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A Ulefone Armor 6 phone, a nearly full jam jar, a dessert spoon and a slice of grape. Weighing in at 825 g on the kitchen scale. That’s the hefty advertised weight of a Ulefone Armor 34 Pro.

A Ulefone Armor 6 phone. Weighing in at 270 g on the kitchen scale.

It’s time to replace my old Ulefone Armor 6. I started checking out the Armor 34 Pro and was astonished that it weighs 825 g.

That’s a hefty brick (the old phone weighs 270 g).

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "Black Man Blues" - Louis Cato, John Scofield & Marcus Miller (LIVE on The Late Show)

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Magic Roundabout sunflower 🌻🌱

#gardening #bloomscrolling #photography

I love this picture from Kym Illman of a young woman with a headband with racing cars.

#F1 #BelgianGP

Credit: @kymillmanf1.bsky.social

Screenshot from here: youtu.be/n3D1r3Ya9T4?...

Wolff says Russell and Verstappen would be a ‘Prost-Senna pairing’ Speaking to Sky Sports F1 after opening practice at Spa, Wolff said there was a “very high probability” the current

Toto Wolff has acknowledged that a George Russell-Max Verstappen pairing at Mercedes would be a “Prost–Senna” type lineup, but insisted that his priority remains the current driver lineup of Russell and Kimi Antonelli for 2026.

@mattfd.bsky.social @hubnut.bsky.social
@joncoupland.bsky.social
I mentioned to my mate Nic that people often comment on the aroma in old cars.
What do you reckon chaps?
When you review or otherwise inform about cars mention should be made of the 'voitosmia' the vehicle possesses....

#booksky

Live at Glastonbury 2025, playing Spinning Jenny, a classic English triple hornpipe. Good old Rimski's Yard. Many thanks to @rimskihandkerchief as always for hosting with style and grace. We're going to miss it during the fallow year.

#Glastonbury #festival #folk #englishfolk #trad #folkmusic

Yes - well done @folkonfoot.com team!

Scatterlings Of Africa Johnny Clegg & Juluka, Sipho Mchunu · Scatterlings · Song · 1982

Tonight’s Folk Friday track: Johnny Clegg and Juluka - Scatterlings of Africa
I love this song. It played in my car yesterday
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#earworm #folk #FolkFriday #AfroPop #JohnnyClegg #Juluka

Joe Solo Joe Solo is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough. Live he has an ever growing reputation as both a performer and raconteur, be...

All merch money currently being donated to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social so THANK YOU for buying my stuff this week.

I'll keep that in place. You buy, I donate.

Just hit joesolomusic.bandcamp.com

The headline below a photo of Trump’s eyes says: CONVICTED US FELON TO ARRIVE IN SCOTLAND. The sub-heading reads: Republican leader, who was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, will visit golf courses.

NEW: Tomorrow’s front page of Scottish newspaper, The National.

‘Everything is obvious’ by Duncan Watts

Greatly enjoying this book by a physicist turned sociologist explaining why you need more than the laws of physics to explain societal problems.

#CVAwarenessDay

Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what climatologists are calling a ...

As a former Navy oceanographer, this article scares the hell out of me. Large ocean currents regulate the earth’s temperature. Put simply a collapse of this system will drastically change climate, lead to mass extinctions, impact weather. Now is the time to panic

Tony

Thinking outside of the bottle.

Queer as Fungi: What Mushrooms Can Teach Us About Resistance and Community For powerful lessons about organizing and queer community, let’s look beneath our feet.

"Lichens — which are part fungi, part photosynthetic microorganisms — are best understood as living, interdependent communities, inspiring the word “symbiosis.” They teach us that our fixation on individualism is not only inaccurate biologically, it’s a dead end." truthout.org/articles/que...

What Is The Hull Fishing Heritage Centre?

Have a look inside one the most fascinating and important places in the city.

Supplementals: tinyurl.com/4rf79se5

@hulllibraries.bsky.social

Which Ship Links The Humber Bridge with Arctic Exploration?

@uniofhull.bsky.social professor @robb51.bsky.social tells another tale from Hull’s maritime history.

Supplementals: tinyurl.com/3aab49wf

@hulllibraries.bsky.social

Where Is East Yorkshire’s Strangest Folly?

Our pointless structures correspondent @angusyoung61.bsky.social heads to the edge of Hull to admire some unnecessary crenellations.

curiosityhull.co.uk/where-is-eas...

@hulllibraries.bsky.social

A blue gradient background with The Club of Rome logo. In the foreground, the covers of three documents: 'Building a secure and thriving Europe' – a policy brief from the Systems Transformation Hub, Earth4All country reports on Austria, Germany and Kenya as well as 'The Young Person’s Guide to Systems Change' from The 50 Percent

Did you know you can find and access copies of several reports to The Club of Rome and other publications from our community on our website?

This includes policy briefs, @earth4all.life reports and guides.

Find all our publications here: ▶️ www.clubofrome.org/publications/

Newcastle air pollution sees 'significant' drop in last year New data shows a 9% fall in nitrogen dioxide levels from 2023 to 2024.

Encouraging results from another low emission / clean zone, this time Newcastle...

BBC News - Newcastle air pollution sees 'significant' drop in last year - BBC News
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Our roads in the Subdivision just got a new fresh coat of asphalt. As a scientist who has studies how urbanization affects weather and climate, of course I "geeked out" and pulled out my Forward Looking Infrared FLIR camera. I do research on urban effects on weather and climate

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

It's #ShowYourStripes day. Here's Aotearoa New Zealand's temperature chart.
showyourstripes.info/c/australasi...

Ruby, don’t take your ball to town.

Why are you not optimistic?

Well, for starters, the current FEMA administrator didn't know hurricane season existed.

TELL ME I'M NOT JUSTIFIED IN MY PESSIMISM. Go ahead!

YouTube video by Gibson TV Justin Hawkins Shows You How to Hold a 355 / 335 at Gibson Garage, London, UK

Let Justin Hawkins show you how to hold it.
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Leafhopper in profile, on leaf.

Ligurian leafhopper, this afternoon on Rodman Street. 🐞

My hand, touching grass in my back garden. With buttercups and a Blackberry bush for company.

Thanks Kate. I went out to touch some grass.

Habits To Start Now To Become a Healthy Senior Coder Everyone is getting older. A senior C++ developer shares the lessons she has learned staying vital in an ever-changing industry.

So pleased to see that The Aging Programmer continues to reach people. Here's a nice article: thenewstack.io/habits-to-st...
There's a link at the end to the Toronto version (longer than the European ones, it talks of money and retirement.) You can see all 3 from www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...