James
@studiousbadger.eurosky.social
Stargazing vet from the Dark Satanic North. Once hit the stumps from the boundary aged 11, all down hill since then. Was in practice, now harping on about #OneHealth, transboundary infectious disease and whatnot 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺
A century earlier, on 18th Jan 1881 the 'Visiter' ran ashore off Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire. No local boat could be launched due to the violence of the storm, so the Whitby lifeboat was brought OVERLAND 6 miles to the bay itself. Through 7ft snowdrifts 200 men cleared the way by hand.
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
September 18, 2026 at 3:46 PM
A century earlier, on 18th Jan 1881 the 'Visiter' ran ashore off Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire. No local boat could be launched due to the violence of the storm, so the Whitby lifeboat was brought OVERLAND 6 miles to the bay itself. Through 7ft snowdrifts 200 men cleared the way by hand.
The Captain has turned on the signs
So stow away bags of all kinds
Then make sure your tray is folded away
And the seat-back no longer reclines
Blue skies, Carolyn ✈️
So stow away bags of all kinds
Then make sure your tray is folded away
And the seat-back no longer reclines
Blue skies, Carolyn ✈️
Coronation Street and Tenko actress Stephanie Cole has died
Coronation Street and Tenko actress Stephanie Cole has died
Actress Stephanie Cole has died aged 84, her agent said.
news.sky.com
September 18, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The Captain has turned on the signs
So stow away bags of all kinds
Then make sure your tray is folded away
And the seat-back no longer reclines
Blue skies, Carolyn ✈️
So stow away bags of all kinds
Then make sure your tray is folded away
And the seat-back no longer reclines
Blue skies, Carolyn ✈️
So beautifully well articulated.
September 16, 2026 at 1:51 PM
So beautifully well articulated.
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As head of PR at Weyland-Yutani, I’m afraid to say that this statement needs to be repeated.
September 14, 2026 at 12:24 PM
As head of PR at Weyland-Yutani, I’m afraid to say that this statement needs to be repeated.
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Guys. Where are the posts reminding us not to speak ill of the dead? I'm not seeing them for some reason.
August 25, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Guys. Where are the posts reminding us not to speak ill of the dead? I'm not seeing them for some reason.
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"I've got Barrowman on the phone sir"
August 24, 2026 at 12:27 PM
"I've got Barrowman on the phone sir"
Absolutely this. Academic freedom cannot be a cover for discredited/pseudoscientific claims of racial superiority. Science is not a tool to be used to insinuate an answer while giving the speaker somewhere to retreat to when challenged.
I do not think "black people are inferior" or, say, "Jews are inferior" are suitable subjects for academic enquiry. We've done that before and it hasn't gone well. What would be the red line for you? If he had a swastika on his forehead?
August 23, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Absolutely this. Academic freedom cannot be a cover for discredited/pseudoscientific claims of racial superiority. Science is not a tool to be used to insinuate an answer while giving the speaker somewhere to retreat to when challenged.
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I’m in York!
Today’s main character, from the stonemasons’ yard at York Minster, who I can only understand as a Dragon-Staffie crossbreed:
Today’s main character, from the stonemasons’ yard at York Minster, who I can only understand as a Dragon-Staffie crossbreed:
August 5, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I’m in York!
Today’s main character, from the stonemasons’ yard at York Minster, who I can only understand as a Dragon-Staffie crossbreed:
Today’s main character, from the stonemasons’ yard at York Minster, who I can only understand as a Dragon-Staffie crossbreed:
Even here on Bluesky, a lie (or worse a half-truth) can make it around the world before Sam Vimes has got his boots on.
August 5, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Even here on Bluesky, a lie (or worse a half-truth) can make it around the world before Sam Vimes has got his boots on.
Finally! Now my AI agent can walk my dog, and connect with my children, and comfort my wife as she cries herself to sleep at night.
August 1, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Finally! Now my AI agent can walk my dog, and connect with my children, and comfort my wife as she cries herself to sleep at night.
Mind blown (Escherich/E. Coli). Love these little treasure troves from history.
The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago.
The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies.
Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.
The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies.
Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.
August 1, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Mind blown (Escherich/E. Coli). Love these little treasure troves from history.
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Lots of interesting points in this thread and the replies.
It's a genuinely remarkable change that you can have a Catholic prime minister, a Jewish foreign secretary, a gay defence secretary & a British-Asian home secretary, and those are among the least controversial facts about those appointments
It's a genuinely remarkable change that you can have a Catholic prime minister, a Jewish foreign secretary, a gay defence secretary & a British-Asian home secretary, and those are among the least controversial facts about those appointments
Wes Streeting is the first UK Secretary of State for Defence who is openly gay.
Gay people have been able to serve openly in the UK Armed Forces since 2000.
Like PM Andy Burnham's Catholicism, something that would have been controversial is largely now a matter of biographical colour.
Gay people have been able to serve openly in the UK Armed Forces since 2000.
Like PM Andy Burnham's Catholicism, something that would have been controversial is largely now a matter of biographical colour.
July 21, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Lots of interesting points in this thread and the replies.
It's a genuinely remarkable change that you can have a Catholic prime minister, a Jewish foreign secretary, a gay defence secretary & a British-Asian home secretary, and those are among the least controversial facts about those appointments
It's a genuinely remarkable change that you can have a Catholic prime minister, a Jewish foreign secretary, a gay defence secretary & a British-Asian home secretary, and those are among the least controversial facts about those appointments
RIP Sam Neill, the Bond we never knew we had.
Sam Neill as James Bond - Screentest (1986)
YouTube video by Tyrozaphy
youtu.be
July 13, 2026 at 11:48 AM
RIP Sam Neill, the Bond we never knew we had.
Of course it’s a labrador. That is the face of a stoned dog. #vetmed
Dog rescued from Ben Nevis suspected to have eaten discarded cannabis
Dog rescued from Ben Nevis suspected to have eaten discarded cannabis
Tokyo the black Labrador collapsed half way up the UK's highest mountain during a hike with her owner.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 12, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Of course it’s a labrador. That is the face of a stoned dog. #vetmed
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I don’t mind it, but there’s no doubt it looks like a matte painting of an alien cityscape in an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.
It looks shite. Sorry. It looks like the first level from a FPS that’s set in an indeterminate time in the future but they don’t want to do anything too outlandish.
June 20, 2026 at 9:21 AM
I don’t mind it, but there’s no doubt it looks like a matte painting of an alien cityscape in an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.
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I think the tech bros are only too happy to see the pushback against SM being funnelled into this wholly ineffective intervention. Instead of tackling the root cause of the problem - attention stealing, algo driven polarisation and uncontrolled misinformation/anti rationalism
June 16, 2026 at 8:51 AM
I think the tech bros are only too happy to see the pushback against SM being funnelled into this wholly ineffective intervention. Instead of tackling the root cause of the problem - attention stealing, algo driven polarisation and uncontrolled misinformation/anti rationalism
“These teenagers we’re just in the process of extending the franchise to. Is there any way we can piss them all off simultaneously, so none of them want to vote for us?”
This social media ban is just a perfect example of policy driven evidence making. #bbcpm
June 15, 2026 at 8:02 PM
“These teenagers we’re just in the process of extending the franchise to. Is there any way we can piss them all off simultaneously, so none of them want to vote for us?”
Paging Lynne Truss… “Utah is suffering from such dry conditions that a group of kids with a lighter and a squirrel managed to start separate brush fires within hours, according to local media reports.”
Utah is so dry that a squirrel and kids with a lighter started separate brush fires
The two fires were sparked within hours on Tuesday
www.independent.co.uk
June 12, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Paging Lynne Truss… “Utah is suffering from such dry conditions that a group of kids with a lighter and a squirrel managed to start separate brush fires within hours, according to local media reports.”
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Straight back at you with:
The “No chandeliers” does it for me
The “No chandeliers” does it for me
June 11, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Straight back at you with:
The “No chandeliers” does it for me
The “No chandeliers” does it for me
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If we have to ban under-16s from social media so they don't have to see all the awful shit over-16s are doing, I'm thinking maybe under-16s aren't the problem.
June 8, 2026 at 12:38 PM
If we have to ban under-16s from social media so they don't have to see all the awful shit over-16s are doing, I'm thinking maybe under-16s aren't the problem.
Even Monaco has potholes now.
June 7, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Even Monaco has potholes now.