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The Father Ted principle dramatically toppled

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

I just caught myself in a shop window and realised that when I'm wearing my tweed flat cap my tache makes me look like I'm channeling Peter Bowles

Very much worth 3 min of your day.

Doing my compulsory goal setting bumf for work and I just typed 'maximising efficiency' and now I hate myself.

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Ladybird cover stories. The four seasons books. Artist: C F Tunnicliffe

fraggle rock implies the existence of fraggle jazz and fraggle rap

Lunch by the river at low tide can mean only one thing - Lapwing pics 🪶

This is who runs this account

Better Red Bull than dead bull it writes itself

Tell me you live in the countryside without telling me you live in the countryside. On the counter of the nearest shop to my house.

Tit of the Day: Himalayan Black-lored Tit 📷 Nitin Chandra

3 year old bird ringed in Rundvannet, Tromso, Norway on the 29th of June last year - 1,465 miles away. 🪶

Best singers by far for my money. When they do those 'Nation's favourite songbird' things and Robins *always* win I despair. Robins are a lot of things, but good singers they ain't. 🪶

Finally - my first colour ringed gull of the winter. Common gull, seen on the Clare/Limerick border, it was ringed in the South of Norway. More deets as I get them. 🪶

Doctors without hors d'oeuvres

Got to fully nerd out tonight, gave a talk to 80 people about birds of prey, many of whom came to talk to me at the end to say they loved my enthusiasm. I had a great evening. I wish I could go back in time and tell me as kid, who got bullied for being different, it'll be alright. Fuck the haters🪶

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Today I had a close encounter with a fox, found frog spawn and saw a pair of Peregrines and a Kingfisher, all before 11am. Good morning's work that.

Has to be the earliest I've ever found frog spawn

“The soil has thawed sufficiently to allow the farmer to start ploughing” ‘What to Look for in Winter’, 1959 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

This is a motto I live by

Listening to the auld lads discussing the flooding on the East Coast - 'It's no harm them fuckers getting it, Sunny South East and all that they're always so proud of it' Begrudgery is alive and well.

It kind of sucks to be living through a situation that is both Orwellian AND Kafkaesque.

Did I get hardened or is deep heat not what it used to be?

@stephencollins.bsky.social with Gladiators back this pitch perfect portrayal of Barney is back in my head. This Saturday my 10yo said 'He just did the thing, rewind it!'

Remember lying to a cop saved humanity.

Totally coincidental tache

The only cat in this house that is mine is Vocal, she's 17 and lives alone in my office. She chose me I think because we have something in common. I used to think that all the other cats hated her but now I know it's her that hates all the other cats.

“You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts.” Voltaire

@scully1888.bsky.social so you know I'll be telling everyone I know the Harry Potter buying whiskey joke in the coming week, deserved a better reaction on the pod. #pearlsbeforeswine

First 5 mins of ep. 1 Arkwright hears of a neighbour's attempted suicide that only failed because his washing line broke. Arkwright says 'They will purchase stuff from these supermarkets. If he'd bought it here he'd have got reinforced line. That wouldn't have let him down.'

Joinery is a ridiculously literal name for an activity when you think about it. Do builders do Stackery?

Bringing back this banger because ppl need some hope-core #paleoart

So that was Thursday January 22nd 2026. Crikey. I mean, crikey! Another day done, another day nearly here. (Out this very month in 1984, Judge Dredd #6 with its brilliant cover by Brian Bolland.) And so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients.

Guardian headline: 'use of ADHD meds has more than tripled!! 😱😭🚨' Article details: barely anyone who might need the meds has access to them 🤷🏻‍♀️

Minky and Slinky steadfastly refusing to accept they're getting too big to share this bed. @midgie.bsky.social

With bonus lake fog

Died down now, that was an amazing half hour

Holy shit. East Clare.

Here's how the huge blitz tidy up we had planned for this weekend is going #adhd

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Surely the sexiest duck you can see around Ireland, only about my 4th one ever. Long tailed duck 🪶 Distant phonescope in bad light. But you can see what it is.

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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪