Des Higgins

I was on fire 🔥

Thanks Rosena. It was a great turnout in a great location.

Rivers of London series by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social is original and funny and witty and gripping

Murphy -Beckett
The Borstal Boy -Behan
At Swim Two Birds -O'Brien
The Committments -Doyle
Portrait of the Artist -Joyce

To be fair, I have heard Italians refer to Venice as the Monasterevin of Italy

To quote an old Brian Clough quip... every time you see him on the TV from now on, you can say: "He's met me"

YouTube video by owen reiser LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

This is a 2 hour video that is part odyssey, part road trip, part investigation of why birders keep lists and is hilarious and witty and cleverly put together. What's not to like?

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Excellent thread on how to consume stories about autism causes.

YouTube video by Robotussin Vintage Synths Percy Grainger's free music machine

got a bit of light morning vintage procrastination viewing tee’d up. the opening segments look highly promising

Damn it all, their advantage is so huge that mildly athletic men have been switching gender in droves just to get to the Olympics.
Like you DON’T, because that would be weird and much too much to do with your entire life if you weren’t actually trans. And, as the numbers prove, isn’t happening.

The Sabine's is overexposed both to the elements and my camera

I'm just back from 8 days seawatching from the Bridges of Ross in the west of Ireland. 355 sabine's gulls on one of the days.

She's an Irish woman - Kitty O'Brien is her name.

You really aren't going to get a better example of how the British media works than the contrasting coverage of two Irish authors this week.

The brave and sensitive transphobe John Boyne vs the vile and hateful opponent of genocide Sally Rooney.

The entire journalistic team from Al Jazeera stationed in and reporting on Gaza, has been killed.

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I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

HVO is a climate ‘quick fix’ that could be worse than fossil fuels At a Time of Climate Crisis: There are serious questions over the sustainability of hydrotreated vegetable oil and the industries that are promoting its use

📣 Palm oil is a *terrible* climate solution!

I don’t repeat topics in my column, but this month I made an exception.

HVO is being marketed even more aggressively as a miracle “drop in” fuel for everything from homes to buses to data centres.

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So I'm watching a modern London version of a Sherlock Holmes story and I see a front door with the number 221b. I Google the address of SH and I see variants of the search including
"Where did the real Sherlock Holmes live"? And there I was thinking it was fiction

It was beautifully wet and windy, courtesy of Storm Floris

First day this year seawatching. 31 wilson's petrels seen from the Bridges of Ross from 6.30am until 6.30pm

The Irish Border, almost invisible except for the two different tarmacs. North on the right, South on the left.

Unfortunately it’s clear that the Israeli people can’t topple the government or change its ways. Seems like the attorney general, the last gate keeper, will be fired soon. As long as we’re stuck with this government, the war won’t stop. Only international intervention (=the U.S) might do it.

That is a superb track. I just listened to it again for the first time in nearly 40 years (I got into jazz after leaving school). It brought back a flood of memories. That was peak Sabbath

YouTube video by waapli Black Sabbath "Sabbra Cadabra"

RIP Ozzy. This was the sound of my mid teens complete with guest piano by Rick Wakeman.

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Get in touch over email: dr.wilson.debunk@gmail.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DrWilsonDebunks Previous lab leaks: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7c7289e5274a5255bceb57/0312.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3497034/ https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/75/10/184 COVID Lab Leak: A State of the Evidence

Lableak or zoonotic origin of SARS-COV-2? This video breaks it down in eaay to follow steps. Just planly as it is, just fthevacts.

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That video is superb. A lot of the bioinformatics in the early Chinese papers was done by a former PhD. student, Weifeng Shi. The science is accurate and beautifully explained.

800 Palestinians killed waiting for food in the past 6 weeks. Am I anti-semitic in finding this appalling

I've been found out. I always was a great fan of a manly knee sock

Ad for bleeding-edge men’s fashion items. Photo: two cheerful models wearing, from top to bottom, short-sleeved white “business shirts”, $2.99; daringly wide “fashion ties”, $3.99; “fashion shorts” (basically, suit trousers cut down to have the profile of 1980s Bundesliga shorts), $7.99; belts (“leather belts”, to be precise), $2.99; and “walk socks” (thin white socks ending just below the knee), 99 cent the pair; and dark leather shoes (not for sale).

It’s heartening to see that @deshiggins.bsky.social’s influence in the world of men’s fashion is as strong as ever.

He might have gone off to form a pupa/chrysalis?