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An outdoorsy photoshoppy mole- likes National Trust scones & Dartmoor. A bookish mole in a hole seeking the return of integrity. Not sure this adds much to it though. #AltText
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Worse. Every. Single. Day. #AIFail

Judi Dench-backed rebels seized a nature site 250 miles north of the capital today.

I finally watched Conclave. I like that Ralph Fiennes has the same energy as Kermit the Frog trying to keep The Muppet Show from going off the rails.

Sir Norman’s memoir, @tripeuk.bsky.social ?

Gonna burn some bridges and talk about Unbound, since it's unlikely that they'll sue me at this point. They seem to have spent money that was supposed to go towards royalty payments, expecting money to come in, which then didn't bsky.app/profile/laur... (thread) #unboundless

My new @sirpaintalot.bsky.social t-shirt has arrived and it might just be my favourite shirt EVER!

Still a little more obsessed with this than is healthy. Like B A Robertson and Scissor Sisters have been added into that blender. Go Jo's fairly easy on the eye too. That this didn't romp home with the trophy this year is, frankly, criminal. #Eurovision2025 youtube.com/watch?v=_08I...

A warning Private Eye

It's a hot hot day on Little Sark!! After seven straight days of digging, tomorrow is our day off!! But it's a few more hours of shifting some plough soil before that. Still, it's a great spot to sweat in 😎☀️⛏️

Out and about in Plymouth. So many wonderful buildings now boarded up.

The THIRD DOCTOR wants me to ORGANISE a PARTY for him! "Shall me invite your FAMILY?" me ask. "I'm a MYSTERIOUS, tragically LONELY FIGURE, I have no FAMILY, thicko!" him reply. Ok, me will just invite your FIANCÉE, 3 WIVES, BROTHER, 2 MUMS, DAUGHTER, GRANDDAUGHTER & MOTHER-IN-LAW then...😹

🔴NEW:The dark money behind UK's anti-abortion backlash - Key US anti‑abortion lawyer funding Toby Young’s Free Speech Union - Alliance Defending Freedom’s UK spending soars Warnings of “obvious danger” of “importing America's toxic far right politics” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2

My latest.

'When nearly half of people are so financially fragile that they are living in fear of a £100 bill, something has gone very wrong' www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

One of the items in the MVM collection under review for repatriation is our Rick Astley “Never Gonna Give You Up” music box. “We will be considering this, of course,” said our spokesmole, “but it is one of our most popular items and we won’t be ‘rickrolled’ into a hasty decision by anyone.”

Ford stood up. "We're safe," he said. "Oh good," said Arthur. "We're in a small galley cabin," said Ford, "in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet." "Ah," said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of."

"The combined dendrochronological and wood anatomical assessment of Iceland's oldest living organisms resulted in a continuous chronology back to 1159 CE, which is the longest of its kind for the Arctic." #ClimateHistory #GlobalMiddleAges 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This budget, if approved, would be an extinction-level event for NASA Astronomy. Awful. 🔭🧪

The Moley Virtual Museum is reviewing its inventory and will consider repatriation of its collection to their origin countries over the next 20 years. A spokesmole confirmed “we’ll definitely be considering it, but that doesn’t mean we’ll actually do anything about it.”

Nice one Manchester Museum Repatriating artefacts ‘will become common practice’ for museums www.thetimes.com/article/81f7...

Keeping the banner a bit longer to celebrate Holy Grail’s 50th, tidied up a bit again for the header.

Despite what we are now led to believe, there really is more to life than social media. A shout out to medical & care staff looking after an old friend with terminal cancer. A shout out to paramedics. Some helped another old friend last week that had a heart attack & they stopped it being worse.

*sob*

So there you have it. My ex-publishers who last year stopped paying me for the seven books I'd written for them, have today gone back on their promise that some of the money that they owe me and their other authors would come through. I should have guessed.. www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...

Every +0.1°C of global warming leads to ~2% more glacier ice loss. Sticking to the #ParisAgreement (+1.5°C) would preserve over half the ice compared to current policies (+2.7°C). This is the result of a new study based, led by Harry Zekollari, Lilian Schuster & several co-authors from our group.

What ETH glacier researchers know about the collapse of the Birch Glacier ? Must read of course @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social ethz.ch/en/news-and-... 📷 (Keystone/JC Bott) Bulging Birch Glacier glacier, covered with debris on 23 May 2025, before collapse

Lobbying gravy train 😒 @privateeyenews.bsky.social

🚨🚨 "Unlike the Russians, who could withdraw from the battlefield and go home at any time, the Ukrainians cannot withdraw from the battlefield. If they do, they will lose their civilization, their language, and their freedom." Excellent work by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on #ukrainian resilience:

Junior Associate in fits of giggles after a trip to town and seeing a trendy stall being set up for the following day: “That’s the first time I’ve seen a pop up shop actually popping up”😂

Got to hand it to those darn Normans, 800 years buried and this quoin edge is as crisp as the day it was cut.. #priorypark #chichester

A glowing commendation for Durham county council’s new Reform UK leader Andrew Husband from his party’s spokesman: “Andrew is a business leader with a proven track record of growth in start-ups and building successful teams.” 🧵 1/3

Lookalike: Vance and Ewok From the new Private Eye, out now.