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Sending you the healing energy! Get well soon! ✨✨✨
On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world...
Or having a pop at Keir Starmer.
You just knew which side the Right would come down on.
Brief clip of a mistle thrush singing on the Leeds uni campus this morning. Always sounds to me somewhere between a blackbird’s sweetness and a song thrush’s stridency.
From A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter.
Thursday #eveningread
Remind me: when you bomb an elementary school, lure the survivors into a false sense of safety, and then bomb the survivors, leaving behind dozens and dozens of dead school children... are you the good guys?
Well, walking helps one better think
In the air, in the unified field of consciousness and thoughts
Than in front of a screen
Book Group The last Thursday of every month was Book Group, when the books would gather together to discuss Brian. “It’s no fun here any more,” remarked Bleak House, glumly. “Why doesn’t he read us?” whined the Grapes of Wrath. “It makes me so angry!” “I’m sure he only bought me so he can show me off to his friends,” complained Ulysses, in a stream of self-consciousness. “I bet he can’t even remember my name, The Idiot,” muttered a voice from the Russian literature section. “That’s because he avoids you like The Plague,” said another. “C’est vrai!” came a cry. “It is like I do not exist.” “Let’s not give up on him yet.” It was Brave New World. After some Persuasion, they agreed to give him one last chance. “Be quiet!” cried Waiting for Godot with Great Expectations. “Here he comes now!” Brian entered the room, with his phone. He sat down and watched some videos of baby pandas falling over. After an hour or so, he started googling cats dressed as celebrities. On the shelf, the books waited with uncracked spines, their silence speaking volumes. Brian Bilston
In celebration of World Book Day, here’s a poem called ‘Book Group’.
A wholesome picture showing four young children with a map spread out of them, viewing the idyllic countryside ahead of them and a mysterious looking church
Childhood reading leaves scars.
When I was lounging on the sofa, watching Scooby-Doo, I always had the uneasy feeling that my school holidays should look like this instead
#WorldBookDay
Artist: AN Buchanan
Dear friends, stay hydrated! In the Year of Fire Horse, it’s vital to drink 1.8-2 litres of water (not fluid)! More blue colour to calm down! 💧💧💧
So appalling that UK politicians and newspapers are encouraging full-on participation in a war that (among many other issues) was launched without consulting us, has no apparent strategy or endgame, and has already involved US-Israeli forces blowing up a school and killing over a hundred kids.
I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters
An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism
From The Poetry of Birds, ed. Simon Armitage and Tim Dee.
Wednesday #eveningread
Who up sketching the bittern at Minsmere
some recent doodles of brother ignatz getting up to shit
bittern activities
Bittern, Gosforth Park NR, 4 March 2026
Bittern, Gosforth Park NR, 4 March 2026. Photo in mid-boom.
Bittern, Gosforth Park NR, 4 March 2026. Photo in mid-boom.
Bittern, Gosforth Park NR, 4 March 2026. Ruffling wings.
Nice Bittern at Gossy Park this morning! Not sure if the blue-grey bill base indicates breeding condition? Previous Bitterns I've seen have had same colour as the rest of the bill. 1 of 2.
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding @patchbirding.bsky.social @nenature.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social
Bittern, Gosforth Park NR, 4 March 2026. Full wing stretch.
Bittern, Gosforth Park NR, 4 March 2026
Bittern, Gosforth Park NR, 4 March 2026. Neck stretch.
Bittern, Gosforth Park NR, 4 March 2026
Nice Bittern at Gossy Park this morning! Not sure if the blue-grey bill base indicates breeding condition? Previous Bitterns I've seen have had same colour as the rest of the bill. 2 of 2.
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding @patchbirding.bsky.social @nenature.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social
To spend time thinking, only thinking, is sweet
Especially in the early Spring
Beings grow outdoors and indoors as well
“many of the 2,500 [moth] species in the UK are at risk, with numbers having fallen by 33% since the 1960s. This is due to factors including habitat loss, climate breakdown and pollution.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Take comfort in the quietly insistent song of a treecreeper
Garden view of bare trees and blue sky.
Can’t get out at the moment due an injured foot. And the news is relentlessly grim. Taking comfort in the arrival of spring: a greenfinch whistling in the garden; a skein of pink-footed geese calling high above.
Global economy must not pander to “frivolous and destructive demands of the ultra-rich”.
They fund political parties, profit from socially and ecologically destructive growth.
UK example - deregulation, regressive taxation, concentration of wealth, inequalities, sewage in rivers.
Thread of Spanish PM’s comments on the Iran war, all of which are 🔥🔥🔥 Refreshing to get some moral clarity from a leader.
This is so bleak
Tree brunches and the moon
Happy Lantern Festival! 🏮The fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese New Year!
Little London, Leeds, UK
The Full Worm Moon is rising.
Leeds, UK
Our first singing Chiffchaff in the park, Oxfordshire. If you zoom in, there's a Red Kite sat at the top of that conifer; park & garden birds here!
Daily Mail headline: IRAN WAR: DAY FOUR U.S. lambasts 'hand-wringing, pearl-clutching' Starmer as Kemi says he's 'scared' of his own voters
The Sun: INACTION THIS DAY PM wont hit Iran back Rift grows with US Prez
Have we woken up in America? The deeply unpatriotic Daily Mail and Sun seem to now be supporting a menace of a foreign leader over our own govt and national security. They are really only loyal to their own vested interests. Which are a direct threat to our own. The routine betrayal is sickening.
earthworms everywhere; good to see some hyacinths blooming
