Friends...it's the start of Pride Month, so I'd like you to meet the amazing ribbon eel. Ribbon eels (likely) all start out male & then all become female later in life. And they rock both ways.

Isn't this beautiful? Such satisfying ink lines and warm colour washes.

all arounde the worlde thei are paving paradyse and putting up resort hotels. the pace of developmente ys terrifyinge.

factline.io maps cross-confirmed OSINT events in real time. Events are named by what happened - coordinates, actors, targets, timestamps. No framing, no team jersey. Just the fact cross-checked across sources. #OSINT

Early in the woods. Elderflower and cow parsley. The company of trees.

First roses, good morning!

‘Planetary destruction on fast-forward’: witnessing the disappearance of Indonesia’s ‘eternity glaciers’

Towering clouds over Shrewsbury after a fine storm.

Hello everyone. The #7syllablesentence prompt for May 26 is #worm May 24-30 @brendafromia.bsky.social May 31-June 6 ? June 7-13 ? June 14-20 ? Let me know if you want to host #7SyllableSentence Thank you for your fabulous posts!🐬🦋🏝️🌊🐳

'wet-foot and up Hagg Gill by High Bill Gill just north of Langstroth Pot' substack.com/home/post/p-...

Save the date! Our next Shrewsbury Poetry night will offer our splendid open mic, a slot for our friend Ross Donlon, plus guest poets @richardnskinner.bsky.social and me, doing a little Shrewsbury launch for our book 'Crossing Paths'. Please come along and join us!

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Milk by @jmatkin.bsky.social

I'm so pleased to have this poem about my scruffy childhood published this morning by @atriumpoetry.bsky.social Thanks dear editors!

Marcus Aurelius' foot. Good straight toes.

Heinous: Israel gave Palestinians the impossible choice of having to pay the bill for the Israeli demolition of their homes or do it themselves.

The manuscripts — including poems written on envelopes, concert programmes + chocolate wrappers — of Emily Dickinson, who died #onthisday in 1886: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd (Pictured: “The way hope builds his house”, scrawled upon an opened out envelope, resembling a house)

I have very good news to impart! @blackcatpress.bsky.social will be publishing my next collection in early 2028. It's called 'Like a Good Peasant She Lives on Onions' and is about three remarkable women writer-travellers - Celia Fiennes, Penelope Chetwode and Georgina Harding - and their books.

I look forward to reading this! Congratulations @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social ❤️

"Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches." — Ogden Nash

88% of UK millionaires proud to live in Britain. 75% willing to pay more tax to fund public assets. Yet right-wing constantly peddles project fear ... They would leave, etc. Capital gains, dividends are taxed at lower marginal rates than wages. Tax the rich. Redistribute. Alleviate poverty.

Thanks to the lovely people at The Hopper for including my little spell-poem for change, “Uncoil,” in their spring issue. It’s slant-rhymed and short-lined, but a sonnet relative. www.hoppermag.org/uncoil

Shropshire elephants: all based on stories told to me by Shropshire people. The poem was commissioned for National Poetry Day 2019.

The wartime elephant of Bishop's Castle. I put him in a poem.

A poem this week on my definitely-not-for-profit substack. First published in Caduceus, thank you editor Dawn Gorman. open.substack.com/pub/jeanatki...

Orlando glows in sun, soaks up spring. Is all stripes and whiskers. #caturday

the best of both worlds one half in the garden breeze one half waiting for dinner #caturday

To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian dog figurine, a very good boy for some 3,400 years! 🐾🐕❤️ This lovely leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest. The Met 📷 by me #Archaeology

A warm and wildflower-filled walk though Minsterley Meadows this morning. Great start to the weekend! #shropshire

Could be any cold May morning by Mitchell's Fold on Stapeley hill.

We have come to worship The Great Egg.

Thanks so much for featuring our little book of poems about walking @atriumpoetry.bsky.social 🥾🥾

Apr. 29 Fractured earthworms shift beneath steel-ploughed midnight fields. Furrows cut ancient continuity; damp soil presses into split earth, slow with turning life. #BlueSkyPoetry #prompt fractured earthworms #BSPP52 #AprilStormlight

Henry Glavin, Corinne's Neighbor (acrylic, ink, and graphite on panel, 2021)

I had such a great time today in the museum vaults in Ludlow, writing poems with a group of quick-witted, curious and lively people. Big thanks to the curator, who unlocked the door, led us in, then locked it again behind us!

American school children have.

Dandelions are turning to clocks.

Bluebells and Lily of the Valley in a tiny corner of our titchy garden.

Scientists believe birds’ skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinosaurs

More elephants stomping on big game hunters please.

Montgomery, oddly peaceful on a once-wild border.

Staircase VI BW! #photography #art #train #weather #streetphoto #candidphoto #streetshot #candid #streetphotography #streetphotographer #streetphotography #Street #Fenerbahce #cityscape #bnw #landscape #photo #lumix #London

Cat-bliss in April.

Thanks editors at @atriumpoetry.bsky.social for publishing this poem about my youthful misdemeanour by bicycle!

The comforts of April.

Odesa…

This is indescribably beautiful.

“To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.” ― Thomas Hardy

Pity you never did this @floreatsalopia.bsky.social. Despite it's being in your environmental plan. Apparently this is a common failing among developers countrywide. Councils too cash strapped to enforce. Developers too ready to cut corners.