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Shall we have another Justsmudge fascinating fact?

🌹🌱 Roses 🌱🌹

We've all seen them, stories tell tales of them, even the Bible blames Eve on rose thorns!💃

But did you know that rose fossils have been found in the USA confirming that they existed 35 million years ago?

That's even older than me ☕

Five white petals with heavy magenta picotee, a tight purple internal collar

Many sharp-tipped petals, white with heavy magenta picotee

Many sharp petals, white with deep magenta throats that peter out into speckles

Mostly white, many fat petals, an ethereal scattering of magenta freckles

Hellebore time #gardensky 🌱

If you, or anyone you know, likes birdwatching and struggle with poor mental health. I’d love to send over a free e-copy of Bird Therapy (pdf) to read. It can be helpful to know you’re not alone. Message me if you’d like one, and please also consider sharing this post. 💛

#booksky #birdtherapy

Magenta (more purple) colored flower, yellow center, green background

"The lovely flowers embarrass me,
They make me regret I am not a bee –"
~ Emily Dickinson

🌱 #MagentaMonday #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport 🐝

A watercolor of a thistle plant with magenta flowers, in the upper-right corner is a large reddish-orange and black dragonfly.

Thistle and Dragonfly. Jacques Le Moyne (c.1533-1588). © The Trustees of the British Museum. 🌿 #SciArt #Invert #MagentaMonday 🌱

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Can confirm I was scared the entire time I was on this - but was so worth it for the views!

Recommend!!

📍Ben Nevis

The plan for ethnic cleansing and colonisation - as you neglected to describe it.

When someone says we are going to build Nuclear to 'protect our energy supply' and you find out it will take 20-25 years and cost 10x as much per Watt as Renewable.

Do you not realize it is a scam?

Our tax system needs radical rethinking – not tinkering over costs www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02...

Labour pledges to break patents and offer latest drugs on NHS Jeremy Corbyn says party will create company to make cheap versions of drugs like Orkambi

AND "A publicly-owned company to make cheap generic versions of medicines deemed prohibitively expensive to #NHS which will necessitate setting a review of drug patents" like we could have had under #JeremyCorbyn!🙏

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

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Yuck.
He'll fit right in at Mar-A-Washington.

Labour Mimic Reform UK in Desperation Yesterday Labour’s Anas Sarwar said he was open to working with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK ‘on a case-by-case basis’ to become First Minister of Scotland. Today Labour has launched a seri…

'Now Faragism is morphing into something beyond being a powerful manipulative fringe, and Labour and the Conservatives are falling over each other to compete with each other in mimicking and matching it.'
Mike Small, via @bellacaledonia.bsky.social.
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Painful to watch

HALFTIME: Italy 16-3 Wales

Oakenshott was trending so this deserves a reshare. Dubai Doris getting burnt.

Trump's new "plan" to takeover Gaza is incredibly dumb

Honours secretariat looking into stripping Stuart Hogg of MBE after abuse conviction The First Minister had called for the former Scotland captain to be lose the honour

EXC: The forfeiture committee is looking into stripping former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg of his MBE following his domestic abuse conviction
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

Hold on, Labour just appointed the former head of tech monopoly Amazon to lead... the competition watchdog It's dystopian that the government is putting an ex-Amazon boss in charge of the Competition and Markets Authority. But hey - that's Labour.

Hold on, Labour just appointed the former head of tech monopoly Amazon to lead... the competition watchdog

It's dystopian that the government is putting an ex-Amazon boss in charge of the Competition and Markets Authority. But hey - that's Labour...
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Thames Water may get just £500m in usable cash by borrowing £1.5bn, court told Struggling firm’s resources to be depleted due to expensive fees and interest costs in restructuring deal

The End Game?

Thames Water restructuring deal would provide £1.5bn now, potentially rising to £3bn. Already has £19bn debt.

Customer bills will rocket.

New money would pay adviser fees, existing interest charges, leaving £500m in usable cash.

And after that?

End the Ponzi scheme. Nationalise

Keir Starmer must speak out.

David Lammy must speak out.

Another red line crossed - they must condemn Donald Trump's plans.

‘So patronising’: rail bosses spark anger by hiding train departure times Scheme aimed at stopping platform dashes sees schedules deleted from boards three minutes before departure

Stupid Idea.

King’s Cross to remove trains from departure board three minutes before they leave.

So people make a mad dash, go to wrong platforms, to find train cancelled/delayed.

Want to reduce rush - need to run more trains, affordable prices, punctual, better infrastructure.

Me last night: Maybe this week’s column was a bit harsh on Labour. Perhaps they’ll start to see disability benefits in a more nuanced way and respect the people relying on them.

Labour this morning:

A rogue state where robbers run security ...

Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all, says Gordon Brown, the UN’s special envoy for global e...

Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die, says Gordon Brown

#USAID
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hey Keir Starmer,
You’re supporting this.
You must be very proud.