That said, still a fun experience to go round Germany on the regional trains, just always allow an extra hour or two...
Peter Sketch
@petersketch.bsky.social
Dragonfly-obsessed environmental consultant
"You will live to see unimaginable horrors" I feel like most of them are pretty imaginable at this point honestly
Remember to be kind to yourself today. You can be evil to yourself tomorrow. On Wednesday you should be kind to ducks. On Thursday the ducks will be evil to you, so watch out for that
We urgently need the media industry to realise that the modern world requires journalists to be capable of basic maths. Someone who can't spot that this couldn't possibly work should not be writing on this topic.
The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 9h agoSpaceX wants to use rockets to transport cargo across Earth in a fraction of the time required by ships or planes, potentially reshaping global cargo networks. theconversation.com/spacex-aims-...
Whenever I express a passably interesting thought or write a sentence with an interesting structure, Google docs puts a blue line under it & starts complaining. I'm starting to consider those error lines proof that I'm saying something worthwhile. If the document looks clean I've probably fucked up.
I recognise the difficult job Civil Servants face but the Home Office is a disgrace and shames the entire Civil Service.
Today's morning mass ascent at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta. Gorgeous day with perfect weather conditions.
One of the defining features of the populist right is self-pity and victimhood. Always has been.
Kevin Schofield@kevinschofied.bsky.social · 7h agoRichard Tice Says He's Been Treated 'Worse Than A Paedophile, A Rapist Or A Murderer' www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/richar...
It’s depressing these can’t getting called out properly by people in power but good that they’re still pathetically small despite 2 full years of the UK press begging for race riots
Further arrests in Thetford as disorder continues for third night
The arrests follow disorder linked to anti-immigration protests in the Norfolk market town.
bbc.co.uk
Increasingly common trend: when controversialist columnists run out of real minority groups to victimise they just make one up.
John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18h agoSeen this shared enough today and finally read it, and... No, you don't?
I had a pencil joke but I need to sharpen it.
🅿️rofessor Kiosk 💊@professorkiosk.wtf · last wk.I had a breadmaker joke but it just didn't rise to the occasion
First Annecy and now this! VERY excited to be taking ROGUE TROOPER to the Toronto International Film Festival! Gonna have to ask @westonfront.bsky.social to start sticking a handful of laurel leaves on this bad boy!
Listening to my generation talk about the 90s the way the previous generation talked about the 70s is tiresome. No that wasnt 'back when movies were good' or 'music still meant something'. There's loads of great shit coming out now and there was loads of slop back then. You just miss being young.
To be expected from Reform, but this is a bit embarrassing from the Greens. Any decision like this always comes with some tradeoffs and solar farms are not some sort of panacea. But opposition is too often based on the same old arguments. Let's have a look at some of the points raised... 🧵 (1/6)
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · yesterdayThe insurgent parties of left and right are united in opposing plans to develop more than 5,000 acres — or 10% of the marshland — for solar panels ft.trib.al/TOMuTVD
The war on Soho, waged by people who choose to live in one of the busiest hospitality hotspots in the world and then realised they didn't actually like it, continues
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · yesterdayHave they never been to a Soho pub? How the hell would they enforce it?
“My mum made me learn Klingon so the other autistics wouldn’t make fun of me” is the line that sent me into hysterics. I love how specific the humor is in this show.
The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · 4d agoWhich autistic crime would send you down for all eternity? It’s a Superpower?? Chapter Two - An Army of Bums is out now wherever you get podcasts!
Last night my neighbor saw me plunging my hand into the soil, grabbing a fistful of worms then raising them triumphantly above my head as I laughed and lightning crashed around me. Going to be difficult to explain that one.
Throw me in a peat bog when I croak so I can flavor a top-shelf Scotch in a couple thousand years
Inside me are two wolves: the first wolf goes “strait of Hormuz is still closed, a lot of bad economic news is coming our way, Starmerism with more rizz and direction will not succeed politically”. The second wolf goes “come the election, someone this odd is not going to become PM”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ste Jormur@stejormur.bsky.social · yesterdayI had to look up the context and it's even funnier. "Reform are woke because they have a huge victim mentality. Not like me, I am not a victim and will never play the victim... but actually I probably have grounds to call myself a victim"
I honestly would love to know what policymakers think will happen to social mobility, regional growth, employment, and educational attainment, when all these provincial universities are gone or shrink to almost non existence? Isn’t avoiding that disaster alone worth a billion quid right now??
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · yesterdayYeah well, maybe you shouldn't take an axe to its biggest university then, you stupid idiots. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wrote a thing about Rod Liddle www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I knew Rod Liddle and hated what he became. He would have wanted me to say so | Zoe Williams
A man who prized blunt speaking has been selectively eulogised. There’s a balance between decency and honesty: I’m sad he caused such harm, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
theguardian.com
Despite the recent drought many members of the Asteraceae or daisy family are looking just splendid. Perfect for this week’s #WildflowerHour! See if you can find one & share your pics this Sunday evening 8-9pm using the hashtag #DaisyFamily. Happy Asteraceae hunting!
The ancient interior of the tiny coastal St Govan's Chapel in Pembrokeshire yesterday, founded in the 7th-8th centuries but with most of the building thought to date to the C13th 📷 My own
Studies suggest biodiversity, and birdlife in particular, measurably *increase* in fields with solar panels as they are otherwise fallow and not subjected to intensive farming. What’s not to like?
Absolute joke for a Green Party to oppose solar panels. But very much in keeping with why the UK and whole of Europe are failing on energy policy. Other priorities... www.ft.com/content/6fe7...
The one climate issue uniting Greens and Reform in Kent
Insurgent parties of left and right find common cause in stance over major solar farm scheme but UK government will have final say
ft.com
The Art of the Deal, 2026 edition.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d agoIran is demanding a fee of 7% on all commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, with Chinese and Russian vessels exempt from the fee, while Oman is discussing smaller fees of around 3% and the US wants no fees at all.-Reuters
Brilliant trip out into the Celtic Deep with @westcoastbirds.bsky.social on Saturday. Highlight was undoubtedly my first ever Wilson’s Storm Petrel at the last possible moment. We were already in extra, extra time when it appeared. Magic. #birdingWales #birdsSeenIn2026 #rareBirdsUK
This was a blast—J. A. Baker, peregrines and bird chat in the heat @globalbirdfair.bsky.social 2026 with @goldengrenadesco.bsky.social’s @yolobirder.bsky.social and @willrose.bsky.social #naturewriting #GlobalBirdFair
Golden Grenades Collective@goldengrenadesco.bsky.social · 3d agoOur JA Baker/Peregrine special podcast episode live at Birdfair with the brilliant @drmjwarren.bsky.social is out now! goldengrenades.com/podcast/epis...