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Fabulous price, and it is really gorgeous.

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.

Three cool scientists introduce their work "Our new theory has been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal, but we feel its depths and intricacies are best appreciated on the limited-edition vinyl release."

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

1000 TIMES THIS.

a simple drawing, in flat color halftones of a yellow maneki neko holding an arrow and a laure wreath. She has skulls reflected in her eyes and is blowing a raspberry. Text above says “for victory over your enemies”.

For Victory Over Your Enemies ☠️ 🏹
#art

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

A photo of a wetland scene featuring various labeled wildlife species standing near water, including an American Alligator, Great Blue Heron, Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbills, Black Vultures, Great Egret, and a Limpkin against a green, forested background.

I hiked out to a sinkhole that hosts hundreds of alligators and stumbled across a rather surreal surprise: a grand gathering of #Birds.

A zoomed in picture of a wooden sign painted orange with the black outline of a butterfly and the date “16-OCT-2025”, the signed is screwed onto a wooden utility pole.

A zoomed in picture of a wooden sign painted orange with the black outline of a butterfly and the date “26-OCT-2025”, the signed is screwed onto a wooden utility pole.

These have gone up all over our area. A heartbreaking memorial to those people stolen from our community.

in the early days of the net websites used to have messages like "welcome to my amazing webzone, i hope you enjoy the things i've collected that represent my strange mind." now they're just like "by clicking this box you agree to recieve targeted advertisements in your dreams"

“Without an image of tomorrow, one is trapped by blind history, economics and politics beyond our control. … Only by having clear and vital images of the many alternatives, good and bad, of where one can go, will we have any control over the way we may actually get there…”

— Samuel Delany

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

We had snow flurries AND tiny hail yesterday!

this is me, i do not want to talk.

sidewalk chalk drawing drawn on a garden stone depicting a squirrel standing befuddled with his hands on his hips

Of the 3,627 nuts he buried last fall, Kevin has found four. #scatterhoarding

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So folks, I'm setting up a free Patreon. I'll be posting longer essays there - the kind of thing that otherwise would take me 50 skeets. No spam, no money, just essays and news.

Question: which of two essays would you like to see first? Choices are... 1/2

www.patreon.com/c/kitwhitfield

Oooo! #1.

Pink dogwood blooms.

Wisteria against a blue sky.

Purple irises with raindrops.

Before I disappear into today’s writing session, I’m happy to report that magnolias and cherry blossoms have been replaced by dogwoods, wisteria and irises as spring continues to barrel along.

A bird with a pink head, white body and a colourful crest

Pink cockatoo

👏

So nice when a solution works out for everyone, hope the van situation works out.

A digital watercolor illustration of a night market with an open air flower and produce stand.

The Night Market 💐🐉

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

A contact form reads: Subject: Checking Authenticity Body of message Hi there Beth. I have been contacted by someone who is using the email, [email blacked out], and using you name and one of your novels 'Feast of the Starving Stone: The Chef’s Five' to engage with me as a fellow author - if it is you then great, if it is not, as i suspect, then this is a fake approach. I just wanted to be sure. thanks. [signed name blacked out] You're a real person, right? No, I'm a bot. Please don't include existential questions in a contact form. Yes.

I just found out that an AI scammer is impersonating me in their spam campaign. I am LIVID.

Please, please share this post. Warn people. I’m horrified that someone might be ripped off in my name.

No one is safe from being impersonated like this.

Painting of cuckoo flowers.

Cuckoo Flower, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE
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Digital drawing of a pink rose bush with fully open blooms as well as buds amid green leaves. The outline of the flowers and leaves is in white, giving the image a graphic but unrealistic vibe. Blue sky is just visible in the background behind the tangle of leaves and branches.

Another fantastical take for #DrawAFlowerADay... taking a break from the photorealism attempts 😅

🦫 In this second instalment of our 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 series, a family of beavers found living beneath a road culvert is relocated to a new home better suited to its needs.

Stay tuned for part three, coming very soon!

#BeaverDiaries #RewildingScotland #MakingRewildingHappen

In a scene from the B&w movie Scrooge (1951, released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843), Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge has awoken on Christmas morning after being visited by the three ghosts, he leans out the window and tells: YOU BOY ARE THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ OPEN OR CLOSED TODAY

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