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GNU Jane Goodall.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

jousting = parallel play for knights

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Report exposes global firms profiting from Israel’s unlawful settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank.

to quote a tumblr scholar: the concept of the "rapture" is younger than the lawnmower it wasn't a part of christianity for the first 90% of the history of christianity don't worry about it

I live on an island where we have eradicated rabies but because rabies is so very scary this is fantastic news!

thanks to a typo in some presumably ancient text, today a certain subset of christians will experience the Rupture

Now that Jimmy Kimmel has been restored, we need to make sure that we always remember that these companies are cowards and are vulnerable to loud disapproval

Capillary waves oscillating against emerald surface tension #ColorADay #GreenSat #SensoryArt #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #OceanPhotography

#FungiFriends never disappoints. I highly recommend subscribing to that feed, assuming you haven’t already. Mushrooms are deeply, deeply weird—in the best possible way. What even 𝘢𝘳𝘦 they?

@jesszafarris.bsky.social we saw this ad and immediately thought "is a pietaster someone who makes terrible pies?" because poetaster (word for a terrible poet) hmm or someone who's a shit magpie? because poetaster = poet-aster (-aster = poor quality) so piet-aster because piet is a word for magpie?

we bloody love tv shows that have to make up fake social media platforms like FaceSpace etc the one we're watching right now has one for teens called Aren'tISocial dot com

we were delighted to learn today that le goéland, a french word for seagull (there are regional alternatives like le gabian) is from the breton gwelan - which is the same as the welsh gwylan bet this pisses off l'Académie Française

Activists unfurled a giant photograph of US President Donald Trump with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein near Windsor Castle on Tuesday, where King Charles is set to host him during his state visit.

Probably not the best time for this news to be released then?

when you check the news and it's a panel of people deciding whether the country committing genocide should get to be in a singing competition and frankly, nani tf

Was familiar with the heist of the original preserved ruby slippers but did not realize the guy had never seen The Wizard of Oz and was like "fuck this" when he realized they were just sequins rather than actual rubies, this is why it's not "be straight, do crime"

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

The retort of "but what if [literally anyone] is in the Epstein Files?!" is so funny to me. I chucked one of my all-time favorite writers out of my heart and mind this year, you think I wouldn't do it in a heartbeat for a politician or billionaire?

still very much in love with this gorgeous section illustration from the compilation The Puffin book of Salt-Sea Verse, compiled by Charles Causely

@jesszafarris.bsky.social we love how english has normalised nouning verbs (and vice versa) but today it's the idiom "if you think you're getting away with that, you've got another think coming" which feels normal until you think about it and then seems ludicrous and then normal all over again

i actually want birth rates to keep going down specifically because it makes weird guys sad

and by an extraordinary coincidence

if anyone's got some red paint handy and is wondering what to do about all these sudden st george flags being daubed everywhere, may we humbly suggest this enhancement? the bottom right part of the right hand character will do nicely :)

We’re 33 subscribers away from 100K on YouTube, and if I screenshot it first, Rob will buy me Hobnobs. (He is also probably asleep right now.) Granted, if he screenshots it first, I will make him Levain bakery copycat cookies. Either way, if you like the show but aren’t subbed, help a girl out.

Exactly! Join Scotland’s energy revolt Flip The Switch! @scottishindypod.bsky.social @believeinscotland.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/dVXms...

After a false start on Sunday, the flotilla left Spain’s Barcelona port again on Monday evening.

just lying here thinking ridiculous fucking things like: if you put Tintin together with Thompson and Thomson you get bronze, because they're coppers

Tens of thousands gather under ‘Workers Over Billionaires’, pushing for livable wages and economic justice.

Jewish Artists for Palestine protesters interrupted a performance by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in London, accusing the organisation of silencing artists who have criticised Israel’s war on Gaza.

@jesszafarris.bsky.social you and Rob could do a video about honorifics? we ask because we've just found ourselves wondering about the history of boys being called "master" until they're old enough to be called "mister" and we feel like there's a lot of juicy cultural etymology in all the titles

what tf is going on over there (obvs it's fascism)

fucking magnificent

Israelis demand a ceasefire and captive deal as the military intensifies bombardment across Gaza, killing dozens.

@jesszafarris.bsky.social @robwords.bsky.social on journalism - the UK used to have a terrible tabloid called the Sunday Sport which almost had cult status - and yes it had sex chat line adverts and salacious whatnot, but it also had fantastic outrageous news stories, and our favourite one was:

genAI is basically data cancer

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

best of birds, the eurasian spoonbill 🤍

watching a clown do their thing and murmuring "that's no small feat"

@jesszafarris.bsky.social @robwords.bsky.social in your Johnson's Dictionary video he describes a tomboy as "a mean fellow" - is he saying mean like "a mean dwelling"? comparing a tomboy to an "effeminate" man here? we ask due to personal experience of being called both, pre- and post-transition :)

something about our shallow dive into french archery terms that fascinated us is that recurve bows (which are not light) often have a wrist strap so that if the jolt of the shot makes your bow hand let go of the bow, it doesn't fall to the ground

And now found a whole series of articles on housing unprepared to cope with climate change ablink.editorial.theguardian.com/ss/c/u001.Yw...

Labour and the Lobbyists. The closer Labour got to power, the closer the business lobby got to Labour to thwart laws, regulation; demand tax cuts, crony contracts. The problem isn't confined to Labour, it afflicts all parties. Need a public record and transcript of all business lobbying

Another 200 arrested as the absurd anti-Palestine action nan-hunt continues

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