Doggo loved this old quarry. They dug up the stones here to build the walls for the adjacent, ancient fields. Now its a spot that heaves and rolls like a stormy sea. Slippery when wet but always great fun, especially when crunchy leaves fill the bottoms of the dips. #scape

Born on this road, these three are always round and about. Its a lovely, 1930's residential road that follows the field boundary from the top of the hill to the bottom, links the shop to the cemetery and the different bus routes to town or the village. #blueskyartshow #road

Some dwarf Asters for #FlowersonFriday. Enjoy your day the weekend is almost here.

U.N. announcer: And now…Benjamin Netanyahu. The U.N:

I really did spend a week in a psych ward. It wasn't a great experience, but it was a necessary one. That was the last time I ever tried to harm myself. And I'm really proud of the fact that I got help. And I just wish it wasn't so stigmatized.

🪶 #birds #egrets #FlightDay #Westport #naturephotography #photography #photographersofbluesky Egret taking off. I have flight photos but this just struck me today. I only have my iPhone so I couldn’t get a good framing. Still, the egret is lovely. He’s taking off in the wind.

The rules have changed. Mike Johnson wants to wait until the official results come in October 14th to swear in Grijalva.

Constant on the liberty of the ancients: "You find among them almost none of the enjoyments which we have just seen form part of the liberty of the moderns. All private actions were submitted to a severe surveillance." The liberty of the moderns is gone folks (as we know since Snowden at least).

Odd it must be to some, but cranefly emergence is an event I am very fond of. These delicate, gangling things strongly evoke the autumns of my outdoors-pottering youth. Now that change can be wearisome and worry comes easier, the eternal promise of their appearance is ever more comforting.

Our government gives IDF soldiers like this one Visas to visit our country for up to three months on rest and recreation from committing genocide ~ and wearing lingerie of the women they have murdered #NZPol

If you're wasting your energy arguing about migrants or trans folk instead of paying attention to this, you've been duped by the fossil fuel polluters and their stooges. World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hello all The #7syllablesentence word for Sept 26th is #dove Thank you for all your creative posts. Doves of peace fled in horror.

The protest has moved to the intersection of 25th and Harvard. Join us.

TÜRKIYE SIGNS HUGE GAS DEAL WITH THE US Türkiye has signed a massive LNG import deal with the US so large that it can only be intended to replace a significant amount of the Russian gas the country is almost totally dependent upon. This is a big deal. Türkiye has been worryingly reliant upon Russia

Bless those who think the Home Office can successfully carry out a huge IT procurement exercise for digital ID cards for implementation before the next general election.

“A profusion of pink roses bending ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring." – William Carlos Williams. A mid-afternoon pick-me-up for those #bloomscrolling. 🌹 #FlowersOnFriday #FloralFriday #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport

a message from a retired US general who once served as the commanding general for US forces in Europe. our guesses may be correct

I think Digital ID cards could well become Starmer’s Poll Tax.

This occurred, in the constituency I lived in for nearly half my life, one right next to the prime minister’s constituency, no less. For the government to continually bang on about immigration in this environment is to flirt with incitement to murder.

I’m not okay. War took everything from me. I sleep on the ground, wake to bombs. My body’s tired, my soul’s broken. I rely on your daily donations. If you don’t help, I might not live to see tomorrow. Please save me. Verified by: @mommunism.bsky.social G.F.M: gofund.me/a8b3b43a3

The Guardian - where entertainment journalists seek to patrol politics, and where a Baronet's daughter accuses someone else of coming from A Game of Thrones

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

I haven’t read this poet’s work so I can’t comment but the review in the Times felt way beyond harsh for a poetry collection. Isn’t there something more important you could be needlessly rude about? www.thenational.scot/news/2549279...

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We just received more Epstein files. More proof the corruption runs deep. No matter your title, wealth, or political party, if you're complicit in abusing or silencing women and girls, we will hold you to account. We're going to keep fighting for justice and transparency. ⬇️

Most people ignore this bird! Why? Because it is a #mockingbird! Which means sometimes you don't know its there given it copycat sounds of other bird songs. #birds 🪶 #birdsoftheworld

He called them to show him how to salute correctly. Thunderbirds puppets could make a better job of it. Looks like he's got a migraine coming on.

Feels like the kind of needless expense that some kind of department of government efficiency might want to look into?

It’s Fritillary Friday again. Here’s a Titania’s Frit by Alice H and a Marbled Frit by Harry F. Both images taken on one of our tours in the Vercors, France 🇫🇷 #Leptember

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk. He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

TBH I don't give a monkeys about tax cuts from things like this. It's just the right thing to do. I think it was Sting who said "if you love someone set them free"

Starfish estravaganza 🌿🌊🦑 #marinelife #marinewildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #starfish #seacreature #invertebrate #diving #snorkeling #LaMaddalena

When the president deputizes right wing thugs their violence is no longer classified as terrorism. So of course it looks like left wing violence is increasing. Extralegal right wing violence is now just policy. ICE is shooting pepper balls and kidnapping people as I type this.

The amazing thing about the Labour Party leadership is that they pretend that brilliant MPs like Nadia Whittome and Yuan Yang don’t exist. Every time I see them I think, “this is what people voted for”.

This is a really fascinating article. Mississippi's "basic" reading comprehension for Black 4th-graders is 52%. In California, it's 28%. In fact, Mississippi has gone from having one of the nation's worst school systems to one of the best. Despite being one of the poorest states. t.co/g4zk759SKE

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Two weeks ago Jimmy debuted Scarlet Fire Guitar’s Irwin-certified Rosebud replica 🌹 🎸 the spirit of the Grateful Dead is always higher in California and we can’t wait to be back out west this Janaury ⚡️ #DogPound🐶

Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.

Labor productivity has more than doubled since the late 1960s. But workers’ compensation has barely budged. Yes. The economy is rigged in favor of the wealthy.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

One in five Americans now get their news from TikTok - as Trump jokes he’d make algorithm ‘100 percent MAGA’

Good old days

In a time when so many are bending the knee in advance, it's refreshing to see Netflix standing tall.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Thank you to all who called or emailed to complain. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

Jeffries: "Here's what DHS has done. DHS put out a hit list directed at Democratic members of Congress, Dem governors, and Dem officials. It's a hit list saying to crazies all across the country 'target these people.' So no, we're not gonna be lectured by DHS. Take your hit list down."