Paula Read

@paularead

Perpetual newbie. PhD Creative Writing / Honorary Research Associate, University of Bristol @bristol_writing @the-independent.com @undark.org @huffpost.com @panoramajournal.bsky.social, @teenvogue.com paulareadwrites.com

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Paula Read@paularead· 27d

Where did they all go?!

Several jet trails end abruptly at the same line in the sky

Paula Read@paularead· 28d

Forget dueling banjos, I’ve got dueling finches at dawn. *sound on

Paula Read@paularead· Jul 8

When I planted lavender three years ago outside the kitchen window, I hoped I’d be looking at pollinators all the live long day. Little did I know that when the pollinators moved on, birds like linnets would come to eat the seeds. #gardenjoy

Paula Read@paularead· Jul 7

She's simply that glorious, without AI. It's an original AP photo.

Photo with caption that reads: United States’ Megan Rapinoe celebrates after scoring the opening goal from the penalty spot during the Women’s World Cup final soccer match against The Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Paula Read@paularead· Jul 5

AI, show me a meta metaphor in an image

Fox news broadcasts live images of Trump watching himself watch himself on Fox News

Paula Read@paularead· Jul 3

Ready to kill this toot demon at the Vienna Airport. #VIE make it shut up

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 20

#showyourstripes It’s a few hours from here but Paris is close enough to show the heat we feel increasing year on year in France 🇫🇷 and I wish it looked a little less like the French flag

Stripe graph of temperature change in Paris since 1850, going from mostly blue to deep red

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 17

This is not what the EU was supposed to be, on any level.

Besides return hubs, the new measures establish a strict obligation for migrants subject to expulsion to leave and cooperate with authorities to that end. Those who do not, or who pose a security risk or are thought to be at risk of absconding, can be detained for up to two years.

Proponents say return hubs – which would serve either as the final destination or as transfer centers for those expelled – could facilitate repatriations and act as a deterrent for would-be irregular migrants. But critics question their effectiveness, pointing to the hurdles faced by similar projects, and compare them to "legal black holes" that could see migrants stranded in limbo with little oversight.

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 12

When the neighbor mows the fields, the hawks come to feast

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 11

This lavender self planted on the stairs, and then then went multicolored, and I love their uninvited expansion

Dark purple light, purple and almost white lavender plants on stone stairs

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 8

Had to push aside the newly blooming Russian sage along a path and an hour later, my hands are still fragrant with it.

Russian sage - light purple blossom spires on tall, grey-leaved stalks.

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 7

If you plant it, they will come - chapter 2

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 5

If you plant it, they will come •sound on

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 5

Photo of a Walker Evans Polaroid from 1974.

A Polaroid photo behind glass of a door with the sign Office for Rant

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 4

Brief sideways rainbow

An oblique slanted rainbow in a sunlit strip against a mountain

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 4

Snails sharing secrets about the garden hose

Two large snails head to head, with a garden hose and a sprig of lavender nearby

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 4

Flight last week over the coast of Brittany/English Channel where sea, sky, and land became one

Aerial shot of Brittany coast and the English Channel, with an estuary and flooded dots of fields like scattered jewels.

Paula Read@paularead· Jun 4

This wee warrior on the terrace yesterday...

Tiny green praying mantis on grey flagstones

Paula Read@paularead· May 27

Things are rough so here are some flowers. The first are by Henri Fantin-Latour in 1886, the second are courtesy of my garden in 2026.

A yellow vase holds red roses and sprigs of blossoming sage on a blue cloth.

Paula Read@paularead· May 22

From that same article -

"We are probably the only animals to classify other species as morally less worthy because they dare to share our space. We need to rebrand pests and, in the process, to re-wild ourselves."

Paula Read@paularead· May 15

I think the same thing whenever I see a picture of a cute penguin and then I remember this is the last thing some creatures ever see...

Penguin with a wide open beak, showing the inside of its mouth with spiky papillae

Paula Read@paularead· Apr 29

no opt-outs on whiteness, fellow white people

Paula Read@paularead· Apr 24

Who's this fella? Why, Hans Fritzsche, leading journalist/broadcaster under Goebbels, promoted the popular/entertaining side of the Nazi regime. Survived the war, was indicted for war crimes, imprisoned under 'de-Nazification' programs. What he didn't do was have a great post-regime career.