cows freaking love music & it is the wildest thing to watch 😭

Cry me a river apple.news/A7Mlj--EsRCOgW…

An excellent overview in JNCI of the published literature concerning cancer prevention with the #HPV vaccine. Here's the main figure... a picture is worth a thousand words again.

When it happens to Meghan, y'all claim it's part of public life, and she needs to stop whining. However, now that people have legitimate questions about Kate's whereabouts, some of you are calling for the British government to shut down Twitter? You don't see the hypocrisy?

Here's a vintage example of FOI vandalism I've been dealing with.

The department: David Cameron’s Foreign Office.
The subject: David Cameron’s lobbying career.

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My thoughts and prayers are with Gully Foyle, Jamon Augusta, McBride and Jessop at this difficult time...
#BrexitBrokeBritain #BrexitHasFailed

UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline ft.com/content/6d044f… via @ft

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Here's our final song of 2023, about the deserving folk receiving #NewYearHonours & the contrast with the pathetic cronyism in Liz Truss & Boris Johnson appointees. It's to the tune 'There Is Nothing Like A Dame' but called 'Does Liz Truss Not Feel Ashamed?' 🎶Happy New Year!🥳🍾

PPE procurement rules should include a requirement that anyone with more than, say, a 2% interest in the company should have to enter an Ebola ward wearing a random sample of their own equipment.

Anniesomeone Marquess Dawes #FBPEGlobal #RejoinEU #ToriesOut Strangely when allegations were made against Alex Salmond it was a total media circus as client media tried to make capital. Over 30 Tory MPs face serious sexual abuse accusations. UK media response is complete silence. UK politics is completely so rigged. thetab.com/uk/2023/11/06/…

In this country the tax authorities don't have the resources to go after billionaires but hire over 20 new staff to go after microbusinesses selling on Ebay and Etsy. I realise it is low hanging fruit, but it seems to me we're not getting bang for our buck here.

#FindsFriday

WOW, c. 9,500 year-old woven baskets from a Spanish bat cave! 🤯

Look like they were made yesterday rather than by hunter-gatherers during the Mesolithic period!

Recent analysis of the esparto grass used to make the baskets shows they’re about 2,000 years older…

It’s national cinnamon bun day in Sweden. Be rude not to.

The final sea shanty of the trilogy 🎶⚓️(an adaptation of #Wellerman and #DrunkenSailor ) inspired by Suella Braverman MP's recent speech on migration.

We stand and sing in solidarity with a different vision from #Braverman 's of what our country stands for & who it should stand by🧡

The Right to Roam has been enshrined in Norwegian law since the 1950s.

Now it has a sophisticated outdoors culture where responsibility is enshrined from birth and the majority of the population spend regular, quality time in the outdoors.

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Why is it when I get presented with “for you” content it is always right wing crackpots?

Oaklands College in St Albans is chopping a new path through ancient woodland in order to close two longstanding foothpaths through their land. They could easily skirt the woodland. The first neighbours knew was the sound of the chainsaws. Woodland Trust🌳 Chris Packham Herts Advertiser

I just hope we won't need to defend ourselves in the near future.