Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised.

RT if you know it has to be.

Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum)
Humans can also eat Wild Garlic and it can be used in a number of dishes, as well as made into garlic butter. It can be confused with Lily of the Valley (deadly if eaten) but does not smell of garlic when crushed

Absolutely appalling

#sharemondays2026
#fsprintmonday
#appicoftheweek
#jessopsmoment

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.

The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle

This was a fun one for me to write. It's the Angine de Poitrine argument for universal basic income. We could have more weird, awesome, truly human stuff like this if we all had UBI. We could have more Einsteins too. And because those things are true, the cost of NOT doing UBI isn't worth it.

The far-right and a dry stone wall a viral video promoted by racists is not what it seems

There is a viral video going around on X and Facebook which has been seized on by the far-right.

It claims to show a young British Asian destroying a dry stone wall.

But as so often with such ragebait, the video isn't what it seems.

Here is my, probably forlorn, attempt to correct the record.

Beautiful scene today with the sunshine reflecting off the water and onto the kingfisher.

#LondonBirds #eastlondonkingfishers #birds #nature #wildlife #ukbirds

Changing Forget-me-not, Myosotis discolor, on Wareham Common today #wildflowerhour

Mousetail, Mysurus minimus, by a well trampled gate in Dorset this morning #wildflowerhour

Greater Stichwort, Rabelera (Stellaria) holostea, at the edge of a traditional hay meadow in Dorset #wildflowerhour

Early Forget-me-not, Myosotis ramoissima #wildflowerhour

Bird's-foot, Ornithopus perpusillus #wildflowerhour

Subterranean Clover, Trifolium subterraneum on the common today #wildflowerhour

Mousetail, Mysurus minimus, again, because it's brilliant and I love it. #wildflowerhour

Upright Chickweed, Moenchia erecta, on the common this morning #wildflowerhour

Butcher's Broom, Ruscus aculeatus, at Wareham today #wildflowerhour

Wood Millet, Milium effusum, in the village woods #wildflowerhour

Beautiful vocals in the sun this morning. Sedge & Cetti’s warblers, chiff chaff, tits great & blue, wrens, robins, buzzard, song thrush, blackbirds, and first cuckoo always on a part of the marsh I wasn’t. Beccles Marsh Trail

Jake Thackray - Lah Di Dah YouTube video by msturdy

#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
#AprilFoolsMusic

Taken from his tv show I think. Song starts 2 mins in if you want to skip the pre-amble:

4 Jake Thackray - Lah-di-dah
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5 Tewns Vol.22 – Weekly Music Picks: Boards of Canada, Youngsta, Jake Thackray & More Another week ends, another weekend begins, and I’m back with another collection of weekly music picks. It’s been a week […]

5 TEWNS VOL22
Another week, another top 5 — this week featuring @boardsofcanada.bsky.social , @wendyeisenberg.bsky.social , youngsta, Amos, and wisdom from the legendary Jake Thackray.
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#BoardsOfCanada #Youngsta #JakeThackray #WendyEisenberg #weeklymusic

Join us in London on 15th August for Jakefest 2026, a day celebrating the genius of Jake Thackray. www.ticketsource.com/jake-thackra...

Green-winged Orchids, Anacamptis morio, in a traditional hay meadow in south east Dorset this morning.

Bluebells in the village woods this evening.

Another valuable (and presumably time-consuming) de-bunking thread from @monkemma.bsky.social

If you're not following her, you're missing out!

Simple, direct graphic proclaims "Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores.

Ich did not make thys, but Ich wisshe Ich did. Repost yf you are a proud member of the Gen AI Backlash.

Exterior view of BBC New Broadcasting House

A BBC report gives the impression of large-scale asylum fraud

But the detail is far more limited

Published mid-campaign, says Stephen McNair, it risks reinforcing Reform UK’s central message.

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Taraxacum is a genus of flowering plants which consists of species commonly known as dandelions and the Latin name derives from the Arabic tarakhshaqūn, meaning "bitter herb”

NUMBER CRUNCHING **£7.4m** Fine Ben Delo agreed to pay in 2022 after pleading guilty in the US to anti-money-laundering failures at BitMEX, the crypto exchange he founded **£4m** Donation Delo, since pardoned by Donald Trump, has made to Reform UK

I hear neither Reform nor donor Delo want this news getting round. Via Private Eye

NEW: ‘Hitler was right’, says star Reform activist – HOPE not hate By Harry Shukman and Sarah Hadley A well-known Reform activist who campaigned for the party in the forthcoming local elections has denied the Holocaust and...

Reform Essex activist who hosted Nigel Farage at his tanning salon is also a Nazi superfan who believes that "Hitler was right."

Excellent work from @hopenothate.org.uk

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