Anna 3️⃣🫒🌳
@scosthrop.bsky.social
seeking a cure for the Daily Express • exploring the borderlands of history and myth • unusual objects • tennis
Interesting new Gashapon set here. The horrified owl is a nice touch.
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Interesting new Gashapon set here. The horrified owl is a nice touch.
I smell a rat...
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I smell a rat...
I saw Robert Jenrick in the woodshed.
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I saw Robert Jenrick in the woodshed.
I can't help seeing the guardsman silhouette on the roof here as being on a pogo stick.
I forgot to post this photo of a local pub whose wholehearted commitment to commemorating Remembrance Sunday extended to erecting a Cenotaph on the roof
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I can't help seeing the guardsman silhouette on the roof here as being on a pogo stick.
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I'm not sure how anyone who lambasted Jenrick for painting over children's murals at an asylum centre can stay quiet over this.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I'm not sure how anyone who lambasted Jenrick for painting over children's murals at an asylum centre can stay quiet over this.
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It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Justified and Ancient
Exemplar for why rush to lethal management of "invasive" animals requires enormous caution: "Reptiles on a Mexican island were considered an invasive species, but DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by hundreds of thousands of years." #conservation #reptile #invasivespecies #maybenot
This Is What a Vindicated Iguana Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Justified and Ancient
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It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
Well, that was a very weird deputy PMQs. James Cartlidge asking the same question five times – could David Lammy guarantee no other jailed asylum seekers have been accidentally released rather than deported – and Lammy each time instead condemning the Tories' record on prisons and justice.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.
Something very dangerous is building here.
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The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
This spider almost seems like a puppeteer operating its shadow, I respect it.
Cat-faced spider (and magnificent shadow), out for a walk this morning.
November 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This spider almost seems like a puppeteer operating its shadow, I respect it.
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I will readily admit to smiling along with this Cole cartoon from Oct 3rd’s Private Eye. It’s a Batman I can relate to.
November 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I will readily admit to smiling along with this Cole cartoon from Oct 3rd’s Private Eye. It’s a Batman I can relate to.
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100 years ago today Howard Carter opened Tutankamoun’s inner most coffin and saw the pharaoh’s mask for the first time. Here’s the photo taken that day.
It’s in with all the astonishing excavation papers and photos at the @griffithinstitute.bsky.social
It’s in with all the astonishing excavation papers and photos at the @griffithinstitute.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
100 years ago today Howard Carter opened Tutankamoun’s inner most coffin and saw the pharaoh’s mask for the first time. Here’s the photo taken that day.
It’s in with all the astonishing excavation papers and photos at the @griffithinstitute.bsky.social
It’s in with all the astonishing excavation papers and photos at the @griffithinstitute.bsky.social
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i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
O Death, where is thy string?
Day 13 of #31DaysOfGraves - Skeleton
On the leg of a magnificent 18thC table tomb in Liberton Kirkyard, Edinburgh, is carved the figure of death as a skeleton, standing upon a skull, firing a dart at the soon-to-be-deceased while cutting the cord of a weight dangling over the unlucky person's head!
On the leg of a magnificent 18thC table tomb in Liberton Kirkyard, Edinburgh, is carved the figure of death as a skeleton, standing upon a skull, firing a dart at the soon-to-be-deceased while cutting the cord of a weight dangling over the unlucky person's head!
October 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
O Death, where is thy string?
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Where they send people to wean them off cockfighting.
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Where they send people to wean them off cockfighting.
The picture on the left gives us a rare view of a dog without its trousers on.
This is Sandy. She landed in a shelter with a dislocated hip and luxating patella after being hit by a car. Thanks to your support of our merch, @15outof10.org was able to cover her surgery and physical therapy. She has found a forever home and is healing beautifully ❤️🩹
October 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The picture on the left gives us a rare view of a dog without its trousers on.
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Today’s all new episode in the series:
How Much Opossum Can Fit in this House?
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How Much Opossum Can Fit in this House?
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September 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Today’s all new episode in the series:
How Much Opossum Can Fit in this House?
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How Much Opossum Can Fit in this House?
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I see Raynor Winn's found a new hobby.
In the words of Mrs Miggins: “He’s pretty down on his luck. He’s made that horse’s willy last all morning”
Nottingham gardener breaks world record for longest aubergine at show
More than 65,000 people are expected to flock to the Three Counties Showground this weekend to catch a glimpse of the giant produce on display
www.nottinghampost.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I see Raynor Winn's found a new hobby.
Why did this particular font come to be used so ubiquitously on 'Launderette' signs?
I haven't read the article, it's just a photo that caught my attention.
I haven't read the article, it's just a photo that caught my attention.
Starmer gambles on ‘levelling up’-style initiative to tackle Reform threat
Starmer gambles on ‘levelling up’-style initiative to tackle Reform threat
Deprived communities to be given tens of millions to patch up derelict shops, pubs and libraries and ‘restore pride’
Deprived areas of the UK will be given tens of millions of pounds each from a new fund that Keir Starmer hopes will help Labour tackle the threat posed by Reform UK.
The prime minister will launch the regeneration initiative on Thursday, gambling that an updated version of “levelling up” will address anger about Britain’s broken communities. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Why did this particular font come to be used so ubiquitously on 'Launderette' signs?
I haven't read the article, it's just a photo that caught my attention.
I haven't read the article, it's just a photo that caught my attention.
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Funny juxtaposition in the timeline
September 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Funny juxtaposition in the timeline
Yes, airing something simply to tell you that it's wrong can be so counterproductive.
A schoolteacher once told us to remember
'In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue'
then added it was not
'In 1493 Columbus sailed the deep blue sea'
I've had both versions stuck in my mind for decades.
A schoolteacher once told us to remember
'In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue'
then added it was not
'In 1493 Columbus sailed the deep blue sea'
I've had both versions stuck in my mind for decades.
GMB has given extensive coverage to the Trump/paracetamol/autism story. Guests have rightly said how wrong it is.
But after a while, I worry about the extent of this coverage, recalling the adage 'if you're explaining, you're losing'.
There's one headline: 'Trump talks bollocks on Paracetamol'.
But after a while, I worry about the extent of this coverage, recalling the adage 'if you're explaining, you're losing'.
There's one headline: 'Trump talks bollocks on Paracetamol'.
September 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Yes, airing something simply to tell you that it's wrong can be so counterproductive.
A schoolteacher once told us to remember
'In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue'
then added it was not
'In 1493 Columbus sailed the deep blue sea'
I've had both versions stuck in my mind for decades.
A schoolteacher once told us to remember
'In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue'
then added it was not
'In 1493 Columbus sailed the deep blue sea'
I've had both versions stuck in my mind for decades.
September 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If one of these articles ever claimed that now *wasn't* the right time to update your look I would be sufficiently intrigued to read it.
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: why September is an ideal time to update your look
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: why September is an ideal time to update your look
This is a powerful month for fashion, and an ideal time to try a waistcoat, wider trousers, a shorter skirt or a splash of saturated colour
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If one of these articles ever claimed that now *wasn't* the right time to update your look I would be sufficiently intrigued to read it.