𝓛𝔁𝓼 / 𝔸𝕝𝕖𝕩𝕚𝕤 🏵🇪🇺💫

The excellent folks crafting #BBCMoreOrLess podcast addressed numerical details relating to refugee numbers in the news & all around us. A focus on quite a few episodes, including:

Jul 2023
www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

Dec 2023
www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

Jan 2025
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Indeed, directly associated consequence might be more refugees… (has this not already been documented / researched multiple times?!)

yet imagine ALL the potential upside for UK Plc in terms of global arms sales + consulting services…

Spend less
Earn more
(+ sprinkling of greater human suffering)

@michaelm.bsky.social @michaelrowe01.bsky.social
perhaps a topic of intrigue for #GamesAtWorkDotBiz podcast team & community?

Indeed, tricky to tack across a highway or dual carriageway in a sail-driven recumbent bicycle!

And likely to be somewhat hairy for other road users…….

(same applies if the road is 100% occupied by multiple recumbent bikes! Yet imagine the joy at watching them complete Festival of Speed circuit)

@pavsmith.bsky.social

wind powered cycling permissible?

💨 🚲 ☔️

www.instagram.com/reel/DOl4Obo...

ICE GOONS draw guns on humanitarian aid workers

Struggled in my quest to locate a video that I had seen in recent weeks - in which someone cooked a «clock face» of anchovies or sardines in a Wok — with a resulting male peacock look to the crispy preparation…..

It was a delight dish that they made, even if cannot recall what else they did!

Do you think slow roast through to 18th bday would suffice?

…might run out of fuel if we l opt for any longer…

Recently simmered Beef Cheek in the InstantPot(ty), in union with Smoked Beef Stock… and other tasty items (zero salt during cooking so as to have option to taste test with 1 year old infant)

Next week intend to have a first attempt with Lamb Neck. Not explored this previously…

@pavsmith.bsky.social

Please. Do not ever forget your Reading Glasses…

📚 🤓 🙏

Enjoy

A vibrant cluster of pale purple water hyacinth flowers with delicate yellow and violet markings, standing out against a background of lush green leaves.

'When things change inside you, things change around you' ✨

Bringing back this photo of a water #hyacinth I took a while ago in a nearby lavender field for today's #smArtist challenge.

Have s lovely week! 🤗

#thewildimages #bloomscrolling
#gardeningfeed #flowerreport
#mayblooms #macro #flowers

There are “tricky aspects” to the Tooting #fedi-sphere…

- not least being asked to sign-in again after following a link to a different instance & wanting to interact…

…perhaps I need to spend more time immersed to comprehend why + how best to overcome such engagment obstacles…?

THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO PUT IT.

The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky - phillipjreese.com As users flee from Twitter/X, two visions of social media's future compete: Mastodon's community-controlled network versus Bluesky's venture-backed promises. The difference isn't just technical—it's a...

Affirmative 👍

(perhaps you appear to me to be comparatively more boisterous on bsky…)

FYI: article contrasting 2 leading contenders for Fediverse community platforms: Mastodon vs Bluesky. Author appears to sway one way more strongly…

@pavsmith.bsky.social seeking to tempt you to the 🐘 «Tooting-side…» 🐘

📚 ⛓️‍💥 📚
m.ai6yr.org/@exador23/11...

YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Colossal Squid, 1st Live Observation | Searching for New Species in the South Sandwich Islands

🦑 This baby is COLOSSAL! 🦑
First confirmed live observation of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, in its natural habitat. Filmed at about 600m near the South Sandwich Islands during the #SouthSandwichIslands expedition. youtu.be/lzPoG9H8Hlo

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

Cartoon image of a duck on a beach wearing sunglasses and drinking a frothy beverage with the text “my goal in life is to piss off at least one person * every day” with subsequent text at base of cartoon — “happy to report that I am 19 years ahead of schedule”.

@pavsmith.bsky.social not that you resemble a duck, merely thought that this might amuse the mother goose… 🪿

(for viewing with musical accompaniment, FB link www.facebook.com/share/r/1KnN...)

Did I ever mention to you how, as a 9 year old, I got my father to sign my idea for «real-time consumer vehicle mapping & navigation using satellite geometry» — it had schematics too, not just a title & text…

🚘 🛰️ 📐 🗺️

Held awareness of US military GPS, but not researched how to register a patent…

Perhaps waited for someone to ask the question + come forward with workable approach?

probably helped to be living in a territory that honours growth of knowledge, science, maths 🧮

www.wikihow.life/Determine-Lo...

Nice history of longitude & latitude measurements www.ncesc.com/geographic-f...

Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) by Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry | Waterstones Buy Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) by Adam Rutherford, Hannah Fry from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery...

Referenced book:

“Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged)” is available for avid consumption & in-world DIY verification

Book store 📚
www.waterstones.com/book/rutherf...

one online warehouse…
amzn.eu/d/hO4JphM

YouTube video by Stand-up Maths Measure the Earth’s Radius! (with this one complicated trick)

«The World is difficult to understand unless you have Science & Mathematics on your side»
— Hannah Fry 🧮

youtu.be/ckcdqlo3pYc?...
(quote arises at 26”32’)

📏 🌍 📐

{often wish that key leaders of countries & companies had greater competency in such disciplines… let alone grounded “common sense”)

YouTube video by TED Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy | Carole Cadwalladr

And the prior TED-talk by Carole, for ease of reference: youtu.be/OQSMr-3GGvQ?...

YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

#TEDtalk that all should listen to, and ideally all should comprehend…

Thank you #CaroleCadwalladr 🙏 
Let your voice & message ring loudly across the Fedi-verse & InterWebs!
youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

#Cadwalladr
#Privacy
#Broligathy
#DigitalCoup

Foolishness prevails?

regurgitation of vox-pops
vs
facts

Recall rather similar “dialogs” (monolog due to one-sided nature) with a classmate from undergraduate university…

…dearly wish more folks had robust debate skill as a core education competency

YouTube video by Totally Handy I Built a Glowing Bike – This DIY Project Looks INSANE at Night!

@pavsmith.bsky.social
Which of these bike projects did you inspire…? 🚲 💡

youtu.be/pVyphTsB674?...

Only a quick Aperatif…?

((so it looks like you are back to your university gimmicks of “doing lines” of boozy beverages))

Brenna Trout Frey • 3rd+ Former Attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Mea... 1h • Edited • © + Follow Skadden Resignation Today the executive partner of my former firm sent us all an "update" that attempted to convince some of the best minds in the legal profession that he did us a solid by capitulating to the Trump administration's demands for fealty and protection money. Fellow Skadden attorneys: If you agree with Jeremy London's position that the firm should not engage in "illegal DEI discrimination," should devote prestigious Skadden Fellows to the Trump administration's pet projects, and should help "politically disenfranchised groups who have not historically received legal representation from major national law firms," (taking into account the robust pro bono work that major national law firms already do), then by all means continue working there. But if that email struck you as a craven attempt to sacrifice the rule of law for self-preservation, I hope you do some soul-searching over the weekend and join me in sending a message that this is unacceptable (in whatever way you can). As one of my more eloquent former colleagues put it: "Do not pretend that what is happening is normal or excusable. It isn't." There is only one acceptable response from attorneys to the Trump administration's demands: The rule of law matters. The rule of law matters. As an attorney, if my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them.

A Skadden attorney resigned today, citing the firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump amid pressure campaign on law firms.

“[I]f my employer cannot stand up for the rule of law, then I cannot ethically continue to work for them,” the former Skadden lawyer, Brenna Trout Frey, wrote on LinkedIn.

NEW: Today in Instanbul, Turkey.

A people fighting for democracy & against authoritarianism. This is how you do it!

Chairman of Republican People’s Party, Özgür Özel:

“Today, 2.2 million of our citizens overflowed Maltepe Square. This is just the beginning. This nation will not remain silent.” 🇹🇷