Tina Hoggatt

Last week for this sale! Get them before the spooks are over! 👻

Les Chauves-Souris, Antonio de la Gandara, c. 1895. 🦇 #Gothtober #31daysofhalloween

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

A little thread on the People and Lula's win.

@mlb.com shame on you for running that “liberals are the new racists” ad during the World Series. I mean do not take money for that kind of hateful propaganda. It sucks the joy right out of the game.

Brewers relentless!

It’s Teresa’s birthday tomorrow.

October’s Hunters’ Moon this morning

Oktober, Mond und Windmusik.

#MosaicMonday Part of the Roman mosaic found at Hinton St. Mary, Dorset 4th Century AD. Now at the British Museum. #History #artwork #Archaeology

Bonus Book Cover of the Day:

Hope. A thread.

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Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

The “unvarnished connection between your brain and your hand is what I’m excited about now,” says Jillian Tamaki #internationalartistday https://bit.ly/47zpsVq

To celebrate #internationalartistsday this week's Quill & Quire/Bookmanager Canadian chart features Canadian Picture Books. Click the link for the Top 10: https://bit.ly/4ieoBhS

Time to celebrate for Darcy and buy that book.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

🇧🇷Beija-flor-brilho-de-fogo 🌎Topaza pella Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O beija-flor-brilho-de-fogo é uma ave da ordem dos Apodiformes, da família Trochilidae 📷 Anselmo d`Affonseca

I got both the covid and flu shots a month ago and still I managed to pick up something vile on my trip to California. I like to think it's not as bad as if I hadn't been vaccinated but there is no fun right now.

With a millionaires tax on the ballot, they really should have waited until after Election Day to announce the construction of 72 luxury waterfront condos exclusively housing the expensive cars of rich people.

Still time to register to vote in New York, but not much. Saturday is it! Please register if you haven’t.

Congratulations to Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year, including these amazing books by ABLA creators! THE WISE PICKLE by Sarah Howden and Sabina Hahn STORY RUG by Sophie Blackall and Phoebe Wahl LA BANDERA by Anika Aldamuy Denise and Ericka Lugo THE QUEEN'S GRANDDAUGHTER by Diane Zahler

When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

My favourite oak fact: The leaves of an oak tree get successively larger the further down you go This allows all leaves access to sunlight, and protect the tree from excessive wind Oak trees know

Postwar artist S. Neil Fujita, who designed ~50 album covers for Columbia Records in the late 1950s as “the label’s first in-house art director,” is one of six Japanese-American artists featured in a new Barnes Foundation show — see @natechinen.bsky.social www.wrti.org/arts-desk/20...

A wonderful man and actor. Skerrit gave so much of his experience and oversight to Seattle during the years he served on the Citizen Advisory Committee to the Seattle Arts Commission, enriched theater and film here in the great Northwest and just made life a little better.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

If ya love T&O maps....

I just want to sit down with this book.

This is actually the stuff of dystopian fiction. But they stole the dystopian fiction books to build their AI slop machines. AIC is right. Read for yourself. Write your own emails. Think your own thoughts and not the ones their algorithms are feeding you

Storm. Wind. This site. Every time. earth.nullschool.net

You know what doesn't get enough love? Horror short stories. From today through Halloween, I'll update this thread with Horror short story recommendations. Stuff you can read in a sitting while feeling like the shadows are watching.

I heard a mellifluous voice and went out into the garden to see if I could identify the bird. Two eagles flew over and circled the evergreens then lit on a high branch across the way. Flying lessons. The sun on their white tails!

Day 1.

This fantastic mosaic is Byzantine & depicts a duck, lotus flowers and a crocodile (….!), leading me to believe the mosaicist has never seen one, but assured the commissioner he definitely had. The mosaics are from the east church at Theodorias (Qasr in Libya) 🕰️c540AD 📷Jona Lendering #MosaicMonday

On 21 October, we celebrate #AppleDay. Dorset and Somerset folklore tells of Lazy Lawrence, a green-eyed pixy pony who gallops through orchards guarding apples. His name is said to refer to the inability to walk after drinking too much cider: “Lazy Lawrence has got your legs!” 🍎

Small finds from the wood in late October, with my illustrations next to them, from my book The Wild Remedy, about how contact with nature alters our brain chemistry to improve mental health🍒🌿

Owl of the Day: Golden Masked Owl Vulnerable 📷 Dušan Brinkhuizen

My favourite Bert trait: Birds spend their time scanning for danger, heads flitting Bert does the same, but I have noticed something different in Summer He sometimes stares intently upwards, his head fixed. It isn’t a threat, he is watching the Swifts zooming Bert daydreams

Another name for Shepherd’s Purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) is ‘Mother’s Heart’. In an old children’s game, one child would offer a playmate a tiny, heart-shaped seed pod. When it cracked open in their grasp, the cry went up: “You’ve broken your mother’s heart!” #FolkloreThursday

Celtic Matronae, 2nd century CE Romano-Germanic Museum Cologne Germany #druidsky /|\ #pagansky #witchsky #occultsky #heathensky #archaeology #celtic #Gaul #Matronae #MotherGoddess