Geoffrey Haigh

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Sing it loud! #Minneapolis #ICE #Trump #Miller #Noem #ReneeGood #AlexPretti
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Two images taken 85 years apart on different continents, but the similarities are unmistakable.

BTW: The murderer in the picture on the right was eventually identified in 2025. Let's hope it does not take 84 years to identify the fascist on the left.

Lies and Lawlessness The Camps, the Executions, and the Future

Lies and Lawlessness
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Brian Krassenstein on X: "BREAKING: A letter from Alex Pretti’s Final Nursing Student: “I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. https://t.co/Wm2H45Fvt2" / X BREAKING: A letter from Alex Pretti’s Final Nursing Student: “I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. https://t.co/Wm2H45Fvt2

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Keep it coming!

Do read the article. Not content with destroying his own country, Trump wants to operate on a larger canvas – destroying the world, and the UN with it.

Why did he speak like Trump? Or is it Trump who speaks like him, because he kept that man's speeches beside his bed? His favourite bedtime reading matter – the speeches that turned people's heads and propelled the Nazis to power in the 1930s.

Thank you Susan.
I meditate too,
which gives me
a new outlook.

One without hate,
which holds and embraces
the old and the new,
the good and the bad,
the stranger and friend.

With mindful awareness,
with smiles and a welcome,
with hearing and listening,
with love and with hope.

Democratic Wins Media (@demwinsmedia) BREAKING: Veterans from every branch are speaking out against Donald Trump’s threats against Senator Mark Kelly for reminding our troops their oath is to the Constitution, not a president. This is so ...

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Measured but firm, the way it should be. Hear hear to the people of Greenland.

Who knows? But this just seems to ring true, and certainly makes sense.

What a mass of orange apothecia, you can hardly see the lobes.

Killed Saving Lives: The UK must ensure accountability for Israel’s attacks on healthcare workers in Gaza - Latest News & Developments - Medical Aid for Palestinians Over the past two years of Israel’s genocide, the Israeli military has systematically targeted Gaza’s health system. Palestinian healthcare workers have been continuously targeted, detained and subjec...

1686 healthcare workers were killed in Gaza during the last two years. Every single name is on this wall, outside Hackney Wick station for a week thanks to MAP #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide #Israel
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Oh excellent. They must be quite common where you are.

Oh amazing. Three fruiting bodies together. And I think I can just see a bit of the dark green thallus, the ‘body’ of the lichen on the surface of the peat. If you can it’s good to get thallus and ‘umbrella’ together.😋

Well worth it though for this image of the fruiting body. You were right down in the bog for that one!

Like an octopus with all those “suckers” on its many “arms”. Must be a Ramalina of some kind.

A difficult read, heart-breaking, so frustrating. And #Israel is perhaps the only country in the world where such violence continues with impunity. Come on, US, UK, EU. Where will you be when the history of the #Palestine #Genocide is finally told in full? There's no doubt where public opinion is.

The #Palestine #Genocide has been going on for a very long time.

Hi Eric. That's a good picture. Physcia adscendens, no doubt. Yes, they are tiny. You're becoming very observant, that's great.

And, yes, those little black dots do look like pycnidia. If it's what I think it is, this species is common on well-lit calcareous rock – or concrete! You say the lobes had burst open and revealed the insides. What shape were those open lobes, and what did you see inside them?

An amazing array of overlooked wonder, just on an ordinary everyday curb stone.
Do you know what genus the long pale lobes with the two-tone cilia belongs to?
I see a Xanthoria at bottom left. I also see some more orange-tinted apothecia. Possibly one of the genera that used to be in Caloplaca.

A chance to find your way around the amazing world of lichens

Jenny, what part of the country was this in? It seems like a great find.

Very helpful, thank you for the link

Welcome Nathan,
Come and let us see your latest #lichen finds. You may like to use the hashtag #lichenGBI.

Amazing #lichens from New Zealand

Wow! You must live in an amazing lichen area. No wonder you’ve become so interested in them.

A Physcia, an early coloniser so one that is often found on young twigs.

OK, that's great. Definitely a Ramalina as you say, and you've found which species are likely in your area. So let's work on the description. What are you seeing here? Your last description of a lichen was great, so can you use "lichen language" to explain what you see here?