Many #Entomologists also love #poetry. This 1864 book 'Butterflying with the Poets' by Joseph Merrin contains a poem for every British butterfly - & is illustrated with prints made from real butterflies. The Orange Tip is accompanied by a #Shakespeare quote #WorldPoetryDay

Some of the legal changes being proposed are truly frightening: Abolishing the right to a family life would ultimately affect many more people than asylum-seekers. Overriding it if the risks of violence are greater is a mob's charter. Watering down the Modern Slavery Act. Awful.

Some overlap with nature printing enthusiasts from 15th-19th C wanting the most faithful copy of nature without any human intervention and end goal of AI to eliminate even the prompter in reproducing an image of the mind so to speak. Nature Printing gave rise to the camera

The ritualised process of nature printing #frankestein

I asked the Home Secretary how it feels to kick away the ladder and introduce anti-migrant policies endorsed by fascist Tommy Robinson? She didn’t answer the question, calling it “beneath contempt”. The only thing beneath contempt is her pound-shop Powellism. Shame on her and

Every South Asian Home Secretary has been sadistic cunts

China's defense of Palestine has often been in word more than deed. As Palestinian scholar @razanshawamreh notes, the Chinese state has long allowed corporations to aid in the construction of illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank: lausancollective.com/2025/china-aid…

Heard that a Patna Qalam workshop was planned in September in Patna. Not sure who led it, sounds good!

Eternal reminder that you are conditioned by british media and the right to believe police didnt deal with grooming gangs because of 'political correctness'... and not that this was the kind of guy they were employing:

The case for reparations in the Caribbean wrt slavery and indentured labour is far more straightforward than for South Asia, and idk why diaspora Asian academics bring in Colonial India when the conversation is about the Caribbean.

A highly revealing distinction. Professional migrant workers have to be treated decently, although they will still face abuse. Lower-paid migrant workers will have no rights at all, non-citizens. Low-paid migrants will wait up to 25yrs for settled status thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Jilian Tamaki. Thought she meant "doodles"

poppy seeds

I don't want to wear puffer jackets I look like a matchstick it's flammable too

Went to watch Cabaret (72) at the community cinema, felt like only a few of us-mid thirties and forties- were the yongest. Good craic loved it

Potato printed this spud on a walk in the cold rain

JK Rowling got a full decade of press as a free speech martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe online) and meanwhile none of those types considers it notable that a prominent author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

The animated adaption of the short story There Will Come Soft Rains with the fully automated house, its inhabitants long gone- will be the Wallace & Gromit house in the future huhuhu