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Hope it goes well for you all X

…Most urgent is new batteries for Pinoseed and I need my medicine and healthy food . I also need to see a Nutritionist to do tests to now how to correctly build up my health balance.
So if anyone can spare anything this time it would mean a lot to me.
Link to my GoFundMe page gofund.me/cc9de2bf

Save the date #Cork 11th October

Balls on the Falls
#oichemhaith codladh sámh

Goodnight, sleep safe 💙💚💙💚

This guardian of the potato field, fully clothed amid the criss-crossed history of harvest.

Stray spuds scattered in ridges, impressed with heavy tyre tracks, a second picking.

A gift of abundance in a world of plenty where millions go without.

#Belfast #BéalFeirste

I am a poet. My first publication was in 2018. I’ve been consistently published ever since, but am yet to find a publisher who wants to give me a contract. Also, I am a digital native and have been posting online since the days when Usenet was where all the Internet Drama took place. We’re coming up for thirty years online. I am here, thinking on a daily basis from now on. I have committed to this space as mine going forward, until some idiot billionaire fucks this up too... It's a place for talking, as I appreciate that many people do not want to have my work in their Inbox. So, I will share my work here and you have the option to consume as you wish. A few caveats: no meme accounts no repost only accounts engage with me first respect my caveats This has been a long time coming: I am 58, have two adult children and am a happily married bisexual. If you’re still reading at this point, you deserve all the plaudits for doing so. #transrightsarehumanrights

I'd appreciate it if anyone notes any glaring typos in this to nudge me.

Otherwise, this will do for now.

Two large square Giclée printed artworks inspired by Achill Island sea life held by red haired female identical twins who framed the work.

Two giclée prints for my upcoming exhibition with Harry Moore in #Cork.

Beautifully framed by Karen & Claire at redearthdesigns.shop Belfast

Save the date #Cork 11th October

Is there anything more loyal than the sun?
Mary Oliver

#Autumn #Sun

💙 a long-ago, much admired piece

The new master of Wrack: our friend, @pinoseed-connect.bsky.social, resting aboard our boat today after his discharge from hospital in Cagliari. He is recovering from a heart attack and emergency surgery two weeks ago.

Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home

Our already high monthly costs for prescriptions have increased 40 per cent (or more than €100) and we are constrained by a need to stay close to a hospital for at least a month (necessitating a costly marina berth rather than a free anchorage).

Please read our latest update.

@ccohanlon.bsky.social and his wife Given are in need of support as he recovers from his recent surgery.
They need somewhere to stay outside of EU. A sanctuary. If you can help we'd be very grateful.

gofund.me/4bc17d10c

We’re looking for a temporary (two months) refuge/cheap rental outside the EU from early October. I’m undergoing further medical stuff this week and unlikely to be fit enough to return to sea.

Open to anything/anywhere, on this side of the Atlantic.

Gender neutral bathroom signage

Wonderful signage indicating the gender neutral bathrooms at the university of Helsinki - no-one being excluded, policed, antagonised or upset!

It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle, a rivulet, or flood.
Alice Oswald

#Achill #Solas #Light and #Rain

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Best bit of reading today. Thanks 💐

Thoughtful James, as ever 💚

Ghana: Echoes of Tomorrow It’s been thirty-three years since I walked the streets of Takoradi—over three decades that feel less like time passed than the tide gone out. And now, out of nowhere, fresh footage arrives of low-bel...

“The Ghanaian poet Awoonor once wrote, ‘What has been broken shall be woven, / the house shall stand, the feast shall be eaten.’…It is written for Ghanaians as if the words themselves a promise.”

- Peter Bach @lyst.bsky.social

[via @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social]

It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

Autocracy, Apocalypse and the Blue Glow: The State of America in Film An American friend visiting London last week asked me to recommend some “movies” to him. Only later did I realise how loaded a question it was. Cinema has

Much to the relief of everyone, I am sure, I’ve been refraining of late from posting my articles here. This one, however, I will. It is something for the cineaste. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/01/a...

Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home

@ccohanlon.bsky.social is not well.

He and his wife Given need to fly to Rome to see a specialist urgently rather than risk his condition worsening on a 220 nautical mile sea passage.

We need to raise €550 as soon as possible. We'd be very grateful for any help you can give. 🙏🏼
gofund.me/374f8c58

Rain & the memory of early morning toast hangs in the kitchen.

The Right: "Let's see what we can get him to say he does next."

Thunder over the harbour, dark clouds along the steep, rocky hills on the western edge of the Gulf.

“Water lies at the limit of words. It overflows all our containers. It spills out from around the word ‘water’ and it has no name.”

So soon...
no wonder your friend & confidante needs to be placated..❤️‍🔥