Diva Harris

Colonisers hate libraries, they hate the dissemination and democratisation of information, they hate us knowing anything. Does anyone else get the feeling that this is in part a push to force those of us resisting genAI to use it b/c there is nothing else available? *dusts off Encarta CD-ROMS*

12.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 24    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

‘There are so many words for cutting benefit payments to the needy and vulnerable, as once there were so many for words for the cutting of a field.'

Restricted access to the benefit system is a re-enactment of the Acts of Enclosure, writes Sean Prentice www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/tres...

10.08.2025 10:02 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

'There’s a joy that comes after submitting to what’s bigger than you. It took me a while to find it.'

@jennashworth.bsky.social speaks to Karen Lloyd about anti-heroics, tethered beetles, and walking with Wainwright and Wordsworth breathing down her neck www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/the-...

07.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

We've decided it's high time we demystified the process of submitting to the site 🖋️ 🐙 Find all the info about how and what to submit here! www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/06/subm...

Image from Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, New York,1885-1896, via the Biodiversity Heritage Library

11.06.2025 16:28 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Final call for the @realmagicbooks.bsky.social Weekend, where I will be chatting to Rowe Irvin tomorrow about her hauntingly beautiful debut novel Life Cycle of a Moth 🐛

30.05.2025 15:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

found this incredibly moving

29.05.2025 17:07 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Latest Dog Walk Report is about land, language, liberty, and how the fight for land access rights should be international and universal

27.05.2025 16:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

shared some excerpts from my 2024 diary, incl inside ivy, friend’s fox-stolen trousers, and hunting the aurora borealis with a pilled-up stranger, on @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social

18.01.2025 17:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Nine ways of looking at a pint of Guinness The making of a beautiful pint. Words by Ana Kinsella; Illustration by Sinjin Li.

This essay by Ana Kinsella in Vittles last year is very good imo www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/nine-ways-...

18.12.2024 20:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Irish food/drink culture is trendy in chi-chi dining establishments at the moment, thanks to places like Café Cecilia. It's also in the public consciousness more because of e.g. Shit London Guinness, plus Guinness marketing is as effective as ever (e.g. myths of 2-part pour and "the perfect pint")

18.12.2024 20:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Cliff, a scruffy black patterdale terrier, photographed on a pink background wearing a pink collar, by Kevin McGonnell

Shadows & Reflections: Benjamin Myers pays tribute to Cliff — the ultimate writer’s dog — 'though I have often wondered if perhaps I am, in fact, merely the dog’s writer.' caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...

17.12.2024 15:42 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

staghorn sumac showing autumnal colour change in yellow and bright orange

drooping fungus and autumn leaves on a rotten log

Rosehips, haws and crab apple jam: site editor @divaeh.bsky.social and her long, thin dog walk (and eat) through the blazes of late autumn www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/dog-...

14.12.2024 15:00 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0