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Bleating the averages 🐏. Intermittently functional programmer & aspiring Old Git. ❤️ Mountains and non-Tory life forms. Dreams of a future in which GDP is supplanted by Gross Global Wellbeing. Please join a union.
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Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

250+ leading British Jews call on BBC to restore documentary it deleted to please Israel lobby groups …Reject propagandists’ ‘cynical’ complaints, broadcaster told www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/jewi...

Rednote has cool shit. Shoutouts to 北洋乐队.

Writer and illustrator Edward Gorey was born #OTD in 1925. Not in the drafty old rooms of a decrepit manse somewhere out on the moors, but in Chicago, of all places!

Brimham Rocks, North Yorkshire. @gallery365.bsky.social #Gallery365in2025 #Gallery365in2025SaturdayMono #bnwphotography #monochrome #leicaq2m

Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program? A: Pretty f*cking evil. Solution: Dolly for Prez! Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

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

#KnowYourFash The bottom three of these are already in power.

A special Snowdrop for not-so- #wildflowerhour! This is Galanthus plicatus ‘Wendy’s Gold’, a cultivar that grows well in gardens inc mine. Note the folded (‘plicate’) leaves that help tell it from normal Snowdrop (G. nivalis). It 1st arose at Wandlebury Ring, an Iron Age hill fort near Cambridge!

Just a hint of mist below. The scene from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor earlier this morning. I even had company who watched me as I watched the scene below.

This reminds me of my YT series for psyche-delic education, preparation and integration where. I’m referencing quite a bit of Buddhist literature in there. Check out the link in my bio to find the videos ☝️ What do you think of Buddhist teachings? #psychedelics #buddhism

🚨 SCOOP: Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill accepted £10,000 from firm that has helped wealthy Russians obtain 'golden visas' since the war in Ukraine Calls for Labour to investigate donation to Business sec Johnathan Reynolds' PPS New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-mp-...

My stepmother gave me some money for my birthday, so I bought myself a book I’d been debating whether to get for actual years. Now I’m wondering how I ever did without it

✨"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."✨ -- Bob Marley 🇯🇲

Just a picture of a path into sunlight. Let's hope the day's the same.

Stereum hirsutum/hairy curtain crust. (Before everyone comments that it looks like bacon, I’m vegan. So just think it and don’t post it. 😉) #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Huge waves of 7-8 meters crashing against the lighthouse of Mouro in Santander, Spain 🇪🇸 #bluesky #photography #nature #art #landscape #light #travel

My Third Eye just opened and I immediately got something in it. I think I might have scratched my Third Cornea.

Rob and I go on holiday to the #Yorkshire Dales in 2 weeks time! I was born and went to school in North Yorkshire (then the North Riding) and spent most of my childhood holidays at my Granny's pub near Bedale - so always love going back. 'Yorkshire Dales' - by Leonard Squirrell, 1893-1979

An ammonite younger daughter finished crocheting on the way to school 🐚

Got this from a member of the NASA resistance. It’s now hanging outside my lab in a display case, because we make space for everyone! Also, space embroidery, because you can never have too much #sciart 🧪🔭🎢

Word discovery of the day is ‘yoke-devil’ (17th century): an accomplice in a villainous or immoral undertaking.

May the full force of Dolly's unbridled wrath break upon their heads.

Oil beetles have a lovely #turquoise hue. These beauties are threatened: 3 of UK native species are already extinct. Solitary bees help them out by taking them to their nests but where it eats both the brood and pollen. #FebruArty #InsectThursday #SciArt #nature #macro #photo #macrophotograpy

Only one of these was blooming when I went to bed last night. And I’d never realised before that Iris reticulata are scented—in exactly the delicate way that you’d expect. What a way to start the day.

Behind the scenes The Seventh Seal (1957). Ingmar Bergman

A new print from a new painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights. That was a lot of work, I will never try a Bosch painting ever again. wefail.art

Indiana Jones punching Elon while he is giving a N**i salute As requested by Gary Mancini

Life is about timing

Here's Bekka, our Reserves Officer, to take you on a little tour of Foulney Island - our ✨Nature Reserve of the Month ✨ Are you planning to go visit – or is this reserve already one of your favourites? Tell us in the comments 👇

A remarkably comprehensive write-up of what xor is and why it’s useful www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/qu...

Frank Zappa predicting the future in 1986. That future being today, in #America

With thanks to Private Eye.

HAPPY PLUTO DISCOVERY DAY!! ❤️

listening to the new richard dawson song about the polytunnel on his allotment and god I love that guy.

Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂