I finished reading this over the weekend and it is phenomenal. Highly recommend this book, especially for our current times.

My uncle Tony, my cousin Fay, me and my mum foraging near Watnall, Nottinghamshire, in 1981. I used to dream about this meadow (a version of it also pops up in my novel 1983).

A psychedelic overexposed photo of me and my cousin Fay

My aunt Marilyn, me and my mum at the end of our afternoon of foraging in the early summer of 1981. This lovely meadow often appears in my dreams, in its peak mid-May incarnation, although is in a place which has the slightly unpromising name of Bog End. Bog End is also where, a decadeish later, I almost, but didn't quite, get kissed by the first girl I properly fancied, who sadly was more into a sixth former who looked "like a dark version of Andy Bell from Erasure". If you stand on top of the hill above here, on a clear winter's day, you now get a good view of the Nottingham branch of IKEA.

Shots from Ken Russell's rarely seen psychedelic 1981 short 'The Meadow'.

I so, so wish they'd put this back on iPlayer. Personally I think it is right up there with Penda's Fen as a lost English classic.

Cat Distribution System strikes again

Guns

Important lesson here for other countries.

The Beauty of Bonsai Styles The way in which a tree grows is often determined by their environment, and as a bonsai artist, I look to honor that environment, and the way in which that tree would grow in nature, when determining ...

The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

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Michelin 12H SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS 2026 - Race Part 2 YouTube video by Creventic Motorsports TV

The last 35 minutes of this 12-hour race are just incredible.

The Pro/Am fight to the line in the rain on the iconic Circuit de Spa Francorchamps track through the Belgian forest is definitely one for the ages. Wow. Wow. Wow.

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CBS Chicago WBBM Channel 2 News promo 1970s YouTube video by Jay Cordova

I've watched this a hundred times. It's the bongo drums that do it. Imagine it without bongos. You can't. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e3E...

This should be a much bigger story.

The Trump administration is about to hand TotalEnergies, a French oil company, nearly $1 billion of your money to cancel its American offshore wind projects. And they are pulling the cash from an account they are not allowed to use this way.🧵

Photo looking out over railroad tracks leading towards the tall buildings of the Chicago skyline with their lights coming on at Twilight under a partly cloudy, darkening blue sky.

Same shot same day

Bridge lifts on Chicago River resume Wednesday The 27 bridges along the Chicago River and its south branch will lift twice a week until June 24.

Bridge lifts on Chicago River resume Wednesday

The 27 bridges along the Chicago River and its south branch will lift twice a week until June 24.

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dead end, State Street

Uptown workshop brings de-escalation training to small businesses After a troubling incident in their shop, Leah Plummer and Nina Hazelton, queer co-owners of Broadway Bikes, decided it was time to act. “We had a particularly unnerving situation where someone came in… definitely having a mental health crisis,” Plummer said. “After that, we wanted both physical de-escalation techniques and ways to prevent things from getting to that point.”

Uptown workshop brings de-escalation training to small businesses

After a troubling incident in their shop, Leah Plummer and Nina Hazelton, queer co-owners of Broadway Bikes, decided it was time to act. “We had a particularly unnerving situation where someone came in… definitely having a mental…

PHOTOS: Downtown Grand Rapids riverfront swallowed as river reaches 18 feet Park benches, light posts and sections of the riverwalk are partially submerged as floodwaters continue to surge.

PHOTOS: Downtown Grand Rapids riverfront swallowed as river reaches 18 feet

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A Osprey is perched on a tree limb while eating a fish.

The last of my Osprey shots from yesterday when it was eating a meal. This one is my fave out of the three. I like the background and the light was a little less harsh.

#BirdOfTheDay #ComeEatWithMe #Birds #Birding #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Animals #Photos #EastCoastKin

Photo of my sketch of Sue the T. rex's skeleton in front of the Sue mount at The Field Museum in Chicago. I was sitting on the floor for a few hours working on this and it was so annoying because they have an informative light show that plays on the skeleton periodically and I wouldn't be able to make out details during this 5-6 minute sequence. Also my legs kept falling asleep! Someone was taking photos of me working on it, I wonder if those ever made it online. Anyways, its a really awesome museum

I met Sue the T. rex in real life 🥹

McHenry County residents wall off homes against rising Fox River

McHenry County residents wall off homes against rising Fox River

I also suspended my campaign for Governor of California this morning, but I’m planning on unsuspending it right after I eat this Schlotzsky’s turkey sandwich.

A.C.A.B
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Beach day! 🥰

Shut up, Grandpa. Jesus. Can’t we just watch Wheel of Fortune in peace for one evening?

Traffic is a gas that fills any space. Ask NYC & Robert Moses.

Verily, verily, I say unto you: Democrats pay attention to people who vote, not people who won't. Like everyone else, they respond positively to promises, negatively to threats. If you wanted an end to Netanyahu's genocide, you should have voted for Harris, then made clear what you expect in return.

Goodby Tim Apple
You were so good at taking our money
While not providing a sense of wonder

Undiagnosed under the fierce denialism of his parents here, picked up bass at age 17.

The term here is “freeloaders” — ‘moderate’ antivaxxers have long expected others to uphold the social contract and vaccinate while they do what quack doctor Bob Sears advocated in his parenting book as “hiding in the herd”. Then when too many weaken herd immunity & their kid may get sick they 💉

I get the feeling that people may be trying to justify their own behaviors, saying that certain things are impossible that some of us have learned are very much possible when you have no other choice. I assure you this is just as hard for me. Probably harder. But you may find yourself here too.

When we ask for safety mitigations, like meeting outside or masking or testing we’re trying to save you the pain we suffer. The unmasked can’t admit they’re vulnerable. People with LC are a walking (rolling?) memento mori in the eyes of the ableist. But it’s easier to claim we’re having fun I guess.

I am livid that people assume that everyone who still takes significant precautions must be having a great time.
Some of us just understand the stakes and have lost too much to LC or other disabilities to FAAFO. Check in on your disabled friends. Host accessible masked events. You’re isolating US!

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Nobody mitigates

There's a dearth of data to even trust (other than people constantly reporting being sick)

Shit would fuck me up far worse than I already am

Yeah, it was just so easy to give up a life I wanted to continue living because I had the nerve to want to continue living period. 🙃