The idea that someone could be excused from a vaccine "because god says so" blows my mind. What next? "Yes, your honor, I did kill the child by ripping his heart out of his chest; but you see, I'm a believer in the old Mayan religion, and my gods require human sacrifice"?

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Luminous!

Pastel of Newnham Mill pond, Cambridge, with punts and the Granta pub. Note the ducks swimming through the water lilies in the foreground.
#pastel #cambridge #newnham #punting

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Same, but cat is a 3 yr old child!

@regretteruane.bsky.social I just finished Birding and I loved it more than I can say! Glad I read it on Kindle as it’s full of highlights now. Planning to get a hard copy too though as I love the cover, and I want to keep a version of the book that feels more permanent. 🍦

Huge M1 pot hole discovered.

Love it when the microphone accidentally gets activated when I’m writing a shopping list.

Quiche or similar
Bread no no, you’re being silly
Maltesers

Love this, thanks for the heads up!

A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

Dreamed the Victoria Line had a new extension to the north east. To Moscow. Considered moving to Russia, because ‘it’ll be a straightforward commute’. 🚇

I love pigeons!

Suzy Sheep is playing hide and seek

Three ginger and white doodles (poodle crosses) on my stall along with some brooches and a pigeon

Gonna make some doodles today #doodle #dog #felting.

I love the pigeon in the background!!

Illustration of a squirrel using a large pine cone as a parachute. The squirrel is holding onto the parachute cords with its paws. The background is a warm, hazy orange and yellow sky with some dark clouds below and a tree branch visible in the top right corner.

Hello Friday, hello weekend, hello week off.
🖼️ Maurizio Quarello

Do support small businesses and talented people. I’ve bought my Xmas Cards yet again from the fab Gail.

Remembering that Halloween when I was a student, offering a group of very disappointed kids at my door some Tesco Value chocolate digestives. 🍪

BBC, Sky, all UK media - you NEED to do better.

This isn’t “balance”.

Iterations of this meme keeps doing the rounds for a reason - it’s because the press keep doing this!

Stop it!

9/9

Toddlers can be sorted into two categories: those who fear and abhor the popping of balloons, and those who love to go on a rampage with a drawing pin.

Loving the October grocery receipts

A search for this book (sadly unavailable) brought up this intriguing title

www.amazon.co.uk/Reading-Vege...

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

I mean I know this will never happen, because she's a crank and she's not getting anywhere near power, but this is still a profoundly depressing world view. What are we without the arts, without creativity, without imagination?

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Johnson and Farage and their American equivalents for that matter get a free pass from the nice boys and girls in the media, because their confidence is mistaken for Oxford Debating Society Swagger. It’s not. It’s flat roofed pub tedium. You need to be exposed to more of it growing up.