Mary Grace 🎃👻💀🐈‍⬛🍎🍂🍁

Recently there were some jokes on Bluesky about Canada burning the White House again, as a result of Trump's tariffs on Canada, threats of annexation, and destruction of the East Wing of the White House.

I thought it would be a good time to talk about the awful loss that happened in 1814. 🧵

Aww, that would have been so moving ♥️

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

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Incredible.

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Sums up the US regime, Canada’s Conservatives, and UK’s Reform nicely.

A hi tech laboratory. Technicians work at computer work stations. A glass cylinder contains an unhappy bespectacled figure in a striped top and hat. A scientist explains to two colleagues: "The subject will be returned to his natural habitat. But now, thanks to our implanted tracking device, we can answer the question 'Where's Wally?' in microseconds rather than hours. "

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A canal with gardens on the opposite bank. There is a blue and white boat in front of a row of flower pots which stand on some decking.

By the canal in autumn.

Very apt!

This! “We will not defeat populism without higher levies on wealth. We will not rebuild Britain without restoring fairness to Britain’s taxes. And we will not restore faith in politics until people see that the rules of the game apply to everyone, from the factory floor to the boardroom and beyond.”

Mock up of Trump’s golden ballroom

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

#ShakespeareSunday

I can see that from all your lovely photos! What a special place to live.

There are certainly threats particularly those to data centres resulting from extreme weather events due to climate change.

Power surge due to a transformer issue in Louisiana
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How axolotls rely on their 'fight or flight' network to regenerate body parts Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have solved part of the mystery of how they accomplish this feat—by activating stem c...

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Idyllic!

Oh, I completely share your view!

It has both good and bad aspects and for sure the promulgation of misinformation and disinformation is part of the bad.

I’m hugely proud of the team at the Oxford University Botanic Garden and Arboretum - making facilities for the local community and combining it with science research and communication!

A branch laden with right red crab apples seen against green leaves.

Crab apples after the rain.

They are super! Nice work.

I know. It has been really surprising to me.

I agree wholeheartedly.

Yikes! I never could do that job.

He does not deserve one.

This is breathtaking! I would love to travel there.

View of the Usk Valley from Allt yr Esgair.

There are some wonderful walks round here. This is the summit of one of my favourites: Yr Allt looking over the Usk Valley towards the Brecon Beacons. You can see the meanders of the River Usk in the valley.

Top 10 neglected books about the Spanish civil war | Sarah Watling A few celebrated names dominate our understanding of this ‘last great cause’, but these novels and memoirs show there is much more to learn

I finished reading “All Quiet on the Western Front,” and believe this should be required reading in schools. It is the strongest testament to the senselessness and immeasurable losses of war I have ever read.

Next I will be reading about the Spanish Civil War.

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