Bethan M Jenkins
@gwenynen.bsky.social
Please look after this Bee. Cymraeg a Saesneg, fel y mynnoch. Was Dyddgu elseweb. Ei/Hi. She/Her Signal -> https://signal.me/#eu/p-v5DrC5-xRE_oL2kkAN_8Txhbp3p5q7YIHFXT7jB8a0wOpn7mRFza5I5q80veGU
Unexpected news about the National Motor Museum relocating from Beaulieu in 2030 as its 60-year lease expires. www.magnetomagazine.com/articles/why...
Why the UK's National Motor Museum at Beaulieu is looking for a new home - Magneto
The Montagu family at Beaulieu won't be renewing its lease to the trust that runs the National Motor Museum, so the museum needs a new home.
magnetomagazine.com
Welp. Discovering that gold thread (in my X stitch kit for backstitching) is a total and utter PITA to use. 😐
Oddly enough the jarringly unrealistic part of Children of Men isn't the magical universal infertility, it's England remaining the last nation standing thanks to prudent planning and organising.
Discovered this place for the first time ever near us; bought a couple-some herbs for me to fail at growing. www.herbcentre.co.uk
The National Herb Centre – A wonderful garden centre that has something for everyone
herbcentre.co.uk
HELLO THIS IS FOR THE BREAD CULT CURIOUS WHO DON'T WANT TO MAKE 24 BAGELS AT A TIME!
Rebecca / The Practical Kitchen@ryeisenberg.bsky.social · 10h agoONE WEEK until SMALL-BATCH BREADS hits bookstores everywhere! There’s still time to pre-order if you haven’t yet: smallbatchbreads.com Every single recipe is made using 1 cup (120g) of flour!
slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists
Well, I've spent a week trying to navigate the British Newspaper Archive and they've absolutely *fucked* it. The things that worked have gone - and as soon as my subscription ends, that'll be it - not going back to it.
Holy feck. Large scale PCB toxic waste dumping in Wales (Wrexham and South Wales )by Monsanto over decades www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Michael Sheen investigates cancer concern around chemical dumping
The Hollywood actor investigates claims cancer-causing chemicals were dumped across Wales.
bbc.co.uk
Speakers' Corner, ca.1973. An earnest young man is trying to put the case for the then Heath government. The small audience includes two authentic tramps. 1st tramp: 'What about yer Keynesian theory of full employment?' 2nd t: 'Keynes never said that, you berk!'. Exeunt, bickering. 1/2
I remember when someone tried to argue with me about this on here, saying it was survivorship bias, and not my own comparisons of the same brands' material quality and stitching over the past 30+ years. Anyway, yes shit is actually more poorly made now than it used to be even a short while ago.
Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse
Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?
theguardian.com
They call him America Boris
John Hudson@johnphudson.bsky.social · 22h agoScoop: Trump flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate military aircraft unbeknownst to journalists and some White House staff members who believed they were on the same plane as the president, The Post has learned 🧵 www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
People are furious of course but this is one of the funniest things that's ever happened. He's been posting memes of himself hanging out with Douglas MacArthur and George Patton and he snuck off the plane in a box of pizza rolls
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 22h agoWhat do you MEAN they smuggled the president out of Turkey in a catering cart
JESUS CHRIST WHAT ARE WE DOING THERE'S A TINY SHINY BIRD IN PANTALOONS
Avian Face-Tool 🦡@beakmoo.bsky.social · yesterdayI just found out there's a creature called a puffleg hummingbird, that wears a tiny pair of fluffy white trousers.
I refuse to find out what "stories" are on signal. Leave that bullshit to instagram
ME: omg i have so much to do today BRAIN: best i can do is none of it so that you don't feel bad for only doing some of it ME: that doesn't make any sense BRAIN: don't tell me how to do my job
I heard Spider-Man 4 was the best MCU movie in a while and it turns out it's because Spider-Man learned what a script was and shared this discovery with his coworkers.
katsian andor@dogunderwater.bsky.social · 3w agopopping it in here because it makes me laugh every time. he also talks about how spider-man got six months of extra time to work on the script (and hire a director lmao) bc of the odyssey schedule www.gq.com/story/matt-d...
![During The Odyssey’s production, Holland’s collaborators on Spider-Man got used to hearing about Christopher Nolan. “I was really able to lay down the law and say, ‘We are not going to come to set and figure it out,’ ” Holland said. “ ‘We need to know why we are making this movie beyond the fact that it’s Spider-Man 4 and they make loads of money and we’re going to just have a big summer. Why are we making this movie?’ And Destin was super instrumental in that, but it was just really great to constantly be calling up the studio and [producers] Amy [Pascal] and Rachel [O’Connor], who I love, and be like, ‘Well, Chris is doing it this way. This is how I think we should be doing it.’ ”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f6fxhkui3yxtv42gmvfggqbj/bafkreiddu3exgncxw7a742jvruu5i4pqpru555t7dtkf4wmzrodyjf7jry)
As @georgemonbiot.bsky.social has pointed out, somehow the 'legitimate concerns' phrase never gets used as regards climate change or pro-Palestine protests
Dr Nick@nmwilkinson.eurosky.social · 5d agoLet's imagine I decide that Britain would be better off without these fascist thugs and their shit views and their pogroms. So I get a gang together and go raid their homes and/or set fire to them, attacking police who get in the way. Will the statements talk of legitimate protest and grievance? No.
I would be very interested to see if there are any references to the "Dobby's grave forced a cable to be moved" story from earlier than this year bsky.app/profile/dsqu...
Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · yesterdayIt doesn't appear in the feedback statement for Natural Resources Wales, it wasn't mentioned at the Pembrokeshire council planning committee, there was a petition with 5000 signatures which doesn't mention it and it doesn't appear in contemporary press www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/1756489...
I cannot contain the white hot rage I feel right now listening to these lies so all I will say is F*CK THIS ADMINISTRATION. Signed, a medical historian.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTrump: "Decades ago, children received only a small fraction of the vaccines required today. In those times, people were much healthier and of course the high rates of autism now observed did not exist. There's a reason for such epidemic rates of autism."
A rare chance to visit folk night. One of the attendees wrote a song about her husband's g-g-g etc granddad who served on Victory and helped carry the wounded Nelson below deck!
Presumably if you select “Middle English”, your doctor immediately offers you bloodletting and a poultice made from frog blood
David Brody@dbrody.bsky.social · yesterdayFilling out the intake form for a new doctor's office, and I'm just gonna go out on a limb and guess that their patient portal was at least partially coded by AI... This does not inspire confidence in their HIPAA compliance.
Oxford hivemind! We left it too late to buy eclipse glasses online. Does anyone know if I can get some in Town? Any suggestions welcome 🙏
The Barbican is giving away cuttings, before it closes its conservatory for restoration!
Conservatory Plant Adoption | Barbican
Bring home a living piece of the Barbican Conservatory
barbican.org.uk
Partial Social Eclipse Viewing - Wednesday 12 Aug - Join members of the Department of Physics to witness one of the most dramatic solar eclipses visible from Wales in decades!
Edrych ymlaen at eclips rhannol yr haul dydd Mercher (12.08.26)? Dyma ddiagram a wnaeth Thomas Evans, Hendreforfudd, Glyndyfrdwy, yn 1596, yn esbonio sut mae'r eclips yn gweithio (Peniarth 187 @librarywales.bsky.social)
(a true headline might be "guy on podcast makes joke about how many comments there were from Harry Potter fans in a consultation process, relating to cable project which was obviously never going to go straight through area of natural beauty in national park"
Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2d agoFor some reason people lose all critical judgment when interpreting jokes made by infrastructure people at conferences or on a podcast. This just isn't what happened.