Simon Huddlestone

St Augustine's church Hedon autumn colours #StAugustines #church #Hedon #autumn #colours #Holderness #EastYorkshire #photography

They seem to have stopped posting here, but really enjoyed going to see @operanorth.co.uk Rigoletto last night @ Grand Theatre Leeds. Fantastic singers, great staging, loved the whole thing, sat near the orchestra so watched them too. I am a complete opera novice but planning to go more often!

Lula's win in Brazil will avert a free-for all on Amazon deforestation that Bolsonaro planned One of the largest & most diverse ecosystems on earth is already under strain from deforestation & climate change. Bolsonaro may have set it inexorably towards collapse We should all be grateful. For now.

The best thing about the clocks going back is that when you wake up as usual at 3am, paralysed by dread, you find it’s only 2am and oh god the aching void of night will never end.

we've identified another vulnerability leak. now hackers on the dark web have identified your bad knee and that weird thing your shoulder does if you sleep on it wrong. there's no patch available for this, they're now just keenly aware you feel like your career has stalled out

Put more clearly - an arrogant incompetent old man picked an arrogant incompetent woman for her looks and her extremist views and she proved utterly incapable of delivering. That's how the US is being run right now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you are still on Musk's X, you are enabling his treachery.

Being a change-maker is harder than living in a world properly changed.

In the 19th century, Bradford's mills had a problem. Every now and again, an otherwise young and healthy wool sorter would take ill. They'd be dead within a couple of days, blood oozing from their mouths. What was going on?

For some inexplicable reason this report by the BBC’s Danny Halpin, about imposition of car parking charges, a subject usually closed to the rabid gammon heart, fails to mention that the (Wakefield) council is run by Reform! Nice one Danny - keep up the good fight! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Make a war film rubbish. The Heroes of Telemarketing

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

🚨New Streets Ahead Episode! A day in the life of the City of London cycling police, as Laura shadows the team, out on the streets catching illegal e-motorbikes: shows.acast.com/streets-ahea...

Unexpectedly lovely morning for a bike ride.

In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown.

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

Exactly what “standards” are those, Robert? You collude with pornographers over property deals. You take dodgy donations. You whore for racists and christofascists for personal gain. You betray your political allies, friends and your country to sniff at power. You have no standards. You’re poison.

This Onion article was only written in April.

These people will eat plants or animals without thinking about those being alive. But when it comes to a mathematical formula calculated using molten sand melted into useful silicon charged with electric micro shocks generated by burning dead trees from millions of years ago. Then there’s concern?

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

United States of America brings back public executions courtesy of Pete Hegseth. The sort of tyrannical behaviour that ISIS and the Taliban engage in. baynews9.com/fl/tampa/mil...

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

The “accidentally” bit feels suspicious. One, sure, but ten? Strong “nice green bottles you got there, be a shame if something were to happen to them” vibes

the tech industry is about to invent books

Is this the week that Bake Off jumped the shark?

If you just substitute the words 'working age' for 'fighting age', suddenly the arrival of youngish men and women doesn't sound threatening. Rather, it sounds like exactly what we need for an ageing population.

Happy 50th anniversary to the iconic high speed train/HST/Inter City 125, which still operates on Scottish services, test trains and charters. #HST50

If the owners of Man City carry on with their scorched earth approach to defending what they have done that's really going to make me think twice about cheering for the plucky underdog UAE cycling team.

With the reporting in the UK that a woman reported the Fairford incident to the cops because they were blocking her driveway, and Trump describing a well organised anti-terrorist sting - which of those do you believe?

Erling Haaland next season:

Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit

YOUNG JOHNNY BAIRSTOW!

Blockbuster movies need alternative soundtracks for when they are broadcast on TV. It's infuriating having to reach for the remote every time the soundtrack switches from inaudible mumbling to all out nuclear war and back.

Once again, speaking as a professional archaeologist: "English" is not an ethnicity in any meaningful sense. You only have to go back about 1,000 years before everyone in Europe has the same group of common genealogical ancestors. Humans have lived on the British Isles for almost a million years.

I have an extreme phobia of German sausages. I truly fear the wurst.

I guess they stopped the boat.

Went to have a look at this secondhand VW Polo but I think it needs a new handbrake, because it keeps rolling down the hill.