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Steve Messam's wool covered tower in the heather at Penistone country park.

Nice day around Haworth. Steve Messam's Tower looking phenomenal in the Heather.

A photo I took in 2002 at the Hiroshima Peace Park. The Genbaku Dome is seen in the background, through the arch of the A-Bomb Cenotaph. A group of primary school kids crowd the foreground. There on a school history trip. The photo was originally shot on a Fuji GSW690iii camera. The drawing on the left - entitled "A charred corpse holding a child" - is by Hatsuto Tanimoto. It depicts an adult holding a child, 1000m from the hypocentre of the blast, at Kami-nagarekawa-cho.

Yesterday marked 80yrs since the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Saturday is the 80th anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing. The piece below is from 2002. Sorry, it's such a small scan. Original photo by me, paired with a drawing by hibakusha Hatsuto Tanimoto.

Peace & love are the way.
🙏❤️

Nick Timothy MP has criticised the police for protecting a man delivering food to a hotel from intimidation + violence. He + Max Tempers both seem to assume they can intuit immigration status (that he must be an asylum seeker without the right to work) simply from a man's appearance (ethnicity)

‘I’m no terrorist’ says former magistrate facing six months in prison for supporting Palestine Action - The Observer

Kelp forest project in West Sussex having 'remarkable results' The rewilding project off the West Sussex coast is celebrating its fourth anniversary.

Undersea rewilding initiative to restore a kelp forest in West Sussex is celebrating amazing results for marine biodiversity.

Rewilding is needed just as much at sea as on land.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Pelicans!

Infographic titled “From Lab to Life.” The header reads: “Tylenol may quiet pain at its source by blocking Nav1.7 and Nav1.8—sodium channels critical for nerve signaling.” The left panel lists key findings: (1) Acetaminophen inhibits sodium currents in sensory neurons, (2) AM404—the active metabolite—blocks Nav1.7 and Nav1.8, (3) This may reduce neuronal excitability and pain. On the right, a simple neuron illustration shows AM404 blocking two sodium channels, labeled Nav1.7 and Nav1.8. The footer says: “That’s a big deal for the most common active ingredient in U.S. meds.” The citation at the bottom is: Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 2025 Jun 10;122(23):e2413811122. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2413811122. Epub 2025 Jun 4.

🧠 From Lab to Life
New research shows Tylenol may quiet pain at its source by blocking Nav1.7 and Nav1.8, sodium channels critical for pain signaling.
That’s a big deal for the most common active ingredient in U.S. meds. 1/4
#FromLabToLife #PainResearch #NeuroSkyence

Starmer is the kind of guy who’d watch someone choke to death because the polls said Reform voters think the Heimlich manoeuvre sounds both German AND French

Hey, you boy!

Have you finished redacting my name from those Epstein Files yet???

Terrible!

Interesting work that may lead to treatments for pathological pain. 🧪

🧪 Here’s the link to an elegant study about the preventive effects of shingles and RSV vaccines for dementia—and an important thread about the key findings.

Read all the way down to see how the deductive powers of science can shed light on underlying cellular mechanisms. So cool. Get vaccinated.

Image (Plagiochila liverwort. © Benny Rice, alt text: The frond like leaf of a liverwort on a black background)

Have you ever heard of bryophytes? 🧪
Usually known as mosses, these minute wonders are involved in everything from soil formation to flash flood prevention 🌍
One Malagasy scientist, Dr Lova Marline, has made it her mission to raise appreciation for our mossy friends 👇
www.kew.org/read-and-wat...

If you were born between 1970-1990 you may not have full MMR protection, even if you had parents who took you for all your jabs. The NHS will give you a free booster. With cases surging, this is a great way to protect yourself & your community. I’m getting mine tomorrow www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Good. This scheme should be as generous as possible. Let young people have the times of their fucking lives.

Excellent woman

76 year old Audrey White, ex-secretary of Merseyside Pensioners Association, who is credited with paving the way to the formation of anti-sexual harrassment laws via her campaigning in the 1980s, was arrested as a terrorist yesterday for taking part in a pro-Palestine rally.

ChatGPT: expanding the frontiers…of gender bias.

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.

blood bag, ultrasound picture, chart up all in black and red tones.

Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%.

Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7

#medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪

“I was trying to describe you to someone” from Brautigan’s “revenge of the lawn”

This is my all time favorite piece of short fiction and I really encourage taking the brief moment it takes to read it. It so beautifully captures time, place, and feeling

Watch @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

A question of intent On Israel and Gaza.

Former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption in the New Statesman: Israel's conduct in Gaza is a war crime www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

What form of sociopathy required them to need a court order to stop doing this?

Thanks, I didn’t know that

Somebody needs to tell Wallace to stop digging.