Matthew Parrott
@parrottmatthew.bsky.social
40, father of two, a fascination with wildlife and aviation, manager at RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, Norfolk @rafadrm.bsky.social
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So going to start a thread of good news stories (positive impacts imho) to counter the tide of terrible things - not here to debate but share with quoted sources etc:
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
So going to start a thread of good news stories (positive impacts imho) to counter the tide of terrible things - not here to debate but share with quoted sources etc:
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
www.history.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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I want a plaque on a park bench in my memory when I die and just before I go I’m changing my name to Wet Paint.
October 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I want a plaque on a park bench in my memory when I die and just before I go I’m changing my name to Wet Paint.
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Remember our mantra:
Don't Engage, Just Block.
Don't Engage, Just Block.
October 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Remember our mantra:
Don't Engage, Just Block.
Don't Engage, Just Block.
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This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Birds in stained glass, freestanding #art or wall sculptures, rarely window panels. My birds are celebrations, explanations, rants and sometimes tears; but like the birds that inspire them, they are all beautiful dancers-with-light…
October 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Birds in stained glass, freestanding #art or wall sculptures, rarely window panels. My birds are celebrations, explanations, rants and sometimes tears; but like the birds that inspire them, they are all beautiful dancers-with-light…
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Autumn days when the grass is jewelled
![[Scene is a 1960s suburban sitting room, with a grand piano in it. The religious songwriter ESTELLE WHITE is sat at the piano, with a rotary phone sat on top of the lid. She is on the phone to her music publisher, someone I've made up called JERRY]
1
ESTELLE WHITE:
OK Jerry
I’ve got another banger for you
2
ESTELLE WHITE:
Listen to this!
[She slams the receiver on the top of the piano].
3
ESTELLE WHITE [hammering on the piano]:
AUTUMN DAYS WHEN THE GRASS IS JEWELLED
AND THE SILK INSIDE A CHESTNUT SHELL!
JET PLANES MEETING IN THE AIR TO BE REFUELLED, ALL THESE -
JERRY [voice from the phone handset]:
Eh?
4
JERRY:
What was that last bit, Estelle?
ESTELLE WHITE:
“Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled”…
5
JERRY:
Is that a thing you often see in autumn?
ESTELLE WHITE [Smoking from a long cigarette holder]:
All the time, Jerry. Aaaaall the time....
6
JERRY:
Nothing to do with it being the only thing that rhymes with ‘jewelled’?
ESTELLE WHITE:
No!
7
ESTELLE WHITE:
It’s one of the high-speed, high-altitude feats of military aviation one often sees in autumn time.
8
JERRY:
What about leaves and squirrels and -
ESTELLE WHITE:
Now listen, Jerry.
9
ESTELLE WHITE:
Do you want a crap hymn about conkers…
10
ESTELLE WHITE:
Or do you want an all-time earworm banger that everyone who hears it will sing in their heads, every single time they see a fallen leaf, until the day they die?
11
JERRY:
OK… sorry… carry on…
12
ESTELLE WHITE:
FROS-TY WINDOWS ON HARR-IER JUMPJETS AND THE SMELL OF NUCLEAR SUB-MAR-INES…
JERRY:
How about acorns?
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September 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Autumn days when the grass is jewelled
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my friends and i constantly quoting this post to each other whenever we feel bad about productivity
September 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
my friends and i constantly quoting this post to each other whenever we feel bad about productivity
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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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A brand NEW event I'm trialing at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen this autumn. If you'd like to discover a different side of this awesome reserve, why not come along. #NorfolkBirding #Birds
events.rspb.org.uk/events/13167...
events.rspb.org.uk/events/13167...
RSPB Events
Come along to one of our events to enjoy quality time in the natural world and see conservation in action. Nature is in crisis. Together we can save it.
events.rspb.org.uk
September 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A brand NEW event I'm trialing at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen this autumn. If you'd like to discover a different side of this awesome reserve, why not come along. #NorfolkBirding #Birds
events.rspb.org.uk/events/13167...
events.rspb.org.uk/events/13167...
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A U.S. Army psychologist who dealt with the war criminals tried at Nuremberg defined "evil" as "the absence of empathy."
It says a lot about today's right who regularly disparages empathy.
It says a lot about today's right who regularly disparages empathy.
Tapping the sign.
September 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A U.S. Army psychologist who dealt with the war criminals tried at Nuremberg defined "evil" as "the absence of empathy."
It says a lot about today's right who regularly disparages empathy.
It says a lot about today's right who regularly disparages empathy.
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Hey, fellow humans.
Just a gentle reminder that horrible things and malicious acts exist alongside miracles, art, and acts of kindness. It's good to keep the whole picture loosely in mind, but to focus your camera mostly on what strengthens you and allows you to play your best part in this story.
Just a gentle reminder that horrible things and malicious acts exist alongside miracles, art, and acts of kindness. It's good to keep the whole picture loosely in mind, but to focus your camera mostly on what strengthens you and allows you to play your best part in this story.
September 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Hey, fellow humans.
Just a gentle reminder that horrible things and malicious acts exist alongside miracles, art, and acts of kindness. It's good to keep the whole picture loosely in mind, but to focus your camera mostly on what strengthens you and allows you to play your best part in this story.
Just a gentle reminder that horrible things and malicious acts exist alongside miracles, art, and acts of kindness. It's good to keep the whole picture loosely in mind, but to focus your camera mostly on what strengthens you and allows you to play your best part in this story.
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I love British street art.
September 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I love British street art.
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The new XKCD has to be a reference to the ant paper where ants just casually lay eggs of a different species, yes? Maybe? There are so many weird bugs its hard to know.
September 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The new XKCD has to be a reference to the ant paper where ants just casually lay eggs of a different species, yes? Maybe? There are so many weird bugs its hard to know.
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My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
August 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
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Yes, you CAN go on like this. Because if you don't, "like this" is the end of your story.
Don't wait for things to be better. DO better. BE better. MAKE better.
Don't wait for things to be better. DO better. BE better. MAKE better.
September 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Yes, you CAN go on like this. Because if you don't, "like this" is the end of your story.
Don't wait for things to be better. DO better. BE better. MAKE better.
Don't wait for things to be better. DO better. BE better. MAKE better.
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Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
August 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
Completely in love with Herdling by @okomotive.ch in which you rescue an increasing number of furry beasts to lead them home.
Beautiful scenery and music, enjoyable puzzles and genuinely distraught when one of my herd was eaten by a massive owl
Beautiful scenery and music, enjoyable puzzles and genuinely distraught when one of my herd was eaten by a massive owl
August 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Completely in love with Herdling by @okomotive.ch in which you rescue an increasing number of furry beasts to lead them home.
Beautiful scenery and music, enjoyable puzzles and genuinely distraught when one of my herd was eaten by a massive owl
Beautiful scenery and music, enjoyable puzzles and genuinely distraught when one of my herd was eaten by a massive owl
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Remarkable how many cuts of meat sound like veteran news anchors facing multiple accusations of workplace harassment:
Chuck Brisket
Rib Silverside
Rump Foreshank
Plate Centreloin
Flank Saddleback
Chuck Brisket
Rib Silverside
Rump Foreshank
Plate Centreloin
Flank Saddleback
August 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Remarkable how many cuts of meat sound like veteran news anchors facing multiple accusations of workplace harassment:
Chuck Brisket
Rib Silverside
Rump Foreshank
Plate Centreloin
Flank Saddleback
Chuck Brisket
Rib Silverside
Rump Foreshank
Plate Centreloin
Flank Saddleback
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Jon asks why the GOP's "one is too many" logic applies only to immigrants and not mass shootings
August 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Jon asks why the GOP's "one is too many" logic applies only to immigrants and not mass shootings
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Parachute jumps for charity cost more to the NHS than they raise on average according to a 1999 study
August 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Parachute jumps for charity cost more to the NHS than they raise on average according to a 1999 study