Nicky Coates

The image is a screenshot of a social media post by Liz Charboneau (@lizchar ). The post reads: "the radical left monsters." Below, there is an image of various Sesame Street characters, including Elmo, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, and others, posing together in front of a backdrop with "Sesame Street" and related logos. Underneath, a post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTru ...), posted 1 day ago, reads: "REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT 'MONSTERS' THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!"

Open Sesame!

What?

Well, that's cleared that up.

It was on this day in 1742, in Dublin , that George Frederic Handel's "Messiah" was performed for the first time.
It happened at the New Music Hall in Fishamble Street. The performance was a fundraising event for charities and prisoners, with tickets costing a half-guinea each.

A hamster / mister saddlebags with EXTREMELY chubby cheeks

The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”

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There’s always time to be compassionate and kind. Black writing on a white background with a green line border, a red flower and a blue flower. Picture by Luke John Matthew Arnold

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” Henry James

Kindness never goes out of season. Every moment is a chance to care. Compassion makes the world gentler.

#kindness #positivity

Image by lukejohnmatthewarnold

Map of four numbered buildings with the worst legend, reading: 1. Building 4; 2. Building 3; 3. Building 1; 4. Building 2

MY EYES MY EYES

(ht my brother, source unknown)

Absolutely. Toast with butter, mature British cheddar and loads of Worcestershire sauce make the very best cheese on toast

I post this one on Truth Social quite frequently, as I hear it's a favorite of his.

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We've been soooooooooo waiting for this from @mrjamesob.bsky.social

More of this please.

Also, do you know, James, how epic this speech + 2 more mins would sound on stage on Trafalgar Square at National Rejoin March IV..... 😍

Petition: Hold a referendum on re-joining the European Union I want the government to hold a referendum on whether the UK should Rejoin the European Union.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social talking absolute sense on LBC

Here's the fastest way to tell Starmer to stop being timid on reversing Brexit

Please Sign and Share
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

A man in China's Guangdong sets up an underwater football field in his fish tank and trained his goldfish to play football.

Remember JD Vance's birth certificate states his name as James Donald Bowman. Does this mean he can't vote? Or does the SAVE Act just target the female population?

The Trump horror show continues. But I bring you these small reasons for modest hope to remind you that there are still some cause for optimism. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/twelve-small-reasons-for-modest-hope

Aaand... Breathe out. Breathe out!! Poor woman looks like she's going to explode

Photo of Silvius, the little Latin mouse, exploring the ruins of a village church in Norfolk (damaged by a fire in the 18th century). He's in a little niche in the flint wall, looking at a dandelion plant flowering far above the ground.

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 414
Silvius ecclesiam ruinosam explorat, ubi habitant monedulae (Silvius explores a ruined church, where jackdaws live). taraxaca inter silices muri florent (Dandelions are flowering between the flints of the wall)

A dog blanket covers TV briefly as Nigel Farage is on.

My blanket coverage of Nigel Farago when he's on the box.

I checked after and there was no Turin Shroud stuff to report!

Now we’ll find out who’s TRADING INSIDE Trump’s ass all along!!!
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bsky.app/profile/robi...

Bronze cast of a mouse blowing a trumpet and covering its ear.

Tiny little bronze Roman mouse blowing a trumpet so hard that it has to cover an ear with its spare hand.
1st-2nd century AD, British Museum.
#FindsFriday

Why did Trump pause the Tariffs?

BOSS: Have you sorted the competition prize money? £12,000 isn’t it?

ME [CLEARLY WEARING A BRAND NEW £76 BANDANA]: Yeh something like that

A weevil with orange scale on its exoskeleton, and a long snout. It is sitting on a leaf facing right with its abdomen resting on the leaf surface and its front legs extended, kind of sitting like a dog.

A snazzy looking weevil just hanging out, pondering weevil things.
(Cholus sp.) San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica
#WeevilWednesday #Invert