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Faithless (2015) Insomnia. This used to be my favourite dance tune. The past is a different country!

Today my lovely girls and I held the funeral of my husband. We had known each other for over 40 years, and, although separated, he had been living 3 doors away, so I could look after him. Lovely fella, you're missed and loved xx

Consistent soil organic carbon accumulation under hedges driven by increase in light particulate organic matter Hedgerow planting is recommended by biodiversity policies and those that promote the inclusion of woody plants in agricultural landscapes to sequester…

🌱🌾 Hedges store more carbon than fields

A new study found that soil under hedges stores 40% more carbon than adjacent grasslands, with older hedges increasing carbon stocks over time.

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#SciComm #Climate 🧪 #Agriculture

"I'm pausing the tariffs... For thirty days."

hmmmm, rent going up by sixty quid a month this year, what a nice little treat, of course the flat has grown by five percent in that time so this feels very reasonable

Also, in the UK the author gets paid every time their book is borrowed.

Never feel bad about reposting your stuff on here because for the first year of this website we had an entirety of 20 daily posts that we all had to share and reheat like a communal soup

How I arrived on Bluesky

Print looking up at bird in flight, in silhouette, in a space in the canopy of treetops

'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker  Janis Goodman

There's a meme for that. (There's a meme for everything.)

Happy Accidentally Predicting a Worldwide Pandemic Day to all who celebrate.

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

Headshot portrait of a bearded man with a haunted expression

Stephen from the Outsiders project. He died soon afterwards aged only 39. As the cold sets in it is worth remembering that someone homeless dies on the streets in Britain every six hours. As a society we are defined by how we treat those less fortunate than ourselves.

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This printer's pie was published in the Peterborough Standard in 1979 and someone sent it to Private Eye where it found immortal fame. I'd love to have a higher quality copy of this clipping if anyone has one? (For transcript see alt text on image....)

So the “can’t you take a joke, love? Where’s yer bloody sense of humour?” crowd want a jail sentence for throwing a milkshake at someone.

Senior Met police officer charged with attempted rape Superintendent Jamie Gordon is due in court on Wednesday

"[Superintendent Jamie] Gordon held a leading role as a volunteer on the National Police Chief’s Council’s sexual misconduct portfolio but stopped when he was suspended by the Met."

Smh.

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Snap

🎵 Ah aaaaaaah
Is coming like a ghost town 🎵

Happy times

Mark Spitz and Bryn from Gavin and Stacey

Irene Handl in a wheelchair

Invalid Handl

I grew up in Bangladesh as a Muslim, came to UK to attend an all boys private school, I won't pretend I was always this way, or that I didn't make homophobic jokes to fit in with the rich white kids. But then, age 15, I heard Hide Away by Erasure, and got it. A hard-on for Bowie sorted the rest x

Lovely empty beach in Donegal. Blue sky.

UK’s self-sufficiency in fresh vegetables hits record lows The new government has been urged to help ensure self-sufficiency doesn’t drop any further as new figures show levels for some food are at the lowest.

The importance of increasing self-sufficiency levels has been highlighted today (14 August), the day which the national larder would run empty if the public only ate UK food from 1 January
www.farminguk.com/news/uk-s-se... #FoodStudies #Agriculture #RegenAg

Rishi Sunak launches crackdown on Britain’s ‘sick note’ culture Mental and behavioural disorders were most common cause given by doctors for ordering workers to take time off

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Let's not worry about things that drive ill-health, eh? Precarity of work, poverty, poor housing, poverty, climate anxiety, poverty, looming threats of war, and for those at the back, poverty. 🤷🏽

A screenshot of Donna Reed as Mary in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Good morning, and let us remember the worst fate that can befall a woman is to be an unmarried librarian.

Wham! are number one for Christmas, which suggests this country is full of evil bastards trying to Whamageddon their mates. I approve.

My mum and dad would have a cherry brandy at Christmas. Year round teetotallers.

Antidepressants or Tolkien's character?

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