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Pictured: Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 South African photographer Wim van den Heever takes the main prize for his shot

BBC News - Pictured: Winning entries for Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 - BBC News
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Ryanair customer services is an enigma, isn't it? I contacted them with a boarding pass issue yesterday, they replied saying there's a solution (didn't resolve it though), pointing me to another bit of their customer services. And when you contact the other bit... Nothing.

Life is like playing golf.

In both, Donald Trump lies about his number of strokes.

Private fireworks sales should be banned.

That's it.

We're not in the UK tonight for Halloween. Are people wearing Andrew masks?

Inside of a bar. Central to the photo is a tad with a lamp on it. Mismatching chairs are either side. A mirror hangs on the wall above the table. Tucked into the left of the scene, two patrons talk further back.

Scene from a bar

Eszeweria, Krakow

A street scene at night. Outside a restaurant, a neon sign reads "Burgery".

"I mean to have you boy, even if it must be..."

YouTube video by Louis Armstrong - Topic Spooks

It's Hallowe'en!

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Republic We want to see the monarchy abolished and the King replaced with an elected, democratic head of state. In place of the King we want someone chosen by the people, not running the government but represe...

Today feels like a good day to join Republic

www.republic.org.uk

Just in case

"This will be a humiliation for Andrew" says the news cycle, of the rapist of a trafficked 17 year old girl who he then tried to ruin by digging up her private details long after he admitted he was still in contact with convicted sex offender Epstein.

Send him to prison.

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One surmises that One has been stripped of One's title because of a court case to come.

Brilliant to see the rapist brought down.

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It's my birthday and I'm going to spend it underground in a salt mine.

I'm in Krakow

Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate Wildlife trusts attempt to raise £30m to keep Northumberland's Rothbury Estate from being split up.

BBC News - Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate - BBC News
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Commentary by Petr Horále - Last night was incredible. I have just moved to Sweden, where I organize astrophotography workshop for a group, and this is the view of nature offered over Suotojärvi Lake. The comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon was seemingly swimming in bright Aurora Borealis. The comet was so bright that we could see it with our naked eyes, even very low over the horizon. Captured after 20:30 UTC, Used Nikon Z6III, Nikkor 135mm, f1.8, ISO 3200, 4s exposure foreground, 15x4s comet from tripod (stacked).

Another fabulous shot of Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) over Suotojärvi Lake, Sweden, by Petr Horálek, with the colorful Aurora Borealis lighting up the sky.

More at www.petrhoralek.com?p=25820 and
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#Astronomy

I'm going to Fenwick's in Newcastle tomorrow for a Gregg's inspired afternoon tea.

I'm at Darlington railway station, a couple of miles from where I was born. It feels like a soul recharge stop

Platform: Your 12:00 train from Doncaster will depart platform BUS. For leg 3 of your journey with LNER.

Gotta love a rail replacement service

TAFKAP
The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince
Also had a liking for slaves.

Soft Cell's musical force Dave Ball dies, aged 66 The musician, best known for Tainted Love and Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, died in his sleep at home.

RIP

Soft Cell's musical force Dave Ball dies, aged 66
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a man with a robotic face is standing in a room ALT: a man with a robotic face is standing in a room

Emerging from the chair ...

Migrant removed to France returns to UK on small boat The man was sent to France under the 'one in, one out' deal but returned via the Channel on a small boat, the BBC understands.

This is the man who goes in and out, thus achieving the policy aims of 'one in, one out'. Forever going forwards and backwards like Sisyphus up the slope.

BBC News - Migrant removed to France returns to UK on small boat - BBC News
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We find out tonight if badgers will eat cooked parsnip.

Yay, I love double decker trains

BBC News - Eurostar orders first double-decker trains - BBC News
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Download full size image here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54401849262/sizes/o/ Check license below. Credit: ESA/Euclid/EuclidConsortium/NASA/NAOJ/AndreaLuck CC BY Mission: ESA Euclid Instruments: VIS and NIS Product Type: MER Mosaic Release Q1 R1 Filters: VIS, NIR H, NIR J, NIR Y (+ 15% transparency for HSC G Subaru Telescope on the outer regions only) Euclid latest release is available on eas.esac.esa.int/sas File ID: EUC_MER_BGSUB-MOSAIC-NIR-H_TILE102159486-5FB4D4_20241024T215012.624096Z_00.00.fits EUC_MER_BGSUB-MOSAIC-NIR-J_TILE102159486-FEA83F_20241024T215821.130299Z_00.00.fits EUC_MER_BGSUB-MOSAIC-NIR-Y_TILE102159486-D8AA36_20241024T215508.276320Z_00.00.fits EUC_MER_BGSUB-MOSAIC-VIS_TILE102159486-467D36_20241025T011029.446661Z_00.00.fits EUC_MER_BGSUB-MOSAIC-WISHES-G_TILE102159486-6028E2_20241024T211440.024041Z_00.00.fits Notes: I used NIR H, J, and Y, assigning them to Red, Green, and Blue. I reconstructed the center slightly for H, J and Y filters as it was overexposed, and used VIS for details on the nebula. Additionally, I added a 15% of HSC G to enhance the outer regions only. Credit: ESA/Euclid/EuclidConsortium/NASA/NAOJ/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original media: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Cat's Eye Nebula - NGC 6543 - ESA Euclid - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qTiGsj

The image shows four panels capturing, on different dates from Sicily, the green flash phenomenon, an optical effect seen at sunrise or sunset. The top two panels display the Sun and the Moon, respectively, near the horizon. The Sun has a bright, slightly flattened disk with a thin green rim or flash at its upper edge, indicating the moment the green light is visible. The Moon shows a similar faint green tint at its upper edge. The bottom two panels feature Venus and Mercury, photographed during twilight, appearing as small, bright dots near the western horizon with subtle green hues at their edges.

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Green flash on the Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus.

It's about an atmospheric optical phenomenon, seen at sunrise and sunset, above the upper rim of Sun's disk (but also of the Moon and planets, though harder to see), when the conditions are favorable.

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