@stuartaken
UK writer (12 books published). Photographer. Environment, science, humanist, walker, ancient, happily married. Find me here: https://stuartaken.net/ I DO NOT follow DMs, porn, selfie promos & users w/o profiles or posts.
A muddy track crosses a stone bridge and rises up a tree-lined hill in the Forest of Dean.
#ourworldiswonderful; I leave you with a shot of a damp, muddy track over the bridge at Mireystock in the Forest of Dean tonight. I may be a bit absent here for a short time while my wife recovers from double cataract surgery.
Photo of a blue-green lichen growing on a birch tree. The lichen is in sort of an octopus shaped mound, with frilly edges instead of tentacles. It’s covered in numerous disc shaped apothecia which have blue-grey edges and dark brown centres.
Physcia sp lichen on a birch tree.
NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 5cm, left to right. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Stories like this show the vital importance of accessible bus stops.
#BusStopStories
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Graphic highlighting key priorities for a National Bus Stop Standard: accessibility, comfort, safety, and up-to-date information.
We travelled around England & Wales talking to bus passengers about bus stops. Seats, shelter & timetables make catching the bus easier, but not all bus stops have these.
A National Bus Stop Standard will help make better bus journeys a reality for all. bettertransport.org.uk/bus-stop-sto...
Some small good news on the #climate :
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
The river bank forms a diagonal from the bottom right corner to midway up the left side. The river flows between that and the far bank, as a smooth waterway partly reflecting the blue March sky above patched with white clouds. Leafless trees grow along the far bank.
#ourworldiswonderful; I leave you this evening with a shot of the River Wye as it flows between England and Wales, carrying water from the Brecon Beacons down to the Severn Estuary at Chepstow.
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The actress and filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal has always been fascinated with the darker side of sex and love. On “The Interview,” she discusses why she returns to those themes in her work, and what it’s like to be the rare female director helming a big studio film.
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A four-panel comic featuring a captive dolphin in a small pool, expressing her perspective on captivity. 1. In the first panel, she is drawn with clown makeup and a party hat. The text reads, **"I am not a clown."** 2. In the second panel, she is depicted as a mechanical toy with a wind-up key and a ball on her nose. The text reads, **"I am not a toy."** 3. In the third panel, she is wearing a pink bow while posing for a selfie with a human. The text reads, **"I am not a photo prop."** 4. In the final panel, she looks sad while gazing at another dolphin swimming freely in the ocean. The text reads, **"I am a sentient being that lost her family and freedom."** The comic, drawn in soft blues and greys, critiques the exploitation of dolphins in captivity for entertainment, showing how they are treated as objects rather than individuals.
Not here to be a clown.
Not here to be your toy.
Not here to be a photo prop.
She’s here to live freely, to thrive in the wild with her family. Instead, she’s trapped for human entertainment.
It’s time to stop treating sentient beings like objects.
#EmptyTheTanks
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Calling on #TrueCrime fans wanting to connect directly with this #IndieAuthor and help bring #TheJacklighter to market this year! This is the video trailer on my Kickstarter page, and I can really use some more followers (requires a 30-sec pain-in-the-butt profile creation 😩) ⛓️💥👇
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What a difference a year makes.
“Have you said thank you?” & “You don’t have the cards.”
To one year later, the U.S. is asking Ukraine for help dealing with the very Iranian drones Kyiv has been fighting for years.
Turns out Ukraine had the cards after all
shaunpinner.substack.com/p/from-have-...
🇺🇦🇭🇺👀 Zelensky: We’ll give Orbán’s address to our Armed Forces — let them call him and speak to him in their own language.
'...I’d already decided not to let her know what had really happened.
Downstairs, as we ate our evening meal together, she kept looking at me across the table. ‘You’ve changed, Joseph. Something’s happened to you.’
I couldn’t tell her. Mustn’t tell her. It would break her, destroy her.'
haiku #110
Quiet hands tend soil
Circles of care take roots deep
Stillness blooms with peace.
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Morning mists’ dewdrops
leave tender leaves a brief gloss
from last Night’s soft kiss
~Mischa💞
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📣 The public is invited to the @pennwriters.bsky.social Book Festival and author signings during this year's conference (May 15-17, Lancaster PA). I'm giving a workshop on #TrueCrime and will be signing copies of #ChainedBirds—hope to see you there! 👏
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Book 2 is on its way to my local library! I can’t tell you how honored I am to see my picture book series making its way out into my community, and that readers are excited to see what happens this next story.
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Hi friends help us get more eyeballs. Maybe tag a friend who might enjoy this anthology!
(One of my stories got selected for this, and I'm very excited to read the work by my fellow writers and poets)
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A young woman in a short lavender dress sits with one knee under her and her other leg flared to the side. As she rests her weight comfortably on one arm, palm planted on the sand, her eyes settle on a red glass heart that she slowly draws across the sand by a string. A crack in the concrete wall behind her casts a sliver of light onto the sand. Through the tall meandering crack calm water can be seen in the distance. The crack splits the corner of a yellow triangle painted point down and worn. In the upper right, five-pointed white stars that carry off panel form an arc over eroding blue paint. A sign on the left reads "Armenia" but is cut off at the R. Rust stains trail from holes in the paneled concrete. Among the debris along the base of the wall is a rusty anchor and a broken ladder resting on its side.
GLIMPSE (1992)
Acrylic on Canvas - 48" x 36"
I think this is the first time I used the red glass heart as a symbol for the immediate and/or material possessions. ½
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‘Margaretha Boghe.’ #Painting (detail) by Joos van Cleve [1518] #art
Missed this while I was off. A Kent county councillor (elected for Reform) has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after admitting controlling & coercive behaviour.
There's a by-election next month in his seat, and it looks like another Green/Reform/Labour fight...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Overseas-based billionaire Christopher Harborne donated £12,000,000 to the Refukkers in just 6 months last year.
The average working class / pensioner Refuk member will have paid them £12.50.
I wonder who has more influence over Farage when he's dictating new policies...
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Alpine lake surrounded by trees beneath mountains and blue sky
BlueSky FOREVER! Seldom seen Hassell Lake
#FallBack to Sep. 4 🌿
Small black and white woodpecker creeping up a diagonal tree limb with gnarly bark.
Downy Woodpeckers are simply adorable #birds 🌿
