Count Melancholia

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“madam maxwell”

There’s a bonded pair of coyotes that live in Central Park and cause they like to hang out at the Delacorte Theater when it’s not in use they’re called Romeo and Juliet

Prince Harry denies giving Prince Andrew bloody nose at family gathering New biography of the Duke of York claims ‘punches were thrown’ after heated argument became physical

If I was Harry, I'd giving it massive about this. Battering Prince Andrew is a boss move on every level.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The confederates are so funny. The rest of us are out here being normal, and they’re like “remember that time we came in second place in a war?”

Bluntly, and not even factoring in the grossly blatant incompetence of this administration, just about every administration uses NASA to announce a lofty goal that promptly gets shoved into a drawer somewhere. We are forever announcing initiatives for crewed moon and Mars missions, for example.

Congratulations to Kellyanne Conway. She will be providing the new alternative job numbers.

Final alternativo de Idoru, do lendário @greatdismal.bsky.social

As @greatdismal.bsky.social wrote in The Peripheral: "Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.”

Straight outta @greatdismal.bsky.social’s canon

This is one of the two hotels that I think of when I read the part in Neuromancer about Case getting the mycotoxin that cut him off from cyberspace.
@greatdismal.bsky.social

Alternate ending of Idoru just dropped.

In the hot Ontario summers when all the kids would run around barefoot outside, my mum used to put a big tray of water with some chlorine in it on the doorstep and we had to rise of our feet before entering.

I just hope they save the mature fine trees in the Astley Ainslie park! 🌳🌲

After a decade of death, Canadian scientists say they've found the sea star killer

It’s in the same bacterial family that causes cholera in humans #Canada

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

An aspiring Louisiana pilot can’t fly with sickle cell disease, so he’s editing his genes • Louisiana Illuminator Three years ago, Daniel Cressy discovered his love of flying. But after hours of lessons, working toward his certification, he was told his dream might be impossible.

🙏 Wishing Daniel Cressy well as he becomes the first in Louisiana to undergo gene therapy for sickle cell. At 22, he hopes the treatment will cure him and help him achieve his dream of becoming a pilot—while inspiring better care for others with the disease.
lailluminator.com/2025/08/03/p...

🇩🇪 Germany will launch the world’s first commercial-scale AirBattery, storing clean energy as compressed air in underground salt caverns. Unlike lithium-ion batteries, it uses no lithium or rare earths, making it more sustainable and geopolitically stable.
ctif.org/news/new-sal...

Storm Floris clear up after power cuts and travel disruption SSEN said it was continuing to restore supplies after about 50,000 homes were left without power.

BBC News - Storm Floris clear up after power cuts and travel disruption - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is this not the same Danish zoo that killed a perfectly healthy young giraffe, cut it in into pieces (in front of zoo visitors) and fed the bits to the lions?

WTF DENMARK?!

Delicious images of Edinburgh from Tom Duffin

Edinburgh O'Clock - 3 minutes to every hour. - we run fast so you don't miss your train.

A new hourly image to brighten your day taken in #Scotland very often #Edinburgh and shared with love by Tom Duffin

@tomduffinphotos.bsky.social.

Please repost with your own caption.

Does anyone else remember a couple of months ago when a Republican terrorist shot four people killing two of them in an effort to give control of the Minnesota legislature to Republicans?

Massive oak tree with a human for scale

The Great Oak in Kingswalden Park, Hertfordshire

A thousand years of majesty

Photo: Aljos Farjon

Israel is using food as a weapon of war, which is a war crime
Israel is using starving people for target practice
Israel is starving Gaza

Instead of saying gaslight, you can just say lie. Some people are just lying to you, it’s not that deep.

A.L. Kennedy is appearing at Edinburgh International Book Festival, Wednesday 13 August at 11am.

It's just over a week until A.L. Kennedy's event at Edinburgh International Book Festival 🎉

There are still tickets available, if you're quick!

🎟️ Wednesday 13 August at 11am - further info in the link below

www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

#Booksky
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Please don't tell me he's died.

Aye right ye did, ye bam.

I sometimes don't like it when a new chapter comes and the author changes narrator. I then do a fast look-thru and mark the chapts acc'd to who the narrator is, and read each narrator's bit at a time.
It's a novel, not a screenplay, that I was wanting to read!

'Deliberate starvation' of women and girls in Gaza is 'war crime', says UN expert

LATEST: A UN committee chair has condemned the 'deliberate starvation of women and girls in Gaza as a 'war crime'