Women in gowns and men in white tie and tails: just your average night out in Cambridge.
Large pastel of figures on Trinity College Cambridge forecourt. This is from 2002 and I must confess I wasn't shying away from popular subject matter (bills to pay). This sold in an exhibition.
#pastel #mayweek #cambridge
Royalties: £20.21
The joys of academic publishing, when your annual royalties statement lands.
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
The @theguardian.com view on the Iran crisis exposing UK’s energy vulnerability: clean power offers protection
- The war reveals UK’s exposure to volatile fossil fuel prices. More North Sea drilling will not shield households, building green energy will
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This young lady is looking for her furever home, look at the sweetness in her beautiful eyes!
It’s taken Reform ten days of war and being ghosted by Trump to read the country and come out against the illegal Iran war. In reality they’d have been up for killing children and innocent people for the last 10 days. Never forget.
If anyone has ruined the special relationship, it's not Starmer- it's Trump
We’ve had newspaper headlines & columnists screaming about British “irrelevance”, about Starmer’s timidity & weakness, about Churchill & 1940 as though every crisis is the same crisis and every hesitation is appeasement.
@lewis_goodall ... Trump on Iran: "President Putin was very impressed in what he saw.” 11:14 PM Mar 9, 2026
In fact, he's having a party with himself. The high oil prices are currently saving Russia's war economy. Trump has just extended the war against Ukraine.
Part of a house and outbuidings painted in watercolour. I love the clock tower, the pantiled roofs and the sundial. I won't be able to visit easily again now that I have become a non-driver but I can paint in the grounds of my own Tudor manor house (wishful thinking!)
Watercolour of a garden and buildings in Comberton near Cambridge. The botanist owner of this Tudor manor house is included in the painting, sitting in a folding chair. I have painted here several times.
#watercolour #watercolor #Comberton #enpleinair
“He is, of course, a serial liar & prone to espousing completely contradictory positions within moments of each other.” It is extraordinary to me that journalists continue to ‘analyse’ Donald Trump without adding this constant caveat. It does readers, listeners & viewers a grave disservice.
Golf club firm owned by Trump’s sons merges with drone manufacturer
What an odd thing to happen.
⚡️Overnight Russian attacks on Dnipro and Kharkiv injure at least 20.
Russian overnight attacks on March 10 struck the Ukrainian cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv, leaving at least 20 people injured as emergency crews continue assessing the damage.
I didn’t lose my ability to see beauty.
Moreover, the war taught me to see it everywhere.
Beauty is not a distraction.
It shows how amazing our planet is.
The one we should protect.
It continued:
Reporter: You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a Tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war.
Why are you the only person saying this?
Trump: Because I just don’t know enough about it.
The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.
A senseless, criminal waste
Tories are just negative about everything.
Oppose everything.
Complain about everything.
Pretend they are not responsible for all the failings they caysed from their 14 years in government.
They have short memories & think we do too.
But Communities Secretary put them straight!
I've just finished listening to the final part of the "Book of Dust", "The Rose Field" by Phillip Pullman. It was narrated by Michael Sheen and it concluded with a conversation between Philip and Michael. You should listen - it's wonderful!
🚨 Naomi Smith, Best for Britain CEO:
“As Best for Britain has long argued, ministers must not simply make urgent progress on this common sense food and drink deal, but on extending alignment to all industrial service sectors to get growth kickstarted both here and in the EU.”
Obviously gas prices going up make everything more expensive and that sucks. Causes lots of problems. But it also could theoretically cause people to stop with their horrible giant SUVs they drive
Nature also found that science agencies lost around 20 per cent of their administrative staff last year (and about 25,000 staff and scientists in total). David Ho, a professor in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Mänoa, noted that those staff losses include "programme managers in charge of giving out funds. As a result, even though Congress has appropriated the funding, federal agencies are finding it difficult to distribute it in the most optimal way," he said. Remaining staff have reported struggling to keep up with workloads and Ho also fears that in such circumstances the agencies are likely to favour established scientists rather than junior ones for funding since, without the time to properly scrutinise applications, programme managers are likely to err on the side of caution.
US science budgets have been spared. So why is no one celebrating? Among other things, many of us are worried about how junior scientists (i.e., those who are the future of science) are being affected. 🧪
www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/us-sci...
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If you're looking to snipe a cheap used EV before an energy shock brings prices roaring back, I couldn't be more thrilled every time I get into my BMW i3.
The tiny size and short range that got it panned by reviews make it ideal for an around-town EV, and it feels special in ways cars don't anymore
The human body is so adaptable.
For example because I didn't manage to go the gym for 2 weeks - my body smartly adapted to the idea that I would never go back and appears to have atrophied all of my muscles 😓
Two firefighters resting, sitting on the plinth of the "Citizen Firefighter" statue.
Quite an image on the BBC live page (www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...; no photographer credited).
Sounds as if they've saved the station and the hotel, and more importantly, without loss of life.
Citizens; heroes.
A wind turbine will generate 27x more energy than it takes to build.
A solar panel will generate 40x more energy.
Neither use any fuel.
There is already infinite energy generators.
In case the 2022 energy crisis didn't make it absolutely clear to everyone...
Everyone needs to install a ton more renewables (I am OK also building more nuclear power plants, but they take a very long time to build) and grid-scale batteries and buy EVs!!!
A dramatic image taken at Bamburgh Castle a few weeks ago. I found a nice pool of water for the foreground, which perfectly reflected the dramatic sunrise sky. Looking over some flat dark stones into the distance where the castle lies, a few photographers on the horizon enjoying this dramatic but beautiful morning.
No new images for 2 weeks due to some virus so sadly missing out on the share and fs print fun. Here's another shot from Bamburgh from a few weeks ago.
#canon #Bamburgh #Castle #kasefiltersuk #leofoto #Northumberland #travel #photography
BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer addresses concerns about the impact of the war in Iran on the cost of living
What worries me is that I am not hearing enough talk about the Epsteins files.
hey, folks, just wanted to make a quick reminder about those things called The Epstein Files that the mainstream media was eager to stop talking about
