Another fleeting glimpse of a Firecrest, at Titchwell this afternoon. They've been showing very reliably there this winter #UKBirding #norfolkbirding #ukwildlife #birds
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Another fleeting glimpse of a Firecrest, at Titchwell this afternoon. They've been showing very reliably there this winter #UKBirding #norfolkbirding #ukwildlife #birds
This feels like a good week to remind everybody that:
Vintage close-up portrait of a young girl wearing a hat.
27 November 1937 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Ina da Costa da Fonseca, was born in Amsterdam.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
via Post Cummings Effect
19th century painting - landscape scene - mist floating over a pond - early morning or evening
“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
✍️ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
#BookWormSat
This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely
MY DOG SNORING: awww look at the sleepy baby, probably chasing rabbits or running around the beach, oh my perfect little angel face I love you so, rest well sweet prince you are always in my heart ❤️
MY HUSBAND SNORING: this motherf…
We live in a hellscape where people struggling to live are forced to apply to menial jobs in order to receive benefits and then stripped of benefits because of the menial job they were forced to get
Walter Sickert's 'Noctes Ambrosianae,' (1906) holds a pun. Ambrosian Nights: ambrosia is the food of the gods; 'the gods' is the nickname for a theatre's gallery, the high place where the cheap tickets are, where the impecunious, sit.
Three children in front of the building. An older smiling brother holds a tiny girl in his arms. Their sister, with a big curl on her head, embraces them.
24 October 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Mirjam Rokach, was born in Rotterdam (left).
She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in February 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection with her elder siblings Issachar and Szejna.
🔴The Public Wants to Ban ‘Politician Presenters’ Like Nigel Farage But Ofcom Isn’t Listening
The broadcasting watchdog is refusing to act despite research suggesting viewers oppose politicians like the Reform leader being allowed to host current affairs shows
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Introducing the Children’s Booker Prize
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Studio photograph of three children - from smallest, to largest: a boy, a girl and a boy. They are standing on a fur rug. All have their legs exposed. Some are holding toys in their hands.
23 October 1943 | A transport of 1,035 Jews deported from Rome arrived at Auschwitz. After the selection 149 men & 47 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 839 people were murdered in gas chambers.
Mario, Mara Cesira & Sandro Sonnino among them.
EXC: Rachel Reeves considering doing the unthinkable at the budget - and raising income tax.
Story by me, @jessicaelgot.bsky.social and @guardianheather.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...
Freedom...
#Stewkey
Much of Newton Abbot, downstream from Wolborough Fen is in a flood risk zone. Building here could increase runoff into the river, damaging wetlands will reduce their ability to absorb + slow the flow of that extra water, placing homes downriver at greater flood risk.
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Over the years I've posted numerous cartoons based around Venn diagrams, and occasionally I will get mathematically minded people telling me that they're not actually Venn diagrams.
They are correct, of course. They're not Venn diagrams, they're cartoons. They have completely different functions.
What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.
Cley, Stiffkey
The right to protest is protected.
But Essex Police warn that keeping order in Epping has already cost £1.7m.
Piers Meyler reports
BRITIAN ISN'T WOKRING.
A quote by Kazuo Ishiguro: But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it feel this way to you?"
That Ishiguro quote, one more time.
"Charities and statutory bodies must stop creating fear by exaggerating the likelihood of developing dementia, and must stop presenting every stage of dementia as devastating."
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Autumn equinox, 53deg N. My old S. facing solarPV are generating 2.4kW. The newer E/W facing ones (not on graphic) are generating 1.5kW. That makes 3.9kW in total. The house is using 1.8kW (tumble dry on, heat pump on etc.). So I'm exporting 2.1kW to the grid and earning 30p/hr. #heatpump #solarPV
"Nibbling pan-seared salmon in a dark T-shirt and jacket at a West Village restaurant," begins a sentence in The New York Times.
what the well-dressed salmon will wear
