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‘Charisma is a form of psychosis’: inspiring Eric Clapton, having kids at 70 … the irreverent life of post-punk puppeteer Ted Milton He crossed paths with William Burroughs, Terry Gilliam and Spitting Image while whipping up almighty grooves with his band Blurt. Now 82, he’s back on tour – and bracing for a warts-and-all documentary made by his many children

‘Charisma is a form of psychosis’: inspiring Eric Clapton, having kids at 70 … the irreverent life of post-punk puppeteer Ted Milton

Ultimate Drummer: Official Trailer

Every single time this gets me!!

Shamelessly asking as im broke...BUT can anyone design me a little Boundaries logo that moves around on a screen etc. Im using projectors this year and keen to have something on screens begind performers etc. This is the current logo but feel free to design your own too! Id be forever grateful!

Absurdist basketry: a craft idiom we didn’t even know we’d been missing. Now we do thanks to Lewis Prosser (@clovisvosser) whose performative creations are featured in ‘Just Browsing,’ a current show at @the_bluecoat in Liverpool. 🙏🏼 @glenn_adamson
#art #fiber #basket #fashion #surreal
#lewisprosser

Less than a fortnight away...

YouTube video by The Shaggs - Topic It's Halloween

The Shaggs - It's Halloween
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Donate to Save the Heritage Centre, organized by David Bridson It is with huge regret and great sadness that the Joseph Williamson Society has to report that,… David Bridson needs your support for Save the Heritage Centre

If you've ever marvelled at the vaulted Victorian subterranea of Liverpool's Williamson tunnels you have The Heritage Centre to thank. Unfortunately, it will be closing for good on June 1st if they can't raise £12k.

Here's how you can help

www.gofundme.com/f/adcnrn-sav...

Exciting news! We have a brand new sound player that allows you to explore our full database of 7,000+ sounds in lots of new ways.

You can search by artist name, by country, city or any title keyword, as well as selecting sounds from individual projects. Check it out: citiesandmemory.com#player

Pareidolia image. Photo of the inside of a Canon PIXMA G550 printer during installation of the print heads, which look like two goofy faces complete with broad smiles and protruding teeth.

Happy print heads

A female Nomada leucophthalma bee with ID characteristics: Black scutum Scutellum with red dots Red, Black and Yellow abdominal bands Cuckoo of Andrena clarkella

Day 6: #CouchTo10IrishSpringBees

Our first cuckoo bee.

If you spot Andrena clarkella around, keep an eye out for this bee, Nomada leucophthalma, which sneakily lays its eggs in the Andrena clarkella nests.

1. No, this is not a wasp.
2. Yes, it is beautiful.

The back garden frogs are still at it

Fantastic article.
Radical statement or eyesore? Japan’s divisive brutalist buildings – in pictures
The country is known for wooden and ceramic creations – yet many argue these concrete behemoths fit with Japan’s traditional aesthetics too
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Lister Mill Peregrine Camera is live! It's been a very long journey but we're excited (and relieved) to announce that our live Peregrine Cam can now be viewed on our Lister Mills page here. It's taken just over a year to get to this point...

Just in time for the breeding season the new camera at Lister Mill in #Bradford is live. #raptors #ukwildlife #YorkshireBirding #Bradford2025
www.bradfordperegrines.com/post/lister-...

a brown fuzzy bodied insect with wings that are black in their front half and clear in the rear half and are held at a delta angle to the body, the head at the top of picture is augmented with a magnificent long proboscis

They're back!

Hurrah!

(basking on the south facing wall of the house this afternoon)

#UKWildlife #BeeFly #BeeFlyWatch

Photo of the bottom of a white garage door where algal growth has created a gradient of greenish colour that gets darker towards the ground. Slug or snail feeding has etched snaking patterns into the algal layer over time making another pleasing gradient as regrowth gradually fades the older patterns into the background and the whiter fresh ones stand out. If you zoom in you can see the individual marks of each scrape of the mollusc's tongue (radula).

Mollusc graffiti, Coventry.

Freshly laid frogspawn in a pond

First frogspawn of 2025 in the garden pond

A goldfish in a garden pond. A small toad is clinging on top arms around the fish's head

Woke up to a photo from my parents in Wales... Where it's that time of year again and the toads are riding the fish

It's really depressing that I would be able to tell something had happened with Ukraine purely from the fact Russia has activated so many of its higher quality influence op accounts

YouTube video by CompaqVet PaqRap - Compaq VPs, 1990

Okay, thanks to the excellent search skills of my followers, I now share with you the Compaq Corporate Leadership Rap, circa. 1990.

And no, I'm not sorry.

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From The Wild Isles, ed. Patrick Barkham

Tuesday #morningread
The Autobiography by #JohnClare
Honesty makes Clare’s words adorable.
‘I heard the cuckoos wandering voice & the restless song of the Nightingale’
Clare’s essays—gems!

Shortsighted Taiwan may have lessons for the world as a preventable disease skyrockets Up to 90% of young people in Taiwan have myopia but eye experts say the growing global trend can be reversed In the final days of their eight-week bootcamp, dozens of young Taiwanese conscripts are being tested on an obstacle course. The men in full…

Shortsighted Taiwan may have lessons for the world as a preventable disease skyrockets

Image showing the Hobson Lab logo (monk parakeets flying into a social network diagram with R code in the background), pictures of natural-colored green and gray monk parakeets, and head shots of our individually-marked birds showing their color combos and "names" (Blue-Orange-Blue has those colors on the head, cheek, and neck, and is "BOB"). Text says "Postbac position: parakeet sociality & cognition"

I am recruiting 1-2 postbacs for my parakeet sociality & cognition project! This position is for people finished with undergrad but who have not yet started grad school. Must be totally fascinated by parakeet social drama (there's a lot of it!)🪶🧪 Job ad here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...

I Came to the Secret Springs and Lakes Where Mooses Slake Their Thurst

I Came to the Secret Springs and Lakes Where Mooses Slake Their Thurst https://www.wikiart.org/en/theodor-severin-kittelsen/i-came-to-the-secret-springs-and-lakes-where-mooses-slake-their-thurst-jeg-kom-til-skjulte-1900

Sunlight to fuel: Cambridge’s new breakthrough in clean energy Cambridge scientists have created a solar-powered reactor that turns CO2 from air into sustainable fuel – no batteries required

Cambridge researchers are developing a solar-powered reactor that could turn CO2 into sustainable fuel – without harming the planet. 👍🏼

Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

This Undecipherable 15th-Century Manuscript Baffles Researchers Named after the rare books collector Wilfrid Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, the manuscript continues to baffle skilled cryptologists to this day.

The Undecipherable Voynich Manuscript Can Be Viewed Online in Its Entirety

By Eva Baron

mymodernmet.com/voynich-manu...?

More information here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich...

Voynich Manuscript at @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org archive.org/details/TheV...

#oldmanuscript

There's a good one that starts in Bramhope where you follow the railway tunnel route for a bit, see the elaborate tunnel entrance stonework and get to listen to the sound of trains passing underneath you at the ventilation towers. That passes along a wilder edge of Golden Acre.

That's the one. Loads of red kites and deer. You can spot the Harewood Castle ruins and the Emmerdale set. Best avoiding weekends and bank holidays as it gets very busy at peak times and the car park's only small.

Have you done the Harewood circular that starts at Muddy Boots cafe?