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The Pink Panther, fresh from the Louvre job.

The only time I hear mute swans making a noise is when they're flying. Maybe they all have to grunt with the effort of staying airborne?

An interesting subject. There's also an oral tradition around the downland and it's social history that's been kept by the Copper Family for hundreds of years, mostly in song but this spoken word cuts to the heart of it with a great Sussex accent to narrate it.

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How old postcards reveal the destruction of chalk downland This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Rifling through boxes of old postcards in junk shops is, admittedly, not my coolest pastime. But it’s something I’ve started doing of late, because some o…

4/ Using evidence gathered from old postcards, maps and the accounts of shepherds and botanists, I want to rebuild a picture of the chalk downland that existed until the 1940s - and in doing so, help efforts to restore it.

Please get involved here:

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Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom.

To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027:
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Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org

When you dress down because it's Sunday but then get called into work.

Come on @theguardian.com "Truce resumes after Israeli airstrikes"?

This is just a period of time between Israeli airstrikes, not a truce.

London Overground under the underground

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

One of the less noted things about the era before phones and tvs was just how unforgiving all the free time was. And how poor communication was. If you read rural correspondence of the 19th/20th century, you often find people travelling great distances to see folks only to discover that nobody is in

Two posts: "people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath" and "stop fucking replying to this about headphone jacks. i don't give a shit about if you have to figure out bluetooth. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE WATCHING A VIDEO AT ALL TIMES. JUST FUCKIN PUT IT DOWN. READ A FUCKIN BOOK OR SOMETHING"

Fewer than a 180 replies to go from 'here's this thing I noticed that irritates me and here's why it's bad' to 'STOP TELLING ME ABOUT SOMETHING THAT I KNOW ABOUT YOU ARE COMPLETELY MISSING THE POINT I WAS MAKING"

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Another poor soul radicalised by working in the BBC newsroom.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

a red car is parked next to a trailer that says u-tow on it Alt: Simpson character repeatedly steps on rakes

Monday for Kier Starmer as he navigates his way through all the rakes he put in his own path last week.

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Ta :)

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A ‘businessman’ is pictured seated in front of a computer which fills most to the room

The modern world in old Ladybird books.
“A small digital computer designed for the businessman” (1971)
Artist: BH Robinson

Kingfisher in flight.

Here’s my post for today’s #BirdOfTheDay , the theme is #colourful — #colorful #birds #nature #EastCoastKin #photography

Kingfisher with a small fish in it's beak.

I've started wearing analogue watches. I can go for a walk with the dog now and stop and admire the view without worrying I'll be scolded by software.

Corvid '25

“I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,” said Toad.

Huge congrats to america for getting its own 'man getting bricked in the head then the nads by his own side' guy

Cool :)

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Leonard and Hungry Paul is the best television.

Really.

Watch it on iPlayer.

Nothing wrong at all. But I love it too. Positive masculinity rocks.

YouTube video by Music City Roots Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings w/ T Bone Burnett "Everything Is Free"

This was written when free streaming first arrived. Send you sum it up from an artist's perspective.

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protester dressed as the statue of liberty comes out of NY subway station

Incredible photo from yesterday's #nokings protests by Olga Fedorova for AP

Oh my god