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Herb Tate @herbtate5.bsky.social · 1h ago

summer heat me watching me in the traffic #haiku #senryu #SenryuSunday

@meldenn73.bsky.social · 1h ago

We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

goodlawproject.org

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 3h ago

First cup of tea: the day has been picked out in neon light.

Alan McKean @alanmckeanpoet.bsky.social · 3h ago

second cup of tea highlights choice o't'day's fust brew shining example ☕☕

Ian McMillan@imcmillan.bsky.social · 3h ago

First cup of tea: the day has been picked out in neon light.

@mrwamble.bsky.social · 13h ago

I am a tickle in a snowstorm A kiss from a bird I am a blush of moonlight A silent word — Earl Slocombe #poetry #poetsofbluesky

Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 15h ago

Thankfully! #BookSky

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22h ago

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 23h ago

Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.

JRBHaiku @jrbhaiku.bsky.social · 12h ago

together under the lamp light two old bud’s #DailyHaikuPrompt (Lamplight, Buds) #haiku #senryu

The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · yesterday

Osaka Maiko with Insect Cage 1905 by Blue Ruin1 on Flickr.

This evocative Meiji-era studio portrait from circa 1905 captures a young Osaka maiko kneeling in quiet pose, holding a delicate, handcrafted wooden insect cage (mushikago). In Japanese culture, the keeping of singing crickets—such as suzumushi (bell crickets) or matsumushi (pine crickets)—was a beloved seasonal pastime (mushikiki, or "insect listening") that signaled the transition from late summer into early autumn. Wrapped in a cloth band for carrying, the intricate lattice cage forms the narrative center of the image, transforming a formal studio session into a poetic study of seasonal reflection and youth.

Sartorially, the ensemble offers a valuable historical record of early 20th-century Kamigata (Kansai regional) apprentice attire. The young woman wears a trailing kimono (hikizuri), characterized by its dark upper body and a contrasting lower skirt adorned with dynamic, sweeping floral and botanical motifs around the hem. Her neckline reveals a densely patterned under-collar (han'eri), which was typical of the late Meiji period before the standardized modern conventions of Kyoto's hanamachi fully coalesced. Her wide obi is tied high on the torso, paired with a patterned obi-age (sash banner) that adds textural complexity to the dark, lustrous silk of her robe.

Her coiffure presents a classic late-Meiji variation of nihongami, sculpted into voluminous side loops (bintō) and an upright crown bun. Adorning her hair is a tortoiseshell or lacquered comb (kushi) set into the front crest, flanked by delicate kanzashi hairpins featuring dangling metallic elements and small ornamental toppers that catch the studio lighting. The photograph itself reflects the flourishing genre of late Meiji souvenir photography and portrait postcards, which documented the evolving fashions of Japan's performing arts traditions at the turn of the century with remarkable clarity and quiet dignity.

dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 12h ago

A new verse from yours truly @petrock.bsky.social: 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗳 𝗡𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻 “HA… !” — petro c. k.

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“HA… !” — petro c. k.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15h ago

The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵

Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 17h ago

golden sparkles on the water moving restlessly across the reflections of trees

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 18h ago

We are writing to the Prime Minister, and the Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, calling for an immediate public inquiry into the British press, following the tragic death of Jason Arday. Sign here 👇

Jason Arday Letter | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

goodlaw.social

The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 15h ago

Kumano Kodo pilgrimage route to Nachi Taisha shrine and Nachi-no-taki falls, Japan. Photography by Tennoji Kun

Captured in a rhythmic composition by photographer Tennoji Kun, this photograph depicts a procession of pilgrims ascending Daimon-zaka, the famous moss-carpeted cobblestone staircase along the UNESCO World Heritage Kumano Kodō pilgrimage route. Nestled among ancient Japanese cedars (sugi) in Wakayama Prefecture, these damp stone steps lead upward toward the sacred sanctuary of Kumano Nachi Taisha and the dramatic cascades of Nachi-no-taki (Nachi Falls). Framed from a low, ascending perspective, the repeated forms of the travelers create a mesmerizing visual cadence that seems to step directly out of the Heian period (794–1185) and into the spiritual heart of the Kii Peninsula.

The travelers wear meticulously recreated Heian-period aristocratic women's travel attire (kazashi-sugata or tsubosakozori), an ensemble engineered to offer physical protection and modesty during arduous mountain journeys. Each pilgrim is crowned with a broad, conical woven hat (ichimegasa) draped in a long, translucent white veil known as mushi-no-tarenugi ("insect-repelling veil"). Originally designed to shield high-born women from insect bites, trail dust, and the gazes of strangers, the sheer netting diffuses the light over heavy silk brocade outer robes (kouchigi) decorated with gold leaf and intricate woven motifs. The outer garments are hitched up around the waist for ease of movement, revealing bold vermilion hakama trousers beneath, paired with neat white tabi socks and woven travel sandals.

During the 11th through 13th centuries, thousands of pilgrims—ranging from retired emperors and court ladies to commoners—undertook the grueling weeks-long journey from the imperial capital of Heian-kyō (Kyoto) to Kumano. The region held profound spiritual significance because the Kumano shrines welcomed women without the purity taboos or bans on female practitioners enforced at many other sacred mountain sites of the era.

@meldenn73.bsky.social · 20h ago

Thanks to Robin at SMOLS for publishing my monoku dry river...your deafening silence #monoku

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · yesterday

First cup of tea: suddenly everything is connected to everything else.

Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 2d ago

9,000 people voted for Count Binface. 9,000!

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 2d ago

First cup of tea: maybe I’ll wait till it goes cold and then pour it over my head.

@meldenn73.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hey! Can you sign this urgent petition? Life-threatening heatwaves in the UK are claiming lives. We demand an extreme heat strategy -funded by taxing the fossil fuel giants cooking our planet. It takes 30 seconds to add your name greenpeace.movement-action.org/p/extreme-he...

SIGN to demand protection from deadly heatwaves.

The UK is dangerously unprepared for worsening extreme heat. It only takes two minutes.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 3d ago

First cup of tea: water’s finest moment.

Alan McKean @alanmckeanpoet.bsky.social · 4d ago

second cup of tea breathless anticipation does not disappoint ☕☕

Ian McMillan@imcmillan.bsky.social · 4d ago

First cup of tea: And…breathe. (Not whilst glugging the tea, obvs)

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 4d ago

First cup of tea: And…breathe. (Not whilst glugging the tea, obvs)

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 5d ago

First cup of tea: one steep beyond!

@meldenn73.bsky.social · 6d ago

Huge thanks to Patricia Carragon at sense & sensibility haiku journal for including my poem. autumn trees holding the sunset #haiku sensesensibilityhaikujournal.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/t...

George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 7d ago

Night night, sweet dreamies 🧡🐾 If someone has been unkind today, don’t carry their unkindness to bed with you. Be a little kinder to yourself instead. You can’t control how others behave, but you can choose how gently you treat your own heart. You matter. Always.

Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · last wk.

I fell out of sleep Landed in that vast city The one called Awake

Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · last wk.

no one awake yet i sit on the balcony reading #haiku

Alan McKean @alanmckeanpoet.bsky.social · last wk.

second cup of tea bubbles in a Barnsley brew ignore outside world ☕☕

Ian McMillan@imcmillan.bsky.social · last wk.

First cup of tea: sublime microclimate