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Handy taps over the cooker hobs. Great for putting out a chip pan fire 🔥

Really important report out today from @cmmonwealth.bsky.social

Wrong to Sell: How Right To Buy Gave Away Billions in Public Wealth

www.common-wealth.org/publications...

For all its faults London is a city where you can get a virtually brand new high speed train from Whitechapel to Heathrow, where you can eat from restaurants around the world, visit free museums and galleries, walk along a canal and so much more- there is a reason so many tourists visit.

Being 100% aware that the acquaintance you're pretending not to see is also pretending not to see you.

A Barn Owl stands sentinel on a wooden post, set against a backdrop of golden, autumnal grasses. The evening light bathes the scene in a warm glow, highlighting the owl's heart-shaped face, white underbelly, and the delicate brown speckles along its wings and back.

A Tawny Owl perched on a gnarled branch in a lush forest setting. The owl blends in with its surroundings, showcasing its natural camouflage. Its feathers are brown with white spots, and its deep, black eyes gaze into the distance. Sunlight filters through the leaves, creating a soft, dappled light across the scene.

A Short-eared Owl sitting on the thin branches of a shrub in an open field. The background is a soft, out-of-focus blend of warm browns and golds. The owl's striking yellow eyes are wide open, and it has brown and cream mottled feathers.

A Long-eared Owl hidden among the dense, dark branches of a forest at dusk. Its piercing orange eyes stand out against the shadowy environment. The owl's feathers are intricately patterned with an array of browns, blacks, and tans.

Owl enthusiasts, unite.

It's #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay 🦉

There is no lack of money, only a lack of #TaxJustice. This is a historic opportunity for countries to fix the global tax rules to deliver social, climate and environmental action.

Beautiful green, sadly the recipe for the Egyptian blue lost to history but scientists hoping to recreate (see attached post below this one.)
Paints - red (red ochre), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ochre, and orpiment) and two black (carbon black, from charcoal)'

Liberal elites are often so convinced their own beliefs are unrepresentative of The Masses that they reflexively want to make concessions to illiberal policies that are, actually, not at all popular among The Masses

I am always confused by the American use of pissed to mean angry rather than drunk.

English has lots of colourful old slang phrases about being inebriated, especially from the Victorian era, including “plum full of bug juice,” “bumpsy” and “as whittled as a penguin.” But my favourite drunkenness phrase from Victorian slang (first recorded use in 1882) is “as tight as a boiled owl.”

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Lottie would like you all to know that she is a good girl and absolutely would not help herself to any custard unless invited to partake in it.

You should come to see this on Wednesday night if you’re in Edinburgh. It is a fun format. I have some things to get off my chest.

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It’s the Monday Morning Pupdate!

In this video you will find:

✅ Bernese Mountain Retriever
✅ Muddy Golden Retriever
✅ Cat By The Creek
✅ Running Through Green Fields
✅ The Best Way To Start Your Week

YouTube video by Dave Goulson Best Plants for Bees: Klasea bulgarica

Best Plants for Bees: Klasea bulgarica
One of a series of short videos highlighting some of the best plants for attracting bees and other pollinators. If you'd like more, watch my YouTube playlist "Best Plants for Bees"
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Actually they’d prefer them to be machine gunned in the water. Totally deluded slow thinkers who can’t see that the people telling them ‘ look over there’ are actually robbing them ‘over here’.

Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

#RNLI lifeboats are crewed by brave people.

I used to live near one of the launch stations, in Stromness, Orkney.

When the boat went out, often in dire conditions, it felt like the whole town stopped until they were safely back in harbour.

'For those in peril on the sea'

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💯 Exactly this. The r/wing tax dodging billionaires - who now own most media outlets and also, it seems many politicians are corrupt & eternally greedy people. So cynical how they use power, obscene wealth to deflect from their 💰 making rackets & instead blame immigrants as cover for their crimes.

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

Another week begins of summer holiday fossil hunting and a reminder that you can enter The Children's Fossil Hunting Competition!

All entry requirements can be found here: charmouth.org/chcc/fossilc...

Forests with robust animal populations store four times as much carbon An analysis of thousands of forest plots reveals an underappreciated link between animal biodiversity and carbon storage

Forests with robust animal populations store four times as much carbon. An analysis of thousands of forest plots reveals an underappreciated link between animal biodiversity and carbon storage...

www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

A real-world CSI for sea life: The lab investigating deaths we're all complicit in Biologist Rob Deaville runs a programme which has performed more than 4,500 necropsies on animals including dolphins, seals and sharks.

CSI For Wildlife.Dolphins drowned in fishermen's nets,whales deranged by military sonar and driven ashore; porpoises killed by the blunt force trauma of a speedboat's prow,a few however die due to the most insidious and increasingly abundant scourge at sea: plastic. news.sky.com/story/a-real...

Northumberland Hadrian's Wall nature recovery project gets boost National park bosses say it is one of the

Hadrian's Wall nature recovery project gets boost for biodiversity work...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Campaign Win! Environment Agency Admits Failings in UK Tyre Export Regulation, Changes to be Introduced Following Fighting Dirty Action | Fighting Dirty Environmental campaign group Fighting Dirty has today welcomed the findings of a long-awaited internal review by the Environment Agency, which confirms the EA failed to ensure it was fulfilling its le...

Environment Agency Admits Failings in UK Tyre Export Regulation, Changes to be Introduced...

fightingdirty.org/fighting-dir...

Poem title: At the Intersection The poem is divided into two overlapping circles. The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads: the day we went out to have an ice-cream, we said nothing just let our silence melt in the air as we walked across the common our love never tiring at all The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads: we should have talked it over but nothing ever seems to get in your fat head. You are so common that I wish we’d never met at all and I’d married Tim instead In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads: we have nothing in common at all

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

Actor and Archer: The double life of Robert Hardy - The Mary Rose Best known as an actor, Robert Hardy CBE was also passionate about the English longbow, and contributed to the study of those found on the Mary Rose.

Best known as an actor, Robert Hardy CBE was also passionate about the English longbow.

In our latest collections blog, we look at the work he did with the Mary Rose longbows, and the testing that proved English bowmen were tougher than we thought...

In the past few weeks, the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has referred to "ethnic cleansing" and "concentration camps" in Gaza, while a former Israeli Attny Gen, a former Israeli general, and one of Israel's most famous authors, have all said it's a genocide in Gaza.

Wildwood

Wildwood is nature left to its own devices. Our footprint is minimal both physically & metaphorically

Humans are destroying the planet, they cannot be trusted