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Apart from Will Self - horrible man.

YouTube video by Tomás Olano The South Bank Show: J.G. Ballard (ITV, 2006)

Watched the Southbank Show on Ballard from 2006. Very interesting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=le0t...

Image of the sky with lots of clouds and a tree in the left hand side of the picture.

Picture of sky with clouds and patches of sky. A stand of trees on the horizon.

Beautiful clouds over Ally Pally today.

“Culturally coherent”? You should just say what you mean, which is “white”. And not Jewish. Disgusting.

I’m not sure you should be so rude about vaginas. Mine isn’t fascist or racist at all.

54091. The home phone number when I was 12. Too many years ago now.

I know this from a wonderful Boys of the Lough rendition. Apt.

I like the references to cycling…hubs, wheels, cycles etc…subtle nods to the role of good cycling infrastructure in addressing the climate crisis. @londoncycling.bsky.social @cyclist.co.uk

Not just residential streets. West Green Road in Tottenham is horrendous- you can taste the pollution, the buses can’t get through because of parking both sides of the road - and random illegal parking adds to the horror. @mikehakata.bsky.social

Eight healthy babies born after IVF using DNA from three people Genetic material from mother and father transferred to healthy donor egg to reduce risk of life-threatening diseases

@sciencewise.bsky.social comprehensive dialogue on mtDNA diseases for HfEA useful background here sciencewise.org.uk/projects/mit...

Went to an art history taster today @citylit.bsky.social, run by @sarahj.bsky.social, who is clearly passionate about her subject. Five mini-lectures in 2 hours, going from 13th century Iranian tiles to Yoko Ono, through the lenses of iconography, materiality, historiography and more. Fascinating.

Superb end to the @sciencewise.bsky.social & @ukri.org dialogue on ultra processed foods. Newham participants, I salute you for a long, thoughtful and broad list of where @ukri.org needs to focus future food research funding. And a wonderful job from Hopkins Van Mil! Looking forward to the report.

I wish you all the best for No Kings day - we’re watching over here (UK) because storms are gathering here too. I can’t compute what you’re going through- horrendous.

How do we ensure digital identity services are trustworthy? | Sciencewise The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, with the support of Sciencewise, has commissioned a public dialogue to determine what further policy is needed to ensure digital identity provide...

Might be a useful addition to the conversation: @sciencewise.bsky.social @ukri.org public dialogue run for #DSIT by the wonderful people at #HopkinsVanMil. sciencewise.org.uk/projects/dig...

Wow- you were lucky to take a photograph of it!

I’ve knitted all my life and I’ve never heard of unspun yarn. Looked it up: next project brewing! Thank you!

That happens to older people too. I reinvented myself at university when I went age 31. It opened worlds to me that I wouldn’t otherwise have thought about. (I also benefited from the company of younger people.)

Ah - ok - you will know much more about this than I do!

Isn’t this a steal from Trump? “I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,"

Ewwww…don’t want to think about that.

Woman walking wearing dry suit and other diving equipment.

I did this in Scapa Flow too - having never been diving and not knowing what a dry suit was. But as a consequence I
ended up snorkelling in November on Islay, and there were seals in the water who played with us. It was beautiful and magical. Go there next. Getting older brings good things.

A scarecrow standing in a sunny vegetable patch with yellow dress and brown hair

A scarecrow standing in a sunny vegetable patch and greenhouse in the background with white suit and hat

A scarecrow standing in a sunny vegetable patch with brown tweed suit and cap

A scarecrow standing in a sunny vegetable patch with purple dress, blue pinafore, and straw hat

Good morning from the stylish scarecrows of Calke Abbey 🌿

Two kittens asleep on a striped cushion. One black, one white.

Scarpa and Kilda, 14 weeks old, sleeping. Welcome to the house, kittens.

No hope there.

“Truth Social” is such a misnomer. It always takes me aback.

For god’s sake, are they complete idiots? Can no one read the room?

I had vague hopes for Starmer based on his commitment to tackling domestic abuse when at the CPS. I figured Labour couldn’t be worse than the Tories. But he’s useless, the Labour government is right wing and I am in despair about the direction of this country.

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“Open to the idea”? What does this even mean?

How much money does he get from dentistry lobbyists?