Chris Dymond

If you call its tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? Four. A dog has four legs. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

I prefer meditation to prayer because meditation acknowledges a brain in conversation with itself whereas prayer imagines a third party is involved

The glorification of violence in American “masculine” culture is revolting.

youtube.com/watch?v=Vs9p... Brains!

youtube.com/watch?v=JPcV... German marching band techno. You need this more than you realise.

Ok, I just finished my parrotfish illustration, using Procreate. This was a tricky fish at times, plus I was trying out some new watercolor brushes. But I think it turned out ok. The subject for next month’s #OceanDevotion Mail Club? We’ll see… Thanks @mediumman.bsky.social for the suggestion!

Public executions. So that’s where we are now.

I wish there was actually a hell for Jim Bakker to rot in.

Being middle aged and also a hypochondriac is a bad combination

Dismal Arsenal performance today. They’ve been completely outplayed.

© Phil Greenwood. 'Amber Light.' Etching and aquatint, 1999. 12 × 14 inches.

It was a beautiful start to the week in Glastonbury. Photo taken at sunrise from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

open.spotify.com/track/1TrdJH... Today’s earworm. That was the river; this is the sea.

Wordle 1,899 X/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sigh

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton in the same week.

Dawn this morning. No filter.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a... I spent all day writing a joke about margarine and I can’t believe it’s not better

I wonder if it is the extreme heat that is causing train derailments in the UK? Heat expanding the rails?

We shouldn’t call it planet Earth. It’s Planet Ocean.

Day 21 of drawing every #bird I’ve ever seen: Red legged partridge Saw these guys while driving up in the highlands

Middle aged rock band: The Ailments

So do Dems. A lot of them on Bluesky this week referring to Social Democracy as Democratic Socialism. A social democracy preserves capitalism and adds on increased regulation, safety nets, healthcare, childcare, taxation of the rich, etc. Whereas socialism means a farmer no longer owns his farm.

The Reflecting Pool aka the Strait of Warm Ooze

Most self-described democratic socialists are actually social democrats. Labels matter as they are the genesis of political messaging.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t. Emerson Pugh

Favourite nut bean cheese coffee political ideology world view? Hazel cannellini gruyere cortado social democracy humanism

A French program featured guests with unique laughs and then they set each other off into a mass laugh that still refreshes my soul years later www.youtube.com/shorts/18ik7...

Football is torture. Love & hate it.

Keep a close eye on how the BEL USA match is reffed