Daniel Pietersen
@pietersender.bsky.social
They are demon birds. The noise they make when roosting is brutal. Scone Palace have an albino one who looks like vampire Lucy from Coppola’s Dracula.
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
They are demon birds. The noise they make when roosting is brutal. Scone Palace have an albino one who looks like vampire Lucy from Coppola’s Dracula.
Genuinely sad to hear that Udo Kier has died. A great actor with a piercing sense of camp and scorn but who, to me, will always be Yuri.
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Genuinely sad to hear that Udo Kier has died. A great actor with a piercing sense of camp and scorn but who, to me, will always be Yuri.
I don’t drive either and a young beagle needs her miles underfoot. But, yeah, I know folk who will drive to the gym but find walking weird.
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I don’t drive either and a young beagle needs her miles underfoot. But, yeah, I know folk who will drive to the gym but find walking weird.
I like poetry that appears bad on the surface but is actually good.
John Cooper Clarke’s ‘Haiku No 1’
John Cooper Clarke’s ‘Haiku No 1’
November 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I like poetry that appears bad on the surface but is actually good.
John Cooper Clarke’s ‘Haiku No 1’
John Cooper Clarke’s ‘Haiku No 1’
Now that Disney owns The Muppets and the Alien franchise they should remake Alien but the only non-Muppet character is the xenomorph.
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Now that Disney owns The Muppets and the Alien franchise they should remake Alien but the only non-Muppet character is the xenomorph.
Self-portrait with gritted teeth
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Self-portrait with gritted teeth
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant - Seneca The Younger
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant - Seneca The Younger
My wife, who I love dearly, has a mania for baths. A three hour bath is not unheard of. I cannot tolerate it. My preference is a steam vent that flays the filth off.
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My wife, who I love dearly, has a mania for baths. A three hour bath is not unheard of. I cannot tolerate it. My preference is a steam vent that flays the filth off.
“Make mistakes of ambition, not mistakes of sloth.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“Make mistakes of ambition, not mistakes of sloth.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
In the middle of an unassuming new-build housing estate in Prestonpans, just outside Edinburgh, you can find this imposing statue. The work of Andy Scott’s, who also designed the Kelpies, it is a memorial to the 81 men and women who, throughout the 17thC, were executed in the town for witchcraft.
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In the middle of an unassuming new-build housing estate in Prestonpans, just outside Edinburgh, you can find this imposing statue. The work of Andy Scott’s, who also designed the Kelpies, it is a memorial to the 81 men and women who, throughout the 17thC, were executed in the town for witchcraft.
The soup said it came with croutons. I did not realise they meant “in a separate box”. Absolute chonker.
[CW: food]
[CW: food]
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The soup said it came with croutons. I did not realise they meant “in a separate box”. Absolute chonker.
[CW: food]
[CW: food]
‘Thiepval Chateau’, from Sixteen Drypoints of War (Percy Delf Smith, 1917)
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
‘Thiepval Chateau’, from Sixteen Drypoints of War (Percy Delf Smith, 1917)
Says a lot about about me that I audibly gasped “Menswe@R guy?!”
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Says a lot about about me that I audibly gasped “Menswe@R guy?!”
Brilliant talk from @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social tonight, speaking with great enthusiasm and passion about her new book Legenda. A genuinely infectious glee for history.
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Brilliant talk from @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social tonight, speaking with great enthusiasm and passion about her new book Legenda. A genuinely infectious glee for history.
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Far less an adaptation than an at points fairly clumsy rewrite. Del Toro understands the imagery but he’s too sentimental to really understand how brutal the narrative really is. Some very bizarre changes here, not least the Creature’s Yorkshire accent.
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025)
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025)
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Far less an adaptation than an at points fairly clumsy rewrite. Del Toro understands the imagery but he’s too sentimental to really understand how brutal the narrative really is. Some very bizarre changes here, not least the Creature’s Yorkshire accent.
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025)
Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025)
Me, a music fan: One of my favourite bands playing in the town I live in!
Me, a 48 year old man: And finished by half 9!
Me, a 48 year old man: And finished by half 9!
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Me, a music fan: One of my favourite bands playing in the town I live in!
Me, a 48 year old man: And finished by half 9!
Me, a 48 year old man: And finished by half 9!
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my fucks.
(Hamlet illustration by John Austen, c1922)
(Hamlet illustration by John Austen, c1922)
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I have of late, but wherefore I know not, lost all my fucks.
(Hamlet illustration by John Austen, c1922)
(Hamlet illustration by John Austen, c1922)
Taaleg Uksur (Common Eider King Eider, 2013)
#NowPlaying
commoneiderkingeider.bandcamp.com/album/taaleg...
#NowPlaying
commoneiderkingeider.bandcamp.com/album/taaleg...
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Taaleg Uksur (Common Eider King Eider, 2013)
#NowPlaying
commoneiderkingeider.bandcamp.com/album/taaleg...
#NowPlaying
commoneiderkingeider.bandcamp.com/album/taaleg...
Somehow, Dick Cheney returned
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Somehow, Dick Cheney returned
Although, famously, #Dante was inspired by his love for Beatrice, it is likely that she was only vaguely aware of him. This beautiful piece of glasswork by Florence Camm depicts the pair at Beatrice’s wedding, the bride unaware of the poet’s longing gaze.
Beatrice and Dante (Florence Camm, 1910)
Beatrice and Dante (Florence Camm, 1910)
November 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Although, famously, #Dante was inspired by his love for Beatrice, it is likely that she was only vaguely aware of him. This beautiful piece of glasswork by Florence Camm depicts the pair at Beatrice’s wedding, the bride unaware of the poet’s longing gaze.
Beatrice and Dante (Florence Camm, 1910)
Beatrice and Dante (Florence Camm, 1910)
First album I bought with my own money, on CD from Mike Lloyd Megastore in Hanley. Absolute bangers from start to finish. And what a shop MLM was! Spent a fortune in there over the years.
Doubt (Jesus Jones, 1991)
Doubt (Jesus Jones, 1991)
November 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
First album I bought with my own money, on CD from Mike Lloyd Megastore in Hanley. Absolute bangers from start to finish. And what a shop MLM was! Spent a fortune in there over the years.
Doubt (Jesus Jones, 1991)
Doubt (Jesus Jones, 1991)
Winter’s setting in now so Coco would like to show you her new jacket
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Winter’s setting in now so Coco would like to show you her new jacket