Alan Matthews #ClimateCrisis #FBPE

Fabulous send off for broadcaster and truly top man Stuart Prebble today. Funeral was at Pembroke Lodge Richmond Park so plenty of great trees nearby. Pic 1 Tree of the Day. So many wonderful speeches and a live performance by Rick Wakeman to round things off. Stuart would have loved it RIP

Cat beating a drum: one of a motley crew of anthropomorphic animals to be found adorning the lower margins of a finely illuminated "book of hours" produced in late 13th-century England. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

Watercolour of small bird, facing to left, standing on a section of log. Pale buff breast and belly, mid-brown back and tail feathers but with a bright red-orange flash under its tail. Pointy black beak.

#ArtDD205
Redstart

From a lovely 📷 by @iand777.bsky.social who observed it in his garden.

@saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

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#Wayback1T

Forget just living longer. Eric Topol wants to help Americans live better, too. In "Super Agers," the writer and medical researcher maps a path to extending healthspan with AI, targeted drugs, and lifestyle changes.

One thing is aging. Another is aging without the major age-related diseases. Extending healthspan. www.freethink.com/biotech/eric...

‘Veggie burgers’ could be off the menu as MEPs vote to ban plant-based food terms Vote is victory for MEPs who want to strengthen position of farmers in food supply chain

“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef … Ladies’ fingers are not made of actual ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism,” says Austrian MEP Anna Stürgkh

Ditto Shepherds pie

Feel free to add your own below 👇

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‘Fiery and spectacular’ rainbow of autumn colour set to bloom across UK National Trust gardeners expect vivid hues and bountiful fungi, nuts and berries thanks to recent weather conditions

Do not miss out on the colours of autumn in the UK. They are predicting and expecting a riot!

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Good news from Wicken Fen Nature Reserve, north of Cambridge.

River Wye: Thousands join UK’s biggest environmental lawsuit It's believed to be the UK's biggest ever environmental pollution lawsuit - nearly 4,000 people have joined a claim at the High Court against companies they blame for causing "extensive and widespread...

River Wye: Thousands join UK’s biggest environmental lawsuit

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in… Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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#AmericaGoneFascist

Let’s also remember that the ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government.

We must protect the ECHR, not leave it

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

“Wow, send us another”: the battery tech Ukrainian troops are raving bout Ukrainian drone power supply manufacturer Pawell Power says they've discovered a way to increase battery efficiency by 77% without sacrificing room for the part that goes boom. Read the interview…

Drone battery breakthrough: same weight, 77% more efficiency, several times the range. We interview the people that made it happen. euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/08/w...

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

HMRC is examining finances of George Cottrell, advisor to Farage, who he says is like a son

Cottrell was charged in US for
money laundering, wire fraud, blackmail & extortion. He conspired to launder millions of $’s of drug money using offshore bank accounts

No wonder he’s in bed with Reform 🤷🏼‍♂️

With all the talk of 'illegal' and 'migrants on boats' in the UK, much of the discussion also forgets that these are people fleeing persecution - some may be dissidents. Human rights matter but there are other reasons why you don't hand them back, to help evil regimes.

Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus): This is a 20cm (7.9in) species of sparrow that has a chestnut brown head and nape, white cheeks and collar with a contrasting black cheek spot. Nice photo taken by Paul Morton in the UK. #sparrow #treesparrow #bird #birds #wildlife #nature #tweet #uk #bsky

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

“Now it seems a seminal report by the joint intelligence committee on the threats to UK security of the collapse of critically important ecosystems is being swept under the carpet by a government embarrassed by its failure to provide....leadership"

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This the level of unintelligence we are dealing with 👀

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

We are looking at an oil painting showing a street with buildings of different periods from late Tudor to Georgian and newer Victorian buildings. Shop fronts are brightly painted and people are stood in doorways or looking into windows. Some in the distance is climbing into a carriage.

We interrupt your mid morning tea break to invite you for a constitutional down an old street of York.

Today's saunter is down Stonegate, or the via praetoria to our Roman friends.

Come join us!

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3

More good work by Greg Sargent

Rare treasures excavated from the Roman town of Tripontium on display in Rugby Rare treasures excavated from the Roman town of Tripontium by Rugby Archaeological Society have been donated to Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.

'Rare treasures excavated from the Roman town of Tripontium on display in Rugby'

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#ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Remains of the Mary Rose - Henry VIII’s warship that sunk in July 1545 at the Battle of the Solent. Raised in 1982, the ship is located and preserved at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard site. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #MaryRose #Portsmouth

A green stone bust of a woman displayed in a museum. The sculpture features an elaborate hairdo and a solemn expression. The bust is mounted on a clear stand, with a blurred background showcasing other artifacts in the exhibition.

An amazing miniature portrait of the #Roman empress Agrippina Minor (15-59 AD), made from chalcedony. Agrippina was the mother of Nero, and married to her uncle, emperor Claudius. It was rumoured that she poisoned her husband with a dish of mushrooms.

📷me

On display at British Museum

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Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow