This is super interesting. The last one I can read fluently is 1600. I can then still read it and figure out (almost) every word, with some puzzling, but then lose it almost completely at 1200. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Prometheus. Possibly the most urgent and evergreen of myths from @alexpodyssey.bsky.social. Alex retells his version with humour, then explores it with others and reshapes it with unexpectedly supportive images, icons that linger in the way that only a great story can. An achievement. A keeper.

As @imcmillan.bsky.social is new to @bsky.app here is a lovely little podcast I did with him a while back. He talks about his family, his love of poetry and a talking parrot. 🌱 audioboom.com/posts/829055...

Early stroll. It’s misty; I can hardly see the cemetery in front of my face. From a distance I must be looming. A FOR SALE sign sprouts from a hedge. My stroll is a measurement of time and space. A cockerel’s theme and variations.

Early stroll. That tree seems almost too big for that garden. A TV plays to an empty settee. Those puddles definitely haven’t shrunk in the wash. Unusually, the dentist’s lights are on; they shine like teeth. This weather as animal: drizzly bear.

One of Twitter’s most beloved contributors has made the journey over here, and I must say I’m liking his posting style.

Farage: epic grifter

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Important piece from @booktrust.org.uk and @openuni-rfp.bsky.social about the value of book choice for pupils and how to help promote it in the classroom. Do have a read! files.booktrust.org.uk/docs/documen... @teresacremin.bsky.social @richardruddick.bsky.social

Here’s a great view from the passenger footbridge at Wandsworth Road Station. Sadly the gas holder was demolished to make way for blocks of flats and Battersea Power Station has been engulfed by, as I'm sure you've guessed, more flats, only now they're called luxury apartments 🫤 #printmaker #art

Stepped outside to put the chickens away - life on the edge of Wuthering Heights moor

'Full English’, Rock Steady Eddie's, Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell (2006) by Ed Gray edgrayart.com

This only happens to you once

After an exhibition of John Nash's work in 1922, a critic wrote: 'A painting by John Nash is like a sentence spoken by a gentleman, perfectly enunciated, quiet, complete, yet with a certain reserve about it as of things left unsaid.'

‘There is a fine line between genius and insanity. For nearly two hundred years, literary scholars have been driven out of their wits trying to torture more information from this small, inexplicable manuscript.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the Pearl Manuscript: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

'Resting Fox' by UK printmaker Sarah Bays #WomensArt

Reposting again. I love this.

In London, hate will never win.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

i'm too tired to think of anything funny and original, so please enjoy this treasure out of my screenshots folder

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

you may not know you need this but trust me you need this

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as EVNautilus encounter the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

Heronry, 2022, etching by Janis Goodman #WomensArt

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

If the snooker championship was like this they’d get a lot more viewers

Twice this year, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social visited the front lines of Sudan’s brutal war. No international organizations, diplomats, or Americans are coming to fill the void that years of violence have created, she reports. Read The Atlantic’s September cover story: https://theatln.tc/KmMlZX6H

Ugh it's the shepherd boy

your next local election

Don't miss @julialurie.bsky.social's latest, on the manager of a successful Boston restaurant who is now in ICE detention—after fleeing violence in his native Nigeria: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Pure Americana.

Why read books? Because books are still the most powerful, reliable, transportive & magical storytelling technology we've invented - and all they need to work is YOUR OWN IMAGINATION! #booksky (Cartoon by @mariascrivan.bsky.social)

Rumours, fear and fake news spread as fast as the flames themselves🔥 Our series on The Great Fire of London is out now! To watch or listen, just search Journey Through Time wherever you get your podcasts🎙️ @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social @davidolusoga.bsky.social #history #thegreatfireoflondon

Tell us, master cat, how do we traverse this universe?

It’s been obvious for some time that Musk’s platform is deliberately & dangerously hideous. There is nothing to stop politicians, up to & including the government, removing themselves from it entirely. Their every utterance would still be reported, regardless of how it entered the public space.

One of the real ones. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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

This is moving. Kamala Harris feels the pain we feel. Not just from her loss, but from the trauma and abuse our country is living through. What could have been…

Wowser

I’ve developed a strong Pavlovian response to Alex’s introduction and Marianna Sangita’s brilliant theme tune to @alexpodyssey.bsky.social I feel an immediate sense of wellbeing and excited anticipation as soon as I hear it.

Saturday Still-Life. Hydrangea coming through the fog of the fix.

26th July 2025 05.05

Sometimes, I long for him