Madness. Look at you. You're gorgeous!

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Because the world has too many loud sounds and sharp edges, please enjoy a look back at Reggie, a Pacific tree frog who took up residence in an outdoor planter at my workplace last October. #pnwtreefrog #tinybuthugelyloud

On a dreary morning this week a few hundred Yellow-headed Blackbirds gathered to perch atop reed clumps in a flooded field, making it look alive as if with wild sunflowers. It was a brief appearance, the likes of which I’ve not seen before. Another of Mother Nature’s special moments. #birds_matter

They say the night has a thousand eyes, but this mushroom has two of 'em. #pnwmushrooms #spookyfungus

Yes, you may have all my toast edges. 🐶 🧈 🍞

There's a distinct chill in the air today. The sun is hiding directly behind this tree, possibly trying to shrug into a cardigan before anyone notices. #pnwautumn

Look at you, so ridiculously pink, despite the calendar! Be a Queen, little geranium! 🌸

It is my deeply-held belief that all Creators are Divine. ●Storytellers ●Artists ●Music-makers ●Poets ●Dancers ●Makers of Beautiful Things ●Teachers ●Healers You are all Gods and Goddesses. ✨️✨️✨️

Books! The color blue! Ghosts and Goblins! And the month of October! I approve this message (and repost it every year)....

@davindaire.bsky.social I believe Turner painted this morning's sepia sunrise.

I am Toad. I am also Frog. But at least we're together in all this nonsense.

Toodle-doo to a brilliant Monday. Coffee with a dear old friend; sublime, teary, and hilarious. Love you madly, Xander. 💜

Hiya, 5th October!

It's October, and that means... A rewatch of The Ghost and Mr. Chicken! "Why don't you run up an alley and holler Fish?" #andtheyusedbonami #murderanddeath #attaboyluther

Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mock’ry, hence!

Fly agaric. Stunning to look at but poisonous. It can be spotted on lowland heath around birch and pine, where it is thought to have a mycorrhizal relationship - sharing nutrients between tree roots and the fungi itself. 📷 Olivia French #SouthDowns #AutumnVibes

Oopsie. It's 1:30, and I need to be to work by 8. 😵

My young friend Mouse said, "Flowers are sunshine that grows out of the dirt." Here's a bit of sunshine, for whomever needs it. 🐭+🌼=☀️

October is rolling in with a storm here in the #PNW and Clive is ready for it. Smug bastard.

It's the PERFECT day to reach out to your favourite artist, writer, actor, designer, singer, photographer, dancer, stylist or any ONE of the myriad magic makers who bring your heart a bit of joy... and tell them THANK YOU! Add your own tags. Create a bit of joy. #thankthemagicmakers

Well, it was a slow start to blooming but here we are, Nasturtiums, awash in blooms at the end of (checks calendar) bloody September.

Mabon blessings from Merlyn. #MerlyntheAusPyr #happymabon🍁

Last night, as I left work. #pnwsunset

When Toad got home, he said, “Tomorrow I will get to work and rake all of my own leaves.”

It's all about perspective.

Beachy balance.

I was there.

It is my day off AND I am in bed by 7:30 PM!

I am such a child... #bumtoast

Merlyn and I went adventuring! She's almost all grown up! 😭

I deserve to have peace😌 #comfort

Good night everyone

Timeline cleanser! Here's some space radiation I collected in the photon trap on my driveway. 🔭 #astrophotography

Autumn is just around the bend in the path. #spookyseasoniscoming

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

... And I'm missing you more ...

Me, every day.

The Hum was more than a sound. It was the electric ley of the land manifesting. We walked underneath its lines and were transformed. Outsiders called us trespassers, filthy hippies, mad marchers. We just called ourselves Children of The Hum. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH

Earth nailed to the Sun like a hoary vulture, a birch leaf trapped in the meltwater whorl. The basking perihelion widens the ascent from the Río de Oro to the Norwegian Trench, the swollen lodes of Europe. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

Today's Guest Appearance at Work: Toad. (readies frying pan)

Wot, we can gif now??

Dan Brown ran with the wrong storyline... 👀

This is my new favourite collection of words.

Okay, I'm old. But I don't remember the government operating under perpetual threat of shut-down when I was younger.

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

@gleafer.bsky.social You have perfectly captured my Wednesday. #good omens #GleaferArt #blaaarghmedead