Illustration of the German word 'farbenfroh', literally 'colour happy', meaning 'colourful'.

Today's random #German word of the day is this.

📢 m.dict.cc/deutsch-engl...

Diversity makes our world beautiful, interesting, colourful. So #LearnALanguage - all of them wonderful.

10 years ago hydrogen buses were hyped and many cities ordered them.

Today the picture is clear: electric buses rule, hydrogen buses whither.

With neonicotinoid pesticide ban, France’s birds make a tentative recovery - study Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today’s BlueSky photo is the Matterhorn as seen from Zermatt Switzerland 🇨🇭

In this new Age of Empires, why UK must choose Europe over isolation Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian P...

"The UK is rash to imagine it can, in isolation, pick and choose its alliances around the globe. It is geographically part of Europe."

"More Europe, not less Europe, is in the best interests of all the peoples of the continent, including of course the UK and Scotland."

https://bit.ly/485lgN4

Raphael Metivet - End of day. A photo looking into someone’s apartment. Zoom in.

#LookAndSee 252 #MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

This is just for fun! No rules. I will post a pic often for your music association… 🎧
#LookAndSee (Day 252) 🎶

Michelle Mone got a private jet, a superyacht and a £10m luxury home in Florida on the NHS. Most of us can't even get a GP appointment.

DYK, that sepia ink was originally made from squid ink?

DYK, that it is possible to recover the remains of ink from fossil Belemnites?

DYK, that Mary Anning discovered this?

DYK, that you can reconstitute that fossil squid ink and use it to draw?

DYK, this was en vogue in the 19th century?

Plug-in Solar Rising

Utah passed law, exempting solar systems 1,200 watts or smaller from interconnection rules.

If 5 plus states adopt reforms, study forecasts:

Cost of plug-in solar falls to ~$0.50/watt & payback to 3-4 years.

24 million homes use it!
www.brightsaver.org/whitepaper #energysky

"Place your head in the tray," the TSA agent drones, latex gloves snapping. Around me, travelers casually unscrew necks; skulls roll onto plastic like eggs, chatting through security bins. Bodies shuffle forward. *Is this new?* I wonder, clutching my stubbornly attached jaw, hearing a child giggle behind her floating teeth. The agent squints at me. "Gonna need you to step aside, ma'am." He's already scanning the next skull. --- *Enjoyed today's story? Share your thoughts and follow us for more tiny daily tales.* #TSA #AirportSecurity #Surreal #Absurd #Dystopian #Weird #Bizarre #Satire Your daily treat from TinyTalesDaily.com

Picture of multi-modal street

Here’s something that’s really important for everyone to understand.

If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.

If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.

Spread the word.

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.

Herbarium illustration of a paper showing colour code bar at the top of the image.

Today on #ArmisticeDay, we're remembering the Kew staff who served during both World Wars and balanced their lives in science and horticulture with duty and sacrifice 🧵👇

#KewLA

🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA

Might Brexit, by any teensy-weensy chance, have anything to do with 'the dire state of the financial sector'? And won't investors of all types flee from UK if Reform ever get into power? Just asking....

The Louvre heist is the uplifting story of 2025, a joyous gift that just keeps on giving

I’ve found my new Doctor #celebritytraitors

Best of luck to the faithful tonight. We’ve all had enough of deception and lies this year...

A map of Europe titled “High-speed rail plan” showing future high-speed train connections and travel times. Green lines represent future new connections, and magenta lines represent future train travel times. Major cities are marked with circles and connected by these lines. Examples of travel times include: Lisbon–Madrid (3h), Paris–Brussels (1h15), Paris–Rome (6h), Berlin–Warsaw (4h15), Berlin–Prague (2h30), Berlin–Vienna (4h30), Berlin–Budapest (6h15), Berlin–Stockholm (4h), Riga–Tallinn (1h45), Vilnius–Riga (2h), Sofia–Athens (6h). The map includes the EC logo in the bottom right corner.

We’re launching a bold plan to make high-speed rail the fastest, more sustainable way to travel across Europe by 2040.

It’s a concrete timeline to remove bottlenecks, unlock investment, and harmonise rail systems ⬇️

The Corning Museum image shows a small, rounded cup made of deep blue glass. The vessel has smooth horizontal ridges around the body, a short cycindrical neck with outsplayed rim, and a concave base. Around the middle, there is a Greek inscription in a band around the circumference (EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI) It translates as ‘be glad that you are here’. Height 7 cm, diameter (max): 8.8 cm. The cup is displayed on a flat surface against a dark background.

A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’

“Be glad that you are here”

Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷

📷 Corning Museum of Glass

#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology

Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

Martyn Goddard's photos of Blondie in 1978. Exhibition in the Barbican Centre Library.

Multiple face drawn onto Templar pumpkin shapes. a worried looking one is circled. Said face is reproduced in actual pumpkin form - with candle

I had the eldest design a bunch of faces and choose a favourite for me to carve.

Am OBSESSED with this very neurotic, ‘just doing his best', Charlie Brown-ass pumpkin!

Small blue glass bottle with a round base and a long narrow neck, decorated with white swirling patterns. The bottle rests on a textured dark surface, reflecting light across its glossy finish

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This delicate #Roman blue and white marbled glass unguentarium, a vessel to hold oil/perfume, was made from translucent dark blue glass with trails in opaque white. Dating 1st century AD.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology

Recycling loop transitioning a depleted battery (left, negative) to a charged battery (right, green, positive). Text: "Powering our sustainable future." EU logo is at the bottom right.

€2.9 billion for Europe’s net-zero future.

We're investing in 61 cutting-edge projects across 19 sectors and 18 countries via 🇪🇺 Innovation Fund.

We aim to cut 221 million tonnes CO₂ in 10 years – the emissions from 9.9 million cars.

All in for climate neutrality by 2050 ↓

link.europa.eu/jNWvcj

Sabrina Carpenter with blonde hair dressed as Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman

I see this little argument about Wonder Woman being brunette…
Reminder! Wonder Woman is within all of us, and sometimes, she has blonde hair like Sabrina Carpenter! 💫

Even Elon Musk's biased Grok estimates the cost to UK of Brexit at about £300bn a year (about £60bn in tax).

All the 'black holes' we have are just Brexit.

Stop filling them in with tax rises and Public Service cuts and just get rid of Brexit.

BREAKING: BBC announces CELEBRITY PUPPET TRAITORS for 2026. Claudia Winkleman will host but never acknowledge that everyone else is a puppet. #celebritytraitors

Black and white image of a weather vane with the quote – Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it Snarls." Terry Pratchett, Jingo

"Odd thing, ain't it... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the voice of the people. And it Snarls."

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

#GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld #SamVimes

Our Terry Pratchett quote of this particular day, because what a place! What a situation!

#gnuterrypratchett #discworld #goingpostal #moistvonlipwig #booksky