Sisyphus with a Hat

A river flows slowly in a forest. The sky is gray.

A sturdy wooden hut in a pine forest.

Two veggie rations, Frezza coffee and a Primus cooker.

Visiting my favourite river is nice also without a rod. Veggie rations for lunch, perhaps fried pike filet with mushroom sauce for dinner from the lake and forest?

#Kainuu 🤠🌲

You’ve probably heard this claim: Climate’s always changing!

It's true, Earth’s climate has changed before. But not this fast, and not for this reason.

Introducing Cold Facts, Hot Takes: my new series of evidence-based replies to common troll takes 🔥

Want the whole episode? Links below ⬇️

Brown and grey and white chicken-shaped bird standing next to a spruce tree trunk being generally invisible.

Looking forward to sharing photos from our Prince Albert National Park getaway. There were so many Ruffed Grouse and yet they never make things easy for a photographer! #birds 🌿

Good chance for aurora in Saskatoon tonight- KP index will go as high as 8.00

Uffington

Over the hill

Golden-winged Warbler A strikingly patterned warbler of leafy second growth and swamp edges. Once common in the northeast, it has been declining recently in southern parts of its breeding range. As it disappears, its...

They're good birds, and I want us to all have them forever. But I can't help but wonder if we'll lose them permanently in my lifetime. www.audubon.org/field-guide/...

Autumn progresses at the #weedypond which is filling up nicely, with all the rainfall at the moment.
Listen to the Jackdaws flying to roost, as the Wren is out hunting in the gloaming.
The bathing Robin is disturbed in the pitch dark by the (still unhibernated!) Hedgehog - it's still so mild...
🦉🌿

Audiobook acquired!

My More Jam Tomorrow research has turned up Lord Brabazon of Tara. Brabazon was an early aviator. In 1909, to prove that pigs could fly, he attached a pig in a waste-paper basket to his biplane.

I just never want to see anyone wringing their hands about how much they like The Newsagents in my replies again pleeeeease.

Indeed. I wasn't aware of this (I am not an avid follower of almost anything), but suffice to say, this is them relegated to file 13 for me.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

I think it is because people tend to think in simplistic terms, in caricatures of good and evil, that they are shocked by things like that. As always, there is a Pratchett quote:

Quaker climate activist wins appeal against deportation with support from Chris Packham and many others | ICN Quaker climate activist Marcus Decker will not be deported, a judge ruled at his immigration tribunal on Monday, 10 November.

Climate activist wins appeal against deportation after being sentenced to more than two years in prison after a JSO protest at the Dartford Crossing in 2022. A sliver of good news in this increasingly authoritarian country. www.indcatholicnews.com/news/53671

Clear out toys now!

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

The older I get, the more tired I become of the uncurious.

A bull elk crosses the road along with his family of about 25.

⚠️ 🦌 🚗
Fun day in Prince Albert National Park, where a herd of elk crossing the road is a nice change from regular traffic.

Some of us are just incredibly relieved

Beech tree, illuminated from the right by the mid-day sun. Bright green moss covers its trunk. Its leaves have turned bright, autumn yellow, contrasting with the dark green leaves of the holly tree on the left. From the Angidy Valley, just off the Wye Valley near Tintern.

In old, wet forests, the moss goes up and up.

AUTHORS!!

Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?

Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.

More here:

View across a frozen lake to a late afternoon sky with grey clouds and a bright band of yellow at the horizon.

Happily out of touch with the world for a few days. Greetings from the Quiet Zone 🌿

"A slop of cultural smoothie that tastes vaguely of fame, money and disappointment" – one for the posters, that 👍

An old time-y illustration of a the Harrow.

Today is Décadi the 20th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the harrow. #JacobinDay

More information on the harrow

Pardon the typos....

chef

me when i add walnuts, goat's cheese and spinach to my £1 Iceland pizza

People really should gwt it inot this heads that because you are rich/famous/good at one thing, it mist emphatically does not mean that you are worth listening to with respect to other issues, be they moral, political or intellectual.

Many famous people are one trick ponies.

Mirror EXCLUSIVE: JK Rowling 'funding transphobia' as equality in Britain goes backwards, MP says Nadia Whittome, who has just joined Westminster's Women and Equalities Committee, called for the Government fight back against toxic narratives and show solidarity with the trans community

She said: "It's increasingly difficult when what we're up against is a machine funded by billionaires in this country and the US, with political support from countries like Russia as well.

"You just need to follow where the transphobia is coming from, it's not coming from working class people, it's trickling down from the top. "These concerns are not being raised by a cleaner on the minimum wage, somebody stuck in an abusive relationship. Trans people aren't a threat to them, the threat to them comes from violent men and the structures that keep them trapped, whether that's low pay, low benefits, not having access to the public services they need.

She said: "We see negative headlines about trans people in the media every day, the Tories and Reform continue to use them as a political football, often most damagingly in reference to protecting women from women who aren't trans, which misdiagnoses the problem of male violence, which is something...done to women both trans and not trans by violent and abusive men. "The only way we can stop trans people being used as a political football is to stand up for their rights unequivocally, by not giving an inch.

I imagine @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social will be getting the usual abuse for speaking out - solidarity with her and all those fighting against hate manipulated by the wealthy right gleefully creating a distracting wedge issue

Three children were killed by lawn darts in the 70’s and they were banned in the US.

ChatGPT has caused how many deaths at this point?

If corporations are people, why aren’t we holding them criminally liable?

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created one of the largest low-frequency radio colour images of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of the Galactic Plane – the disk of our Galaxy, which appears to human eyes as the glowing band of the Milky Way – now revealed across a wide range of radio wavelengths, or ‘colours’ of radio light.

This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty.

It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭

www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...

Take me down to the spider cave city
Where the black is pitch and the web is sticky