The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook - naturalist Sir Richard Owen collected newspaper cuttings on sea serpent sightings over many years - one of the oldest cryptozoological cuttings libraries. My article from @forteantimes.bsky.social - mattsalusbury.blogspot.com/2025/10/scep...

NUJ responds to removal of journalists from @UKLabour Party Conference. "It’s a journalist’s job to hold power to account, and in a functioning democracy, elected reps must be transparent and open to challenge." #pressfreedom

The NUJ has issued notice to ballot members for industrial action at The Mirror and Reach's Scottish titles in a dispute over job losses, workloads, and artificial intelligence.

The NUJ has asked members to vote ‘yes’ to both strike action and action short of strike.

www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum
talk -
Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30 online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
@discoverdunwich.bsky.social

Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription.

It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

Faux fossil sauropod bones and a pterosaur, Jurassic Bay Adventure Golf, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday

Initial analysis of geological sample collected by Perseverance Mars rover is "best evidence yet" for existence of earlier life on Mars. Tiny spots in the sample are suggestive of iron-rich minerals that are often the product of reactions caused by microbes. gizmodo.com/perseverance...

"The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook" - my illustrated article on probably one of the first cryptozoological clippings libraries, kept by Sir Richard Owen, a Natural History Museum co-founder who coined the term "dinosaur". In this month's @forteantimes.bsky.social (FT 462. October 2025).

I used to have a couple of issues of Bugs and Drugs back in the day. I knew its Bear Hackenbush, lead singer of Lunatic Fringe. Bugs n Drugs was briefly on sale in the Virgin Megastore, I recall.

I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries.
These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!

The man who has put up the most England flags in Manchester was caught in 2016 trying to smuggle 4 Vietnamese people into the UK.

Now he is out of prison hanging up flags.

Any old grift.

Fragments of Jurassic oyster 🦪 shells in Portland Stone(?) in the facade of the Mashall Building at the LSE @lseblogs.bsky.social - my current place of work. #FossilFriday @pavementgeology.bsky.social

“ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

Student newspaper The Stanford Daily is suing Trump Administration's for its targeted deportation of student journalists based on their reporting, in a First Amendment suit. theintercept.com/2025/08/26/s...

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

Surge in cancellations of Refirm events in Norfolk eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/a-s...

Flowering artichoke in the front garden!

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

EFL teachers at Malvern House London, members of @TeflUnion, have submitted a formal request for Union recognition and are balloting for strike action over re-instatement of a teacher, for abolition of zero-hour contracts, for paid admin and prep time. teflworkersunion.org/malvern-hous...

Fossil sponge which I found among gravel on a path at Kenwood House. Thanks to @timholtwilson.bsky.social for identification. #FossilFriday