The Dreaded Lurgy
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Cobblers. Sometimes found in Ecclefechan.
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Four bicycle riders stop for a photograph on the Alameda Avenue Bridge, Denver, Colorado
ca. 1905
ca. 1905
February 1, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Four bicycle riders stop for a photograph on the Alameda Avenue Bridge, Denver, Colorado
ca. 1905
ca. 1905
There ain't no party like a no Your Party
Earlier this evening:
“Your Party have not yet named a candidate to fight Gorton and Denton because they probably have still to elect the committee that will select the candidate,” said my wife, jokingly.
Er….
“Your Party have not yet named a candidate to fight Gorton and Denton because they probably have still to elect the committee that will select the candidate,” said my wife, jokingly.
Er….
February 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM
There ain't no party like a no Your Party
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Tonight's full moon - some call it the Snow Moon - was almost the exact same size as the Balmoral Hotel clock from where I was standing.
There is no better place to be than Edinburgh to experience a full moon brightening the sky & enhancing the cityscape.
#Edinburgh #SnowMoon
There is no better place to be than Edinburgh to experience a full moon brightening the sky & enhancing the cityscape.
#Edinburgh #SnowMoon
February 1, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Tonight's full moon - some call it the Snow Moon - was almost the exact same size as the Balmoral Hotel clock from where I was standing.
There is no better place to be than Edinburgh to experience a full moon brightening the sky & enhancing the cityscape.
#Edinburgh #SnowMoon
There is no better place to be than Edinburgh to experience a full moon brightening the sky & enhancing the cityscape.
#Edinburgh #SnowMoon
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In addition to the top brass having lied about their ties to a convicted paedophile, it makes zero sense that an investment firm with $850bn of assets under management would need Epstein's advice on tax, still less that a founder would pay him "more than $150mn for personal financial advice."
February 1, 2026 at 8:21 PM
In addition to the top brass having lied about their ties to a convicted paedophile, it makes zero sense that an investment firm with $850bn of assets under management would need Epstein's advice on tax, still less that a founder would pay him "more than $150mn for personal financial advice."
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Owners of Atlético Madrid and recent minority investors in Wrexham.
NEW: Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s, despite the firm having previously said it “never did any business” with the child sex offender. as.ft.com/r/eeb49ab9-9...
Apollo chief Marc Rowan consulted Epstein on firm’s tax affairs
[FREE TO READ] New files reveal extensive talks between disgraced financier and key decision makers at US private capital firm
as.ft.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Owners of Atlético Madrid and recent minority investors in Wrexham.
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The last one. Countless places across Britain have experienced this over the past few decades - the last local Willow Tit singing in early spring to find a mate who no longer exists, because there's none left.
Ironic that a Great Tit came to put the boot in.
#ukbirding
Ironic that a Great Tit came to put the boot in.
#ukbirding
It was good to reconnect with a willow tit (assuming same individual) from two years ago at this site (Cynon valley S.Wales) I’m hoping there’s a pair but I fear this is the last one here. It was quickly moved along by a GT. do pairs stick close together in January? #willowtit #glambirds
February 1, 2026 at 7:19 PM
The last one. Countless places across Britain have experienced this over the past few decades - the last local Willow Tit singing in early spring to find a mate who no longer exists, because there's none left.
Ironic that a Great Tit came to put the boot in.
#ukbirding
Ironic that a Great Tit came to put the boot in.
#ukbirding
Sorry, BBC Radio, what? What even is this? Two things or three? Why is one capitalised? What's a borderless spectrum?
February 1, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Sorry, BBC Radio, what? What even is this? Two things or three? Why is one capitalised? What's a borderless spectrum?
Best of Terry Wogan Blankety Blank is on at 19.40 so that's not so bad, is it? People mucking about and being happy.
February 1, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Best of Terry Wogan Blankety Blank is on at 19.40 so that's not so bad, is it? People mucking about and being happy.
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Colin the Batterpillar
Just saw someone batter and deep fry a Colin the caterpillar cake.
February 1, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Colin the Batterpillar
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Delicious bootleg Gonch toast
40 YEARS AGO TODAY: as Gonch and Hollo's bootleg toast operation booms in Grange Hill, regular extra Patsy Palmer gets her first line as a pupil and then nearly gets in the way of the bigger girls.
February 1, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Delicious bootleg Gonch toast
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An afternoon’s birding in East Lothian started with 13 Snow Buntings at the east end of Yellowcraig beach. It ended with 3 European White-fronted Geese with Whooper Swans at Prora. @birdinglothian.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 5:31 PM
An afternoon’s birding in East Lothian started with 13 Snow Buntings at the east end of Yellowcraig beach. It ended with 3 European White-fronted Geese with Whooper Swans at Prora. @birdinglothian.bsky.social
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The 13 Snow Bunting Still near the mouth of the Eel Burn yesterday on our family walk From North Berwick to Gullane also a good few Purple sandpipers & this Crow at Fernyness today possibly a Genuine Hoody 🤷♂️? @birdinglothian.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 2:16 PM
The 13 Snow Bunting Still near the mouth of the Eel Burn yesterday on our family walk From North Berwick to Gullane also a good few Purple sandpipers & this Crow at Fernyness today possibly a Genuine Hoody 🤷♂️? @birdinglothian.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social
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On this day 45 years ago, 1st Feb 1981 Scotland partially decriminalised homosexuality, bringing to an end half a millennia of state sanctioned murder, imprisonment, hard labour & transportation for the crime of being gay.
February 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM
On this day 45 years ago, 1st Feb 1981 Scotland partially decriminalised homosexuality, bringing to an end half a millennia of state sanctioned murder, imprisonment, hard labour & transportation for the crime of being gay.
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And also completely different from that time a bloke in Gloucestershire “slipped and fell” onto a WW2 armour-piercing shell.
Bomb squad called to Gloucestershire A&E for man with artillery shell up his bum
THE bomb squad was called to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital after a patient arrived with an artillery shell stuck up his bottom.
www.herefordtimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:04 PM
And also completely different from that time a bloke in Gloucestershire “slipped and fell” onto a WW2 armour-piercing shell.
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This is completely different from that time a Frenchman got a WW1 shell stuck up his arse.
Bomb squad called to ER after 88-year-old man arrives with WWI artillery shell in his anus
The French hospital confirmed the pensioner is recovering well after the 8-inch shell was removed from his anus, Var-Matin reports.
www.businessinsider.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:02 PM
This is completely different from that time a Frenchman got a WW1 shell stuck up his arse.
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It has happened again.
Man, 24, goes to hospital with 'WW1 bomb stuck in rectum'
Doctors removed a 16cm World War I shell from the man's anus.
metro.co.uk
February 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
It has happened again.
The candy floss / fibreglass crossover we've all been seeking without knowing it
No, *you're* eating an entire box of Soan Papdi* to yourself.
I always pick these up on a trip to Maqbools, Potterrow.
*It's like a cross between candy floss and fibreglass
I always pick these up on a trip to Maqbools, Potterrow.
*It's like a cross between candy floss and fibreglass
February 1, 2026 at 4:56 PM
The candy floss / fibreglass crossover we've all been seeking without knowing it
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Repeating my plea for a historian of late C19th/early C20th spiritualism to write something about the chatbot industry, because from where I sit it looks a lot like the same predatory grifting with more expensive ectoplasm.
February 1, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Repeating my plea for a historian of late C19th/early C20th spiritualism to write something about the chatbot industry, because from where I sit it looks a lot like the same predatory grifting with more expensive ectoplasm.
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I was shocked today to find probably the worst treated standing stone I’ve ever seen. And that is saying something. I’m not going to reveal its location just now but suffice to say I’ll be contacting a few folk on Monday. #UrbanPrehistory
📸 Sam McKeand
📸 Sam McKeand
January 31, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I was shocked today to find probably the worst treated standing stone I’ve ever seen. And that is saying something. I’m not going to reveal its location just now but suffice to say I’ll be contacting a few folk on Monday. #UrbanPrehistory
📸 Sam McKeand
📸 Sam McKeand
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I don't want 3 million files released into the world like confetti. Am I meant to read them? I want accountability. Not fucking tittle tattle
January 31, 2026 at 8:52 AM
I don't want 3 million files released into the world like confetti. Am I meant to read them? I want accountability. Not fucking tittle tattle
9/10
Musashi Ranmaru, a naughty boy in a butterfly helmet, is the mascot for the scenic town of Arashiyama in Saitama.
February 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
9/10
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Went on a nice walk.
February 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Went on a nice walk.
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Bony-Eared Assfish
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February 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Bony-Eared Assfish
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Remembering Peter Sallis, born this day in 1921.
February 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Remembering Peter Sallis, born this day in 1921.
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Sculpted Elephants at the Carlsberg Beer Factory, built in 1901, Copenhagen
February 1, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Sculpted Elephants at the Carlsberg Beer Factory, built in 1901, Copenhagen