Scout is really developing his ‘surprise cat in a box routine’ #caturday

If you've ever had a loved w/pancreatic cancer, you know it's a huge deal for a drug to give people more time. For my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com, wrote about the stunning early results for #$RVMD's daraxonrasib, which start to write a new chapter for this cruel disease. (gift link):

The people in this trailer (like @rory-stewart.bsky.social and @alexvont.bsky.social) are really first-rate, so I’m really pleased that they’ll be drawing people in to watch this documentary on Monday and Tuesday nights 9pm on @channel4.bsky.social @channel4docs.bsky.social @voltagetv.bsky.social

To commemorate the 114th anniversary of the Titanic’s departure, the city of Belfast organized a spectacular show with drones. The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.

Spare a thought for the crew adjusting Stonehenge today as we set the clocks forward

The UK Parliament welcomed President Zelensky with a standing ovation. This applause is not for one man. It is for a nation that refuses to kneel. For people who wake up to sirens and still choose to live, to fight, to endure.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

Have they tried switching it off and on again?

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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Timeline cleanse

60 years ago today, Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Germany for her first State Visit - only 20 years after the end of World War II. The 1965 visit became a defining moment for German-British relations. For 11 days, West Germany was swept up in ‘Queen fever’. #QueenInGermany1965

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

Last week, my son lost his first tooth. Unfortunately he also swallowed it, leaving me with one just option: to get to work forging some government documents. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

800 year old York Minster now has 184 solar panels installed, which will generate 70,000 kWh of energy, enough to deliver a third of the Minster’s electricity requirements www.maxfordham.com/practice-peo...

If Margo in the Good Life had been called Hannah, then the cast list would have read: TOM / JERRY / HANNAH /BARBARA and that would have been amazing.

On Christmas day in 1643, male physicist Isaac Newton was born in Lincolnshire, England. Though he never did marry or have children, Newton made important contributions to the field.

Sometimes you don’t need to do your own research. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

Time to leave the house and fly the dog like a kite.

Not all collaborations are equally successful

Autumn sunshine

Well this escalated quickly…

Goodness, this is a hard hitting piece. Well worth a read.

When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses. But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.

Piece by Joshua Rozenberg on recent guidance on social media use. He picks up the point that its application to fee paid judges (and non-lawyer tribunal members) looks like quite a serious new restriction on their professional and political activity. open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...

A quick social experiment. The same tweet, posted at the same time on here and on Twitter, commenting on @joannahs.bsky.social’s brilliant piece on the exodus of criminal barristers. Bluesky replies on the left. Twitter on the right.

Article here 🫶 www.counselmagazine.co.uk/articles/whe...

Autumn sunshine

A brilliant example of strategic comms in action - it is far better to achieve engagement with your target audience than gather arbitrary clicks.

A gentle reminder that if we miss the 1.5°C target (and we certainly will), the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

Looking for people to follow? Here’s a directory of 4,500 starter packs which you can search by keyword! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

OK I did one! It’s not very specific. These are just some interesting people who I feel have helped make Bluesky better over the year or so I’ve been here. go.bsky.app/6E1Dx6H

To celebrate the new thread feature & because it's a good time to remember that doing small things is better than doing nothing, here's my only thread from Old Twitter that went viral. Seven years ago, when I moved in, I inherited what I thought was an overgrown tip at the bottom of my garden...

Apex predator vs micro scalextric…

I guess she got remarried

Scout on his morning patrol to check his garden is secure.

Confirmed on her X account that this is genuinely Pippa Crerar. Welcome to BlueSky! 👋

I just saw an ad for a shark safety diver whose job it is to keep tourists safe during shark feeding dives. I have a few questions, starting with “what happened to the last person who held this position?”

#cats Today's art lesson:

Bluesky is actually an Umberto Eco chamber, as it tends to warn about the signs of impending fascism and its associated dangers, rather than, you know, to debate and encourage them.

Great to see the new Dippy in situ at the Natural History Museum today. It seems an awful lot of effort to partially offset the really daft decision to take the iconic original out of the main entrance hall though…. #bringbackdippy

Delighted to meet this wonderful chap by chance on a family trip out today. He was happy to show off his amazing plumage in exchange for being hand fed some raisins!

A beautiful evening walk. Do we have #treeclub here?