no to Kushner 😡

The train came through when Wilco and co were playing Woody Guthrie

Vote Democratic Socialism, health care, social security, child care, education funding, gender and racial equality etc etc and etc.

Last nights meander with my daughter, watching barn owls hunting under the moon. ‘Squeaked’ one in across the length of the field on its way back to the barn. It landed briefly on a fence post right in front of us. Magical. Like a dream every time. If this is my super-power, I’m happy with it. 1/3

The older I get, the more certain I am that the real meaning of existence is love for life. That is, love for the natural world, all of humanity, and advancing coexistence based on true justice, rights, and respect. 🌍

An amazing sea swim this evening, beneath little terns, Sandwich terns and Mediterranean gulls. And, in the dunes on the way back, many thousands of orchids of four species in bloom: marsh helleborine, pyramidal, coccinea early marsh and (not pictured) southern marsh.

A plan

The Amazon isn’t just a distant forest,it’s where rivers start, clouds form,& 18% of the world’s freshwater flows to the sea!But deforestation,fires,& poisoned rivers are destroyx this balance. Protecting the Amazon means protecting the nature we all depend on,even close to home.

Some thoughts on the unique and irreplaceable Vjosa-Narta ecosystem at the heart of the #flamingorevolution in Albania right now. Petition against the destruction of the Vjosa-Narta here: c.org/R76Q28MSZY

In today's @theguardian.com country diary by @nicolawriting.bsky.social, heady memories of the 'sweaty, filthy, scratchy glory' of haymaking. #naturewriting #countrydiary

The hot & shadeless fields. Days & nights scented with sweet coumarin from the cut grasses & honeysuckle from the hedges, in a process combining work, community, weather & nature, & knowledge just beyond our weather apps. In @environment.theguardian.com today. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The public remain way ahead of the politicians on realising how much damage is being done to the UK every day we stay out of the EU

The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".

Keep circulating this post, the Flamingo revolution must succeed - please

If someone posts before me that’s fine it’s just good to keep this place going

Let’s not fudge why Starmer is in this mess. Yes, he didn’t have political instinct. Yes, the public is much less patient and more critical. But Starmer was also - to use his own phase - morally bankrupt on key issues of the day, from Gaza, disability benefits, to immigration.

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I was one of Japan's most important and prolific printmakers, and a prominent designer of the shin-hanga movement. Does that make me Kawase? ‘Ushibori in the Rain’, Hasui Kawase, woodblock print, 1929.

Early morning view from the window. A dawn full of promise.

For a few days here the official sunset is 22.28. Sunrise comes a few hours later. This short spell of night-not-night is beautiful, strange & magical. If you've not read Windswept, here’s a bit about the summer solstice. Last night, we walked out into pale gold & silver, moth wings & perfume.

Let's make it happen.

“Brexiters blame each other for their cause’s failure” Gove for not deregulating, Johnson for his Irish Sea border and immigration, Farage for losing interest, Frost for his dismal deal and Cummings for lying. But they’re all laughing and binning Brexit is heresy giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Early stroll. A blackbird hops along the length of a wall. That passing motorbike seems to be angry at something. A broken fence like a half-formed idea. Clouds slowly shapeshift. Oceans of discarded plastic bottles.

Fbomd was not a corvid but a lyrebird, several in fact on the path. Nearly walked into a female as she ran across the track in front of me. The males were all in great form- display time. All sounds on video were made by the 1 bird which I finally saw on the tree.

Corruption, coping with uncertainty, hugging trees: this week’s round-up of some of the lesser-known Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussia

Dear swallow. Four nests under the stable roof, glancing zips past ours & the horses’ heads & heels, all spring & summer. That claret-red throat & deep blue sheen, the flashes of white & needle-scissors tail, singing with a voice of many on the swing of the electric light cable. How I love thee.

Today’s Russian papers call the Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow “a record attack”, but claim “Russian attacks do more damage to Ukraine than they do to us.” One paper wonders: “From Moscow’s perspective, what level of escalation is permissible, and what isn’t?” #ReadingRussia

“A free ticket to the entire earth`’

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Dear lord. Been asked in an overly flattering email, to volunteer feedback & advice from my ‘esteemed literary career’ to help develop an AI storytelling platform, for those that struggle to write, plot, visualise & edit their stories. Presumably as my career lays dying. Anyone else? 1/3

If you read @levparikian.bsky.social book ‘Into the tangled wood’ and I really recommend you do ; you will learn that the Latin name for gorilla is ‘gorilla gorilla gorilla’ . More delightfully this is known as a tautonymic trinomial !

Just adore this…

A window onto the wild, green world of an Irish Atlantic rainforest.

A man dressed in all black scaled the Department of Justice building and tore down the Banner of Trump. 👍 #cdnpoli

morning #coffee, anyone? #BlueTue #ColorADay #RockinTuesday #creeks

Happy Tuesday! Five full days 😮 away from Bluesky while out of town. I'm very happy to be back and was so exhausted I fell out of bed this morning to grab this from the house before going back to finish a 10 hour sleep! Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

There are few things I love more than sleeping among trees & being wakened very early on a summer morning by birdsong & light. Add coffee & it’s bliss. (I am adding coffee.)

“I call it the place where I go to meet the gods.” ~ Hanais Mhilli Excellent and important piece @mongabay.com on what's happening right now in the Vjosa-Narta area of Albania and the Flamingo Revolution aiming to stop the destruction of these irreplaceable sites. news.mongabay.com/2026/06/flam...

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The croft is literally awash with orchids: purples & pinks in a great range of size, leaf/flower types & micro-habitat, dozens of nationally scarce pale cream Lesser Butterfly orchids & the first few spikes of rare tiny whites (Pseudorchis albida). I am very happy 🤗

This is our happy place where we go for lunch or an early supper. An Orchard hiding in plain sight, where few ever dawdle apart from us..🦋

St Johns church, Glastonbury peeping through the mist. Photo taken on Glastonbury Tor on Sunday.

Every year I say I won’t organise another, but here’s my fourth. This year’s theme is water. And there’s a last minute addition - two marine biology workshops on sharks and fish…

Regular reminder that what Britain desperately needs is “low skilled” care workers - and that these jobs are not actually low skilled at all and should be welcomed by an immigration system that appreciates their huge value. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is fresh and minty again.

Good evening from Minnesota

A small number of far right agitators were overwhelmingly surrounded and forced to flee Brighton today after thousands of antifascists assembled in the city.

It has been raining until late into the evening everyday this week. However, there have been some benefits. Walking around dusk has produced some marvellous skies and rainbows.