Ian Titherington
@ianapharri.bsky.social
A retrofit SuDS geek with an iffy rugby knee & lifelong curry fixation.
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Landscape of the Early Bronze Age miners..⛏️
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Landscape of the Early Bronze Age miners..⛏️
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
As a Welsh rugby supporter I am understandibly keen for distractions today, but news of the US appeasing a fascist murderer & invader was not what I was looking for. 😡
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
As a Welsh rugby supporter I am understandibly keen for distractions today, but news of the US appeasing a fascist murderer & invader was not what I was looking for. 😡
'Libraries give us power'
November 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
'Libraries give us power'
(Artwork by Andrew Challis) Diolch Caerphilly 🥰
October 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
(Artwork by Andrew Challis) Diolch Caerphilly 🥰
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Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening.
It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president
It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president
September 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening.
It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president
It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president
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STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
September 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
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💧 #FloodFactFriday
Did you know Summer 2025 has been the warmest on record?
@metoffice.gov.uk statistics show 2025 at the top of the warmest UK summers:
☀️2025: 16.10°C
☀️2018: 15.76°C
☀️2006: 15.75°C
☀️2003: 15.74°C
☀️2022: 15.71°C
📰Click here to read the article🔗 thefloodhub.co.uk/news/summer-...
Did you know Summer 2025 has been the warmest on record?
@metoffice.gov.uk statistics show 2025 at the top of the warmest UK summers:
☀️2025: 16.10°C
☀️2018: 15.76°C
☀️2006: 15.75°C
☀️2003: 15.74°C
☀️2022: 15.71°C
📰Click here to read the article🔗 thefloodhub.co.uk/news/summer-...
September 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
💧 #FloodFactFriday
Did you know Summer 2025 has been the warmest on record?
@metoffice.gov.uk statistics show 2025 at the top of the warmest UK summers:
☀️2025: 16.10°C
☀️2018: 15.76°C
☀️2006: 15.75°C
☀️2003: 15.74°C
☀️2022: 15.71°C
📰Click here to read the article🔗 thefloodhub.co.uk/news/summer-...
Did you know Summer 2025 has been the warmest on record?
@metoffice.gov.uk statistics show 2025 at the top of the warmest UK summers:
☀️2025: 16.10°C
☀️2018: 15.76°C
☀️2006: 15.75°C
☀️2003: 15.74°C
☀️2022: 15.71°C
📰Click here to read the article🔗 thefloodhub.co.uk/news/summer-...
With all the current global discourse, the music scene seems rather quiet; or am I wrong 🤔
September 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
With all the current global discourse, the music scene seems rather quiet; or am I wrong 🤔
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The first lesson of our #ClimateChange education package is #Weather Vs #Climate 🌧️☀️🌍🌡️, which covers:
- The difference between weather & climate.
- Different global climate zones & the countries that are in them.
- Examples of extreme weather
➡️https://thefloodhub.co.uk/ks2-climate-lesson-1/
- The difference between weather & climate.
- Different global climate zones & the countries that are in them.
- Examples of extreme weather
➡️https://thefloodhub.co.uk/ks2-climate-lesson-1/
August 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The first lesson of our #ClimateChange education package is #Weather Vs #Climate 🌧️☀️🌍🌡️, which covers:
- The difference between weather & climate.
- Different global climate zones & the countries that are in them.
- Examples of extreme weather
➡️https://thefloodhub.co.uk/ks2-climate-lesson-1/
- The difference between weather & climate.
- Different global climate zones & the countries that are in them.
- Examples of extreme weather
➡️https://thefloodhub.co.uk/ks2-climate-lesson-1/
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After first criticizing South Park as “lazy,” now Kristi Noem is trying to act like she’s HAPPY they depicted her as a puppy shooting moron with a melting face.
Desperate levels of cope.
Desperate levels of cope.
August 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
After first criticizing South Park as “lazy,” now Kristi Noem is trying to act like she’s HAPPY they depicted her as a puppy shooting moron with a melting face.
Desperate levels of cope.
Desperate levels of cope.
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"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
August 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...
"That's just how it is."
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...
"That's just how it is."
August 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...
"That's just how it is."
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%...
"That's just how it is."
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The very British way of corruption
"Somethings got to change. Are we mad as hell yet?"
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
"Somethings got to change. Are we mad as hell yet?"
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The very British way of corruption
"Somethings got to change. Are we mad as hell yet?"
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
"Somethings got to change. Are we mad as hell yet?"
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social
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1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning
Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.
www.forbes.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...
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Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people.
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
You could call it wink murder.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Kneecap to take to Glastonbury stage in what could be festival
Kneecap to take to Glastonbury stage in what could be festival
Music executives have condemned Irish rappers and Keir Starmer says appearance is not ‘appropriate’, but 100 musicians have signed letter in support
Kneecap will be taking to the Glastonbury stage on Saturday afternoon in front of a packed crowd eagerly anticipating what could be one of the most controversial sets in the festival’s history.
The Irish rap group are performing at 4pm on the West Holts stage, amid criticism from music industry executives and from the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, who said it was not “appropriate” for the band to perform. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Kneecap to take to Glastonbury stage in what could be festival
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Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
June 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets?
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.
Desperately sad to see 😪
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Desperately sad to see 😪
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BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo officially CONCEDES the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City to Zohran Mamdani
June 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo officially CONCEDES the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City to Zohran Mamdani