Faithless (2015) Insomnia. This used to be my favourite dance tune. The past is a different country!
19.09.2025 23:40 β π 41 π 2 π¬ 6 π 0@valw1.bsky.social
Faithless (2015) Insomnia. This used to be my favourite dance tune. The past is a different country!
19.09.2025 23:40 β π 41 π 2 π¬ 6 π 0Today 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
11.02.2025 21:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π±πΎ 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 π§ͺ #Agriculture
"I'm pausing the tariffs... For thirty days."
03.02.2025 22:01 β π 30 π 9 π¬ 1 π 0hmmmm, 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
29.01.2025 20:15 β π 229 π 5 π¬ 9 π 0Also, in the UK the author gets paid every time their book is borrowed.
22.01.2025 18:29 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0Never 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
24.01.2025 20:29 β π 18973 π 1702 π¬ 241 π 75How I arrived on Bluesky
25.01.2025 23:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Print looking up at bird in flight, in silhouette, in a space in the canopy of treetops
'Breathing Space', etching by contemporary artist and printmaker Β Janis Goodman
24.01.2025 06:17 β π 935 π 143 π¬ 2 π 7There's a meme for that. (There's a meme for everything.)
25.01.2025 19:19 β π 230 π 34 π¬ 7 π 3Happy Accidentally Predicting a Worldwide Pandemic Day to all who celebrate.
21.01.2025 22:59 β π 427 π 56 π¬ 11 π 3I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and heβs been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could βshare a photo of Kevin with the whole worldβ. I donβt know if this will work, but a dadβs gotta try. Like and share if thatβs your thing. Kevin says hi! ππ
21.01.2025 18:20 β π 12809 π 2929 π¬ 1098 π 286Headshot 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.
05.01.2025 09:46 β π 208 π 84 π¬ 10 π 8CROWLANDβS Silver Jubilee committee was finally wound up on Thursday evening with a presentation ceremony at the library. The jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as βone of the finest efforts in Lincolnshireβ, fremony at the library. The jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as βone remony atremony aremony at the library. The jubremony at the library. Tremony at remony at the library. Thrremony at tremony at the libremony at the libraremony at the library. Theremony at the library. The jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Premony rremony at the remony aremony at the libremony atremony at the tremony at the library. Tremorremony at the library remony at the library. The jubilee fund, described by chairman Frank Parnell as βone of the finest efforts in Lincolnshireβ, fn he latched onto a through ball. Although he was hauled down by the βkeeper he still managed to stroke the ball home. But for the second week running Durant had to leave the field injured, this time suffering eye trouble. The winning goal was another 25-yard shot β again from Blackstonesβ central defender β coming from their second chance of the game. Gary Cooper, recently signed from Queens Old Boys, had a good debut.
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....)
06.01.2025 20:35 β π 47 π 11 π¬ 5 π 2So the βcanβt you take a joke, love? Whereβs yer bloody sense of humour?β crowd want a jail sentence for throwing a milkshake at someone.
16.12.2024 20:08 β π 518 π 60 π¬ 19 π 4"[Superintendent Jamie] Gordon held a leading role as a volunteer on the National Police Chiefβs Councilβs sexual misconduct portfolio but stopped when he was suspended by the Met."
Smh.
www.thetimes.com/article/1ff5...
Snap
04.12.2024 06:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π΅ Ah aaaaaaah
Is coming like a ghost town π΅
Happy times
18.11.2024 03:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mark Spitz and Bryn from Gavin and Stacey
15.11.2024 21:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Irene Handl in a wheelchair
Invalid Handl
14.11.2024 20:19 β π 40 π 12 π¬ 6 π 0I 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
13.11.2024 06:25 β π 111 π 28 π¬ 12 π 0Lovely empty beach in Donegal. Blue sky.
13.11.2024 20:11 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The 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
www.ft.com/content/c2ce...
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. π€·π½
A screenshot of Donna Reed as Mary in Itβs a Wonderful Life (1946)
Good morning, and let us remember the worst fate that can befall a woman is to be an unmarried librarian.
22.12.2023 09:13 β π 141 π 32 π¬ 9 π 5Wham! are number one for Christmas, which suggests this country is full of evil bastards trying to Whamageddon their mates. I approve.
22.12.2023 18:30 β π 12 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0My mum and dad would have a cherry brandy at Christmas. Year round teetotallers.
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