P.K. Munroe

Did u know? As the wildlife garden slips into an autumnal snooze, flowers fade & the colours become more muted. But in the odd corner, brilliance still shines through. My Morning Glory is at its peak now.......Sometimes, only blue will do...Wait for it.....💙🩵 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Good morning! This week's theme is the River Thames.
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'Bridge in London' (1908) by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky

(Private collection)

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Men Who Stand and Wait, Wigan, 1939, photo by Kurt Hutton for Picture Post. They are outside a labour exchange.

Love that bottom!

Cor!

And now I see that Ivan Klima has died, the last survivor the 'Fab Four' of Czech dissident writers who rose to prominence in the 1960s, along with Milan Kundera, Josef Škvorecký and Václav Havel. They all lived to see the end of communism.

His obituary: www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/6daa1c5...

❤️

The Age of Enshittification In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

“Enshittification” was a term coined by Cory Doctorow, in 2022, to describe how the technologies that dominated our daily lives seemed to be all getting worse at the same time. Now, in a new book, he expands on the word that has become bleakly relevant.

3/3 A crow on his shoulder, St Francis hugs a wolf and a rabbit. A devotional statue at St Peter Wyndham Square, Plymouth, one of the most idiosyncratic churches I've ever visited! Today's the feast of St Francis.

This story is now big news all over the world... except in the UK.

@ahistoryinart.bsky.social

The Teddington Direct River Abstraction is designed to suck out water from the Thames during times of drought + transport it to the Lee Valley Reservoir to use as drinking water, replacing it with treated sewage effluent. Here, @eddavey.libdems.org.uk shares his views on the plan:

I'm shortlisted for the Wasafiri prize for one of my favourite projects, Songs of a Menoflân! Exploring what happens under the middle aged cloak of invisibility all women have and how it can make you into an avant-garde flâneuse.

Today is #WorldRiversDay!

Nice! The Usk?

Oil and gas companies spill millions of gallons of wastewater in Texas An exclusive Inside Climate News analysis found that companies have spilled nearly 150 million gallons of toxic, highly saline wastewater in Texas over the last decade.

Similarly, natural gas is often described as using less water for extraction than other fossil fuels. But this ignores the amount of water left so polluted by processes like fracking that it's unusable for drinking or irrigation. @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social

www.texastribune.org/2023/10/31/t...

Zaghari-Ratcliffe calls for end to ‘fundamentally wrong’ indefinite jail terms Exclusive: Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained for six years in Iran, has urged justice secretary David Lammy to help thousands trapped on IPP jail terms, adding: ‘Punishment should fit the crime’

‘Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe calls for end to ‘fundamentally wrong’ indefinite jail terms in Britain’

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Thank you!

Visions of the AI apocalypse | The Observer Two new books – If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies and Empire of AI – argue that artificial intelligence will be our undoing. Should we be worried?

New from me on whether the AI industry is about to destroy us observer.co.uk/culture/book...

America, where did it go wrong? America isn’t just a place. It’s an idea. An idea to do with freedom

In which, futilely, I root for Allen Ginsberg over Pete Hegseth

forthright, no?

The mission to rescue world's most climate resilient coral reefs - Oceanographic As scientists warn climate change will stop some coral reefs from growing by 2040, plans are launched to rescue world's most resilient reefs.

The Wildlife Conservation Society has launched a landmark plan to conserve the world’s most climate-resilient coral reefs just as scientists warn that reefs in the west Atlantic will likely stop growing by the year 2040 owing to warming ocean temperatures. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/the-mis...

High levels of toxic chemicals found in Cambridgeshire water supply Exclusive: Cambridge Water admits a supply contained four times the regulatory limit and customers never told

And we need to be protecting our drinking water sources, so all of them are usable. In 2022, @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social reported on a drinking water source in Cambridgeshire which had to be taken out of use because it was so contaminated with PFAS.

6/10

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Report from The Test…

Many thanks to GO, glasses were raised in celebration!

Cheers🍷

#teamwork💪 #buggyAF🎣
#flytying #flyfishing

Photograph of the calm waters of the Susquehanna from Washington Boro in the lee of Rookery Island; the surface broken by insects and fish popping up to catch them. Piece of the river lived by kayaks as its rarely disturbed by the wakes of fast boats found on Lake Clarke itself.

Smooth it glides upon its travel,
Here a wimple, there a gleam
Oh the clean gravel!
Oh the smooth stream!

Till a wind or water wrinkle,
Dipping marten, plumping trout,
Spreads in a twinkle
And blots all out
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#ImageandVerse #Stunday #Photography #Landscape #EastCoastKin

Tuscany, Italy
What a splendid way to end the day.
Goodnight