Okay, the airport food was a mistake.

Morning! Is anyone else getting lots of apparently bots following them? Pic of cute animal and nonsense handle with no posts?

Some more #bloomscrolling from #norway

💔🙏AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER👑🗡️ Banbukyō-ji (萬無教寺 aka Manmukyō-ji) sits on the Philosopher's Path beneath Zenki-san (善気山). Thanks to its links to Hōnen, it is better known as Hōnen-in, and because of the many camellia that grow here it's nicknamed Tsubaki-no-dera (椿の寺).

Is this the best song ever written? Mayhap

And yesterday afternoon was sunny #Grimstad #norway

I really loved Hunger when I read it, and if I thought about it very much I would have said Knut Hamsun had bad politics. But I was not prepared for HOW bad. “Gave my Nobel Prize for Literature to Goebbels” level of bad omg #booksky 💙📚

Children’s Parade. #grimstad #norway

500 year old oak tree. Gamle, men ikke døde. #norway #grimstad

Still my favorite joke in all of 30 Rock

Happy Constitution Day to Norway!

Anne Tyler is one of those writers many recommend, but I’ve had little interest in reading. I read the Accidental Tourist along with everyone else years ago and it left almost no impression. But I had A Slipping-Down Life for some reason and this is a long bookish weekend, so…. 🧵 #booksky 💙📚

Spring flowers in the rain. #norway #bloomscrolling

When I need a break, I tend to dig into the YA fantasy of A.L. Knorr. They aren’t going to win big awards, but they are often just the perfect combination for me for a vacation read. Currently working my way through her Earth magic trilogy. #booksky 💙📚

Rainy Norway Spring. Walk around all morning and read all afternoon. #arendal

Artuš Scheiner (1863-1938), ''The Disobedient Kids'' by Bozena Nemcová, 1921

For something completely different, I finished The Grandmother by Božena Němcová. I picked this up in Prague as a classic of Czech literature. #booksky 💙📚 I enjoyed it. When I was a kid my Grandmother had a room full of 19th century books I used to curl up and read. This book would have fit.

May 15, 1964: Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Cousin Joe Pleasant, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Muddy Waters, Otis Span, Ransom Knowling, Willie Smith • Hunter College Assembly Hall, New York, New York

Arrived in Grimstad, met my friends. Going to sleep early.

Lazy snapdragons resting on a wall 😁🌼😍 #flower

Got randomly upgraded to business. Short flight. But still.

Beleggers gokken massaal op stijgende voedselprijzen. Volgens een berekening van FTM speculeerden ze dit jaar in twee maanden tijd voor 8,6 miljard dollar op het duurder worden van mais, soja en tarwe. Maar hoe onethisch is het eigenlijk om voedsel als beleggingsobject te zien?

Reposting this because I still need $202 at the moment. I'm physically disabled, and I'm afraid I need the help. #MutualAid :-(

Fairywren of the Day: Red-backed Fairywren 📷 Ian Davies

I finished a collection of Philip K. Dick short stories packaged as a “best of” and I’m struck again by what a brilliant writer he was. Even in these early stories when he needed to bow to the formulas of his time, his raw talent shines through. 💙📚 #booksky

#Delft #Delftholland

I don’t want to get out of bed.

Women can be honest these days without being endangered physically or financially. The desire for children is NOT universal. And that's cool. Believe me, being parented by someone who didn't want you isn't good or healthy.

Bumped into everyone's favorite neighbor last night. Just hanging out and watching the world go by.

I’m sleeping with a winter coat on my bed because cat the elder likes to nest in it. But she’s not spoiled.

This lotion of a wren in the travellers joy is off to its new home in the Wirral . It’s always hard to part with a wren so I will have to paint a new one.

TV on the Radiohead

Far right violence against asylum seekers in the Netherlands. After a fire was started near the municipal building that currently housed 15 asylum seekers, far right protesters attacked police and obstructed firefighters. Fortunately, eventually the fire was put out. nos.nl/artikel/2614...

Most of the criticisms of Bluesky flying around out there don’t sound familiar to me at all. But I do wish it was growing more, because the conversation here is excellent and important, and I’d hope for it to be educating, influencing and engaging with as many people as possible. @bsky.app

While only 38% of Americans say they are excited about AI, optimism levels reach as high as 84% in China and 80% in Indonesia, signaling a massive regional divide in how the world views the future of tech https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-optimism-asia/?utm_campaign=row-social

RE Eminem

Tiny, beautiful triumph of nature 😍 green hairstreak #butterfly 🦋💛

dunlap strawberries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912

Squirrel friend in a coma (just cheating a little)

Name a song with girl in the title but trplacecwith squirrel: American Squirrel

Consensus from talking to ID colleagues today, all fielding “how worried about Hantavirus should we be???” questions: “Far less worried than you should be about all the vaccine-preventable illnesses that are now more common with falling vaccination rates” Also: “notice how we mask seeing pts?”🤷🏻‍♂️🙄

The flowers were from a young person I mentor. I’m the age his mother would have been if she had lived. His father had suggested he recognise me for Mother’s Day.

Happy Sunday night.

Somebody anonymously sent me flowers. I thought they were more dead dog flowers. But actually, they are hope you survive Mother’s Day flowers. Those people who know me well know that one of the worst days for me has always been Mother’s Day. The people who know the history are not so many.

A few pics carrying the over the top-ness of the main exhibition. Minor Notes My Aunt Fanny. #biennale

The 61st edition of the international art event launched on Saturday in an atmosphere marked by geopolitical strife. n.pr/4nq5SSI

the person has Been Through It and I love that they’re weaponizing their trauma for good

I think you’ll find that video shows him tripping and falling and a nice man helping him up again.