Tizzy’s holiday (part 2) and weekend - including a late entry for the theme from earlier this month #TerrierTuesday Keeping cats from sneaking into the house, visiting a walled garden in Yorkshire and a dog on a stump

Overcast #DailyBalcony

School drop-off. Thursday: kids out with the traffic wardens, with nice signs asking parents not to park dangerously. Friday: parents parking on the pavement outside school.

Back to earlier weekday mornings #DailyBalcony

For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?! No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone... Please engage your brains for a minute🙏 🧵1/15

None shall pass

Sunny #DailyBalcony

Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions A 🧵 with the evidence:

Harriet Brooks was one of Canada's first female nuclear physicists. Sir Ernest Rutherford said she was an equal of Marie Curie. She co-discovered radon and helped lay the foundations of nuclear science. Then she left her career when she was 29. This is her story. 🧵 1/12

Merlin bird identifier app was busy this morning - also got chiffchaff and black headed gull

Drizzly morning for the return of the #DailyBalcony after a trip to Yorkshire

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It's been a while since I did a Friday properly... but this is about the time I normally tell you to go home, find yourself a book and settle down. If you haven't got a book, why not pop into a bookshop on your way? Preferably Bert's.

I forgot my thermal mug, very much wanted a coffee but did not have time for it in the cafe. Look, Cafe Freundlich has reusable to-go cups! You can simply bring them back. Great environmental idea and my productivity-mode is saved too! ☕♻️🙂💻😆 @gfz.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social

Tizzy inspecting abbeys and castles in Yorkshire #TerrierTuesday

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

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⚡ We also know that emperors faced challenging record low sea ice conditions in 2022–2024. Changes in sea-ice caused by climate change is the primary driver behind the loss of the emperor penguin. The projections are for the population to halve by the 2080s.

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story? Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of. Ready? Off we go, then.

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I’m sure RFK Brainworm will announce an epidemic of bone spurs in draft age white males whose parents possess at least a million in assets.

Another sunny morning #DailyBalcony

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez: “The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🍿

The only time that NATO article 5 has been implemented was to come to the US aid. Now Trump says NATO failed a test. NATO countries were not informed of aggressive strike plans on Iran and NATO is a defensive alliance. Somebody Lock this retard up 🇺🇦🇬🇧

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Just sent out this free midweek update. This was no ordinary Trump TACO, this was Trump accepting Iran's victory conditions as the basis of negotiations. It looks likely that Iran will emerge stronger from this war than before; a total US strategic failure. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

PM Sanchez with all the great lines: “Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they turn up with a bucket.”

When push comes to shove Trump is pathetic & a coward & for that we should be grateful. 😮‍💨

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:

Bright #DailyBalcony

“He didn’t literally mean he would wipe out an entire civilization” Then he shouldn’t have fucking said it. He’s the President of the United States. He has sole launch authority over the world’s most sophisticated nuclear arsenal, and words mean things.

Shocking. Appalling. Even for Trump. Sheer madness to go ahead with state visit by King Charles! Bin it NOW!

After Trump's latest shocking threats, Keir Starmer faces a choice. Withdraw US access now to UK air bases, or risk letting British soil be used to commit war crimes.

He is insane. And this is an open declaration of intended genocide. If any other world leader said this, there would be sanctions and an arrest warrant, not just for him, but for his whole regime.

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#DailyBalcony with bonus sunny breakfast

Traditional dog in a log from the autumn and a more controversial version - on an ex-log with Tizzy on a wooden bench outside the Old Neptune on Sunday #TerrierTuesday

A two-megawatt turbine pays back its build energy and emissions in 6-12 months, then runs clean for the next 25+ years. The fossil fuel industry doesn’t own the sun and the air. That’s why they’ve spent billions electing puppets to attack and delay the renewable revolution.

Sunny morning

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

#DailyBalcony evening edition

Oh look, the poll that generated the Daily Fail’s headlines about the public wanting to abandon net zero… didn’t even ask the public their views on net zero And it also found the Greens tied with Reform - guess that didn’t merit a headline 🤷‍♂️

Sun and broken cloud for 🐣 #DailyBalcony

“Exceptional hardship” is granted (for proven habitual road crime offenders) in around 1 in 5 cases—yet the definition of exceptional is “rare and extraordinary”. In the UK, 5 people will die today in a road collision. We should prioritise safe travel, not leniency for repeat offenders.

Happy Ēostre! Prints of this comic (and others) available in my shop - link in bio

Apparently the sun is not here all day

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

It's incredible that nobody ever brings up the fact that practically every highway project for cars is obsolete as soon as it's finished...by definition under budget from the start. But somehow rail is always over budget from the start.