Listen..

@teamidris.bsky.social he should meet the gun-slinging lady

I’ve tested my slow gin and am now going for a wobbly walk round the block 👍

A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca) on rose coloured rock. Northwest Territorie, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

These are superb! I haven’t found any locally this autumn, delighted to see these 💕

Gasp!

Beautiful examples for sale

The official CWS 2025 year in collage tea towel/wall hanging. 100% organic cotton. Shipping 1st Class now! 👇👇👇 coldwarsteve.bigcartel.com/product/unti...

No matter how stressed you are, if you press play on this for even one minute, you will feel the tension drop from your shoulders. Utter magic. Chopin’s 2nd piano concerto. youtu.be/nhZm-vr4QZo?...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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The Government wasted £2.65 billion on failed or corrupt Covid emergency contracts in 2020-21. That's the same loss in one year as would occur in 50 - yes fifty - years of disability benefit fraud. If you want to cut fraud losses, disability benefits are the last place to go.

My entire life in one cartoon, you might ask? This little masterwork, from the latest Private Eye.

@soundcube.bsky.social Like it’s come adrift!?

Give him a home someone please :)

Random Fact The quoted post is a photo of dogs not wolves. You can tell subjectively due to the emphatic facial expression (raised inner eyebrow) but objectively due to muzzle coloring. Only dogs can have both a white muzzle and a distinctly colored forehead.

This is swimming so your hair doesn’t get wet.

Dance critters!

Dapho has a lot to lick!

LOL @artfulemma.bsky.social @snowkitten.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/tFv6b...

Hard to believe this was 4 days ago! The best of autumn 💕

Another side of ‘decorative’ Alphonse Mucha ~ here he depicts exhausted Slavic peasant woman as she sits, hopelessly alone, in frozen, famine-struck field, throwing back her head in resigned despair. As the wolves move in, does the star represent hope? (Winter Night, 1920s)

Banger! Get weaselling 💃🏻 🕺

Hoorays!! for much maligned wise women and black cats of history

It’s getting louder. Slowly but surely the big institutions are catching up. C19 damage is making it into the medical mainstream. People have published it for a long time, now it’s turning up in teaching materials, public announcements. It’s getting louder.

Wow! and How??

Hello Bluesky. #musicsky ! My new album ‘Vintuition’ is now available on all digital streaming! Hope you enjoy my creative journey, please feel free to spread the word! www.kategarnermusic.co.uk/news/new-alb...

Bad news, if you are a Wotsit.

Spirograph and Sticklebricks Superb inventions ✨

Night Bird, 2020 Relief printing combined with charcoal, acrylic, gold leaf and hand stitching by US printmaker and mixed media artist Delita Martin #WomensArt

The work of hand knitting fiber artist Kendal Ross #WomensArt

I’m hungry.. There was no meat in my side of the pie 🥧

Evening Bluesky! It's easy to forget to turn your clocks back tonight.. So I wrote a little jingle to remind you! #clocksgoback #Daylightsaving #Musicsky #clocksgobacktonight

Isn’t this today all over!? ✨💕✨

I’m waiting on a phone call - it’s now an hour late and is completely ruining my day (and yesterday, in anticipation, to be honest). What are people like? 🫠

🚨These cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England. Please help spread the word and support @asgsfprotest.bsky.social by signing their open letter asgsfprotest.com/add-your-sig...

Best time of year for Ginkgo - the gradient between green to yellow is perfect. #Autumn #colour

Slow gin under way and slow olives just seen on top. No sugar in the gin til maceration is done. More control that way.. #Autumn #berries

Oh toon! Get weaselling people 💃🏻

Sloes in abundance this autumn.. Gin and sloe olives on the cards to make this week 🙌 #foodforfree #berries

Confession: I find these things ridiculously exciting and reassuring and also wonderous. Our house will sink into its own foundations before I’ll chuck them out. #fossilfriday (but early)

Monday banana smiles for our donkeys Eli, Edward, Nelly, Muffin & Dolce

Having done battle with the banking app, I am going out to recover. It’s that or brandy and tbh it’s a bit early.

I hate banking apps with a passion 🤯 I mean, is there a good one, that considers ACTUAL people will be using it?

My GP has just been extremely helpful.. Unfortunately this is most unusual and I’m trying not to get my hopes up 🤞

Heaven on earth:

@gridflay.bsky.social I sincerely hope you’ve seen this:

Someone ate all the garlic naan and is very chuffed with themselves ✨ #corvid

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.” Emile Zola, who died on this day in 1902