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Becky
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Mostly haiku, but I also dabble in cats, flowers, pretty things, and probably accounting.
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"There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush [man]: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler, because he knows he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this."
On page 66 of the Penguin edition of Blaise Pascal's "Pensées", Thought #200 (347 in other texts), a drawing in ballpoint pen of a reed (kind of resembling a cattail) on a hill with a thought bubble above it that reads "I am wretched".
November 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Order your annual #Edinburgh #haiku circle calendar! Contact Catherine at: edinburghhaikucircle.wordpress.com

This is last year's (or this year's? 2025 anyway) ...
The Edinburgh Haiku Circle calendar. One haiku per month with an appropriate piece of artwork. A list of Japanese holidays is in the back. Usually £10-15 plus shipping. Email Catherine to place your order.
October 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Book Lovers of Bluesky: Is your bookstore ethical? Ethical Consumer (UK) has released their list of most ethical book retailers. Surprise surprise, Amazon (and AbeBooks) is at the bottom of the list.
Buy local, independent.
Buy second hand.
Your local, independent bookshop or nearest library is best, but our Best Buys for books are as follows: Best for physical bookshops: Libraries, local independent bookshops and Oxfam. Best for online bookshops: Better World Books, Biblio, Bookshop.org, Oxfam, The Guardian Bookshop Best for ebooks: Ebooks.com Best for audiobooks: xigxag Best for secondhand: Better World Books, Biblio, Oxfam Recommended buys Hive scored well across most of our categories and supports independent bookshops. Alibris and World of Books are good for secondhand too. We recommend avoiding Amazon (including its brands AbeBooks and Audible).
October 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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#FoundSenryu

Headline: Out of the darkness two fighter jets emerge: Watch as Sky News joins NATO

Text: Out of the darkness, flashing bars of red and blue, followed by the black, avian-like forms of two Typhoon fighter jets, emerge and glide side-long towards our plane.

#senryu
Headline: Out of the darkness two fighter jets emerge: watch as Sky News joins NATO Text: Out of the darkness, flashing bars of red and blue, followed by the black, avian-like forms of two Typhoon fighter jets, emerge and glide side-long towards our plane. Image: a plane wing on the left, that of the photographer’s, a fighter jet with two red lights on the right, a city lights from above as the sky has a hint of orange on the horizon
October 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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#haibun in The Atlantic by Michael D. Snediker

www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
Surface Support The Atlantic / by Michael D. Snediker / Aug 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM For the man getting home late to the line. He calls calling with a miniaturist’s awareness (cold to touch), though somewhere still on fire. He couldn’t write to save the monsoon in his eye. Twinkling cities in competing moats. Louchely entering together the lesser gulf as it hammers down like fibers in a cut card mill before the shower. Meniscus augur & hour of errors as the mercury rag spills its rings from his last good pore, his teeth shaped in greenhouse suet or little expectant pots of orchid balm in snow. Once showed the erection tricks in his spam, the gulf's hourglass of vertebrae returned to sand, the script. Running just running after the warm. We gnawed our brackets straight through the bee man’s boy.
August 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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the sky is so low today you can't even see the castle

#Edinburgh

what is seen
what is unseen
castle in the clouds
View from the second floor of the number 29 bus, looking down Frederick Street in Edinburgh up towards Edinburgh Castle. Princes Street gardens is visible, but the top of the hill is obscured by low hanging clouds so that Edinburgh Castle at the top is invisible in a sheet of pale grey.
July 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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This one was good.
A book lies on a pale duvet. Title: Out There Screaming. An Anthology of Black Horror. Edited by Jordan Peele. The cover looks like crumpled paper, a torrent sea of black and white with little shiny gold bits as the crest of the folds. Three red tears are in the crumpled paper, two smaller ones and one larger one, so it looks like a face screaming. A US dollar bill sticks out of the top as a bookmark.
April 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Sleepy kitty 😴😴😴😻
A tuxedo black and white cat sleeps on a faded pink blanket. He lies on his back, showing his floofy white chest. A black and white tuxedo cat sleeps on his back, showing his floofy white belly.
April 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Partial solar #eclipse in #Scotland. At least I think the sun is over there 🤔
The branches of a cherry tree that doesn't yet have flowers or leaves do nothing to obscure the dark grey cloudy sky that somewhere in some direction hides a partial solar eclipse.
March 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Partial solar #eclipse time in #Scotland
A colander of aluminium being held up against a grey overcast sky in a fruitless attempt to witness a partial solar eclipse.
March 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Spring cat energy

We have ground bees that fascinated the cats.

#CatsOfBluesky #Cat
March 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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In other news, muscari are coming up nicely, the hyacinth in the basket is blooming, and there are a few daffodils and narcissus blooming.

#FlowerReport
A clump of daffodils, five yellow blooms among plenty of green leaves. These should probably be divided. They were the first flowers we planted over 10 years ago. But they persist. Two purple hyacinth flowers in a green plastic basket. There are some weeds in the basket, too, but they are small and green. A single yellow daffodil in front of a Japanese maple. Tulip shoots in the background. A large clump of muscari, purple grape flowers, more than a dozen, in front of the lilac bush that is starting to sprout leaves.
March 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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#FlowerReport

LOOK AT MY BERGENIA!! LOOK AT IT! SO PINK!
Pink elephant ear bergenia in full bloom with frilly pink flowers against wide shiny green leaves. There are weeds around it and some purple muscari.
March 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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At the bus stop, there's a poster for the new Minecraft movie. Two little black girls are pointing at the sheep and dog and arguing over who wants to be Danielle Brooks.
Movie poster for "A Minecraft Movie". The cast is shown in a row, Danielle Brooks wears an afro and bright orange and pink track suit. Jack Black had a grey beard and a blue t-shirt on. Jason Momoa had a pink jacket on and ripped jeans. Sebastian Hansen (?) has on a red shirt. Emma Myers (?) had her hand on her hip. Only Danielle Brooks is black. There is a green square shaped hedge monster thing on the left and a cute but angry looking dog with square ears on the bottom right.
March 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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A burn is a Scottish word for a small creek.

cigarette ash
falls
with a hiss

#haiku
A Scottish burn (small creek) in the Lothians. Water flows smoothly with a light sound over stones. Some large grey ones are close, the bed of the burn has small reddish stones. Across the water, a tree has fallen over at some time in the past, leaves still green. A weathered trunk is in the top left next to the photographer.
March 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Meanwhile, the rebellious young cherry tree has again been first of them to bloom. It's really in the wrong spot and will cause problems once it's older, but I can enjoy its #blossoms for now, already littering the pavement.
A twig of a cherry tree against conifers. There are some white blossoms on it, maybe five or six opened, and a couple not opened. A whole cherry blossom in the mud on the side of the pavement. Nearby are some petals of the same. These are the only white things in the image - everything else is grey or brown.
March 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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In other #Flower news, the cyclamen we transplanted from the base of the cherry tree to against the wall (where the skull is) have done magnificently. The ones under the tree have grown back nicely and the transplanted ones have naturalised.
Purple cyclamen in a large clump. The flowers are mostly in the sun, and they range from pale pink to bright fuchsia in colour. They leaves are dark green, almost black, and round. Behind them and to the right are two clumps of snowdrops. There are too many flowers to count. A fern in the back isn't doing too well and only has a couple friends. There is a dandelion weed to the left that doesn't have a flower. A decorative skull sits among fallen fern fronds. It has a pattern on the top of the skull. Behind that, some bark chips and a clump of snowdrops. Behind that, a sprawling clump of pink purple cyclamen.
February 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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#FlowerReport 🌸🪻🌷

The crocuses are blooming happily! I think I might have to divide the ones under trees as they are quite small and close together.
A bundle of crocuses, light purple with yellow stamens, about 9 of them, rather small A pot, somewhat over grown with weeds, but with three large people crocuses in bloom with a smaller yellow one. The crocuses have thin green leaves with a white line down the middle that stand up straight. There are other bulb shoots coming up, too. It's sunny. Clumps of purple crocuses surrounded by bark chips. One side is shady, one is in the sun. The blooms are quite small and close together. There are some few weeds and other bulbs shots among them.
February 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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the thinnest of frost
still
requires scraping

#haiku
February 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Highly recommend “Invisible Kitties” by Yu Yoyo. Poetic surreal observations and dreams of #cats.
Picture of the book Invisible Kitties by Yu Yoyo translated by Jonathan Tang. The cover is black with gold foil paw prints and a cat that is sitting but you do not see a face. Picture of two pages of the table of contents. There are ink drawings of cats in outline. The text is at different angles on the pages. Example chapter headings include: Boiling Cat, Gaseous Cat, Cat-and-seek, Cat Fluff, Plant Assassin First page: an ink drawings of cats of a black cat sitting on legs on the left page. 1. Ten Thousand Drops of Cat Rain — ink paw prints near the title — The cats required a curtain raiser before coming onstage— they would never so much as make an appearance without a bit of fanfare. Ahead of the rain came a little wind, only a smidge, like the sudden lurch of missing your footing on the stairs. Not too much force, no strong gusts, everything just a little askew. The kitties needed to hold back some of their energy for play. The wind rose, and the kitties took advantage of the occasion to burrow into the shadowy clouds, concealing themselves behind the curtain. Amped up and full of ex-citement, ears dancing like beams of light, they darted
February 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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#FoundHaiku Bit long tho.

despite the damp day
a dunnock
singing
Twitter: The Edinburgh Birdwatcher @edinbirdwatcher Despite it being a damp miserable day it won’t stop a Dunnock singing in the garden.
February 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Have you seen this? It’ll put you right off. 😂 The character vomits out kittens.
February 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Ooh! No I haven't! Want! 📌
Cat with muscular arms banging a table saying WANT
February 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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I hadn’t considered that…

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Two Bluesky posts appear next to each other randomly. Derek @dieworkwhere says: If we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they’ll never enter schools Below that Phoebe Barton @phoebe…(?) says: Yes, but have you considered how cute my cat is Photo of a mostly white cat with black spots lying contentedly on a wooden floor with a blue rug
January 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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So thankful that posts like this make it easy to identify people to block.
Screenshot of a sample reply from “ronrevere” . The thread is about a disinformation “newspaper” called the Epoch Times and this dude Ron replies “People should only see what you want them to see.” In other replies on his profile he calls people communists and fascists and has no actual posts of his own. He also spelled “break” as “brake” in one of them. He is an utter tool. Block this muthafuka’s ass.
December 8, 2024 at 10:31 AM