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We have provisionally broken the UK record for highest daily minimum temperature in May... again 😮 Temperatures didn't fall below 21.3°C overnight at Kenley Airfield, making it a 'tropical night' (no lower than 20°C). Remarkably, the record was also broken yesterday.

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Ernest & Celestine is an incredible film. And it looks like a watercolor sketch in motion. Its style was a risk, and it took time and care to get it right. We explore how it happened: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-look-o...

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Pink Floyd’s saxophonist Dick Parry has died at 83. He performed on some of the band’s biggest 1970s’ songs such as “Money” and “Us and Them”. Parry performing the sax solo on “Shine On Crazy Diamond” in concert. #RIPDickParry m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygl1...

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I'm forever taking people there. It's a great little slice of very historic London. Site of John of Gaunt's Savoy Palace burned down in the Peasants Revolt and you get all the Savoy staff hanging out smoking and chatting on their breaks nearby. Great spot.

It's Bob Dylan's birthday, so here's your occasional reminder that this iconic slice of footage was shot in the alleyway known as Savoy Steps, just behind the Savoy Hotel in the Strand.

Day 1: a chick. Day 500: the same hen. She's 18 months old. 300 eggs took everything. Then she's slaughtered and replaced with a new Day 1. This is what your eggs cost. #eggtruth

Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon that scientists still bounce lasers off 57 years later, and the round-trip measurement is precise enough to track the Moon drifting away from Earth at the speed your fingernails grow https://www.europesays.com/uk/980103/ On a quiet night at the …

Well played, Ashbourne.

I feel strongly about this, plus it's personal (Brexit has affected my family profoundly). This petition seems to be doing well, but could do with more shares and signatures if you're eligible (British Citizen or UK Resident) and feel strongly about this too. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Wishing a very dark and brooding World Goth Day, to those who commiserate 💀🦇 To celebrate, all of my goth t-shirts are just $13, including this one I made for us casual goths who have darkness in our heart but also like have to go to Costco and shit. robsheridan.threadless.com/collections/...

If you need a good World Goth Day soundtrack, the great KEXP is doing dark music old and new til 7pm PST as they do every year, free to stream commercial-free worldwide and always a good (bad?) time: kexp.org/events/kexp-...

New issue of Popeye, a Japanese menswear mag, looks great. It's a rare all-English edition and looks at how people from 18 different countries dress. Very aligned with my view of style: diversity and differences are good, and dress is a form of social language. Avail at Kinokuniya.

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Our normally-gentle bantam went broody. We tested her by placing her in a nestbox--before we could offer an egg, she went 🦇💩 and ran to her corner, bowling over a brahma on the way. So we put in an upside-down wrought-iron fence segment--the gaps are big enough for her but not the bigger hens. 1/5

This may be a little silly, but I found I could certify my yard as a wildlife habitat with @nationalwildlife.bsky.social We don’t have an HOA and I try to keep the native plants tidy in the front yard, but I figured that a sign to inform my neighbors of our motivation/intentions couldn’t hurt! 🌱

I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Spreading the word- donate.wikimedia.org

Stephan Fleet—VFX supervisor of "The Boys"—made a great video about logistics and safety, politely debunking an internet bozo who asked "why didn't they JUST film it practically?" www.tiktok.com/@stephanflee...

follow me instagram if you like. or don't. I'm not your social media boss. www.instagram.com/phillymovien...

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‘Fracture’ (The making of…) Oil and acrylic on canvas #painting #art #surrealism

I really think it's time we stop eating these creatures... spacedaily.com/sd-octopuses...

what's the best needle drop in a movie trailer?

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The Bees are disappearing but EU is failing to cut pesticide use Glyphosate a known carcinogen sales rose more than 44% between 2015 and 2024 EU is now considering approving most pesticides permanently. Profit of pesticide industry is all that matters www.dw.com/en/eu-is-fai...

people are acting like Labour asking supermarkets if they might voluntarily cap the price of a handful of products is some kind of Stalinist state intervention but Boris Johnson did something similar in 2022 without facing the same criticism here’s a reminder

Fun fact the Hass avocado is exactly a century old Mr Hass bought 3 seeds in 1926 and the mother tree that every Hass tree is a cutting from was still on the site where it was originally plant a normal residence in an LA suburb until 2002

Very excited to announce the arrival of the fully revised and now 100% up to date complete history of life on board the Jupiter Mining Vessel Red Dwarf. The Man in the Rubber Mask, now with 57.4% more smeg! Only available here: robertsmodernbookshop.bigcartel.com

Millions of us are straightforward and honest with our financial affairs. The very least we should demand is that our members of parliament do the same. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bee-come a member and receive a White-tailed bumblebee pin badge – PLUS wildflower seeds, pocket ID guide and loads more in your welcome pack 🐝 Together, we can secure a future for bumblebees. Make a #WorldBeeDay of difference: https://ow.ly/MZwS50YY5Xh

Savemooncamp.org Please share. Developers want to build homes/dredge lake for boat slips where our resident eagles, Shadow and Jackie, live. Please donate if u can to help put the land in trust. Please share on all of your socials. People across the world follow Big Bear's eagles. Thanks

"Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines 70% to 76% effective against severe illness in kids in 2022, data suggest" Incredible that some doctors devoted their nearly their entire pandemic output to making sure kids didn't get this vaccine.

Apologies to everyopne that #Chickam isn't as interactive this year. My husband passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, the kid and I are having a very tough time. Having the chicks to snoodle, and the kind words and support offered by our extended Chickam family makes all the diference. Thank you

I wrote something about how to dress for your body type. I disagree with guides that approach this from a corrective POV (e.g. clothes that make fat people look slim, short people look tall). Instead, I think it's about learning how to express yourself in a language www.mrporter.com/en-us/journa...

Looks like the Prasad/Hoeg memo was finally released... "No child deaths were directly linked to COVID-19 vaccines, according to the FDA’s long-awaited analysis of adverse events."

Tell me again why Shane Jones doesn’t want the footage from fishing boats be made public under the OIA? Yeah, I guess we know why. #NZPol newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/18/c...

Dug out my copy of Grace Jones's One Man Show VHS for the special occasion. You can watch it at 📼📺▶️ youtu.be/hgooF0X31pc

Vultus… Vultus… where have I heard that name… oh right! Vultan’s father! Ohhhhh… this is not going to end well for the Hawkmen, is it…

#Connect2Nature #BirdoftheDay Today's alt theme is #Unloved so I thought I post this pic I took of the most underappreciated bird. People talk about how much they love chicken, but usually mean it as a meal. They are still cool when they are strutting around the yard.

🐷 ❌ 1.025 Betriebe - Wir erstatteten Anzeige❗️ Es besteht der Verdacht, dass keiner der betroffenen Vollspalten-Schweinefabriken allen Tieren einen physisch angenehmen Liegebereich bietet, wie gesetzlich seit Juli 2022 vorgeschrieben. 🏛️📜 Die Presseaussendung findet ihr in den Kommentaren ⤵️

New research by the University of Leeds and the RSPB reveals that moorland burning exposes millions to unsafe air pollution. Find out more: environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news... @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Broody hen update Day 4 of big mama's quest for more babies. I offered her a snack and she ate, so i believe that she is indeed broody and not sick. Here is the rooster that is keeping the other birds away from her. He had some food as well

Using the data from refukked.lovable.app and a completely arbitrary non-scientific method, I am predicting that at the current exponential rate, all of the local Reform councillors will no longer be councillors by the 12th October. You can bookmark this if you want.

Thelma & Louise were the first 2 hens at my Cottage. This was only two days after their arrival 🥰🐓🐓🧡 #chickentuesday #chookpower #happyhens #backyardchickens