Japanese artist Narumi Takada's 2021 textile piece, "Stepping on Fresh Snow" with snow created using punch needle and straight/satin stitches for the boot and paw prints #Womensart

The Artist, her art, and the restorative collaboration.

This is how enjambment can work in a poem. Bridge 77 on the Macclesfield Canal allows a horse to cross the canal without having to untie it from the canal boat.

You know it’s a bit over warm when there’s foods left over in the cats’ bowls overnight 🔥

lord, give me the strength to not argue at people who basically agree with me

“X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter” - o dear.

Last night’s bake—sourdough cinnamon raisin bread! Bread rises better as the moon waxes 🌝

Morning

NIPPLES are censored?!?!?

Actually left the house today, for a little adventure.

It’s a draw between ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ and ‘Ponyo’

If you'd like a little break from the news, here's a happy story about bats (gift link 🎁🦇) via @amelia-nierenberg.bsky.social

Not to be all “back in my day”, but every time I watch an old movie and they say “mind if I smoke?” I instantly flash back to a PSA on buses in the 90s. And I feel like we need this kind of blunt messaging on public health stuff. It WORKED. It’s still in my head 30 years later.

Artists as the world crumbles around us

In the wake of all the news coming out of the US and the amount of shouting at the TV I've done, I thought everyone else might benefit from one of my favourite photos from 2017 to break up the doom scrolling. I cannot fix the big things, so here's a small thing.

Young boy reading book in a ruined bookshop in London devastated by an air raid - 1940

"I read the news today, oh boy." *John Lennon

Take care of your puss cats USA folk.

There's a lot of recommendations here and in the thread. It's dangerous out there. Take these.

Getting a little better at this.

Timothy C. Roth, a member of Maryland's 'Task Force Turtle' (TFT) snapped this photo of a female common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) emerging from brumation in a dry lake mudhole with 18 lbs of dirt & grass on her back. TFT tag these animals with radio transmitters to track movements.

"I have no inner resources, so I'll just drop in unannounced on someone and talk about myself exclusively for 5 hours while forcing them to make me tea."

You say "extrovert", I say "someone who can't sight quietly in a room for one bloody minute without bothering somebody else".

Delighted my article on Australia’s shameful education system (stealing resources from children of the poor to further advantage children of the better off) features in The Saturday Paper’s list of its best in 2025. Hope it also helps drives change. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

Feminists have been calling this out for at least 100 years, and we’re still in the same place: awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/09/n...

"Over the last decade, I’ve participated in rigorous research, traveled the globe, and spoken to thousands of women, leading to an astonishing discovery: you are totally fucking fine the way you are."

I’m just at the point where if we need a freaking royal commission into one awful and tragic attack carried out by two extremists, why can’t we have one into the scourge of domestic violence that takes pretty much one woman’s life each week…carried out by “he seemed like a pretty good bloke”

I’m pretty sure it’s Friday, which usually means pizza, so cheese. But I’m really hankering for twice cooked soufflé … so extra cheese?

I’ve started the new year with a new author, the first in this list … and so far, yes, it has increased my angry feelings towards all the men😉

Happy New Year, everyone! 💫

retweet for something ambidextrous to happen to you in a non-fucked-up mid-Atlantic state in 2026

I’m in for a low-effort 2026 … apparently 🤷🏻‍♀️

I present the #cat semi colon (Cc @bcdreyer.social)

The annual good luck feast, to start …

New year’s twig insect

if geralt from the witcher were a real guy, his favorite song would be "sultans of swing" by dire straits and there's not even a counterargument you can make here

one unexpected outlook change from being a dad is taking the self care people 10x more seriously when it comes to dealing with weirdly directed anger and rage (including Online). many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers

🌙 🌏

May 2026 be better than 2025! The De Brailes Hours,13th century. (BL, Add 49999, fol. 40v)

Watching the baby fireworks, sipping Australian sparkling wine, in the lounge room, because we are old and won’t be awake at midnight. Happy baby new year everyone.🎆

found some festive crustaceans in London ✨🦀🦞🎄

AMAZING IF TRUE

Perhaps I might try to be a little less grumpy in 2026, or perfect the making of pavlovas #Resolutions2026

Morning mark 2

I am once again saying that incels and conservative men could date all the conservative trad wives and pick mes they want who will happily submit to them. But they don’t want that. They want to take an ambitious woman who won’t submit and break her. It’s a game to these abusive freaks.

This is even better 🥰

Here's your annual reminder. Best wishes for having the year you deserve. #NorbAF

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Morning (there’s a birdie twittering outside).