@kylenano.bsky.social
Astronomy, history of science, environment, video games.
Nick Davis, Reporting from Jamaica:
"I'd like to dedicate this first live page dispatch to my cousin Andrew, who works for the power company, away from his girls, to make sure the infrastructure we need is in place when we need it."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
An umbellifer at the side of a country lane.
Common Hogweed in flower, North Yorkshire this weekend.
#wildflowerhour #Yorkshire #sunset
Campanula rotundifolia
Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia with a view. There are still quite a few in flower on limestone grasslands up here in South #Cumbria.
Newbiggin Crags.
#Wildflowerhour
Violet gills of a possible wood blewit fungus
Violet coloured fungus in grassland, possibly a wood blewit
Pale brown fungus in grassland, possibly a shaggy parasol
Pale brown fungus in grassland, possibly a shaggy parasol
Saw some cracking fungi this week for #wildfungihour
I'm not very good at fungi ID, but these may be wood blewit (purple one) and shaggy parasol...
#wildflowerhour
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@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Common Toadflax still flowering in #Devon hedgerow.
#WildFlowerHour
Autumn sunshine, Great Mullein, and a Marmalade Hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) - a little #WildflowerHour golden moment this week.
26.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 45 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Three photos joined together. Left to right, Yarrow, Daisies, Black Nightshade. All the flowers are white.
Yarrow, Daisies and Black Nightshade growing in patch of grass between a main road and a retail park. #urbanflowers #WildflowerHour
26.10.2025 20:09 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Garden scene with a rocky river and a bright autumn trees
Autumn colours 🍂
Marianne North was born #OnThisDay, read about the trailblazing artist 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/marianne-north-a-trailblazing-artist
There's over 1,000 of her works to explore on Art UK!
'Autumn Tints in the White Mountains' by Marianne North (1830–1890) 📷 Kew Gardens
![Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifauh76r3os5nnzjvkcz5sl2pgx5iz4sgkxebqjw3aogjn6e677aa@jpeg)
Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.
Planetary Rings
xkcd.com/3156/
Daisy in rain with autumn trees. Yellow centre of daisy just visible through petals.
Daisy in the autumn rains today for #WildflowerHour
19.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 51 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Pretty in pink are the Herb Robert and Creeping Thistle in Flower up the lane #wildflowerhour
19.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Primroses & Centaury flowering in Mayo. #wildflowerhour
19.10.2025 19:11 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of Shaggy Soldier and Ragwort growing next to each other. Leaves and flowers. Looking down on them.
Shaggy Soldier and Ragwort.
#wildflowerhour
Lower half of the photo, foreground, shows ivy flowers growing on the bank of the River Soar, Leicester. In the background the river and a former textile factory are shrouded in fog.
Ivy flowering next to the River Soar, Leicester, this morning, before the fog cleared. #WildflowerHour
12.10.2025 19:03 — 👍 99 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
Panel 1 A figure stands at a lectern "This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything." The screen is completely packed with such things Panel 2,3,4,5. Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com
Too often clear blue skies turn hazy with a criss-cross pattern of thin cloud. Only there because of the airplanes.
06.10.2025 12:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"They discovered how the immune system is kept in check."
Also raising the profile of research into autoimmune diseases, when the check no longer works, with devastating consequences. #nobelprize
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
For #WildflowerHour this evening, Silverweed with a bonus 7-spot Ladybird.
05.10.2025 19:25 — 👍 69 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Tutsan, The Metals, Dún Laoghaire. #wildflowerhour
05.10.2025 19:01 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Mallow flowers; thinking common mallow and thinking musk mallow #WildFlowerHour
05.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Photo looking down on Scentless Mayweed, a white flower with a yellow centre. There is one yellow flower in the centre which may be Hawksbeard. Centre bottom, one spike of Fat Hen.
Photo looking down on leaves and flowers of Shaggy Soldier.
Scentless Mayweed and Shaggy Soldier. #WildFlowerHour
05.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Found it chilling that two of the places mentioned in the Eagles "The Last Resort" (Hotel California, 1976), Paradise, California and Lahaina, Hawaii have been destroyed in wildfires. Also that this song is almost 50 years old. It's not that we didn't know.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ETN...
Reminds me of about 30 years ago writing html in notepad, and experimenting with javascript to see just how garish a webpage could be. 💾 📺 Couldn't do it now, it's all got too complex.😕
02.10.2025 22:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Autumn Crocus (Crocus nudiflorus) in grassland
Some fairly big patches in some places
Crocus nudiflorus (Autumn Crocus) spreading in Shrewsbury in the Quarry. There are more over towards Frankwell in more natural grassland but we were passing these in the week and they were looking splendid in the autumn sunshine. @janettem34.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
28.09.2025 19:15 — 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Orange fluffy Common carder bee on pale lilac Michaelmas daisies.
Lots of Michaelmas daisies and the odd bee. #WildflowerHour
28.09.2025 19:20 — 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Tiny purple flowers on plant growing on pebble beach.
Sea rocket, Monreith Beach, Dumfries and Galloway
#wildflowerhour
Common Toadflax that has colonised a driveway of an empty property. #wildflowerhour
28.09.2025 19:02 — 👍 39 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Close up of bright red rose hips and green leaves.
Close up of dried heads of teasel with some rose hips in the background.
Rosehips and dried Teasel on a patch of wasteland in an industrial estate.
#wildflowerhour
Title: Why do you want the book to be banned? A cartoon with ten panels showing people answering: 1. I read the book and hated it. 2. I didn't read the book, but I still hate it. 3. I hate books! 4. I love banning things! 5. I could not relate to the characters. 6. I'm not sure, but better safe than sorry? 7. My copy arrived damaged. 8. It could fall into the hands of a child. 9. It could fall on to the head of a child. 10. I didn't understand the ending.
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
28.09.2025 15:19 — 👍 806 🔁 277 💬 18 📌 13Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
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