Philippa R. Francis
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A bit late for #wildflowerhour - but here's some Black Horehound and Bristly Oxtongue - both seen flowering in abundance this weekend on the East Sussex coast.
Please correct me if I've got either of them wrong...
#wildflowers
Please correct me if I've got either of them wrong...
#wildflowers
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A bit late for #wildflowerhour - but here's some Black Horehound and Bristly Oxtongue - both seen flowering in abundance this weekend on the East Sussex coast.
Please correct me if I've got either of them wrong...
#wildflowers
Please correct me if I've got either of them wrong...
#wildflowers
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Welcome to #WeekofWonders -a place for all of you (also on x)-providing a weekly prompt for writing, arts and crafts, related music, your thoughts,photos etc. Join in! I will change the pinned post each Monday. Use the # for retweets.
Week 56: #foggy
Week 56: #foggy
a man in a hat stands in front of a street light
ALT: a man in a hat stands in front of a street light
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November 16, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Welcome to #WeekofWonders -a place for all of you (also on x)-providing a weekly prompt for writing, arts and crafts, related music, your thoughts,photos etc. Join in! I will change the pinned post each Monday. Use the # for retweets.
Week 56: #foggy
Week 56: #foggy
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just watched The Ballad of Wallis Island, a folksy sometimes silly movie which packs a surprising emotional punch towards the end - highly recommend
November 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
just watched The Ballad of Wallis Island, a folksy sometimes silly movie which packs a surprising emotional punch towards the end - highly recommend
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A colourful November walk 🍂🦋
#trail #leaves #foilage #nature #hiking #inspiration #landscape #autumn #fall #switzerland #berneroberland #photography
#trail #leaves #foilage #nature #hiking #inspiration #landscape #autumn #fall #switzerland #berneroberland #photography
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A colourful November walk 🍂🦋
#trail #leaves #foilage #nature #hiking #inspiration #landscape #autumn #fall #switzerland #berneroberland #photography
#trail #leaves #foilage #nature #hiking #inspiration #landscape #autumn #fall #switzerland #berneroberland #photography
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As it’s Sunday, take a moment to imagine how good life would be if your neighbourhood was built for people.
November 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
As it’s Sunday, take a moment to imagine how good life would be if your neighbourhood was built for people.
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May the forest grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to sharpen my antlers & fangs, and the wisdom to know when to use them.
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
May the forest grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to sharpen my antlers & fangs, and the wisdom to know when to use them.
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Spent the afternoon putting the gardens to bed. 🌱😴 Their remaining bounty - the seedheads & spent pods- belong to the wild ones now. 🐿 We’ll rendezvous once again when the world stirs back to life in the Spring, but for now they’ll slumber peacefully under their warm coverlet of shed leaves. 🍂
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Spent the afternoon putting the gardens to bed. 🌱😴 Their remaining bounty - the seedheads & spent pods- belong to the wild ones now. 🐿 We’ll rendezvous once again when the world stirs back to life in the Spring, but for now they’ll slumber peacefully under their warm coverlet of shed leaves. 🍂
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Goodnight from Joe Waterfield, dismissing his sighting of Corpse Friars’ lanterns as a sign he drank too much at The Windlass pub. Goodnight from William Heywall up at Palefire Farm, writing a petition to the Field Sprite to amend the terms of its blood tithe. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Goodnight from Joe Waterfield, dismissing his sighting of Corpse Friars’ lanterns as a sign he drank too much at The Windlass pub. Goodnight from William Heywall up at Palefire Farm, writing a petition to the Field Sprite to amend the terms of its blood tithe. Goodnight from Hookland.
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The Big Green Books Advent Calendar.
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Unwrap a surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
Each book will be individually picked based on what you enjoy reading.
Info HERE.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE.
Ends tomorrow.
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Unwrap a surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
Each book will be individually picked based on what you enjoy reading.
Info HERE.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE.
Ends tomorrow.
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The Big Green Books Advent Calendar.
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Unwrap a surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
Each book will be individually picked based on what you enjoy reading.
Info HERE.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE.
Ends tomorrow.
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Unwrap a surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
Each book will be individually picked based on what you enjoy reading.
Info HERE.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE.
Ends tomorrow.
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#poem L.C. Goodwin
#CallAndResponse
with the marvelous @everettpoetry.bsky.social
thank you, friend
💚💚💚💚💚☀️🌿
#resist
#CallAndResponse
with the marvelous @everettpoetry.bsky.social
thank you, friend
💚💚💚💚💚☀️🌿
#resist
she said
name the four chambers
of your heart:
oh, my labored
faithlessly helpless heart—
what names can it bear?
fear & loathing
Believes In Dragons
distillations
leaf of common sage
under my ribs love
is cumbrous,
unbreakable momentum
vows a burden
routinely cherished,
too heavy to set down.
name the four chambers
of your heart:
oh, my labored
faithlessly helpless heart—
what names can it bear?
fear & loathing
Believes In Dragons
distillations
leaf of common sage
under my ribs love
is cumbrous,
unbreakable momentum
vows a burden
routinely cherished,
too heavy to set down.
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#CallAndResponse
with the marvelous @everettpoetry.bsky.social
thank you, friend
💚💚💚💚💚☀️🌿
#resist
#CallAndResponse
with the marvelous @everettpoetry.bsky.social
thank you, friend
💚💚💚💚💚☀️🌿
#resist
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
— Simone Weil
#BloomScrolling #FlowerReport
#PinkMon
— Simone Weil
#BloomScrolling #FlowerReport
#PinkMon
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
— Simone Weil
#BloomScrolling #FlowerReport
#PinkMon
— Simone Weil
#BloomScrolling #FlowerReport
#PinkMon
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November 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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& through the riverfield (its strange flat line of stones punctuated by hawthorn), soft & waning deepautumn, squeaking of long tailed tits & buzzard issuing key from nearbare larch, wheeting nuthatch deep in cover
November 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
& through the riverfield (its strange flat line of stones punctuated by hawthorn), soft & waning deepautumn, squeaking of long tailed tits & buzzard issuing key from nearbare larch, wheeting nuthatch deep in cover
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November 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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wild sea | wild winds
old stones
old stones
November 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
wild sea | wild winds
old stones
old stones
#Glowvember photopoem shared 15th November 2025
November 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
#Glowvember photopoem shared 15th November 2025
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Fern gully green
Ferns in the Appalachian mountains.
#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #ferns #forest #photography
Ferns in the Appalachian mountains.
#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #ferns #forest #photography
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Fern gully green
Ferns in the Appalachian mountains.
#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #ferns #forest #photography
Ferns in the Appalachian mountains.
#coloraday #greensat #eastcoastkin #ferns #forest #photography
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Slow down.
Don't race through life or you might outrun the forest ghosts, dark fairies, and ancient witches in floating cottages that are trying to catch you and carry you away to another realm.
Don't race through life or you might outrun the forest ghosts, dark fairies, and ancient witches in floating cottages that are trying to catch you and carry you away to another realm.
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Slow down.
Don't race through life or you might outrun the forest ghosts, dark fairies, and ancient witches in floating cottages that are trying to catch you and carry you away to another realm.
Don't race through life or you might outrun the forest ghosts, dark fairies, and ancient witches in floating cottages that are trying to catch you and carry you away to another realm.
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that people use AI technologies in their work and explain that it saves them precious time that they can devote to other more urgent tasks tells me less about the wondrousness of the technologies and more about the overextension and immiseration of workers.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
that people use AI technologies in their work and explain that it saves them precious time that they can devote to other more urgent tasks tells me less about the wondrousness of the technologies and more about the overextension and immiseration of workers.
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Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free”
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
November 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free”
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
the library bought it.
which in turn means that the community bought it.
In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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What - and I say this with my whole chest - the fuck?
Hold up
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
What - and I say this with my whole chest - the fuck?
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Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Monsal Dale in Autumn
Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983
Artist: SR Badmin
Monsal Dale in Autumn
Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983
Artist: SR Badmin
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Monsal Dale in Autumn
Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983
Artist: SR Badmin
Monsal Dale in Autumn
Cover picture, Readers Digest, 1983
Artist: SR Badmin
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November 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️