Polkadot Shark

It kills me how much of a techno grift de-extinction is but we’re supposed to take it so seriously and listen to every outlandish claim, which ultimately just spreads the nonsense and gets “Well wouldn’t it be good if they could?” responses.

a couple of wolves are playing with each other on the ground . Alt: a couple of wolves are playing with each other on the ground .

NO THEY ARE NOT DIRE WOLVES.

These animals do not have their ecosystem to return to.

These animals do not have a real pack to rear them.

And DO NOT BE BAMBOOZLED- storing and archiving animal's genetic material is NOT an effective bulwark against the human-driven planetary extinction crisis.

I do get stupidly happy when I see birds flying with twigs in their beaks this time of year 🥰

Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.

Getting a tad windy out there. Thoughts and prayers to the wildlife 😬

New Year resolutions should start in February. January is just too depressing to start something like a lifestyle change and expect it to stick.

‘We are getting poorer’ weeps Nigel Farage who was quite literally the architect of the poverty brought about by his calamity Brexit which also brought about a tumult of illegal immigration

The man is societal gangrene

#bbclaurak

Happy New Years everyone. Our dreams will wither and die in this period as they did the last, as we continue our slow march towards obscurity.

Ghost fishing: How marine litter is choking Scotland's seas Each year, countless seals, whales, and seabirds fall victim to ghost fishing. In Shetland, efforts to clear lost nets and traps are underway, but is it enough?

Ghost fishing is one of the greatest threats to marine life. In Shetland, fishers and divers are working together to recover lost nets and gear
theferret.scot/ghost-fishin...

When’s James Robertson’s next book out? 😭

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

I need to stop being summoned for jury duty. Seriously. Every year since lockdown. Am I the only person who lives in this city? 🙄

This is a Melanistic Fox one of the most beautiful and most rarest in the world.

If the UK gets Private Health Insurance it will be as bad as in the USA.

Because it is all the same US Companies pushing it in the UK.

Only lesson coming from Spotify wrapped is that I’ve got to stop listening to playlists where the same garbage songs keep coming up. Top songs of 2024 is a mess. 😬
Total love/hate disaster.

Foreign firms taking billions of litres from UK aquifers to make bottled water Coca-Cola extracts largest amount of freshwater of any drinks company in England, FoI request finds

Stealing our water.

Also, get rid of plastic bottles!

Sale of UK assets to world’s largest money manager means huge payday for bankers Global Infrastructure Partners, whose portfolio includes Gatwick, sold to BlackRock in $12.5bn deal

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Trying to find a reasonably priced paperback copy of The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson is turning out to be more difficult than I expected. Meh.

Brexit meant the UK could let go of democracy and replace it with unfettered capitalism.
Brexit required a framework to become operational, that framework is the deregulated zone.

bird sounds

So that’s Twitter finally gone after a silly amount of years. I need more publishers to make their way over here.

Congratulations. Jesus wept.

“Bag of chips and a piece of hake, please”
“Bag of what?”
“Chips”
“Never heard of them”

Libraries are great.

Disney owns both The Muppets and Star Wars, and the fact they are not making a Muppet version of all nine main-series Star Wars movies is only explained by the fact that they secretly hate making money.

A fancy-looking pigeon in competition at the fall fair. White, head, body, and wings, with grey on back and chest and a green and purple ruff around its neck. Round, back eyes and a demure little beak with burgundy feet.

"Yes, your Honour, my late husband did leave me a sizable fortune."

Robert Smith picks 1 song from every Cure album that matches the mood of 'Songs of a Lost World' "There's no such thing as my 10 favorite Cure songs," Robert Smith says. "If I answer now I'd change it halfway though."

Robert Smith picks 1 song from every Cure album that matches the mood of 'Songs of a Lost World'