andrew john lamb

When was the last time a valid goal was disallowed because of a foul by the team who conceded the goal??? We get some weird decisions! Anyway, 4th win at Anfield in the last 60 years!!

The hypocrisy is off the scale. Does a puff piece in The Times. Then sends a notice via the press regulator telling journalists, those worthy of the name, not to harass him.

They’re lying. We know they’re lying. They know we know they’re lying. They don’t care.

Straight out of the MAGA playbook.

Thanks Alan. I think I might still be lagging behind somewhat, overall 😄

Nice theme for #BirdOfTheDay, today: #BackYardBirds. Here’s a pair of Bullfinches, a fairly regular winter & spring visitor to our #Northumberland garden. Remarkably, one of 73 species I’ve seen in/from my small, edge-of-town garden.

Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.

The quality of photos from my phone sometimes amaze me. Here’s my contribution to today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Reflections. A Grey Heron taken in the Autumn on the River Wansbeck in #Northumberland, the quality from my phone far better than half the cameras I’ve owned!

Light Brown Apple Moth, a small golden brown moth with rufous markings

A buff-coloured caterpillar with thin white stripe nestled in a letter “I” carved into a gravestone

Put the UV trap out last night for a few hours here in SE #Northumberland, until the rain came. Attracted a single, solitary moth, this Light Brown Apple Moth. Better than nothing! First Tortrix of the year.
Also, a puzzling caterpillar from yesterday, on a gravestone. Any pointers welcome
#teammoth

A magnificent track on a unique album. I somehow got Screamsdelica for free on cassette when it came out. I have a vague idea it was from collecting cereal packets!

🤣 #SLBenfica's stoppage time goal from Anatoliy Trubin interrupted a Portuguese news broadcast, terrifying a priest who was being interviewed.

I think this Common Myna might be looking at my cake rather than giving me #EyeContact. Taken last year in Melbourne Botanical Garden, and brought to you for today’s #BirdOfTheDay

That most common of birds, the Starling: noisy, garrulous & beautifully #Iridescent. My contribution to today’s #BirdOfTheDay. There’s always a decent flock here, regularly breeding in our roof space. When the sun shines right, their dull plumage transforms into shimmering, speckled greens & purples

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Can’t argue with this ……

A Scaly-breasted Munia for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme, #BrownIsBeautiful. Seen enjoying the offerings at a Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City a few years back.

Great shot… I hardly ever see them so openly! I’m amazed by their mimicry. I’ve happily listened to a Sedge Warbler go through a repertoire of 10 or more different bird songs and calls.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Big Garden Birdwatch observations: Woodpigeon 1 Collared Dove 1 Magpie 4 Coal Tit 1 Blue Tit 6 Robin 1 House Sparrow 5 Chaffinch 1

Not the best #BigGardenBirdwatch count I’ve had, but was a bit slack getting the bird feeders filled. Four magpies dropping in was quite unusual though for this small #Northumberland garden.

@rspb.bsky.social

The Herald, a brown moth with orange markings and a transverse pale line, hibernating in the wooden eaves of a bird hide

Haha! After an hour watching the waterfow in a rather dark, ramshackle hide here in #Northumberland, this week’s #WinterWatch came to mind. A scan of the eaves revealed this beautiful hibernating moth, The Herald, a new one for me! #TeamMoth
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Here’s one of my local #Swans sitting on the frozen River Wansbeck in #Northumberland at the start of January. #BirdOfTheDay #NEbirding

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

10. It’s time to recognise how deeply weird this is, reserve our votes for people who give us what we want, and stop subscribing to media outlets that lie on behalf of oligarchs.
More on this subject, with facts and figures, in my most recent column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

7. Immigrants, asylum seekers, Muslims, women, transgender people, disabled people, students, protesters: anyone and everyone must be blamed for our dysfunctions, except those causing them. Ever more extreme “culture wars” (a euphemism for divide-and-rule) must be waged.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

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Hundreds of NATO troops died in support of the US post 9/11.

Yet this draft dodging coward, a racist rapist, questions the willingness, abilities and courage of those NATO nations who supported the US?

He is scum.

Think this fits the #TailsUp theme quite nicely, for today’s #BirdOfTheDay, even if the quality of this phone-binoculars photo is rather below par! A White-headed duck at #ElHondo in Spain, one of the few breeding sites for this endangered European “stiff-tail”.

Well worth a listen from Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos summit.

Some stunning shots of #FeedingTime for today’s #BirdOfTheDay, so here’s my contribution, a Sparrowhawk devouring a pigeon on our garden fence when we lived in #NorthTyneside. Rather underexposed, but think that quite accentuates the piercing glare!

Thanks Alan. It was a very confiding bird. I walked past within a few feet and it just gave me that beady eye!

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay, here’s a strikingly shiny Hooded Crow in #Winterlight, taken at the start of December at Bull Island near #Dublin. I rather like the faintly amused look it’s giving me, perhaps thinking “No extra tick for your year list this time, buddy!”
#Corvid