McScouse Mouse

A brown and white lop-eared bunny sits indoors on carpet near furniture.

Side view of a brown bunny holding a red rose in its mouth.

A light brown bunny nibbles on a green leaf inside a cardboard box.

Vintage black and white photo of a smiling girl seated, wearing a cardigan with button details.

Vintage black and white photo of a young girl with curly hair, smiling, wearing a dark sailor-style outfit.

13 February 1928 | Dutch Jewish twin sisters, Henriëtte and Sellij Fuldauer, were born in Geertruidenberg.

They were deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. They were most likely murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

Collage image - above is lights saying ‘Happy Ramadan’ over a street. Below is Mayor Sadiq Khan with his hand on a button which reads ‘Ramadan Lights London’, in front of a street lit up with Ramadan lights

A street with Ramadan lights hanging between the buildings

Collage image - above is Mayor Sadiq Khan and a woman holding microphones and speaking, in front of a lit up street. Below is Ramadan lights strung between buildings.

London’s Ramadan Lights are shining once again in the West End. A beautiful celebration of the holy month and a reminder that our city is a beacon of hope, unity, and inclusivity.

A city where diversity is a strength, and where everyone is loved and wanted ✨💛

"Morning mood. From my house in Skagen" 1916 by Laurits Tuxen, Danish b. 1853 - d. 1927. Beautiful and LARGE work in size 120 x 94 cm.

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Christabel Pankhurst died on this day 1958 in Santa Monica, California.

Wanted: Regional Director to work for an organisation opposed to home working. The successful applicant will be expected to work from home.

"First he embraced her with his armes, and took her by the hande, putt a ring upon her finger and layde his hande upon her harte, and held his hands towards heaven; and to show his continuance to dwell with her to his lyves ende he did it by closing of his eyes with his hands…”

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

it has begun

Reform-led Worcestershire set to issue England’s largest council tax rise Cap-busting tax hike will be embarrassing for the party, which has made low council tax a priority

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Roman mosaic image of a wine cup with two ornate s shaped handles

It's probably a bit early in the day / week to be thinking about wine...

but here's an exquisite little tessellated cantharus (wine cup) with S-shape handles

Detail from the Oceanus Mosaic found in 1931 and now in the excellent Verulamium Museum @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social

Happy #MosaicMonday 🍷

2nd century mosaic from Roman St. Albans (Verulamium) depicting Oceanus or Cernunnos. The mosaic is one of 49 discovered during excavations, and is on display at Verulamium Museum in St. Albans. 📸 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #VerulamiumMuseum

300,000 children face 10-year wait for settled status under UK plans, says IPPR Thinktank analysis says proposed ‘earned settlement’ changes could trap families in prolonged insecurity

300,000 children in the UK would face "prolonged insecurity" as a result of the government's proposed changes to settlement rules, finds new @ippr.org analysis
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reform UK's Welsh leader 'not on the electoral register in December 2025' Martin Shipton Newly appointed Reform UK Wales leader Dan Thomas does not appear in the electoral register compiled in December 2025 that covers the part of Wales where he has his roots, we have been…

Reform UK’s Welsh leader ‘not on the electoral register in December 2025’

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

"When we destroy a forest, we are creating GDP. When we overfish, we are creating GDP"

Head of the UN says the way we measure economic activity needs to change

He's not wrong. The vested interests in keeping things the same are considerable, however

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Snowy Owl In Flight at the Summerville Pier in Irondequoit, NY.
Photo: Carrie Ann Grippo-Pike

Supreb owlets

Superb owl hiding

french evolves like plate tectonics where sounds keep disappearing on one end so they compensate by adding more words on the other

[photo of a pottery bowl with the stylized face of an owl] Columbia River region, Washington or Oregon Owl Effigy Bowl, Pre-contact

Guys, guys—I found a Superb Owl that is also a Super Bowl!!!

Small clumps of snowdrops.

#NationalSnowdropDay
@nationaltrust.org.uk
The garden has woken up from its winter slumber and it’s a delight to have the arrival of these beautiful snowdrops which seem to be thriving in the somewhat sodden ground.

The main point about Net Zero is not that it’s a vote-winner or loser, or even that it’s a legal or treaty commitment.

It’s that it’s essential to the medium-term liveability of our planet.

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Bowl Depicting a Running Hare - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bowl with Eagle (63.178.1) and Bowl with Hare (64.261)The tenth and eleventh centuries under the Fatimid caliphate were times of prosperity in Egypt and the neighboring lands, when a burgeoning class ...

So I heard we’re posting super bowls. Here’s a Fatimid lusterware bunny. Islamic lusterwares originate in Iraq to emulate the sheen of Chinese porcelain, but the combo with highly animated-looking Fatimid animal motifs is my favorite. He even has a little snack.

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Today is the 6th anniversary of the start of our YouTube livestream!!! Thanks to the #coralcitycamera we can enjoy stoplight parrotfish making funny faces for us while a manatee swims behind it. We never dreamed we’d have a healthy thicket of staghorn corals through hot and cold, but here we are!

My photo shows two Roman gold-band mosaic glass bottles on display at the Met Museum. Made of mosaic patterned translucent cobalt blue, turquoise green, and opaque white glass, together with gold leaf encased in colourless glass. Both bottles have round bodies, flat bases, and cyclindrical necks with horizontal everted rims. The larger bottle on the left is 10.5 cm tall, the smaller bottle on the right is 4.8 cm tall. They are displayed on a clear glass shelf against a light beige background. According to the museum label: “Gold-band cast glass was a particularly opulent type of early Roman glassware. It combines canes of brightly colored translucent and opaque glass with strips of gold leaf encased between layers of colorless glass. Only a limited number of vessel shapes were made in this way, and some of the most common are small globular or carinated bottles such as these. They were presumably used to store expensive cosmetics and perfumes”.

Luxury Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass. 1st century AD.

This opulent glass was made by encasing strips of gold leaf between layers of colourless glass.

Beautiful example of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago!

The Met. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

had three glasses of wine at dinner last night and told my Labour friend "THE MILITRAIN IS COMING BACK INTO TOWN, CHOO CHOO" so I guess that's where I'm at, personally

jaw dropping tweet from Feargal Sharkey. You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. https://x.com/Feargal_Sharkey/status/2018618397278285891

Feargal Sharkey: "English Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres p.a., dump sewage for almost 4 million hours p.a and roughly 35% of your bills goes on more dividends & interest payments".