Tonight at Kulturfabrik in Roth. Tomorrow we head to Bielefeld. If you’re into Irish of Scottish folk music, check out the Irish Spring tour ☘️ ✨ info → www.linktr.ee/ionafyfe

Quit and win for your health #NoSmokingDay #NSD26

the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain

So I turned social media off for a few hours to unwind. Did I miss anything?………

Merry Christmas❤️

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

youtu.be/q9IYGku0CJ0 Happy St Andrew’s Day🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Happy Thanksgiving to my Bluesky fiends. Wishing you all good health, happiness and prosperity. Have a great day

Recipe for iced coffee☕️ 1. Have kids 2. Make coffee 3. Forget you made coffee 4. Drink it cold

Happy Hallowe’en 🍁🎃 Violet Jacob (1863-1946) wrote the poem Hallowe’en after the death of her son at the Battle of the Somme. It was published in 1921 in her book ‘Bonnie Joann, and other poems’. Jim Reid set the poem to music.

A13th century Highland castle has been named the SECOND most magical in Europe

Dr Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message.

RIP Jane Goodall. You can't spell Goodall without All Good!

“Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind”

We had to say goodbye to our baby boy yesterday after 14 wonderful crazy years- I’m totally heartbroken. 💔

We had to say goodbye to our baby boy yesterday after 14 wonderful crazy years- I’m totally heartbroken. 💔

This is my baby boy, Peanut, 14 yrs old. He has heart failure and melanoma. Vet says he is comfortable for now but he does not have long, and when he deteriorates we will have to say goodbye- don’t know how I’ll do it💔💔💔

An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.

"We've sold toys, clothes, ornaments, even used my kids' old birthday money, just to keep things going." The parents struggling to feed children during school holidays news.sky.com/story/weve-s...

While we’re still figuring out life on Earth, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away, cruising on 69KB, an 8-track, and 1977s Fortran like it’s nothing.

RIP Jim Lovell astronaut who flew four missions, Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13, who has passed away aged 97. A true rocket man.

Blowing a hoolie here today. Day for coffee and a good book

Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).

Word of the day is ‘forwallowed’ (15th century): extremely weary from tossing and turning all night.

The use of swearing to relieve stress, anger, pain or frustration is known as ‘lalochezia’.

The Pillars of Creation, seen here in mid-infrared by #NASAWebb, adds to decades of research about star formation by helping astronomers analyze the densest dusts and gases of the region, and improving the precision of their star-formation models: bit.ly/45ayCYi 🔭 🧪

Star Wars taught me more of a moral code than any Bible verse. The power of Hope, the importance of Friendship and Loyalty, embracing Diversity and Acceptance, the perils of Hubris and Arrogance—and the balance between Light and Dark… Stay on target, my friends… and May the 4th be with you. Always.

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. - Prof. Brian Cox

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

The human face of all those bullshit, blue tick Twitter accounts full of racism, lies, cowardice & cruelty…

Word of the day is ‘hingum-tringum’: 19th-century Scots for feeling feeble or barely presentable, and just about hanging together.

Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.

Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻

The late Janey Godley was right. Blue Sky do your thing.

So I would describe myself as a slow boil type of person who likes to consider things as logically as I can. But after yesterday’s WH performance I am terrified and having a full blown panic attack

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.

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Jeez. US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. Trump’s government are behaving like mobsters www.reuters.com/business/us-...

‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline Everyone should read this powerful & heartbreaking article from @doctoroxford.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Word of the day, for the umpteenth time, is ‘apricate’, the sister of ‘apricity’. It means to bask in the warmth of the sun, especially on a chilly day.