Niamh Mac Cabe

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✍️ Very happy to be included in this great journal's latest issue, with a story about chimpanzees and their ironwood tree 👁️

Black canvas with just a pair of crossed white hands.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Still 02, Tanja Jeremić. #31DaysofHalloween #Gothtober

'Venus of Hohle Fels', 42,000 yrs old, mammoth ivory, oldest undisputed example of a depiction of a human, unearthed in southwestern Germany alongside a flute made from vulture bone (the oldest known musical instrument). Excavated not far from the famous Venus of Willendorf (30,000 yrs old, Austria)

The USA and the Democratic Party, or at least what it looks like to the rest of the world.

Allan Grant, Fire Resistant House, 1949

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Charles Bukowski.

Simple diagram of the wind's 12 colours. A circle with short arrows marking the four main compass points and two points between each, like on a clock. The arrows point to the colour words inside the circle. Clockwise, the colours are: Black (North), Speckled, Dark, Purple (East), Yellow, Red, White (South), Greyish Green, Green, Pale (West), Dark Brown, and Grey.

As well as the various words for wind, the chapter notes the 10th Century text “Saltair na Rann” (Psalter of Quatrains) which lists the colours of wind from each direction.

Manchán elaborates on the cosmology of the colours, but here is an image I found online that simply depicts the compass

Poets and Poetry with Dr Elizabeth Boyle

What does it say about a society that valued poets so highly? Find out in The Medieval Irish History Podcast — back for a 3rd series! We are kicking off again with the inimitable @thecelticist.bsky.social @ceilteachomn.bsky.social @tiagoovsilva.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1DTU... 1/2

Black and white photograph as postcard. Wave breaking over a damaged sea wall, Bexhill-On-Sea, Sussex c.1913.

"Rough Sea, Bexhill-On-Sea.
Vieler, Photo, Bexhill."
#Bexhill #Sussex #Postcard c.1913. #Seaside #Weather #Wave #Storm #History #1910s

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When a shortlist includes @cdrose.bsky.social and @benpester.bsky.social someone knows what they’re doing.

Following the words "has no regrettable posts" with that sentence is honestly magic.

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Joseph Beuys, Untitled (1957)

'Butter'
oil on linen, 24 x 30cm, 2016

#butter #irishart #kerrygold #conorwalton

May I interest you in a 'chortle', fresh from the Oven of Annoyances

instructions for grieving a house on fire

take the photo off the wall before it warps. leave the rest. the linens. the grocery list from april. the lamp that flickered even when off. do not cry. the house cannot hear you. it is too busy collapsing like a body that's just realized it's mortal. i…

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Piper Kerr (right)

My life took a wrong turn when I ignored the call to join, an ignorance I will never forgive myself for

It's the first of the month, which means OKD's free subs are back open until we reach our cap!

Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/

Wonderful description!
👁 Whoever penned this is a seer

Small Publishers Fair 2025, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October, 11am to 7pm daily, Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL

Featuring @johndilnot.bsky.social

photo of the rug hanging on display at museum “solitary [polar] bear adrift on broken ice”

closeup of the polar bear

gallery label: “Manufacturer: Grenfell Mission Industrial Department Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, active 1909-1984 Polar Bear on Ice Floe c. 1930 Jute burlap ground; wool and rayon or silk jersey pile This rug depicting a polar bear on sea ice was made by women working for the Grenfell Mission charity. The Mission helped women in fishing villages along the Atlantic coast earn income through the production and sale of rugs by supplying them with pattern kits and used nylon stockings donated by urban North American and British women. The company slogan, "When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador!," spurred the public to support their cause. Scenes of local, Arctic imagery captured the area's natural beauty and appealed to urban consumers. In today's climate emergency, however, this solitary bear adrift on broken ice serves as a reminder of Arctic wildlife at risk due to rapidly melting glaciers. Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore, BMA 1996.165 Turn Again to the Earth”

#TextileTuesday :
#PolarBear on Ice Floe, c. 1930
Manufacturer: Grenfell Mission Industrial Department (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, active 1909-1984)
Jute burlap ground; wool & rayon or silk jersey pile
On display at Baltimore Museum of Art (1996.165)

"... like peacocks stepping out of cages into an empty kitchen of God."

—Anne Carson

Albert the cat sat looking at a cartoonish painting of cat

Albert has always been a big fan of art

I've just sent out several thousand emails with my October newsletter attached. Hundreds have bounced back as the file was too large. I sent a smaller file with the same results. So you can find a 'penny plain' version online here: davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
Thinking cap on.