Alex Strachan

December. Late December. A freaky year. Within hours of arriving at Lake Manyara, my guide and companion for the fortnight (Corbett Bishop) told me the Maasai said it rained more in the previous 72 hours than in an entire year some years. A clear sign the climate is out of wack.

and how 🤣

Jurgen Klopp, your thoughts?

Won't happen, but what would I give to have Saudi and Qatar land in the same group...

I can't help but think Gianni Infantino is going to have a lot to answer for by the time this is over. A whole lot.

I fear that ship sailed long ago.
Around the time the #mainstreammedia sold out to corporate interests and became beholden to their shareholder/advertisers.
And they wonder why the #news #media have lost virtually all credibility.
@columbiajournalism.bsky.social @poynterinstitute.bsky.social #MSM

A tad wordy, though.
Try, 'We are not prepared for the 2026 shit show,' instead.

🥂

Asshole. (him, not you)

My heart is with the protesters — always — but it is so very difficult to separate those who are genuinely exercising their right to protest for a greater cause than themselves and those who are simply rent-a-mob anarchists bent on causing trouble.
It's a real problem, and one we can all do without.

My heart is with the protesters — always — but it is so very difficult to separate those who are genuinely exercising their right to protest for a greater cause than themselves and those who are simply rent-a-mob anarchists bent on causing trouble.
It's a real problem, and one we can all do without.

Dictatorship 101.
It astonishes me — astounds me, in fact — that more Americans don't recognize this syphilitic Mussolini-wannabe for who and what he is. "Dementia Don" doesn't even begin to cover it.
Stephen Miller is more dangerous, but that doesn't mean this guy should get a free pass.

Lions in the grass.
Ngorongoro Crater, Tanz. — one of my favorite places in the world
#photographersofbluesky #lions #wildlifephotography #potd #naturelovers #naturephotography #blackandwhitephotography #tanzania 🇹🇿 #ngorongoro #ngorongorocrater #picperday #nature #wildlife #bigcats #bigcatsofafrica

Whenever I see Mike Johnson is trending, I always think, oh Christ, what now?
And there it is.
#MikeJohnson #Epstein @marymcnamara.bsky.social

Desert rocks and dry river beds — that's Namibia.
This is over Damaraland, and if you think not many people live here, if any... you're right!
#rocks #photography #landscape #naturephotography #PhotographersUnited #RockinTuesday #bluesky #hiking #Africa #nature #rivers #wilderness #ProtectOurParks

Again, and not for the first time (it's 5am where I am), this is why I follow #Bluesky. Thanks for sharing.

Viewing this from halfway round the world — this is why I enjoy following #Bluesky @bsky.app. It's a big world out there. Tnx for sharing.
@jay.bsky.team

From green to yellow — a dry riverbed in Damaraland, northwest #Namibia 🇳🇦.
Home, believe it or not, to wildlife like desert-adapted #elephants 🐘.
#damaraland #skeletoncoast #riverbeds #landscapes #desertlife #desertsafari #landscapephotography #photography #photographersofbluesky #potd #picperday

Loliondo, #Tanzania 🇹🇿 border with Kenya
Serengeti ecosystem.

#landscapes #landscapephotography #photography #bluesky #photographersofbluesky #stormclouds #naturelovers #serengeti #naturephotography #outdoorphotography

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Himba mother and child, Skeleton Coast region, northwestern Namibia 🇳🇦
#ovahimba #himbatribe #himba #tribalphotography #tribes #nomads #photography #nomadlife #trekking #skeletoncoast
#anthropology #ecotourism #indigenous #potd #picperday #indigenousculture #portraitphotography #peoplephotography

Mind you, Trump's "invasion" may well prove to be so much hot air, just like most everything else about this bloated fool.
Strictly for show.
I understand just 300 ICE-types were sent to Chicago, for ex.
300 pasty white, fat losers who couldn't make it up a flight of stairs. Nothing to see here....

Love this. Simple, but it's the simplicity that counts. These days, especially.

Courage, in particular, seems in short supply these days. In the fallout from Jane Goodall's passing, I find myself thinking of Greta Thunberg more and more these days.

Yes, take the high road ... and be perceived — again — by the opposition as weaklings, too afraid to act as opposed to talking/talking/talking.
Sometimes there is a time and place for lawfare.
When dealing with an opposition that understands just one language, for example.
@marymcnamara.bsky.social

Trump sure knows how to pick 'em, doesn't he. Jeezus, what a cabinet.
Talk about a cavalcade of losers. A caravan of bimbos if ever there was one.
@marymcnamara.bsky.social

This is unbelievable. How are people tolerating this? Seriously now — how.

Deadvlei #Namibia 🇳🇦
"The clue is in the name."
#nature #naturelovers #trees #deadvlei #sossusvlei #outdoors #naturephotography #photographersofbluesky #photography #outdoorphotography #adventuretravel #potd #lonetree #scenic #scenicphotography Namibia Photographers Group #picperday alexstrachan.net

"Fuck the poor, the rich need more."
Words not spoken on #BastilleDay.
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité ("Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," for the language impaired) and all that.
#France 🇫🇷 🆓

Yes, but only after eating a really good hamburger first. 🍔