andrew john lamb

America’s raging inequality is on display.

The corrupting power of wealth and giant corporations has never been more clear.

Billionaires are running Washington and unleashing a tsunami of big money and legalized bribery.

We are living in a second Gilded Age.

American journalists have a lot to learn from Scotland.

Moral of the story: wear pale coloured shorts when checking your moth trap at night!
#TeamMoth

Thanks. That’s a turn up! I almost didn’t photograph it, as I’m terrible with Pugs, but glad I got a good enough shot 😁

Small, brown Pug moth, with long streaked, speckled wings

The knowledgeable folk in the local moths Facebook group is proposing this as Maple Pug, would be only the 7th for the county. Sadly only the one photo taken, at night on my shorts, before I lost it!
Any thoughts, #TeamMoth? #Northumberland.

You’ll reel a few in with this 😂

Today marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage was last raised.

Guess how much the wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?

‘I’m not racist, just concerned’ From Epping to Facebook groups, how fear is being repackaged and pointed downwards and never up

"We’re not racist – we’re just concerned citizens!"

Fire crackers, far-right flyers, hotel protests… but sure. Just concerned.

This article by The Bear rips the mask off the new respectable bigotry ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

Dun-bar moth, a very pale example, a creamy brown moth with a black dot and faint bands on the wings

Shuttle-shaped Dart, female, a dark-winged moth with long black marks on each wing, and an off-white thorax

Early Thorn moth, perched on a leaf with wings closed. Underwings are orange-brown marked with darker lines

A selection of moths (and a spider) on a sheet

Broke the 50 moth barrier and 30 species barriers for last night in my debut year moth trapping.
Highlights: 2 more new species for me, Dun-bar & Shuttle-shaped Dart, a NFY Early Thorn, & 9 Riband Wave. Mostly still around -rather than in- the trap, but can’t complain!
#TeamMoth #Northumberland

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

A colander with some lettuce leaves, three purple kohlrabi and some nearly ripe tomatoes.

A plastic tub of redcurrants

Last leaves from bolted lettuces, a few more kohlrabi, underripe tomatoes & redcurrants from the garden allotment today. Off on holiday in a week, so think my kind neighbour -who waters while we’re away- will see the best of the ripe tomatoes! 🤷‍♂️
Also, raspberry canes cut back & cabbages covered 🦋

Didn’t see the Green Sandpiper, but 2 Avocet there at 12:30

Kidney-spot Ladybird, Chilocorus renipustulatus, a small, all black ladybird with two curved red blotches. Dorsal view

Kidney-spot Ladybird, Chilocorus renipustulatus, a small, all black ladybird with two curved red blotches. Side view.

At last, another UK addition to my #LadybirdYearList:

18. Kidney-spot Ladybird

Glad to finally see them turn up again in my #Northumberland garden. They’ve been an ever-present species since 2017 but had not seen one so far this year.

You’ll laugh and cry equally!

Make sure it’s the UK original. US version is OK, written by the same team and quite funny, but imho the change away from self-deprecating humour takes something away.

Definitely agree on Doctor Who from Ecclestone. We started during Covid lockdown (2x12-year-old girls) worked through the lot (but easy to find in 🇬🇧). I’d say *don’t* skip scary/dark episodes as they’re some of the best. Also Sherlock, & Ghosts (UK) is a comedy great from the HorribleHistories gang

A moth with hairy golden thorax, resting on thistle leaves. Its tented wings are golden brown with two lines of white patches.

Another nice new moth for me this weekend, Gold Swift, which seems quite scarce in #Northumberland. Found fluttering on the edge of some rural woodland… and completes my UK Hepialidae list! #TeamMoth

Three purple kohlrabi and a handful of broad bean pods

A bowl of Little Gem lettuce leaves.

More allotment goodies today! Never had so much lettuce, so much so, I’ve thrown away quite a lot that’s bolted before I’ve got to it.
#Northumberland

Looking back, seems I had Mottled Beauty before, at the porch light back in 2020

Mottled Beauty, a large moth with grey wings mottled with darker patches and lines

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, a large, heavily-built moth with long brown and chestnut wings folded over its body

A small moth with intricately marked maroon, white and black wings

Three more “lifers” so far this weekend in my #Northumberland garden. Mottled Beauty spotted on the fence post as I watered my veggies, then Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing and a beautifully coloured Acrobasis advenella from the UV trap.
#TeamMoth

Well done anti vaxxers.

Now a child is dead, once again, due to measles.

A tub of home-grown raspberries, redcurrants and wild strawberries.

Five minute fruit pick from the garden-allotment this lunchtime. 🤤

Common Lutestring, a pale brown, slightly streaked moth

Smoky Wainscot, a creamy coloured moth with distinctly streaked wings

Wormwood Pug, a moth with outstretched narrow pinkish brown wings with dark markings on the leading edge. The abdomen is orange with a dark band

Light Emerald, a large moth with broad wings that are very pale green and marked with 2 paler bands

Another remarkable night for me and #TeamMoth in my #Northumberland garden! Not huge numbers - 38 of 21 - but 4 entirely new moths for me, and 7 NFY.
New were Common Lutestring (my first Drepanid), Wormwood Pug, Light Emerald & Smoky Wainscot.
NFY: highlights were a couple of V-pug & Marbled Beauty

I’m glad someone’s said it. I completely lost track for the middle of the story.

That this is now a mainstream opinion is chilling. 😞

Hands up who thought this oppressive shit would stop when #Labour got into power?
I apologise for my naïvety 😔

Making Measles Great Again Before the measles vaccine became widely available in the 1960s, nearly everyone in the United States contracted measles by the timethey were 15.

1. Before the measles vaccine became available in the 60s, millions of children were infected each year, tens of thousands were hospitalized, and hundreds died.

In 2000, the WHO declared that measles had been ERADICATED in the United States

Today measles is back

How fake-will fraudsters steal millions from the dead A trail of suspicious wills led to an organised gang committing fraud and stealing millions from dead people's estates.

A really, really disturbing story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a scumbag

Nigel Farage is either 'deliberately lying' or 'extremely stupid' for promising to reopen coal mines and restart blast furnaces, former Labour leader Lord Kinnock tells Sky’s Trevor Philips