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AHH yes, oddly I get this muddled up(!)

Autumnal leaves

UK investigates remote ‘kill switch’ on Chinese-made buses — The Times and The Sunday Times The UK is investigating a security loophole that could allow hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses to be remotely deactivated. Government officials are working with the National Cyber Security Centr...

"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."

Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.

She has an unassuming beauty about her. Her facial expression conveys to me at least, a sense of being lost, or perhaps a heightened awareness of her naked vulnerability

I think this is a different genus - same species though.

An immature Xylaria liquidambar, a strange mushroom only found on the fruit of sweetgum trees

#FungiFriends #Macro

Black and white photography captures an essence that colour paradoxical fails to provide.

Ahh that's a good tip. I have a vested interest I am toying w/ the idea of developing a sml herb-cum-vegetables in the side section of the back garden (in ceramic pots / troughs). The prob. is it is east facing. So at the mo. researching suitable crops to grow. Carrots + beans are on the list 🌿🥕🥔

Latex is the only material I know of that enhances the appearance of flesh.

Well impressed - especially the growing of vegetables.

"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."

Call me one fashioned but shouldn't "butt plugs" be made out of root ginger? 😈

Despite the subject matter this is an extremely interesting read on the ideological roots and organisation of the SS.

#blueskybooks #history #nazi #thirdreich #nsdap @blueskybookclub.bsky.social

Fragment of the Colossus of Constantine (312 AD) :

The statue was commissioned by Emperor Constantine I around 312-315 AD, to celebrate his victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge.

Capitoline Museum - Rome 🇮🇹

#archaeohistories

Shinto Kanamara Matsuri (Festival of the Steel Phallus), an annual Japanese festival held each spring at Kanayama Shrine (Kanayama-jinja), belonged to Edo Period (1603-1868 CE), in Kawasaki, Japan. The main festivities fall on the first Sunday in April....

#archaeohistories

They also have their own cats - which of course are the true sovereign masters of the island.

Isle of Man 🇮🇲 isn't part of Britain, it has its own parliament called 'Tynwald', the world’s oldest continuous legislature dating back over 1000 years.

Despite being situated between England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales it has its own language, flag, currency and distinct Norse-Celtic culture.

Mary Swanzy.
In The Window, c.1920.
Oil on Canvas.

I struggle to find homoerotic photography that is as sensual and erotic as heteronormative content. A lot of gay oriented art seems to focus on "the act" and or genitals as opposed to the mystery of sex. Am I imagining this?

Paul Evans.
Frosted Field and Farm. (2021)
Acrylic and Ink.

Centuries of Black Death misinformation started with a poem A 14th century trickster tale was misread as fact.

"Misinformation surrounding COVID is still a major problem more than five years after its emergence. Unfortunately, time doesn’t always offer clarity. Even after hundreds of years, our understanding of the Black Death remains clouded by false narratives."
www.popsci.com/health/black...

Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage Davie tells staff departure was “my own decision” but it comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speech Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and the head of BBC News have resigned after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of “serious and systemic” bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights. In a shock move, Davie said his depature was his own, but comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way the broadcaster edited a Donald Trump speech. Continue reading...

Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage

Not bad for a first try

#SundaySilence

"Mirror, mirror
on the ground
who's the cutest
blirp around?" 🪶