Laird of the debatable lands

more irony sauce for your takeaway

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..it's like we're kin 🧡

This is the biggest oil disruption in history | CNN Business A historic disruption to the world’s oil production sent crude prices smashing through the $100 barrier Monday for the first time in nearly four years.

Meanwhile, the price remains unchanged of the 173,000 terawatts of the sun's energy (10,000 times more than humans use) that is continuously striking Earth at every moment.

hope you spit fire. The world needs your flame.

All here for music that wants to smash things..ahem

‘TURN SOFT AND LOVELY ANY TIME YOU HAVE A CHANCE’ on the side of a cinema sign in New York, people passing on the street below.

Turn Soft And Lovely
Anytime You Have A Chance.

• Jenny Holzer - Truism.
The 42nd St Art Project, 1993

📷 Don Sheway.

The final shot from the Saharan dust storm is probably my favourite. I was literally being dragged away from the beach at this point by my OH ... couldn't stop taking #PHOTOS #NatureIsMagic #photographer

👌 Perhaps they’ll also discover driving slower (55mph limits on motorways and 20mph on local roads) saves fuel?

Illustration by Nina Denysova, 1970s

A photograph taken on a calm day in the sea. It shows the very tops of a few vaguely recognisably Hove buildings just poking up above the gentle swell of the water.

High tide, Hove.

Yesterday I had no internet for a few hours and ate an apple. It felt like an extremely minor insight into what it's like to live as a horse.

Disorder Drives One of Nature’s Most Complex Machines | Quanta Magazine Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

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7. Paeonies i have loved and lost.
The P. rockii hybrids are shrubby and reach about 2m and this 'Red Hybrid' is especially sumptuous ... i don't like to anthropomorphise ... but it's downright sensual (relating to or involving gratification of the senses and physical, especially sexual, pleasure)

Photo of four lichens growing flat on grey rock. A yellow lichen is growing in a diagonal line across the photo. A dark grey oval lichen is growing along the yellow line as is a larger, round, off white lichen. A small amount of brown lichen is at the right side end of the line of yellow lichen.

Crustose lichen mix: Candelariella (yellow), Rhizocarpon (dark grey) Dimelaena (off white) and Acarospora (brown). Photo covers about 6cm, left to right. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Yeah, that and karma needs to show its hand...restore my faith in the magical ✨️

For sure, need it like oxygen now

By chance, I have a spare toaster

Black rain in Tehran.

Black hearts in the ones who started this.

Bibby and Donnie are toast.

Some of them will, others maybe not..I'm self-employed and not earned a penny for six weeks 🙈 😁 I'm getting better every day, just need the Dr's to sign me off to continue my recovery at home

That's me too, much the same.

I may try, although asking myself why I'd done so already 😇

*whispers: I unfollowed a bunch of people with a tendency to broadcast rather than interact

What I'm distracting myself from rn, is an overdue work schedule, dating back to the start of February, & clutch of clients hoping I can work on their commissions, first, on my return to working, sometime in April..

Of course, none of us want the relapse scenario..been dreaming about my own bed for quite some time, now 🤣 💭

The care has been just sensational!

2am obs check is getting old, tho 🤓

surveillance state: a grab bag of yeses and nos, 2026

#photography #concept #trafficam #streetphotography

photo credit: Department of Transportation (DOT)

Love it (and the title)

Antique gilt frame with a March hare whose ears are popping out

Moment of calm in a world of confusion
March Hare

Thx my friend, almost completely recovered, they're keeping me in for iv antibiotics & around-the-clock care..revue on Wednesday, so I'm being good 😇

This is horrible 😡 The Terminator was a decent person.