What brilliant news. The same butterfly monitoring protocols are now being used around the world. This will really help our understanding of our impact on biodiversity

Butterfly Conservation Europe@europebutterfly.bsky.social · 3d ago

BCE Europe is spreading its wings and our European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme online system is now being used around the world. There are now 50 wonderful schemes in 44 countries. You can see a map and all the details here butterfly-monitoring.net/bms-schemes. Get involved if you can

Right now, the UK government has a crucial chance to ban glyphosate from public spaces and garden centres, but they’ll only step up if enough of us make our voices heard. It only takes 2 minutes. Thanks! act.gp/3WpxIot

SIGN to ban toxic glyphosate from our parks, playgrounds and gardens

Join the biggest EVER movement of nature defenders. It only takes two minutes.

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Beautiful piece by @TimAdamsWrites on the brilliant Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who could write wonderfully about anything, has died tragically young and will be hugely, hugely missed by so many people. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer

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Look out for @themerl.bsky.social podcast, drops next week - featuring our favourite topic the Bayeux Tapestry - and of course the stunning Victorian version here at Reading Museum (free to visit, and slightly less crowds than the British Museum 😂)

Joe Vaughan@joevaughan.net · last wk.

BTS of this morning's podcast recording at @themerl.bsky.social lol (Bayeux Tapestry special drops in 2 weeks)

Environment Secretary Angela Eagle: "Nature is our greatest ally in preventing wildfires starting in the first place, with healthy landscapes keeping more moisture in the ground to stop fires spreading." www.gov.uk/government/n...

You don't fight fire with fire - you fight it with water. So it's great to see the Environment Secretary announce new grants for peat re-wetting today - closing a looming gap in funding - as the PM holds a Wildfire Summit. My Guardian quote below: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

🧵Historic England have published a new report that shows how repairing and reusing existing historic buildings across the country could provide up to 670,000 sustainable new homes, particularly in areas of Yorkshire and. historicengland.org.uk/research/her...

New Homes from Vacant Historic Buildings | Heritage Counts | Historic England

Our historic places and spaces are a crucial part of our national stock of homes, workspaces and community spaces.

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Please someone commission Tom’s dad to turn these into an alternative history of art! Not just a book for children - these beautiful re-imaginings (with cat) are for every age group.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have now collected, in one post, pretty much ALL the paintings my dad has done of his and my mum's cat Bridget travelling through time. Even if you think you've seen them all, I promise you have not, and I promise you will not be disappointed... tomcox.substack.com/p/the-cat-wh...

I can't remember which of you tipped me off that the Kentigern statue on the Tron steeple is working again, but thank you. For the uninitiated: on the hour he rings his bell, his wee bird flaps its wings, and his salmon revolves slowly with an air of utter unimpressedness.

Passing by the Tron Steeple at 1500 hrs yesterday and caught St Mungo with his revolving fish and flapping bird. The sculpture by sharmanka.com was restored as part of the Tron Steeple project/Glasgow 850 celebrations supported by Glasgow Institute if Architects and @GlasgowHeritage.bsky.social

BCE Europe is spreading its wings and our European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme online system is now being used around the world. There are now 50 wonderful schemes in 44 countries. You can see a map and all the details here butterfly-monitoring.net/bms-schemes. Get involved if you can

Dudes rock (highly laudatory): www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Three Italian ‘hobbits’ flew to Ireland to return this man’s ring — and it was precious | CBC Radio

Irishman Patrick Mohr thought his wedding ring was lost forever after it slipped off his finger into a fast-moving river in Italy. That is until three Italian strangers made it their mission to find i...

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welp now im crying sometimes humans are good actually?

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3d ago

Dudes rock (highly laudatory): www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

BRIDGE OF THE GODS #INTERNATIONALCAPSLOCKDAY #BridgesThursday #IronworkThursday #Landscape #Bridge

The lock on the door that gives access to the organ at King's College Chapel, Cambridge looked very surprised that I noticed it. Found on the screen erected between 1532-36 by Henry VIII to celebrate his marriage to Anne Boleyn. #IronworkThursday

Gare du Nord, Paris France Art Nouveau style entrance to the Métro in cast iron & glass. Now protected as a historic monument. Designed by Hector Guimard from 1900. #Architecture #ArtNouveau #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday

Yesterday was #TrafalgarDay when we remember the great Horatio Nelson, Duke of Bronte. The Brontes took their name from him. News of Trafalgar first reached England on this day 1805 in Penzance, where the Bronte mother Maria was living, via a fishing boat that got the news from HMS Pickle.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 5: Vehicle Plaque commemorating the men lost at Abberley, November 1943.

Today is #NationalAppleDay. The #Romans introduced various apple types across the Empire. Priorwood Gardens still grow ancient varieties brought by the Romans & cultivated by Abbey monks. The gardens once belonged to James #Curle, excavator of #Trimontium. 📷 Wall painting from #Pompeii

Day 21: Air #31DaysOfGraves 2026 Susanne Forcart died heartbroken after the loss of her two little children Baseler Münster

Around 25,000 people were discharged from English hospitals into care homes between 17 March and 15 April 2020. Many across the UK were discharged without tests because testing capacity was inadequate. 5/10

Governments already knew care-home residents were exceptionally vulnerable to respiratory viruses. Yet protective measures were introduced long after Covid had taken hold. The Inquiry’s verdict is blunt: action came too late. 4/10

When Matt Hancock said that the government had put a “protective ring around care homes from the very start” we all knew it was not true. The Covid Inquiry has now backed this up criticising his claim as "unfounded".

Covid inquiry rejects ministers' claims of 'protective ring' around care homes at start of pandemic - follow live

Delays in protecting people in care settings in the UK caused devastating consequences, the report into the sector says.

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#OTD 1966 • Aberfan Disaster 🥀 On Friday the 21st of October 1966, a wave of coal waste slid down the Aberfan Valley, taking the lives of 116 children and 28 adults with it. #Wales #History

Everyone of a certain age remembers where they were on the day this happened #Aberfan

One joke I learned from the class a few years ago was this accent-based cracker: A Brummie invited me to a fancy dress party with a spice theme. I turned up as a chill pepper but everyone else was dressed as astronauts

If it hadn't been abolished in favour of 12 weeks on generic skills, my Round the Wrekin module would have covered West Midlands humour and comedy this week - accents, insider/outsider humour, Lenny Henry, Goodness Gracious Me, Jasper Carrot, Joe Lycett, The Grimleys, 'considerably richer than yow'

There was during WWII, an AirCrew Allocation Centre which went by ACAC, it handled personnel tasks, routing people to training, new situations, and at the end of the war, towards demobilisation. But wasn't aware there was a WW1 or inter-war service of this kind. Which makes this intersting.

Today's #31daysofgraves theme is "air". This tombstone is in the graveyard of St Pauls Walden, #Hertfordshire, #UK. Rodney was only 25 when he died, I assume in an accident as it was before WW2. I'm not sure what ACAC stands for.