A random loose screw that fell out of something and you are not sure what.
Jonathan Bliss
@jonathanbliss.bsky.social
Wildlife watching, birds, bugs, spiders and the rest of the natural world, photography, books, a bit of history, learning French. Leeds.
I've fallen for a wonderful girl who wears large gloves and has the number 1 written on her back. I don’t want to jinx it but I think this one's a keeper.
We never found out what the go was with the au pairs
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.
Me reading Fahrenheit 451 in high school: “I think this is a good story but I don’t quite match Bradbury’s cynicism. New media may be vapid and corporate but I don’t think it will destroy culture.” Me now: “WAIT FUCK I TAKE IT BACK I TAKE IT BA–“
Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · last wk.“Artificial intelligence labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale.”
@scientits.bsky.social I can’t reply to your Haarland raw milk post, but if you are looking for a good new celeb, did you see this? bsky.app/profile/gord...
No, European heatwaves are not CAUSED by a fall in air pollution. The word CAUSED is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting here! Let's look at what the study being 'reported' on was actually researching and what it found🤓 1/22 🧵
women, i will let you in on a male secret, when we walk down the stairs behind the sofa we are actually just hiding behind the sofa
It is still dry as a bone out there. On intensively managed #Peatlands, even Sphagnum struggles. The water table is way too low. We need to restore these landscapes to make them more resilient to climate change. #GreatNorthBog #SphagnumMonday #ClimateChange
@mothiduk.bsky.social I failed to get individual photos of these before they flew off. I assume the orange one is a dusky thorn and the large dark one is a beauty of some kind?
Social media is weird. 2 years after writing this, it's suddenly being reposted by the hundred. It's fun, I think. Give it a moment of your time.
Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · 2y agoJust for fun, let me tell you about somebody you've probably never heard of, but who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac. He led quite a life. (1/53)
holy shit judit polgar is going to be president of hungary www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Strategic move by Hungary’s Magyar as he picks chess prodigy for president
Judit Polgár to discuss role with prime minister, who says Hungary needs someone the whole nation is proud of
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Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
If true, we get 3 things. None good. 1. The direct negative growth/fiscal impacts of cutting immigration. 2. A Chancellor who prioritises their own personal/ideological obsessions over the UK economy. 3. A PM who through myopia or weakness chooses 1 and 2.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Times reporting that Andy Burnham succeeded in persuading Shabana Mahmood to become Chancellor because it would give her more control over cutting immigration
i first met sam neill in the late 80's on the set of jeremy brett's sherlock holmes. i think it was manchester studios. he and jeremy were pals. i was moving a light wi'out gloves cause i'm a tosser. i burned my hand. yelled "FUCK!" jeremy came right over, sam (who was visiting) in tow. (1/4)
If you don't think Alt-Txt is worth providing, or reading, then this might open your eyes.
Megan Herbert@meganjherbert.bsky.social · 3w agoDiscarded. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social
El partido entre Argentina e Inglaterra se va sin goles al descanso y con muy poco fútbol (0-0)
Inglaterra - Argentina, las semifinales del Mundial en directo | El encuentro se va sin goles al descanso y con muy poco fútbol
El primer tiempo fue un intercambio de golpes y entradas que interrumpieron el juego constantemente y provocaron la ausencia de ocasiones
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An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron. From Mörigen, 900-800 BC. 📷️ me
If you’re lucky, you’re on this earth for maybe, what, 70, 80 years? Is it really too much to ask you to just leave other people alone and let them try to have a nice life without being be an absolute nob head about it?
My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
@flygirlnhm.bsky.social Two new soldier flies for me today, on the same hydrangea in my stepmum’s garden. Both recorded. Thanks to you, although I didn’t recognise them. I knew they were soldier flies immediately on seeing those abdomen.
Can someone explain to me like I am five years old. What did Farage expect to achieve by resigning and restanding? t seems to me it is a strategy that can only break even or lose? Also why aren’t the other parties standing? Why is it better not to stand than stand?
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 4w ago‘The Odyssey’ women Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, and Charlize Theron stun in Paris.
Can't get over how tragic it is that King Henry VIII missed out on potatoes by just a few brief years. He would have bloody loved chips. 😞
Another springtail to find this summer! ☀️ Fab photo from @josscarr.bsky.social of Fasciosminthurus quinquefasciatus from Dorset yesterday. The 1st UK record outside Cornwall, where it was found new to Britain 2 yrs ago! www.researchgate.net/publication/... Can we track its expansion further?
This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"
Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social · last mo.this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb
