Petra
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Reader, preferably with a nice cup of tea
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#cat #HjördisTheCat
I was napping on the couch when my brofur Zeus started meowing and woke me up.
Stay safe and warm out there everyone.
😸😸💤💤💤💤😸💤💤💤😸
I was napping on the couch when my brofur Zeus started meowing and woke me up.
Stay safe and warm out there everyone.
😸😸💤💤💤💤😸💤💤💤😸
January 29, 2026 at 12:05 AM
#cat #HjördisTheCat
I was napping on the couch when my brofur Zeus started meowing and woke me up.
Stay safe and warm out there everyone.
😸😸💤💤💤💤😸💤💤💤😸
I was napping on the couch when my brofur Zeus started meowing and woke me up.
Stay safe and warm out there everyone.
😸😸💤💤💤💤😸💤💤💤😸
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last night, the drifts of sleet out back were like tiny beads of hard-frozen ice, the perfect texture to scoop up and carefully form into a historically-accurate ice shell to chill a tiki cocktail to be drunk by the fire
mezcal-jalapeno-pineapple margarita; outcast of the islands (jeff berry)
mezcal-jalapeno-pineapple margarita; outcast of the islands (jeff berry)
January 26, 2026 at 3:40 PM
last night, the drifts of sleet out back were like tiny beads of hard-frozen ice, the perfect texture to scoop up and carefully form into a historically-accurate ice shell to chill a tiki cocktail to be drunk by the fire
mezcal-jalapeno-pineapple margarita; outcast of the islands (jeff berry)
mezcal-jalapeno-pineapple margarita; outcast of the islands (jeff berry)
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we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 PM
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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When life gives you lemon-shaped-planets, make planetade.
A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed
Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet defies the rules of planet formation
A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, and it’s unclear how it could have formed
www.newscientist.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
When life gives you lemon-shaped-planets, make planetade.
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"I'm 'A' from Balmoral
Completely immoral
Entitled
Untitled
Here for your abhorral."
Completely immoral
Entitled
Untitled
Here for your abhorral."
December 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"I'm 'A' from Balmoral
Completely immoral
Entitled
Untitled
Here for your abhorral."
Completely immoral
Entitled
Untitled
Here for your abhorral."
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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Did @crocketthoughton.com and I find the perfect Christmas gnome? Yes. Did we place him so that he strategically guards the presents? Obviously. Am I keeping him out year round after this? Duh.
December 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Did @crocketthoughton.com and I find the perfect Christmas gnome? Yes. Did we place him so that he strategically guards the presents? Obviously. Am I keeping him out year round after this? Duh.
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A toast, tonight, rather than on Christmas day, to absent friends and family, both in this world and beyond it. May you hold them close throughout this life of yours.
December 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A toast, tonight, rather than on Christmas day, to absent friends and family, both in this world and beyond it. May you hold them close throughout this life of yours.
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The Angel Belly of Cleansing is here to heal your timeline. Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s.
December 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The Angel Belly of Cleansing is here to heal your timeline. Photo from my collection, ca. 1970s.
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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
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Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas.
That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform council’s plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people’
Announcement after proposed sale falls through prompts backlash and union says more than 200 jobs at risk
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas.
That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Parents & anyone else up early on Christmas morning: there’s a bright pass of the International Space Station over the UK, just after 6.15.
Well, I say it’s the ISS. Could be Santa heading home…
Exact timings for where you are at www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary....
Well, I say it’s the ISS. Could be Santa heading home…
Exact timings for where you are at www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary....
ISS - Visible Passes
Satellite predictions and other astronomical data customised for your location.
www.heavens-above.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Parents & anyone else up early on Christmas morning: there’s a bright pass of the International Space Station over the UK, just after 6.15.
Well, I say it’s the ISS. Could be Santa heading home…
Exact timings for where you are at www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary....
Well, I say it’s the ISS. Could be Santa heading home…
Exact timings for where you are at www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary....
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Breakfast Trifle – yes, Breakfast Trifle – is #RecipeOfTheDay, a happy proposition indeed! www.nigella.com/recipes/brea...
Breakfast Trifle
I feel festively a-glow just saying the words Breakfast Trifle! And while I would never wish to dissuade you from waddling over to the fridge to scoop some leftover dessert trifle into a cereal bowl f...
www.nigella.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Breakfast Trifle – yes, Breakfast Trifle – is #RecipeOfTheDay, a happy proposition indeed! www.nigella.com/recipes/brea...
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It wasn't the best weather on Sunday - but I managed to catch a few bits of wildlife here in Manchester!
A thread 🧵 if that's still a thing?
1 - The Heron
@everyheron.bsky.social
#photo #photography #wildlifephotography #Manchester #UK #naturephotography #birds #birdphotography #camera
A thread 🧵 if that's still a thing?
1 - The Heron
@everyheron.bsky.social
#photo #photography #wildlifephotography #Manchester #UK #naturephotography #birds #birdphotography #camera
December 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It wasn't the best weather on Sunday - but I managed to catch a few bits of wildlife here in Manchester!
A thread 🧵 if that's still a thing?
1 - The Heron
@everyheron.bsky.social
#photo #photography #wildlifephotography #Manchester #UK #naturephotography #birds #birdphotography #camera
A thread 🧵 if that's still a thing?
1 - The Heron
@everyheron.bsky.social
#photo #photography #wildlifephotography #Manchester #UK #naturephotography #birds #birdphotography #camera
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Compiling a list of good things that happened in 2025 and what's striking is that "bad news sells" while stuff like this can get missed almost altogether
wmo.int/media/news/s...
wmo.int/media/news/s...
Small and short-lived 2025 ozone hole confirms long-term recovery trend
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA said that the ozone hole was the fifth smallest since 1992, the year that the Montreal Protocol, a landmark international agreement to p...
wmo.int
December 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Compiling a list of good things that happened in 2025 and what's striking is that "bad news sells" while stuff like this can get missed almost altogether
wmo.int/media/news/s...
wmo.int/media/news/s...
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Sad news: she was so very kind to me when I was starting out. Clever, kind, rather grand, but ready to tell the most scurrilous store of industry anecdotes once you got a couple of glasses of red wine inside her...
December 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Sad news: she was so very kind to me when I was starting out. Clever, kind, rather grand, but ready to tell the most scurrilous store of industry anecdotes once you got a couple of glasses of red wine inside her...
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Sad to hear of the death of the iconic Stanley Baxter - I saw him many times in panto when I was growing up, and he was unsurpassed as a dame (and I am sure I am not the only one who was not that surprised when he came out of the closet age at the grand old age of 94...)
December 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sad to hear of the death of the iconic Stanley Baxter - I saw him many times in panto when I was growing up, and he was unsurpassed as a dame (and I am sure I am not the only one who was not that surprised when he came out of the closet age at the grand old age of 94...)
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This is beautiful and anyone saying otherwise is a dullard.
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is beautiful and anyone saying otherwise is a dullard.
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"while a handful of puffins on a tiny island may seem small, this moment is huge – it proves that seabird restoration works"
A fantastic success story for puffins in Antrim!
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
A fantastic success story for puffins in Antrim!
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Myth is becoming a reality’: Puffins make a comeback at Isle of Muck after 25 years
Recovery project at Co Antrim reserve saw removal of invasive brown rats, the biggest threat to seabird eggs and chicks
www.irishtimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
"while a handful of puffins on a tiny island may seem small, this moment is huge – it proves that seabird restoration works"
A fantastic success story for puffins in Antrim!
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
A fantastic success story for puffins in Antrim!
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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“They’ve accidentally released you?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
“They’ve accidentally released you?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?