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Ageing Hippy

@blueberrysyrup.bsky.social

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Scottish psychologist photographer. Photos my own unless it’s a repost “I lived in the present, which was That part of the future you could see. The past floated above my head, Like the sun and moon, visible but never reachable.” Louise Glück, “Averno”

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Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 59m

Fabulous photo from Sinna Nasseri 👏🏻🎩

In Michael Shaw’s Substack “Reading The Pictures”

open.substack.com/pub/readingt...

A young woman wearing a T shirt with “Mexico” written in it is arrested by two burly male officers wearing blue shirts. She has a lyric (in capitals) from a Rage against the Machine song tattooed on her neck “FUCK YOU I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME” Her pained expression seems somewhat resigned to the inevitability of her arrest.

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve just ordered it! Looks great. Congratulations!

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 1h

@mrjamesob.bsky.social props to Nitsan x

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 2h

#BirdOfTheDay #juvenile #photography

Juvenile Robin

Juvenile Robin with mottled chest feathers stand on a wooden fence. We see it from its left hand side. Big black eye.

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 2h

#BirdOfTheDay #chicks #photography

Bluetit chicks and parent on the ground (below a feeder). Not a great quality photo but nice to see the chicks.

Bluetit parent with three chicks on grass looking for seed droppings. One chick faces the parent with its beak wide open, with quite a demanding grumpy expression!

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Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 2h

#BirdOfTheDay #chicks #photography

Goldfinch chick and parent

Goldfinch chick looking like a wee fluffy ball sitting on a wooden fence. It’s gloriously coloured parent looks the other way.

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks Alan :-)

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 3h

#BirdOfTheDay #chicks #photography

Goldfinch chick being fed by its parent

An adult goldfinch feeding a chick. The chick is flapping its wings so quickly they are blurred

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Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 16h

I have your brother’s older brother, here rendered sympathetically in mono to reflect the fact that it laser prints in mono. I must say the younger generation is quite svelte!

Black and white image of a Brother laser printer

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 1d

I might need to give Tidal a trial. I have been with Qobuz for a year at a time x 2 with a gap in between but gave them up on both occasions as found their curation of mixes didn’t appeal to me. I’m probably hard to please.

Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 1d

I already preferred Tidal over Spotify for reasons that are clear but they've delivered me two banger daily mixes the last two days that have fully uplifted my soul. Queen, Eurythmics, Simple Minds, etc, just very strong

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Alan 😊

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Rob 😊

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 1d

#BirdOfTheDay #spotted #photography #birds

Song thrush in the rain

Song thrush with upside down heart shaped spots on its chest, standing on a wooden fence. Rain falling all around

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Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Alan :-)

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 2d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Rob :-)

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly I have no photos of kestrels, so here is a lovely long-tailed tit on our acer tree

#BirdOfTheDay #photography

Long tailed tit sitting on a bare branch. We see its long tail and oval shape of its body.

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Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 2d

“… it probably sounded better in the original German.” 😂

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

"The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something." Absolutely fantastic sketch by @roberthutton.co.uk. Every line is a banger:

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting…

thecritic.co.uk

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 2d

😂 🎩

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Alan, I appreciate it :-)

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Rob :-)

Ageing Hippy @blueberrysyrup.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Rob :-)