Margaret Nelson 🌦
@flashmaggie.bsky.social
Don't get out much these days. 9th decad, 2nd wave. Conducted 100s of funerals. Owe a lot to the NHS. Part-time cloud-spotter. Dendrophile. Suffolk 🇬🇧. Excuse typos.
"The cure for boredom is curiousity. There is no cure for curiousity."
- Dorothy Parker.
"The cure for boredom is curiousity. There is no cure for curiousity."
- Dorothy Parker.
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More #murmuration magic this evening, this time over the cricket pitch in #Wardington.Peregrine and Sparrowhawk in attendance!@BTO_Oxfordshire @BanburyMuseum @banburynews
November 25, 2024 at 1:55 AM
More #murmuration magic this evening, this time over the cricket pitch in #Wardington.Peregrine and Sparrowhawk in attendance!@BTO_Oxfordshire @BanburyMuseum @banburynews
It would be interesting to see Trump in a British courtroom, wouldn't it?
Imagine him under cross-examination.
Imagine him under cross-examination.
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It would be interesting to see Trump in a British courtroom, wouldn't it?
Imagine him under cross-examination.
Imagine him under cross-examination.
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“The preparation, textures, and slowness of food scenes in Ghibli films, such as the clatter of bowls, steam rising from soups, and the slurping sounds of characters eating, all evoke sensory comfort; a cinematic version of a warm hug.”
The Ghibli Foodiverse — The Common Table
In the Studio Ghibli foodiverse, food is hearth and home, conjuring a sensual state of longing and belonging, says Sophie Lovell.
thecommontable.eu
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“The preparation, textures, and slowness of food scenes in Ghibli films, such as the clatter of bowls, steam rising from soups, and the slurping sounds of characters eating, all evoke sensory comfort; a cinematic version of a warm hug.”
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Trump is threatening to sue the BBC about a small error, though he really did encourage insurrection.
Don't let him see HIGNFY.
Don't let him see HIGNFY.
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Trump is threatening to sue the BBC about a small error, though he really did encourage insurrection.
Don't let him see HIGNFY.
Don't let him see HIGNFY.
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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
“For the last two billion years, there’s been just two sexes and then suddenly, in the last ten years or so, a whole lot more started to get invented.”
Evolutionary biologist
Richard Dawkins at the book launch for 'The War on Science'.
swiftpress.com/book/the-war...
Evolutionary biologist
Richard Dawkins at the book launch for 'The War on Science'.
swiftpress.com/book/the-war...
The War on Science | Swift Press
An unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society. From assaults...
swiftpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“For the last two billion years, there’s been just two sexes and then suddenly, in the last ten years or so, a whole lot more started to get invented.”
Evolutionary biologist
Richard Dawkins at the book launch for 'The War on Science'.
swiftpress.com/book/the-war...
Evolutionary biologist
Richard Dawkins at the book launch for 'The War on Science'.
swiftpress.com/book/the-war...
Why BBC editorial staff need educating.
Thank you Alan.
Thank you Alan.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Why BBC editorial staff need educating.
Thank you Alan.
Thank you Alan.
All those pensioner arrests must have cost a bit in time and money.
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told.
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action proscription
🖊️ Ethan Croft
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action proscription
🖊️ Ethan Croft
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
All those pensioner arrests must have cost a bit in time and money.
Reform's money-saving policy is simple: cease care service provision altogether. Simple!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres
Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s cabinet member for social care owns private care company
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Reform's money-saving policy is simple: cease care service provision altogether. Simple!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
When I was on Twitter I became very aware of anti-BBC opinion, which was generally focused on its news, ignoring the breadth of its output. Accusations of bias have come from all directions. It would be impossible placate all its critics.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
When I was on Twitter I became very aware of anti-BBC opinion, which was generally focused on its news, ignoring the breadth of its output. Accusations of bias have come from all directions. It would be impossible placate all its critics.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Oh fuck off Trump, you blathering idiot!
You did encourage insurrection, and you have pardoned criminals who were encouraged.
A perfect speech? 🙄
You don't know how.
You did encourage insurrection, and you have pardoned criminals who were encouraged.
A perfect speech? 🙄
You don't know how.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Oh fuck off Trump, you blathering idiot!
You did encourage insurrection, and you have pardoned criminals who were encouraged.
A perfect speech? 🙄
You don't know how.
You did encourage insurrection, and you have pardoned criminals who were encouraged.
A perfect speech? 🙄
You don't know how.
Heard @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social on Any Questions. Fast-forwarded through the MPs, blaming each other's parties for the mess we're in.
If I was a Scot, as my grandparents were, I'd be in favour of her vision of an independent Scotland, and very angry about this.
youtu.be/-LXyMbaNcQI?...
If I was a Scot, as my grandparents were, I'd be in favour of her vision of an independent Scotland, and very angry about this.
youtu.be/-LXyMbaNcQI?...
The Highland Wind Farm Revolt
YouTube video by Lesley Riddoch
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Heard @lesleyriddoch.bsky.social on Any Questions. Fast-forwarded through the MPs, blaming each other's parties for the mess we're in.
If I was a Scot, as my grandparents were, I'd be in favour of her vision of an independent Scotland, and very angry about this.
youtu.be/-LXyMbaNcQI?...
If I was a Scot, as my grandparents were, I'd be in favour of her vision of an independent Scotland, and very angry about this.
youtu.be/-LXyMbaNcQI?...
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Our idiotic and incompetent government has just agreed to pay more than a million £ a day in support of the continued destruction of ancient forests to feed the Drax power plant
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Our idiotic and incompetent government has just agreed to pay more than a million £ a day in support of the continued destruction of ancient forests to feed the Drax power plant
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Pure insanity
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
In a recent exchange of opinions it was suggested that I'm naive.
I suppose you could live to my age and remain naive, if you'd lived an exceptionally sheltered life, but I'd have died of boredom a long time ago.
I suppose you could live to my age and remain naive, if you'd lived an exceptionally sheltered life, but I'd have died of boredom a long time ago.
November 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In a recent exchange of opinions it was suggested that I'm naive.
I suppose you could live to my age and remain naive, if you'd lived an exceptionally sheltered life, but I'd have died of boredom a long time ago.
I suppose you could live to my age and remain naive, if you'd lived an exceptionally sheltered life, but I'd have died of boredom a long time ago.
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Labour’s reset with the EU may solve this boring, costly nightmare for British businesses.
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Plant importers say border delays in Kent could drive up prices and stop deliveries from EU
Traders report long waits at Sevington inspection post and claim trees and shrubs are repeatedly being damaged
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Labour’s reset with the EU may solve this boring, costly nightmare for British businesses.
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
But EU-phobic Farage and Tories say they would rip that agreement up again.
What an utterly childish response to the damage they’ve done.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Bit of a kerfuffle in the kitchen.
Resident cat swore at an intruder. Whatever she said sent it crashing through the cat flap. All I can hear now is a gurgling gut. I think it's hers.
Resident cat swore at an intruder. Whatever she said sent it crashing through the cat flap. All I can hear now is a gurgling gut. I think it's hers.
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Bit of a kerfuffle in the kitchen.
Resident cat swore at an intruder. Whatever she said sent it crashing through the cat flap. All I can hear now is a gurgling gut. I think it's hers.
Resident cat swore at an intruder. Whatever she said sent it crashing through the cat flap. All I can hear now is a gurgling gut. I think it's hers.
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Don’t know if it even made the news outside Ukraine.
Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.
Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Don’t know if it even made the news outside Ukraine.
Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.
Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.
This is getting very silly.
Labour and The Tories have both accused the BBC of political bias for years, its funding's been cut, and there've been the sex scandals. Now there's a gender issue.
If Sky buys ITV, that's more corporate power.
The BBC does much more than news. It's too important to lose.
Labour and The Tories have both accused the BBC of political bias for years, its funding's been cut, and there've been the sex scandals. Now there's a gender issue.
If Sky buys ITV, that's more corporate power.
The BBC does much more than news. It's too important to lose.
November 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is getting very silly.
Labour and The Tories have both accused the BBC of political bias for years, its funding's been cut, and there've been the sex scandals. Now there's a gender issue.
If Sky buys ITV, that's more corporate power.
The BBC does much more than news. It's too important to lose.
Labour and The Tories have both accused the BBC of political bias for years, its funding's been cut, and there've been the sex scandals. Now there's a gender issue.
If Sky buys ITV, that's more corporate power.
The BBC does much more than news. It's too important to lose.
Joan's right about the government's dithering over this, but it's not surprising. A significant proportion of them still won't accept reality. The same's true of the Lib Dens, and The Greens are full on trans supporters. There are powerful activist lobbyists in all three.
unherd.com/newsroom/lab...
unherd.com/newsroom/lab...
Labour is still failing to enforce EHRC gender guidance
Desperation is setting in. Ministers will stop at nothing, it seems, to delay approving guidance telling businesses how to bring their practices in line with the 2010 Equality Act. Today, the Minister...
unherd.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Joan's right about the government's dithering over this, but it's not surprising. A significant proportion of them still won't accept reality. The same's true of the Lib Dens, and The Greens are full on trans supporters. There are powerful activist lobbyists in all three.
unherd.com/newsroom/lab...
unherd.com/newsroom/lab...
1️⃣It's reported that J K rolling introduced Malala Yousafzai at The Edinburgh International Book Festival to a large audience of teenagers, where she spoke about her new book.
Malala is a splendidly brave role model for teenage girls, who are too often subjected to disparagement.
Malala is a splendidly brave role model for teenage girls, who are too often subjected to disparagement.
November 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
1️⃣It's reported that J K rolling introduced Malala Yousafzai at The Edinburgh International Book Festival to a large audience of teenagers, where she spoke about her new book.
Malala is a splendidly brave role model for teenage girls, who are too often subjected to disparagement.
Malala is a splendidly brave role model for teenage girls, who are too often subjected to disparagement.
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On the BBC News front page, you can find out how two prisoners were accidentally released last year, about a TV celebrity's cancer surgery, and about how to make veggie meatball soup
But no mention AT ALL of the COP30 climate summit
I am lost for words
www.bbc.co.uk/news
But no mention AT ALL of the COP30 climate summit
I am lost for words
www.bbc.co.uk/news
Home - BBC News
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November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
On the BBC News front page, you can find out how two prisoners were accidentally released last year, about a TV celebrity's cancer surgery, and about how to make veggie meatball soup
But no mention AT ALL of the COP30 climate summit
I am lost for words
www.bbc.co.uk/news
But no mention AT ALL of the COP30 climate summit
I am lost for words
www.bbc.co.uk/news
I might not know where to begin with therapy if I had a child like this, but it certainly wouldn't be like this.
It would involve spending time out of doors, in nature, not imprisoned in a place that reinforced a sense of isolation.
It would involve spending time out of doors, in nature, not imprisoned in a place that reinforced a sense of isolation.
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. How did the system we trusted – and I worked for as a GP – fail us so tragically?
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I might not know where to begin with therapy if I had a child like this, but it certainly wouldn't be like this.
It would involve spending time out of doors, in nature, not imprisoned in a place that reinforced a sense of isolation.
It would involve spending time out of doors, in nature, not imprisoned in a place that reinforced a sense of isolation.
Preparations for this month's COP conference in Brazil have caused devastating damage to the rainforest, its people and its wildlife. The Brazilians don't seem to understand what environmentally friendly means.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Preparations for this month's COP conference in Brazil have caused devastating damage to the rainforest, its people and its wildlife. The Brazilians don't seem to understand what environmentally friendly means.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...