F is for Fleet Street ----- 'Amongst the Nerves of the World' (1930) by Christopher RW Nevinson (London Museum)
He/him, human-ish elder queer, cat dad, bibliophile and historian, unrepentant omnivore and craft beers fan, not very tech-savvy, loving the quiet life on the northern California coast. Has camera and isn't afraid to use it. π« anonymous profiles β°οΈscambots
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F is for Fleet Street ----- 'Amongst the Nerves of the World' (1930) by Christopher RW Nevinson (London Museum)
We're outside on this glorious mild day, at home in the #California North Coast redwoods. He'll get a fleas-combing later on, but for now we're revelling. Soz to everyone else inland for the searing heat. Couldn't be sweeter, here. Yeah that was a Nyah-nyah. #catsofbluesky #sunshine
Yet one more reason to thoroughly #despiseWellsFargo...
In Tesco today and Mary hasn't even told Joseph she's pregnant yet π
#BlueskyArtShow #WeekJforJetBlack #OaklandCA #TelegraphAvenue #SundayBrunch #PatioStyle It's subtle, that jet black... and that was one helluva kick-ass Bloody Mary.
Checking in on TrumpCoin, the number one coin, the best cryptocurrency
Yesterday we visited Green Mountain Falls, CO to visit the kinetic sculpture Off the Beaten Path by Patrick Shearn. I wasnβt ready for just how dynamic it was even in the slightest breeze. Reminds me of a murmuration of starlings. Incredible artwork. Itβll only be up through October 19th.
Don't fret about it. ππ₯π₯π₯π
I learned to read at age five, thanks to diligent parents and shared reading aloud, me sounding out words. Then came the discovery of the dictionary. We had an enormous one, oversize and about 4 inches thick, kept in the family room. I'd ask, "what's that mean?" Answer: "Go get the dictionary."π₯°
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: β’admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states β’abolish ICE β’grant citizenship to any immigrant β’disband the 5th Circuit β’expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
And also in stammer... (I'll show myself out...)
A Prayer for Poetic Justice...
This is not reporting. This is propaganda.
Monet's Sunsets
Obvious AI image. It's got no heart. #IsItDeadYet?
Good night π€π
Heads up! #LighthouseTours #upcoming
m.youtube.com/watch?v=qx4r...
We need one with a Cybertruck (pretty please)....
Itβs my Granβs birthday today (84!) Hereβs an oil painting I did of her a few years back during lockdown #oilpainting #artist
Greed Month Deplorable, Final Day: Nancy & Ronald Reagan I spent more time than necessary trying to turn a list of bullet points into prose, but I'm not talented enough to succinctly put into a few words how truly terrible these two were for America. We are still mourning in America
Not to worry. It's OK. I finally escaped and got my badly needed a.m. coffee. #trapped #bedbound #bskycats #theheavycat #essentialdawnsnuggles #headskritchers
B is for Battersea Power Station ------ 'Battersea Train' by Juan del Pozo juandelpozo.net
I'm suddenly liking the thought of the Tomb of the Unknown POTUS, located in an unknown place, never to be seen. #wherearethosegodamnedEPSTEINFILES
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#booksbooksbooks #bskylit #readingismagical @GalleryBookshopMendocinoCA
#AlphabetChallenge #weekJforJetBlack It was so black, so lovingly polished, it was almost a rainbow of hues. I shamelessly coveted it.
"Son, I say son..." π₯°
I first heard Erik Satie's works when I was barely in my teens. I shouldn't have done, but my eldest sister (just 20) had a Satie LP and I was instantly hooked forever. Satie would have groaned about becoming so highly held (wanting to be the equal to future 'elevator music') but here we are.
Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period βοΈ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Good night π
Well done! I can hear my now-late watercolor art instructor, Larry Weldon (Sacramento c.1976), "keep it loose - make it wetter!"
I originally intended this to be a preliminary sketch for a larger piece. But after living with it for a few days I actually like it as is - scrappiness and everything #watercolor #watercolorsketch #watercolorpainting #watercolorcityscape #cityscape
OMG, a woman smoking, in 1911. Of course, they did, but that would have been sensational then, shown on screen.
Hitchcock just had that odd speech inflection...
People, please stop ruining my "he could be dead" party. Sure maybe JD can control a cult while being controlled by an in-fighting committee of trillionaire shadow POTUS bros. I don't think so. But even so, he'll still be very dead. Dead is good. We have to find joy where we can.
#wheresThoseUnredactedEPSTEINfiles? #felon47
I want that sooo bad...
You said it out loud, didn't you? π€£
#IYKYK
Happy (real) Labor Day.
Cascade Ponds, Banff
#Bloomscrolling #Magnolia #ScentOfSummer #Photography
Just ran across this awesome version of Queens' most famous song. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gblj...
Orange smoke means what? #UnredactedEpsteinFiles
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Working, like every weekend... π But we could have dinner out if you were here.π
My best wishes to the cast & crew for the first preview tonight at The Garrick. Go out and do do that voodoo that you do so well! @theproducerslondon.bsky.social @nimaxtheatres.bsky.social
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science. Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering. RIP, Margaret.
"You were two days late in paying your last premium (that we invoiced for two months early) so we cancelled your policy and kept everything. Oh, and our CEO just took a $20M bonus."
#bskyartshow #shiny #photography Periodically (but not often) the non-profit keepers of the local historic #PointCabrilloLighthouse open the light to public tours. Access is limited and any goers must be able to mount an internal ladder to reach the #Fresnel #lantern. I attended six years ago.
Luna woke me up today insisting I get this #caturday started with her photograph
I hear tell that Hell's building a new wing just for him. Little does he know that it's Solitary, no fans, no followers, no attention of any kind. For Eternity.ππ¨β°οΈ
If he is dying, I hope it hurts, and I hope he's scared.
"Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah"
#CaturdayMorning #cleanbedding #snoozy #catsofbsky #photography
And I'm not there to dry you off...ππ¦π¦π¦π¦π
After the warm summer we've had the blackberries must be plump and ready for devouring! These hand-coloured beauties are from Hieronymus Bock's 1552 herbal #Blackberries #Autumn
Ooooh. So many folks illustrate how racism has completely separated Indigenous, Black and other Ethnicities from their humanness and set a default for who gets to be seen as "human" or as "people". When we talk about our identities, so many folks chime in with "what about just "people"?
Rawwwwrrr...
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was the instigator; all else was an aberration.
And the studio portrait that inspired the lithographic lobby card... The Signal Tower was filmed in the Mendocino redwoods mere miles from my current home. Valli and company were here almost three months in the filming.
Another of my favourite VV roles...
The legendary Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. At the door, author James Joyce and the owner Sylvia Beach.
There's tonight's #spankbankπ¦π¦π¦ inspiration ππ₯π₯π₯π₯π₯
My flat needs tidying.... ππ₯π
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I've not counted but it looks like maybe 150-200?
Oh, that's grand.π₯°
But, and it's a big but, there's a ridiculously low maximum quantity of hidden or muted keywords, or so I keep learning. This largely stems from an app flaw [sic]. The hide/mute command button is stupidly sluggish and seemingly unresponsive. Yet it's setting repeat mutes of the same word.π
#becausetheycan πΉ
Neil Young Responds to Donald Trump's Takeover of D.C. With Vicious New Protest Song 'Big Crime' - Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Someone needs to get all the Megans, Meagans, and Meghans, in a room and finally figure this mess out.
#ReleasetheFullUnredactedEpsteinFiles #NoMoreDistractions #NoMoreRedHerrings #Felon47
Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Donβt allow anyone to disrespect you by telling you otherwise.
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
Cracker Barrel has removed its website Pride page. I don't blame them. If I served greased breaded fried sugar fat at ten thousand empty calories a bite that was a highway to a heart attack, I wouldn't have any pride either.
Mornin' handsome... happy Thorsday π
Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding π΅οΈ www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...
History tells us how autocrats rise and it also tells us there is still timeβbut not much. If we want to stop American autocracy, we need to treat this as the emergency that it is. Read my piece with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social for @time.com: bit.ly/3VopOYG
βa lot of people assume that thereβs really great knowledge and huge due diligence on the chemical safety of these things. But it really isnβt the case.β www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My little tenants hard at work on the property. #BeaverLife #NatureConservation #WildlifeWonder
Shhh! Don't let #felon47 know; he'll commute the sentence and spring him early.
Fantastic! Will you digitize it?
Jesus Christ. If your credit isnβt frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
Small crescent setting over Orleans street, New Orleans
π§΅πͺ‘ We of the historical society believe that the most fitting way to observe the 250th national anniversary is to recognize that the #PomoPeople were here first. There were no/zero Whites here before 1855. This Native fellow will meet our Board at our next regular meeting to begin discussions.
π§΅πͺ‘ 3/ On behalf of my fellow Directors of the #FortBragg-MendocinoCoastHistoricalSociety, we would like to have these neighbors participate in next year's #US250th by letting the #Pomo people tell their story to the public in their own ways at the #GuestHouseMuseum that we run... πͺ‘π§΅
π§΅πͺ‘ 2/ This was a giant first step toward, we both hope, repairing a long damaged relationship between the local Indians and those of us White folk who do truly desire authentic neighborly relationships with the first peoples whose ancestral home this region still is. πͺ‘π§΅
I had a really fine phone combo - yes, a true voice chat - with one of the Native American heads of the local Pomo Indian Band who recently moved into the last surviving 1857 fort building left from the ill-fated Mendocino Indian Reservation base that started Fort Bragg here.πͺ‘π§΅1/
π§ Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell - Ainβt No Mountain High Enough Valerie Simpsonπ and Nickolas Ashford, songwriters #nowspinning #musicsky #botd music.youtube.com/watch?v=ABfQ...
π¨ MOUNT SHISHALDIN IS ABOUT TO BLOW π¨ β οΈYELLOW ADVISORY just issued in Alaska. Steaming, gas, and seismic spikes with repeating earthquakes are now being recorded by the Alaska Volcano Observatory. This is not looking good.
#MenWithCats
