Good morning

Quiet Morning, 2004, watercolour by Ken Ferguson, Borders-based Scottish artist.

I could work or I could watch this hawk hunt in the forest

If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive. —Paulo Coelho #quote

Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH

🦇 There are things you can do all year round to help bats, even in winter when they are hibernating: buff.ly/2HkKSuq . The lovely image below is from our 'Stars of the Night' leaflet which you can download for free here: buff.ly/40yR5f3

‘canal trip our minds slowing to barge time’ #monoku #senryusunday #wintersolstice

#dailyhaikuprompt #BlueskyPoetry #gendaihaiku #vss365 #monoku #modernhaiku #abstractart #surrealism #nature #BlueSkyRelay #aphorism #NaHaiWriMo #micropoetry #WritingPrompts #haikufeels #blueskypoets #poetry #writingcommunity #dream #forest #bos #oak #antwerpen #wine #rooster #pain #smallpoemsunday

Dust of Snow The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree. Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. -Robert Frost #SmallPoemSunday #poetry

In today’s New to Haiku at @haikufound.bsky.social, @kj-munro.bsky.social talks about the joys of #haiku collaboration. 💕 #poetry #community

Last minute #sciart gifts? I got you. Express shipping available, and I have my sneakers on to sprint to the post office artologica.etsy.com

You came to me in my dreams last night and our conflict was forgotten. There were no harsh words to push us apart, no hurt feelings, no lost days wondering how you are, hoping you are okay. at peace now another dimension fractured friendship - Julie Bloss Kelsey, unpublished #smallpoemSunday

#smallpoemSunday #TodaysPoem by Nicole Brossard trans by Erin Mouré and Robert Majzels in Installation (2000)

Wound by Larry Levis #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

dream of honey Ross Gay, “Ode to the Beekeeper” #smallpoemsunday

happy #smallpoemsunday from William Bronk

A small poem by Dorothea Grossman for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

🧶: #smallpoemsunday (cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social)

drawn into your eyes : a binary black hole - Julie Bloss Kelsey, Star*Line 48.4 (Fall 2025) #smallpoemSunday #scifaiku #haiku #monoku

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) here’s a four-word wonder by Jack Sharpless~

#SmallPoemSunday #poetry @tomsnarsky.bsky.social I love this small poem by Jim Moore.

Transmission Reflection Refraction and Raindrops: Yesterday I took two macro shots of the headlight of my wee car and this is them I do this kind of thing to scratch my visual itch. Beige-world is not enough for #ArtAdventCalendar day20

There are still a few spaces left on my botanical (10) & bird illustration (24) & mental health w'shops in January I'll teach you how to draw🌿🌱 or🐦‍⬛👇 AND how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health I'm an molecular cell biologist & illustrator: workshops.emmamitchell.uk

Christmas cactus Santa smells of tequila

night before Christmas Santa frightened by a mouse #wss366

Another problem with CO2? It messes with plants. Some grow faster; others don’t. But for our food crops, it makes them have lower nutrient levels — and just more empty calories. Elevated CO2 is plant *junk food*. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We have 526 scientists signed up for spring semester. We try to get that to about 1000 scientists before unleashing the teachers on the database. Wanna connect a class of kids with science this spring? Sign up!

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Day nineteen of #ArtAdventCalendar. Tonight, I’m sharing a collection of raven stones.

#ArtAdventCalendar #Watercolor

Mt. Diablo View in Autumn 🍂 #ArtAdventCalendar day 19 My watercolor painting is inspired by nature walks in Pleasant Hill. Love our view of Mt. Diablo. #art #watercolor #BayArea #California #nature #Scape This 20x24 painting is coming soon to Moraga Art Gallery. 🎨 moragaartgallery.com

#ArtAdventCalendar #Day19 The #Straat museum in #Amsterdam

A mountain landscape from near Crystal Lake Reservoir in Colorado. Based on a photo taken by a good friend. ☺️ #ArtAdventCalendar #landscape #digitalArt #painting #alpine #mountains

Day 19 of #ArtAdventCalendar is this like embroidery thing I made.. I was trying to make a forest creek from above. I don't think it was successful as such, but I like the textures

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I get the sense from my students that A.I. feels like the sour icing on an already bitter cake,” Colleen Kinder writes. “Adults need to step up and set parameters so that it’s not on these kids to self-regulate.”

i wanna see more poetry/writing that employs dialect, vernacular, ways of speaking that show the diversity and creativity of the way English is used as well as people's Heritage Languages, turns of phrases, idioms, colloquialisms—all of it. As I get older, i no longer buy into 'King's English.'

California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/c... “.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

When I’m on here yap yap yapping about merch I’m selling or needing monthly donors or whatever, it’s so I can run events like this for projects like the native plant project, which will distribute 10,000 packets of native plant seeds across the city this winter/spring. The system is working 😎

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.” ― James Baldwin Pic of the day #photography

What a milquetoast headline. "Republicans who control all branches of government choose to allow healthcare premiums to skyrocket for tens of millions of Americans" ftfy

LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly

This is crying out for googly eyes

🦇 Do you love bats and enjoy writing? Join us in celebrating bats in creative writing through our Bat's Laureate Competition! There are two categories: one for adults/young people over 12 and one for our younger supporters, under 12 years old. More info: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/con...

The Clavel Group is recruiting a new postdoc for two possible projects dealing with plant-virus interactions and selective autophagy! More (wordy) details below ⬇️🌱🦠

ALL science is under attack by this regime. This will hurt ALL of us.

As 2025 winds down, the Trump Administration continues to dismantle the science infrastructure in the US and, especially the backbone of US-based climate research, which is globally recognized. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

My dad liked my ridiculous pink shark shirt so I got him one

Sometimes I don't want to sell a book I've bought for the shop 🤫 So, just clarifying to the person who was confused by a scrap of paper I'd left on the counter: the price written on it was not in "CDN", but "CDH". As in, the imaginary price for which you could pry the book from my Cold Dead Hands.

Me while decorating the tree: I should put the Christmas ornaments a couple feet off the ground so the cats can’t get them. The cat: