Posting this every damn day, as we stand idly by watching him do whatever he wants!

An excellent free night of films about my local area and Dub Sex, a band spawned on the Crescents in Hulme, whom I used to listen to as a teenager on John Peel at my parents' house. #DubSex #Hulme #Manchester #Film #Niamos #HulmeHippdrome #HulemCrescents

'Kritzeleien' #FotoVorschlag Graffiti on the wall of the bridge carrying the M60 over the River Irk at Rhodes, Middleton, Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

An excellent free night of films about my local area and Dub Sex, a band spawned on the Crescents in Hulme, whom I used to listen to as a teenager on John Peel at my parents' house. #DubSex #Hulme #Manchester #Film #Niamos #HulmeHippdrome #HulemCrescents

'Pferde' #FotoVorschlag A lovely horse on the slopes of Dog Hill above Clough, Oldham, Greater Manchester.

'Straßenkunst ohne Graffitti' #FotoVorschlag A mosaic of King Canute in Knutsford.

'Transparenz' #FotoVorschlag The cooling waters of Dean Brook, a stream draining from the West Pennine Moors above Barrow Bridge, Bolton, Greater Manchester, were transparent, allowing my feet to be seen.

'Unter der Brücke' #FotoVorschlag Underneath the railway bridge over the Irwell as it passes between central Manchester and Salford, seen from the Salford side.

'Wolken' #FotoVorschlag Clouds above the fields of the Lostock Valley, Lancashire.

'Windräder' #FotoVorschlag A wind turbine is seen between a stile on Scout Moor, Rochdale. The wind farm it is part of can be seen from much of North Manchester and Central Salford.

'Verbindungen' #FotoVorschlag Looking into a Merseyrail tunnel

'Touri-Hotspot' #FotoVorschlag Oslo Opera House

'Objekte die mit "F" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag Fingerhut!

'Natur in der Stadt' #FotoVorschlag Horse Chestnut flowering under the Mancunian Way in Manchester City Centre. The Mancunian Way is just about visible through the leaves.

'Im Rahmen' #FotoVorschlag Looking through an arch at the gardens at Astley Park, Chorley, Lancashire

'Herziges' #FotoVorschlag Found on a tree

'Herziges' #FotoVorschlag A mysterious heart suspended in the woods on the Lancashire Plain near Harrock Hill.

'Herziges' #FotoVorschlag

'Bodenmarkierungen' #FotoVorschlag Concentric pebbles pattern on pavement in Lytham, Lancashire

'Naturnah' #FotoVorschlag We were quite close to nature when we saw this cormorant on a tree above a pond on the slopes of Hare Hill on the path to Alder Wood in Cheshire.

'Barrieren' #FotoVorschlag The path through the Lower Medlock Valley in Ancoats, East Manchester, has barriers of metal rails on either side, and the Spring sunshine was throwing shadows onto the path.

'Typisch für deine Stadt/Region' #FotoVorschlag Bendy bouncy bridge over the Bridgewater Canal at the Castlefield Basin, Manchester with redbrick railway viaduct in the background

'Voll cool' #FotoVorschlag Snow on a path is both literally and figuratively cool. In this case, the path is Lime Kiln Lane in the Lower Medlock Valley, aka Ancoats Vale, Beswick, East Manchester

'Schattenspiele' #FotoVorschlag Summer shadows on a door

'ÖPNV (ohne Fernbahn + Flug)' #FotoVorschlag Looking up the light rail track of Metrolink on the Rochdale line from Monsall Station in North East Manchester.

'Objekte die mit "J" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag Jocelyn St sign in Monsall, East Manchester.

'Urban Jungle' #FotoVorschlag Verdant growth in the middle of Manchester!

'Sitzgelegenheit' #FotoVorschlag My garden seating always gets occupied by one of my three cats! In this case, it is the oldest boy, Turbo.

'Reisen im Kopf' #FotoVorschlag The Huddersfield Narrow Canal travels through Scout Tunnel near Mossley, Greater Manchester. #canals #tunnels

'Pflanzen, die an seltsamen Stellen wachsen' #FotoVorschlag A sedum growing on a wall in Seburgh, Cumbria. Sedburgh is a book town! #Cumbria #Sedburgh #Sedum #StoneWall #Books #BookTown

'Lange Schatten' #FotoVorschlag The shadows cast by my partner and me on Formby Beach on Boxing Day, aka St Stephen's Day 2025

#fensterfrietag #FotoVorschlag

Manchester towerblocks and illuminated crane on the way back from the Unthanks #fensterfreitag #FotoVorschlag

[A] great embarrassing fact [that] haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.” David Graeber #DavidGraeber #Capitalism #Freemarkets

'Viererreihe' #FotoVorschlag Four books in a row procured from the pre-loved bookshop at National Trust Lyme Park with a cat (not from Lyme Park)

'Nass geworden' #FotoVorschlag The cooling waters of the Roch, which give Rochdale its name, got me quite wet!

'Objekte die mit "B" beginnen oder so aussehen ... ' #FotoVorschlag Dead and fallen tree in Tatton Park on a frosty day.

'Kartonagen' #FotoVorschlag Once Patchakuti went back to his shelf, Turbo claimed the box. The boys have a little war over boxes, my lap, and other sleeping places in the flat. #catinabox

'Kartonagen' #FotoVorschlag Patchakuti claimed this box shortly after the contents were emptied. #catinabox

'Instrument' #FotoVorschlag Hanging percussion instruments played at Matthew Halsall at New Century Hall, Manchester

There is some hope to counter the overwhelming enshittification but to fully succeed, it may need governments outside the USA (and maybe even some state governments inside it) to stand up to US government and corporate power (which are intertwined more than ever before) #enshittification

“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow More than ever! #enshittification #CoryDoctorow #Quotes #WordofTheYear

I am with Mr Nobody on this one. #DoomPatrol #GrantMorrison #Comics #Fascist #MrNobody

'Gedreht' #FotoVorschlag Looking down the stairs in The Cage, Lyme Park #LymePark #Stairs

"...isegoria meant the exact opposite of today’s “free speech”, which they would dismiss as the abstract right to shout into the void. To the Athenians, it meant the right to have your views judged seriously, on their merits, independently of who you are or indeed how well you phrase them."

"Writing is a form of sustained mischievous truancy. It’s not about being good." #writing #novels

'Mein bestes Foto 2025' #FotoVorschlag Shadows cast by the late autumn sun on the slopes of Harrock Hill looking onto the Lancashire Plain under a mix of blue sky and clouds.

'Dinge die mit "I" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag The River Irwell begins with an I. Here it is seen last Autumn, just before entering Manchester city centre.

'Dinge die mit "I" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag The River Irwell begins with I. Here it is seen from the Salford side, looking towards Salford Quays as sunset approaches