Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2961:
Your voice is unique. It’s a combination of many factors: your upbringing and background; the books you’ve read; your personality. Some people may not like it, but it’s yours. Keep it authentic. Trying to sound like someone else is a betrayal of who you are.
Today, at home.
sandmartin colony, right on the edge of pasture - holes mined into the red land on a sea-eroded soilface - similes of bats, fish, insects as they swarm, but nothing could be more hirundine than those movements in 3 dimensions, the cut of wing & aviator's visor, the zeeping calls, the purpose #birds
& the new moon - 2 days old - right in the middle of everything
And this morning the Shed is at the end of a path all bluegreen and singing with bluebells…
Portrayal by Artemisia Gentileschi.
Maddalena Casulana (1544–1590) was an Italian composer, lutenist, and singer. In Venice, her book of madrigals for four voices, "Il primo libro di madrigali", was the first printed and published work by a woman in Western music history. #CelebratingWomen
So many dandelions…
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 1409:
Don't go for the blandest option. The more individual your style, the less likely AI is to ever be able to copy it.
& somewhere in the gap where clouds pile backround red kites whistle unseen voices carrying in the wind driving hard dark canopy
Offer ends on the 30th!
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
The remarkable early-Norman crypt (1078) at St Mary's, Lastingham (North Yorks).
Burial place of St Cedd incorporating Saxon stone from the earlier church, and complete with nave, apse and side aisles.
Time peels away as you descend into this special ancient place!
📸2025
Growing out of a thick bed of bright green moss, multiple pink and red mushrooms of different heights pop up. The two mushrooms in the center are the focus. The one on the left is shorter than the other, the top of its cap just reaching the bottom of the other's. Their stipes are a dull, dark pink and are just slightly rough in texture. The red, round caps are smooth and shiny. On the right mushroom, a tiny bug called a springtail is visible climbing up the stipe. 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/4, 1/6, ISO 400 Stack of 18 images 11/14/24 Northern Oregon Coast
The tiniest springtail clings to the stipe of a growing Mycena haematopus, the bleeding Mycena. This mushroom, when cut or damaged, exudes a dark red liquid resembling blood
#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms #mycena #mycenahaematopus #bleedingmycena #redmushroom #pinkmushroom
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A beech in light mixed old broadleaf woodland in Moore Abbey Wood, Monasterevin, Co Kildare
The new beech leaves are lovely to see too.
A long line of white shelf-like mushrooms growing along a fallen log lying among green grass in a forest
Photo of yellow crepuscular rays stretching down onto a puddle of yellow light on dark blue sea in front of the outline of a small humped island silhouetted against an orange stripe of sunset sky. In the foreground, bare trees are silhouetted against those pastel blue sea nearer the shore.
Sunset over Ynys Enlli / Bardsey Island just now.
Badgers run like old neglected footstools who have suddenly discovered their own sentience
Seen near Duppy Falls in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for #MushroomMonday!
commission real artists.
do real artwork.
if you have hands but you can't draw, write something from the heart.
don't resort to a generative program to do everything for you, you lazy cheap motherfuckers.
Jessy Blackburn similing broadly, wearing a patterned 1920s/30s frock trimmed with white lace in B&W headshot photo #WomenInSTEM
Jessy Blackburn aviation pioneer 1 of 1st women to fly in British monoplane. Founded Blackburn Aircraft w' husband using her inheritance. Key in sales & marketing, hosted RAF officials politicians media & aviators in Leeds home. Flew in 1922/28 King's Cup Air Races b. #OTD 20 Apr 1894 bit.ly/3fEqXYq
We must require ALL data centers and other extremely large corporate users of electricity to generate their own electricity at their own expense If we don't do this, we are either idiots and/or masochists.
How dare you drive the speed limit when I'm late to something due to my own poor time management skills.
We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.
We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.
A single beautiful young morel (my first this year!) grows in front a the moss covered base of a mature oak tree. All photos by me
Here is a nice mushroom
There were tea room facilities at Scalby Mills, Scarborough as early as the 1820s
🧵Be it visiting the seaside, garden centre, historic house and even some libraries and bookshops the main event is coffee or tea and a scone or cake. It is nothing new There were tea room facilities at Scalby Mills, Scarborough as early as the 1820s. The 1868 National Gazetteer of Great Britain
the perfect apple
in my hand
the urge to throw it
tasting the night air
tender curve of a snail’s horn
this little white moon
The photo shows a pair of unoccupied seashells impaled on a tamarisk hedge. The poem reads: two crow-pecked whelks hung/ skewered empty on a twig:/ local gallery
Photopoem shared 20th April 2026
chords between feathers
angels of the longer days
translate light to song
The photo shows three birds on a roof silhouetted against a dusky sky. The poem reads: stilled canvas attracts/ three aficionados:/ eventide viewing
Photopoem shared 19th April 2026