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Norway's Prime Minister marks Trump's homework

You don't have a right to safe drinking water, a US court just ruled. A Trump-appointed judge also said Americans have no “constitutional right to truthful information” during a public health crisis.

A rare survival from Neolithic Cumbria some 5,000 years ago! A polished greenstone axehead, quarried in the Langdales, with its original wooden handle preserved! Found at Ehenside Tarn in 1869, it is the only hafted Neolithic axe known from England to date! 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

I love my job cleaning at the museum, getting all the glass display cases shining and sparkling and free from the day's fingerprint smudges. Sometimes, though, the fingerprints are on the inside. #2sentenceHorror

Permafrost is thawing deeper and it’s happening worldwide. A new study of 156 monitoring sites found that the active layer, the soil that thaws each summer, increased significantly at many sites from 2000–2024. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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I feel like I’m going to throw up

A fine reward for habitat management on a disused road - a Lizard Orchid pops up. #wildflowerhour

Upright Brome pollen contributing to hay-fever suffering. #wildflowerhour

You know you're in good quality chalk grassland when there's so many botanists' thistles you can't sit down.

Had a quick walk around the estate first #lawnflowers #wildflowerhour. The contractors haven't cut (first time). All kinds of nice things - including 3 Corky-fruited Water-dropwort.

Damatic weather for counting orchids in Kingsdown.

Nearly 600 Duke of Burgundy butterflies counted in Kent www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/N...

Heath Fritillary on Corky-Fruited Water-dropwort. Not a combination I've seen before.

Delighted that Dropwort has returned to its old site in Kingsdown! #wildflowerhour

Just getting ready to sit in a shaded nook in the garden... laptop, drink, snacks, chair all set out. And then discovered that the blackbirds have fledged and are not happy with my presence. Back into the house.

That’s obviously Israel’s plan! Thwart a deal by stirring up more and more regional turmoil, death and destruction.

Looking through the Mandelson files, has Wes Streeting said in public Israel is committing war crimes, or does he just keep that sentiment for DMs? www.gov.uk/government/p...

"Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes" - Wes Streeting, in a private message. So it turns out that government ministers were not, after all, incapable of understanding what is happening there. Just incapable of saying it in public, and of acting on that knowledge. #MorallySupine

How can you map a changing landscape and retain its history and spirituality?

The White House is doing this a) so it can intimidate voters physically at the polls, and b) because more Dems vote by mail.

Treacle and Brimstone is on 🔥. #auriculaheaven

A slice of edgeland life in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Susie White from #rhschelsea. #countrydiary #naturewriting

31 May 1819 saw the birth of the poet Walt Whitman. By way of tribute, here is Ralph Vaughan Williams’ setting of sections from Leaves of Grass in his early work, A Sea Symphony. Vaughan Williams, introduced by Bertrand Russell to Whitman’s work while at Cambridge was a lifelong admirer of the poet

Good to see @velshi.com out there. This is fucking crazy.

The French interior ministry said that some 416 persons were arrested nationally, including 283 in Paris alone. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/5UIW

🚨Ian Austin, 6-tour combat veteran, shows us his injury after NJ state police struck him with a projectile outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. "We're willing to f*cking die here!" he shouts at police. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

It's all very North Korean

Le Livre des Mille et une Nuits, Illustrations de Léon Carré, Paris, 1932.

Beyond sickened of the British media's obsessive hounding of Nicola Sturgeon .. who is actually a victim of Murrell .. meanwhile Labour are defending an Actual Security Risk ..

Born in Częstochowa, to Bronislawa and Dawid Kozak. The Germans took their factory away. Polish nuns hid the Kozaks from the Germans. It's close to miraculous she survived. In the 1970s, she did a PhD on women munition workers in WW1 at Hull. May her memory be a blessing.

Hoverfly larvae on a grass stem outside a pub in Wales. At this scale they always look rather... alien. Fear not, these are UK natives and friends, eating pests in your garden 🌿 #entomology #bugsky #diptera

Hummingbird of the Day: Blue-headed Hummingbird Near Threatened 📷 Thomas Brooks

Can renewable electricity really power us 24/7? New storage tech says yes. With new battery chemistry, giant batteries in Australia to pumped hydro in Wales, the biggest barriers to clean energy are starting to fall – even on windless winter nights. Stephen McNair explains...

No, @zackpolanski.bsky.social , you must *not* listen to Reform voters’ concerns. The opposite. You must challenge them. Fight them. Oppose them. Stand up for the truth and for what’s right. Don’t make the same mistake Labour did. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Looks like a good year for Heath Dog-violets at Sandwich Bay observatory. #wildflowerhour

Clearing Alexanders and Winter Heliotrope after flowering - great work by the team in East Kent.

A young Robin turned up at the garden bin lid bird bath to see what was going on. 📹🌞🐦💦💚👍 #Ramsgate #binlidbirdbath #spring #wildlife

"You don't need a weatherman To see which way the wind blows" Wild Mignonette on Dover cliffs for #wildflowerhour

The cute Sand Sedge, knee-high to a grasshopper #wildflowerhour

A fine setting for a Kent botany meeting - Allington Castle.

Kidney Vetch glowing in the setting sun. Each flower-head carefully scrutinised for Small Blue eggs. #wildflowerhour

Saunders' law: "There is no gap in a window so narrow that a fly cannot find a way in. And there is no gap so large that it will ever find its way out".

Feeling all 'umble this evening.

The area around our pond is looking particularly splendiferous this evening. Though I have just noticed a rogue hazel growing surreptitiously behind it! 😊

What's not to like?

Sometimes you just know it's the right kind of car park.

Useful corrective here to all that crap questioning the patriotism of young people inews.co.uk/news/world/a...

I'm a supporter of the Lords and in particular of the way that it controls its own timetable. But this is a constitutional outrage and it cannot stand humanists.uk/2026/04/24/a...