David Parkes

Love that, a litany of the sea and just as mysterious

I bet, any harbour etc.

How are things?
Fisher, Dogger Bight,Westerly or South Westerly, three or four, increasing five in north later, rain later. Good becoming moderate, occasionally poor. Faroes, Fair Isle, Cromarty, Forties, Forth, Dogger. Northerly backing westerly, three or four, increasingly six later, showers. Good

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream.

Macquarie controlled company loses 91m litres of water per day to leaks.

No new reservoirs built since 1989.

Dumped sewage for 300,000 hours into rivers.

Customer bills up 47% this year.

End fleecing. Nationalise water.

AI-Enabled Cheating Points to ‘Untenable’ Peer Review System It’s not clear how widespread the new cheating strategy is, but it’s highlighting longstanding drivers of the peer review crisis some reviewers are now trying to alleviate with AI.

19% of peer reviewers in a Wiley (🥴) survey “said they have used LLMs to ‘increase the speed + ease’ of their reviews.” Meanwhile, some authors are using “indirect prompt injection, which involves inserting hidden white text or other manipulated fonts that tell AI tools to give a… paper 👍 reviews…”

Just a reminder that under the United Kingdom's broadcasting rules GB News should not be permitted to broadcast.

How Britain privatised itself into failure Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong

Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.

In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

Book from 1960’s USA about the warnings of hypnotic communist plots via the Beatles, mop top hypnotic prole art threat

Mop top hypnotic prole art threat

Kraftwerk

Carnac Megaliths get Unesco World Heritage status The megalithic sites of Carnac and the shores of Morbihan in Brittany, western France, have been officially inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list, the international organisation announced on Satur...

Carnac Megaliths get Unesco World Heritage status www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

St Mary’s Church in the idyllic market town of Wirksworth in the Derbyshire Dales is home to a small medieval relief carving of a lead miner, displayed on an interior wall of the church. The primitive carving is approximately 1000 years old and is affectionately referred to by locals as T’Owd Man

The first Birkin Bag

Thames Water refuses to claw back bonuses paid using £3bn emergency loan Money was paid out from loan meant to stabilise firm’s finances weeks before it paused retention payments plan

Thames Water refuses to claw back £2.5m bonuses paid to execs from £3bn emergency loan.

TW has 187 criminal convictions, £20bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, borrowed to pay dividends, neglects investment.

Execs to receive another £13m bonus.

Nationalise without compensation.

Anti Poster

Cover of new Country Life magazine - Hearts of Stone why we love our ancient sites

OBR finds that its projection that Brexit would cost the country £40 billion have 'broadly materialised'.

Project Here.

Very much this …👇

'Rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge'.
Only someone who has utterly failed to understand the sciences, the arts, the humanities, and everything else could have written this post.

Apart from perhaps a clinically narcissistic Bond villain.

Trail hunting – important tradition or cover for illegal hunting? UK faces pivotal decision on trail hunting: campaigners call for urgent ban to protect wildlife, while others defend it as tradition

Labour pledged to ban trail hunting in their 2024 manifesto.

Now, campaigners await action — calling for tougher laws & urgent timelines.

Old door calling buttons

Please leave a message using the retro futuristic pulley lever voice button motion equipment

Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows Student Loans Company figures show 10% jump in a year as individuals increase borrowing to meet cost of living

Students in England graduate with average £53,000 debt.

Total debt £266bn, up to 7.3% interest.

Most European nations don't charge university tuition fees, England does.

What was public debt, is now personal debt.

People penalised for education, can't start family, business.

Abolish uni fees.

Cairns of stones were raised by men going into battle in old times, each man adding his stone to cairns; those who returned would displace their stone, thus enabling a rough calculation of those that were lost in the strife - pages from Eleanor Hull Folklore of the British Islands 1928

It’s Father’s Day so it’s Theremin Time

Photo from Three Musketeers film but looks like Black Sabbath

An early Black Sabbath back stage promo photo

A tour of New York’s gaudiest neighbourhood with the Marxist geographer David Harvey | Aeon Videos ‘Monuments of stupidity’ – a tour of the high-rises of Hudson Yards in Manhattan with the Marxist geographer David Harvey

Monuments of Stupidity aeon.co/videos/a-tou...

A painting of the Chamber Tomb of Pentre Ifan near Newport

A painting the Tolmen of Constantine, Cornwall.

Richard Tongue was committed to recording megaliths (large stones that form historic monuments). Often located in sites not easily accessed, he wanted to increase awareness of those who wouldn't be able to visit them & the importance of recognising the need for preservation & protection.

Every Wes Anderson Movie, Explained by Wes Anderson That Wes Anderson is perhaps the most assiduous maker of short films today becomes clear when you look closely at his recent work.

Every Wes Anderson Movie, Explained by Wes Anderson www.openculture.com/2025/06/ever...

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Right to Roam

Of the Oak Welcome to Of the Oak's digital field guide, a journey through seasons and species, celebrating oak trees as living monuments.

Of the Oak - a digital field guide “a celebration for the oak tree”The team stitched together 1000s of images, LiDAR to map the tree’s with laser pulses, CT-scanned soil samples, ground-penetrating radar to trace the root system, & recorded a series of 24-hour soundtracks oftheoak.co.uk/meditations

Holiday planning

Whistle and I’ll come to you a new soundtrack by Death and Vanilla for the Jonathan Miller 1968 TV film and M.R.James story is very splendid indeed