Alison Farr

‘STAR WARS’ fan paid for a billboard in Times Square pushing for the release of ‘THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO’

“For Adam. No one’s ever really gone. Hope lives. Ben is alive! #THBS”

(via collider.com/adam-driver-...)

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Mark Norell, 68, Discoverer of Links Between Dinosaurs and Birds, Dies

RIP, Mark Norell. As somebody who was enthusiastically interested in dinosaurs, particularly in my childhood, I read his breakthrough insights with great interest in the 1990s. The emergence of the knowledge that birds were dinosaur descendants was a great lesson for me about how science advances.

Grandparents for Vaccines launches to share stories of life before immunizations New volunteer group aims to educate parents about vaccine importance by sharing personal experiences with preventable diseases.

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

I will note that in 2016 the woman won by almost 3 million votes despite everything but the abominable electoral college...

I think about this a lot when I think about the mess that we’re in.

The DoD Rapid Response team on Twitter writes: "The Secretary of Defense has great jeans." The attached photo shows Sec. Pete Hegseth wearing a blue sport coat, white button-up shirt, blue jeans, and a big buckle Western belt.

I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵

Painting of man holding a goose. I'm a people person. I'm a geese goose.

A Twitter DM from June 2022 reads: Hi Mollie, I hope you're well. Just sending a message to say thanks. Early this year you tweeted a Guardian Blind Date, where the guy dragged the girl a little bit. After seeing a couple of people saying some pretty shit things about her on Twitter, I DM'd her to balance it out a bit - just say I thought she came across as really funny and fuck the haters etc (but with no other real intention other than that). Well we hit it off, talked every day for a month (I was working out of the UK at the time) and agreed to meet as soon as I returned. I ended up coming home early and we've been dating ever since. It might sound a bit over the top but l've never felt like this about anyone else before, and I'm pretty sure she feels the same way. I've honestly had some of the best months of my life with her around, and I want to say thanks

A Twitter DM from tonight reads: Hey Mollie, I hope you don't mind an update on the above. I asked her if she'd marry me, she said yes! She's my world. I'm so incredibly thankful for you tweeting that thing that led me and meet - I'm eternally in your debt. Thanks!

In 2022 I received the wholesome DM in the image on the left on the Other Site, tonight I received the one on the right 🥹🥹🥹🥹

The replies to this post, even on here, even moreso on X, are so depressing to me. We live in a world where cities have never been safer and a minority of people are denying themselves a lot of delightful experiences because they’ve gone mad online.

The chap playing soprano sax with Sting was incredible! Branford Marsalis.

Watching the #liveaid highlights- wow there was a lot more saxophone in the 1980’s #moresaxplease

Future Islands on the Park stage at Glastonbury 2025 #glasto c/o BBC iPlayer.
This is the act I have been waiting for - incredible energy

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Have just seen this on FB, and made me love Tim Curry even more.

From an interview he gave about an ill-fated on-set affair while filming Muppet Treasure Island.

Morning all.

Photograph by Frank Martin. Charles Tumbridge riding through Kensal Rise, West London with his dog Susie in her sidecar kennel, 1962.

How about instead of every country having their own nuclear weapon - which seems to be causing all sorts of trouble - we all take turns looking after a single bomb, like the school hamster?

(from) Masters of War
By Bob Dylan

#War #resistance

The new black (black dye is cheaper) British passport sums up Brexit perfectly, made by a French Company in Poland and shipped from Germany.

That's your sovereignty.

Men, I'm afraid you can no longer grab women's asses and you can't call them sweet tits and you can no longer say the r or n words, and it would be nice if you listened to people instead of talking over anyone that doesn't look like you--
Men: OH SO NOW I GOTTA WALK ON EGGSHELLS?? THIS IS RIDICULOUS

Six of the best Yorkshire towns to visit A controversial opinion: these six Yorkshire towns – Richmond, Whitby, Halifax, Ilkley, Rotherham, and Beverley – are the county’s very best!

✍️ Six of the best Yorkshire towns to visit

A controversial opinion: these six Yorkshire towns – Richmond, Whitby, Halifax, Ilkley, Rotherham, and Beverley – are the county’s very best! Here's why...

By Ian Richardson

@ricojosh.bsky.social

Hello! I'm really sorry for the late reply (still working my way through all of these generous donations). Also, thank you for donating!

So, to answer your question: dressing well in a warmer climate is inherently tough, but here are some ideas.

Cover photo from the Jaffa diet guide featuring a photo of a grapefruit so uninspired it makes the Beckham kid look like Richard Avedon

I think enough time has passed that I can reshare some highlights* from the 1970s Jaffa Grapefruit Diet Guide.

*lol no

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Don’t like gay marriage?
Don’t get married to the same sex.

Don’t like gender-affirming care?
Don’t have any.

Don’t like Planned Parenthood?
Don’t go there.

Don’t like abortion?
Don’t get one.

Just because *you* don’t like it doesn’t mean *others* shouldn’t be able to it.

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

We Protected Over A Million Square Kilometers Of The Pacific, And The Recovery Was Unlike Anything We Could Have Imagined Albatross were once nearing extinction here. Now, 14 million birds form the largest colony in the world.

Papahānaumokuākea has shattered assumption that MPAs don't work...
www.iflscience.com/papahanaumok...