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English teacher in Czechia, with recent interlude of Air pollution modelling in Czechia. Before that UKMO. Taking the leap hasn't always worked for me
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Jawad Daheur and Iva Lučić (eds.): Habsburg Natures. Imperial Governance and Environment in Central Europe, 1850-1918. New York: Berghahn 2025. ISBN 978-1-83695-227-5 (available for preorder). URL: www.berghahnbooks.co...

Vikings Visited Rest Stops to Avoid Danger on Their Voyages Across the Seas #Science #Culture #Vikings #NavalHistory #Exploration

Edmund I, king of the English, was killed at Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, #OTD in 946. He had joined brother and predecessor Æthelstan at Brunanburh in 937, won control of the Five Boroughs (Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford) in 942, and of Northumbria in 944. #medievalsky

just got the Digital Doonesbury at like $20, so ... an occasional annotations thread where I either explain stuff or ask for help understanding stuff. this is the first one that I think is incomprehensible without period knowledge! "greetings" is how draft notices began

Here is a pretty view

Kilauea is going absolutely crazy right now with episode 23 of the eruption. USGS live stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...

sport failing to lift glooms Blades trip at last hurdle 😭 Yorkshire Cricket Club being tortured by Notts choosing to bat long in their second innings 😬

A wonderfully British sentence: ‘The first SWR service under public ownership was a rail replacement bus’. South Western first rail firm renationalised by Labour www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mark this well, humans! Trinity College Cambridge, B.11.22; Book of Hours; f.28r @trincolllibcam.bsky.social

cheers💙😊

😍 (A miniature armoured train on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway in Kent. #WW2 #HISTORY)

huge, huge fan of the website of the Southampton Arms which lists all the reasons why you may or may not use their phone number (absolutely recommend clicking through for the full thing) www.thesouthamptonarms.co.uk/page3.htm

Is half a gorilla really within the asteroid size margin of error?

It’s one year since Rishi Sunak called the 2024 General Election - and the anniversary of my favourite word clouds of all time, voters reactions to the two launch speeches.

What a joyful sound! At last😊

Bumpin that youtu.be/PVaHvxqXp4c?...

Manchester's legendary Haçienda club opened #OTD 1982. Unsuccessful at first: oversized and cold, acoustics bad, programming eclectic. Comedian Bernard Manning performed on the opening night and it didn't go well.

The writer Margery Allingham was born #OTD 1904. Most famous for her Albert Campion detective novels, she lived in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex for much of her life, where a road name remembers her. The village has become famous for a more notorious murder mystery in the years since.

#ArtDD2025 View from Orphir Bay, Orkney @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

It's #worldmetrologyday! 150 years ago today, a group of nations signed a treaty called The Metre Convention. It established the framework for the first global, unified measurement system & changed the world.

Can’t quite explain why these petite, cantilevered extensions on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in Skipton are so appealing. Maybe it’s the way they are cockled to the wall—like swift nests...

This is true, but what I find interesting are the reasons why it's true. Americans really like things to be categorised as "serious" and "unserious". They rely on those labels when deciding how to react. It gives them a very high tolerance to ridiculousness and absurdity.

South Uist, Friday. #Uist #Hebrides #ShareMondays2025

Had no interest in cricket until The Hundred come along, now every Monday night is multiple County Championship livestreams. The Hundred is such a great way to get people into cricket — take your kids this summer!

Evening vibes... ©️ Ralf Horchelhahn

A Message from Bruce Springsteen

Bonjour le Monde 💖

Pikefield from Dunnow.

Saturday morning listening. A power pop entry point into a very strange world indeed, and as such very much suiting the moment.

Today I chatted to a young couple with their tiny baby doing a tour of the county grounds in our crowd of over 2,000. Surrey had the largest crowd this century of well over 6,000. County cricket in its present guise is having a resurgence & is popular as it is. DON’T CHANGE IT

Parliament, London