For this week’s newsletter, we dive into the mysterious origins of THE MAD POET… theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/descent-in...

Instead of trying to earn more votes, Republican officials across the South are executing a systematic effort to dismantle Black political representation in Congress through gerrymandering. It's time for broad reforms to end this kind of gerrymandering for good.

Scattery Island Round Tower • Clare Scattery Island lies in the Shannon Estuary, in County Clare. It was the site of an important early monastery associated with St Senán. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Animals are not ours to use for food 💙 They are individuals with personalities, emotions, and a will to live.

At 18 weeks pregnant, Dana Gibbon was left scrambling to find a new doctor — her OB-GYN was resigning after UnitedHealth Group purchased the clinic. The disruption in Gibbon’s care happened despite a unique Oregon law intended to prevent it.

🎥NEW VIDEO🎥 Found in a shipwreck and dated to 65 BC... what exactly is this!!???

~ Good times to reach for your Essences ~ When, why and how you'd use them every day. perelandra-ltd.com/blog/learnin...

Farewell.—Come hither to me.

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Memories from my 2026 aurora chasing workshop - lots of happy guests photographing an auroral substorm near Fairbanks

Good morning! Happy Sunday. Enjoy! 😊

The Church of Scotland has issued a formal apology for its historical role in slavery 👇

This is what humans get for testing all their stuff on animals, especially rats and mice. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

www.youtube.com/live/TKnMhkP... This is what being brave looks like.

#BOTD Henry Fonda May 16, 1905 (Photo : Henry Fonda with Barbara Stanwyck in "The Lady Eve" by Preston Sturges - 1941)

A blaze at a waste facility in Fife has continued into a fifth day, as firefighters remain at the scene 👇

#BOTD Ezra Stoller May 16, 1915. Famed for his mastery of architectural photography he worked alongside many of the 20th centurys greatest architects. His photographs are considered significant documents of design, construction, and social history. Image: Bill Maris #EricStoller #Photography

on a strange ocean _ seeking some white martyrdom _ Brendan on his boat #haiku #micropoetry

Caricature a "sadistic tooth-drawer" who frightens his patient with a hot coal to make him pull back his head and so extract the tooth, 1810. ⠀ ⠀ Featured in our essay "Sicko Doctors: Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America" by @UnrealCitoyenne — publicdomainreview.org/essay/s...

“One should live by this motto: ‘I was not born to one little corner – this whole world is my country.’” cum hac persuasione vivendum est: ‘non sum uni angulo natus, patria mea totus hic mundus est.’ ~ Seneca #Seneca #AncientBlueSky

PERFUME GLOSSARY: Benzoin (also styrax) ~ fragrant resin extracted from the styrax tree with a powdery, woody, vanillic odor; the fragrance of the burning papers known as papiers d'Armenie #PerfumeSky #FragranceSky

A somewhat squat self seeded Foxglove hybrid at the end of the garden.

Loved this album

'Never has the British state looked so wobbly or the Kings Speech so visibly bereft. It was a pointless palace performance although loyal royal watchers lapped it up.' Lesley Riddoch, via The National archive.is/8s6rM

Twin Peaks: Donna Hayward and Harold Smith.

Seeing mother and baby deer in nature is a reminder that families don't deserve to be torn apart by hunting 💔 It devastates their entire lives! Find out more about why hunting is so cruel and unnecessary 👉 https://www.peta.vg/47dn

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TODAY'S CARTOON: Following their disastrous local election results, Labour have looked to Manchester for a saviour. There Andy Burnham is eager to return to the "Cut And Thrust" of frontline politics. You will read, share and praise the author. gregmoodie.com/cut-and-thru...

This fabulous 1896 Columbia bicycle was owned by Mary Noble Wiley of Montgomery, Alabama. It's probably very similar to the one owned by Lillian Russell.

My latest blog post. Cracks are already showing in Westminster's refusal to engage with the constitutional issue. The Celtic Alliance can break through the logjam. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/t...

Gotta get to work. Have a great day, or night, wherever you are.

Changing weather in Portland, Oregon. #Photography #Portland #Bridges #Landscape 📷

Twin Peaks: Cooper and Truman in a Twin Peaks Police Department vehicle.

Beautiful. This could be an oil painting.

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Glasgow, five years ago today 📍 On May 13 2021, hundreds of people gathered in Kenmure Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow to prevent two of their neighbours being detained by the Home Office in a dawn raid eviction

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It was a bit wet and stormy today on my morning sunrise walk here in Glastonbury.

Twin Peaks: Agent Cooper outlining the plight of the Tibetan people.

Scientists have discovered a way to 'hear' cosmic events like the collision of black holes using a process similar to the pitch-correction used in music production

Coffee Shop, 14th Street Prints: https://jon.framer.art/posts/899/