Rose George
@rosegeorge.bsky.social
Adult human Yorkshire lass. Author, fell runner. Likes bogs. http://rosegeorge.substack.com
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Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Yossi Mekelberg of @chmenap.bsky.social and Julie Norman of @ucl.ac.uk on the possible futures of Gaza and the day's other stuff, plus @rosegeorge.bsky.social on her fine new book "Every Last Fish". monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Solving conflict in the Middle East: How to break the deadlock - Monocle
A Gaza ceasefire might be in place but what are the actual long-term solutions to conflict in the Middle East?...
monocle.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Latest Daily on Monocle Radio. Yossi Mekelberg of @chmenap.bsky.social and Julie Norman of @ucl.ac.uk on the possible futures of Gaza and the day's other stuff, plus @rosegeorge.bsky.social on her fine new book "Every Last Fish". monocle.com/radio/shows/...
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"The High Seas Treaty is the best thing in ocean conservation news since the oceans needed conserving." Read @rosegeorge.bsky.social's new essay in Big Issue, her new book EVERY LAST FISH is in stores now.
www.bigissue.com/life/food/mo...
www.bigissue.com/life/food/mo...
Modern fishing is going further and deeper than ever. But there's a big catch
Fishing efforts multiplied nine times between 1970 and 2008. And yet the more we fish, the less fish we are catching.
www.bigissue.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
"The High Seas Treaty is the best thing in ocean conservation news since the oceans needed conserving." Read @rosegeorge.bsky.social's new essay in Big Issue, her new book EVERY LAST FISH is in stores now.
www.bigissue.com/life/food/mo...
www.bigissue.com/life/food/mo...
I wrote today’s Guardian Long Read: an account of the awful sinking of the #ScandiesRose on the first day of 2020, with the loss of five men. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose
The long read: When a fishing boat left port in Alaska in December 2019 with an experienced crew, an icy storm was brewing. What happened to them shows why deep sea fishing is one of the most dangerou...
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I wrote today’s Guardian Long Read: an account of the awful sinking of the #ScandiesRose on the first day of 2020, with the loss of five men. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
Guess I should have known when it asked me if I identified as a cisgender woman. No, love. Just a woman, that’s plenty enough.
July 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Guess I should have known when it asked me if I identified as a cisgender woman. No, love. Just a woman, that’s plenty enough.
Could someone tell me what the f*ck these abbreviations mean? Not the star signs. I understand those though not why they are considered part of a personality. This is from Breeze dating app btw.
July 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Could someone tell me what the f*ck these abbreviations mean? Not the star signs. I understand those though not why they are considered part of a personality. This is from Breeze dating app btw.
This is horrific. I doubt they’d let me in either. Bye bye America for a while.
18. French scholar coming for conference 🇫🇷
Denied entry and deported for anti-Trump views expressed on social media. 🚨
HT @profpech.bsky.social
Denied entry and deported for anti-Trump views expressed on social media. 🚨
HT @profpech.bsky.social
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This is horrific. I doubt they’d let me in either. Bye bye America for a while.
No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.
Dora thoroughly ignoring the new catnip toys that she has been delighting in, because I was trying to show my brother how much she loved them.
Dora thoroughly ignoring the new catnip toys that she has been delighting in, because I was trying to show my brother how much she loved them.
March 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.
Dora thoroughly ignoring the new catnip toys that she has been delighting in, because I was trying to show my brother how much she loved them.
Dora thoroughly ignoring the new catnip toys that she has been delighting in, because I was trying to show my brother how much she loved them.
This is a great piece on why we are not seeing oiled birds off Grimsby. Nice to see follow-up after all the disaster writing.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nort...
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nort...
The quick thinking that averted oil catastrophe in the North Sea
Although one sailor died, the tanker collision might have been far worse without the speed and bravery of the rescue — and some lessons from history
www.thetimes.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This is a great piece on why we are not seeing oiled birds off Grimsby. Nice to see follow-up after all the disaster writing.
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nort...
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nort...
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I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment.
Take a look at my wares and please repost.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
Take a look at my wares and please repost.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
March 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment.
Take a look at my wares and please repost.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
Take a look at my wares and please repost.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!
Glad the crews are safe. But not glad at what sea life is now suffering.
March 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Glad the crews are safe. But not glad at what sea life is now suffering.
FWIW the vast majority of shipping accidents are caused by human error. My money is on an unattended bridge. Nothing much else makes sense with all the tech on offer. But eyes are as useful as tech.
March 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
FWIW the vast majority of shipping accidents are caused by human error. My money is on an unattended bridge. Nothing much else makes sense with all the tech on offer. But eyes are as useful as tech.
Hello, I’m dining on my own. I’d like you to ask me several times if I’m on my own please, then seat me on the table nearest the toilets, then ostentatiously remove the second set of cutlery while asking me again if I’m on my own. Otherwise it just wouldn’t be right.
March 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Hello, I’m dining on my own. I’d like you to ask me several times if I’m on my own please, then seat me on the table nearest the toilets, then ostentatiously remove the second set of cutlery while asking me again if I’m on my own. Otherwise it just wouldn’t be right.
Belatedly, here is a review I wrote of a very good book about smell. www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...
Why do we assume smell is our weakest sense?
My cat can smell depression. Another family cat could smell my stepfather’s dementia. They both became more affectionate and tactile: the dementia-smelling cat would gently paw my stepfather, when he ...
www.spectator.co.uk
February 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Belatedly, here is a review I wrote of a very good book about smell. www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...
Copy edit back from US copy editor. Who comments that “this author’s writing is steeped in UK idiom.” Hmm. I wonder why?
February 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Copy edit back from US copy editor. Who comments that “this author’s writing is steeped in UK idiom.” Hmm. I wonder why?
Someone should tell millennials in the outdoors that it’s OK to greet other human beings.
February 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Someone should tell millennials in the outdoors that it’s OK to greet other human beings.
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Americans, every day:
February 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Americans, every day:
Season’s greetings to you.
December 26, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Season’s greetings to you.
Message from a fell running friend I am meant to be racing with today on the moors. “95% chance of rain & 50mph winds, do you still want to do it?”
*considers state of head & heart*
“Yes.”
*considers state of head & heart*
“Yes.”
December 22, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Message from a fell running friend I am meant to be racing with today on the moors. “95% chance of rain & 50mph winds, do you still want to do it?”
*considers state of head & heart*
“Yes.”
*considers state of head & heart*
“Yes.”
On a par with me standing behind Peter Gabriel for a group photo at TED, and coming up with, “you’re ahead of me in the alphabet.”
December 22, 2024 at 8:20 AM
On a par with me standing behind Peter Gabriel for a group photo at TED, and coming up with, “you’re ahead of me in the alphabet.”
Nice one #Co-operativeBank: an online banking system in which you can’t search online past 13 months. Totally antiquated. Bye bye Co-op after 30 years.
December 20, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Nice one #Co-operativeBank: an online banking system in which you can’t search online past 13 months. Totally antiquated. Bye bye Co-op after 30 years.
Having a 14-year-old French god-daughter is a constant revelation.
November 24, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Having a 14-year-old French god-daughter is a constant revelation.
Sunday fact. In France, Timothée Chalamet is known amongst the young as Titi ChaCha. (Soft C for the best effect.)
November 24, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Sunday fact. In France, Timothée Chalamet is known amongst the young as Titi ChaCha. (Soft C for the best effect.)
Happy #WorldToiletDay! Billions of people have no toilet or an awful toilet, so consider yours and how lucky you are to have a clean and private and safe one and give it a metaphorical hug. Or an actual hug: I don’t mind. #hugyourtoiletday
November 19, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Happy #WorldToiletDay! Billions of people have no toilet or an awful toilet, so consider yours and how lucky you are to have a clean and private and safe one and give it a metaphorical hug. Or an actual hug: I don’t mind. #hugyourtoiletday
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If anyone fancies a career change, there’s a chief scorpion wrangler being sought on the Isle of Sheppey: Dockyard searching for 'chief scorpion wrangler' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kent: Dockyard searching for chief scorpion wrangler
Scorpions have been living in the walls at Sheerness Dockyard for more than 200 years.
www.bbc.com
November 17, 2024 at 8:34 AM
If anyone fancies a career change, there’s a chief scorpion wrangler being sought on the Isle of Sheppey: Dockyard searching for 'chief scorpion wrangler' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Wtf is a starter pack? Is there a starter pack to tell me what a starter pack is?
November 17, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Wtf is a starter pack? Is there a starter pack to tell me what a starter pack is?