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Galata Mevlevi Dervish lodge, Istanbul, 2023

The introduction includes a great slight - XX “whose name is more beautiful than his book” 🤣 might steal that for a future review.

They’re still knockout live. Saw them at their carbon-free festival in Bristol 2 years ago

That stands for ‘normal nice chocolate’ and ‘decadent, expensive chocolate’ - so counts twice.

Peak human 🌟

News - Sacred Road Mapped in Northern Peru’s Chicama Valley - Archaeology Magazine TRUJILLO, PERU—A sacred road stretching for more than a mile has been mapped in northern […]

Sacred Road Mapped in Northern Peru’s Chicama Valley. #Archaeology
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gathering in gold
bee pauses in the sunshine
carrying the light

#glimmerings #glimmers #bees #spring #nature

poetrye ys the technologye of hope

A detail from a panel from a 1990 Peanuts comic strip showing Snoopy lying under a tree. He is thinking, “I like a book where there’s only one character and nothing happens to him.”

Good morning, friends!

Thanks to Andy Paget on Facebook for today's #FoxOfTheDay !

I wrote two short plays & included a non-speaking part for myself in each one linktr.ee/thunkpresent...

Oooohhh! 👀

My copy of Silence by John Cage - the front cover and the blank spine.

After moving house I spent a long time searching for this. It turned up yesterday. Missed it I believe because the spine is blank... blank...

Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... I’m not sure if this is even possible but as somebody somewhere said “you can have clean water and you can have privatised water but you can’t have clean privatised water”.

And Wales. It’s a green desert with all the sheep fields. 🐑

Trên / Train

Arthur Machen’s influence might be seen in Robert Aickman, Daphne du Maurier, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Mark E. Smith, among others. Written in the late 1890s his ‘The Hill of Dreams’ is a decadent occult novel, visionary, bitter and unsettling, that moves between rural Wales and literary London.

Submit — Banshee Press \uD83C\uDF84 The Banshee shop is now closed for the festive season! Any orders placed will be fulfilled in January 2026 \uD83C\uDF84

Submissions for issue 22 (autumn/winter 2026) are now open until 31 March! We’re looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays ✨

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I grew up in Oregon. This plan to clear cut Oregon's old growth forests is terrible in multiple ways. This article gives info on the situation and also where/how you can submit a comment to the BLM. Comment period closes March 23.

Poem territory

They never had a choice. Lapdogs of dictators since the 80s, Free Wales of occupation. ☺️ we had/have the Starwars base here for the US, the shield to shoot down nukes from Russia. Independence for Wales (where I live) and we’ll have Bristol too. ☺️

Gift of The American Art Foundation

Untitled Number 5 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79416

Yuck 🤢

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Ddyfrwr llon i bawb sy'n codi gwydr er cof am y nawddsant

ANFARWOL GOFFA DEWI DDYFRWR

Dydd Gŵyl Ddewi,
Dydd cadw stŵr,
Nid dydd i dewi
Nac yfed dŵr.

Catiau Cwta gan Thomas Jacob Thomas (Sarnicol)
#DyddGŵylDewi #Cymru

Today
Peace to all

X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1978 Vinyl release of "Germfree Adolescents" on Discogs.

playing X-RAY SPEX 'identity' www.discogs.com/release/4431... // TUNE IN NOW: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @bbcsounds

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YouTube video by Dewi Fraunhofer Meic Stevens a Gruff Rhys

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Diolch!!