Trying to do some work but out of my study window a large and beautiful red kite is swooping and diving over my neighbours' back gardens in pursuit of pigeons, and clearly nothing is going to get done until this raptor gets his lunch.

Moonset #morningmeditation #blackandwhite #blueskymoon

The story of Epstein Island Imagine in the middle of the sea far from everyone's eyes there was an island that looked like paradise from the outside… but inside the ugliest crimes were taking place. The official name of this island was “Little Saint James”, but people knew it as “Epstein Island”

A lane in Mulund in evening time.

Here’s Monk. He’s having a pretty rough day. It’s ink on a small canvas panel (8” x 8”). #art #contemplative #irishartist #ink #design

Light filtering through the trees in Christ's Pieces, a park in central Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink, with a lady in a pink dress wheeling her bicycle. This one sold at an exhibition. #Cambridge #christspieces #watercolour

The son of Norway's crown princess pleaded not guilty to rape charges as he went on trial on Tuesday (February 3, 2026) for multiple alleged offences, opening weeks of proceedings in a case that has cast a shadow on the royal family's image. www.thehindu.com/news/interna...

Maybe he should just donate it to the country that allowed him to create his wealth specifically to fund Healthcare for all. That might make him happy.

#WindowsOnWednesday #StreetScape #CityScape #Photography #StreetPhotography #EastCoastKin #Friday #Istanbul #Türkiye #Bluesky #travelphotography

#Happy #Wednesday

Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday #SoCal 🌳

💜💛💚 #WindowWednesday

Into the woods #trees #woodland #treeclub

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

#DragonTuesday #aiart #synthart #aiartcommunity #digitalart #flockingaroundai

the moon earlier this morning♥️

Watercolour and Indian ink street sketch of #PembrokeCollege, Cambridge. I seem to have done a lot of paintings and drawings of this beautiful college. Many are sold. I've put a collection of them in a Flickr album here: www.flickr.com/photos/baker...

i missed the full snow moon 🌕 last night cuz it was so cold, i didn’t want to go out 🥶 but tonite, the direction it rose up from might be even better? coming from behind the bare tree branches, it really gives off the feel of winter ❄️ and the sky is very clear so you can see even more stars ✨

Trying to take starry night pictures during a full moon is not easy lol. At least the moon illuminates the foreground a bit! #photography #astrophotography #canon #canonphotography #mountains #stars #flagstaff #arizona

Good morning. The birds are waking up.

Looking up.. #Photography #PNW #Woodlands

"It Was Just Me" If it was just me, I’d pick an earlier one. But some people just need to see the Sun. A really good sunrise on Monte Sano. I was the only one there. Nikon D7500 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR 28mm F25@1/10th ISO 400 Retouched (Dust spots) DSB_8913.JPG ©Don Brown 2026 #photography

The moon at 04:55 this morning. #photography #clouds #moon

Murderous moon tonight. And yeah that’s the actual terminology

“With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for ‘the positive affirmation of peace.’” — The Nation

Wave goodbye to elections, America. That's it for you. March, kick and scream... It's to no avail. And you know it. It's going to cost you, either way. But the world will only watch as you plummet into the darkness, of a toppled empire. We all tried to warn... We fires hoping to motivate. GL.🤷🏼‍♀️

The long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus). The specific subspecies found in Hokkaido, Japan, known locally as the "Shima-enaga," is famous for its almost entirely white, fluffy appearance and is often referred to as the "snow fairy" 😍

“Can the prime minister, the home minister, or the chief election commissioner themselves produce their parents’ documents,” the CM’s party said. “Or is this humiliation reserved only for the poor, the vulnerable, and the voiceless?” Read more: scroll.in/latest/10904...

The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.

Portrait of A Femcel Source: www.newgrounds.com/art/view/mit... Tomoko rots in a hell of her own making... Acrylic on 8x10 Canvas Watamote x Silent Hill 4 #myart #fanart #acrylicpainting #traditionalart #horror #grimdark #watamote #silenthill #2000shorror

Good morning, BlueSky! There was no sunrise today due to cloud cover and fog, but here is one from Saturday. #PNW #Sunrise #Clouds #Photography

Goodnight from Colorado 💙 💤 (Photo taken yesterday evening.) #sky #clouds #sunset #photography

Winter oak #thicktrunktuesday #trees #woodland #treeclub

🌳🌳 #thicktrunktuesday #trees #woodland #treeclub

BOTD: Norman Rockwell

“[The states’] acts have been structured in such a manner that it incentivises certain vigilante groups to take action because there are rewards out there,” Advocate Meenakshi Arora, appearing for the petitioner said. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10904... #religiousconversion

A large oak tree casting a silhouette against a gray spring sky along the Great Oaks Trail at Churning Rapids to the north of Hancock in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula for #ThickTrunkTuesday!

#Maharashtra | The father initially claimed that his daughter was undergoing treatment at a distant health centre but later confessed to the crime, the police said. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10904...

"Sometimes you have to work a little harder and smarter to do what is right!" #abstractpainting

‘Sarah Stone’s Unseen World’ Highlights #Avian #Paintings by an 18th-Century Talent #art #birds #WomanArtist #18thCentury Link for more photos and information about her amazing #watercolor paintings: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/02/sara...

A garden painting with my old green bike, a couple of friends chatting and some of the usual clutter to be seen through the glass of the conservatory. Oil on board. I don't like the white aluminium conservatory so I hung lengths of ivy down it to break up the lines.

This is what Nicolás Maduro did in Venezuela. Nationalize voting, then clamp down on journalists and appoint only partisan judges. Becoming a dictator one step at a time. 🗽

Six people in Nepal have been arrested in an elaborate helicopter rescue scam in which companies carried out hundreds of unnecessary evacuations from Mount Everest and other peaks to defraud insurance companies out of millions.

"The trains were all pulled by steam engines in those days. They made a lot of noise, huffing and puffing and rattling along the rails, and schoolboys loved them and we all wanted to be engine drivers!" An excerpt from #RuskinBond's new book: scroll.in/article/1090...

(cartoon Steve Sack) #ice #murder