Yes, the Deutschland-Ticket is AMAZING! My husband and I are both fortunate enough to get ours subsidised through our (public service) employers, and it’s definitely made us more adventurous and spontaneous, as well as saving the day during bad weather. #deutschlandticket

UK schoolboys’ fatal hike remembered in Black Forest 90 years on

Just the one? I know of a house that has *several* 🤭

A tiny piece of joy as a #TimelineCleanser: we were chilling in the park just now, when a child came up and proudly presented this portrait of us. 🥰 People on neighbouring benches also got them. It was quite the talking point!

"Turkish" is a bit debatable (you could equally call him Roman or Greek), but top points for obscure but correctly used liturgical vocabulary here.

Sledgehammer was released 40 years ago today!

I promised some photos of #Aberaeron - here they are. Taken about a month ago towards sunset. #photography #wales #cymru #ceredigion

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: "_To_ was one of the original complementiser list, as part of the compiund complementiser _for-to_, but these two words have now been firmly separated into the complementiser _for_ and the non-complementiser _to_."

I was out at dinner on Thursday with my dad and stepmom and the lot was paid parking and there was a QR code. Debby and I were already seated and drinking our water by the time my dad stomped in after having to download an app and enter his payment info. for a parking lot he'll never use again!!!!

The best timeline cleanse.

This. Every time you see a "successful" trans person, know we are just one transphobe away from losing everything. This is one reason why it is important for allies to actually ally when we're not around -- transphobes should know their views aren't acceptable to anyone.

I'm looking for colleagues in the UK, #HistSTM, #HistMed, or #STS who work in institutional settings where they find it is difficult to place them in the right Unit of Assessment for REF2029. DM if that's you?

I promised some photos of #Aberaeron - here they are. Taken about a month ago towards sunset. #photography #wales #cymru #ceredigion

They've evidently got their finger on the pulse of the nation.

GCSE languages sees rise in Wales after new approach #langsky #xl8

Spring milestone: sat outside at a restaurant for dinner yesterday. Lovely food, too. @ Grüner Baum, Merzhausen

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

Erasmus Darwin, Midlands Enlightenment thinker, physician, inventor, abolitionist, died #OTD 1802; founding member of Lunar Society (with Watt, Boulton & Wedgwood), grandfather of Charles Darwin, friend of Benjamin Franklin. An Experiment 1768 by Wright of Derby Portrait 1770 Birmingham AG - ALT

Not sure how this train booking platform works, or how this happened - AI translated ‘STD’ meaning ‘Stunden’ (hours) into English as ‘Sexually Transmitted Disease’. So it appeared as ‘Geschlechtskrankheiten’ on ticket. www.krone.at/4109338

Big team discussion about "Who changed the central course passwords?" a few days before teaching is due to begin. 😬 (Wasn’t me, by the way! 😅)

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

This headline epitomizes the entirety of this administration. No real engagement with learning or scripture, no checking of sources—only what is received through media to justify violence. amp.9news.com.au/article/1ffd...

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

Any medics in my timeline? Just been talking to a female medicine student who wants to go into orthopaedics. Apparently, it's an staunchly male-dominated field in Germany, & male doctors are, as she put it, "very straightforward" about reminding women of this. How does this compare internationally?

#WorldPuffinDay : Jessica Eggers (South Africa) Atlantic #Puffins, 2026 Pen & Ink, Watercolor & Gouache on heavyweight paper www.instagram.com/p/DVeEkzQDH5... #BirdsInArt #WomenArtists #SciArt

I so, so wish you could have (second) private accounts on here, as it used to be on Twitter before everything went pearshaped. There are daily topics I’d like to discuss with trusted people in a smaller, safer group space.

Does anyone want to see some photos of #Aberaeron I took a few weeks back?

Acronyms are pronounced as words. -scuba -laser -NASA Initialisms are pronounced as individual letters. -NFL -TSA -TGIF 'Acronym' is frequently used for both kinds of abbreviations, so it's ok to call an initialism an acronym.

Today’s poem is called ‘Monday is a State of Mind’. #motivationalmonday

It turns out the cat keeping warm in the empty tumble dryer looks like a scene from 2001 A Space Odyssey 😮 😺 🚀 #CatsInSpace #Artemis

They make EVERYTHING worse. Ban, tax, whatever, but acknowledge it already

Dolgwm Stores, #Llanybydder. A slumbering time capsule.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

The Welsh Government has control of planning decisions around onshore wind farms in Wales. As such, there was never a ban on onshore wind in Wales like there was in England, and Ed Miliband's decision did not impact Wales @theguardian.com #thatsdevolved www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A comprehensive introduction to working with 17th-century family archives in Scotland vanishedcomforts.org/2025/01/17/h...

Will everyone please accordingly update their class takes, which will take effect from 5pm today

Remember folks, don't use Meta for Welsh translation work..

🔊Aberystwyth & mid Wales folk - this Saturday afternoon in the National Library of Wales 🛩️

If you are looking for accommodation close to Abergavenny and the Brecon Beacons National Park (Bannau Brycheiniog) please check out our cottage, which can sleep up to 6.

*sigh* Thanks, Royal Mail. #not

I'm not sure that the meaning of luddite hasn't already shifted from someone opposing technology that puts people out of work to generalised technophobe. Being opposed to it for its cognitive offloading, environmental harms, and also replacement of skills with worse things needs a different term.

Tree of the Day. Any of them

Easter tulips still going strong. It is SO worthwhile to buy them from the [farmers’ and growers’] market and not just from the supermarket, if you have the means and opportunity. #buylocal

I thought this was real. After a few comments that it's AI, I downloaded an AI video detector. Yes, the AI detector told me there's a 96% chance this is AI. I usually spot AI. But, you know what? I don't care in this case. It's the first time I laughed today. I'm not deleting it.

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

“This is the story of a system gradually losing the breadth and depth of expertise that national skills, research capacity and cultural understanding depend on." www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-job-...

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail. Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.