Rick Gaehl

Frankly, I usually get more sense out of the void than I do from AI.

The shadow of a figure standing at a stained glass window.

'Schattenspiele' #FotoVorschlag

Ein Mann am Fenster.

A display of art deco cushion covers.

Embroidered cushion covers by Beryl Cook, in the Deco style.

Exhibition in an art gallery with orange walls.

We went to see an exhibition of Beryl Cook at Plymouth Box yesterday. I enjoyed it tremendously. It's also free, and I'd recommend a visit to anyone who is in the area.
I've put an unusual example of her work in a reply to this post.

#Photography #Art #Museum #Painting

Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84

Gift article:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

Just when there were signs the UK economy was turning a corner, Trump does something else to absolutely fuck it. And then he has the gall to question whether we're a good ally.

Another reason why they must never get power.

View up through a stairwell with wrought iron bannisters.

'Rauf und runter' #FotoVorschlag

Bare trees and undergrowth surround a marshy pool on a sunny day.

Marshy ground with alders on a #SilentSunday.

#Photography #Landscape #Trees

View up through a stairwell with wrought iron bannisters.

'Rauf und runter' #FotoVorschlag

While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep crisis will continue | Clive Lewis The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

Spot on from @labourlewis.bsky.social this morning:

"A legitimacy crisis cannot be communicated away. It must be confronted."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bare trees and undergrowth surround a marshy pool on a sunny day.

Marshy ground with alders on a #SilentSunday.

#Photography #Landscape #Trees

😂

What is the Blair inner dialogue that leads him to say these things? Does he really think it advances causes he cares for or his own personal standing? Or is it an itch he just can’t help scratch?

🥳

Pink and white magnolia buds opening against a blue sky.

The magnolia is coming out in our garden this week. Some years, it happens quite a bit earlier, but there has been an unusually cold start to 2026.

#Photography #Spring #Bloomscrolling #Gardening

It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:

"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.

First Past the Post achieves neither."

Ha!

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Pink and white magnolia buds opening against a blue sky.

The magnolia is coming out in our garden this week. Some years, it happens quite a bit earlier, but there has been an unusually cold start to 2026.

#Photography #Spring #Bloomscrolling #Gardening

bsky.app/profile/did:...

A backwater canal in Venice, with laundry, a boat, and a variety of windows and balconies.

In Venice for #FensterFreitag, with laundry.

In Venedig für #FensterFreitag, mit Wäsche.

#Photography #Venice #StreetPhotography #Psychogeography

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

A backwater canal in Venice, with laundry, a boat, and a variety of windows and balconies.

In Venice for #FensterFreitag, with laundry.

In Venedig für #FensterFreitag, mit Wäsche.

#Photography #Venice #StreetPhotography #Psychogeography

The right-wing used to go bonkers about the UK negotiating common EU consumer protection rules.

Now they believe Britain shld join any US military operation “regardless of our own interests, our own views or our own democratic processes”.

They want “total subservience to American decision-making”

It really was another Belgrano moment.

Pink camelias.

Our camelias have been putting on a good show this year, especially these pink ones...

#Photography #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Spring #Gardening

A wooded valley in slanting sunlight, with mist.

'Nebel, Dunst' #FotoVorschlag

The number of bellends living in Dubai - it is an excellent advert for never going there 😂