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Peter J. King

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Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincolnshire, I now live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds. https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/peter-j-king

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LADANIVA - Saraiman | POSTCARD (Official Video)
LADANIVA - Saraiman | POSTCARD (Official Video) YouTube video by LADANIVA

Ladaniva - "Șaraiman"

Vocal: Jaklin Baghdasaryan
Trumpet/guitar: Louis Thomas
Sax : Romain Desreumaux
Bass: Marcello Marella
Saz: Louis Desseigne
Percussion: Pierre Kastler
Backing vocal: Ninon Thomas
Kaval: Théophile Hommet

#ladaniva #song #romaniansong #romanianmusic #armenianmusic

11.03.2026 21:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Four Hauntings from "Ghost Webs" (2022, Calliope Script).

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #ghostwebs #hauntings #calliopescript

11.03.2026 20:24 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Acrylics on paper.

#painting #art #acrylics

11.06.2025 19:47 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The Church of St Edward King & Martyr, Evenlode, Gloucestershire.

#photo #photography #church #ecclesiasticalarchitecture #churcharchitecture #mediaevalarchitecture #evenlode #gloucestershire #cotswolds

13.04.2025 19:49 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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IEA agrees release of record oil reserves; Strait of Hormuz ships hit Iran accuses the US and Israel of targeting civilians, saying more than 1,300 have been killed across the country.

"Death toll from Israel’s attacks on Lebanon rises to 634
This update to the number of those killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2 comes to us from the Lebanese government’s disaster risk management unit."

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

11.03.2026 17:11 👍 16 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1

Its degree of truth is roughly consonant with its grammatical correctness.

11.03.2026 17:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, I thought that that must have been the case. It's a mystery - and destined to remain so, I suspect!

11.03.2026 15:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm not sure how modern munitions affect just war theory (not even the jus in bello part).

11.03.2026 14:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This has me puzzled. I assumed that "bramblefinch" must be an old name for a brambling, but the picture doesn't look much like a brambling, with that red cap.

11.03.2026 12:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And they're bluebells for the Scots, too.

11.03.2026 11:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΑ - ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΜΑΡΙΝΟΣ
ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΑ - ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΜΑΡΙΝΟΣ YouTube video by Maria Chr

Καλλιτεχνάρα. RIP
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11.03.2026 08:09 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Well, if you can't manage the last one, I'd be happy to help out.

11.03.2026 10:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In so far as either is at all accurate, Plato and Aristotle should probably be switched over.

10.03.2026 21:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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10.03.2026 20:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
graft from “Dentes de lion” Mhairi Owens, in Nine Notes on Slippage (Templar Poetry, 2022)


                                                                        the café’s windows,
                                            small panes steamy in the autumn afternoon,
                                                                 allow the watery sun to fall
                                            on plastic knives and forks and spoons,
                                                        on mismatched chairs
                  * and tables round and white and distant as moons. *

                        at the counter, where the Eccles cakes,
                                       iced buns,
                                               and flapjacks suffocate
                             in cellophane,
                 a  notice promises
          a host of savoury delights,
                               "all severed with lettice or chip’s".

graft from “Dentes de lion” Mhairi Owens, in Nine Notes on Slippage (Templar Poetry, 2022) the café’s windows, small panes steamy in the autumn afternoon, allow the watery sun to fall on plastic knives and forks and spoons, on mismatched chairs * and tables round and white and distant as moons. * at the counter, where the Eccles cakes, iced buns, and flapjacks suffocate in cellophane, a notice promises a host of savoury delights, "all severed with lettice or chip’s".

"36. Lunacy"

From "Hard Graft on the Half Shell" - a sequence in which each poem is grown from a graft - a line from another poet's poem (indicated by a sans serif typeface).

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #mhairiowens

10.03.2026 20:23 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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"Yin & Yang" (acrylics on paper)

#painting #art #acrylics

10.03.2026 20:19 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Exhibits at the 2016 Singapore Biennale "An Atlas of Mirrors".

i. “Other Map Series” (Pala Pothupitiye)
ii. "“Growing” (Hemali Bhuta)
iii. "“The Skeleton of Makara (The Myth
of a Myth)” (Tan Zi Hao)
iv. "“Aftermath” (Pannaphan Yodmanee)

#exhibition ##singaporebiennale #art #singapore

10.03.2026 20:17 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The delicate beauty of a super tiny Mycena roseoflava. 🍄💗

Photographed by @cyanesense [IG]

#nature #macrophotography #photography #fungi

10.03.2026 11:16 👍 111 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 0

I'd not heard it called that before; here (England) we generally call it ivy-leaved toadflax (trwyn-y-llo dail eiddew in Wales). I learnt on Bluesky a year or so ago that it's also called Kenilworth ivy. Aaron's beard is a kind of trailing hypericum for us.

10.03.2026 16:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'd not heard it called that before; here (England) we generally call it ivy-leaved toadflax (trwyn-y-llo dail eiddew in Wales). I learnt on Bluesky a year or so ago that it's also called Kenilworth ivy. Aaron's beard is a kind of trailing hypericum for us.

10.03.2026 16:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Parisa - Tasnif, Avaz & Saz (Santur,Kamancheh, Sehtar, Nay, Tar) | پریسا - آواز و ساز
Parisa - Tasnif, Avaz & Saz (Santur,Kamancheh, Sehtar, Nay, Tar) | پریسا - آواز و ساز YouTube video by persianmusictube

پریسا - آواز و ساز
Parisa - Tasnif, Avaz, & Saz (Santur, Kamancheh, Sehtar, Nay, Tar)

#song #persiansong #iraniansong #persianmusic #iranianmusic #parisa

10.03.2026 12:28 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Xuân Muộn (Hoài Linh) - Hà Thanh | Bản Thu Âm Đầu Tiên Cuối Năm 1967
Xuân Muộn (Hoài Linh) - Hà Thanh | Bản Thu Âm Đầu Tiên Cuối Năm 1967 YouTube video by Nhạc Vàng Official

#HàThanh
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10.03.2026 05:59 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan Lawyers including top barristers and retired judges urge the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials.

David Lammy’s proposal to diminish your democratic right to trial by jury makes its way to Parliament today:

More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

10.03.2026 08:43 👍 36 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 4

How does one lead a breach?

10.03.2026 09:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Shut up, Eccles!

09.03.2026 21:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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"[stairs]"

#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

09.03.2026 20:38 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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"In the Embrace of Space" (first published in "Existere" 40.2, 2021).

#painting #art #acrylics

09.03.2026 20:35 👍 53 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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The Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2017:
i.-iii. Ex Ovo (Doug Cocker)
iv. "Risen" (Catherine Ross)

#photo #photography #exhibition #rsa #edinburgh #sculpture #painting #art

09.03.2026 20:30 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Years ago I saw a version of the Great Wave done in Post-It notes, but I've been unable to find it since. Do you have any idea where I could find it?

09.03.2026 10:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's not been adequately discussed that a major problem now facing S.F. and comic-book writers is that billionaires and U.S. politicians will model themselves on the villains in any story. Let's hope that Hegseth stays away from any possibility of a nuclear accident or a bite from a lab animal.

09.03.2026 09:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0