Young looking rabbit by the railway line at Seabraes Graffiti Gallery in Dundee. They ran across my path, stopped and closed their eyes. When they opened them and realised I was still there they carefully scurried forward and disappeared under the hedge. 📷📸🎞️ #rabbits

Yes! Calling plain old mistakes 'hallucinations' is infuriating.

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

After last year's tragedy, happily the peregrine falcon laid three eggs on roof of St Albans Cathedral Via BBC News

It’s cherry pink and apple blossom white / The poets say

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

Waiting to book in for a blood test. The receptionist is VERY chatty - the person in front "oh WE have cousins in Australia too how funny!" My turn. Receptionist: "what a pretty surname" Me: ?! No one has ever said that before. Person 2 after me says her surname is Butcher. Receptionist: "Ok."

🧠 Quiz of the Day - Apr 7 ⬜ ⬜ 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ 🟩 Score: 6/10 Think you can do better? quizoftheday.co.uk

The fact that there’s not a total boycott of the World Cup already in place is a mystery to me

I doubt I'm the only one to think this, but it has just occurred to me: that it's the American civilisation that's - also - at risk of dying tonight

Sylvester, King of Kilmore. 👑

7 April 1939 | Czech Jewish girl Anna Fischlerová was born. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 16 October 1944 with her brother Jan (Hansi) (b. 1937). They were murdered in a gas chamber.

Blimey! BBC News - Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30,000 private Facebook photos www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This morning’s swan.

I have a worse than usual anxiety that something catastrophic and irrevocable is about to happen.

It should be compulsory that any politician posting on social media should clearly state their political affiliation in their bio. I have no idea of those senators saying Congress must act are Republicans or not. Which is what is necessary, of course.

I got a simnel cake* half price in Sainsbury's. Whatever's coming, I think I'm going to need marzipan. *nottabigun - just a slice.

Be assured they are still deluding themselves that this is somehow controllable

Is this our generation's Cuban Missile Crisis?

In unrelated news, I've come to Sainsbury's to buy toilet paper.

Anyways I was thinking this morning how we now know why he was getting rid of senior defence staff. Anyone who might have counselled against this, removed. Surrounded by idiotic and inexperienced sycophants.

Left work early due to IT issues. Slight escalation in my currently constant anxiety levels to hear on the radio interviews with "preppers" in both the US and UK, in view of the threats by the blood thirsty trigger happy clearly small penised and inadequate incumbents in the White House.

Artemis II turns round and goes back to the moon

That FIFA peace award latest….

Kanye banned from entering the UK. Wireless has forced the government to do what it should've done days ago. So now they have no headliner, no sponsor, and they've got the responsibility for any antisemitic backlash the ban now causes, too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Squirrel Cuckoo in Moyobamba, Peru.

I realise that a lot of people in my timeline are excited by this moon mission but I can’t get on board, I can’t take an interest. Feels completely off in the current context.

The cognitive dissonance between the peak of the #Artemis mission and the current incumbent of the role as leader of the free world threatening to "take the whole [of another] country out" in the same 24 hours is quite flabbergasting

Moment Artemis crew surpass distance record set by Apollo 13 | News UK Video News | Sky News share.google/u0V2qYl5J3tS... That 10 seconds between ground control and the astronauts speaking? 🤷‍♀️🤔 satellite delay? Or people madly gesticulating and mouthing: "You're on mute!" ?

Saved a bee today. It's my fault it lost a leg. I'm NOT proud of the thickness of a cobweb behind a curtain she had become entangled with, but her increasingly frantic buzzing meant I got there just as the spider in the window frame did, and a swipe with a postcard meant the spider retreated...

Also baffled by the tense that is written in. "...has been now speaking..."? "Trump starts by"?!! Is it past plus-future perfect?!! 🤷‍♀️ As it may will be happeneds if you are watched it not yet now

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Black-winged Petrel on egg is my Easter #SuperSeabirdSunday offering. This fellow, normally a burrowing species, has taken a liking to our camo covered surface alcoves on Phillip Island off Norfolk.

"The true meaning of Easter..." 😂

Just me registering for an ePass on the council website giving feedback on their stupid form because the address finder requires your postcode but *breathes* DOESN'T want a space in between the two halves yet *breathes again* doesn't indicate this is why it sends an error msg. 🤦‍♀️

cat plait

A hedge can take decades to grow – and minutes to destroy. So why are so many still being cut the wrong way? Kate Moore breaks down the consequences. eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

I've hot cross bunned. I have hot tea. Luxuriating in 4 continuous days off. *ponders if continuous is the wrong word* *reflects on the difference between wonders and ponders* Is pondering the same as idly wondering? (I could go on...) What do you mean, this is why I'm single?

Formal wear al fresco. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

"I am not a scammer" says the umpteenth clone using the same photos as every other scammer and on the "cryptoanarchy.network" 🙄🙄🙄

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

If you'd like to follow along with the #Artemis II launch, NASA has a live blog here: www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... and you can watch the official broadcast on the NASA site here: plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi... or on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

Time for my silly holiday photos! This may look like a slogan for a Portuguese dating app but is in fact a sign on the Metro in Lisbon

Treat yo self

Last #buyastrangerabook day offer of the day (maybe!). @annasels.bsky.social is offering to buy one lucky person a copy of Moondust by Andrew Smith. We're off to the moon again! If you'd like a copy, let us know. UK only.

Another as yet unclaimed #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about. @monkeybeaver.bsky.social will buy one person the book of their choice, up to £15! Any book. Not just the stuff on my website. So if there's a particular book you'd like, let us know. UK only