Tax resistance is truly the American way! Think of Thoreau resisting the poll tax. There are many methods. I am doing it by consciously earning less, so I don’t pay income tax and only pay SocSec and Medicare payroll tax. Not everyone can be a tax resister, but if you can, please consider it.
Traditional Chōchin Lanterns This striking nighttime photograph captures a dense cluster of traditional Japanese paper lanterns, or chōchin. The lanterns are illuminated from within, casting a warm, inviting glow that highlights the delicate texture of the washi paper and the horizontal ribs of the bamboo frames. Arranged on dark wooden tiered racks, the lanterns create a rhythmic pattern of light and shadow that recedes into the background. The surface of each lantern is decorated with bold black calligraphy, a style specifically known as chōchin moji. These characters are thick and expressive, often representing the names of shrines, festivals, or local businesses. Some lanterns also feature stylized illustrations, such as the face of a traditional character or circular crests, rendered in black and small touches of red. The perspective is from a low angle, looking upward, which adds a sense of scale and immersion into the atmosphere of a Japanese festival or temple night market.
Japanese traditional paper lanterns, commonly known as chōchin. These lanterns are typically constructed from a bamboo frame covered in treated washi paper and are often decorated with bold calligraphy known as chōchin moji. Photography by kicostyle on Flickr
We can rely more on renewable energy if we all use less energy. Oil in particular is a super-efficient fuel; renewables can’t replace it at a 1:1 ratio. Using less means, for starters, conserving heating/cooling and electricity (and internet) at home, driving less, and buying much less new stuff.
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Six stained glass artworks in arched frames each featuring birds, a hare or a planr
UK based stained glass artist Harriet Love #Womensart
Viva Italy!
Team Italy shocks team USA 8-6 .
Yesterday's walk through the backstreets of #Llandudno offered lots of #photo opportunities. I do love a moody #Noir shot, with lots of long shadows. #photography
this is basically a line of poetry from my first book lol
Blue jay with blue, white and black feathers perched on a branch.
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Corvidae any bird of the Corvid family. Here is my contribution.
#bluejay
#birds
#photography
#birdsofbluesky
Yellow-white daffodils (variety, Ice Follies) on a brown garden patch, Eastern Missouri USA. A bit wilted from excessive heat today—but a cold front and rain are on the way tonight, thank goodness!
My daffodils are daffodilling!
Americans by the millions are doing a lot to oppose what’s going on and to make their case for something better. Both the government and the media are deaf to our voices and have been for a long time. But persistence is the only choice, as Gandhi knew.
Lots of students gathered at the Oregon state capitol building in Salem today for the student walk-out protesting ICE.
Lemon blossoms!!
5:11 PM, the cottage greenhouse:
There are beautiful creamy blossoms on Crowley's lemon tree.
Well done, darling!
(I am an assistant farmer, and I have a tear in my dungarees to prove it!)
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It’s 84 degrees on 3/10/26 in St. Louis, 30 degrees above normal. Our weather’s crazy; the climate has been screwed by our actions. We have real problems, environmental and social , to address. Every leader does zero to address them—too busy with money and power. It’s up to us to change radically.
Here’s an extract from John Clare’s Child Harold, a loose collection of poems & songs, which he began in the Epping Forest asylum & continued after his escape. The title recalls Byron’s Chlide Harold’s Pilgrimage. But Clare’s tour is of mental states, vivid, celebratory, imagined, decaying, desolate
Ghost Rider, Tower Grove South, St. Louis, Missouri
#iphonephotography #mobilephotography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #b&w #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #streetphotography #urbanphotography #nightphotography #stl #stlouis #TowerGroveSouth
Reading things like this reminds me that Trump was elected because many, many adults in the USA are sadistic sacks of shit. They dreamed up this law to harm kids, which at the same time harms society as a whole. There is nothing rational about this—only motive is pleasure in causing others pain.
Please read. I was crying by the end. @katemanne.bsky.social is reclaiming philosophy as something that matters—not a mere intellectual exercise.
Just pulled up this classic made for me by Hugh D'Andrade from a decade or so ago. From not so long after Google abandoned its "don't be evil" motto so it could be unrelentingly evil.
on this day in 1923 Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is first published.
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
Fascinating topic. My perspective:
Indeed. All the time.
Panel this morning at 9! Then I'll be haunting the bookfair... I've got a few more personal copies of Unrivered with me, if you still want one?
Gambling is the dumbest thing ever. Sports gambling online is especially dumb. It’s all set up so the gambler loses more than wins. And no, you can’t make it up in volume.
Bird with bright orange feathers on its breast preening, its tail feathers spread wide as it perches on a branch.
Look at the beautiful plumage on this American robin.
#birds
#photography
#birdsofbluesky
I love to read, study, and write, too. No need to make a career change. Keep doing the job you do for money, but read, study, and write (and go to writer events) in your free time. You can start that today. It’s how most of us do it—and good luck!
Painted portrait of the upper half of a white woman with dark hair tied, dressed in grey top
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell
Red Travels
Helen Frankenthaler, acrylic and marker on canvas, 1971
www.frankenthalerfoundation.org/artworks/pai...
#art #painting
Bastard went full-on NeoCon in about 6 days.
Giotto and Saint Francis Featured in Major Medieval Art Exhibition in Italy www.medievalists.net/2026/03/giot... #medievalart #Giotto #SaintFrancis #Italy
