Was great to see larval feeding signs of Choreutis nemorana on Fig at the allotment again this year. Even better was managing to rear one through and finally get to see the adult, a really striking moth. VC30 Bedfordshire #teammoth

A pal of mine posted this on the other place. I'm done in.

One of my cartoons for Tuesday's Metro

The smell of strong coffee percolates the land #England

Statement from Belgian FA.

New t shirt’s a bit bright…

Western reef heron, Dale today. Smart bird!

Colder night and numbers down but first dusky sallow of the year plus 6 least carpet. Common footman most numerous with 37. #moths #wiltshire

On the roster for third quarter touchdown. Go Ocelots!

Massive crowds at Trump's Great US State Fair, incredible scenes. "Cuz we support the U.S., the U.S., the U.S. And that's the way we like it, we like it, we like it, we love it."🥳🎉

Farage is totally corruptible He must be sacked as MP to never return in any form !!!

Humanity isn't separate from nature - so let’s stop acting like it 🌍 💚

The German coach Nagelsmann is giving me ‘your mate’s annoying mate who turns up to drinks in the pub and talks about Formula 1 all evening’ vibes @balderdash.bsky.social

"If you want to know what the future looks like, what Peter Thiel is planning, and what we should be paying attention to, it’s Argentina, Thiel’s latest plaything, host organism and testing laboratory."

This is the kind of country supported by Starmer and Labour Friends of Israel.

Machino on for Japan - is he from the Potteries!

…. then caught the perpetrator red handed - the leaf cutter bee

Spotted the evidence …..

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ―George Orwell, 1984

Posting this to cheer you up.

ICC judges sue convicted criminal Donald Trump after US attempt to intimidate the court www.yacnews.com/icc-judges-s...

This is an appalling story.

UN issued a 94-page detailed report documenting that the Israeli Govt committed genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children—killing 20,000+ Silence to this atrocity is complicity with this atrocity. Stop listening to any journalist, and vote out every politician, silent on this genocide

Harborne is also suing former Reform deputy, Ben Habib. Habib claimed Harborne gave Farage & Johnson £1m each to fix the 2019 general election that gave us Brexit. In a previous episode of #HarborneReceipts, @thenerve.news investigated 8/ www.thenerve.news/p/christophe...

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal. New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve.news. 🔗 below 1/

Severn Trent emailing me advising me against watering the garden, having baths or generally drinking. Nothing in the email about the datacentres or sugar drink companies that consume vast quantities. But then they pay for the dividends, don't they.

Dear AI, is this mushroom edible? 🤣😱💀 www.linkedin.com/posts/dsmgb_...

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The billionaire media did everything they could to stop this. Reactionary politics is about promoting early deaths to pander to angry but small demographics.

First Jersey tiger of the year on kitchen window tonight

If you (or someone you know), left Gary Bonsor's ashes in a burger van at Newbury Racecourse in July 2024, the local church would like to hear from you. www.ecclesiasticallawassociation.org.uk/judgments/gr...

This feels… portentous?

and a wee bit of video of the Woodcock with chicks in tow! #highlandbirds 🪶

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

Heady mix of 33 degree heat, flying ants, barbecues and England World Cup game

Burnham’s Bangers. No place for Keir’s fave disc ‘Rip it Up’

UN inquiry finds Israel deliberately targeted Gaza children, amounting to genocide www.yacnews.com/un-inquiry-f...

Found a full grown Puss Moth caterpillar on Creeping Willow at Pembrey yesterday. It was walking down a twig in search of more food, but didn't take kindly to being photographed and showed off its angry red face and whippy tails. #TeamMoth

Can confirm that no trouble is expected this evening in Belfast after Jeffrey Donaldson was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting two children.

This from 2007 BBC documentary 'Climate Change: Britain Under Threat', the late Jay Wynne predicting >30C daily for half of August 2050. With 24 years still to go, we'll already have two heatwaves far exceeding 30C in the past month - not in August high summer, but spring/early summer. Terrifying.

Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.

The UK should be tremendously proud of this. Instead, our oligarchic media and opposition parties use it as a stick with which to bash the government.

In case anyone was in any doubt.

The house that the IDF attacked was run as a bed and breakfast by Mona and her partner Habiba Fayed since 2000 to fund their research and conservation project Happy Pride. You deserved better, Mona.

Juneteenth is the day the Union Army entered Galveston, TX under the leadership of General Gordon Granger, who announced that all enslaved African Americans were free. Nat’l Museum of African American history offers perspectives: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

Excellent politics-birding link up.