Rosalind Ahmed

#ThickTrunkTuesday sheltering a snail #ECK

Atsume Stardust, the Gemini meteor shower at Lake Shikotsu. kikuo_f_photography @mendy_hokkaido

Repost for #OwlishMonday

It's #mountainmonday and I'm so sad this view was burned in the grasshopper fire. Mt Hood. #eastcoastkin #art #ECK #mountainscape #photography #mountain #nature #landscape #photographersunited #PhotographersofBluesky #astrophotography

#MountainMonday 📸 through the car window on a damp day #ECK

Beautiful #botanical art (amongst other loveliness 🍄🦋) by @lizzie-harper.bsky.social #ArtSky

#WeekQforQuotes this famous advertising slogan is preserved in the Museum of Edinburgh. Macniven and Cameron Ltd was originally founded in 1770 in Balerno; its steel dip-pen nibs & fountain pens became internationally popular during the 19th & early 20th centuries #AlphabetChallenge

#OwlishMonday metamorphosis

Fall Song It is a dark fall day. The earth is slightly damp with rain. I hear a jay. The cry is blue. I have found you in the story again. Is there another word for ‘‘divine’’? I need a song that will keep sky open in my mind. Joy Harjo #PoetrySky #Autumn

You dancin? You askin? #SpookySunday #Spooktober

'Tis now the very witching time of night Hamlet 2,3.380 #ShakespeareSunday #Spooktober

#Halloween topper on a Hexham GR pillar box for #PostBoxSaturday #Spooktober @folkloresociety.bsky.social

By departing from the prescribed path, Little Red Riding Hood crosses the threshold from conformity into wilderness "to a dark tangled thorny place lit by the eyes of owls...[where] Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head, warm, beating, frantic, winged; music & blood" #BookwormSat

Following its restoration in Cumbria, this 1929 locomotive glides into Ravenglass Station. The train was named for the mountain stream Whillan Beck that flows down from the Scafell range and crosses under La'al Ratty (the little railway line) #ArchForma #Transportation #BlueSkyArtShow #ECK

Carl Köhler's portraits of Samuel Beckett, James Joyce & Brendan Behan on permanent display at the Irish Cultural Centre in London The Irish Times share.google/eqxFuZuyoGvR... #ArtSky #Ireland

October Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away. #ForestFriday #PoetrySky #Autumn #ECK

#otd Samuel Beckett was announced as the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature. "In the realms of annihilation rises the writing of Samuel Beckett like a miserere from all mankind" #BookSky #IrishLiterature #photography #drama

Victorian earthenware tile for #FoxFriday

The final irony. Hundreds of articles ABOUT Jason Arday - fact-free, poor data analysis, often copying other people's work. A couple of articles BY Jason Arday - a few corrections, and still supported by academic publishers and peer review. Just tragic bias by our media

Now Jason’s accusers need to be brought to justice bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

Offered with comment: in the middle of Black History Month and overlapping with several events remembering Prof. Jason Arday this is repulsive and Oriel ought to be ashamed of itself.

"... give me, Autumn, where thy hand hath been, For there is wildness that can never cloy- The russet hue of fields left bare, and all The tints of leaves and blossoms ere they fall." John Clare #PoetrySky #Autumn #October #trees #leaves #woods

Doris Lessing b #otd in 1919 (Iran). "You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors...Those of you who are more robust & individual than others will be encouraged to...find ways of educating yourself" #BookSky

'Exploration of the Source of the Orinoco River' Remedios Varo (1959) #WyrdWednesday

"By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations". (1824) #WyrdWednesday

Song for Autumn Don't you imagine the leaves dream now how comfortable it will be to touch the earth? #PoetrySky #Autumn #ArtSky 🍂

Still grappling with the loss of Dr. Jason Arday, as you likely are too. He should still be here, he should still be with his family, he should still be sharing his Black autistic wisdom with students and with the world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#WeekPForPaper the 1896 Kelmscott Chaucer produced on handmade paper by Morris, Burne-Jones and their co-workers #AlphabetChallenge 📸 taken at Birmingham's 'Victorian Radicals' exhibition, 2024 #BookSky #HistorySky #ArtSky @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social @museumsassociation.org

The aftermath of the Jason Arday hate campaign wasn't that people thought this black guy had polluted white academia, like they wanted, but that a media frenzy had driven someone to suicide. You can see just how much it fucking eats at them to know that.

Slumbering, damp, cloud covered skies all day ... may as well curl up now 🥃 🥱 #OwlishMonday

'Medusa' by Italian artist Oreste Pizio (1879-1938) Has the spirit of Medusa been reborn or is the rather glamorous woman channeling snaky vibes? Only you can decide.

Fam's all here. Standing room only on #SpookySunday 🎨 John Kenn Mortensen #Spooktober

... the arms are fair When the intent of bearing them is just. Henry IV, Part 1 Act V, scene 2, ll. 91-2 #ShakespeareSunday

Go to your camera roll and search "boat", then post a picture of a boat you like #ECK

"The intense horror of my nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!" 'Wuthering Heights' Emily Brontë (1847) #BookWormSat

As part of this week's centenary celebrations of Winnie-the-Pooh, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting Save the Hundred Acre Wood, a new radio play written by our Chief Executive Edward Kemp. Find out more: https://bbc.in/47WRLx0 📻 Tune in to Radio 4 on Saturday at 3pm or listen back via BBC Sounds.

"The effect of the full moon in such a state of brilliancy was manifold. It acted on dreams, it acted on lunacy, it acted on nervous people, it had marvellous physical influences connected with life". 'Carmilla' Sheridan Le Fanu (1872) 🎨'Gothic Ruin by Moonlight' T. L. Rowbotham #BookWormSat

#BlueSkyArtShow A section of that iconic defence spanning 80 Roman miles. Hadrian's Wall was hewn to guard the north west frontier of empire #Walls

Digital postbox in the ancient city of Durham #PostboxSaturday

Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress or yew or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously & never did the faraway howling of dogs send such woeful presage thru the night #BookWormSat

"The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances." - Ella Maillart #EllaMaillart #Photography #Kyrgyzstan #Karakol

Once a year, for the apple dressing, my mother peeled apples, standing at the kitchen counter, wicked paring knife skimming around the fruit in a sketchy spiral, the goal - aside from our holiday dinner - to get the skin off whole #PoetrySky #autumn #ArtSky #FineArt

#Wildlife #Raptors #DEFRA Meticulously presented article that indicates how citizens can take action against this wildlife crime

Did you know the shooting industry kills foxes on a huge scale? Their crime? Being natural predators. Meanwhile, non-native pheasants are bred in their millions to be shot.

#AdoorableThursday St. Mary's Passage, Oxford. Intriguing doorway although Pan could do with a bit more gold gloss to keep him in fine fettle.

So #poetry is to be constrained, no longer expected to challenge, but just keep us comfortable? "The Welsh-Iraqi poet, filmmaker and artist said she was inspired by Welsh poet Saunders Lewis' imagery of Wales as a vineyard, & developed that around the brief's request" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Autumn' wood engraving Olga Lehmann (1912–2001) #ArtSky #fineart #wildlife #autumn #WomensArt

October ...like late revelers at dawn, the chance Of one sweet, mad, last hour, all things assail, And conquering, flush and spin; while, to enhance The spell, by sunset door, wrapped in a veil Of red and purple mists, the summer, pale, Steals back alone for one more song and dance #Poetry #BookSky

#OTD 1830 Helen Hunt Jackson, poet, writer & activist for Native American rights, was b. in Amherst, MA. “I never write for money. I write for love, then after it is written I print for money….Cash is a vile article-but there is one thing viler; and that is a purse without any cash in it.” #BookSky