Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖

As the comforting crystal clear Christmassy tones of The Baublé enter their *second* month, CT Bear feels churlish reminding him it’s only day *two* of #Advent, and 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙨 doesn’t actually start until Christmas Day itself…

Chris Mason: Why, in my judgement, Reeves was misleading on one specific point The Chancellor chose not to share some information on tax receipts in an unusual press conference, given before the Budget.

All of us: Why, in our judgement, Chris Mason is misleading on most political points, all the time.

Because he’s incapable of political commentary that isn’t marinated in his own rightwing bias. Allegations for Labour. Free passes for Tories/Reform. Every Single Time.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#334, Caradoc View, Shropshire, 20/12/2020

A classic view of Caradoc from Hope Bowdler.

#photography #shropshire #landscape

Expansion of Antarctic Bottom Water driven by Antarctic warming in the last deglaciation - Nature Geoscience Antarctic Bottom Water progressively filled more of the deep Southern Ocean through the last deglaciation, potentially contributing to the increase in atmospheric CO2, according to neodymium isotope r...

⚒️ Article: Antarctic Bottom Water progressively filled more of the deep Southern Ocean through the last deglaciation, potentially contributing to the increase in atmospheric CO2

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I return to NYC today with The Colonel's most recent message to me as inspiration: "The biggest thing you can do for us is tell the world our story. What you've seen and what you've heard yourself. What you think about the situation...as a historian, as a highly educated person, as a woman. --

Is this why I caved this past weekend and finally "bought" the series?! I'd been wanting rewatch it for YEARZ. Broke down on Saturday because I needed something gentle and sweet to watch. BTW Megan Follows is THEE only Anne I acknowledge.😍

a woman is smoking a cigarette in front of a lamp Alt: Marilla Cuthbert

"What difference does it make how it's spelled?" asked Marilla with another rusty smile as she picked up the teapot. #AOGG

A young girl with red hair in two long braids stands outdoors in a sunlit green forest. She wears a wide-brimmed straw hat, a light brown floral long-sleeve blouse, and a blue-and-white striped pinafore dress with white ribbon bows at the shoulders. She holds a large rolled-up red-and-brown patterned blanket or quilt in front of her with both hands, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.

When the two-part miniseries Anne of Green Gables debuted on CBC on Dec. 1, 1985, nearly six million Canadians tuned in. It went on to win 10 Geminis, an Emmy and a Peabody.
To this day, the miniseries is studied in film schools.
This is the story of that miniseries.

🧵 1/12

Happy Anne with an e Green Gables Day for is all.

Megan Follows was the epitome of Anne with an E.

The casting for all those series was superb.

“Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.’

More relatable to the modern era, we might look at our tendency while conducting online research to open dense collections of browser tabs for articles we will never read. Yet we keep opening new ones, making new bookmarks, generating a kind of imaginary future where we will someday read them. We never do. (Just admit it).

This never used to happen when we had physical copies of books.
[*checks notes*, having said that…]

“Interpassivity is wrapped up in a slim fantasy, a daydream that gives us just enough permission to say no to doing more.”

This was great:

mail.cyberneticforests.com/from-interac...

Welcome to the first daily thread of December, covering all things Ukraine and more.

It's Day 1377 of Russia's all-out war on Ukraine.
On 11 January it will have lasted longer than The Kremlin's "Great Patriotic War"....

I'll take the jar of fog

Plushy mole with stovetop Bialetti and Lidl ‘French Roast’ ground coffee.

And Lidl.

Tantalising - am now trying to work it out. 😵‍💫

Where are you getting your coffee tomorrow ?

Archaeology Awards Voting - Current Archaeology Voting has now opened for the Current Archaeology Awards! Which people, projects and publications deserve recognition?

If you’ve enjoyed the updates from the Uncovering Roman Carlisle dig please consider voting for us thanks

archaeology.co.uk/vote?fbclid=...

It’s day one of #Advent and Snowman has already committed #Whamicide, taking CT Bear out with him…

Had this conversation with him before I left That Awful Place.

Mongoose as a ‘Nandor's’ (Nando’s) logo. [context: Nandor Fodor investigated the case of Gef the talking mongoose - dramatised as a film in 2023]

Gef’s favourite peri-peri seasoning.

Google search Piltdown Man [Hoax is 4th after Golf Club]

I’m genuinely surprised - Piltdown Man is usually followed by hoax, [although admittedly this is 4th down the list after ‘Golf Club’ in the Google search (which may instead refer to his authentic weapon of choice?)].

Better not tell him about Harry Price either.

Bearing similarities to JCSS bsky.app/profile/mole...

This grotesque is one of the homeless sculptures to be found in the main church at Cranborne, Dorset. The toothy stuff of nightmares!

www.apotropaios.co.uk

Trusty the Hedgehog (and clear plastic cup) in the seasonal changing display cases at Cotehele.

Plushy Hedgehog mascot at Cotehele

We always keep an eye out for Trusty the Hedgehog in case he’s at home.

Thought this was the new @warringtonruncorn.com EP.

Its an annual fixture for Team Moley (but you’d still need to plan another visit in the summer when the other rooms at Cotehele are open again) bsky.app/profile/mole...

An exterior courtyard with a line of people holding the greenery base of a super long garland. They fill the frame from left to right.

A female gardener on a ladder adding final touches to a large dried flower garland. The flowers are in many colours including yellow, white, orange, pink and purple.

Two females stand back to back placing flowers into a garland that runs along a door.

And this year’s record-breaking garland is the biggest ever.

Every bloom was grown, picked, stripped, dried, and prepared by hand by the team at Cotehele for the much-loved Christmas tradition that has taken place since 1956.

A hall with a huge garland of dried flowers hanging from the ceiling. It includes flowers of all colours, yellow, pink, white and purple. Around the hall on the wall are antlers and armour.

60 feet long. 38,000 dried flowers. 11 months in the making… This is the Cotehele Garland.