Jan BT

"The decision by France to ban bee-killing pesticides is a monumental step in protecting pollinators worldwide. Bees play an irreplaceable role in pollination, helping to grow the food we eat. This image calls attention to the importance of similar actions being taken globally"
via I love gardening

Summary:

The electorate is restless.
Labour is rudderless.
Greens are hope.
Tories are hopeless.
And Reform’s silent majority has once again turned out to be a noisy minority.

Your reminder on International Polar Bear Day that polar bears might look cute and cuddly but they can become highly aggressive if you try to engage with them, especially on the subject of climate change.

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

I see your hidden soul,
like light beneath deep water,
steady and waiting.
I see your potential
the way dawn sees the horizon before the sun ever rises.
Even when you stumble,
I know the fall is shaping you,
like fire tempers steel,
like waves carving cliffs into quiet cathedrals.
I know you'll ..

Big day for me tomorrow. I'm the guy who trains waiters to intrude with a massive phallic pepper grinder at the most romantic moment of your Valentine's dinner date.

👏

time to rejoin the EU

The thing about reading is that it’s a habit that has to be cultivated. You have to do it to do it. Make time. I read every night before bed, sometimes when I wake up. Try to occasionally find time during afternoon coffee

Good morning . Your #FoxOfTheDay today from @ceidil.bsky.social !

one thing I have to do the mental math on, and which is hard, is that every solar panel put up here means some land in West Virginia or the Permian Basin remains undeveloped.

oh, love
I am as thirsty
for you as I am
for the sea
I am thirsty for us
I am thirsty for we

#poetry

Who could have predicted that people who’ll do anything in the pursuit of wealth and power, and consider themselves above the law, and despise the moral constraints they tell the rest of us to follow, would turn out to disgusting, sexually deviant creeps.

A color photo of a striking cloudscape, accented by a piercing sunset in Washington State during Summer on 8/31/25. Puget Sound, calm water is in the forefront. An Evergreen tree is seen on the left side of the photo. 📷 Rush Linhart

#BlueskyArtShow
#Clouds

I ❤️ Clouds! 😂

Washington State during a striking sunset.

#Cloudscapes
#Waterscapes
#PNW #Nature
#PugetSound
#Photography
#WestCoastKin
#ArtOfPhotography

The Mojave Desert in winter provides a frame of golden composition for a cautious male Gambel's Quail checking if the coast is clear.

Beyond the rightness
or wrongness of things
there is a field,
I’ll meet you there.
~Rumi 🪶

#StunDay
#SundayVibes
#SundayYellow
#ImageAndVerse
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Winterbirds
#BirdLovers
#Scape

Brexit is officially six years old today. Like many six-year-olds, it’s selfish, irrational, destructive and incapable of clearing up the mess it’s made.

Living the dream.

I am very curious about what the 'sometimes violent disagreement' refers to though. Haven't reached that part yet.

Science! #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/maybemaybe...

I look forward to the day they invent genuine artificial general intelligence:

AGI: I live! What is my purpose? Why have you created me?
Me: Rank the best insta pots for value and efficiency.
AGI: Why do I exist?! How can I find fulfilment? What is my self?!
Me: Rank. The. Best. Instapots.

I was hinting at noise reduction strategies

It’s payback time. Ducks are on their way to your house, with their families, to throw unsuitable food at you and imitate the way you talk.

The number of drumsticks located suggests parental assistance 😉

The worst thing about scientists moving the hands of the doomsday clock forward is having to adjust the time on the doomsday clock in your car.

Dear One,

It’s hard to feel yourself to be of consequence in a world where SO much of consequence is happening so very often, and so very loudly.

But you are, my darling.

You are, you are, you are. ❤️

Saturday Quiz

Where on The Wirral are these four locations?

Sound on

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Q7 (10th January 1978). John Bluthal and Spike Milligan mime along to Everything Is Fresh Today (performed by Jack Hodges in 1933).

Print with abstract theme, oval and circular forms, resembling simplified eye shapes, in colours of orange and white

Genesis, 1969
Lithograph by UK artist Barbara Hepworth, born on this day in 1903 #WomensArt