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Daniel Sumption

@dansumption.bsky.social

Being made of sticks and leaves, fruit and flowers. I sometimes publish books as @peakrillpress.bsky.social 🗿❤️‍🔥🙏🏻🤲🏻🌬️🌊 #Rheða 𝁅

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nature Boy, by Eden Ahbez, with some words by me (and some by Tim Smith)

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I might have joined a band...

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Went messing about on the canal today. It was the best!

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

A bunny-faced harvestman, like a cute lil spacehopper.

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I once drew a bunch of people wearing fish on their heads, using this Tish Murtha photo as a guide. As you do.

A drawing of a bunch of young people wearing fish helmets, inspired by a Tish Murtha photo.

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Mayflies, attracted to the lights under the handrail on the footbridge at Teddington Lock.

Basically, exactly what the other text says

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Also saves folks the trouble of having to play Pokémon Go in order to gather data for drone strikes. Speaking of which, yesterday I came across these two cheerily related(?) pieces of information...

Text reading: Their oculus quest headsets are sinister AF as well. They contain a basic lidar scanner that scans your play area to detect obstacles and you have to jump hoops to exclude the data from being sent to meta, so not only are they getting your facial recognition but also your fking bedroom.

They developed an even more advanced option recently to create a Gaussian spalt of your area recently which combines the lidar with 360 degree photos, the data is sent to them for several hours of processing and brings back a detailed 3d scan of your space, whilst giving hundreds of MB of your personal data to them.

Text reading: Now that the "military Internet" is playing as crucial a role in Ukraine as the "peaceful Internet", I no longer have any doubts about the priority of military scientific developments. Moreover, I understand that from a military point of view, everything and everyone in the world is a potential target and that everything in the world has G.P.S. coordinates that enable destructive forces to hit their chosen target with precision. The same G.P.S. coordinates that help me to find a prehistoric cave on the island of Crete can be fed into a missile launched from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea in order to destroy or, in modern Russian terms, to “de-Nazify" this cave.

It seems that at least one of the 40 rockets sent to blow up the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on the night of July 31 was programmed to hit the master bedroom of a private house. It was this rocket that killed the owner of the largest Ukrainian...

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Here's the very same tree, drawn at the beginning of 2021. I think my skills have improved a little since then.

A scrappy drawing of an apple tree, labelled "LEARNING TO DRAW TREES. JANUARY: APPLE TREE, TEDDINGTON"

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

In 2021, I committed to draw at least one tree per month. I'd really hoped to keep this practise up, but have stalled badly. Trying to get going again, here's an apple tree I started on today...

Part completed pen drawing of an apple tree

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

RIP David Hockney.

A pube on a David Hockney painting at the Tate Modern

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Fabulous going to see Ashwin Baliga – whom I last met at a hackathon in Athens in 2017 – performing "All We Imagine as Khayal" in his new calling as an Indian classical vocalist, at the Nehru's Centre, London.

Tabla player, singer, and harmonium player sitting on stage at the Nehru Centre

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Had a fabulous guided walk tonight – led by @minimumlabyrinth.bsky.social – of "the unburied corner of London", around Barbican, the Museum of London and London Wall.

View from above Ironmongers Hall of brutalist and neo-Elizabethan architecture

The most carparky part of London's Roman wall

Two ancient Egyptian guardians of the London Wall car park

London exists on many layers. Here are some of them.

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Made a tomato tart, from the recipe in today's Grauniad.

A tart with baked crust and uncooked heritage tomatoes of many colours, sprinkled with dill and spring onions.

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A good morning.

The beginnings of a pen drawing of an oak tree in Bushy Park, accompanied by feathers from a crow and from a mandarin duck.

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Daniel Sumption @dansumption.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Been singing this song. A lot. And living it. A lot a lot. (Check out the original – youtu.be/Lbqngd1QCtY – sooooooo good)

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