He wrote me a letter saying essentially "Shut up, Piggy"

@jderbyshire.ft.com this looks like something you might enjoy

@fgfriendlies.bsky.social

#ASongOrMovieForHaircuts

THE BUNS OF NAVARONE

Iran put out another Lego video 🤷‍♀️

@fgfriendlies.bsky.social

#ASongOrMovieForGettingRidOf

PEGGY SUE GOT MARIE KONDOED

It's a superb fairywren. When I first heard this I just thought the woman was saying that it was a particularly good example of a fairywren, but later we realised that it's actually the name! (malurus cyaneus)

BISHOPS CAN NOW TAKE EN PASSANT?

FINALLY!!!

1. .... , Rc1+
2. Kh2, Qxh3+!
3. gxh3, Nf3+!

@fgfriendlies.bsky.social

#ASongOrMovieForDoingTheLaundry

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lenor

The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations on ¡El pueblo unido jamás será... YouTube video by Igor Levit - Topic

This is uplifting if you have the time and a bit of volume ...

youtu.be/O76MpGC4YhE?...

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

'AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying'. Without a doubt, a smart decision by the Guardian to publish this brilliantly-written #HistSTM piece. #HistTech #MilHist #HistWar 🗃️

The wokerati cancelled Jimmy Savile!!

I was struggling with this one until I saw my other rook hiding behind the new post button...

Baby hagesanger (garden warbler), #Lindvik, #Norway

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #OpenBeak

#birds #nature #photography

This is very nice

A cormorant drying its wings is the closest I can get today...

#Preeners&Scratchers theme
#BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin
#birds

I just read the article and it made my skin crawl. I'm astonished that @theguardian.com published this ill-thought out spiteful tripe.

It's got pedigree that camera xxx

I'm not sure if "discreet charm" is what they were aiming for at Berlin's Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, although perhaps I am mistaken in identifying the location? (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe)

"is that a biro in your pocket, or do you just really like my red velvet dress?"

I used to really love the 3200

Development Azure
forks
Strategic Ebonies
1 - 0

1 [Opens with a wide view of a city skyline, empty blue sky] 2 [same image but now a huge, light grey rectangular object has appeared in the sky, at such an angle that we can't quite see what it is] 3 [cut to the people going about their business on the ground. Slowly they start to realise something has appeared in the sky.] 4 PERSON 1 [squinting up at the sky]: Is that...   5 [we now see the object from their point of view. It is a huge floating voice note, as you would get in WhatsApp, and it is from GOD. In the bit showing how long the voice note is, it says: 4m years.] 6 PERSON 2 [Close up of their face looking horrified]: It's a four-million year long voice note.. from God.  7 PERSON 1 [closing their eyes in despair]: We've got to listen to it, haven't we.  8 [cut to some time later, a huge crane has been erected next to the voice note, a person at the end of it, reaches out and presses the play button] 9 GOD [voice coming from the voice note]: Hiyaaa 10 GOD: Sorry babes I was gonna do another Testament but I'm sending a voice note instead 11 [Show the people below, shutting eyes, looking pained as they resign themselves to having to listen to the whole thing otherwise they will look rude] GOD: Thought I'd just, y'know... set you all right again... woah look at that pigeon... haha I'm on Heaven High Street right and I just saw a big pigeon... anyway where was I... [In between panels, to indicate time passing]: (...) 12 [the scene is now the same as panel one, except the city skyline is now degraded, long since dead, an apocalyptic scene of lifeless ruin, silent beneath a blood-red sun] GOD: ...Aaanyway sorry for the long note babes love you all byyye *Bip * [Ends]

Joseph Kessel was in the French Resistance, so gets a free pass!!

I have a journalism joke, but it's the sub-editor's day off so it isn't very funny.

It's from a couple of months back, but here's a similar spot just outside Aberteifi that you might like x

Good morning. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LandMeetsWater any bird on a shoreline or riverbank, water and shoreline must be in capture. The alt is #TreePerchers any bird perched in a tree. Good luck folks. #Birds #photography #ECK

Curlews, Wales

I have this on mono vinyl.

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Splash any bird capture with a splash of water, wave breaking or droplets of water on the bird. The alt is #Sparrow any Sparrow capture. #birds #photography #ECK

Great Crested Grebe, Lago di Ledro, Italy