Adam D.A. Manning 🔶 (he/him)

Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, dies aged 97 Nasa hails Lovell for saving 1970 moon mission from ‘potential tragedy’ and safely returning crew to Earth

aww man, godspeed Capt Lovell.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Making offerings to your King.

Euro 2025 final: England v Spain preview England are hoping for redemption in Sunday's Euro 2025 final as they take on Spain in a repeat of the 2023 World Cup final.

Euro 2025 final: England v Spain preview

Shocking incompetence.

I bought a new double breasted suit this week and am delighted to see David Bowie wearing one on #LiveAid thus proving my sense of fashion and cool.

Main observation from watching #LiveAid at forty years in is how young everyone looks.

We are watching #LiveAid. 17 year old daughter is amazed; “this is an actual thing from the 1900s!”

Intense Med Sea heatwave - fears for marine life
www.bbc.com/news/article...

"balmy temperatures might sound attractive, but they can pose hidden threats. Harmful bacteria and algae can often spread more easily in warmer seawater, which isn't treated with cleaning chemicals like yr local pool."

"The government promised domestic abusers wouldn't be released early, but they were slipping through the net. That needs to change."

@JoshBabarinde.bsky.social

Ah, its a beautiful song and she sings it superbly!

Feles quam ingens!

Proust's writing wakes you up to how you too feel so many sensations, reflections, connections, connotations in everything around you and everything that happens, and that you think you should overlook them to avoid being overwhelmed, but he tells you not too, because that is what it is to be alive.

reading a novel to him. It's just two pages in a roughly fifty page chapter, full of such beauty. Of course in the Prendergast translation, the first volume is called The Way by Swann's. I had almost forgotten the sensation of being in a mind with a higher fidelity and sensitivity when reading.

Reading In Search of Lost Time again, and if anything delighted by it even more. This time, I'm reading the Prendergast translation and have read and reread the first chapter of Swann's Way a number of times. There's a lovely passage in which the narrator feels so blessed to hear his mother

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#Governance #Trustee

Pakistan's Solar Revolution Is Bringing Power to the People Fed up with pricey electricity from an unreliable grid, Pakistanis have snapped up cheap solar panels. In an interview, Muhammad Mustafa Amjad, of Islamabad-based Renewables First, says his country ca...

#GoodNews: Solar power is booming in Pakistan. Its share of electricity generation more than tripled in just three years, climbing from four percent in 2021 to 14 percent in 2024 — one of the highest percentages in Asia. e360.yale.edu/features/pak...

Three crew members packing kit into the helicopter.

MISSION REPORT: Last week, we responded to 55 emergencies across our region. Our busiest days were Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, with 10 call-outs on each day.

We responded to:
37 incidents by air. 🚁
18 incidents by road. 🚗

Thank you for keeping us flying and saving lives. 💚💛

📸 Jonny Fowler.

Wishing you hearty congratulations at such an anniversary!

10 years of the podcast. Thank you so much for listening. It’s the best thing I’ve ever been involved with and I’m so grateful to you.

Listen to the 10th anniversary ep here:

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So very sorry to learn this news.

I was a Whizzer and Chips fan myself, but I did read Desperate Dan when I could.

Fantabulous Father’s Day card with a D&D theme created by wonderfully talented daughter!

Ooo! We're looking pretty good, even though we do say so ourselves 😍🤩

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In Search of Lost Time - Wikipedia

There's a few, but I just meant I read the Moncrieff one a few years ago, and am starting the Prendergast edition. There's an interesting list here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Sear...

By consulting pieces of seaweed, the leaves at the bottom of a tea cup and flipping a coin.

Proust! Re-reading it by reading a different translation.

It’s deeply troubling that someone so poorly informed is in such a position.

Consider #LetItBloomJune now that #NoMowMay has ended for another year, even a wee strip of messy grass is really helpful for nature 🌷🦔🪲🌿🐝🦋🌱

Todd A Solomon, of @mcdermottlaw.bsky.social and GEI Advisory Board Member, references the impact of geopolitics on workforces and evolving regulation around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG). He said: