Queens Park #london

Books read in 2025: Murder at the Black Cat Cafe by Seishi Yokomizo. There is a melancholy to this whodunnit set in a red light district in post-war Tokyo, and to Why Did The Well Wheel Creak?, the story of a doomed family, which is also included. Kosuke Kindaichi is the modest and engaging sleuth.

Books read in 2025: The Appeal, and The Killer Question, both by @janicehallett.bsky.social using her techno-epistolary form (emails, text messages, voice notes, transcriptions) whose ambiguity and potential for deception support brilliantly twisty mystery plots.

Books read in 2025: A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine. A summer idyll turned to tragedy, the psychological repercussions of buried crimes. Forensically dissects and exposes the streams of consciousness of its variously flawed characters. Prices are paid, but not always how you'd expect. #booksky

Books read in 2025: Ring the Hill, @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social 's memoir of hills and houses, landlords and landscapes proceeds by association, moving through memories with a lyrical mycelial meander. Wryly humorous and evocative. #booksky

Church of the holy rude #Stirling

Seasonal Scott #edinburgh

Mind expanding stuff from @lrb.co.uk "He says an image can be ‘a giver of being’, ‘une donatrice d’être’. This is to suggest that the human mind and its images, in dreams as in the theory of relativity, are creators of each other."

Mist for the solstice

#bath #photography

Routine patrol notes: Report of "disturbing" object, wall of number 115. Caller claimed to hear "wailing" noise. I asked if noise came from house. Caller said no, from inside box, then hung up.

Autumn ominous in Queens Park #photography #NW6

Soto Zen Buddhist Assoc. “We must have compassion for all, and we must remember that compassion is wisdom in action, and compassion must never lead to apathy or passive acceptance. We support action arising from our bodhisattva vows to end suffering, practice good, and manifest good for others."

Racist, homophobic, misogynistic, transphobic views aren't 'controversial'. I thought we had got to a stage where we agreed these things were backwards and vile. The sooner we start calling bigots by their name the better

a little psychedelic fish #drawing

More #weird #Hastings

The #goth box of #Hastings

Please do not touch Mr Fishy #Hastings

Argghhh, please.... a secretary of state who can't recognise an over-hyped, failing exercise in mass plagiarism for what it is 🤦🤦🤦 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Harlequin Butterfly by Toh Enjoe: Beautiful little kaleidoscope of a book, exploring the fundamental nature of creativity, language, identity and memory through the pursuit of an elusive author. Reminiscent of Borges and Calvino at their most philosophically imaginative. #booksky #justread

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Thanks for the nightmares @threebeansaladpod.bsky.social #AndThenEyesTookTheirSparrows #AndThenSparrowsTookTheirEyes

Modified coppice

Pointless AI in previously decent app transforms your computer into a sad noisy brick..

Beautiful psychedelic weekend at #kozfest in a gorgeous setting. Outstanding sets from @heliconglasgow.bsky.social , Kavus Torabi, The Myrrors and many many more. Thanks @deviantamps.bsky.social ! See you next year!

The extraordinary Cilwendeg Shell House Hermitage in Pembrokeshire. Hallucinatory, fragile, obsessive patterning, with protector owls.. #wales

Death of a Bookseller by Bernard J Farmer: you may expect a novel about the London book trade, written and set in the 1950s, to be cosy & charming but this 100th BL Crime Classic depicts a seedy, ruthless trade with a surprising occult element. Very readable! CW: 1950s attitudes.. #justread #booksky

Nietzsche abhors a vacuum www.worldofmoose.com/products/nie...

In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations in Britain came from just 19 people. Cap political donations. Now 31,000 people have signed 38 Degrees’ petition!! Do add your name and share widely. Thanks! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

One quick thing to do to help keep us all #SAFER from impacts of climate breakdown? Please sign & share @climatemajority.bsky.social petition urging government to invest more in #climate adaptation. 100,000 signatures triggers likely debate in parliament 🤞 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Daventry delusion

The witch walks the wood as mystery, as conversation. She walks to learn the lesson that there is beauty in transition – even in the harshest of them. Time spent in the wood may be clockless, but it is never wasted. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Walk on the bile side, Regents Park

A portal needn't take the form of a showy portico or techno-vortex - a pair of dark boughs framing the sinking sun may be enough to shift your focus..

Editorial cartoon, November 18, 1924

To say: my profile pic is a LiDAR image showing the river-ghosts—historical meanders—of the Lower Mississippi. Water, wandering, wilfully. It’s by Daniel Coe, who has deep-mapped the pasts of many rivers. See more of his work at dancoecarto.com/work & below. What wild, wondrous beings rivers are.

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵

An inconvenient truth for Labour: NHS privatisation is entirely un-evidence based and the public has never agreed to it. All evidence, in fact, is that privatisation is: 1) more expensive for taxpayers, and 2) has worse outcomes for patients

Soggy feet at Daventry Country Park #photography

Donald Trump is almost an anagram of Old Tan Drum. (There's an excess p, on account of all the diet coke).

The emigrants https://www.wikiart.org/en/remedios-varo/the-emigrants

Ghostscape, M1

We walk the surface, over the aeons that built the chalk, too close to the edge.

If you'll allow me a BSky plug for my lino print series based on the ghost stories of M.R. James. Another collection that is sorely in need of a new addition. Day job n' that, innit... 👁️ slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

The X-odus is like one of those peculiar Rapture films where the saved are all off having a lovely time in heavenly realms and the damned left behind are frustrated and confused and angry and surrounded by flaming debris. (..if you ignore the wider context where we're all damned...)

winter nasturtium universe

Giants walk among us, thanks to Tailoring