Too late, unfortunately.

Yellow hooded flowers with nettle like leaves.

I’m continuing to learn British wildflower names.

I think this awful picture is of Yellow Archangel, looks like a nettle but doesn’t sting. Websites says it takes over from bluebells but our bluebells aren’t out yet.

Catholic priests in Nazi Germany using a Nazi salute..

No surprise there.

Ten years from now you'll put on a jacket and find a mask in the pocket. "Oh man, what a weird year that was," you'll chuckle to yourself. Then you'll pick up your machete and continue across the wasteland, keeping to the shadows to avoid the roving gangs of cannibal raiders.

It’s those *¥%€$>} penguins again!

Bless. That’s just not fair.

US has twice as many measles cases so far this year than in all of 2024 The U.S. now has more than doubled the total number of measles cases in 2024. Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Kansas and Oklahoma all have active measles outbreaks.

The U.S. now has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024, with Texas reporting another large jump in cases and hospitalizations.

I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌

@juliusgoat.bsky.social
Having used your quote about ‘What historians call Nazis” a number of times I now find that you are on Bluesky and ostensibly alive (never to sure with looking at quotes). Bravo! Now following to get the full benefit of your contribution. (No pressure) 👍

There’s a lot wrong with the EU but at this moment of time, and going forward, if we’re not in a bloc then we’ll be picked off individually by the ones that are.

‘What’s that film where the farm boy rescues the Princess?’
‘Princess Bride?’
‘No, he finds an old magician, & they go off with Robin Hood, & the magician fights the evil Wizard, the farm boy, Robin Hood & a friendly bear find the Princess..’
‘Woah.. Robin Hood & a Bear?
‘Star Wars, that’s it…….

I read ‘WI IS NOT FOR SALE!’

Agh, I thought, that fiend Farage is after the Women’s Institute!

Turns out the WI involved was actually Wisconsin.

🤷‍♂️

Precisely. If we don’t have the knowledge to interpret something correctly then they can easily be mis-filed.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C Clarke

Well, that’s my kind of atheism. I mean, I think something connects everything together, but I don’t think it’s a sentient ego, so I’m happy to work on it to see if my idea is right.

Good news. If this had affected men the pill would have been available years ago.

Trump cannot understand that anyone will do something other than for financial reward. He knows it, but he doesn’t understand it. I think if he orders invasions there may well be a mutiny. Things will get messy.

And Tarzan!

Mene. Trump as Dr.Evil. Pinky finger to side of mouth. Caption reads: 100% Tariffs!

Reading Eco there’s no hard a fast rules and fascism morphs to take on the style of the society, so US fascism doesn’t look like Italian, German or British fascism.

Whiskey Pete Hegseth has a Russian burner phone which he uses to communicate in secret with someone. 👊🇺🇸🔥

I think this relates.
Umberto Ecos 14 Features of Fascism.
2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”

I think there are other, more dangerous people in that group but if the figurehead went they might implode.

Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now | Arwa Mahdawi Minor visa infractions have seen tourists detained, shackled and deported by overzealous US border staff. There are many more welcoming places to go on holiday, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Sad times.

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For my own peace of mind I’ve stopped buying American owned products, where possible. The US is bullying a Commonwealth member, maybe the Commonwealth boycotts American goods. I think 30% of the world not buying Heinz might get noticed. Maybe not make much of a difference but you do what you can.

Steam train. Saddle tank 0-6-0 I think in old GWR livery.

Thought you might like: Bodmin & Wenford Railway, a few years ago.

Have you seen the Château de Purnon.

I cannot believe how much money this must be costing. They don’t seem to be cutting any corners. Different from the usual ‘only afford - builder at a time’ (though I love them as well)

Screen shot of my phone suggesting ‘plasma ceiling’ instead of misspelt word ‘place’.

My continuing problems with iPhone predictive text /dictionary.
I mistyped ‘place’ and it suggested ‘plasma ceiling’

I mean. WTAF?

Great song. I saw them back in 197-tiddly-umpty.

Why don’t they get an artist to paint them?