Patricia Routledge R.I.P

#254 #Maldives #Hulhumale #visitMaldives #sunrise #sun #goldenhour #beach #nature #sea #lagoon #reef #sky #clouds #island #photography #guesthouse #travel #PhotographersOfBlueSky #LumixS9 #LUMIX

#Meyers #Parrot #photography #Francistown #Botswana #Africa #BirdsSeenIn2025

Here’s another poem for National Poetry Day. This one is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.

Today, a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone was told it must repay the government £122m for breaching a contract for medical gowns during the Covid pandemic. Read our special report online on some of the other fat cats who made a mint during covid. ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/spe...

Linocut by Jennifer Jokhoo ‘Solitude’ Size 50 x 35 cm. jenniferjokhoo.com

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security. It’s time for a public inquiry.

Once again Chris Mason on BBC News talking about the rise of Reform and doubts about Starmer’s leadership. He’s a tittle tattle gossip presenter

When I heard this announced on the radio, all I could think was how they will expect immigrants to be FAR better citizens than an awful lot of the people that don't want them here at all.

Is there anyone who still expects Donald Trump to hold free and fair elections?

Doing Putin’s bidding? That is Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain. We need a new inquiry by the Intelligence and Security Committee into Reform and Farage's links to Russia.

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

'Gothic Grandeur Endures' Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, perched dramatically on a headland overlooking the North Sea. Stunning #Architecture Sparty 🙏🏼 #EastCoastKin #Photography #BlueSkyMonday #Travel #ColorADay #PinkMon #Art #PhotographersofBluesky #ArtYear #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueskyArt

I had a Ruby-throated Hummingbird buzzing around me this afternoon. He was so close that I could feel the air rustling from the movement of his wings. 🦉🌿🦅#Birds #Nature

What a difference a dahlia makes.

Sunday vibes 🤍 #photography #nature #wander

Air traffic 😍 #Hamerkop #photography #nature #birdwatching #Francistown #Botswana #Africa #BirdsSeenIn2025

Journalist Alicia Fitzgerald misrepresents Freedom of Movement that we had with the EU Suggesting that young people under 30 could only go to EU countries for up to 2 years The other journalist sitting next to her nods her head in agreement And the host of the program doesn't correct her

They are so afraid of this they won’t seat a newly elected Congresswoman from AZ to keep it from happening.

Jimmy Kimmel will appear as a guest on next Tuesday's episode of Late Show with Stephen Colbert The same night, Colbert will appear on Kimmel’s show, which will be filmed from Brooklyn. (Photo-Getty Images) #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

The Big Lie just keeps getting bigger.

Our latest red rose from our garden this morning

goddamn this is good

Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID. That’s not the kind of country we want to be. Liberal Democrats have always stood up to defend civil liberties against government overreach. We will fight tooth and nail to oppose these plans too.

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It must have been amazing to have been there! youtu.be/TwC0Db7oerM?...

Danny Thompson R.I.P. 1939-2025

Lisa Nandy should be all over BBC News and their Reform fan boy Chris Mason. Mason is a partisan hack.

"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life of the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” ~ Edward Hopper ~ American Painter and Graphic Artist (1882~1967) "Together and alone in our isolation and loneliness." Room in New York, oil on canvas, 1932,

Leave Some For Later.

So well camouflaged #lizard that I had trouble finding it when cropping the original photograph 😃 #photography #nature #garden #Francistown

Painting by Irina Cumberland 'Green Depth' Oil on linen. Size 30 x 24cm.

Trump's explosion of rage last night over ABC's reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel shouldn't be greeted with fear and weepy hand-wringing. It should be seen as a sign that his authoritarian designs are running into very deep resistance and that he's weak and losing on many fronts.

Fred Brown recreated Banksy’s removed mural on Scarborough beach. Amazing.

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