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Grim, but this is where we are.

And this is one reason why I'm a vegetarian.

Carl's bird photos are amazing - have a look!

Which is the whole point of the exercise: to make investors money.

I can't remember the last time I ironed ANYTHING.

Retired and I'm already having to remind myself what day of the week it is. Thought it was Friday. Turns out it's only Thursday.

Beautiful linocut cover, well deserved award, and not a trace of AI slop. Congratulations!

The only reason for setting up a private company to manage an aspect of a service provided by an affiliated company is to extract more money for the new company owners.

For the sake of all the gods, just raise taxes, add a wealth tax for good measure (including corporations)*, and ring-fence it for social care and the NHS. Then turn your attention to tax in general and let's have a fairer spread which also closes the loopholes. *probably should be a one-off

Clearly if I'm to get things done I need to write a list and cross one thing off every day. I'm enjoying being retired, but my productivity has slowed to a crawl.

"I have no interest in reducing my impact" is the root and branch of why were seeing huge swathes of the world burning, taking all the birds, insects, mammals, fish and fungi with it. Plus pets. It's that ok just so you can carry on doing as you please? Is it so hard to give up meat occasionally?

In other news, I briefly flirted with vinted. There absolutely cannot be that many new items of clothing and stuff for sale without tags. Vinted must be an unwitting* front for stolen goods. *Maybe

FIFA is not about football, it's about money. The same can be said about some people involved in football including some players. The money needs taking out and giving to the exploited workers* to reduce their costs. *fans

This is a mint moth. Never seen one before. Bright home and planted a rudbeckia and it just appeared.

We MUST ban disposable BBQs, make smoking in public and in cars against the law, and consider - and I know this will be unpopular - restricting camping to licenced sites only. People simply can't be trusted and the fire risk is too great to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Just seen some photos of Ventor on the Isle of Wight. Lovely beach but it's really very quiet - tell me again why people want to go abroad on holiday?

All this fuss about a 'technical route' in schools is nonsense. Kids get to choose from a good range of subjects which include those that are creative and/or practical already. On the whole, they get an excellent education. The problem is the same as it's always been - the availability of jobs.

The hypocrisy displayed by Reform is staggering.

Don't Look Up

Clearly there is absolutely no 'world order' or Indeed any concern for humanity beyond immediate family. Israel does what it wants unchecked, so does Trump, the climate has now broken down and the environment is being destroyed, and all by a small number of people driven by greed.