A collection of ripening acorns arranged so their colours shift gently on a buff coloured linen background with a calligraphy label

Acorn palette,
late September 2025

A collection of seedheads, acorns, sycamore keys, dried flowers, lichen, a little owl feather & a piece of Baltic amber on a white watercolour paper background

Autumnal collection, including little owl feather, seedheads & various lovely things that fell off trees.
Zoom in to the details if you’re feeling stressed-the patterns in nature have been shown to help our brains relax🪶:

Lily Galili Get email notification for articles from Lily Galili Follow Dec 9, 2009 In 1958, then-foreign minister Golda Meir raised the possibility of preventing handicapped and sick Polish Jews from immigrating to Israel, a recently discovered Foreign Ministry document has revealed. "A proposal was raised in the coordination committee to inform the Polish government that we want to institute selection in aliyah, because we cannot continue accepting sick and handicapped people. Please give your opinion as to whether this can be explained to the Poles without hurting immigration," read the document, written by Meir to Israel's ambassador to Poland, Katriel Katz.

Dieses scheiß Land alter..

www.haaretz.com/2009-12-09/t...

7:10pm 30th April: Peak English Bluebell season in our Ancient English Woodland

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking

Friedrich Nietzsche

A massive oak tree outside a pub

The Broad Oak pub in Strelley, Nottinghamshire

And the fairly obvious reason it’s called what it is

An acorn and its taproot

An acorn and its taproot

This is Æðelsċadu

Old English for ‘Noble Shadow’. If the word survived today it would be ‘addleshade’

Eala Æðelscadu beama berhtast! (Hail Addleshade, brightest of trees)

St Saviour’s Church, Tonbridge, the Kingdom of Kent & a 165 year old Giant Redwood

The planets greatest steeple, and a building built by humans

Be like Bert

A close up of multiple acorns on an oak tree

‘Masting’ is the synchronized production of large numbers of seeds by a tree population in a year, followed by years of lower numbers

It allows trees to overwhelm seed predators to ensure that some seeds will survive

It is believed weather patterns play a role 1/2

An Oast house

Oast Houses in this lawless borderland are not innocent refurbished hop drying buildings, they are missile silos to keep the Saxons from our door 😡

An English Bluebell

Who is missing our English Bluebells?

A bluebell a week until they wake again next year #2

English Oak Acorns

Nature’s Gold, England’s Glory

New book just arrived in the post! Includes chapter by me & @evangelospsych.bsky.social on collective resilience as a process in emergent groups in emergencies.

Bravery of worshippers and security stopped attacker entering Manchester synagogue, police chief says Two people died in the synagogue attack; a third person, the attacker, was shot dead by police. The attack happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

'Bravery of worshippers and security stopped attacker entering Manchester synagogue'

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Acorns on the grass

Just wild sown 200 hundred acorns

Picked up in local paths where there was no chance of a future, & placed in areas where they have every chance

Within every acorn there is a potential forest

A sea of bluebells

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever

An English bluebell

Who is missing our English Bluebells?

A bluebell a week until they wake again next year #7

We must move quickly from ideas to actions.

It is possible during the next year to build essential capabilities of the drone wall.

The money is there: by 2030 Member States can spend 2.5 trillion euros on defence.

Wow, quite an #invertebrates image!

Geert Wilders suspends campaign over security threat The Dutch far-right politician, who is currently topping the polls ahead of Oct. 29 elections, said he was under threat by the same group behind the foiled plot against Belgium’s Bart de Weve…

Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders has put his campaign on hold “until further notice” after being informed that he was among several politicians in the crosshairs of a suspected terrorist group.

MAGA Influencers May Have Been Paid to Break With RFK Do we have another payola scandal on the right? Plus, the fallout from that Atlantic story—you know the one.

MAGA influencers are erupting over a potential payola scandal.

The latest issue of False Flag, my new newsletter for @thebulwark.bsky.social, is here:
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Tim Pool, White House correspondent!

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

The @newyorker.com has a great new profile of fascist ideologue Curtis Yarvin / Mencius Moldbug, who's been praised by JD Vance.

Yarvin insisted on wearing a bike helmet in college classes, and was dubbed "helmet-head" by his classmates. And it gets crazier! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA Sets ‘All American Halftime Show’ in Protest of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA announced the 'All American Halftime Show,' a Super Bowl alternative in protest of headliner Bad Bunny.

If I wanted to watch Nazi propaganda during a sporting event, I would watch the 1936 Olympics… 
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

Léon Marchand de retour dans le « petit bain » Le quadruple champion olympique de Paris 2024 reprend la compétition ce vendredi à l’occasion de la Coupe du monde en petit bassin, à Carmel, aux Etats-Unis.

Léon Marchand de retour dans le « petit bain »

KLOBUCHAR: Do you agree that at least raising the age for purchasing assault weapons could reduce the number of these shootings?

BONDI: That's pending litigation and I can't discuss that at all ... what I can tell you is the most pro-2nd Amendment DOJ in history

It’s very funny how the only attack these chuds have is implicating connections to Epstein when Trump has bragged about being his best friend for over a decade.