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seeking a cure for the Daily Express • exploring the borderlands of history and myth • unusual objects • tennis
What on earth is the point of Homes under the Hammer? I can't see why anyone would want to watch it, grotty to bland just isn't an interesting 'journey'. If Escape the Country is 'property porn' Homes under the Hammer is more like ogling a naked shop window mannequin.
December 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
He'll be claiming that he was only invited to appear on The Apprentice so he could be made to look like an arrogant twat and fired next...
December 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Bitey
December 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Fleas Navidad.
December 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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An old Finnish guide to mushrooms famously had these rules on its front page:

1. Learn to recognize poisonous mushrooms
2. Only eat mushrooms you recognize
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
You know you're getting old when you look at this picture and your first thought is that being part of a pantomime camel must lead to much less back pain than being part of a pantomime horse.
Look, it was a different time, it’s fine. #totp
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Interesting new Gashapon set here. The horrified owl is a nice touch.
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I smell a rat...
This bud's for you.
November 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I saw Robert Jenrick in the woodshed.
I think we need to ban him from London for his own safety.
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I can't help seeing the guardsman silhouette on the roof here as being on a pogo stick.
I forgot to post this photo of a local pub whose wholehearted commitment to commemorating Remembrance Sunday extended to erecting a Cenotaph on the roof
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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I'm not sure how anyone who lambasted Jenrick for painting over children's murals at an asylum centre can stay quiet over this.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs

This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑

Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.

We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Justified and Ancient
Exemplar for why rush to lethal management of "invasive" animals requires enormous caution: "Reptiles on a Mexican island were considered an invasive species, but DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by hundreds of thousands of years." #conservation #reptile #invasivespecies #maybenot
This Is What a Vindicated Iguana Looks Like
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?

It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.

Something very dangerous is building here.
Well, that was a very weird deputy PMQs. James Cartlidge asking the same question five times – could David Lammy guarantee no other jailed asylum seekers have been accidentally released rather than deported – and Lammy each time instead condemning the Tories' record on prisons and justice.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This spider almost seems like a puppeteer operating its shadow, I respect it.
Cat-faced spider (and magnificent shadow), out for a walk this morning.
November 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I will readily admit to smiling along with this Cole cartoon from Oct 3rd’s Private Eye. It’s a Batman I can relate to.
November 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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100 years ago today Howard Carter opened Tutankamoun’s inner most coffin and saw the pharaoh’s mask for the first time. Here’s the photo taken that day.

It’s in with all the astonishing excavation papers and photos at the @griffithinstitute.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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you were were-warned #halloween
October 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
O Death, where is thy string?
Day 13 of #31DaysOfGraves - Skeleton

On the leg of a magnificent 18thC table tomb in Liberton Kirkyard, Edinburgh, is carved the figure of death as a skeleton, standing upon a skull, firing a dart at the soon-to-be-deceased while cutting the cord of a weight dangling over the unlucky person's head!
October 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Where they send people to wean them off cockfighting.
Found the worst playground in England
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The picture on the left gives us a rare view of a dog without its trousers on.
This is Sandy. She landed in a shelter with a dislocated hip and luxating patella after being hit by a car. Thanks to your support of our merch, @15outof10.org was able to cover her surgery and physical therapy. She has found a forever home and is healing beautifully ❤️‍🩹
October 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Today’s all new episode in the series:
How Much Opossum Can Fit in this House?
1/2
September 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM