Eastern Bloc Visuals

Posted on 6th November 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Pennine Tower
Pennine Tower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says:

We found some great historic images in Mastodon posted by @eastblocvisuals Explore their feed, and find an image you can add a caption to bring it into modern times.

Better yet, meme it! Does anyone even create meme images anymore or is it GenAI all the way down? The simplest create, adding text to an image. Also, please credit the source image with a link, eh?

Here is the stylin’ wheels in the capitol of Uzbekistan in 1969…

I looked through the feed and saw pic of a building in Prague called the Cube, previously called the Koospol Building

From here https://zpravobot.news/@eastblocvisuals/117541137352347480

It really reminded me of the Pennine Tower at Lancaster Services (see the image at the top of this post).  I always try to get a photo of this as we drive by – this one is from July this year. On looking online I found that the Cube was built in 1074- 1977, while the Pennine Tower was earlier, opening in 1965. Both are Brutalist architecture though – which is a style I find strangely beautiful.

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Bonfire Night Fireworks

Posted on 5th November 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Today’s TDC says

Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot.
We see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!

Do something to celebrate bonfire night.

So here’s some fireworks:

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Vegetable smile

Posted on 4th November 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Vegetable smile
Vegetable smile flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

Make a vegetable smile

Yes, you can just draw a smiley face on a potato, but we bet you can do something more creatively challenging than that! Craft that veggie…

I made my smiley face out of potatoes …

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Redwings

Posted on 3rd November 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Redwings Haiku
Redwings Haiku flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

Write a haiku about autumn. Bonus points for illustrating it.

We’ve been waiting for the redwings to arrive at the end of our garden and this weekend they appeared. They are really hard to see in the rowan trees as they blend into the red-brown leaves and red berries, but I got a photo of one yesterday that I’m quite pleased with. Here’s a haiku I wrote as I watched them flit from tree to tree.

Flashing through the trees
Stripping berries as they fly
Redwings have arrived

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Spinning Fish

Posted on 2nd November 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Spinning fish
Spinning fish flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

Look at this fish, spinning and spinning. Write a poem about the fish – bonus points for putting it to music.

Spinning Fish

A fish out of water
Spinning in the ether
Silently, effortlessly, eternally

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Turnips

Posted on 1st November 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Pasty
Pasty flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

Everyone has some random facts sitting orotund in the long term storage of their mind. Today is the day to dust one off one of those facts and share.

Yesterday I made Cornish pasties – a vegetarian version, of course. The traditional recipe would be potato, turnip and onion with beef skirt. For my version I substitute cheese for the meat – a Cornish cheddar, of course. So here’s my fact for today:

When the Cornish and the Scots talk about a turnip, they are referring to the orange vegetable which is also called a rutabaga and that the English call a swede. Turnip is a core ingredient in a Cornish pasty. At the top of this post is one I made yesterday, packed ready to take out on our picnic today.

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Silent Sunday

Posted on 1st November 2026 by NomadWarMachine

301/365 Mugdock
301/365 Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Ten months of photos 2026

Posted on 31st October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Ten months of photos, one every day. Reminding me to pause and breathe while I appreciate my surroundings

Photo of the Day 2026

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Acrostic Poems

Posted on 31st October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Sarah
Sarah flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

Arguments rage in poetry circles about the merits of the Acrostic Poem (where the letters of the name of something, written vertical, form the first letters of words for each line). Use this Acrostic Poem generator to create your own, and if time, maybe transform the lines of the poem into a piece of art (what that means, is up to you, per DS106 ethos).

I made a couple – one for me and one for my Lacey Cat

Lacey
Lacey flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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RIP Jean-Luc

Posted on 30th October 2026 by NomadWarMachine

Enterprise over Earth
Enterprise over Earth flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Today’s TDC says

Honestly, we’re not sure what you can do with this one, but Ambient Earth is seven hours (plus) of footage from the International Space Station, looking at our beautiful planet. We hope it inspires you to write, or make art, or do something.

Last night we had the sad news that Patrick Stewart had died, so here’s my nod to him. I took a screen shot of the video and edited Enterprise into it.

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