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Silver Jewellery Maker Science, Art, Poetry, Writing, History, Mythology and the Weird. Sussex, A Random Country via Dorset, Also Ramdom Boycott The USA Slava Ukraine🇺🇦
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BECOME THE COLONEL GADAFFI OF PLANNING REFORM

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We need to conduct a campaign to stop a Farageist triumph in the local elections. We need to get progressive folk off their sofas and into the Polling booths. This is a great chance to say no to Putin and Trump and give their dribbling tool Farage a painful kick in the brexits. Let's do it!

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The fastest way to bring peace in Ukraine is for Putin to withdraw his troops immediately. I’m relieved Trump has now reversed his senseless decision to suspend intelligence sharing and security aid. There’s no doubt it cost Ukrainian lives and emboldened Putin.

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Saskia Boelsums In de duinen

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This bee's really special. Her name is Xylocopa myops & she's NOCTURNAL But instead of developing echolocation or another sense to help them navigate the dark, this species puts all their effort into sight. She has absolutely massive eyes as you can see. But more than that, she has huge ocelli. 1/x

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Horse Snull! Acrylic ink, gouache and colored pencils on watercolor paper. I enjoy painting these little weird creatures. #snail #snull #skull #horse #fantasy #creature

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This will surprise nobody. Leon Skum (then Trump) lied about the DDoS attacks on X yesterday. X network engineers made the schoolboy error of leaving ports open. They wouldn't pass Networking101. This image shows the open ports on X yesterday. Read the article. www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...

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This is from CFHT, the mid-sized telescope that just keeps on turning out moons 🔭 (The lead discoverer is 🇳🇿, for interest)

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It's all the class system. Every problem we have is the class system, because the common English are not fit to lead English workers. Apparently we need the incredibly efficient Anglo-French aristocracy for that. If you've never managed the staff in a manor house, etc, etc.

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Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

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Wild Horses of Nevada Maynard Dixon 1927

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NEW: Trump admin to lift pause on intelligence sharing with Ukraine and will resume security assistance. So what was the week where Ukrainian civilians were left to suffer the full force of Russian ballistics for exactly? It is at best, unclear.

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The Commandant's grandson... Really fascinating episode this week as I talk to the grandson of Rudolf Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz, about his family history and coming to terms with having a Nazi in the family.

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On This Day 11th March 1710, Joseph Addison was returned as MP for Malmesbury following the death of Henry Mordaunt. Addison was a poet, playwrite and co-founder of the Spectator magazine as well as a politician. #History #HistoryOfParliament #18thC

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I would eat his heart in the market-place.

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Snowdrops might represent 'hope' in the Victorian language of flowers, but they were also associated with death. Some think the fact that the monks who brought the plant to the British Isles planted it in monastery gardens, which might have given rise to the death/snowdrop association.

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And some reset fragments from a Norman door:

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Eight years to the day since this. And we thought we needed a laugh THEN. www.theguardian.com/media/video/...

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Hi - any of you writing, Journo pals out there know of someone in the press who’d be interested in me writing a piece about my PIP nightmares? I will supply some gags as well. Can people please repost this please.

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Dress https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/690275

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On my way to @tuwien.at for my usual summer-term lecture on open-source energy systems modeling - biking along the newly built „bike street“ #Argentinierstraße… #RadLiebeWien

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💡 Delighted to have @guyshrubsole.bsky.social writing for us, helping us think big about the opportunities presented by a Community Right to Buy, if we grasp them. 🌳 Community owned woodland, moorland, rivers and much more. 🎯 It's important that we get the design of a CRTB right to enable this.

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