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I was pleased with it. Taken in a wood where students were filming & I was taking some stills for them - it actually photobombed some of their shots!

Flying Ants day here

That's all true, of course, but I don't think it's that far-fetched to suggest that some very rich, very right wing people use their money to influence politicians of various parties.

What if Labour, Conservatives and Reform are just like Tide, Ariel and Fairy - brands of the same mega-corp, selling essentially the same product to different demographics and giving the illusion of healthy competition?

As part of education, students should be taught to detect bullshit. For example, in maths they could learn how junk statistics are used to deceive people. You could call it 'Defence Against the Dark Arts'.

To what extent did the popularity of Music Hall, which I believe (I might be wrong) was a mainly English phenomenon, affect the survival of English folk traditions in the 19th & early 20th centuries?

A friendly and inquisitive robin, possibly wondering if I'd brought anything good to eat. #birds

A Speckled Wood butterfly posed prettily for me on some sedge by a pond

Visited Brandy Hole Copse near Chichester today; an ancient woodland local nature reserve where the trees are ever watchful... #treefaces

It's a bit like an alcoholic going on dialysis to take the alcohol out of his blood, so he can keep knocking back the gin

An amazing place created by an amazing woman. Probably the only theatre where the performers are regularly upstaged by dolphins.

So, does that mean an astronomer's academic promotion prospects cannot legally be harmed by his teaching that the sun goes round the flat earth?

Expensive! But here's a tip: whizz up enough fruit of your choice (ideally, self-picked) to fill a jamjar with a couple of tablespoons of chia seed, leave overnight on the fridge, and you have jam! No need to add sugar unless you want to.

Totally agree - dreadful user interfaces: unintuitive, too busy, poor feedback, incomprehensible error messages, and the worst is, no way to contact a human when the damn thing fails, just a chatbot that hasn't a clue.

If you've not already seen it, you might enjoy a visit to the Iron Age village at Carn Euny which is nearby. There's Goblins Gold in the fogou. ((Seriously)

Sussex seabed 3.5km dive shows 'thriving' coastline A 3.5km dive along the Sussex seabed has shown it to be a haven for biodiversity, says a researcher.

Trawling was banned off parts of the Sussex coast, including this area, in 2021.
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black seabream under water

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kelp under the sea

It's a wild life under the sea. For #MarineWeek - Ella Garrud tells us about our fantastic & diverse Sussex seabed habitats & the creatures they support
📷Bryony Chapman, Paul Parsons, Paul Naylor, Nikki Oliver
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There was I thinking you'd share some dramatic images of Storm Floris in the Hebrides

Absolutely! The counterpart to WYSIWYG (remember it?) was always YAFIYGI (You Asked For It You Got It)

If what we need is more intelligence, why are we ignoring all the intelligent people telling us to stop burning fossil fuels?

As this woody nightshade was growing close to Pagham Harbour on the RSPB reserve there, I'm going to claim it as #ByTheSea #WildflowerHour

“My false o'erweighs your true” - Shakespeare being only too relevant today

How long before sections of the path slide into the sea? Is there a plan to keep re-routing it? The coast of North East Norfolk is eroding rapidly.

Angelo (a man in a suit & red tie) stands behind Isabella (a nun)

“My false o'erweighs your true” - Angelo, Measure for Measure, Act II Scene IV

Still from a modern adaptation of “Measure of Measure” that I'm filming at Chichester University @chiunipress.bsky.social

Isabella: Katie Lifton
Angelo: Wilfrid Watson
DOP: Kieran Anderson

#ShakespeareSunday

Of course you're right - in the normal world. The far right, though, live in a very Through the Looking-Glass kind of world. As in ...

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”

Culture clash here. As a physicist, you perhaps see facts as hypotheses exhaustively tested by experiments. Orr is a man of religion; for him, facts are anything that people can be induced to believe. As a professor and far right influencer, his job is to turn ideology into facts.

Male linnet perched on bramble stem

Small White butterfly supping nectar from a light purple thistle flower

Red Admiral butterfly sipping nectar from bright yellow fleabane flower

Zoë & I took a short walk walk along the banks of Pagham Harbour in Sussex yesterday. Here's a linnet, a small white and a red admiral butterfly. Also spotted a little grebe, lapwings, redshanks and distant egrets, and heard the cry of the curlew. #birds @rspb.bsky.social

Morning stretch, woodpigeon style #birds

Isambard Kingdom Brunel. And of course, Kings George I, II & III