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If you don't want to revive the Dundee Banking Company then simply relocate the UK's central bank to Port Talbot, rename it the Bank of Wales, and stick dragons on EVERYTHING.

This is a reasonable and proportionate proposal and I will not hear a word against it.

View down the portico of the Grande Palaestra of the display cases housing the casts

One of the casts lying on his back. Behind him the Grande Palaestra is bathed in sunlight.

A reflection of one of the casts on display

A day filled with poignant reflection as the permanent exhibition dedicated to the plaster casts of ancient Pompeians opened in #Pompeii.
At last they are given context: where, when and how they were found, what they were found with, and details such as their sex and approximate age.

And a very sheepish looking lion.

There was a public consultation and a vote, the public *chose* animals. Why are you playing into Tory culture war nonsense?

There was a public consultation and a vote, we voted to have animals on the notes this time around, I dunno why Kemi "never met a rake I wouldn't like to step on" Badenoch is making a thing out of it.

Everything goes on my card, I'd have to look up the last time I spent actual cash.

Two astronauts in space, looking at the earth. One astronaut is pointing a gun at the other. The first astronaut says "You mean it's all logistics?" The second one says "always has been."

I keep hitting the icon with my thumb by accident.

We voted to have animals. It's James and the Tories who are insisting it needs to be people.

There's an otter on one of the Scottish bank notes, why can't we have hedgehogs and seals and things?

Puppy teeth marks as one of the security measures.

We could do a series with vulnerable British dog breeds, like the Lakeland terrier, the corgi, the Gordon setter.

Amazing work.

I love this time of year, when I get my pay notification and then all the other notifications about all the fecking bills going up. 🙄

I don't know what will happen there, but as you say, it will be interesting to watch.

euw.

However, I don't know anything about this specific incident other than what I've seen on here or read in the news.

I'm not an expert but I had a chat with someone at work who is rapidly becoming one because he's our insurance director and I work for a property management company.
Yes, is the short answer. If the battery is damaged, faulty, over-charged or charged incorrectly, that can trigger thermal runaway.

When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.

thermal runaway - effectively an out of control feedback loop. Battery catches fire, heat, next battery catches fire, more heat, more fire, wheeeee. Then in these old buildings that have been chopped up and subdivided there's weird voids and "chimneys" that carry the fire unexpectedly.

As someone said on here the other day, welcome to Wrong Coat Season.

I *think* Kemi now thinks we shouldn't be joining the US and Israel but we should be bombing on our own accord, but that was yesterday and I presume she's slept since then, so she could have changed her mind.

Image of the life raft, showing the triangular shape. It is a light brown colour.

Image showing the information printed on the raft: It says C2176, then D.R.Co. Jul 1940, and Mid/30.

#NavalHistory people! Help! Our local museum has a life raft we're trying to research. Does anyone know anything about it? It is triangular, and is stamped with a 1940 date.

In hand photo of a Micronesian Starling, a chunky black songbird with a sturdy black beak and bright yellow eyes.

In hand photo of a Micronesian Rufous Fantail, a delicate little songbird with a rich red-orange brow, white throat, spotted black collar, and big black eyes.

Back to setting up a banding crew on Rota, where only perfect birds exist.

Såli (Micronesian Starling) and Na'abak (Micronesian Rufous Fantail), banded and released on site, for @instbirdpop.bsky.social 🪶🧪👩🏼‍⚕️

Conservation is a long game. Little Imp – our youngest grandcalf – is what winning looks like.

92 wild-born babies now, whose mothers came to us as orphans. They grew up. They went wild. They started families.

This is what your support makes possible: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...

Long shot, but does anyone know of any regular art/craft/illustration type evenings in Bristol? Something not too formal, a chance to hang out with people as much as anything. Asking (genuinely) for a friend.

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

You were over here with me the entire time.

Gosh, it's almost like the Iranians are real people with agency and the ability to plan? Huh.

My grandma has (she was a Land Girl in Carlisle during the war). Hated sprouts for the rest of her life.