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Yeah and we're left with him 🤣

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A doctor checks Jana Ayad, a malnourished Palestinian child in Gaza, in June. She has since died.

The Scottish government should run this referendum for Scots to choose our future :

(1) 🇬🇧 Scotland as a subservient region of the uk, ruled from London by fascistic Farage, where rules, freedoms & human rights no longer apply

(2) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺Scotland as a normal, outward looking, self determining country

Photo of Minimus, Minima and Silvius, the Latin mice, with a set of 3D printed 'earthenware pottery' made specially for them by the mother of two of my students. Silvius is standing in a large vessel and holding a smaller one. Both pots have black-figure images based on Greek vase paintings.

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 454
mures donum inopinatum receperunt (The mice have received an unexpected gift). Silvius vasa fictilia factitia inspicit (Silvius inspects the artificial pottery vessels). imagines murum, felis et noctuarum ei placet (He likes the pictures of mice, a cat and owls).

In case you need sleepy farting horses in your life
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Hadn't noticed them about much but George and Mildred the crows are back on their favourite gate enjoying the sunset, this year's kids have probably all left home now

This is *immensely* stupid advice. They don’t use energy while they’re sitting on a hard drive not being accessed. They very much use energy while you’re going through them all and deleting them.

It’s also a fraction of a fraction of the energy saving you’d make by driving less or similar.

Not a bad day really, two forays outside in spite of the heat, clearing up the latest pile of stuff removed from the roof, moving the mobile scaffold and cutting the grass, quite productive in the end

The Scots know. The Irish know. The Welsh know. Because they were at the sharp end of colonialism. #FreePalestine

They are fast becoming more dangerous than the Tory party of the last 15 years. They must go. #starmerout

I wish I never learned to read

This is a front which means Russia is actually struggling and thus should be ignored other than as a basis for further investigation

Summer's best meteor shower will peak this week Summer's most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks this week. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter will converge in the sky — overlapping like a very bright star.

Summer's most dazzling meteor shower, the Perseids, peaks this week. At the same time, Venus and Jupiter will converge in the sky — overlapping like a very bright star.

French report links Nestlé bottled waters to record microplastic contamination French investigators have uncovered microplastic contamination in two of Nestlé’s top mineral water brands, sparking a renewed legal battle and fresh calls for tougher environmental regulation.

Would you like some water with your plastic?

French report links Nestlé bottled waters to record microplastic contamination www.rfi.fr/en/environme...

Universal credit cuts will push 50,000 into poverty despite government's U-turn

Cuts to the health element of universal credit will push tens of thousands of people into poverty despite the increase in the standard rate.

But as I travel’d hither through the land,
I find the people strangely fantasied,
Possess’d with rumors, full of idle dreams,
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear.

Getting an ad for Starlink in Gmail. Went into the ad centre and blocked it 😌

Thames Water crisis: Ministers line up administrator for utility giant Steve Reed, the environment secretary, has signed off the appointment of FTI Consulting to assist with contingency planning for putting Britain's biggest water supplier into a special administration r...

Ministers line up administrators for Thames Water

Since 1989 £10.4bn paid in dividends, £13.68bn in interest payments. No new reservoirs. Dumps sewage in rivers.

Hardly any new shareholder money. Shares worthless, Lenders ready to take a haircut.

Need permanent nationalisation, not temporary.

David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments Campaigners say placing staff from Shell and BAE Systems in ministries creates potential for improper influence

Corporations Rule, Not OK

UK Foreign Secretary faces possible legal action over placing staff from Shell and BAE Systems in ministries.

Companies with human rights violations shape govt policies

Cognitive capture.

Corporate interest isn't national interest.

In my annual attempt to help those with lots of runner beans (sadly not us this year) here a great pickling recipe.

EXCLUSIVE: I Have Ghislaine Maxwell's Security Score, Custody Level, Transfer Code, and Sex Offender Waiver I have reviewed an electronic file that includes some of the information Senator Whitehouse is demanding from the Bureau of Prisons.

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Illugi Pétur Ágústsson þjóðhetja

When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.

This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.

complained further about their inadequate response. They have since sent two more requests to fill in their survey. Maybe they think my mind has changed or something. Anyway, will be ditching the TV licence once I get round to taking the telly to the tip.

Now I made a complaint to the BBC about not being able to view the Bob Vylan performance at Glasto on iPlayer, under the terms of my TV licence, their only response was to bump me to a webpage conflating criticism of the IDF with antisemitism. I filled in a subsequent survey they sent where I

Oh, I should say, another day, another reason I won't ever vote Labour again

YouTube video by Defend Our Juries Jonathan Porritt Arrested for Supporting Palestine Action | BBC Newsnight | 11 August 2025

Jonathan Porritt, a knight of the realm and long-time adviser to the King when Prince of Wales speaks to Newsnight about his arrest for supporting Palestine Action. With Victoria Derbyshire.

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@nerdjpg.com Have a Lenin gnome

Transphobes used to say things like 'if you have a vagina, you're a woman, end of discussion' and now they say things like 'if your gametes are diagonally haplodidic and they fall between 0.4 and 0.9 on the Strasburger Faultline, you're a woman, and I really can't be any clearer than that'