Just using my #KOII from #teenageengineering to play the built in drum kit samples on my #bossrc600 loop them for my live covers gigs. Surprisingly intuitive! Now to find a way to attach this to my guitar or mic stand 🤣 #myprojectstudio #soundon🔊 #stoneroses #adored #livelooping

A glass of red breast and a bit of Japanese breakfast 👍 m.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRg...

@cici6923.bsky.social I think I found your weekend look

If you live in Ireland and truly care about nature and our environment, please make a submission objecting to the government's plans to *severely* restrict communities' ability to defend them in the courts. Instructions below, it only takes minutes, and the deadline is the day after tomorrow!! 🙏

One for you @padraigdigan.bsky.social

I have the power to control cats, fear me 🤣🤣

Toulouse have lost this, the weather may be awful but you should adjust. They've tried to force everything and it's cost them the game

This ref is shocking, what happened to double movement

I can't tell you how happy I'm going to be if BBG put 60 points on Northampton. Listening to this Anglo centric commentary is torture but getting a proper thumping would make up for that 🤣🤣

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

TIL Drag rugby has been an annual event in Cardiff with the Cardiff Lions RFC, an inclusive rugby team, and Diff Drag, a team made up of Cardiff’s best-known drag queens, coming together to raise £3,500 for Dreams & Wishes, a charity helping grant magical wishes for seriously ill children in 2025

My current favourite wildlife-gardening / rewilding reads: • The Garden Jungle @davegoulson.bsky.social • Dancing with Bees @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social • Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social) What’s the one book you’d add? 📚💙 #booksky #naturewriting #wildlifegardening

Proper grown up game in the Aviva

Stade francais what a comeback, madness

Never an Exeter try, he propels himself with his knees after the tackle. Poor decision

Thanks for the heads up @bsrg1.bsky.social , arrived today and look forward to reading it.

It's #caturday and these guys are taking it easy

Your starter for ten @harrymcnally.bsky.social on your chosen subject

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

USA is lost.... We don't need that kind of bollocks here.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

So true it makes it perfect 👏👏👏

O to be a cat,

Unfortunately this is the ‘Happy New Year’ message we need to put out. 2025 ended true to form on the same destructive ignorant note that has been played throughout the year. This is what it is folks. We choose not to play along. 1/3 Video in 3 parts #nature #ecocide #trees #bees #HappyNewYear

That's some weather at ravenhill, earning their salary tonight.

Kindred spirits @harrymcnally.bsky.social

@louiseann.bsky.social this should be up your street and there's a song for pepsi m.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9W...

@andylewis.bsky.social I think someone was listening to our conversation with 🤣🤣

Current situation and I'm not complaining

In a world that appears ever more divided, ever more angry, ever more willing to embrace the obvious annihilistic option we refuse to give up on the premise that most #people are #decent. That most people #care deeply. Maybe we can #unite over #bees? #repost 14/14 Part 1/n

This phenomenon and how to help bees over the #winter I will cover in a separate thread. Hope this has helped increase your understanding of #bees a little. Thread is a generalisation and there are variances between species and regions. Please #share among your crew. #repost 🙏🏼 13/14

…#hibernation sites include inside tree hollows, under bark, beneath fallen #leaves, #compost heaps and even in plant pots - so be vigilant in your #garden! In the UK and Ireland we are now increasingly seeing ‘winter active’ #bumblebees specifically Buff-tailed bumbles. 12/14

…days heating the soil over the winter). They will dig down about 4/5 inches into the soil and when comfortable enter a dormant state. During hibernation glycerol in the #bumblebee body acts like antifreeze preventing water in the bee body turning to ice. Other preferred… 11/14

…#hibernation (some for as long as 9 months!). They will dig their own hibernaculum usually in loose well drained soil on a north-facing bank (banks are less likely to flood and north-facing means that they are less likely to emerge too early due to unseasonable sunny… 10/14

…which is where they are now. And finally to the big girls of the bee world - the bumbles. Towards the end of summer #bumblebee nests come to a natural end - the males, female workers and old queen die leaving just the new queens alive. These queens feed up and go into… 9/14

…these pods with food before sealing them up. The males and females will have died off shortly afterwards leaving the kids to ‘fend for themselves’. The eggs hatch and the larvae will eat the food provided and develop into adults while overwintering in their pods/cocoons… 8/14

After mating in spring/summer the female will have prepared a nest into which she will have laid her eggs in individual pods/cells - fertilised eggs will become females and unfertilised eggs often laid nearer the nest entrance will become males. She will have provisioned… 7/14

…around 6 weeks during the summer to up to 6 months over #winter due mainly to the lower work load. Male honey bees don’t do winter - dying off before the colony retreat to the hive! In warmer climes the colony works all year round. Next up we have the solitary #bees. 6/14

…packed ‘outer shell’ of #bees surrounding a less tightly packed inner core and requires a lot of honey and body vibrating to maintain the heat required for survival - up to 100ºF in the centre. #Honeybee worker life expectancy increases greatly during the #winter from… 5/14

#Honeybees don’t hibernate. They reduce the colony numbers but stay active within the hive. As temperatures drop (below 50ºF) they form a cluster (ball of #bees) in the #hive in order to use body heat primarily to keep the queen alive. This cluster will have a densely… 4/14

And they do need better from us! Spoiler alert! Bumbles - new queens in hibernation. Solitaries - kids in cocoons. Honeys - small ball of hot hive-bound bees. So let’s start with honey #bees and get them out of the way as you know they’re not really our thing here. 3/14

So after a relatively good summer (here at least) for #bees what are they up to now you’ve probably been wondering? Okay then, let’s take a broad look at our little #friends at this time of year. Again please #repost / #share. The more informed more folks are the better for bees. 2/14

It’s #winter. The buzzing has stopped - mostly. So what’s happened to all the #bees? Let me explain. Please #repost this thread. Don’t just like/look. It literally takes you a second. Costs you nothing. Bees are in trouble and need you good people to help. Thank you. #share #nature #education 1/14

Bridget Bardot was convicted for inciting racial hatred six times in France, which in itself an achievement.

What a game and friend phoned me from the stadium 😂😂. Great game of rugby

Racing 92 V Montauban and Montauban need a new coach, never seen players totally given up before they've even walked on the pitch. They are in a bad place

I think @bsrg1.bsky.social has got his Christmas present #hibsvhearts. Hopefully he won't go overboard on the nettle tea in celebration.

This is a Christmas album, I will take no questions.