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A wide angle view of the east side of Barcelona from a roof in the centre. A tall bulbous curved tower glows blue in the middle of the picture.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth. Through a mix of work and illness I did not get any official birding in, so my best is a view through a dirty TGV window of flamingoes and other waterbirds in the Camargue. Birding at 250kph! #birds #birding #france #flamingo

The white dots of flamingoes in a Camargue etang through a very dirty train window.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 29/09/2026

Distant lightning and the rising moon over Barcelona.

A cityscape at night with street and building lights. There are clouds in the dark sky. In the distance the moon is rising, while lightning illuminates a distant bank of clouds near the horizon.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 28/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds. Photographing pigeons on our roof with a long lens at short range through the catio wire fence gives interesting bokeh effects. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #putney #pigeon

A white and brown pigeon with pink legs against a bokeh green backdrop.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 28/09/2026

Terribly dirty windows on this TGV, but the white dots are a potato phone shot of flamingoes near Narbonne. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #narbonne #flamingo

A view of a lagoon in the south of France. The white dots are flamingoes, the dark birds some sort of cormorant.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 27/09/2026

Lille Europe. It is concrete and glass.

A very concrete station and plaza. With lots of glass.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 27/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Seabirds and the Alt is #Airborne. I take a lot of photos of the gulls down on the delta, and this fishing black-headed gull gives me a twofer as it takes off, vertically. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #gull

A white and grey bird with red beak and legs takes off from clear water.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 26/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pairs, photos with pairs of the same species in them. The Alt theme is #Green. A pair of black-headed gulls along St Clement's Bay give us a twofer by flying over an emerald-green sea. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #jersey #gull

Two white and grey birds fly over green seas with rocks in the background.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 25/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, which is #Borbs - birds looking plump - and the alt theme is #Brown. A wren, with its lunch, down on the delta for a twofer. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #wren

A small brown bird on a fence post. It is very round with an upright tail. There is a bug in its beak.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 24/09/2026

I remain disturbed by this keyring I found in the street yesterday. I think it’s that the clearly sapient fries are screaming…

A keyring depicting a living fry packet full of living fries.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 24/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #TheDivers: photos of any diving bird. The alt theme is #BirdStare: any bird captured staring right back at you. This cormorant on the Point Pleasant pilings down on the delta wants to offer a twofer. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #cormorant

A large dark bird standing on a wooden post. It has a yellow lower face, green eyes, and a white ring on its neck. The background is bokeh yellow.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 23/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Raptors - any bird of prey. At sunset, a marsh harrier glides over one of the orchid preserves at La Mare au Seigneur on the west coast of Jersey. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #jersey #marshharrier

A large raptor, its wings spread wide, drifts through a fading sky. It is brown, catching almost gold in the setting sun.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 22/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Redheads, any bird with red on its head/beak. The Alt theme is #Gull, any gull will do. This black-headed gull over a frozen Wimbledon Park lake gives us a twofer, with its red beak. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wimbledon #gull

A white bird with red beak and feet over an out of focus frozen lake

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 21/09/2026

So I managed to crush my hand in a closing window at the weekend; I thought it was OK until I tried to pick something heavy up. Turns out that arthritis compression gloves provide just the support it needs to heal…

A black neoprene glove with ridges of support materials.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 21/09/2026

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #LightAndShadow. A robin in and out of shadow on the old ivy-covered willow on the spit. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #robin

A small grey, brown, and orange bird on a twig and under the shadow of higher branches. Behind it are ivy leaves.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 20/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay it’s #CaptionThatBird - a bird photo that make you smile with a witty caption… "Shout, shout, let it all out These are the things I can do without Come on I'm talking to you, come on" A wren, singing. Loudly. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #wren

A small brown bird on a twig. Its mouth is wide open and yellow.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 19/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Elegant; any elegant looking bird. There's nothing more elegant than a gull in flight, here a black-headed gull on the tideline at St Clement's Bay on Jersey. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #jersey #gull

A white and grey bird skims the waves in a silver and blue sea.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 18/09/2026

Last night to Samuel Johnson’s house (each room with its own definition) for a talk by @bryan-talbot.bsky.social and @eyedotter.bsky.social about their new graphic biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, Lo! An Amazon. Fascinating. Also Bryan sketched in our copy for us…

The cover of a book. A woman stands on a ship looking to the horizon.

Text:

LO!
AN AMAZON!
INTERESTING NARRATIVE
OF
THE LIFE OF
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.
Mary M. Talbot Bryan Talbot

A page from a book, signed by the authors with a sketch by the artist of a woman’s head.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 18/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Paridae, any of the species. A great tit exploring a yew tree in a park in Brussels. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #brussels #greattit

A small bird in a green and brown tree. It has a black and white head, a green back, and a yellow breast, with black, white, and grey wings and tail.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 17/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ODG, any Owl, Duck or Goose. So how about a goose that's really a duck? An egyptian goose lands on the deck of one of the Point Pleasant houseboats. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #thames #egyptiangoose

A large orange, white, and black bird lands on a red surface in front of a white wall. It is the deck of a boat.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 16/09/2026

A closer look as Eddystone pases between the brick pillars of the broken bridge. #railwayphotography #mainlinesteam #putney

A steam locomotive heads between a pair of brick pillars.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 16/09/2026

A long hot dry summer has meant little or no mainline steam, but recent rain has allowed it to run again. This morning Bulleid light pacific No 34028, Eddystone, came through the Putney cutting on its way to Swanage. I got a wave from the driver! #railwayphotography #mainlinesteam #putney

A steam locomotive in a cloud of steam head on to the camera. The driver is waving on the right.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 15/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #silhouette. In a Florida sunset, a pelican skims the Gulf of Mexico, wingtips touching the surface of a calm golden sea. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #florida #pelican

A silhouetted bird with big wings and a long beak flies low over calm blue-gold water. One wingtip touches the water surface.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 14/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mamas&Papas, male & female of the same species in the same photo. A pair of great-crested grebes face-off for the start of a mating dance in the Wandle delta. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #grebe

A pair of grey, white, and russet birds face-to-face with ruffs wide and crests raised on reflective blue water.

A pair of grey, white, and russet birds face-to-face with ruffs wide and crests raised on reflective blue water. They have red eyes.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 13/09/2026

Remembering the 311 this 27th anniversary of when we lost the moon. #BreakawayDay #Space1999 #MoonbaseAlpha

A man wearing a Space 1999 t-shirt with a picture of Moonbase Alpha.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 13/09/2026

The delta is what locals call this bit of the Wandle where it splits into Bell Lane Creek and the Wandle proper before rejoining at end of the island called The Spit and then through the old barge docks to the Thames. It’s the site of the battle in the second of The Borribles books…

An aerial photograph of the Wandle where it joins the Thames showing the delta, Bell Lane Creek, the top and bottom Wandle weirs, and the island of The Spit.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 13/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #AngryBirds, any bird with an angry face. The alt is #MyBestSide, bird capture in profile. The angriest of birds, the tufted duck, gives us a twofer from the Wandle delta. He will shiv you. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #tuftedduck

An iridescent green and purple on a black and white duck with a blue beak in a brown water. It has a yellow eye with a black dot pupil. It will shiv you.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 12/09/2026

Be careful. It’s a habit that can veer off into even spendier directions. 😎

A final colour study by John Harris for the Penguin UK cover of Schismatrix.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 11/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Mouthful; a bird with anything in its beak Down on the old barge stands on the Wandle delta, a heron struggles with a very wriggly eel. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #heron

A heron stands in mud with the head of an eel in its beak, while the fish's body whips around in the air.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 10/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Iridescence, any bird whose colour changes with light on them. When you catch a starling in the right light and a drab bird is suddenly purple and green and gold... #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #putney #starling

A starling in a tree. Its iridescent feathers are green and purple, outlined in gold, not the usual drab black/brown.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 09/09/2026

There can only be one Duo. And it’s still chugging along…

A white foldable phone on a black computer keyboard.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 09/09/2026

In which D&D becomes today's Torment Nexus. "We do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence" Alignment? Apparently, it is a thing now, and this is Anthropic's "Alignment Science Lead". Shortcuts used to teach improv to gamers are not a map to the real world. Aaaaargh...

Text of a tweet: Evan Hubinger @EvanHub Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 09/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #ABCD, any bird beginning with these letters. Alt is #RSTU, any bird beginning with these letters. A is for Avocets B is for Black-headed Gull C is for Cormorant D is for Dunnock R is for Raven S is for Swifts T is for Tufted Duck U is for Ugly Duckling

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 08/09/2026

"It is time." @onlyphrynes.com would like me to know that it is dinner time.

A Calico Maine coon cat looks at the camera.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 08/09/2026

They're taking off from LHR at last, just seen four or five departures.

A map of the air traffic over London, showing the tracks of multiple departures from Heathrow in yellow.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 08/09/2026

"Honey, I think we broke NATS." My rooftop ADSB at 15:50 today. There should be a few more planes up there... (The circle to the left of the centre is Heathrow.)

A map of the airspace over London showing live traffic. It is almost empty, just a handful of international flights passing through at altitude.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 08/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme challenge is #BirdBuddies: two different bird species sharing the same space. The alt is #BirdsInGreen: any shade of green on a bird's plumage. This meeting of a teal and a black-headed gull gives us a twofer! #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wanfle #gull #teal

Two birds swimming in a river. A while gull with an orange beak and a brown and grey duck with a green stripe across its face.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 07/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Herons&Egrets. From down at Point Pleasant, a pair of grey herons being territorial at low tide. Heron squabbles are hilarious low altitude gliding contests... #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #thames #herons

Two herons squabbling over territory on a pebble bank in the Thames.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 06/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay themes are a simple pair today with #Pigeons, any pigeon will do, and the alt theme is #SittingOnWater, any bird sitting on water. A mourning dove, in morning sun, on a fountain in a California garden gives us a twofer. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #sanjose #dove

A grey bird with pink legs stands on the water dripping over the edge of a fountain.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 05/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #InFlight, any bird in flight. "Speak softly and carry a big stick." A juvenile herring gull flying down the Thames, carrying its stick. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #thames #gull

A gull flying along a river carrying a very big stick. It is a grey bird with dark grey wings.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 04/09/2026

Today's theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdNaps, any bird caught snoozing, napping or just looking incredibly sleepy! A great-crested grebe folds up for a snooze while drifting on the Wandle delta. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #grebe

A russet bird with black patches folds its red head onto its back while floating on green water.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 03/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Contrast, light birds against dark backgrounds or vice versa. A moorhen makes its way across the mud of the Wandle delta at the end of summer. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #moorhen

A black bird with a red and yellow beak wades through light brown silt.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 02/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ItsAllWhite, bird's main colour is White. A black-headed gull (in its non-breeding plumage) was fishing in the weir pool at the Wandle delta. Up, up and away! #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #gull

A white bird with red legs and beaks leaps out of water leaving a trail of droplets.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 01/09/2026

Sploosh. A black-headed gull fishing in the Wandle delta caught just as it dives into the weir pool. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #wandle #gull

A white bird with orange legs and feet diving into still river water. There is a ring of a splash around its neck. You can just see the head below the water.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 01/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #FlowerPower, any bird capture with a flower in view. A rufous hummingbird feeds from a rosemary flower in the Santa Cruz mountains. #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #santacruz #hummingbird

A green bird with a magenta head feeds from a pink flower, while hovering with blurred wings.

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Simon Bisson @sbisson.com · 31/08/2026

They are such delightfully spooky birds, and like starlings totally not black when you look at them closely. Here's another from today, coming into land. Look at those feet, bigger than my Maines'!

A cormorant, big and black, wings outstretched and webed feet spred, landing on a rocky outcrop on the Thames foreshore.

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