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Happy Autumn Equinox to all in the northern hemisphere! 🍂🍎🍐 Here is an atmospheric photo of the full moon from two weeks ago (Corn Moon, September 7th 2025) 🌝 #AutumnEquinox #Mabon

UK’s climate aid spending on nature protection and restoration reached record levels of nearly £800m last year www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-... #greensky #UKsky

Congratulations to the new US poet laureate, Arthur Sze! #poetrysky #booksky newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Link to donate to the Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance appeal: www.dsairambulance.org.uk/Appeal/2ndheli 🚁 #Somerset #Dorset

"Things take the time they take. Don’t worry." Mary Oliver would have been 90 today. Her immortal meditation on how to live with maximum aliveness: www.themarginalian.org/2015/02/09/m...

Booked my winter 2025 flu and COVID jabs today. Too much hospital time this year already. I'm not taking any chances with the killer colds. Stay safe and healthy (as best you can.) 😷

RIP Graham Greene. One of the best voices in cinema. Elevated everything he appeared in. Opened doors for native artists and native representation on screen. The GOAT. Travel well, sir. You will be much missed. x

“I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” Remembering Oliver Sacks, who left us 10 years ago today, with his beautiful wisdom on life and death www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/24/o...

UK Government Moves to Legalise Human Composting terramation.uk/2025/06/11/u... #envirosky #greensky #terramation

If we lived in a better timeline, River Phoenix would’ve turned 55 on Saturday (August 23rd.) 🕯️

@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Thought you might like to know I just had a stent removed (kidney to bladder, after three weeks) and I took my copy of ‘The Butchering Art’ along in my hospital bag for.. good luck? (Maybe not the right term.)

Women in Ukraine have been left fearful of childbirth after more than 80 attacks on maternity units since the invasion, leading to the world’s lowest birth rate and the highest mortality rate #Ukraine 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine lithub.com/ilya-kaminsk... #poetrysky #booksky

@mishacollins.bsky.social Happy birthday, Misha! 🎉🎁 PS- The elusive third option..? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“The fact that we are connected through space and time shows that life is a unitary phenomenon, no matter how we express that fact.” The visionary evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis on the spirituality of science and the interconnectedness of life www.themarginalian.org/2018/04/19/l...

Tig Notaro, Mae Martin and Fortune Feimster pay tribute to the late great Andrea Gibson on the Handsome Podcast.. youtu.be/yUBT25E75v4?... handsomepod.com andreagibson.org

Lilac dawn. Photograph taken on Glastonbury Tor.

The stent is staying in for another week. 😣 🤒 I am grateful for ice packs, painkillers, lorazepam, my bed, my fan, my mum and poetry books. I am resentful of the stent. Boo the stent. Accursed noodle.

China has reasons beyond the climate to turn into the world's first electrostate - ABC News apple.news/At57RAVzrTkS...

Hermann Hesse on discovering the soul beneath the self and the key to finding peace www.themarginalian.org/2024/02/18/h...

I missed #BookLoversDay by a few hours, but time is an illusion so here are some pictures of (mostly recent) stacks of books currently teetering in my yet-to-be-organised library.. 📚

Purely anecdotal, but if you ever have surgery to blast a kidney stone to pieces, DO NOT CONSENT to the surgeon putting a ureteric stent in after. It’s a 30cm tube that hooks into your kidney, snakes down through your ureter and curls into your bladder. It hurts. Constantly. Just say no thank you.

The momentum is unstoppable⚡️ The @iea.org says renewables will overtake coal as the world’s top electricity source by 2026 at the latest. Driven by booming wind & solar growth and rising global electricity demand 📈🌍 @carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

Not a great night. Up five times to pee blood. Painkillers not much touching the pain. Fairly certain I wasn’t told the stent would hurt this much. Almost as much as the stone itself. (I was sent home without any pain relief, told to just take paracetamol. Come back in if I develop a fever. 🫤)

Out of surgery. Stone obliterated. Got a stent that needs to be removed in a couple of weeks. Drinking lots of water. Bit of pain, bit of a sore throat from tube, bit of post-op rosé wee. But overall bod seems to have survived! 🙌

Going into hospital for a couple of days. Kidney stones! Enjoy your summer. Try to be grateful for the good things. 🌻

Results are in! *drum roll* It’s…. kidney stones! A big one, apparently. High up on the left side. Waiting to see what the urology surgical team say. 😷

Had CT scans. Now on hour two (three?) of waiting for results. Not the worst hospital corridor I’ve ever waited in, but 🥱

Five hours in A&E with horrible abdominal pain. Home now (with big drugs) but appointment at 8am tomorrow morning for CT scan and meeting with surgical decision team. Is it renal colic (kidney stones), diverticulitis or endometriosis? (Or a mystery fourth option!) Place your bets now. 😷🤒🫘

The magic of moss (of which there are 22 THOUSAND species!) and what it teaches us about the art of attentiveness to life at all scales www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/13/g...

RIP Tom Lehrer. (9th April 1928 - 26th July 2025) m.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlf...

Every now and then, a new technology allows a new economic system to develop. We are living in one of these moments, this is a critically important change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYM...

99 days till Halloween! 🎃

Unboxing books from last years move. This is not the first time I have stumbled upon two copies of the same book, but it might be the first time I’ve dug out two copies of the same *edition* of the same book.. both containing identical bookmarks. #booksky #kafka

Andrea Gibson, Colorado’s poet laureate and a national voice on LGBTQ issues, has died

A very happy 89th birthday to Pema Chödrön! 🪷 #buddhism pemachodronfoundation.org

"There is really no building on the planet that can't benefit from having renewables." #retrofit #renewableenergy 💚 youtu.be/Jb4XnN4Z0bk?...

China’s language policies impact over 60 languages spoken across the Tibetan Plateau. Linguistic diversity is “collapsing” in the region, with China refusing to recognize Tibet's minority languages & only acknowledging a single standard Tibetan language. documentedny.com/2025/06/23/t...

Suggested donations to honour the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday: The Gaden Phodrang Foundation www.dalailamafoundation.org/donate/ Tibet House (US) thus.org Tibetan Children’s Villages (Dharamsala) tcv.org.in The Dalai Lama Center for Peace & Education (Vancouver) www.dalailamacenter.org

Happy 90th birthday to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.🪷 Born Lhamo Thondrup on the 6th of July 1935 in the village of Taktser in the Amdo region of Tibet, HH was re-named Tenzin Gyatso when identified as the tulku (reincarnation) of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1937. www.dalailama.com/news/90th-bi...

UK Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero Ed Milliband has a very data rich chat with Imogen Bhogal. Fascinating stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=awct...

UK folk: the Strawberry Moon rises at 22:27. Look out, look east, look up. 🍓🌝

Today, June 11th, is Saka Dawa Duchen (ས་ག་ཟླ་བ་དུས་ཆེན་) one of the four holiest days in Tibetan Buddhism. It celebrates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and parinirvana. Acts of generosity are said to be multiplied by 300 million today. (One seed = three hundred million seeds! Get planting! Sow!)🌕☸️🌱

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Governor Maura Healey announces Massachusetts first ever state poet laureate, Regie Gibson (30th May 2025) www.youtube.com/live/tylWyCT... #poetry #booksky #massachusetts 📚 (masspoetry.org , regiegibson.com)

tibetfund.org/urgent-speci... #Tibet #FreeTibet #USAID

Another way electric cars clean the air: study says brake dust reduced by 83%

Memories are made of molecules.

A forgotten young poet’s extraordinary letter to Emily Dickinson about how to bear your suffering www.themarginalian.org/2022/08/11/a...