Annie Drynan
@adrynan.bsky.social
Newly acquired PhD in C19th Brighton & Hove associational culture. Other interests: birds, gardens, running, family history, music. I used to do what was then called UX many years ago.
Once upon a time “global warming” was all about vineyards in North Yorkshire.
Nowadays “climate crisis” means wet and windy. All the time. (And I’m not even in the worst-hit areas)
Nowadays “climate crisis” means wet and windy. All the time. (And I’m not even in the worst-hit areas)
January 27, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Once upon a time “global warming” was all about vineyards in North Yorkshire.
Nowadays “climate crisis” means wet and windy. All the time. (And I’m not even in the worst-hit areas)
Nowadays “climate crisis” means wet and windy. All the time. (And I’m not even in the worst-hit areas)
Lovely talk from @markthebirder.bsky.social about the birds in Filey and Bempton, for the Brighton RSBP group. Such great bird photos.
January 22, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Lovely talk from @markthebirder.bsky.social about the birds in Filey and Bempton, for the Brighton RSBP group. Such great bird photos.
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Satellite-tagged Hen Harrier called Edna "suspected illegally killed".
Was she killed & dumped at a windfarm in Northumberland as a ploy to cover up the crime?
New blog ⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WilldifeCrime 🌍
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/19/s...
Was she killed & dumped at a windfarm in Northumberland as a ploy to cover up the crime?
New blog ⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WilldifeCrime 🌍
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/19/s...
Satellite-tagged Hen Harrier Edna “suspected illegally killed”. Was she killed & dumped at a windfarm in Northumberland?
Further to this morning’s blog about a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier (Pete) who has ‘disappeared’ in Cumbria (see here), here’s news of another one, quietly updated in Natura…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
January 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Satellite-tagged Hen Harrier called Edna "suspected illegally killed".
Was she killed & dumped at a windfarm in Northumberland as a ploy to cover up the crime?
New blog ⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WilldifeCrime 🌍
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/19/s...
Was she killed & dumped at a windfarm in Northumberland as a ploy to cover up the crime?
New blog ⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WilldifeCrime 🌍
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/19/s...
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Gheeraerts: Thomas, can you hold the helmet like a regular person?
Thomas: …
Thomas: …
2/2 Captain Thomas Lee: Ready for combat in Ireland in 1594 but seems to have forgotten his nether hose & shoes, alas! Still got painted by Marcus Gheeraerts, whose day is today.
January 19, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Gheeraerts: Thomas, can you hold the helmet like a regular person?
Thomas: …
Thomas: …
OK. Anyone want my Mrs Joyful Prize for Raffia work? Would swap for a Booker Prize, Oscar or similar.
January 16, 2026 at 9:04 AM
OK. Anyone want my Mrs Joyful Prize for Raffia work? Would swap for a Booker Prize, Oscar or similar.
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1926: the BBC decided women should not be radio announcers:
"The...physical strain...is greater than could be borne by the average woman", & "there is something incongruous in a woman announcing weighty news bulletins or...football results".
The decision was rapidly reversed after public derision.
"The...physical strain...is greater than could be borne by the average woman", & "there is something incongruous in a woman announcing weighty news bulletins or...football results".
The decision was rapidly reversed after public derision.
January 15, 2026 at 11:07 PM
I still love #DiggingForBritain but to me this series seems to be concentrating a bit too much on the “lovely treasures” side of archaeology. Not entirely a realistic picture.
January 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
I still love #DiggingForBritain but to me this series seems to be concentrating a bit too much on the “lovely treasures” side of archaeology. Not entirely a realistic picture.
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Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
January 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
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I don’t want to worry anyone but Digging for Britain has just said that the largest UK archaeological dig is currently taking place a stone’s throw from where MR James set A Warning to the Curious.
January 14, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I don’t want to worry anyone but Digging for Britain has just said that the largest UK archaeological dig is currently taking place a stone’s throw from where MR James set A Warning to the Curious.
Instagram keeps showing me #knitting “hacks” for correcting things when you make a mistake. Thing is, I never realised some of these WERE mistakes - I thought they were just, sort of, how I knit.
January 11, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Instagram keeps showing me #knitting “hacks” for correcting things when you make a mistake. Thing is, I never realised some of these WERE mistakes - I thought they were just, sort of, how I knit.
Does anyone (particularly gov departments) ever take “indecisive action”? If not, why swank about you action being “decisive”
January 8, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Does anyone (particularly gov departments) ever take “indecisive action”? If not, why swank about you action being “decisive”
Watching an online Zoom preso. Some people’ve kept their cameras on. 1 chap wrapped himself in a sort-of horse blanket, hid his head & went to sleep.The blanket moves from time to time. It’s like a C21st MR James story - watching someone being killed under a blanket while following a Zoom meeting.
January 7, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Watching an online Zoom preso. Some people’ve kept their cameras on. 1 chap wrapped himself in a sort-of horse blanket, hid his head & went to sleep.The blanket moves from time to time. It’s like a C21st MR James story - watching someone being killed under a blanket while following a Zoom meeting.
So much for 2026 being a new start. So far I’ve been put on a course of antibiotics, and now the raucous cough I’ve had for 5 days has turned into the cold from hell.
January 3, 2026 at 9:37 AM
So much for 2026 being a new start. So far I’ve been put on a course of antibiotics, and now the raucous cough I’ve had for 5 days has turned into the cold from hell.
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‘It was not in his nature to do anything by halves:’ Mary Booth on her husband’s work. No lie detected. I run a course that demystifies Charles Booth’s massive Life & Labour survey and the accompanying Poverty Map.
Starts Tue 13 Jan at the Mary Ward Centre, nr Stratford High St DLR short.do/wLa3Vc
Starts Tue 13 Jan at the Mary Ward Centre, nr Stratford High St DLR short.do/wLa3Vc
December 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
‘It was not in his nature to do anything by halves:’ Mary Booth on her husband’s work. No lie detected. I run a course that demystifies Charles Booth’s massive Life & Labour survey and the accompanying Poverty Map.
Starts Tue 13 Jan at the Mary Ward Centre, nr Stratford High St DLR short.do/wLa3Vc
Starts Tue 13 Jan at the Mary Ward Centre, nr Stratford High St DLR short.do/wLa3Vc
First bird of the year? Feral pigeon, of course.
Merlin also had a go at telling me it heard a red-throated loon.
Unlikely in this little park in the middle of Hove!
Merlin also had a go at telling me it heard a red-throated loon.
Unlikely in this little park in the middle of Hove!
January 1, 2026 at 2:53 PM
First bird of the year? Feral pigeon, of course.
Merlin also had a go at telling me it heard a red-throated loon.
Unlikely in this little park in the middle of Hove!
Merlin also had a go at telling me it heard a red-throated loon.
Unlikely in this little park in the middle of Hove!
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This is literally the best thread you’ll see today. Give it a whirl.
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 31, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This is literally the best thread you’ll see today. Give it a whirl.
I would NOT have done a military gap year. Why would I want to be shouted at, call people sir or ma’m, be at risk of sexual harassment and wear a uniform?
December 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I would NOT have done a military gap year. Why would I want to be shouted at, call people sir or ma’m, be at risk of sexual harassment and wear a uniform?
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Something lovely for the weekend!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
December 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Something lovely for the weekend!
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age 💙
Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.
📷 National Museum of Denmark
#Archaeology
Blimey. It’s only 9.30 on Dec 27. And the first tree has been thrown out by someone! #RecyclingChristmasTrees
December 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Blimey. It’s only 9.30 on Dec 27. And the first tree has been thrown out by someone! #RecyclingChristmasTrees
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Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.
December 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.
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Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
December 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a mouse!
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
Squeak squeak! 🐭❤️
📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
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When you're told 'no more chocolates' but it's okay because you've got deep pockets...
Painting: Captain Sir Thomas Dutton, circa 1605-1615, artist unknown. From the collection at Sherborne Park Estate in Gloucestershire.
Painting: Captain Sir Thomas Dutton, circa 1605-1615, artist unknown. From the collection at Sherborne Park Estate in Gloucestershire.
December 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
When you're told 'no more chocolates' but it's okay because you've got deep pockets...
Painting: Captain Sir Thomas Dutton, circa 1605-1615, artist unknown. From the collection at Sherborne Park Estate in Gloucestershire.
Painting: Captain Sir Thomas Dutton, circa 1605-1615, artist unknown. From the collection at Sherborne Park Estate in Gloucestershire.
Like the world wasn’t bad enough. Even a small glimmer of light about reintroduction of birds has to be extinguished.
Absolutely shocking.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
Police investigate after white-tailed eagles go missing across UK
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Like the world wasn’t bad enough. Even a small glimmer of light about reintroduction of birds has to be extinguished.
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