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So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
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❛ There will be dying, there will be dying, / but there is no need to go into that. / The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
❛ There will be dying, there will be dying, / but there is no need to go into that. / The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Possum looked into the mirror and scared itself.
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Possum looked into the mirror and scared itself.
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
October 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.
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Saul Bellow nailing* the importance of physical media (cf:, lps, cds, dvds, etc) from The Dangling Man, 1944.
* for me, anyways
* for me, anyways
September 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Saul Bellow nailing* the importance of physical media (cf:, lps, cds, dvds, etc) from The Dangling Man, 1944.
* for me, anyways
* for me, anyways
What a privilege to be at The Oval yesterday and witness those innings by Root and Brook. Best of luck to England this morning!
August 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
What a privilege to be at The Oval yesterday and witness those innings by Root and Brook. Best of luck to England this morning!
Common Fleabane, Common Burdock, Spear Thistle and Hemp Agrimony at Dinas Island today in sunny Pembrokeshire.
July 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Common Fleabane, Common Burdock, Spear Thistle and Hemp Agrimony at Dinas Island today in sunny Pembrokeshire.
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As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...
July 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...
Large Skipper, female Common Blue and Mint Moth, seen at Le Marais de Montceaux L'Étoile today. Also a remarkably clear view of a (non-singing) Nightingale (no photo, alas).
July 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Large Skipper, female Common Blue and Mint Moth, seen at Le Marais de Montceaux L'Étoile today. Also a remarkably clear view of a (non-singing) Nightingale (no photo, alas).
Female Essex Skipper, Marbled White and slightly blurred Spotted Fritillary, all seen on a short roadside stop in central France today.
July 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Female Essex Skipper, Marbled White and slightly blurred Spotted Fritillary, all seen on a short roadside stop in central France today.
@mothiduk.bsky.social Good afternoon, would you be able to ID these moths for me, please?
June 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@mothiduk.bsky.social Good afternoon, would you be able to ID these moths for me, please?
Salad Burnet and Hedge Bedstraw, two new plants for me, seen today at Albany Park in Enfield.
May 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Salad Burnet and Hedge Bedstraw, two new plants for me, seen today at Albany Park in Enfield.
@mothiduk.bsky.social Could you please help me identify the moths in my first 2 images here, and just confirm that the third is a Common Swift? Many thanks.
May 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
@mothiduk.bsky.social Could you please help me identify the moths in my first 2 images here, and just confirm that the third is a Common Swift? Many thanks.
Architectural details at Leicester Square I had somehow never noticed before.
January 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Architectural details at Leicester Square I had somehow never noticed before.
@bbcradio4.bsky.social Completely agree with everything Hugh Grant has just said on the Today programme about the continuing power of the press in this country. Why don't the BBC and others decide for themselves what is newsworthy, rather than always taking their lead from Murdoch and Rothermere?
January 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
@bbcradio4.bsky.social Completely agree with everything Hugh Grant has just said on the Today programme about the continuing power of the press in this country. Why don't the BBC and others decide for themselves what is newsworthy, rather than always taking their lead from Murdoch and Rothermere?
@jonathancoe.bsky.social Having watched Fedora a few weeks ago I simply had to reread your Mr Wilder And Me, which I finished a few minutes ago. What a wonderful read, and such a moving hommage to a great film-maker. Plus I loved the scene with the Brie.
December 25, 2024 at 4:42 PM
@jonathancoe.bsky.social Having watched Fedora a few weeks ago I simply had to reread your Mr Wilder And Me, which I finished a few minutes ago. What a wonderful read, and such a moving hommage to a great film-maker. Plus I loved the scene with the Brie.
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"Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism."
November 19, 2024 at 12:40 PM
"Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism."
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This is the last letter I sent in. Good to go out on a high. By then I was writing more and found the outlet I'd been craving. I would quit my job within a year to write full time, and I've done so ever since. If nothing else doing something this stupid kept me sane for a few years. I recommend it!
October 17, 2023 at 9:32 AM
This is the last letter I sent in. Good to go out on a high. By then I was writing more and found the outlet I'd been craving. I would quit my job within a year to write full time, and I've done so ever since. If nothing else doing something this stupid kept me sane for a few years. I recommend it!