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William Bain
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I write poetry and short fiction. Other interests include visual art, history, geopolitics. A personal blog can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/pkemmhk
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Another sunny watercolour painting. Somewhere in France! #art #watercolours #painting #sunny
A watercolour painting of some steps surrounded by flowers. I copied this from a watercolour teaching book which featured a lot of buildings/places in France.
January 19, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Take a moment and consider that sometimes icebergs are blue 🤔
Blue ice berg making you consider the vastness of time Blue ice berg with a little crowd of penguins enjoying it
January 19, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Tonight's image of M33 Triangulum galaxy. earthsky.org/clusters-neb...
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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Robert Potts, former editor of Poetry Review and a critic who inspired me when I was starting out, has started a Substack about John Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs, after learning them all by heart. I just bought an old copy on eBay to keep to hand as I read along every week substack.com/home/post/p-...
'Dream awhile'
In which the project is introduced, and we consider our resources
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January 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Astronomers Spot a Barred Spiral Galaxy That Existed Just 2 Billion Years After the Big Bang

https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/403871/

Scientists continue to push the boundaries of astronomy and cosmology, thanks to next-generation instruments that can see farther…
Astronomers Spot a Barred Spiral Galaxy That Existed Just 2 Billion Years After the Big Bang - Canada News Beep
Scientists continue to push the boundaries of astronomy and cosmology, thanks to next-generation instruments that can see farther and clearer than ever
www.newsbeep.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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annesmien.bsky.social
Another sunny watercolour painting of a Provencal Walkway. #art #watercolours #painting
Watercolour painting of a Provencal Walkway in France. I copied the painting from a teaching watercolours book.
January 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Gaza, carry out raids across West Bank https://aje.io/t285fu
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Gaza, carry out raids across West Bank
December 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Gustav Klimt, Birch Forest (1903).
Tardee
Gustav Klimt, Birch Forest (1903). A dense forest of slender birch trees, with pale, vertically striped trunks rising from a ground fully covered with fallen autumn leaves. The forest floor forms a continuous carpet of warm tones of orange, brown, and gold, applied in small, mosaic-like brushstrokes. Green moss surrounds the bases of the trunks, while thin branches and foliage create a rhythmic vertical pattern throughout the composition. There is no visible sky or horizon, which immerses the viewer within the forest.
December 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Hi everybody. We're a Madrid, Spain, based literary magazine. We publish in print and online. Right now Issue 2 is free to read and download from www.themadridreview.com
Writers, poets, readers, artists: follow us and we'll follow you. Nice to be here! #litmag #literature #writers #poets #poetry
The Madrid Review
www.themadridreview.com
November 11, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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caldeiragiselle.bsky.social
Rupert Bunny, Australian, (1864–1947).
Impressionist painting by Rupert Bunny depicting a beach scene with people seated on wooden chairs on the sand. Women and children wear light-colored clothing and hats, some reading or conversing. In the background, the calm sea in bluish tones and the stretch of sand with small groups of bathers.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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ISRAEL IS COMMITING GENOCIDE AGAINST THE INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN GAZA. FACT! PASS IT ON.
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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I don’t have anything festive for the holiday, so here’s another birch painting I did in 2024.

Fog Through The Trees
9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board
Sold

#art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart
Painting of birch trees
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Thanking Aphor.org for pubublication of a short poem of mine in their current issue
www.aphor.org
APHOR
A literary magazine dedicated to the publication of substantial and sincere poetry, prose, and philosophy.
Aphor.org
December 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Ambleside, 1786, painting by Francis Towne, 1739-1816 (Yale Center for British Art).
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Anirudh’s Sridhar’s Agon: Poetry’s Challenge to the Mathematization of Reality, has just been published by OUP, a monograph derived from the doctoral thesis he wrote under my supervision from October 2017 to April 2020.

Congratulations, Anirudh!
Jacket of Sridhar’s monograph with a reproduction of Blake’s The Ancient of Days
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Gaza and the occupied Palestinian Territories are no longer in the headlines. The same genocide is still happening. Don’t loose focus and think it’s over, because it isn’t. It has slowed down but it’s not over.
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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caldeiragiselle.bsky.social
Vasily Leonidovich Khudyakov
Born (1983) Russian
“February lace”
Oil on canvas, 23.6 W x 27.6 H x 0.8
Private Collection.
Oil painting by Vasily Leonidovich Khudyakov, 'February Lace', depicting a snow-covered landscape. The scene shows a wooden house and a fence under a strong winter sunlight that casts long, warm blue shadows, touches of pinkish-orange on the snowy ground and rooftops.
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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2025 marks the centenary of A.N. Whitehead’s Lowell Lectures, Science and the Modern World; 2026 the centenary of the first British edition.

Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
Jacket of the Free Association Books edition
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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“With the North Gaza Kitchen now active, WCK is working towards our goals of serving 1 million meals a day across Gaza.” wck.org/news/gaza-up...
WCK Opens New Field Kitchen in Northern Gaza | WCK
World Central Kitchen (WCK) has resumed large-scale meal production in northern Gaza with the opening of our newest facility. On its first day of operation, the team prepared more than 3,000 meals for...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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The New York Times obit for Alice Wong doesn’t mention Covid or Gaza

It ignores two of her biggest causes because of political bias

Alice fought tirelessly for Covid mitigations

She fought for the people of Gaza

She rightfully reminded us that the genocide in Gaza is a disability justice issue
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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caldeiragiselle.bsky.social
Georgia O’Keeffe, Cottonwood Tree in Spring. Nitess💤
Georgia O’Keeffe, Cottonwood Tree in Spring — an abstract depiction of a cottonwood tree in vibrant yellows and greens, with white curving lines that suggest wind-swept leaves, creating an organic, luminous flow against a soft background of blue and touches of red.
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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"Caminante, son tus huellas
El camino y nada más;
Caminante, no hay camino,
Se hace camino al andar.
Al andar se hace el camino,
Y al volver la vista atrás
Se ve la senda que nunca.
Se ha de volver a pisar.
Caminante, no hay camino.
sino estelas en la mar."

Antonio Machado
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Vincent van Gogh, Memory of the Garden at Etten, 1888. Nitess💤
Vincent van Gogh, Memory of the Garden at Etten, 1888. Three women in a flower garden, two covered by patterned shawls and one leaning over picking flowers.
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Raoul Dufy (1945), "Paris, Les Invalides et la Tour Eiffel."
Oil painting by Raoul Dufy (1945), "Paris, Les Invalides et la Tour Eiffel." The work features large flowers (roses and a daisy) with dark leaves in the foreground, against a background where the outlines of the golden dome of Les Invalides and the silhouette of the Eiffel Tower stand out, with buildings in distorted perspective. Shades of blue and lavender create an ethereal atmosphere.
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM