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Short back and sides making sense of the wilderness. Dreamy midsummer mornings this week.

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Top of my list of missing native species we should be looking at reintroducing to Ireland? Lynx!! • Never attack people • Rarely attack livestock • Aren't pack animals • Help regulate deer • Help regulate smaller predators, like fox • Are a huge tourist draw • Are just GORGEOUS!!

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Earlier in the year this was all Pulmonaria and daffodils, and before that, snowdrops.

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Reading about the chaos in LA felt overwhelming and it was difficult to keep my fear and frustration in check. It reminded me to take my own advice and I followed the steps set out in my article on how to handle a bad day and I feel tons better. Someone might need this today. bit.ly/3WyFbzG

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#BeverleyMinster #Beverley #Yorkshire One of the 68 misericord or mercy seats. For the user to rest on during long church services. Carved in 1520, probably the work of the Ripon School of Carvers. They included comments on #medieval or religious life. #WoodcarvingWednesday #Woodensday

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My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

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Me: "When I stick it in my mouth do you want me to look into your eyes?" Cop: "Ma'am, just blow into the breathalyzer please."

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[At Barnes & Noble] Me: "Do you have a copy of Donald Trump's book on immigration?" Bookstore Clerk: "Fuck off, get out and stay out!" Me: "Yes! That's the one. Do you have it in paperback?"

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First time buying fireworks and I wasn’t sure I’d picked the right assortment until the fireworks salesman high-foured me.

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Hunter S. Thompson's Nixon obituary is one of the most brilliant pieces of writing...

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😁😁😁 .

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Hell of a photo

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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Good books: The 20 best holiday reads this summer www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Mega historical bust ups. A thread. 1. King John and Philip of France The powerful foreigner cynically helped put the incompetent, odious sex offender on the throne only to launch an all out war against him. John bankrupted his kingdom, fell out with everyone and shat himself to death

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When you just can't do anything with the comb over ... brings to mind a Hamlet advert in a Photo Booth (showing my age now!)

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Alien vs Predator Trouble in ParadICE It's the PNG Courier's overseas correspondent on what happens when a pair of high agency males really go at it. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

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Scottish artist, Rose Vickers' artworks use found and thoughtfully collected materials. Her recent focus revolves around the re-appropriation of school rulers and yardsticks.

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Dancing trees of a remote island in Indonesia, known for their incredible strength and resilience.♥️🌺 📸@barbara_dallangelo #followme #bluesky #Indonesia

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The public break between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, his biggest financial benefactor, has taken its inevitable personal turn. In this week’s column, @sbg1.bsky.social takes stock of the spoiled bromance.

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To make the company seem giving, they donate YOUR money.

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It’s almost like…Musk and Trump’s interests were never aligned.

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Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon. Just to remind you Thursday was already crazy before it went complete off the rails.

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i should probably stretch first

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“So I says to her, I says, Bernice, I think we should see otter people. Ha! I guess you had to be there.”

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Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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P R I D E 💜 🌈 ☮️ = Delight, dignity, ego, happiness, honor, joy, pleasure, satisfaction, self-confidence, self-respect ❣️

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Hear hear

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Paintings by Abbott Fuller Graves 1859-1936

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This is really rather good comms

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At least a quarter of children are in poverty in two-thirds of areas across the UK. Yet govts still obsessed with austerity, real wage cuts, benefit cuts Will children recover from physical, mental harms inflicted by political choices? End poverty. Redistribute. Save the future.

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Morning 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ScottishIndependence #StillYes

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Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters. No. Must root out gender, age, disability, regional, ethnicity inequalities, economic insecurity, social injustice. Only 4%, of Reform voters might vote Labour. Why pander to Farage/Trump?

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