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Love the cobbling!

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.

Dai Station enters the chat 😃

Similar to as suggested for Sutton Hoo and other ‘princely burials’ in England: North Sea mercenaries serving farther afield than previously thought

(Gittos 2025)

Best. Dragon. Ever.

I've just bought a copy. As someone diagnosed with PTSD myself, and as someone interested in naval history, I look forward to reading it.

Keir Starmer abandoned net zero to court Reform voters. He failed After byelection defeat and with right-leaning advisers gone, will PM return to his instincts and embrace Labour ‘DNA’ on climate?

Why is the environment so important to me?

Because I live in it.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farne Islands, May 2025 for #FourOrMore

Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

It's time for another random photograph!

Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, May 2023.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail    I would rather  eat Quavers that are six weeks stale,  blow dry the man bun of Gareth Bale,  listen to the songs of Jimmy Nail,  than read one page of the Daily Mail.    If I was bored  in a waiting room in Perivale,  on a twelve-hour trip on Network Rail,  halfway through a circumnavigational sail,  I would not read the Daily Mail.    I would happily read  the autobiography of Dan Quayle,  1001 Things You Can Do With Kale,  selected scripts from Emmerdale, if it meant I didn’t have to read the Daily Mail.    Far better to  stand outside in a storm of hail,  scratch a blackboard with a fingernail,  be swallowed by a humpback whale,  than have to read the Daily Mail.    If I was blind   and it was the only thing in Braille,  I still would not read the Daily Mail.    Brian Bilston 

Today’s poem is called ‘How Much I Dislike the Daily Mail’.

Same enjoyable evening out, different cuisine.

Very kind of them, as I doubt our 'heroes' would have condescended to learn the language of the country they're living in...

Funny when it's other people fleeing war it's one thing, but when it's you personally it's a whole other thing... I'd like to think it would teach them a bit of humanity, but I doubt it.

I've just practiced my German and that is hässlich. Die arme Schüssel. (Sadly Duolingo has not yet revealed to me the translation of font.)

Just blocked my first bot on Bluesky.

Getting tired of that shit appearing everywhere.

One day I'll make it to the Eildon Hills. I've been fascinated by the story of Thomas the Rhymer (True Thomas) for a long time.

Don't you see yon bonny, bonny road
That lies across the fernie brae
That is the road to fair elfland
Where you and I this night must go

(Thomas the Rhymer)

Today in the lane from 2021.

A couple of night photos from 2018 and 2021. Something calming after today.

Not only that but a party whose leader is a gay Jewish man. Not very likely I think.

They seem unable to accept that maybe, just maybe, another party with different policies could be more popular than theirs...

Glad to be Green 💚

It's too late. Starmer became leader and trashed everything he promised. Why would we trust New New Labour 2.0? Their policies on the environment are disastrous, their policies on immigration are abhorrent. Not touching Labour with a bargepole.

Just another way of saying it's not us that's wrong, it's the voters. Infuriating.

I'll keep my eyes open for them from now on. This one was quite brazen, didn't seem bothered by me at all.

Thanks. I'm better at plants than birds. Also pleased because I've never knowingly seen a dunnock before.

I get your point 😃

Hexham Abbey for #SteepleSaturday