Superb—and *very* unsettling—roundup from @weatherwest.bsky.social. The imminent SW heat wave (likely the most intense for March on record) will involve similar dynamics to the June 2021 scorcher in the PacNW. This landscape-parching heat may set the stage for serious fire/drought trouble by summer.

Recommended reading for those with a passion for well written & entertaining #History 📖

Night night Hookland, sleep tight.

Ruins of London, 1947, by Albert Rothstein.

So sad that an island with a reputation for greenness and nature is the most nature deprived in Europe. #SpeirGorm

@oldenoughtosay.com If we can snag tickets to see the Tapestry at the British Museum, I am taking my husband over for a pre-Norman tour of England. So far, I'm thinking Stonehenge, Glastonbury, Bath (Roman only, no Austen), Sutton Hoo, and a smattering of cathedrals. Would appreciate further ideas.

Good Lord
A KC relying on fake cases

Can he be stripped of KC status @jolyon.goodlawproject.org

“The court also called Kamal’s reliance on fake cases generated by AI “unacceptable” & found that he had repeatedly failed to follow court rules”

Well done @danneidle.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org

As I walked by a field, two old friends had decided to meet up at the Hare & Mistle...
#TobeinEnglandnowthatMarchisHere #Dorset

My photo shows a small clay aryballos (oil flask) in the form of a hedgehog. It has a rounded, squat body with a long pointed snout. At the top of the body is a small spout for filling with oil. Sculpted details include eyes and ears ears. The light tan surface is painted with dark spots representing the hedgehog’s spines. It measures 4.8 cm in length and 3 cm in height. Dated circa 550 BC. From Naucratis, Egypt.

Tiny terracotta aryballos (oil flask) in the form of a hedgehog.

East Greek from Naucratis, Egypt, 550 BC.

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

A photo of a blue tit perched on a fruit tree covered in bright pink blossom flowers

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Read our top tips and terms and conditions via our website 👉https://www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/photography-competition

#Photography #WildlifePhotography

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

I guess all those people on X who claimed it was an Iranian missile and Bellingcat had lied about it being a Tomahawk are rushing to correct themselves - U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Putting pictures of animals on our currency would be "deeply depressing," say the Conservatives.

For too long, this kind of behavior has been tolerated and normalized. Not just by politicians who willingly accept corrupt money and allow lobbyists to “persuade” them. But by the general population. The equally corrupt Supreme Court said it was okay to accept bribes. Doesn’t mean they have to.

clearly *this* is what the tenner should look like

#19thC

we dare you to find a museum more ready

Greetings from Kyiv.

It is warm outside. The city is not in bloom yet, but soon it will be.
Calm, warm days fill a heart tired from winter with quiet joy.

Have a gentle day.

The new albumn by @hilliatfields.bsky.social is insanely perfect in every way.

Music to lose yourself in. Go get.

I still think about this a lot.

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

@guitarmoog.bsky.social

So grateful to Keir Starmer and his leaked memo for justifying the entire premise for my book on the week it's released.

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South of Lady Chapel #HolyTrinityBristol for #TraceryTuesday

Decorated 4-light pointed window with cusped lancet lights and plain label. The curvilinear (or flowing) tracery is very fine

Anyone local to me fancy going out for a run?

Yeah, excellent, grab me a bottle of wine on your way back.

This video speaks to what most women know to be true.

“All men”….
It’s a system built specifically for them.

#WomensHistoryMonth

As #TowerTuesday wends to a close, here are a few shots of the wonderful landmark tower of the New Laigh Kirk in Kilmarnock, our #scottishchurchoftheweek

The four stage tower was built in the 17th century and predates the adjacent church that was raised in 1802 by architect Robert Johnstone.

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Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂🎉

Conservation is a long game. Little Imp – our youngest grandcalf – is what winning looks like.

92 wild-born babies now, whose mothers came to us as orphans. They grew up. They went wild. They started families.

This is what your support makes possible: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...

Solitude, painting by Francis Danby (1793-1861), Irish artist from County Wexford.

Alexander Graham Bell famously didn't like "hello" for answering telephones, as it was an expression of surprise until then.

He suggested instead that telephone operators should answer with "ahoy hoy!"

This should be brought back