Sylvia Foolproof Suddes
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As well as tidying up our world, another of the woodlouse’s superpowers is its ability to withstand toxic pollution and even store heavy metals within special compartments in its body. Studies have shown it can help stabilise heavy metals in compost. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘They are such neat, busy little folk’: the unexpected superpowers of the common woodlouse
This detritivore – known by a range of colourful names – tidies up our world and can withstand toxic pollution
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This sweet piping plover chick is no larger than a U.S. quarter at hatching. This started me on my #bird journey #BirdOfTheDay #First @atlanticbirding.bsky.social The adults use the ole' broken wing trick when they perceive their chicks are threatened. #Birds #Photography #Nature
For over 30 years, while demand and climate rose, the privatised water companies paid £78 billion in dividends to shareholders, many of whom are in the Cayman Islands. They also sold 35 reservoirs. Some became housing. One became a BMX track.
I don’t understand why people vote for rich parties that are against immigration. Don’t they know rich people hide their money in tax-evading offshore accounts and immigrants prop up the economy with their taxes?
Uncle Scrooge McDuck Playing with Money
ALT: Uncle Scrooge McDuck Playing with Money
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Magnum’s in London. Every British trope has been squeezed into frame.
Surreal. Massive Attack were detained by cops in Singapore for displaying a Palestinian flag.🇵🇸 If I held up a Union Jack, would I be detained? The band said they ’did not imagine that merely holding up the flag of a sovereign state recognised by 157 countries would violate any law.’
If you go abroad, please 🆘familiarise yourself with emergency numbers🆘. My friends were in an isolated villa in Spain when he had a heart attack at breakfast. With no Spanish, no wifi and no neighbours, she called friends in the UK. Meanwhile, he died age 66. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
List of emergency telephone numbers - Wikipedia
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If we hadn’t lit the touchpaper on Earth, we’d probably be calling the full point/period ‘dot’ within 30 years.
A Whole Lot Dot Com
ALT: A Whole Lot Dot Com
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If yer don’t net, yer don’t get. The allotment secretary’s patch.🐛
Socialism isn’t a dirty word: it just means more of an equable chance at life for the underdog.
After listening to the vile opinions of allotmenteers regarding Ceuta, I needed to put them right: Ceuta is not in the Schengen zone, so Moroccan migrants were never going to head for mainland Europe unchecked.
So why isn't Fox news televising interviews of all the happy people who live near data centers so we can hear what a treat it is to live with the constant noise, lights, increased utility costs and non-existent new jobs?
UK tenants will be able to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August 2026.☀️♻️😎
It’s difficult to say out loud, but a great many first-class speakers of English as a second language use ‘dear’ all wrong. Despite opening a letter with the word, in general it’s not used as a term of endearment. In fact, it’s more of a condescending term. 1 of 2
‘two decades and 750bn tons of atmospheric carbon pollution later, Rahmstorf is still wondering when the wake-up call will come.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/... #TooLate
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?
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I’m excited to be taking my brand-new hose and nozzle to the plot when it gets light. I think I’ve got a tap (faucet) adaptor thing in my shed. It takes two hours to irrigate using watering cans, and I rarely have chance to do other stuff. I have empty tanks for lack of precipitation.😓🌵
A thread to enjoy, especially for the translators among us.
Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 7d ago“She’s just a translator” shows that you don’t understand what translation is. Some of this comes from the ‘automation’ of translation, through things like Google translate. It’s as though it’s just looking words up in a dictionary. No. It’s an art and a science at once. To get meaning and feeling.
Caligula/Trump has regilded the Arts of War statues near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC with 23.75-karat gold. The project cost $5.1m of workers’ money.
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 7d agoThe guy who campaigned on grocery prices is gold-plating horse statues on our dime. It’s going to be hard to tell the difference between Washington, DC and the Las Vegas Strip in a minute.