Veronica
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Mum, gran, cat lady, coffee drinker, hope over fear, tolerance over tyranny.🏴
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
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The company Emrod is already transmitting energy over kilometers without cables, using microwaves and laser-based safety. In Finland 🇫🇮
Brian Cox, professor of particle physics in the Dept of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester, says once a civilization creates the means of its own destruction, it will do so, because there are just too many assholes and too much ignorance to govern. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfF...
Brian Cox: The terrifying possibility of the Great Filter
YouTube video by Big Think Clips
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Professor Brian Cox reflected on a timeless question: are our lives guided by fate, or shaped by the paths we choose? 🤔🤔
Tonight at Kulturfabrik in Roth. Tomorrow we head to Bielefeld. If you’re into Irish of Scottish folk music, check out the Irish Spring tour ☘️ ✨ info → www.linktr.ee/ionafyfe
Quit and win for your health #NoSmokingDay #NSD26
the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain
Melissa Chemam@melissaontheroad.bsky.social · 6mo agoAnd another bites the dust? The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
So I turned social media off for a few hours to unwind. Did I miss anything?………
Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.
Happy Thanksgiving to my Bluesky fiends. Wishing you all good health, happiness and prosperity. Have a great day
Recipe for iced coffee☕️ 1. Have kids 2. Make coffee 3. Forget you made coffee 4. Drink it cold
Happy Hallowe’en 🍁🎃 Violet Jacob (1863-1946) wrote the poem Hallowe’en after the death of her son at the Battle of the Somme. It was published in 1921 in her book ‘Bonnie Joann, and other poems’. Jim Reid set the poem to music.
A13th century Highland castle has been named the SECOND most magical in Europe
13th century Scottish castle on tidal island named SECOND most magical in Europe
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Dr Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message.
RIP Jane Goodall. You can't spell Goodall without All Good!
