Tony Jebson

They prefer young

Could it be more Nazi coded?

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

“Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.” — Ed Davey.

Politicians from all parties must come together to condemn Elon Musk’s dangerous call for violence and make clear it has no place in our country.

Yeah, knees are most definitely not an intelligent design! [ bionic knees required, thanks to playing rugby ]

Lol, I had a similar pronunciation issue decades ago trying to order Jack Daniels ... took several attempts, but finally, Jacques Danielles worked 🤣

This morning on R4 Today Nick Robinson was quick to shut down Sir Ed Davey when he pointed out that it was Farage’s Brexit that prevented gov from returning illegal migrants.

While totally ignoring the as part of a well regulated militia thing.

Sure, but I doubt that would have much impact in the US, where so many have made a fetish of the 2nd amendment

Indeed. 286 this year alone. More than Europe in a century ...

Can't help thinking the solution is beyond gun control: too many out there. Instead, licensing and ammunition controls

😁 no worries

And orthographically, there's some confusion between Æ and Ę .. some early West Saxon has Ęlfred etc.

Yeah, I know .. it wasn't meant to be serious

But I should read it, even though I'm far morevof an Ælfredian

*Æþelstan 😇

Not sure that "v" really helps. Most have a very Wagnerian view of vikings pillaging in horned helmets (horns were never a thing).

Scandinavian raiders, maybe ... but there were many peaceful settlers as well.

That William has the moustache not Harold says it all really.

Very near unfollowing someone.

Orchestrated a pile-on against some dude who was a dick and wrong, but really didn't deserve the 20k v about 200 followers sh*t that ensued.

With some of the worst gilding I've ever seen. Truly chavtastic stuff

There’s No “I” in Team. But There Is One in “ALIENS” Yelling “Tarantulas!” in a crowded movie theater has its time and place. If you’re enduring Madame Web, everyone will be relieved you…

@deschscoveries.bsky.social conveys the situation much more clearly than I do!

Illustration of a planet silhouetted in front of a star. The star shows a large eruption on one side and more wisps of red coming from its southern hemisphere. Two more planets appear in the background.

The TRAPPIST-1 d exoplanet may be Earth-sized 🌍 but it has no Earth-like atmosphere.

Webb’s #NIRSpec has found no traces of molecules that are common in Earth’s atmosphere.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

Ed Davey calling out Farage’s sycophancy towards Donald Trump 👏.

From today’s Guardian.

To film and TV producers everywhere: please stop showing quill pens with all the bloody feathers.

These were stripped off, as the weight unbalances the pen. But for theatricality's sake, every now and again, you can leave a little tab of feather near the end

/rant

I gave up on him ages ago ... try to ignore his grifting unless people propagate it ... then, I might comment

Montie is still working it out. Thoughts and prayers.

FWIW David Attenborough is older and better than sliced bread 🤣

This is a cartload of nonsense from very intelligent people who ought to know a lot better. The only decent point they make against the UK government's prespective recognition of Palestine is that it's wrong to use it as an explicit bargaining chip to reward or punish Israel.

Thread follows.

Forget comets, I'm stuck on the light sail model for the Crazy Eddie probe in The Mote in God's Eye 😇🤣

In case you're in doubt (thanks to the nonsense from Avi at Harvard), 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet passing briefly through the solar system.

But the alien nonsense did make me re-read the Crazy Eddie part of the Mote in God's Eye ... not a bad model for how aliens might visit.

There seems to be a weird, perverse inverse snobbery around maths (and much other STEM).

Sort of "only nerds/geeks do maths, and I'm just normal, not a geek."

Pre-Eyckiaans Ursulaschrijn This house-shaped shrine dates from the period around 1400, before the painting of the Flemish Primitives. Only about thirty panel paintings have survived from the period 1400–1430, the so-called ‘pre...

This is the one I'm copying

www.museabrugge.be/en/collectio...

Starting on my reliquary project this weekend.

Step 1 is to prepare it for egg tempera painting, so gesso.

Big Q is do I *really* want to go fully authentic with rabbit skin glue, etc, or use a ready-made casein gesso ...

Oh, and I'll paint the box it came in for practise 🤣