Annette B
@annetteeb.bsky.social
Walking. Eating. Gardening. Friends. History. Sci-Fi. Oh yes, and trees. Love trees
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN!! 🎂
- Today is my Birthday!
I have autism and I officially
turn 29 years old. I would like
to receive lots of birthday wishes
from people around the world!
please Share/Like! to help
make my birthday
wish come true! ❤️
I have autism and I officially
turn 29 years old. I would like
to receive lots of birthday wishes
from people around the world!
please Share/Like! to help
make my birthday
wish come true! ❤️
February 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEN!! 🎂
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The rabbi of the congregation I grew up in & where my family in San Diego still goes.
This is the end of his Facebook post about Bad Bunny’s halftime show (which be began by noting hood family comes from the same town as Bad Bunny).
This is the end of his Facebook post about Bad Bunny’s halftime show (which be began by noting hood family comes from the same town as Bad Bunny).
February 10, 2026 at 10:06 PM
The rabbi of the congregation I grew up in & where my family in San Diego still goes.
This is the end of his Facebook post about Bad Bunny’s halftime show (which be began by noting hood family comes from the same town as Bad Bunny).
This is the end of his Facebook post about Bad Bunny’s halftime show (which be began by noting hood family comes from the same town as Bad Bunny).
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More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
More Research Training from the IHR . The term 2 calendar is now live.
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
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After years of frustration in his quest it would seem that one of The Empire’s deadliest bounty hunters has finally tracked me down.
February 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM
After years of frustration in his quest it would seem that one of The Empire’s deadliest bounty hunters has finally tracked me down.
We seem to have a short memory and have forgotten just how awful the previous government were. #PartyGate #Truss #prorogation to name a few. He’s still better than Johnson. You know who I mean.
February 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
We seem to have a short memory and have forgotten just how awful the previous government were. #PartyGate #Truss #prorogation to name a few. He’s still better than Johnson. You know who I mean.
Currently listening to #JonnyFlynn as he reminds me of #holidays #walking and the #SouthDowns and green, lush& warmer light-filled days to come. Like below.
February 8, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Currently listening to #JonnyFlynn as he reminds me of #holidays #walking and the #SouthDowns and green, lush& warmer light-filled days to come. Like below.
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Pls support RSPCA campaign to pre-stun ALL animals before slaughter! 🙏
In 2024, 26.7m chickens, 3.1m sheep, & 35k cows were slaughtered without pre-stunning & would have felt pain during the neck cutting process, up until they lose consciousness.
www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/...
In 2024, 26.7m chickens, 3.1m sheep, & 35k cows were slaughtered without pre-stunning & would have felt pain during the neck cutting process, up until they lose consciousness.
www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/...
Ban Non-Stun Slaughter for Farm Animals - RSPCA - rspca.org.uk
Millions of farm animals endure unnecessary suffering before death. Join our campaign and call for an end to non-stun slaughter in the UK.
www.rspca.org.uk
February 7, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Pls support RSPCA campaign to pre-stun ALL animals before slaughter! 🙏
In 2024, 26.7m chickens, 3.1m sheep, & 35k cows were slaughtered without pre-stunning & would have felt pain during the neck cutting process, up until they lose consciousness.
www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/...
In 2024, 26.7m chickens, 3.1m sheep, & 35k cows were slaughtered without pre-stunning & would have felt pain during the neck cutting process, up until they lose consciousness.
www.rspca.org.uk/getinvolved/...
That’s making me soooo angry. 😡 so am also resharing.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM
That’s making me soooo angry. 😡 so am also resharing.
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Another comic I never bothered posting
This one from 2023. Topical galileo humour apropos of precisely nothing at all
This one from 2023. Topical galileo humour apropos of precisely nothing at all
![1. [Title Panel]: Is Your 17th Century Astronomer Spending Too Much Time on His Telescope?
2. [Text -only panel] These days, more and more 17th Century Astronomers have access to telescopes. Here are some warning signs that they are on the slippery slope to Godless heliocentrism!
3. STAYING UP LATE WITH THEIR TELESCOPE
[GALILEO is looking through his telescope out the window at a starry sky].
GALILEO'S WIFE:
Go to bed, Galileo!
GALILEO: In a minute...
4. ‘FOMO’ (FEAR OF MISSING OBSERVATIONS)
GALILEO'S WIFE:
Dinner, Galileo!
GALILEO [Looking through telescope]:
Just need to check my orbits
5. WITHDRAWING FROM REAL-WORLD ACTIVITIES
[Galileo's friend the POPE is now standing next to Galileo, who is still looking through his telescope]
THE POPE: Come to church, Galileo!
GALILEO: Not now...
6. FALLING OUT WITH FRIENDS
GALILEO: [Showing The Pope the book he's working on) I'm just working on my book challenging the Bible's view of the Universe
7. BEING ARRESTED BY THE INQUISITION
[GALILEO is being dragged out of the room, hands outstretched to his telescope. He is calling to it]:
GALILEO: Telescooope
9. GETTING SENTENCED TO HOUSE ARREST UNTIL DEATH FOR HERESY
[GALILEO sitting in front of his telescope, now with bars over the windows]
GALILEO: Ah, crap.
10. CONTINUED TELESCOPE USE DESPITE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES
[GALILEO in same position but now with long white beard, he is looking through his telescope through a barred jail window at the sky]
GALILEO'S WIFE:
Go to bed, Galileo!
GALILEO: In a minute...
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February 5, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Another comic I never bothered posting
This one from 2023. Topical galileo humour apropos of precisely nothing at all
This one from 2023. Topical galileo humour apropos of precisely nothing at all
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This took me fucking ages
![1
[Scene is a GREGGS interior. A lone MAN, the only customer in the shop, is standing at counter]
MAN:
Please can I have a sausage roll.
2
GREGGS SHOP ASSISTANT:
Certainly sir
[She pulls a leaver on the panini machine and WOOSH the man disappears through a trapdoor].
Whoosh
3
[The MAN appears through a chute in an underground bunker. A voice from off-scene greets him]:
Welcome, friend
4
[We see the voice is of a military-looking resistance COMMANDER with a moustache]
COMMANDER:
You said "please can I have" instead of “can I get”…
So now you're one of us.
5
MAN:
W-where am I ...?
[We see him looking at a hi tech UNDERGROUND MILITARY BUNKER - it has resistance vibes, and has lots of screens with maps etc]
6
COMMANDER:
You've joined the resistance…
...against people saying things all American.
7
COMMANDER:
We are an underground network of sleeper agents poised to have a right go at young people the moment they say "mom" or "bangs”.
8
LIEUTENANT [Staring at screen]:
Agent 244 has just given a Zoomer in Halifax the “could/couldn't care less" speech, sir
COMMANDER:
Very good
9
[Show the map of the UK with digital pop ups on it saying ‘GOTTEN’, ‘ZEE’, ‘MATH’ etc
COMMANDER:
You may have heard our name... We are...
10
COMMANDER:
...the Fight Against New Yankee Pronunciations and Americanisms Corrupting the King's English!
11
[Show the military command center panel. It says on the wall in big metal letters]:
F.A.N.Y.P.A.C.K.E.
12
MAN
You've called yourselves the 'Fanny Pack'
COMMANDER:
We didn't spot the acronym
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February 2, 2026 at 10:25 PM
This took me fucking ages
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"One person, a little bit wrong" would be a good name for a list of the children, citizens, refugees, and other perfectly legal or vulnerable people unreasonably detained by ICE, plus the violence, destructiveness, illegality, and lies used in their detention.
Trump: "We take out drug dealers, we take out a whole group of people by the thousands. And if we get one person a little bit wrong -- headlines. But they don't talk about all the tremen-- the reason we have Minnesota crime down is because we took out so many criminals."
January 27, 2026 at 10:01 PM
"One person, a little bit wrong" would be a good name for a list of the children, citizens, refugees, and other perfectly legal or vulnerable people unreasonably detained by ICE, plus the violence, destructiveness, illegality, and lies used in their detention.
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Throughout 2017, I decided to take a photo per day of a proud old oak tree in the field beyond the garden of the cottage I was renting in the south west of the UK, chronicling its ever-changing moods.
Here are four of my favourites.
Here are four of my favourites.
January 25, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Throughout 2017, I decided to take a photo per day of a proud old oak tree in the field beyond the garden of the cottage I was renting in the south west of the UK, chronicling its ever-changing moods.
Here are four of my favourites.
Here are four of my favourites.
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If anyone would like a similar session, details about arranging it can be found here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
January 26, 2026 at 8:58 AM
If anyone would like a similar session, details about arranging it can be found here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
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January 25, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Gorgeous
Murmuration - by Scottish artist and printmaker, Babs Pease
We loved this one so much that we have a copy hanging on our wall!
More of this artist's fabulous work, here: www.babspeasedesign.com
#art #printmaking #linocut #hares #birds
We loved this one so much that we have a copy hanging on our wall!
More of this artist's fabulous work, here: www.babspeasedesign.com
#art #printmaking #linocut #hares #birds
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Gorgeous
Excellent. Not in the same league as you but, I recently found some of my undergraduate essays and, initially reticent to read, I was quite pleased with myself.
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Excellent. Not in the same league as you but, I recently found some of my undergraduate essays and, initially reticent to read, I was quite pleased with myself.
Just seen #WithnailandI at our local cult film club. What a wonderful film and so evocative of a key time in my life; the squalor and fun of being an out of work actor and so very quoteable too. But like #Marwood, we have to grow up.
a couple of men are sitting at a table in a restaurant eating sandwiches .
ALT: a couple of men are sitting at a table in a restaurant eating sandwiches .
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January 23, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Just seen #WithnailandI at our local cult film club. What a wonderful film and so evocative of a key time in my life; the squalor and fun of being an out of work actor and so very quoteable too. But like #Marwood, we have to grow up.
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Visited last summer. It rained. But still excellent
For #RomanFortThursday, the justifiably famous Vindolanda on Hadrian’s Wall.
📷 June ‘24
📷 June ‘24
January 22, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Visited last summer. It rained. But still excellent
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The phrase “knock on wood” - or “touch wood” in the UK - is an ancient one deriving from the belief that tapping on trees awakes the gods and spirits that reside within them and brings good luck.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
January 22, 2026 at 5:57 PM
The phrase “knock on wood” - or “touch wood” in the UK - is an ancient one deriving from the belief that tapping on trees awakes the gods and spirits that reside within them and brings good luck.
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January 19, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.
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Get to know these goats. You won't regret it.🐐🧵
THREAD.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
January 20, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Get to know these goats. You won't regret it.🐐🧵