"We labour soon, we labour late,
To feed the titled knave, man;
And a' the comfort we're to get,
Is that ayont the grave, man."
'The Tree of Liberty' (1838)
~Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
Happy #BurnsNight.
I took this photo, of the Robert Burns statue in Leith, some years ago.
I still love the contemporary feel that the additional guerrilla knitted leg warmers give this monument.
Not sure if he approved of them though.
Such a gorgeous fox! Apparently, she loves to pose for shots, right? Photos by Michelle Hanson #Alaska #AlaskaWildlife #RedFox
“Former adviser to Rishi Sunak working with Tory rebels trying to oust him”
Hasn’t this youngster got anything better to do, like wank into a sock?
Russia’s Education and Science Ministry has fired Alexander Kudryavtsev, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Vavilov Institute of General Genetics. At a conference last year, he said that genetic diseases could be explained by sin.
https://t.co/yFhmMbBNHf
"Captain Cook statue vandalised in Melbourne on eve of Australia Day"
That's the spirit!
The US Embassy in Brexitania weighs in on Teagate...
"We want to ensure the good people of the UK that the unthinkable notion of adding salt to Britain’s national drink is not official United States policy. And never will be.”
"The U.S. Embassy will continue to make tea in the proper way — by microwaving it.”
The Russian Il-76, which crashed near Belgorod, was flying from the border with Ukraine, not towards it , - OSINT analysts
🔺 Judging by the photo and video, the board flew in the opposite direction and began to descend sharply.
🔺 The direction to the north is confirmed by the video, which was taken from the center of the village of Yabluneve.
🔺 On the first shots from the accident site, there are no visible signs of scattered bodies.
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️
He has the biggest brain, the best words, and the most fingers.
#DementedRapistTraitorInsurrectionistTerroristCeiminalConManDonaldTrump
@TomCox on reading...
"How To Simultaneously Be On The Internet And Read All The Books And Achieve Great Success And Wealth By Telling People How To Live"
"Perfect cup of tea needs a pinch of salt and squeeze of lemon, says US chemist"
Salt?
What fresh hell is this?
Here is a seal looking at you for #MeerMittwoch
This is a common sea, which I met near Blakeney, in Norfolk. It's a great place to go for a boat trip and do some seal watching. The grey seals pup in the winter and the common seals in the summer, so there are seals to be seen practically all year round.
They always remind me of dogs, with their ears folded back. I think it's the mournful eyes, long snout, and whiskers that do it.
I'm old enough to recall Milliband announcing 10 new nuclear power plants by 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/23/hinkley-point-c-could-be-delayed-to-2031-and-cost-up-to-35bn-says-edf
White Nationalist group Patriot Front was confused by the turnstiles at NYC's World Trade Center PATH station.
It reminded me of this classic turnstile scene with Slim Pickens.
"Sunak got down to the basics. He would be sending the foreign secretary out to the Middle East in the next few days. What? Run that past us again. What could we possibly expect from the Chillaxed Lord Big Dave? He’s a diplomatic liability. Guaranteed to make any situation worse through his superficiality and inattention to detail. Just think of the damage he has done to the UK. By the time he returned there wouldn’t be a country in the area that wasn’t ablaze."
Better to just continue bombing the Houthis.
Tory MP Sir Simon Clarke pitches for the youth vote with an article in the Daily Telegraph.
"WHO issues stark measles warning as cases surge 30-fold in the last year"
The legacy of scientific fraudster Andrew Wakefield continues to haunt Britain.
#measles #MMR #antivax #AndrewWakefield #WHO
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/measles-outbreak-who-europe-warning-b2483372.html
"German court bans Forbes from saying billionaire Alisher Usmanov ‘fronted’ for Putin"
Oligarch to journalists: Free speech for me, but not for thee.
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