On this #InternationalWomen'sDay spare a thought for all those trapped in terrifying conflicts started by bloodthirsty, crazy warmongers, such as the Iran War. 🙏☮️🕊

“U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Spain to Trump: "Spain opposes this catastrophe … governments are there to improve people's lives … not to worsen them .. it is absolutely unacceptable that leaders who are incapable of fulfilling this task use the smokescreen of war to mask their incompetence $ line the pockets of a select few."

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

he moon setting through the archway of St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor. Photo taken this morning before sunrise.

Please share this Bert the Blackbird is a legend A wild bird that filled our life with joy. But he has gone

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It's World Seagrass Day. Meet marine scientist Dr. Leanne Cullen-Unsworth, co-founder/CEO Project Seagrass. #WomenInSTEM One of BBC's 100 Women in 2023 for her vital work in preservation of #seagrass meadows, which are responsible for supporting the food supply of 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲.

March morning, Nikolai Astrup, c.1920.

A lone daffodil against a stormy sky for today's photo taken in Glastonbury. As we welcome Meteorological Spring today I don't think Winter is quite ready to leave us being as it is now raining and very grey. 😂

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘February Fill Dyke’ Artist: Rowland Hilder

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” ~Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements,” 1893. Image: Jane Addams Papers Project.

Why did Reform fail to win the Gorton & Denton by-election? Suella Braverman has a theory, in this interview that was recorded before the result (and also, therefore, before Matt Goodwin and Nigel Farage reacted to the defeat). podfollow.com/noncensored

“In a battle between hope and hate, hope has won.” Congratulations to new MP Hannah Spencer! bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

Stormy sky and daffodils. Photo taken this morning in Glastonbury about an hour before sunrise.

Masuda-no-Iwafune: A huge (11m × 8m × 5m high) rock on a hill with square chambers on the top and traces of chiseling or scraping below.

Zitkala-Ša, a Yankton Dakota, was one of the most influential #NativeAmerican activists of the 20th century. Her advocacy was instrumental in the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, granting citizenship to all Indigenous people born in the US. She was born #OTD in 1876. (1/2)

"I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of Spring." ~ Helen Keller Lan i Ben A'an // Up to Ben A'an 🎨 Elin Manon

Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann fundamentally changed our understanding of the Earth's interior by discovering its solid inner core in 1936. Often referred to as 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘳𝘵 due to her incredible ability to interpret complex seismic records by hand. She died #OTD in 1993 #WomenInSTEM

#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.

#EcoSpace dailygalaxy.com/2026/02/japa...

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She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

The iconic Earthrise photograph. Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders took this photo on Christmas Eve 1968.

Wow, this is sad news indeed. One of the finest. Rest in Paradise Robert Duvall ⚘️🙏

RIP Robert Duvall

Dung moss, Tetraplodon mnoides. As the common name suggests, it often grows on animal dung, but can also grow on bones, antlers and other substrates. Always an eye catcher for its striking colours. #Newfoundland, Canada. #moss #bryophyte

You might want to sit down for this post.....😂 I actually spotted the shiny golden thing in the sky this morning. It was trying hard to hide behind some stubborn low cloud but we got there in the end. Photo taken not long after sunrise on Glastonbury Tor.

Illustration by the author from Algeria and Tunis by Frances E. Nesbitt, London, 1906. #booksky #artsky #travelsky

Absolutely blown away by the Mithraic altars revealed by the National Museum of Scotland today, the way the head of Sol is designed to be backlit! Love to do a proper miniature, but just playing with this candle & paper one for now (it burst into flames 3 seconds later 😳) #PlaymobilInfestation

🎉 Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔬 On 11 February, we celebrate the important contributions of women to the STEM disciplines. Find out more about CERN’s #WomenInScience2026, where we feature six scientists: home.cern/news/news/kn...

👩‍🚀Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩🏻‍🔬🛰️🌖🚀🔭🪐☄️🔬🧬🥼 #moon #lunarexploration #womeninscience #lunarscience #humairfan

Today is #StGobnaits feastday 💛 A beloved woman whose story is mostly known via #folklore she has inspired as a fierce warrior, tenacious female & patroness of the #bees But Ireland's landscape remembers her. Holy sites & townlands bear her namesake across #Ireland to this day #LegendaryWednesay

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Morning. 🖼️ Maggie Vandewalle

More of this! MUCH MORE of this.....💯👏👏👏 #Truth #Honesty www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ooof 🤣😂....Now that's what you call getting scorched 🔥🔥🔥 #MelaniaMovie #Vanity #Propaganda #Amazon #Failure youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE?...

Youarelistening.to Awesome. As always. #NTS #Ambient #AmbientMusic #Music #MusicSky #Saturday www.nts.live/shows/youare...

Child’s Play (2019) by Kenyan photographer, Thandiwe Muriu (born in 1990). Subject: Kenyan model, Anitta Vinter Fine art print 150 × 100 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Between Showers — Anette Björk Swensson Oil on canvas www.anettebjorkswensson.com

I hadn't realised that the Taliban had taken over in #Trump #America .......🤔🤨😒 www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026...

Arnold Mello, 1922

Two pals Cat playing Gotcha 😻 Monday Mood

2/2/1878 — b. Katharine Houghton Hepburn, American #feminist, suffrage leader, birth control pioneer, freethinker. President, CT Woman’s Suffrage Assn; legislative chair, Natl Exec Comm of Natl Woman’s Party; co-founder, American Birth Control League #womenshistory #womensrights #ReproRights #PolSky

All this outrage over the Mandelson Scandal and his impropriety, coming from people who never said jack shit when Boris Johnson put Lebedev in the House of Lords......🧐😒

And we wonder why hedgehogs and other animals are dying out!

It was a very still, calm morning today in Glastonbury. Photo was taken about an hour before sunrise.