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A small selection of early carboniferous marine invertebrate fossils from Fife, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤 #ScottishGeology #ScottishFossils #AllMyPalsAreRocks

"Why should we help refugees"

Because THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS. They're not another species, it's not 'them or us'.. THEY ARE US.

Tomorrow at 7:15 AM ET, Orion will fly about 80 miles above the surface of the moon. You can tune in here: nasa.gov/nasalive #space #science #nasa #artemis

@seedyh it's a balance, isn't it? Enough people with enough engagement to survive, but not so much that it's uncontrolled. I think it will be an interesting journey whatever happens.

One of the aspects of my new job that I am enjoying immensely, is working so close to the Cathedral. Truro Cathedral is a beautiful building in lovely if rather tiny grounds, with many appealing aspects. The inside is also beautiful (and there's a route through to the café, so that's nice!)

*pictures:
1. View of the main spires above a brutal brick commercial building. Love the contrast.
2. View along a tree and shrub lined path to the Cathedral beyond the green. Wall on right is also clad with climbing greenery.
3. Interior of the Cathedral featuring the ornately carved choir stalls and stone arches with stained glass window in centre. Foreground has drums and red petals prominently - photo taken around Remembrance weekend.

What's it with people reporting every single one they dont like.. :amaze:

Please, stop with that.

This is not #Twitter. Please use features like mute or block if you don't like people but stop reporting otherwise I'll start banning people who keep reporting for nothing :blobhammer:

I'm trying to keep things running with so many new people and it's such a waste of time to hear whatever you don't like

Otherwise go waste Elon's time, not mine

Today is #TransDayofRemembrance when we honor and remember trans lives taken by violence. How horrifying that a deadly attack upon the LGBTQ+ community in Colorado Springs should occur right before this solemn day.
Hate isn’t born in us. It is taught. It must end.
This starts with our political leaders, who must cease their cynical attacks against our community before another attack occurs.
Call out the hate. Remind them of its consequences. Hold them to account.

This site makes me feel guilty about the fact I didn’t let mastodons on the Ark.

View down from a very high place in Petra. 

Looking down on Al Khazneh, the Treasury, Petra from a tiny ledge. One of Petra's famous High Places. Possibly the scariest places I have ever been. It took me several attempts over a few years, and the help of lots of friends, to get to all of them.

I always follow back, & really appreciate & follow boosters

#Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #PicsOfMastodon #Photo #Photographer #Jordan #Travel #Petra #High #View #History #AncientWorld #Archaeology #Boost

This is a really interesting read. You don't have to believe every word, you don't have to agree with the conclusions, but it comes from an informed source and gives reasons, so it's interesting at the very *least*.

When I was seven or eight, I was given a copy of the “Ladybird Book of Butterflies & Moths”. The idea was to record seeing each one of the several dozen varieties of butterfly and moths illustrated in the book and when you had ticked off all the varieties in the book, you could send off for a badge or a certificate, or something like that.
The area where I lived was particularly blessed with species variety in the butterfly world as it encompassed chalk down land, salt marsh, ancient woodland on clay soil and a variety of other habitats. This meant that I had little difficulty finding most of the butterflies in the book, but one particular species evaded me: the European swallowtail, “Papilio machaon”. This was not surprising as it is found, to this day, in the UK only around the Norfolk Broads and even there it is rather rare.
I pestered my mother for months to take me to somewhere where we would see a swallow tail and no matter how often she explained that the only place we would be likely to see one was, back in those days, 3/4 of a day's journey on the train. I was distraught; inconsolable, even! I cried, I sobbed, I begged, but all to no avail; in the end, I just had to accept that my ladybird book of butterflies would never be complete!
I had almost completely forgotten about the ladybird book of butterflies until a few months back when a swallowedtail butterfly appeared in my garden. I have never seen one before, nor since. It took me right back to my childhood and the gamut of emotions that I endured due to that damned book of butterflies.
The only problem I have now is “what the hell did I do with that sodding book?”


A yellow swallowtail butterfly feeding on the purple Buddleia blossom in my garden in Luxembourg. A rare species even over here!

Excellent long shadow day. Complete with strategically placed “fig leaf” 👀😊

@ianbetteridge Yeah, I understand the whole "don't hide it" thing and I do agree, it's only the suggestion that not wanting to see it *must* mean one is a Nazi that I dispute. Not being hidden and not wanting to always see everything about it surely aren't the same? Trivial version: I've been a veggie for over forty years, I know all the reasons, I'm aware of the cruelty, I do not need to see another shot of a cow in a slaughterhouse. (I am not making an equivalence here, merely trying to illustrate my point) x

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