tïred and grumpy raven

Weirdly enough, Trump I, with the constant firehose of bullshit, is what woke me up to gender bullshit. See one person lie to your face with a shit-eating grin because the power relationship means you can't do anything, see 'em all. hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the…

The Fish Slapping Dance was filmed at Teddington Lock in 1971 (broadcast in 1972) and is credited as being the sketch that made Monty Python internationally popular. ‘It works anywhere on the planet,’ Michael Palin said many years later. ‘Even North Korea’. Good evening.

Portuguese textile artist Vanessa Barragão's large-scale handwoven artworks using techniques of her ancestors such as latch hook, crochet and felt needle with recycled materials #womensart

Ahhhh, so NOW I know what the fuck happened.

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Can anyone give me a précis of What The Hell Just Happened at the Peggie tribunal?

I hear from the folks over at NHS Fife that doctors and nurses cannot be expected to understand biological sex without the help of obstetricians. Since I run a maternity hospital, and am one of the people “making decisions at birth while delivering the baby”, today seems like an…

Bird day today. If I was a girl bird I would choose him for that hop alone. 💚

The chance of finding dolphin cats in a lavender field is low, but never zero

This is great. But still my favourite early days Black Sabbath story is about when they went to see The Exorcist on a day off during a tour. They were so spooked they all slept in the same bedroom that night.

For the record, I don't think the gender movement is a Big Oil conspiracy to undermine the green parties. I just don't think it would look all that different if it were.

Hedgehogs face many threats and are in widespread decline. But a new campaign urging people to create wild patches for hedgehogs in gardens and community green spaces could help: littlegreenspace.org.uk/news/go-wild-f… #nature #GoWildForHedgehogs

The Wheels on the Bus was written in 1937 but motorised buses date back to the 1890s. There was a forty year period where people were just getting on buses with no idea of what was going to happen.

"The Guardian view on the water industry: a return to public ownership should still be on the table." There is an all pervasive stench within Ofwat, Defra and the Treasury of small state / non interventionist thinking, it is costing and will continue to cost water bill payers…

I spent a year at Ofwat back in 2013 working on price controls I’m not remotely surprised it’s being abolished - what I saw astonished me 🧵 theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Sharon Osbourne straightening Ozzy’s hair with an iron. That’s the tweet.

How long before Putin starts whining about russians in Poland needing saving?

In Germany they had Volkswagen but in #Orkney we had Goatswagon. 🐐

The beautiful light of this autochrome casts an ethereal aura around the crocheting child. Her name was Hélène Gélibert (niece of the Lumiere brothers, who invented the autochrome colour process). It was taken 115 years ago in the Monplaisir district of Lyon in France, in the…

Every year I worked as a demonstrator in undergraduate chemistry labs there would be a boy like this and you'd be like son don't take this the wrong way but let me set up the fractional distillation kit for you, we don't have any spares