@alanjstedman
You will find me around the middle of the room. Outward looking because if you are not you get isolated and stop learning NHS for many years before retiring. Read a lot, listen a lot. Dovestones Reservoir ⬆️ I don't have access to DMs so don't bother!
“Never once did Reform promise to cut council tax” insists an angry Nigel Farage to Sky News.
Here's some of the leaflets Reform have been putting out ahead of the local elections
Foot surgeons. I've known a few 😉
The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.
Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.
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1/2 Great piece on the trauma that maintaining white supremacy brings, including to its ‘beneficiaries’. I witnessed that in apartheid South Africa in 1988, when I spent time in black communities plagued by detentions without trial and ‘disappearances’, …
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
For similar reasons I take the Sunday Times every week and peek between my fingers at Liddle, Lawson and Freeman (amongst others)
There's also the Japanese for the pile of books waiting to be read
A tsundoku
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social introduced me to that one in the days of Twitter, 'Word of the day' that Robert did before @susiedentwords.bsky.social came onto Twitter
The Japanese have a word for 'the sun filtering through the trees'
Komorebi
Works for me 🤗
Striding around preaching Christian Nationalist misogyny with alpha male testosterone overload is not a good look
Eventually, they will have to crawl back under a rock but the damage will have been done
Yes, non appearance here is a bit odd, but might be related to the countryside here which is very sandy on the coast and then very rich loam just inland for potato growing. There aren't many trees compared to places I know that they are found in good numbers
So, as people stuggle with their mortgages and bills, Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s crypto business.
And plans to deregulate that high-risk industry by removing our rights and consumer protections.
He’s laughing at voters. All the way to the bank.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
My bad, I hadn't realised yellowhammers were ground nesting. Assumed as I had only ever seen the singing and skulking in hedges they were hedge nesters
The adage, 'it's who you know' comes to mind
UK is still riddled with it
And the USA calls itself a meritocracy. I give you Trump
Great spot Steve 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Interesting point and fits with the narrative I have put forward several times
It's going to take the USA a long long time to regain the world's trust because there will always be the threat of another Trump arriving if they don't take a long hard look at themselves and their Constitution
Yes hedge loss is a major factor from what I have read but in this case the hedge is still there and is well covered as it always was. They've just gone
As I understand it even when farmers revitalise old hedges, sparrows are not the genus that necessarily comes back - yellowhammers love it though
I know, tbh has some developing! I count myself very lucky that I appear to be avoiding them 😬
I hope your 'friend' finds a solution 🙏🏼
We have had dunnocks in the garden here on the NW coast above Liverpool. Constantly pecking at the ground and finding morsels and a surprisingly piercing song
I hadn't realised until I looked it up that the females are polyandrous, rare amongst birds!
Red kites haven't arrived here yet. They will
My reply elsewhere in the thread
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It has. 11 years ago when we moved here a hedge about 5 metres high and about 20 metres long outside a neighbours house was home to a constantly chattering group of 40 or so house sparrows, year round. Hardly a peep now 😕
Early on set bunions? 😬
My lecture Social Equality: Then and Now for @triphilosophy.bsky.social is now available online.
youtu.be/9xL1gyM4f3Q
That’s gonna bamboozle the manbaby
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Everywhere you look there is a Trump piggy bank
See also Jared Kushner
"More fun"
???
I rest my case!
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No other President would want to or indeed think of doing
USA you are going to have a lot of ordure to clear up when you rid yourselves of him and his supporters...and you will cleanse yourselves. Keep the faith!
Mr elsewhere
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