Akira K

I think we could all do with some 400-year-old flowering ume (flowering Japanese sour plum-apricot) bonsai in our lives.

This is the 75th anniversary Nagahama Bonbai (ume bonsai) Exhibition.

And this incredible 400-year-old tree is Furo, meaning Eternal Youth.

#JohnDoesJapan

Oh! I can bring you spindles!

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

Glasgow Central is the northernmost point of the busiest rail route in Europe, but more than that, it's so beautiful, it really is, on bright days it spills with light. What an awful thing to be happening.

The world would be a better place if people read more books

You bastards made the first five minutes of UP and you expect us to believe you’re worried about the audience needing therapy?

What's worse than using 'content' to describe artistic work?

Using the term 'content industry' to describe basically all art.

Catching up with Six Nations rugby. The difference in the choices broadcasters make during game downtime is astounding.

ITV: half screen taken up by stupid ad

BBC: Sam Warburton pulls out PowerPoint presentation of first half stats.

I found this deeply reassuring

Your Most Anticipated Queer Books of 2026 Here are the results of the survey: these are your most anticipated queer books of 2026, from romance to literary fiction to sci-fi!

Thrilled to see HELL'S HEART by @quicunquevult.bsky.social on @bookriot.bsky.social's list of The Most Anticipated Queer Books of 2026 👏 🙂‍↕️

I promise you are not ready for this

Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels Adam Tickell, of University of Birmingham, says money is loaned to people who ‘are not really capable of graduating’

I dropped out of high school, gained a huge amount of often difficult life experience, then went to community college, and now I'm a professor in a prestigious university. There HAS TO BE A PLACE for non-traditional students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this.

Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.

Okay so I was so stunned and excited that I completely missed the intro page that you signed 😆

Ooops. 😅

never too old :)

@garethlpowell.bsky.social Got my Starbright copy of Jitterbug today and it is SO BEAUTIFUL.

Have you seen it??

Thank you so much!

May I ask where you're reading them? This sounds really fascinating and it'd be nice to learn about the names/stories rather than just recite/memorize them...

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

unembarrassed enthusiasm about learning new things is genuinely the best way to live

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question

*sighs in simpler times*

I once sat at a table in a cafe next to a couple on a first date maybe, and he said to her that he doesn't read fiction because he doesn't have time for stuff that's not real, like what's the point.

I desperately wanted to tell her to fucking RUN.

Uniball all the way.

Has Brennan seen these Make Some Noise prompts before? 👀

people are so extraordinary in what they can do

Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.