A remarkable lady. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

RIP the wonderful Primatologist Jane Goodall. “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” A beautiful person.

I am very sad to report that Jane Goodall has died. Zoologist, primatologist, and anthropologist. Worlds foremost authority on chimpanzees. 🧪

RIP JG ❤️

Brian Patten (1946-2025) Liverpool poet & writer. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam I like his poem A Blade of Grass You ask for a poem. l ofter you a blade of grass. You say it is not good enough. You ask tor a poem.

Lydia's constant reading-aloud-chunnering was beginning to bring out Martha's, hitherto sheathed, Wolverine blades.

"Right, I've done for these kittens behind the chaise longue." "Hmm? Well that's nice, dear." "Absolutely nothing I do gets through to you when you're reading, does it?"

I've lived those days. Oh sweet sufferage!!! Next up: The proximate bagpiper chronicles

Thereby neatly sandwiching 'sailing by' and the shipping forecast... all else be fluff.

Led By Drinkies? 🫏

I think we should be very clear that an ultimatum is not a "peace plan". In contract law, an agreement made under duress would be void and not upheld by the courts or otherwise enforceable. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Well would you look at that. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A peak at my day job as a full time NHS consultant. It's a genuine pleasure looking after our patients, helping train the next generation and being involved in pushing the speciality forwards. Wednesday morning is my regional orbital inflammation clinic 🙏🏻

Our proud Orbital X Ophthalmic Medicine doctors' squad for our weekly regional joint orbital clinic at Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool. Here, we diagnose and comprehensively manage orbital inflammatory diseases and manage clinical trials & research in thyroid eye disease.

Ed Miliband is introducing plans to ban fracking. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

The Birkenhead Park School marks one year of being phone-free www.birkenhead.news/the-birkenhe...

Energy Secretary Ed Milliband brands Nigel Farage and his allies as: 'Investment-crushing, job-destroying, bill-raising, poverty-driving, science-denying, Putin-appeasing, young people betraying, bunch of ideological extrmeists'

Event! Writing Place. Jeff Young and Catherine Cole discuss their recent books in the Library Reading Room of Liverpool’s Athenaeum. Thursday, October 16 · 6 - 7:30pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-pl...

Exit applauded by a bear

And these 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Don't hack it.

We can only hope you live in the country, or with deaf people, as “seven hours a day of practising” should not be inflicted on any other unhappy being!

September 30th October 1st

Exit applauded by a bear

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

“He moved, spoke, gestured and breathed as if he knew for certain that behind the drab winter clouds a different kind of sky was waiting, and that beneath the exhausted and frost-bitten ground lurked every imaginable flower.” apple.news/AFXfwny7ZTti...

Led By Drinkies? 🫏

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Well, bend my brain.

Many claims are made for the power of poetry to change lives. All I can offer on the death of Brian Patten is a simple truth. This poem - sent to me by my not-then-wife - is the reason I am with her 40 years on. RIP Brian. x

Share the load ignore the haircut. #MakeStuffHappen

Farage is only interested in self gratification and would not have a clue how to effectively govern Most who support him and too dim that a Reform government would negatively impact them the most www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

It never went away, it’s now a fact of life.. Covid cases rising with new variants Nimbus and Stratus Out of interest who still routinely wears a mask who hasn’t an underlying medical condition❓ I don’t but tbh if a bad strain hit, that was potentially life threatening I would once more 👍🏼

RIP

RIP Liverpool poet Brian Patten, aged 79. I still have an original copy of the Penguin Mersey Sound paperback, which I bought as a teenager. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Well, bend my brain.

First photos inside Woolton Hall after fire show scale of devastation www.birkenhead.news/first-photos...

RIP Brian Patten, one of the Mersey Sound musketeers and much more

"German chancellor Friedrich Merz...“Let me put it in a sentence that may be a little shocking at first glance … we are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either"...Russia’s war is “a war against our democracy" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Tim Berners-Lee on the state of the net: “Trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web”—the average internet user is no longer a customer, but has become the product; between the birth of the internet & social media “we took the wrong path.” tinyurl.com/npetcfua

Please donate to a crucial #fundraising effort that will, among so much more, really improve our #accessibility! tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard... Tour by Dr @hornesupremacy.bsky.social, Museum Assistant

UK government to reintroduce maintenance grants (rather than loans) for students from the lowest income families www.gov.uk/government/n...

🎉 We’re thrilled for @manchester.ac.uk to be the official HE partner of @mcrlitfest.bsky.social as it celebrates 20 years of literary magic. Join us with the Centre for New Writing (@uomsalc.bsky.social) for a vibrant programme of partnership events. 📚 Discover more: www.manchester.ac.uk...

✨ From WWII devastation to Race Riots—Liverpool 8 holds stories that shaped our city. Walk with us through hidden histories on the Great War to Race Riots tour. 📅 Sat 11 Oct, 11am 🎟️ bit.ly/46AJsGe

Tonight's musical delights on Mersey Radio 8-11pm

NEXT BOOK PROJECT. We could do with a little help. We've gone live with our @crowdfunder.bsky.social today! Please do help us spread the word, Mr Schwitters is a remarkable book, he was a remarkable man. There are some lovely rewards. Huge thanks www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/looking-fo... #BookSky

US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC