Here’s another poem for National Poetry Day. This one is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Just took delivery of a little light reading. 😶

via Forest Web

#Mother and #child in the garden, lovely to see 🦔🦔 #hedgehog #hoglet #garden #mammal #wildlife #nature 🤎

Today is Primidi the 11th of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate potatoes.#JacobinDay More information on potatoes

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Netanyahu is still trying to kill everyone in Gaza.....when is the rest of the World going to stand up to this despicable, murderous bastard? Enough already....

My thoughts are with the members of the Gaza Aid Global Sumud Flotilla who are now hostages of the Israeli hate state. ✊🇵🇸✌️🇵🇸✊

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Oh really? I’m SHOCKED

If you want to email Keir Starmer telling him, politely, what you think of his plan for digital ID cards we've made it super easy for you: goodlawproject.org/campaign/kei...

It’s important to learn that you spell lose with one ‘o’ because there is a world of difference between someone losing their shit and loosing their shit.

Can science explain emotions? – with Dean Burnett www.rigb.org/explore... Dean's talk on the science of emotions, for the Royal Institution. #Emotions #Science #RI

"In more than three decades of observing what Redmond says and does, I have never seen Microsoft so aloof, out of touch, and lacking in empathy as it is in 2025."

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Talk about an opening paragraph. About sums it up!

With so much casual fascism going on, and climate catastrophe continuing unabated, it's easy to forget the detail: the founder of Extinction Rebellion, Roger Hallam, is still in jail, having been sentenced to five years in custody for entirely peaceful environmental protest... #FascistState

Can we all just shout about how despicable it is to scapegoat migrants for everything? Can we just stop being too polite or shy about it? Can we condemn it at work, with friends, family, on SM, everywhere? Can we just not keep calm & carry on until it’s too late? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So far hundreds of Labour bots are making a concerted effort to spin Starmers speech… but are any real life, living human beings seriously impressed??

The Thing Cast & Crew

Graf Zeppelin shaped harmonica

Porcelain Fungus in Standish Woods #fungi #mushrooms #mycology #Stroud #Gloucestershire

‘The actual story is people crossing a stretch of deadly sea, in unfit boats, who can’t swim, who’ve never driven a boat before, with life jackets that don’t pass muster’ If we were any sort of civilised country we’d be doing everything we could to save their lives.

Woohoo #FungiFriends! It’s definitely autumn when you spot your first Fly Agaric of the year! Isn’t it a beauty! Amanita muscaria, a bit early for #FungiFriday 🍄

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

I wrote a thing about digital ID cards. It’s rather long… paulbernal.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/d...

NEW: Keir Starmer's allies hired private investigators to explore the background of an author of a book on Morgan McSweeney and Labour Together, The National has learned. From Peter Oborne and Richard Sanders in today's National www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...

I'd argue that ignorance is often manifested as intolerance, bigotry, hatred and spiteful generalisations about minority groups. But hey, I'm just a decidedly average, older cis het woman who doesn't share JKR's obsession with dehumanising others. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Now for the other 50%

Ladybird in a gorse bush 🐞🌼 #ladybug

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

Heartily sick of "tough choices". Yearning for humane ones.

So exhausting..

'The Garden', Charles Mahoney, 1950

Sir David Lean’s DUDE, WHERE’S MY CAR?

If you could have any director, living or dead, do a remake of a film, who would you choose? I'm not 100% sure, but I'm leaning strongly towards Ken Russell's Velvet Goldmine.

St John's church, Glastonbury peering out of the mist. Photograph taken this morning from Glastonbury Tor on Michaelmas day.

These guys always look like they're judging me.

My painting NORTHERN ENGLAND

A party that continues to address its bleeding of support to the left with calls to 'attack' them while maintaining its failed strategy of appealing to the right is not a party that is engaging with reality. It is one that has been taken over by ideological fanatics and should be treated as such.

listen to this man 👇

Nothing has changed. They just don't realise that the end is indeed nigh... Reeves: "The protection of bats and newts has interfered with the UK’s ability to complete major infrastructure projects....pursuing economic growth must trump Labour’s net zero commitments."

The view from Glastonbury Tor this morning at sunrise.

The Post - oil and acrylic on canvas

Labi Siffre has issued Tommy Ten Names with a cease and desist order against the use of his song 'Something inside so strong'. Good man! I hope he sues him. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025....

#photography #stunday