Rosemary Defilet
@rags-and-roses.bsky.social
Retired designer , lover of The Arts ,the countryside, my garden......catlover too.
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This is brilliant! Dig a hole where a pond used to be, and it will return. With mystery sticklebacks.
“It’s a perfect time capsule,” says Sayer. “...This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”
“It’s a perfect time capsule,” says Sayer. “...This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”
‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
This is brilliant! Dig a hole where a pond used to be, and it will return. With mystery sticklebacks.
“It’s a perfect time capsule,” says Sayer. “...This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”
“It’s a perfect time capsule,” says Sayer. “...This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”
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Why in this Mandelson saga are we ignoring the elephant in the room? That we’re about to welcome and honour a man who was a great pal of Epstein and who continues to lie about that every day?
September 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Why in this Mandelson saga are we ignoring the elephant in the room? That we’re about to welcome and honour a man who was a great pal of Epstein and who continues to lie about that every day?
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News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.
September 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.
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Gus is a bloody hero, that's what. Read this thread (you know, if you want to and have time. I'm not telling you what to do. Unlike Gus.)
so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know
- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures
- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures
August 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Gus is a bloody hero, that's what. Read this thread (you know, if you want to and have time. I'm not telling you what to do. Unlike Gus.)
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Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now:
August 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Tens of thousands of cornflowers in a field in Wicken. Research shows that the sight of them will help you recover from sources of stress more quickly & boost dopamine release in your brain, lifting your mood…in case you need it just now:
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Macron: "He's a very clever cat"
Merci monsieur le président x
Merci monsieur le président x
July 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Macron: "He's a very clever cat"
Merci monsieur le président x
Merci monsieur le président x
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WHAT violinist would possibly want these relics from the site of Ginette Neveu's plane crash 😭
June 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
WHAT violinist would possibly want these relics from the site of Ginette Neveu's plane crash 😭
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
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Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
April 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
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April 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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A project proposed by Elon Musk's SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll could harm the many #seabirds that nest at the wildlife refuge, according to biologists and experts who have spent more than a decade working to protect them.
SpaceX rocket cargo project puts Pacific seabirds in jeopardy
A project proposed by Elon Musk's SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll could harm the many seabirds that nest at the wildlife refuge, according to biologists and experts who have spent more than a decade working to protect them.
www.reuters.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
A project proposed by Elon Musk's SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force to test hypersonic rocket cargo deliveries from a remote Pacific atoll could harm the many #seabirds that nest at the wildlife refuge, according to biologists and experts who have spent more than a decade working to protect them.
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Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade
March 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Adding a journalist to a top secret government group chat about dropping bombs *IS* the kind of thing people who aren’t super politically literate can understand and find shocking/notable/disqualifying. Dems should seize on this and never ever let it go. I hope to hear about it in a decade
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Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.
March 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Pete Buttigieg has entered the chat.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
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The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE.
Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands.
#FightOligarchy
(🎥: Bastian Brauns)
Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands.
#FightOligarchy
(🎥: Bastian Brauns)
March 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE.
Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands.
#FightOligarchy
(🎥: Bastian Brauns)
Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands.
#FightOligarchy
(🎥: Bastian Brauns)
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BREAKING: Pianist András Schiff cancels all his US engagements for 2025-26 in response to "the recent and unprecedented political changes in the United States."
"Some people might say, 'just shut up and play.' I cannot, in good conscience, do that."
www.kirshbaumassociates.com/agency.php?v...
"Some people might say, 'just shut up and play.' I cannot, in good conscience, do that."
www.kirshbaumassociates.com/agency.php?v...
Pianist Sir András Schiff Cancels U.S. Appearances for 2025-2026 Season
www.kirshbaumassociates.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
BREAKING: Pianist András Schiff cancels all his US engagements for 2025-26 in response to "the recent and unprecedented political changes in the United States."
"Some people might say, 'just shut up and play.' I cannot, in good conscience, do that."
www.kirshbaumassociates.com/agency.php?v...
"Some people might say, 'just shut up and play.' I cannot, in good conscience, do that."
www.kirshbaumassociates.com/agency.php?v...
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Does Canada have nukes? If not could someone loan them some?
Trump: "Canada doesn't pay for military. They give us nothing. And they are the worst people to negotiate with of everybody ... they cheat."
March 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Does Canada have nukes? If not could someone loan them some?
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Ask yourself:
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
March 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ask yourself:
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?
Why would any decent human being do this?
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Happy Ash Wednesday, which thanks to this meme has also become a sort of a 'don't forget to proofread' day...
March 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Happy Ash Wednesday, which thanks to this meme has also become a sort of a 'don't forget to proofread' day...
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I don't know how to say this, but with great sadness and a very heavy heart it is Heather's Funeral tomorrow, Tuesday 4th March, Heather would want you all to raise a large glass of something strong to celebrate her life. x
March 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I don't know how to say this, but with great sadness and a very heavy heart it is Heather's Funeral tomorrow, Tuesday 4th March, Heather would want you all to raise a large glass of something strong to celebrate her life. x
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Seeing Marjorie Taylor Greene’s snivelling shit of a boyfriend have a pop at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit a few days after Musk was druggily guffawing in the same building while wearing a T-shirt and baseball cap has caused me to run amok with a hammer and cause untold damage to my own property
February 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Seeing Marjorie Taylor Greene’s snivelling shit of a boyfriend have a pop at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit a few days after Musk was druggily guffawing in the same building while wearing a T-shirt and baseball cap has caused me to run amok with a hammer and cause untold damage to my own property