Simon Palmer

A wildlife photographer joked that his wife managed to capture an extraordinary photo that outdid him: a European eagle owl, one of the world's largest, perched on his camera lens.

Love this so much.

When you start losing even the MAGA ultra-loons…

🚨 The nation’s *LARGEST* right wing militia, the 3 percent’ers, are attempting to abduct people from immigration court. This must be known about in order for people to protect themselves.

Castlemorton Common: The rave that changed the law It started as a free festival but Castlemorton Common became the UK's biggest ever illegal rave.

When are Labour finally going to
repeal the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 that outlawed acid house raves. The rave that led to this was Castlemorton and Kier Starmer defended the organisers in Court, one of whom is now Guido Fawkes: share.google/6Y5KOG51soRQ...

You have can't have crisis communications protocols that require supervisor approval out-of-hours if a supervisor isn't on duty. This has to be delegated to trusted individuals who can react quickly and get the messages out to alert people and save lives.

Hitachi Energy says AI power spikes threaten to destabilise global supply Head of the world’s biggest transformer maker calls for rules to alert utilities to the wild fluctuations in data centre demand

Hitachi Energy says AI power spikes threaten to destabilise global supply - on.ft.com/4kwJyDQ via @FT

Q: There are reports where a fire dept commander asked a Kerr County sheriff dispatcher for a code red to be issued but they said they couldn't without a supervisor approving it. Almost 6 hours passes. How do you account for that lapse of time?

KERR COUNTY SHERIFF: There's gonna be an after action

Who Are The Victims In The Central Texas Floods? Eight-year-old girls at sleep-away camp, families crammed into recreational vehicles, local residents traveling to or from work. These are some of the victims.

Whenever we are in Houston we head over to New Braunfels to float the Guadalupe River, in o-rings with beers. We were on it six weeks ago and some of the levels were so low I would beach and have to push myself off. I can't imagine it as this raging torrent.
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RED PANDA’S EMOTIONAL SUPPORT LEAF 🥹

It wasn't meant out of concern, it was in jest. As in a you-reap-what-you-sow kind of way.

There has to be a lot of worried TikTok influencers in the US right now.

Phenomenal. The size of those antlers. Beautiful.

His Majesty Arrives 👑!

Everything stops when this magnificent Elk struts around this town in Colorado.

What I will never understand is how anybody could kill this magnificent animal just to display its rack on his or her wall.

🎦 Credit: Colorado Adventures.

And not any GP appointment either. I got an immediate one. Was told there was one now, if I came straight down. I suppose most patients that they normally treat are in bed with flu.

You'll never guess what I just got? I can't believe it. It just doesn't happen anymore. I feel honoured. Like I've won the lottery. I...just...go...a GP appointment! *faints*

AI set to fuel surge in new US gas power plants Climate targets in peril as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to feed energy demand

The FT is reporting that tech companies are looking to fossil fuels to meet the power demands of AI. With a predicted surge in the building of new gas power plants in the U.S. on.ft.com/4hdidVY via @FT #ai #fossilfuels #climateaction

The Race to Renewables: @hitachienergy's high-voltage direct current system transforms DC to AC to enable renewable energy from offshore wind farms to get to where it is needed efficiently, before being converted back to AC. #sustainability #GreenEnergy
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A quick reminder on how to contribute to uksnowmap.com ahead of any possible #uksnow tomorrow 👀

Post with the hashtag #uksnow, the first-half of your postcode, and a snow rating x/10 and help draw a real-time map of where it is snowing in the UK.

The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

“There are no checks and balances in a world where only charisma matters, no rule of law in a world where emotion defeats reason—only a void that anyone with a shocking and compelling story can fill” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A trophy hunter holds the paw of the Bear that has killed.

Sociopath Of The Day

Trophy Hunter Rick Paillet travelled to Alaska to have the opportunity of a lifetime!

Here he poses proudly with the paw of the Bear that he murdered! 🤬🤬

SHARE if you want #trophyhunting banned worldwide.

Can't believe this is legal, other than in self-defence.

Not to the many people who deserve them they don't. And it is important we don't let that happen.

These days it is mostly about rewarding those that do good for society, and philanthropy, in order to encourage others to do the same. Though it does get abused by politicians who reward the wrong people.

It is vital that you speak openly and promote your findings.

Landscape format in acrylics. Foreground: limestone karst in lilac and blue-grey, then long rough yellow-green grass before a dry stone wall which dips in middle showing full narrow white trunk of small tree leaning to the right and topped with scant green foliage with touches of red. Stones in walls are rendered in pale blue with dark blue shadows and crevices. They show a long narrow side facing viewer and mostly upright or tilted. Behind is wide areas of flat lilac-grey karst, likes fields of stone, with dry stone walls running across and some dark green bushes until along the horizon a strip of low blue-green hills with some darker trees and hedgerows smudged in. A larger long hill of lilac is behind that and on the right further away is the edge of a larger pale blue mountain. Sky is a very pale grey. Signed bottom left: Liam Daly

"Burren Tree" One of my earlier Burren paintings, it came out of a cycling visit to my favourite limestone karst region of Ireland. I do like the other parts of County Clare, but find the Burren's stone walls on fields of stone intoxicating. #SpeirGorm #ArtAdventCalendar

Got to love being woken up on a Friday by a request to join a 7am Teams call, in response to an invite that was sent at 5am.

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Yes, I saw that in the news. I was meaning about the activity level recently around the Ring of Fire.

Is there anything unusual about this data? Sorry I don't know how to read your data. Are the frequency and strengths of earthquakes increasing?