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Thrilled to be collaborating with Ciera Atkins to co-host @btobirds.bsky.social Youth Girls Go Birding event in Dorset, at Hengistbury Head.

Join us on the 2nd of May 10am-12:30pm for a birding walk followed by a warm (or cold!) drink at the Hiker Cafe. Can't wait!

www.bto.org/our-work/eve...

Or just read it with a Yorkshire accent!

Same. However, in a cruel twist my MP is a transphobic Green.

Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

Renationalise the water industry.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Well, fifty is looking lovely!

Likewise, still waiting for my in depth knowledge of the Repeal of the Corn Laws to come in handy…

Fuck. I’ve read, enjoyed, even praised LC’s books. I’d no idea she was such a hideous piece of transphobic crap. Reparations will be made!

Wild dark shore by Charlotte McConaghy, a near-future eco-dystopia set in the Antarctic should round things off nicely (I’m off to reserve the Louis de Berniers from the library)

Read that as "Barbies have umbilical cords" and thought this was going off somewhere wild for a moment!

"use the full length of the platform" is not an instruction you can personally put into practice, unless you are an anaconda, in which case you should not be on the piccadilly line for other reasons

When you're about to answer and then you see Nigella beat you to it... 😏

If you cared about teenagers' mental health, you'd be campaigning for more skate-parks and cycle-paths, subsidised music courses and access to sports-centres, rather than moaning about smartphones.

Billy Binion tweet, it reads: "Politicians shgouldn't say "fuck" in public. Unbecoming, reeks of pick-me energy. You're the mayor. Act like it." It's QTing @Acyn who is quoting the Mayor Frey saying "I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

For those wondering what Mamdani's quote, "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty," was in reference to...

And getting a stiletto heel caught in the wooden floor grooves.

You'd think BBC sports extra would be able to work out what time to start their 'full' replay of the overnight ashes action so that it doesn't get abruptly cut off by the rugby/football/whatever else is in the afternoon schedule – but it seems not. Again.

The jewellery shop will be for all the drunken, unplanned proposals that happened at midnight and now require an emergency ring!

Oh my god, I’d completely forgotten that Judith Krantz even existed until I read this but I just had a very strange sensory flashback to this book mingled with some Jackie Collins and a sprinkle of James Herbert. Could explain almost everything!

Trans Mission - Wednesday 11th March Mighty Hoopla and Olly Alexander team up for a Trans Mission: an all-star solidarity concert for the trans community at OVO Arena Wembley

An extraordinary thing, this.

A line up of stars performing at Wembley Arena to show their love and solidarity with the trans community and in aid of Good Law Project and Not A Phase.

Register now for tickets.
www.transmissionlive.uk

Your cricket posts are confirmation (if it were needed) that blue sky is my new home. So many cricket fans emerging from behind their academic/artist/musician facades today. It's great!

steve smith, you scored 17 on your specialist subject, "getting hit by jofra archer"

That ‘ashes in oz’ feeling of impending doom as you switch on the radio at 7 in the morning to find out what happened overnight… 😆

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864

Totally read that as UEA. Which also makes perfect sense…

Every now and then it works, as if by magic, and I’ve no idea how/why, and it is still no more likely to work the next time.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

And why call it 'golden ticket'?

Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children?

A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted.

4,671.

Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?

Imagine receiving a pay rise 18 times more than the average UK salary of £37,800.....

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Love it! Was about to ask if there was any 'cheeky Monk' on the set list... 😆 Kids love live music don't they, and they're often frowned upon at performances, especially of 'serious' music, which is shockingly short-sighted given the average age of the audience at most classical/jazz gigs!