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🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

1995 .. Drove this across the ATL for years rstvapp.com

Don’t open it!

Thanks to @jdrakephd.bsky.social for highlighting the importance of #amphibians in the services they provide to humans www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... #malaria #disease #frogs #tropical 🐸🧪🌎🦟

Movies you've watched more than six times, using gifs only.

Apropos of absolutely nothing, a commemorative Welsh mug on the occasion of the beheading of Louis XVI

The creeping dread I felt reading Brians thread. An encapsulation of what is happening in the US scientific community right now. Best wishes to Brian and anyone affected.

We used to be a country etc. Power trip (Rileys version) blew everyone off the stage that night. #metalsky

For The Reveal, it's a new entry in my '80s in 40 series: a look at Bill Forsyth's LOCAL HERO. It's a delightful movie, and one that keeps revealing depths the more you think about it (and the more time passes):

Blah blah new Show 557 bros. UULLIATA DIGIR (Poland); OBSCURA (GER); SKALDR (VA); CHAOS INCEPTION (AL); THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA (Sweden); DÉLIRANT (Spain); SHAGOR (Netherlands); OBSCUREVIOLENCE (Russia); MANTAR (GER) reject.libsyn.com/she-likes-it...

All hell is breaking loose, down at little Dan and Michael’s place. (I don’t really know this one)

PSA: All of David Lynch's features have just dropped at archive dot org, including Industrial Symphony No 1, Hotel Room, and the Duran Duran concert

thespookz.bandcamp.com/album/brand-... #nowplaying Back on this again.

He should have a baddie on his arm 😞

Not kept fish since I was a kid so over the weekend I’ve been setting up a 2 foot tropical tank. Hard work but I think its come out ok. Will wait a while before adding fish. #fish 🐟🐠🐡

Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens). A seriously beautiful creature!

Currently reading @alicefraser.bsky.social “A passion for passion” and the sentence “Bear is a small medium working in a large circus” nearly made me fall off the chez lounge I was reclining on at the time.

#filmsky #nowwatching 📽️

Roses are red. The sky is red. The seas are red. It is the prophecy.

We weren’t meant to thrive in a fast paced work environment we were meant to collect berries in the summertime and lie down for a whole day after mistaking the bad orange mushroom for the good orange mushroom

music.apple.com/gb/album/the... #housesky 🎧 Woke up with this in my head. One of the best MAW remixes.

eh. fuck the Black Sabbath show. support grassroots venues and underground bands instead. intimate shows are way, way more fun and it's cool to hang out with the bands and support the scene

this is what happens when you base your manifesto on a Dril tweet

Darwin fucking around (with barnacles) Darwin finding out (about barnacles)

Charles Darwin the barnacle taxonomist, a story in two parts

All new Show 556! HAUNTED HORSES (WA/OR/CO); PHRENELITH (Denmark); VOIDHRA (GER); DAX RIGGS (LA); MORAST (GER); MOONDARK (Sweden)(Dec 2024); SAOR (UK); MACERATION (Denmark); UNREQVITED (CAN); SHRIEKING DEMONS (Italy); RELICS OF HUMANITY (Belarus) reject.libsyn.com/she-likes-it...

(Fred Schneider voice) dirty deeds and they're done dirt CHEAP

Giant Koalas, just massive koalas sitting in the middle of streets aimlessly chewing on a tree. Watching you. They refuse to go away.

Feeder got spiffy new visitors yesterday—check out the vest on this guy 🪶

For those looking for a little Bong Joon-Ho fix before Mickey 17 hits cinemas! 🎟️ princecharlescinema.com/whats-on/?q=...

these days you can't even loudly shout GARLIC BREAD at someone's gig, because of woke

#tortoisetuesday #herps A classic! This is Bella, an eastern hermanns tortoise (Testudo hermanni boettgeri). I’ve had her for 17 years. Overwintering as she had some health issues this year, all good now tho.

A report published by the Newt Conservation Partnership has revealed that 84% of pond sites created through a pioneering scheme that replaces habitat lost to development are colonised by great crested newts after three or more years. Read more 👇 www.arc-trust.org/news/newts-a...

Union research like this changes the narrative and strengthens our struggle to revalue care workers and build quality public care systems! Amazing work by PSI affiliate @unison.org.uk Read all about it: publicservices.international/resources/ne...

Terrifying, but also: human rights aren't determined by polls. Fuck your poll, it doesn't matter if it was 90% opposed us, TOO FUCKING BAD