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Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the Jack Snipe…master of the stealth and wobble! 👀 These charming little waders sneak into wet meadows and bogs from northern Europe, bobbing up and down as they feed along the water’s edge. How's that for a Friday smile?

Every now and then I'm reminded I should watch more Neil Jordan films. Michael Collins is a bloody good film. Wondering what I should watch next

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This is the rhetoric that politicians from Starmer to Farage have normalised and emboldened. Racism, hate and division dressed up as ‘legitimate concerns’. We will fight back. And we will defeat their politics of hate.

Liberal politicians, I hope you're taking notes. Does this come across as a stronger or weaker stance to the public than the Reform appeasement peddled by Labour? Do you think voters respect strong convictions or do they want a government who drift with the tides?

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

I do not need the pastel pink espresso machine from lidl I do not need the pastel pink espresso machine from lidl I do not need the pastel pink espresso machine from lidl I do not need the pastel pink espresso machine from lidl I do not need the pastel pink espresso machine from lidl 😥

Letter of the day (in the Times)

www.misanthropic-art.de/oaa.html Based as fuck

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Oh god AI vegan is the cringiest term they could have coined for us. What's wrong with neoluddite? Luddites were cool.

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

Terribly sorry that the chaps are lonely again, have they tried volunteering? Only, there’s an awful lot needs done.

goddamn a real loss few artists in the american metal scene produced anything as raw and impactful as gin, or any of the last three cobalt albums for that matter

i just allowed reddit to ai age verify me in order to view some mushroom id sporeprints. we're cooked.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

God archaeology is so fucking cool

This is Ando. He's been a high-risk explosives detection dog for 6 years, and last week he celebrated his final day on the job. His coworkers threw him a surprise retirement party by showering him with dummies, a special reward that detection dogs are trained to love. 14/10 congratulations Ando

If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.

"A bird wrote this" 👀 🍃

Let me introduce you to your new earworm, courtesy of my @greshamcollege.bsky.social colleague Milt: The Phibonacci Nova (Cc @standupmaths.bsky.social) www.miltonline.com/2023/06/05/p...

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Labour promised to restore nature. ❌ Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it. We offered solutions. We’re done waiting. Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species. Without significant change, it must be scrapped.

top tier eyebleach for those who need it

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Eye-opening graph. The biggest wildfire incidents in the UK don't occur when it's hottest, in high summer: they take place in April - *when landowners set fire to their grouse moors & lose control of burns.* Time to ban moorland burning. Source: www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...

So excited for this episode to come out! Huge thank you to Alie and the whole @ologies.bsky.social team for helping promote knowledge weird medieval art! open.spotify.com/episode/3Dm8...

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

Nature is lush , let’s vote for it ! The West of England needs a metro mayor committed to nature recovery , green growth and tackling climate breakdown . With the May 1st election coming up , now is the time to act . Ask the candidates to commit now avonneedstrees.org.uk/weca-mayoral...

A #SpringArrivalSpotlight wild card...the Hoopoe has landed in numbers this spring! One of the biggest influxes in years, with over 80 reported in the last week. Usually a rarer visitor to the UK, look out for that striking pinkish-brown crest and black & white wings. 👀

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

80,000 signatures on our petition to ban driven grouse shooting, we're not far off the magic 100K now 🙌 If you haven't yet signed please do to help us secure a Parliamentary debate on the issue → govpetition.uk/p/700036

we started a daily gratitude question at dinner because a happiness scientist on @ologies.bsky.social said it’s the most effective way of improving your happiness and I think it might be working. I’m more happy because it isn’t hard to think of things to be grateful for. there’s so much.

If you're up early tomorrow morning for some reason, this is your reminder that the UK has a brilliant pass of the International Space Station, which passes overhead about 6.07am (check timings for where you are at heavens-above.com). Worth pointing out to anyone small who has woken you up...

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