Cute pair bonding between two African penguins at Boulders Beach in South Africa 🇿🇦 #WildlifeWednesday

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Sad to hear of the death of the great Glen Baxter at the age of 82. His work seemed to be everywhere in the 1980s, an absurdist antidote to those uncertain times of high unemployment and the threat of nuclear war hanging over us. Obit: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/575eb56... (free) 📷Telegraph

Tuesday

Very disappointed to learn that Trevor Oakes, formerly one of the chief songwriters and performers of Showaddywaddy has passed away. Equally disappointed that this is the first post on Bluesky mentioning the band 😉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every day is the same >100% WindWaterSolar powering California's main grid for part of the day for 37 straight and 64/87 (73.5%) days in 2026 Gas is down 59.2%, solar is up 75.4%, batteries up 333% in '26 v '23 Batteries have provided 8% of all electricity output in CA in 2026

Unfortunately, based on the current rate of installation of WWS in Canada, Canada is not expected to reach 100% WWS across all sectors until after 2300. Meanwhile, China is projected to get there based on current installations by 2051. web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...

Whistling while we waited for lunch. #HumansofBlueSky #UrbanGaze #ClassicMono

On 25 April, my choir will be singing the complete choral music of Thomas Tallis in one day - including two versions of his spectacular 40-part motet ‘Spem in Alium’. Do come if you're in Oxford, or watch the livestream. And any donations very gratefully received! www.justgiving.com/campaign/tal...

Press "translate" on this article, which is about Erling Haaland gifting a historic book and starting competitions for his home district in Norway 💙 This is the example that we like to see in everyone who earns rather more than the average: that we all try to lift others up. 1.3m kroner ≈ £100,000

🚨🚨 The 2015-2025 period was the warmest 11 years since observations started, with ocean heat and acidification at record levels, and continuing rises in sea levels and the retreat of glaciers www.ft.com/content/e839...

Taco cat backwards is taco cat

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers Difference Engine no 2

With mother today. We are eating lunch at her care home before going to a concert this afternoon at the De Montfort Hall. She's just been served ice cream. "This is what life is about. Good food, good company and ice cream!"

Moved a piece I wrote many years ago on the forgotten British space programme over to Authory. So now it's non-paywalled and you can read it for free. We remain the only nation to achieve independent orbital space flight, and abandon it, on the same day. #history authory.com/JohnBull/ci/...

These are the words that should lead to his impeachment: if only for the lack of recognition that with great power comes great responsibility, that the American people don't empower their president as a dictator over any part of the world.

If anyone has links to aid efforts or NGOs already in Cuba please share

Can I just say that the GIFs accompanying the phrase Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz are absolutely first class! ❤️

This story is too dry to get much mainstream press coverage, so I don't know how this message will get out: But every company should be checking its records very carefully to make sure there's nothing unexpected.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition I like the encroaching blinds and the crowdedness of the scene. This was at a busy junction, so despite the hot spring sunshine, the air was thick with noise, fumes, traffic, people and bar music 😩 Madeira, May 2025.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition

I was very moved this afternoon, as I drove along a country lane, that the hedges are starting to have flecks of bright green in them. I don't know why I should doubt the progress of the seasons but in recent years for some reason I do, fool that I am!

Drop something PINK

Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.

#AlphabetChallenge Buying stamps from a collector. #WeekJforJuxtaposition These are from the envelope that I received my mint stamp set in. Clearly, there's no real value in most stamps these days beyond face value.

Made it to the edge of the countryside today - first time this year & also the farthest I’ve walked this year. It’s not quite the equivalent distance to the local shop, let alone the trip back & the hilly bits too. Hard work & breathless, but it’s progress towards the goal! #GettingFit

Inside the doocot #AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforInteriors

Thursday Laundry, Trastevere #AdoorableThursday

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.

Fair to say, we don't do a lot of sewing in this house.

"When crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen", says the crazy person with nuclear weapons.

Pardon me for being dour. We have a war between Russia and Ukraine. The overthrow of Palestine pretty much done? Then we start a wider Middle East war. China and Taiwan next, or does that need to wait until the US is really busy? Pakistan and Afghanistan. When do we count world wars as "world"?

😩 I'm hoping it doesn't mean paperbacks altogether.

I don’t know what’s going on but look! 😮

By way of sharing how I'm getting on with aging parents... Mum is at the stage of making absolutely no sense whatsoever and a new resident at the care home has even less grasp of reality than her. It's quite difficult to witness. #Dementia

There’s one place remaining in this 12-week mentoring circle. It feels important to keep this group small and intentional. If you’ve been sitting with it quietly, this is your nudge. We begin soon. malidavies.co.uk/lets-create-...

"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war." - Ilya Kaminsky

There's a LOT in here and my brief reading of some of the article on Murdoch is that it is important reading.

Seriously, Posties. Get in touch. It's not impossible & it's the future. Corporate oligarchic-owned media is just not up to the job. We need networks of independent media that can & will speak truth to power. Also: please, support us!! Thank you 🙏🙏🙏 www.thenerve.news

No minor hero here. Young master Appelbee has been incredibly gritty.

This is who runs this account. The good looks have sadly worn off.

A man tries to get his dog to drop its ball so he can throw it again. The dog leans away with all of its legs, ball clamped between its teeth. Man: This isn’t how it works Craig.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Suella Braverman defecting from the Conservatives to Reform has managed to raise the average IQ of both parties

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

I'm forecasting a 25% tariff on Canada. Fantastic leadership from Carney. Possibly the most important speech of the next few decades.

In a few minutes, in a brief speech, Carney has made himself a leader of the next world order:

Carney proposing integrity. He's right about those gaps: they've been apparent for a long time and most embarrassing.

A car left quietly in a field near Hartsel, Colorado. I shot low so the grass and plants could press into the frame, letting time and landscape do the storytelling. Worth noticing. #FoundObjects #RuralStillness #ScottKissPhoto