LukeBMTB
@lukebmtb.bsky.social
Usual Twitter transfer. Dog walks, phone photo's, dad puns, education, some politics, some family stuff, trying to maintain a 600 year old house.
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hierarchy of evidence
January 27, 2026 at 9:48 PM
hierarchy of evidence
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Jude Law here objecting to plans to build 20 terraced houses and 25 flats ... on a car park. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
January 27, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Jude Law here objecting to plans to build 20 terraced houses and 25 flats ... on a car park. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
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Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
January 27, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
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Bonus photo of the most optimistic dog in Reykjavík (it’s still closed)
January 27, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Bonus photo of the most optimistic dog in Reykjavík (it’s still closed)
My daughter was 5 months old when I broke my hip learning how not to jump an mtb. I was in hospital for 3 days while they reattached my leg. My daughter didn't poo the entire time. I got home, put her on my lap and the whole lot came out at once. It was a messy clean up.
This used to be a refined household of gentle intellectual pursuits. Now it’s one where one of us shouts “We’ve got poo!” across the house and the other one cheers, to celebrate the end of baby’s 36 hours of constipation.
O tempora, o mores!
O tempora, o mores!
January 27, 2026 at 9:28 PM
My daughter was 5 months old when I broke my hip learning how not to jump an mtb. I was in hospital for 3 days while they reattached my leg. My daughter didn't poo the entire time. I got home, put her on my lap and the whole lot came out at once. It was a messy clean up.
January 27, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Yale dudes became damned communists 🧪😊
Yale University will be tuition-free next year for families with annual incomes below $200,000. #HigherEd ##AcademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Yale Will Offer Free Tuition To Families With Incomes Below $200,000
Next year Yale will cover tuition for new undergraduates from families with incomes below $200,000 and cover all education costs for those with incomes below $100,000.
www.forbes.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Yale dudes became damned communists 🧪😊
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Happy birthday to Gillian. Photo taken when New Order played Birmingham's Imperial Cinema in January 1982
January 27, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Happy birthday to Gillian. Photo taken when New Order played Birmingham's Imperial Cinema in January 1982
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I'm indebted to Live Science (and to the incredible work of the Expedition 501 team) for blowing my mind with this story:
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
But also...
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www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
But also...
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Enormous freshwater reservoir discovered off the East Coast may be 20,000 years old and big enough to supply NYC for 800 years
An expedition off the coast of Massachusetts has confirmed the existence of a freshwater reservoir beneath the seafloor. Now, scientists are starting to understand when and how it formed.
www.livescience.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I'm indebted to Live Science (and to the incredible work of the Expedition 501 team) for blowing my mind with this story:
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
But also...
7/
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
But also...
7/
My name's errrm, hang on I had it a minute ago.
January 27, 2026 at 7:27 PM
My name's errrm, hang on I had it a minute ago.
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Chanctonbury Ring.
an iPad drawing a day until I have enough that I'm happy with for a South Downs 'zine.
an iPad drawing a day until I have enough that I'm happy with for a South Downs 'zine.
January 27, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Chanctonbury Ring.
an iPad drawing a day until I have enough that I'm happy with for a South Downs 'zine.
an iPad drawing a day until I have enough that I'm happy with for a South Downs 'zine.
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Do you ever feel you’re being excluded?
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Do you ever feel you’re being excluded?
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
They'll schedule a period of silence instead I expect, 27 seconds under 5 minutes of it.
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
January 27, 2026 at 4:50 PM
They'll schedule a period of silence instead I expect, 27 seconds under 5 minutes of it.
"Run! Run for your lives!"
*All the turtles set off. Ten minutes later they're 20m down the beach*
*All the turtles set off. Ten minutes later they're 20m down the beach*
Rock climbers in Italy stumbled across evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle stampede that took place nearly 80 million years ago. Now, new research suggests these ancient marine reptiles were fleeing an earthquake.
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
Rock climbers in Italy accidentally discovered evidence of an 80 million-year-old sea turtle stampede
Scientists say grooves on a rock face overlooking the Adriatic Sea may have been made by sea turtles fleeing an earthquake.
www.livescience.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:59 PM
"Run! Run for your lives!"
*All the turtles set off. Ten minutes later they're 20m down the beach*
*All the turtles set off. Ten minutes later they're 20m down the beach*
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Rock climbers in Italy stumbled across evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle stampede that took place nearly 80 million years ago. Now, new research suggests these ancient marine reptiles were fleeing an earthquake.
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
Rock climbers in Italy accidentally discovered evidence of an 80 million-year-old sea turtle stampede
Scientists say grooves on a rock face overlooking the Adriatic Sea may have been made by sea turtles fleeing an earthquake.
www.livescience.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Rock climbers in Italy stumbled across evidence of what appears to be a sea turtle stampede that took place nearly 80 million years ago. Now, new research suggests these ancient marine reptiles were fleeing an earthquake.
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
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Let's observe a master of camouflage working its magic.
🐙
What amazing aliens of the deep..
#cephalopod #marinelife #intelligence #camouflage
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What amazing aliens of the deep..
#cephalopod #marinelife #intelligence #camouflage
January 21, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Let's observe a master of camouflage working its magic.
🐙
What amazing aliens of the deep..
#cephalopod #marinelife #intelligence #camouflage
🐙
What amazing aliens of the deep..
#cephalopod #marinelife #intelligence #camouflage
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Writing up my Excavation Report for the recent community excavation in Sackville Gardens has given me the chance to handle our finds again, so I thought I'd share a few of my favourite contemporary (1970-present) finds from the site...
📸 Is a 1979 Smiths Crips Salt and Vinager Wrapper.
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📸 Is a 1979 Smiths Crips Salt and Vinager Wrapper.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Writing up my Excavation Report for the recent community excavation in Sackville Gardens has given me the chance to handle our finds again, so I thought I'd share a few of my favourite contemporary (1970-present) finds from the site...
📸 Is a 1979 Smiths Crips Salt and Vinager Wrapper.
1/9
📸 Is a 1979 Smiths Crips Salt and Vinager Wrapper.
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Available on the NHS when you turn 65. £500 if you want it in the UK and are currently under 65 (or under 70 if you became 65 before the rules were introduced).
Ontario-based study suggests shingles vaccine prevents or delays new-onset dementia #Canada
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Ontario-based study suggests shingles vaccine prevents or delays new-onset dementia
A new Ontario-based study is suggesting the shingles vaccine may help prevent and/or delay the onset of dementia more effectively than any existing treatment.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Available on the NHS when you turn 65. £500 if you want it in the UK and are currently under 65 (or under 70 if you became 65 before the rules were introduced).
#robin taking off.
Slow shutter speed (1/125, F9, iso1600, lens at 500mm (1000 35mm equiv)) due to poor light helped here a little I think.
#birds #photography
Slow shutter speed (1/125, F9, iso1600, lens at 500mm (1000 35mm equiv)) due to poor light helped here a little I think.
#birds #photography
January 27, 2026 at 3:12 PM
#robin taking off.
Slow shutter speed (1/125, F9, iso1600, lens at 500mm (1000 35mm equiv)) due to poor light helped here a little I think.
#birds #photography
Slow shutter speed (1/125, F9, iso1600, lens at 500mm (1000 35mm equiv)) due to poor light helped here a little I think.
#birds #photography
Lunchtime walk. Green woodpecker. It was probably 30m away and it's a dull day so not the sharpest pic. Second image is uncropped.
#birds #photography
#birds #photography
January 27, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Lunchtime walk. Green woodpecker. It was probably 30m away and it's a dull day so not the sharpest pic. Second image is uncropped.
#birds #photography
#birds #photography
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How many hours did it take me to capture this image one the river, i hear you ask...too many...
#kingfisher #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukbirds #birdphotography
#kingfisher #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukbirds #birdphotography
January 27, 2026 at 12:15 PM
How many hours did it take me to capture this image one the river, i hear you ask...too many...
#kingfisher #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukbirds #birdphotography
#kingfisher #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukbirds #birdphotography
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Yesterday, I was invited to a press conference with the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands to discuss the removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at the American Cemetery in Margraten.
US removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at WWII cemetery in the Netherlands draws backlash
The American Cemetery in the Dutch village of Margraten has become a flashpoint over the removal of displays honoring Black soldiers.
apnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Yesterday, I was invited to a press conference with the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands to discuss the removal of panels honoring Black soldiers at the American Cemetery in Margraten.
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Before I stick it on eBay anyone in the UK want it for £13 delivered? Comes with charger battery and card
I was going to sell my Nikon D100 but the PSAM dial only seems to work on P or M. Anyone had that issue?
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Before I stick it on eBay anyone in the UK want it for £13 delivered? Comes with charger battery and card
Fit sliding pillar front suspension and I reckon Morgan would be up for a tie in.
January 27, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Fit sliding pillar front suspension and I reckon Morgan would be up for a tie in.
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We fixed your headline for you RTE
The driver killed the woman with his vehicle… please speak to your editors
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
The driver killed the woman with his vehicle… please speak to your editors
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
January 27, 2026 at 11:41 AM
We fixed your headline for you RTE
The driver killed the woman with his vehicle… please speak to your editors
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...
The driver killed the woman with his vehicle… please speak to your editors
www.rte.ie/news/regiona...