Harry Campbell
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"What a stupid time to be alive" (Jimmy Kimmel)
Meanwhile in London, "the King's life is moving peacefully towards its close"
The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 3d agoAs the health of the oldest reigning monarch in Europe deteriorates in hospital after a blood infection, the future of the royal family is on unstable ground
250 million birds flew across America last night, tracked by radar. Migration season is upon us, and it’s wilder than you could imagine. Birdcast’s live migration maps and forecasts (from Cornell Lab of Ornithology) are brilliant, and you can find them here. birdcast.org/migration-to...
My students were always a bit gobsmacked when I showed them this in the Film Industry and Synergy classes.
From the archive: a guide to 18th-century low-life argot London from the pages of the Old Bailey trial reports. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/a-thieves-...
A thieves' lexicon for 18th-century London
A street-wise guide to low-life argot from the pages of the Old Bailey trial reports
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Shocking news: people in today's Britain are so poor they're being forced to sell their ethnic minority relatives on Vinted
A bit of good news this morning as the Scottish Government has announced £14m in conditional funding for the People's Palace and Winter Gardens. This is in addition to the £19.55m already secured from GCC, Glasgow Life, and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. 📷 Past Glasgow #Glasgow
Exciting times in Queens Park. They have an open day on Saturday if you're interested to see progress.
Kenny Brophy@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · last wk.Day 1 of #CamphillDig26. Our team of student trainees & volunteers made a cracking start deturfing the bank that surrounds Camphill enclosure in #Glasgow. The clay core of the bank is close to the surface thankfully. Tomorrow we’ll try to find the ditch edges. @archscot.bsky.social
Day 1 of #CamphillDig26. Our team of student trainees & volunteers made a cracking start deturfing the bank that surrounds Camphill enclosure in #Glasgow. The clay core of the bank is close to the surface thankfully. Tomorrow we’ll try to find the ditch edges. @archscot.bsky.social
Dear Bluesky Please help to defeat a daft rule that benefits a millionaire & help keep the last ferry service of its kind going I've just signed this petition. Will you add your name and share too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!
This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la...
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37 years ago, two million people joined hands across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a fearless demand for freedom from Soviet occupation: the Baltic Way. 🇪🇪🤝🇱🇻🤝🇱🇹 A main walkway in the EP building in Brussels is named in honour of the event.
Love to tell people that a solar farm on the land between this steelworks and the M4 was turned down because of "landscape character and visual amenity"
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.‘The line’s running half-empty’: Llanwern steelworks feels the heat from cheap steel imports
Over 27 million people are now under hosepipe bans yet government pushes ahead with its data centre boom. ICYMI 👇 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/the-eye-07...
The Eye 07: Millions face hosepipe bans as government pushes ahead with data centre boom
As England runs dry, campaigners tell The Citizens why government's AI ambitions are putting our shared resources at risk
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I find myself torn between the offensive, sarcastic AI-style peppering around of pretendy diacritics on the tin, and the deliciousness within. Wish I didn't like it. Bloody ethnocentric British marketing twats. I swear to buy it only occasionally.
This week.. A jury refused to convict 8 members of Palestine Action A judge ruled that five Palestine Action activists (Barclays 5) will not be sentenced as terrorists. And yet protesters outside Preston Court were still arrested under terrorism laws for holding up placards!
Hybristophilia: sexual or romantic attraction to people who commit crimes, particularly serious or violent crimes.
Not many of you know, but, my girlfriend and I own a bird of prey. It dances when we play 80s music at night. Our kestrel manoeuvres in the dark. 🐢💨
