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I'm not suggesting these events are directly linked, but a company - XLink - wants to build a 850-acre data centre right on my doorstep in the heart of rural Devon and the wildlife destruction will be huge. 850 acres is the size of the town I live in. Please add your vote!

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Cancelling Winterwatch? One of the few programmes I bother to watch, and EXACTLY the kind of thing the BBC should be doing - educating, informing and entertaining.

If you can’t make it to Aberdeenshire, we can easily send a little bit of countryside magic to you. #art #printmaking #linocut www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/products

Well worth a read.

Well, Clacton. Aren't you lucky!

It won't happen of course. But would be funny if Count Binface was sponsored by Clacton Refuse Services, with the slogan "getting rid of your local rubbish".

Ordered.

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Right, that's turned that nonsense off.

Vinted have invited me to start a conversation with someone who has liked an item I'm selling. I'll say that again. VINTED have invited me to start a CONVERSATION with someone who has LIKED an item. I mean, FFS.

LAURENCE FOX STANDING AGAINST FARAGE IN BY ELECTION I AM LITERALLY WETTING MYSELF WITH LAUGHTER!!

I've bought one of these pieces in the past and it's gorgeous!

Anyone familiar with Oryx and Crake, book 1 of the MaddAddam trilogy? Only something has bugged me for a while now and I want to know if anyone else has noticed it. Chapter 11, when Jimmy walks to the Paradice dome... on the way he has to barricade himself in the guard house to escape the pigoons...

Retirement day 3*: same as before, except took the dog to the beach, stuff to the recycling centre, no nap, and forgot to collect a thing. *the novelty of posting like this will wear off soon, I promise

The BBC needs to remember what it's here for: to educate, inform and entertain. That's why it's a state broadcaster. Fund it any way that's appropriate, but make it compulsory for every household (with concessions). Then:

Retirement day 2: a repeat of day 1 except I have created a pile of things to go to the recycling centre tomorrow and will need to load the car later. Still all good so far.

I've just donated.

They're on their last day and they're so close! Please donate if you can.

This is right on my doorstep. The campaign to fight it is currently being run on FB, which is a mess. No planning applications have been submitted yet but an application for a battery site will be made first to secure the lie that it will generate it's own energy.

Well done Labour. I will never vote for you again.

That's exactly right. As Cory Doctorow said when writing about the advertising industry, the sales figures don't matter. What matters is that there ARE sashes figures to justify the advertising spend. Unregulated capitalism has fucked us over.

Retirement day 1: woke as usual at 6, coffee, dog walk, breakfast, registered with new doctor, lunch, two hour nap. All good so far.

I think if you want to know where the world is headed, read the Madd Addaam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. It's all in there, including the climate threat to coffee I've just read about.

And I'm home. All is well with the world.

Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com

Emma Thompson in Down Cemetery Road why she should be the next 007

I am officially retired.

The post of home secretary has not been good for women from non- white ethnic groups. Cruella, Priti, Shabana..... All spiteful, cruel women from migrant families pulling up the drawbridge for every other migrant.

Kick them over wherever you see them.

I've just done this. Frankly, where I live there have a hard time because if all the pavement parking. Plus, we don't have any of this in Devon, but I'll support everywhere that does.

Delivery robots are operating on UK pavements right now with no national regulatory framework governing them. Tell your MP to prioritise people, not robots, and let them know our pavements are not for sale. act.livingstreets.org.uk/page/193798/...

ALWAYS. CREAM. FIRST. Unless you like it there other way which is CLEARLY. WRONG. But ok.

What an amazing thing!

@rickybee.bsky.social or is he secretly you?

@rickybee.bsky.social are you secretly Russ Jones?

Seems my manor is going to be hot with a huge data centre that no-one wants or needs. And it's going to have a larger footprint than the town in which I live. We'll have to see about that, then. www.cpredevon.org.uk/massive-ai-d...

Holy fucking Jesus. If I wanted content from TikTok, I’d be on it. I don’t, so I’m not. That’s why I listen to Radio 4. Who on EARTH are the absolute tossers running the place?? This really is dumbing down hard. What it is not is reaching your audience. We are already fucking there.

Look at the size of that paw.

Long shot, but if anyone in North #Oxford has lost a tortoise with a surprising turn of speed in the heat, do get in touch..

Thank you for your responses so far. I’ve got loads of good ideas and I’m excited about new things. If you’ve got a couple of minutes here’s the link again docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Why do men even want to do this? Again, more evidence that (some) men shouldn't be allowed out without a female chaperone. Paramedic and football coach among 13 men charged with abusing woman ‘drugged by husband’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Isn't everyone sick to the back teeth of crime novels? I know I am.

Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

This is a genuine no-brainer, so why the actual fuck isn't it law in England as well?

Celebrate the arrival of summer with this beautiful piece of countryside magic. Named after one of the oldest songs in the English language and massively inspired by The Wicker Man, this would be perfect for anyone who loves some folklore. #folklore #pagan www.cutfromtheland.co.uk/product/summ...

This is Lady and Piper. Lady really loves playing fetch. Maybe even enough for the two of them. 13/10 for both (TT: rachaelsteinle)

The freezers at my local Sainsbury's have failed to cope with the hot weather. We are going to have to learn how to deal with this, and fast. What's more, we need to be capturing and storing the energy to heat water.