My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

This matters because London has among the lowest vaccination rates for measles in England - there are many pockets of unvaccinated communities that could be at significant risk from a runaway outbreak:

Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk Finalists This year's winners offer behind-the-scenes access to the frontiers of particle physics research.

Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk Finalists gizmodo.com/dive-into-th...

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women & girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence or funding."

Emily Maitlis reflects on 2019 Andrew interview as infamous photo is confirmed real | The News Agents Emily Maitlis looks back on her 2019 Newsnight interview with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, with the photo of the former Prince with Virginia Giuffre – which he said was a fake – now having seemingly…

"We were talking to professionals, no one thought it was a fake," Emily Maitlis says, after Andrew photo was confirmed genuine.

"In denying that the photograph was real, they were rubbishing her. They were rubbishing the victim"

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/emil...

Grand Designs - You are on a self-build & the sole architect, builder, labourer, decorator & estate agent & it's late winter with dodgy weather.
You would want your local watering hole to serve up plenty of nutritious food (Freshwater Shrimps), to keep you in the best tiptop form.
#Wrens #WeedyPond

If it’s not one thing, it’s another. While the Goddard Library is being dismantled, OMB is also not giving allocated money to NASA, NIH, or NSF (at least). NASA Science Mission Directorate has been instructed to not spend 2026 appropriated funds for a number of projects.

Personal Safety Training - Open Access Course Are you a lone working freelancer, contractor or self-employed individual looking for training to feel safer at work, avoiding and managing risk of harm from others?

New open access personal safety training from Suzy Lamplugh Trust! 🛡️

📅 3–4 March 2026 (Zoom, 9:30–12:30)
Practical tips on risk, lone working, boundaries & de-escalation.

Limited spaces! Sign up 👉 www.suzylamplugh.org/personal-saf...

#PersonalSafety #Training #WorkplaceSafety

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where others see nothing." ~ #pizzaro

Rep. Goldman asks Epstein survivors in the hearing room if they spoke with DOJ (none), how many offered to speak with DOJ (all), how many were denied or ignored by DOJ (all), and how many are still willing to speak to DOJ (all): “Ms. Bondi, it looks like you have some more witnesses”

The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on A World of Change by Rebecca Solnit. A paperback proof copy of the book, with the following text, a quotation from the book: One thing I've learned through the back-and-forths over the years is that you can take rights away, but you can't so easily take ideas away, including people's belief in their own rights and the rights of people they care about. You can cut down the flowers, but you can't stop the spring. There is no going back, though how we go forward is the work - or conflict - at hand. March 2026 A GRANTA lead title

The most striking thing about this forthcoming book by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is the preponderance of hope.
“Ideas have power”, she reminds us, with clear-eyed analysis and encouragement to connect.

“Liberation is contagious” - even in this time of monsters.

Brilliant & vital.

UK 26/3/26
💙📚💡

Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as "Wildfire" (1844 – 1907), was an American sculptor. Born in New York of mixed African-American and Native American heritage, she was the first African-American and Native American sculptor to achieve national,then international prominence. #CelebratingWomen

Had the Labour party been reading Private Eye in 2009, when business columnist Slicker was already laying out the peculiar Mandelson-Epstein connection, they would have known exactly what they were dealing with.

➡️ Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnCe...

Get Support - LGBT Youth Scotland Our youth team is here to support you, learn more about the services we have on offer, including our youth groups and one to one support.

Today we are sharing resources for CYP requiring support around their sexuality and/or gender identity; as part of marking LGBT+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈⚧

LGBT Youth Scotland - lgbtyouth.org.uk/get-support/
Switchboard - switchboard.lgbt

#LGBTplusHM26

"Strength is not about how much you can handle before you break. It's about how much you can handle after you're broken." ~ #unknown

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On SNJ Today #SEND parents work harder than they should advocating for their children says new a @twinklresources.bsky.social survey. @georginadurrant.bsky.social says families shoulder enormous admin & monetary costs supporting a system that should be supporting them www.specialneedsjungle.com/b...

A cheerful thought for a Sunday night: We're already 29% of the way through February; by the end of the month the UK will have an hour and forty minutes more daylight each day than it did at the start. Spring is coming x
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Daphne Jackson in B&W photo

Daphne Jackson #Nuclear #physicist & 1st UK female physics professor. "Imagine a society that would allow Marie Curie to stack shelves in a supermarket simply because she took a career break for family reasons". @wes1919.bsky.social President d #OTD 8 Feb 1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_...

And this morning the Shed is a spinning wheel, spinning the clouds into threads of gold…

‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition Amy Wallace spent four years collaborating with Virginia Roberts Giuffre on her memoir, Nobody’s Girl, which has had a far-reaching impact in the fight for justice for the victims and survivors of Jef...

In honour of the woman who, more than anyone, is responsible for this moment of transparency with the #EpsteinFiles, we're removing the paywall from this profile

🟨‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/v...

Excavation of the tomb of Akhet-Hetep at Giza revealed a monument to his mother Peseshet, the "Overseer of Women Physicians." She is the world's earliest known woman doctor, and practiced at the time of the building of the great pyramids in Egypt, about 2500 BC. #CelebratingWomen

Another comfortable spot . Thank you to @27rufus for today's content #FoxOfTheDay

Oxford Under Scrutiny: How A Mishandled Safety Case Preceded The Ouster Of Saïd’s Dean Oxford’s handling of the allegation against Bent Flyvbjerg set off a chain of events that ended with the resignation of Saïd’s dean.

Oxford University's Handling of Sexual Harassment Allegations under scrutiny

Investigation of serious matters of sexual harassment, bullying & whistleblowing needs to be taken out of hands of universities

Their inclination is to cover up & do nothing

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A stark, bare landscape of flat ground, ploughed field and stream under a grey sky is enlivened by detailed studies in the foreground of the plants and flowers of February

“February. Another cold, dead month, or so it seems. The elms are bare against the sky, the plough-ground is naked and wet, and still as brown as the sodden leaves.
Yet the world is waking up”.

Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder (ShellGuide, 1955)

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Will the cosmic shambles be coming to Glasgow?

Take on the #100Plants2026 challenge, and open your eyes to the amazing world of plants on your doorstep!

@ninabake2.bsky.social

Two important things:
1) after tomorrow the sun will not set before 5pm again in the UK…until October
2) if you’re struggling just now *please* be kind to yourself