David Widdick
@davidwiddick.bsky.social
Recovering Post-doc, Walker, Invigilator, TV addict, Cook, Food Obsessive but not a Foodie, Atheist Lover of Churches, History Fan, Big fan of Dogs, Owner of an Arthritic Toe Called Bastard.
"Calling data centres "National Critical Infrastructure" means water companies can't restrict their water use, even during national droughts One large data centre consumes as much water per day as ~9,000 households Why are we expected to ration our water while they get a free pass?" via 38 degrees
Those adverts with nauseating children telling adults to save water for them is partly funded by the fucking water companies that have been taking increasing amounts of money to not do their fucking jobs. How about sacking the cunts and clawing some of that money back to improve infrastructure? 😤
I don't understand how gambling has become the acceptable face of addiction. Sports and celebrities lap it up like it's just another product, when the reality is it's more poisonous than any drug.
I think these may be getting ready to fly back to Africa
I might cut my ear off and post it to a young lady now I’ve managed this masterpiece. Bill and Ben are also looming large in my memory. Was Weed a sunflower?
Hairy red galls (a description not a name) on a dog rose.
Jars of capers and anchovies really should be wide enough to get a utensil in in order to extract the contents.
You don’t see a parasitic plant for years then two come along in as many months. Ivy Broomrape. It’s as dry as a bone so it must have flowered a while ago.
Anglian Water @anglianwater.bsky.social hands chief £1.3mn in retention pay despite bonus curbs... #pollution #watershortage #profit www.ft.com/content/c332...
Anglian Water hands chief £1.3mn in retention pay despite bonus curbs
Nearly two-thirds of £1.9mn pay package paid by parent company unregulated by Ofwat
ft.com
The potage thief. A man tries to steal food from a cooking pot, but the cook (his wife?) catches him and hits him over the head with a ladle. A late 14th Century corbel at Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire.
nice video: the story of the nitroplast 👏 also covered in this STC post 👇 #MicroSky
The Nitroplast, a Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle
by Mechas — The ability to fix nitrogen is usually regarded as a property of only a few diazotrophic bacteria and archaea. A new study now shows that some eukaryotes may be capable of fixing nitro…
smallthingsconsidered.blog
Cyanotrans@cyanotrans.bsky.social · last mo.The amazing work of Jon Zehr and many coworkers along the years: youtu.be/g9B3gBhcwqM?...
A sky full of swifts. The birds with the most prosaic but poetic name of all the birds
This landed in my kitchen yesterday. The adult form of those nasty caterpillars that eat box hedges. Quite stylish really
Some kind of rove beetle made its home in my bath. Hard to catch but it’s in the garden now. It also flew for a couple of feet which is the first time I’ve seen one do that even though I know they can.
E-Scooters are a hazard even when not in use. They’re often just left laying on the pavement. Ban them. I’m on the fence about e-bikes. Most of those seem to be used reasonably responsibly in my experience www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
E-bike injury payouts top £110m and push up insurance premiums
It is only seven years since the first claim over an injury from a micromobility vehicle was made.
bbc.co.uk
Going though my photos I have found a couple of things that might interest @jeremybartlett.bsky.social and @vannabartlett.bsky.social . These galls found on the leaves of the lyme tree by the sitting angel in Earlham Cemetery. Each midge has its own escape pod. Fascinating 1/2
The sky has been full of clouds at point today. Clouds of the type that painters use to give an other worldly feeling
