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Gardener , artist, nature saver, community projects…… and a bit of politix…GGma with a wee terrier 🐾
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In 2024, Sazgar, which has made conventional rickshaws since 2005, became the first company to receive a license to produce e-rickshaws in Pakistan. scroll.in/article/1079... Kunwar Khuldune Shahid examines what Sazgar's success could mean for electric vehicles in #Pakistan. Via Rest of World

Naiya is one of the tweenage ‘skinfluencers’ spending hundreds and posting routines on TikTok. Doctors and politicians fear the products are damaging young skin ⬇️

When is the correct time to diagnose dementia?

Home Office contractor collecting data on UK citizens while checking migrants’ finances

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: A British couple in their seventies have been arrested by the Taliban, apparently for teaching parenting skills to mothers over 30 ⬇️

Children as young as 10 are making people's lives a misery in one part of Liverpool www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government

⚡️Russia launches largest drone attack since start of full-scale invasion. Ukraine’s air defense shot down 138 drones while 119 decoy drones were lost out of a total of 267 drones launched by Russia, the Ukrainian Air Force said.

School breakfast clubs in England ‘will be used to justify keeping the two-child benefits cap’

A cartoon by Lila Ash, from 2020. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign for our humor newsletter to get cartoons and more funny stuff directly in your in-box: nyer.cm/OImlKtP

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Here she is! The original postbox for #PostboxSaturday! Wishing you all a very happy 250th! No sunrise as hoped, but possibly the earliest I’ve drunk Prosecco! Thanks so much to everyone for making this such a lovely thing over the years. Long may it continue! 🥳🌅📮🥂🎉

Have you heard about the Cybertruck hunters? 🤭

Wall chart of tree buds The hi-res file is a free download, or you can buy a print. Also a poster of tree leaves, and tree bark and check out the rest of my shop - canvases , prints, t-shirts, mugs, cards microcosmic.shop

#BlueSkyArtShow #Abandoned

Celebrated author and artist Edward Gorey was born 100 years ago today. We’ve showcased a lot of his work over the past 40 years — and that continues with our mini-exhibition 'Gorey Elephants on Parade' featuring a selection of rare prints of pachyderms. On display now. #artexhibition

Keep on saying no more pots. Then I found this beauty. 🌱

Remembering Nina Simone on her birthday 🎂 📷 David Redfern, 1966 "Every generation has to discover Nina Simone. She is evidence that female genius is real." - Germaine Greer

Friday Finnish!! Ellen Thesleff (5 October 1869 -12 January 1954) expressionist artist, is regarded as one of Finland's leading modernist painters. Self-Portrait, 1894-95, oil on canvas, 31.5 x 23.5 cm,

A Kurdish woman asked to be buried “in a handful of soil” in Ireland – but her body was sent to Turkey anyway. In a note she left behind, she’d written, “Do not give my corpse to the oppressors.” dublininquirer.com/2...

Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing appears in court amid show of support

Homeowners would be charged different prices for electricity depending on where they live, under plans being developed by ministers to shake up Britain’s energy market

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

It looks as if the woman who put the Musk-doing-a-Nazi-Salute cut-out in an English TESLA showroom has also created a donation tool that automatically triggers contributions to progressive causes whenever Musk posts content on X bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

Good morning and Happy Friday to everyone who agrees that if you want people to stop calling your party a bunch of Nazis, then your party leaders should stop doing Nazi things like the Sieg Heil. Did you notsee this coming?

Colorado regulators have issued the first licenses to individuals seeking to open psilocybin-related businesses. As of Thursday, the Department of Revenue’s Natural Medicine Division had approved seven license applications for prospective business owners.

This is one of many copyright lawsuits filed against broadband providers, and it's not the first time an ISP has handed names of subscribers over.

Remember to recycle even small lithium-ion batteries responsibly.

Won a nest box off good old Brinvale seeds…..not on here yet. Will put it my children’s area. #communitygardening 🌱

New Editor Commentary: Under the current program of wild, mindless destruction, Ohio doctors, farmers, veterans, teachers, professors, students, working families, and children with disabilities, are all being terrorized by the Musk, Trump, Vance regime.

Depicting Taoist deities in a misty landscape, a Qing dynasty lacquer panel inlaid with jade and agate is among thousands of artefacts pulled out of museum storage in China to be restored, and one day, even showcased to the world reut.rs/435P2Ak

How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see

Four banks fined £100m by UK regulator over traders’ sharing of information

A team of five archaeologists from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), including women members, has commenced "groundbreaking underwater explorations" off the coast of Dwarka in Gujarat, the Ministry of Culture said on Tuesday. Read more: www.ndtv.com/india-news/a...

On August 6, 1945, a nuclear bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, extinguishing all life-forms for several kilometres. Yet months after the bombing, one tree species — the ginkgo — sprang to life, astonishing everyone www.thehindu.com/children/the...

Native American leaders in Utah gathered at the Capitol to press for more action to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people.