Richard Baker

Russian fascists are now invading Ukraine while proudly displaying Russian and American flags.
Maybe this ought to be a wake up call for certain people.

Biscuit manufacturers often use the brilliant wheeze of having a "helpful" tag to pull some way down the tube and if you use it, about 20* biscuits all fall out and you have to eat them all at once.
(* I may be exaggerating a little for effect)

People marching in San Jose CA on 16 Aug 2025 carrying anti-tRump, pro-democracy signs. https://www.probonophoto.org/2025/FTTT/16Aug25SanJoseFightTrump/i-pzWkRTt/A

Man in green shirt carrying blue sign with white lettering that reads "No Kings, No Tyrants, No Fascists, No Nazis" This is an anti-tRump takover protest in San Jose CA 16 Aug 2025. https://www.probonophoto.org/2025/FTTT/16Aug25SanJoseFightTrump/i-JhvqbKJ/A

The good fight continues:
News doesn't keep showing it, but people keep protesting abuses of power, corruption & cruelty of tRump & gang.

#resist dictatorship protest event in San Jose CA on 16 Aug 2025. Pro #democracy #50501

Will Trump's goons hold Zelensky at the door because he isn't wearing a suit. I hope if so that the other world leaders stay outside with him.

Always good to glimpse your well-documented space for nature. We have similar mixed hedging surrounding a smaller urban space with many thriving insects, birds, a few frogs (and a lot of slugs and snails). Butterflies so plentiful this year. Foxes visit to chill out. This is from late June.

I think so too.

YouTube video by rocky storm The Dubliners, Mcalpines Fusiliers

Immigrants built the roads and dug the canals.
It was an education for me to work among many of them in the late '60s and early '70s on building sites in Portsmouth and Manchester. A lot of Guinness was consumed and I often had my guitar with me.
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This is just dog-whistle politics attempting to match the despicable Reform polemic. We need immigration in a country where the elderly proportion of the population is bulging (guily as charged!) Immigration is falling and needs a boost!
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

"brilliant"

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The more people know the less they like it. Trump is showing people where hatred leads.

Thank you Pam! Yes, cooler today thank goodness. Could do with a rainy day to make everything green again.

Working today on this oil on canvas in the garden. Must try not to overdo it. The plants are on a table under a couple of apple trees. Also includes an old African carving of a standing figure holding a staff. #art #oilpainting

I was obsessed by small animals when I was a child (70 yrs ago!) My tolerant parents let me have a snake - I think it was an Italian grass snake. I kept lots of white mice (don't remember any being fed to the snake). Other small animals came and went but I don't remember what happened to the snake.

Nigel Farage hit by milkshake The Brexit Party leader had just given a speech in Newcastle ahead of the European elections.

We prefer using milkshakes against our faschits
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Tippex shares are up

Yes and he has voiced his regret that he had anything to do with it.

Trump is immune from criticism. Mockery is a different matter. More please!

Rupert Murdoch Gets Covid-19 Vaccine While Profiting Off Virus Misinformation Murdoch claims he's encouraging people to get the jab, but his Fox News hosts in the US are pushing anti-vaccine talking points on air.

I bet the Methuselah-aged retired owner of the palace of lies that is Fox News has had more jabs than a thousand pin cushions to maintain his life above ground. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/rupert...

easel to change the view to work on part of the picture and sometimes make use of progressive photos of the painting to go back to a previous state. There's nothing worse than seeing from an earlier photo how one has ruined a painting when it worked on too much!

Oh I do go back to it Ellen. I've managed a good start on three or four small oils and I have a couple of older ones that need further work. I like to paint as much as possible from life but I do take photos as sometimes a reference is needed but I try to use them creatively. Sometimes I move the...

This is research misconduct and although Trump seems to be immune against any punishment the people acquiescing and enabling this fraud might experience some penalties when this hellscape is over.

We also get those fascinating tiny moths (Norfolk mint moths) that fly in the daytime.

Ah yes, we have the tiny moths on the herb box too. I think they are Norfolk Mint moths (very hard to photograph as they are so tiny). Our garden has been extraordinary for butterflies this year. Cambridge parks and garden people do leave things to die down naturally. Hope next year is better 🦋

It's a country where billionaires call the shots and are convinced anything for the public good comes out of their well-lined pockets and that would be so unfair!

Hegseth's giving him the side eye thinking "this isn't the stormtrooper nazis I signed for: it's turned out more like a home for the bewildered."

Certainly is! Lots of pollinators visit 🦋

We have had so many gatekeeper butterflies this year in our Cambridge garden, mostly fluttering around a herb box with marjoram and oregano. Also speckled woods which I don't remember seeing before. Others of course too many to mention.

Trump is spending it on a kitsch ballroom and gold trinkets for the Apple guy.

He's not fit to be in any employment. Trump was scraping the bottom of the barrel with him along with most of his appointments. He elevates loyalty over competence all the time.