Helen Kennedy
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Raised on Bagpuss and Fingerbobs, and later in my wellies.
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a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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In James Michener’s classic novel, The Bridges at Toko-ri, protagonist Harry Brubaker comes to Korea as a reluctant warrior, a reservist who wants nothing more than to get back to the good life he left behind in Colorado. usni.org/magazines/n...
The Korean War: A Case Study in the Importance of Sea Power | Naval History - December 2025, Volume 39, Number 6
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November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
In James Michener’s classic novel, The Bridges at Toko-ri, protagonist Harry Brubaker comes to Korea as a reluctant warrior, a reservist who wants nothing more than to get back to the good life he left behind in Colorado. usni.org/magazines/n...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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If "never leave your drink unattended" were a person.
October 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If "never leave your drink unattended" were a person.
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Are you in the UK and have noticed a huge number of acorns and beech nuts on the ground? That's because it's a mast year!
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
Why is it a bumper year for acorns?
A warm spring is one of the factors that has led to a so-called
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Are you in the UK and have noticed a huge number of acorns and beech nuts on the ground? That's because it's a mast year!
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
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The last in my series of reports from Ireland's 8 national parks is from Brú na Bóinne/ Boyne Valley in County Meath
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
This could end up being the most radical of all our national parks...
Brú na Bóinne/Boyne Valley National Park may show us the way back from intensive farming practices that leave so little space for nature
www.irishexaminer.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The last in my series of reports from Ireland's 8 national parks is from Brú na Bóinne/ Boyne Valley in County Meath
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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The 2 biggest old birches in the woods were both toppled in the same storm a couple of years back.
The light gaps opened up have exploded with flowers like these devil's bit, flying insects, and young trees.
The sheer *dynamism* of an Atlantic rainforest has been a revelation over these 16+ years.
The light gaps opened up have exploded with flowers like these devil's bit, flying insects, and young trees.
The sheer *dynamism* of an Atlantic rainforest has been a revelation over these 16+ years.
September 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The 2 biggest old birches in the woods were both toppled in the same storm a couple of years back.
The light gaps opened up have exploded with flowers like these devil's bit, flying insects, and young trees.
The sheer *dynamism* of an Atlantic rainforest has been a revelation over these 16+ years.
The light gaps opened up have exploded with flowers like these devil's bit, flying insects, and young trees.
The sheer *dynamism* of an Atlantic rainforest has been a revelation over these 16+ years.
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Big Aspirin must be behind all this.
"Don't take Tylenol!" -- Trump has said this about a dozen times during this press conference
September 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Big Aspirin must be behind all this.
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Chuckle of the day
August 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Chuckle of the day
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High quality calcareous fen in lower Wensleydale, with tufa-depositing seepages. Set within mosaic of limestone grassland and rush-pasture associated w drumlins and meltwater channels. In so much of our landscape, the relationship between vegetation and geology has been masked by intensive farming.
July 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
High quality calcareous fen in lower Wensleydale, with tufa-depositing seepages. Set within mosaic of limestone grassland and rush-pasture associated w drumlins and meltwater channels. In so much of our landscape, the relationship between vegetation and geology has been masked by intensive farming.
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Yeah. Once you hit the point where Big Balls gets a medal of freedom, the health secretary is bloodletting with lampreys, and there’s wrestling on the South Lawn, you’ve pretty much jumped the Idiocracy shark.
August 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Yeah. Once you hit the point where Big Balls gets a medal of freedom, the health secretary is bloodletting with lampreys, and there’s wrestling on the South Lawn, you’ve pretty much jumped the Idiocracy shark.
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I've had four encounters with wild wolves, each one as clear in my mind as if it was a second ago. Even when they can't be seen, they do change how it feels to walk through a landscape.
August 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I've had four encounters with wild wolves, each one as clear in my mind as if it was a second ago. Even when they can't be seen, they do change how it feels to walk through a landscape.
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me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything
me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog
me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything
me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog
me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog
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The Cornish chough vanished in 1973.
Gone from the cliffs. Gone from the skies.
Then in 2001 – 3 returned.
Now in 2025? 300+ wild choughs call Cornwall home again.
A local legend reborn. A real-world comeback. 🐦🔥
#CornishChough #CornwallWildlife
Gone from the cliffs. Gone from the skies.
Then in 2001 – 3 returned.
Now in 2025? 300+ wild choughs call Cornwall home again.
A local legend reborn. A real-world comeback. 🐦🔥
#CornishChough #CornwallWildlife
August 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The Cornish chough vanished in 1973.
Gone from the cliffs. Gone from the skies.
Then in 2001 – 3 returned.
Now in 2025? 300+ wild choughs call Cornwall home again.
A local legend reborn. A real-world comeback. 🐦🔥
#CornishChough #CornwallWildlife
Gone from the cliffs. Gone from the skies.
Then in 2001 – 3 returned.
Now in 2025? 300+ wild choughs call Cornwall home again.
A local legend reborn. A real-world comeback. 🐦🔥
#CornishChough #CornwallWildlife
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"South Park" strikes again.
Noem is hit hard. (I lost track of now many puppies she kills in these 22 minutes.) As is Charlie Kirk and every right-wing male podcaster. Trump's mini-manhood is back, and so is Satan as his sex-mate. And Jesus doesn't look happy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...
Noem is hit hard. (I lost track of now many puppies she kills in these 22 minutes.) As is Charlie Kirk and every right-wing male podcaster. Trump's mini-manhood is back, and so is Satan as his sex-mate. And Jesus doesn't look happy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...
Introducing the Director of Homeland Security | South Park
YouTube video by South Park Studios
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August 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"South Park" strikes again.
Noem is hit hard. (I lost track of now many puppies she kills in these 22 minutes.) As is Charlie Kirk and every right-wing male podcaster. Trump's mini-manhood is back, and so is Satan as his sex-mate. And Jesus doesn't look happy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...
Noem is hit hard. (I lost track of now many puppies she kills in these 22 minutes.) As is Charlie Kirk and every right-wing male podcaster. Trump's mini-manhood is back, and so is Satan as his sex-mate. And Jesus doesn't look happy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...
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The [pedo] plane … Fantasy [Epstein] island
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August 7, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The [pedo] plane … Fantasy [Epstein] island
👏🏼 South Park
👏🏼 South Park
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was putting a toddler (not mine) to bed last night and reading a story and she, apparently too tired for my nonsense, announced "no voices tonight. just straight" like she was a burdened drinker putting in her order at the bar
August 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
was putting a toddler (not mine) to bed last night and reading a story and she, apparently too tired for my nonsense, announced "no voices tonight. just straight" like she was a burdened drinker putting in her order at the bar
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Next month’s job numbers are the street you grew up on and the last thing you ate.
August 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Next month’s job numbers are the street you grew up on and the last thing you ate.
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Very few Russian Arctic Convoy veterans remain. They deserve so much respect. Sadly the medal they eventually got from the Gov was only after huge pressure. Worth watching even just to listen to their accounts. Royal Navy and Merchant Navy Veterans. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster
Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of the Arctic convoys of WWII, which delivered vital war supplies to the Soviet Union via the Arctic, and reveals the convoy's greatest disaster.
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August 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Very few Russian Arctic Convoy veterans remain. They deserve so much respect. Sadly the medal they eventually got from the Gov was only after huge pressure. Worth watching even just to listen to their accounts. Royal Navy and Merchant Navy Veterans. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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Miles & miles of maize
but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴♀️🚴in Brittany.
Maize is mainly 🐄 feed.
Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion.
Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴♀️🚴in Brittany.
Maize is mainly 🐄 feed.
Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion.
Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
August 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Miles & miles of maize
but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴♀️🚴in Brittany.
Maize is mainly 🐄 feed.
Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion.
Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
but 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 insect—in 2 days of 🚴♀️🚴in Brittany.
Maize is mainly 🐄 feed.
Linked to high pesticide use—and damaging soil erosion.
Governments must be honest about the hidden costs of meat.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social warned about maize a decade ago 👇
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband murders.
Miami Showband massacre 50 years on: ‘The trauma lasts for ever’ – Stephen Travers. Today is the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband murders. The Irish Times has published the chapter in Dirty Linen about it, based on my interview with survivor Stephen Travers.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Miami Showband massacre 50 years on: ‘The trauma lasts for ever’ – Stephen Travers
British collusion was systemic in Troubles, survivor says, and went far higher than UDR foot soldiers
www.irishtimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Miami Showband murders.
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Taken at face value, we have here a palm beach hotelier noticing that a local hedge fund manager—a guy who doesn’t run a publicly acknowledged competing hospitality business—keeps hiring the teenage girls out of his spa.
Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.
Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?
Trump: I think so. He stole her.
Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?
Trump: I think so. He stole her.
July 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Taken at face value, we have here a palm beach hotelier noticing that a local hedge fund manager—a guy who doesn’t run a publicly acknowledged competing hospitality business—keeps hiring the teenage girls out of his spa.