Karen RH

@karenrh.bsky.social

Nurse Practitioner Love festivals and family Yorkshire born and bred

Early stroll. The moon greets me from its high shelf. I seem to walk through a wide web. A lonely brown bin, out on the wrong day. A takeaway menu like a tongue sticking from a letterbox. One broken stick has become two unbroken sticks.

Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!

Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.

you.38degrees.org.uk

A new find-the-tiny-silver-owl photo for you. It’s also worth zooming in for the silver cast I’ve made of a tiny feather, acorn, oak leaf & larch cone, a miniscule piece of coral, a pyritised ammonite & to see the design on the Victorian brooch I’m going to convert into a pendant…

A photo I’ve made of nature finds, tiny antique & found objects, hidden among which is a very tiny silver owl charm

The Guillotine Lock in Todmorden, situated on the Rochdale Canal, represents a combination of industrial necessity and engineering ingenuity. Officially known as Lock 19 it was modified in the 1920s because the nearby road bridge was widened causing builders to innovate.

The Guillotine Lock in Todmorden, situated on the Rochdale Canal, represents a combination of industrial necessity and engineering ingenuity.

Yorkshire Miners' Galas emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as powerful annual expressions of community pride, union solidarity, and working-class culture across the region's vast coalfields. Organised by miners' unions like the Yorkshire Mineworkers' Association (YMWA), these

Doncaster Miners Gala, 1957. Image: Science Museum Group. A photographic print of Industry, Fuel & Power - Coal, Miners - Welfare - Galas & Fetes, Yorkshire Miners. 1983-5236/43315 Science Museum Group Collection Online.

Appropriately for Yorkshire Day, Joseph Priestley of Birstall, West Riding, is credited with discovering oxygen on this day 1774, building on earlier work by Antoine Lavoisier and Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

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