Brexit Just Damages The NHS
Time to #ExitBrexit

How Nico O’Reilly has helped revitalise Manchester City’s title charge The 21-year-old all-action left back has proven himself to be a standout contributor at crunch time this season

Cherki showed his class and Silva was superb, but O'Reilly was the standout player for me in Man City vs Arsenal. Wrote about his role in City's title charge for @thetransferflow.bsky.social:

www.thetransferflow.com/p/how-nico-o...

Drinker Moth caterpillar on a wooden board. This distinctive larva has hairy buff and gold edges and a black dorsal surface with yellow spots and well-spaced black spines. It also has a large black and orange tuft at the front end and a smaller black tuft at the rear

Angle Shades moth caterpillar on a green Elder leaf. The caterpillar is bright green, with very bulbous segments each marked with fine silver dots and a pale line

Two caterpillars from yesterday, South East #Northumberland, a Drinker Moth from the coast and Angle Shades from my garden. #TeamMoth

Absolutely wonderful place. Friendly people, incredible wildlife, delicious food, spectacular landscapes, and fascinating towns, culture and history

Can’t believe I omitted the obscenely long bill from my alt description!! 🤦‍♂️

A last family holiday before the kids fly the nest, probably. It means it was sometimes tricky to fit in some birding, but we did do some amazing safaris, and my family is pretty used to me sitting outside staring into undergrowth or wandering off when they’re all resting!

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Another terrible phone photo is my contribution to #BirdOfTheDay theme, #Petals&Perches. I was so mesmerised by this Loten’s Sunbird feeding from flowers as I supped my morning cup of tea in the hills above Ella in Sri Lanka last year, I dared not move to get my camera, so this is the best I got!

Stunning photo, that, Alan.

The diversity of their mimicry is astounding. I’ve listened to Sedge Warblers mimicking 8 or 9 different species, from Coots to Buzzards to Blue Tits. Incredible.

A small golden-brown moth on a fluorescent yellow background. The wings are spotted purple with fringe hairs and the head is hairy with long antennae pointing forwards

A small golden-brown moth on a fluorescent yellow background. The wings have darker spots with long shiny fringe hairs lying over the other wing. The head is hairy with large black eyes and long antennae.

Best moth of the weekend was this cracking Dyseriocrania subpurpurella that landed on my cycling jacket when I was out-and-about in #Northumberland. The gold wings glimmered in the Spring sunshine, but subtle purple spotting shows well in the photos.
The UV trap? 3/2 over 2 nights!
#TeamMoth

Phone shot of a mud flat at Cresswell Pond. Five of the seven male Ruff can be seen, one partially hidden by reeds, along with a Redshank, and in the background two Shelduck

Seven Ruff and a harassed-looking Reeve at Cresswell Pond this morning.
#NEbirding

This! 👇🏻

Maybe. And so my engagement with customers should not be a workflow. AI email drafts simply take more work to edit than to just write myself. I can see some value for colleagues for whom English is not a first language, but for me, I can write far more clearly -and personally- in “my own voice”

They say that #AI is supposed to make everyone’s life easier. But since Copilot AI support was introduced at work, I now spend 10-15 minutes a day closing “Do You Want to Write This With AI?” prompts. 🤷‍♂️

A Parsnip Moth, on a brick wall. A small, elongated moth with white head and grey-brown, streaked wings

Just the one moth to my UV trap in South East #Northumberland last night in the two hours it was out before the rain came. A NFY Parsnip Moth, which nearly got away but settled on the wall long enough to see and get a quick photo. #TeamMoth

City Legend ☕️

A Yellow-legged Gull from the Forum in Rome last weekend, for today’s #BirdOfTheDay, meeting both themes, #HeadShots and #Gulls. It landed about 2m away from us as we explored Palatine Hill.

Thought I’d somehow ended up on GBNews last night when the BBC 10 o’clock news came on. How for the national broadcaster has fallen when it’s lining up propaganda for Reform.

May I present to you this “Research Grade” Cat Ba Langur, my own personal iNaturalist highlight!

“Data analysts Opta still give Arsenal a 93.62% chance of winning the title, based on thousands of simulations of each team's remaining fixtures.” (BBC)

Really? As a Blue that’s been through it all, I have low expectations. But >90% likelihood in favour of Arsenal? From here? Them? And us?
#ManCity

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Brilliant. @dalevince.com

Diamondback moth, a small, thin moth, creamy brown sides and pattern of diamonds

Indeed!

What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠

"This aged well…"
via Tony Martin

Wow! That’s genuinely a horrific vision of some people’s world view 😔

A world in which civility should reign at least within the public spaces of leadership, now looks on with disgust at America and its Government, and how far it has fallen beyond the gutter.

The dregs of humanity are running amok, stealing and committing open crimes.

Where does it end?

The last point is an important one. When (if?) we eventually look back on this through the lens of history, an awful lot of once respected news media and a large proportion of contemporary journalists are going to come out of it very badly.

Seriously? Imagine that is Salah not Cherki… not even 1 chance in 100 that it’s not given