Chapter 9: An Unlikely Battle Tactic is Deployed Illustration 09/52 #WrensAria, a charming illustrated animal fantasy arriving in 2026

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Trump wants to help ‘patriotic‘ [racist] far-right parties to power, and legitimise racist conspiracy theories. TRUMP IS NOT MY FUCKING PRESIDENT.

My nearest cashpoint.

Polytrichum moss spore capsules. Northwest Territorie, Canada. #moss #bryophyte #fungifriends

So proud of Dan. We got up to much naughtiness over the years.🤭 lincolncathedral.com/latest-news/...

Much of the £10.9bn in taxpayer money was pocketed in Covid support schemes by greedy bastards who were thinking of nowt but themselves. #WeWereNotAllInItTogether

🔺Trump and his officials continue to pressure Ukraine into rewarding Russia for illegal international aggression by surrendering its sovereign territory.🔻

Now this is just evil, #BBCSport

The production of food and fuel causes $5bn (£3.8bn) of environmental damage PER HOUR. #Unsustainable

I can do this all day

Imagine how much healthier our planet would’ve been if JP Morgan hadn’t been so rapacious. And cheaper.

Full credit to @flaroh.bsky.social for inspiring this attempt at picking my own colors of the year for 2026 (go see her version, she named her colors way better than I did!)🧡

I wasn’t online much today and nearly forgot to post some #art for day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar.

I bet Joseph felt well done down when god inseminated his new missus, Mary.

The remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for the first dictionary of ancient Celtic. It’ll be pamphlet-sized. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

One of my sisters crafts the most gorgeous wreaths. (She means ‘keens’, which are painful fissures at the edges of fingernails.)

Stroll on.

The Birds.😱

Morning walk.

Go for eyes, throat and testicles. #SelfDefence

The alder gap, Darlington.

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Glenys next door was found by *her* next-door paramour. He called the ambulance. She was taken to hospital for a couple of nights.

Wee garden #lichens #moss #bryophytes #fungi

Moss and lichen #moss #bryophytes #fungi #lichens

Exquisite.

I’m not usually afraid of moss, but every now and then… (Sphagnum moss with spore capsules, #Newfoundland Canada) #moss #bryophyte #fungifriends #hiking

Doomscrolling break...

This is what they're trying to do to AMERICAN WOMEN. It's coming. And the MAGA women VOTED FOR IT. #MAGA #TRUMPSAMERICA

Life will find a niche.

Satellite over and out, 08:00.

'A blackbird's song is held by the wind too, and bound to it whilst it sings itself into a quiet autumn, a boundary called to exhaustion in the toil over fledgling after fledgling' -Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social 🎨Léo-Paul Robert

Horse after Picasso’s Don Quixote illustrations.

Goodnight from Colorado 💙 💤 (Photo taken this morning just before sunrise. I have to say it surprised me that my phone captured the colors so well!) #sky #clouds #photography

Made some window decorations yesterday. Realised Anglian are changing everyone’s windows this month. They did next door’s on Tuesday, for fuck’s sake.🙄

This paragraph was a hell of a ride

My mam didn’t recognise me yesterday and I don’t think it’s Alzheimer’s. I had applied lipstick.💄 She knew I was familiar, but couldn’t place me. Gingers have see-through lips.

Wood blewits (Collybia/Lepista nuda) in the town churchyard.

The super-rich are gloating about the latest Budget after lobbyists sprang into action to kill off measures to tax extreme wealth and massive corporate profits. This is what we’re up against. Can you chip in today to help us fight back? bit.ly/3Y51yMx

The 66m tonnes of pollution from plastic packaging that enters the global environment each year could be almost eliminated by 2040 primarily by reuse and return schemes, significant new research reveals.

Imperfect stag. One down, four to draw/cut.

Love the sound of this. May be of interest to @yvanspijk.bsky.social or @dannybate.bsky.social guardianbookshop.com/proto-978000...

Stone life.

@matronmart.bsky.social ☺️

Supermarkets should be done under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 (the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008) for selling 'Ready to Eat Avocados'.