"A Luxury We Must Afford" (a cento) #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #cento @eunoiareview.bsky.social @ann-ang.bsky.social @nabilahsaid.bsky.social

Acrylics on paper. #painting #art #acrylics

Around the garden, Churchill, Oxfordshire: violet pond iris (iris versicolor); white paeony; fig tree, with new leaves and swelling fruit. #photo #photography #botany #garden #flower #churchill #oxfordshire

This was their goal all along. So obvious, but to see it happen with little objection from the International Community, specifically most western governments, is beyond appalling. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"When a drummer is present" (Tongo Eisen-Martin) From a sequence, "Pocket Lights", each starting with the first line of a poem from a City Lights "Pocket Poets" volume. #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @citylightsbooks.bsky.social

"Dragonet" (acrylics on paper). #painting #art #acrylics

Around the garden, Churchill, Oxfordshire: Pittosporum tobira; paeony; smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'). #photo #photography #botany #garden #flower #churchill #oxfordshire

🤘😜🤘 - Beat It! I rocked DISCOVR: 1/36

Politics isn't working. It's time to call an end to the broken culture in Westminster, and to have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes

Enjoyed The Spring Feast then this is for you and your writing. Contribute 3 of your unpublished writings to The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Poetry And Artwork. Here are the contribution details: open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

On this day in 2024, the Israeli military burned Palestinians alive in a displacement camp in Tel al-Sultan, Rafah, during the weekend of Lag B’Omer — a holiday when Jews traditionally gather around bonfires.

"Tales of the Unexpectorated". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

"Teratomachy" (acrylics on black paper). #painting #art #acrylics

Around the garden, Churchill, Oxfordshire: Iris hollandica; rhododendron in bud; rhododendron beginning to open; Calendula officinalis. #photo #photography #botany #garden #flower #churchill #oxfordshire

The land grab in Lebanon continues. As it does in the West Bank. There is no meaningful ceasefire. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Left Behind in the Wash(a meditation on the docks of Boston, Lincolnshire)' by Peter . J King! @rock-rex.bsky.social You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry

Some Steve Miller music for your Tuesday RS youtu.be/yNoV5XLumfA?...

Γιάννης Ρίτσος - «Το αγόρι και η πόρτα» Yiannis Ritsos - "The Boy and the Gate" (translated by me) #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #greekpoem #greekpoetry #translatedpoetry #ritsos

Acrylics on paper. #painting #art #acrylics

Around the garden, Churchill, Oxfordshire: oriental poppy (Papaver orientale) - one fully out and one struggling to take its hat off, white bladder campion (Silene vulgaris), and gladdon iris (Iris foetidissima). #photo #photography #botany #garden #flower #churchill #oxfordshire

The Bonzo Dog Band - "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe" (Innes/Stanshall) #song #comicsong #thebonzos

#Israel murdered 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fadi al-Meghari today at the Maghazi refugee camp in #Israeli occupied #Palestine 's #Gaza. Fadi's post on IG from March 13th: www.instagram.com/p/DVzkwQVjCj... (1/x)

Pietro Antonio Locatelli - Flute sonata No 2, Op. 2 La Fontegara: María Diez-Canedo: flute Gabriela Villa Walls: bass viol Eloy Cruz: baroque guitar, theorbo Eunice Padilla: harpsichord #baroquemusic #sonata #flute #flutesonata #lafontegara #locatelli

Iran: The Curious Absence of Nuclear Weapons

"These stone..." #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #ancientheartmagazine

Acrylics on paper. #painting #art #acrylics

Around the garden, Churchill, Oxfordshire: ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare); brown-lipped snail (Cepaea nemoralis); paeony bud bursting to open (with obligatory ants); Clematis montana seed head. #photo #photography #garden #botany#malacology #paeony #snail #clematis #churchill #oxfordshire

"Prayer". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #prayer #promptcombo @dragonslayerma.bsky.social

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Shocking and detailed article on international arms supplies to Israel. Note that the figures only cover the small part of the arms trade that can be identified through customs data, not including e.g. aircraft and their components. aje.news/2f90pn

"The Titan and the Amazon". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

"Palimpsest". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #palimpsest #concretepoem #concretepoetry

"Deco" (acrylics on paper). #painting #art #acrylics

Around the garden, Churchill, Oxfordshire: i.-ii. paeony; iii. oleander seedhead; iv. black bryony. #photo #photography #garden #botany #paeony #oleander #bryony #churchill #oxfordshire

Finally got around to watching this and literally laughed the entire time

An old Stephen Foster song for your Saturday RS youtu.be/WCm0k6r0NXA?...

"Night Train". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Acrylics on paper. #painting #art #acrylics

In the garden today, Churchill, Oxfordshire: i. Iris siberica; ii. Sisyrinchium striatum; iii. Digitalis purpurea; iv. Lonicera nitida #photo #photography #garden #botany #flowers #foliage #churchill #oxfordshire

This. 👇

Had great fun writing this. How a spiritualist vegetarian who believed he had found the Holy Grail convinced Churchill and 5 million Brits to pray for peace and freedom during WWII. gethistory.co.uk/articles/20t...

"Vespasian (9-79)" From "Last Words", a sequence of poems each starting with the last words (sometimes apocryphal) of a well-known person. #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #lastwords #vespasian

Acrylics on paper. #painting #art #acrylics

Selby Abbey, Selby, N. Yorkshire. #photo #photography #selby #abbey #yorkshire

The Israeli Knesset is considering a bill that would place Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank under direct Israeli civil law, stripping them of their protected status under international law. Experts say it's annexation in all but name. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/isra... #Palestine #Israel

While forest furs the earth, a subterrain shrugged from shrubbery and trees mulches over land’s rock-bones, our lungs unpleat and iron streams our veins. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Out now from Longbarrow Press longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

"The village we were operating in belonged to wealthy people, full of villas with pools, luxury cars, jewelry. Almost every house had valuables... Once we realized that the area was clear, the real mission would begin – to find valuable stuff." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...