Andy Day
@andypday.bsky.social
Geographer in East Yorkshire. Retired teacher. Write a bit, garden a lot. Working on my tennis - could be the most exacting challenge yet. Set up the "Cloud Images" feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j3jv7g73iyxesdm26wcp7phm/feed/aaaaw4ugntl2g Oh, & UTV
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The Great Artesian Basin covers a 5th of Australia & contains ancient water that feeds mound springs. Arabana people should rightfully be compensated by BHP for their decades of extraction of this fossil water resource that's damaged their landscape, cultural heritage, knowledge, histories & stories
Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting ...
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The Great Artesian Basin covers a 5th of Australia & contains ancient water that feeds mound springs. Arabana people should rightfully be compensated by BHP for their decades of extraction of this fossil water resource that's damaged their landscape, cultural heritage, knowledge, histories & stories
Informative piece on the thinking behind potential EV charges-per-mile that may feature in the budget ( the 'why' being more obvious than the 'how' ) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Will pay-per-mile raise Reeves money or drive people away from electric vehicles?
Need for new road taxes is clear – but there are concerns that pricing plan could stall transition away from petrol
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Informative piece on the thinking behind potential EV charges-per-mile that may feature in the budget ( the 'why' being more obvious than the 'how' ) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just loaded up with thick coat, hat & binoculars, looked up through a gap in the clouds and found the Andromeda galaxy again. You dwell in the misery of the world's depraved leaders during the day... then you gaze up and let photons from a neighbouring galaxy enter your eyes and think - f*ck's sake
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Just loaded up with thick coat, hat & binoculars, looked up through a gap in the clouds and found the Andromeda galaxy again. You dwell in the misery of the world's depraved leaders during the day... then you gaze up and let photons from a neighbouring galaxy enter your eyes and think - f*ck's sake
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Heavy Snowfall On The Wolds. 0°C. Sheep on the hillside.
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Heavy Snowfall On The Wolds. 0°C. Sheep on the hillside.
Strong thread…
The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Strong thread…
Not to excuse Johnson one iota, but how much of his poor decision-making related to fear of the reaction of the owners & editors of the Telegraph, Mail and Express? They bear their share of responsibility for maintaining their own agenda instead of being prepared to defer to the science
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Not to excuse Johnson one iota, but how much of his poor decision-making related to fear of the reaction of the owners & editors of the Telegraph, Mail and Express? They bear their share of responsibility for maintaining their own agenda instead of being prepared to defer to the science
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This is what happens when you put a preening, lazy, populist, dilettante in charge of a country.
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This is what happens when you put a preening, lazy, populist, dilettante in charge of a country.
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
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Beautiful and poignant essay by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social about loss, and the world around us, and where we find hope. As someone who's mourned the passing of both of my parents, one of whom was ill for years, this resonates with me a lot.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
The Empty Stage
Johnny Cash, loss, and redemption
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Beautiful and poignant essay by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social about loss, and the world around us, and where we find hope. As someone who's mourned the passing of both of my parents, one of whom was ill for years, this resonates with me a lot.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...
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A harbor seal narrowly escaped a group of orcas by climbing aboard a boat rented by amateur wildlife photographer Charvet Drucker off Camano Island in Washington.
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A harbor seal narrowly escaped a group of orcas by climbing aboard a boat rented by amateur wildlife photographer Charvet Drucker off Camano Island in Washington.
It's probably a coincidence that the BBC memorandum leak to the Telegraph occurred just days after one of the most watched TV programmes aired on BBC (over 12m for Celebrity Traitors finale), and while people are pouring their hearts out and emptying wallets & purses for Children in Need.
Probably.
Probably.
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's probably a coincidence that the BBC memorandum leak to the Telegraph occurred just days after one of the most watched TV programmes aired on BBC (over 12m for Celebrity Traitors finale), and while people are pouring their hearts out and emptying wallets & purses for Children in Need.
Probably.
Probably.
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
This is such an insightful open essay from Lewis - well worth your time...
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is such an insightful open essay from Lewis - well worth your time...
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“Unlikely”. Tremendous understatement, epic work.
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“Unlikely”. Tremendous understatement, epic work.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
Trump demands a response from the BBC by 5.00 p.m. Friday. The BBC: 'Fine, it will be delivered by a key employee, Sara Cox, in person, verbally - so he will need to catch her up on one of her daily marathons for Children in Need - and run alongside her for the duration of the verbal response.'
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Trump demands a response from the BBC by 5.00 p.m. Friday. The BBC: 'Fine, it will be delivered by a key employee, Sara Cox, in person, verbally - so he will need to catch her up on one of her daily marathons for Children in Need - and run alongside her for the duration of the verbal response.'
Trump demands a response from the BBC by 5.00 p.m. Friday. The BBC: 'Fine, it will be delivered by a key employee, Sara Cox, in person, verbally - so he will need to catch her up on one of her daily marathons for Children in Need - and run alongside her for the duration of the verbal response.'
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Trump demands a response from the BBC by 5.00 p.m. Friday. The BBC: 'Fine, it will be delivered by a key employee, Sara Cox, in person, verbally - so he will need to catch her up on one of her daily marathons for Children in Need - and run alongside her for the duration of the verbal response.'
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Today's press release by @knmi.nl: Due to the rapid warming of the Southern Ocean, glaciers near the Antarctic coastline are melting rapidly. This makes the inland ice masses unstable, eventually leading to collapse. The inevitable sea-level rise will be up to 1.25 meters along the Dutch coast.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today's press release by @knmi.nl: Due to the rapid warming of the Southern Ocean, glaciers near the Antarctic coastline are melting rapidly. This makes the inland ice masses unstable, eventually leading to collapse. The inevitable sea-level rise will be up to 1.25 meters along the Dutch coast.
Education…. no, it’s not wasted on the young - but can be revered by their seniors…
In the 1960s, Billie Jean King studied the first three years of a history degree, but she quit to write her own chapter into the history books. At the age of 81, she's gone back to college and hopes to graduate in May.
https://cnn.it/47BQN8U
https://cnn.it/47BQN8U
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Education…. no, it’s not wasted on the young - but can be revered by their seniors…
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And this is why everyone needs to stop trusting Grok.
And leave X.
And leave X.
November 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
And this is why everyone needs to stop trusting Grok.
And leave X.
And leave X.
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“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army
Lest we forget…
Boris’s Children: my SKETCH of Today in subjects he loves to forget.
Boris’s children | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“My memory is now contaminated.” It was one of the more accurate statements we heard from Boris Johnson on Tuesday morning, though this is never a high bar. He was speaking, again…
thecritic.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Lest we forget…
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🔍 What’s it like to get inspected under Ofsted’s new system? One headteacher shares his insights after participating in a test inspection
New Ofsted inspections: 5 insights from our school’s test visit
A head who had a two-day pilot inspection under Ofsted’s new framework shares what he learned – and why it was a positive experience
www.tes.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
🔍 What’s it like to get inspected under Ofsted’s new system? One headteacher shares his insights after participating in a test inspection
Came across this. Relevant to certain parts of the world I can think of:
Not my words - those of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria 685-705 CE. Some truths endure; some leaders in the vast past had more insight and humanity than those who were given power hundreds of years later...
Not my words - those of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria 685-705 CE. Some truths endure; some leaders in the vast past had more insight and humanity than those who were given power hundreds of years later...
October 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Came across this. Relevant to certain parts of the world I can think of:
Not my words - those of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria 685-705 CE. Some truths endure; some leaders in the vast past had more insight and humanity than those who were given power hundreds of years later...
Not my words - those of Aldfrith, King of Northumbria 685-705 CE. Some truths endure; some leaders in the vast past had more insight and humanity than those who were given power hundreds of years later...