Claire Barrett

I'm asking questions I hadn't expected to ask... 'what are the veins in my hornfel?'... veiny horns you what now?

The Hum summoned us to march the electric ley of the land. Transmission tower to transmission tower, it called us onwards. Each pylon a portal deeper into its mysteries. To follow The Hum was to be transformed by it. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH #WrydWanderings

This might not be the, um, best time to resurrect this initiative, but am ready to greenlight this once I get the pigs, or similar animal that can scarf jiggly. Swimming pool could be a large enough private one. Have leads on public ones.

Nailbiting stuff.

Rock 101.

I have so much to do today before heading to Cornwall, but I can't stop thinking about plate tectonics.

Uncontainable levels of excitement today as I get ready for my first geology class.

Also, Spooky Lakes month starts Wednesday. It's a big week all round for me. 🪨💀

Starting to find the niche content I never knew I needed. #MinCup25

Orientation day! Very excited for my first classes on monday 😁

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

This is fantastic

#C4News find the girl escaping the fire in the burning classroom after an Israeli strike

"I walked through the fire all by myself"

"The rubble fell on them (her siblings)"

"I want to see my sisters, to be with them, but they're dead"

"I want to be with them"

Don't look away

I do hope people were dancing off camera!

Despite some misinformation in recent headlines, the long-term trend is still downward for land ice in #Antarctica and #Greenland...

My visualization can also be downloaded at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... It was just updated for data through February 2025.

This is genius

Anyone got links for Brighton/London?

@babayagashut.bsky.social puts on both London and Brighton shows I believe

I'd say probably MeltingVinyl or LoveThyNeighbour neither of which appear to be on bluesky

Come to Brighton instead 😉 try @babayagashut.bsky.social maybe?

a human skeleton curled up in a fetal position with legs folded up and facing the right side. Her arms are surrounded by swan wings. Above and below her there are fossilized sea urchins. Polystyrene print, black and white, Maria Strutz

Image first published in @lazaruscorporation.co.uk 's Spring 2020 issue of 'Rituals and Declarations' accompanying #EmilyCBanting 's essay 'Swan Songs for Dead Sisters'. Absolutely beautiful writing! 🖤

I think maybe my favourite Darwin quotation. Top five for sure.

Found carvings in stones outside the pub including this one which reads "greedy bastards Nottingham scab country". Bit of mining history.

So nice. Tan Hill, with Tan Hill Inn, apparently the highest pub in England.

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Well I've had a lovely weekend letting my brain spill out over Yorkshire. Also now completely in love with grouse.

GOTTA GO, IM GOING