she is all of us this week

perhaps the heron can only move after a successful dice roll?

so it's mostly harmless and ignorable, and only occasionally stabby (but even then, sometimes unsuccessful gaarrkkk)

I like the thought of that, as an entirely new type of chess move and piece

and a kingfisher piece which can catch one pawn (frogspawn? minnow?) from across the board and zoom back again instantly, in one move, but can't take any bigger pieces

When statues of gods mean more than the deaths of children.

was a really interesting experience though, trying to get wet cat food food down that very stabby beak

much weaker than I had imagined

looked after a hammerkop juvenile in Kenya once, similarly a few days before it was ready to fly, and that felt much more robust (fittingly)

reality is the best teacher

but, sadly, American grunts disproportionately come from the most excluded communities of an unequal society

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gaaaarrkk

I looked after a baby heron for a few days in Brazil, and oh boy, was it ungrateful 😹😭

Thank you ❤️‍🩹

Wait until I'm firing on all cylinders (or perhaps withdraw to a safe distance...😹)

an older and deeper sickness than Starmer, but perhaps more glaringly obvious without a core program, and seeing the logical conclusion of rewarding supporters and allies, not selecting for competence, in the USA

I'm in the wrong timeline

Exhibit 24,829

fake news, fake missiles
fake cargo tracking data

Could have paid millions of dollars on fees to a consultant, but instead just made political donations directly up me. Great businessman.

Starmer created this crisis by sacking a qualified and competent woman.

And when he sacked career diplomat Karen Pierce to give Mandelson her job, SIX other senior women diplomats left FCDO as their careers were doomed under his government.

He's done far worse, but I'm fine if this does for him.

typing on the deck of the Titanic?

Award-winning author, broadcaster and academic Gary Younge to Chair British Academy Book Prize 2027 Gary Younge, the award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, is today announced as the new Chair of judges for the British Academy Book Prize.

Fantastic news that Gary Younge has agreed to be chair of the judging panel for our book prize which awards humanities and social sciences books that change how we see today’s world
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/award-w...

Interesting new development in the wave of arson attacks that have hit London in recent weeks

Counter Terrorism Policing say they have made 7 arrests in relation to conspiracy to commit arson against a "venue related to the Jewish community." The statement said that the specific target is unknown

This, from @edwardluce.bsky.social, is exactly right. Netanyahu is toxic in the US & deserves to be. The Israel-US special relationship is over. But I don’t mourn for it as I do for his other innocent victims. The main reason Americans sympathize with Palestinians is it is the right thing to do.

keep feeding it 20p coins 🤞🏽

I've been out of the UK for a while, seen previous waves of homelessness in particular rise and fall over that time —

but this current situation seems wider, more pervasive, and different, more hopeless

but varies from place to place

I sense a slowly creeping, numbing, corrosion of social fabric

The Interview Archive - Desmond Morris - BBC Sounds Interview with scientist and author of The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris

oh, thanks for the heads up

I'm going to listen to that now

same on the aquatic ape thing, I remember double checking that fairly recently and being surprised

I guess he creatively opened up/popularised a really wide territory, and some of his ideas were off, but he inspired many others to follow up and test things, if I'm reading his legacy right?

short + sweet video 😻

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

this logically implies the existence of hitherto undiscovered clay post-it notes and flipchart pads

frankly, i deserve this

a phenomenon that is hard to write about – for fear of dehumanising people in crisis, and because it has no name.

“Disorder” or “antisocial behaviour” don’t capture the spectacle so common on British high streets of visibly chaotic lives and those in acute public distress.

thoughtful & helpful 👇🏽

I caught the very tail end of that

things are so much better now

maybe the other extreme — too picky and specific, everything has to be exceptional

I like simple, easy, cheap and tasty

(perhaps it's like slow geological rebounds, like Scotland still rising after the glaciers)

I'm lucky to come from a culture that can do magical things with them