Rick Cowling
@rickcowling.bsky.social
Aging geek. Anime fan. SF fan. Comic fan. Photography enthusiast.
Getting old. And now I’m older still.
Lefty, anti-authoritarian, living 'oop Nooarth' on the edge of Sheffield in the UK.
Getting old. And now I’m older still.
Lefty, anti-authoritarian, living 'oop Nooarth' on the edge of Sheffield in the UK.
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Here is a little piece about the day of my final Monkey Cage recording - a couple of weeks ago in beautiful #manchester www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
December 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Here is a little piece about the day of my final Monkey Cage recording - a couple of weeks ago in beautiful #manchester www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...
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Can't think of a worse thing to tune into, honestly.
December 26, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Can't think of a worse thing to tune into, honestly.
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In courts of law, this is known as consciousness of guilt.
Steve Bannon: "If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included."
December 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
In courts of law, this is known as consciousness of guilt.
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It’s the final collection of new books and ARCs for 2025, and this one is a double decker! What here is something you would want to take with you into the new year?
December 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It’s the final collection of new books and ARCs for 2025, and this one is a double decker! What here is something you would want to take with you into the new year?
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Written in the style of someone recently jilted who also got fired the same week.
December 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Written in the style of someone recently jilted who also got fired the same week.
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They "discovered" that when mice are rewilded they become less anxious.And this surprises scientists? Being trapped, tormented by experiments makes them more anxious than being free in nature. They had to learn this?
People experimenting on caged animals lose empathy, weakening basic understanding.
People experimenting on caged animals lose empathy, weakening basic understanding.
Scientists Released Caged Mice Into The Wild, And an Incredible Thing Happened
Dozens of laboratory mice allowed to roam a large outdoor enclosure returned to a typical level of mouse anxiety after just one week, researchers observed, suggesting that 'rewilding' may prevent lab-...
www.sciencealert.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
They "discovered" that when mice are rewilded they become less anxious.And this surprises scientists? Being trapped, tormented by experiments makes them more anxious than being free in nature. They had to learn this?
People experimenting on caged animals lose empathy, weakening basic understanding.
People experimenting on caged animals lose empathy, weakening basic understanding.
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There is no reason to argue with STUPID MAGAt "male forms of DNA"
“Miss, do you agree with the sign?”
“Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥
#ForcedBirthNation
“Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥
#ForcedBirthNation
December 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
There is no reason to argue with STUPID MAGAt "male forms of DNA"
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Brit doorman tells ICE to skate
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #ResistTrump #ICE #AbolishICE #ImmigrantRights #ImmigrationPolicy
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #ResistTrump #ICE #AbolishICE #ImmigrantRights #ImmigrationPolicy
December 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Brit doorman tells ICE to skate
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #ResistTrump #ICE #AbolishICE #ImmigrantRights #ImmigrationPolicy
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #ResistTrump #ICE #AbolishICE #ImmigrantRights #ImmigrationPolicy
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Donald Trump will spend Christmas Eve with his billionaire friends at Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayers' dime.
Barack Obama spent his Christmas Eve as President surprising kids at a children's hospital. Don't forget what real leadership looks like.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Barack Obama spent his Christmas Eve as President surprising kids at a children's hospital. Don't forget what real leadership looks like.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
December 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Donald Trump will spend Christmas Eve with his billionaire friends at Mar-a-Lago on the taxpayers' dime.
Barack Obama spent his Christmas Eve as President surprising kids at a children's hospital. Don't forget what real leadership looks like.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
Barack Obama spent his Christmas Eve as President surprising kids at a children's hospital. Don't forget what real leadership looks like.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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A cathedral built for the worship of Nature, as richly detailed and as full of stories told in stone and paint as any mediaeval masterpiece.
One final image of the interior of the Natural History Museum of London…for now! September 2025 #Photography #InteriorArchitecture #Museum #London 📷
December 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A cathedral built for the worship of Nature, as richly detailed and as full of stories told in stone and paint as any mediaeval masterpiece.
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A perfectly beautiful Christmas story.
Ghosts Everywhere.
A Willerby Story.
A miracle on Christmas Eve.
willerby.substack.com/p/ghosts-eve...
A Willerby Story.
A miracle on Christmas Eve.
willerby.substack.com/p/ghosts-eve...
December 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A perfectly beautiful Christmas story.
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This is 100% accurate, I know there is a small raft of dudes out there who like to try to slam how I do the man thing, and my reaction is and has always been, lol, no, my dudes, I don't take man lessons from boring status anxious try hard bigots
I think of your gender identity as "this is a perfectly acceptable way to be a man and if you're bothered by it, by all means tell me alllllllllllll about it, your irritation gives me LIFE."
December 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is 100% accurate, I know there is a small raft of dudes out there who like to try to slam how I do the man thing, and my reaction is and has always been, lol, no, my dudes, I don't take man lessons from boring status anxious try hard bigots
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They found a bronze barley-beer hat with bronze tubes going from the gallon jug on the hat to the mouth. Also ancient cocaine straws.
We discovered an ancient 'party boat' in the waters of Alexandria. Here's what might have happened on board
Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria's eastern harbor, on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a once-splendid city—ports, palaces and temples swallowed by the sea. Submerged ...
phys.org
December 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
They found a bronze barley-beer hat with bronze tubes going from the gallon jug on the hat to the mouth. Also ancient cocaine straws.
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My lord, i hope all this shit was copied and distributed before we started telling them what they did wrong…
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
My lord, i hope all this shit was copied and distributed before we started telling them what they did wrong…
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#SomethingBeautiful - industry and public works collaborating with an environmental charity for the common good and making something positive of spoil disposal. More of this!
400 years ago, Jubilee Marsh was walled off from the sea. Mid-2000s, the Royal Society for the Protection Of Birds bought land and decided to ‘rewet’ the marsh. In London, the Crossrail project needed a place for dirt. Cue collaboration & a successful bird refuge buff.ly/ofngNQR
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Record 40,000 birds flock to 400-year-old revived wetland - Oceanographic
Jubilee Marsh in Essex sees nearly 40,000 wintering birds, a decade after being restored using soil from London’s Elizabeth line excavations.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
#SomethingBeautiful - industry and public works collaborating with an environmental charity for the common good and making something positive of spoil disposal. More of this!
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Reminder that blue states carry red states on their backs and have for decades.
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Reminder that blue states carry red states on their backs and have for decades.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Matthew Bowles works for the IEA.
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco.
Times up.
Merry Christmas!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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the facehugger emerging fully-formed from its pod-like egg
December 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
the facehugger emerging fully-formed from its pod-like egg
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God, if you are listening...
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
God, if you are listening...