Terry O'Connor

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Old bloke in Yorkshire, interested in wildlife, gardening, books, classical music archaeology, cats. Often muddy. Born at 313ppm.

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Moments later, a catastrophic drive-shaft failure sent the crowded bus hurtling backwards downhill. Will the two buses collide? Will their drivers save the day?

Other work by the Ladybird artists. A particularly chirpy book cover by artist SR Badmin, 1956

Important PSA 👇👇 We need to get 'facticle' into regular use.

Factoid doesn't mean little fact, it means erroneous fact that is repeated so often that it is believed to be true so the idea that factoid just means a little fact is itself a factoid

Well, many people suffer significant injuries from falls and other accidents in their kitchen. And nearly all of those kitchens housed a toaster. Don't trust the little blighters.

"I don't trust toasters" - Ujjwal Sharma (from @igalia.bsky.social) Definitely one of the best one off comments I've heard in a talk From his FOSDEM talk in Feb fosdem.org/2024/schedul...

Gareth Southgate and Vaughan Gething have both resigned today. I wonder if they timed it so they could swap jobs?

A question for you: Does anyone recommend (or the opposite) any particular make/model of apple press?

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(Self-promotion alert.) I recently gave a 45-min paper on Rachel Carson, British nature writing, and ecological loss/wonder. A lot of work, nice slides, and I'd like to give it again some time. So if you are organising a relevant event and are interested, please get in touch. #envhum

A saint well known for his dirty habits

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"Please Sign & Share @euromove open letter to Keir Starmer to improve relations with Europe" #UKEU www.europeanmovement.co.uk/open-letter-...

Sign our open letter to Keir Starmer to improve relations with Europewww.europeanmovement.co.uk European Movement UK is calling on Keir Starmer to commit to improving our relations with Europe again and fixing the problems that Brexit has caused. Sign our open letter today.

What a day for discombobulating news. Here's a mix of ox-eye daisy, knapweed and wild carrot on one of our no-mow areas. #allotment

If you don't know Bob Beamon's remarkable story, this is a good read. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Abused, expelled, orphaned at eight months: how athlete Bob Beamon beat the odds – and became a legendwww.theguardian.com In 1968, in one of the top five Olympic moments of the last century, the long jumper made a leap so jaw-dropping it inspired the superlative Beamonesque. He discusses pride, pressure and the politics ...

Good plan overburdened by lashings of hiraeth.

Lovely to see - we're going to need much more of this kind of thing!! "Lost area of Welsh rainforest to be returned to ancient glory. Site in Pembrokeshire currently grazed by sheep will be planted with a range of species and reconnect to Celtic past." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lost area of Welsh rainforest to be returned to ancient glorywww.theguardian.com Site in Pembrokeshire currently grazed by sheep will be planted with a range of species and reconnect to Celtic past

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From @brianbilston.bsky.social America is A Gun

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This was just 10 days ago. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Stop telling us the political rhetoric is becoming too violent if you’re too cowardly to mention who, exactly, is making it so.

Trump-Endorsed Candidate for Governor: ‘Some Folks Need Killing’www.rollingstone.com North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson declared "some people need killing" during a Sunday sermon.

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Getting increasingly pissed off by various politicians "distraught" today. This is America, where every day we wonder if this when someone we love gets mowed down by a shooter. Pretending to be shocked just shows you don't get it. Trump has a Secret Service detail to protect him. My kids don't.

I hear there's a scammer contacting Reform supporters, pretending to be Farage in order to con money out of them. This takes irony to unprecedented levels.

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Nigel Farage today: Attempted murder on Donald Trump is the fault of Liberals Nigel Farage in 2017 Nigel Farage would 'pick up a rifle' if Brexit is not delivered www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Nigel Farage would 'pick up a rifle' if Brexit is not deliveredwww.independent.co.uk It is not the first time the former Ukip leader has threatened civil disobedience over Brexit

Spent a damp morning singling apples in the community orchard.

This would explain why the British Museum stores are kept in a remote and inaccessible part of London.

american werewolves are only in london because they were stolen from the isle of manhattan by the british museum

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As seen on Twitter:

Good to see this remarkable character back in the news. www.theguardian.com/science/arti...

Matthew Flinders, the flute-playing, cat-loving explorer who circumnavigated Australia, is going home – but what of his envoy Bungaree?www.theguardian.com As the British navigator is reburied with pomp and ceremony in his village church, Aboriginal Australians call for respect for the ‘incredibly brave’ man who made the voyage possible

'Shite elephant', surely? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

£1.2bn plan to turn sewage waste into drinking water branded a ‘white elephant’www.theguardian.com Southern Water says it wants to protect rare chalk streams, but campaigners say it could pollute the Solent

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Most people are just 'live and let live' when it comes to trans people. Sure, delve into gender theory with them and there are some misconceptions and outdated beliefs etc, of course there are, but mostly people have no issues whatsoever with the idea of just leaving trans people alone.

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Hey @4sweb.bsky.social we can has #easst2024 #4s2024 hashtags thanks to @tsoz-tuc.bsky.social crew! Really looking forward to the first joint conference since the pandemic. Would be great to get some conf chat going on Bsky to help entice more #STS #scipol #scicom #histstm #envhum folks over here

We are looking forwardt to next week's #easst2024 in Amsterdam! The joint meeting of the European and the international associations for Science and Technology Studies is THE highlight for #STS scholars around the globe. Our great team is deeply involved, hence we came up with an own schedule 👇🏽

The view from our HolidayInn room. Question: is that waste ground or a really nice patch of wildlife habitat?

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Wessex Archaeology has done a thing, and have launched the new #OpenLibrary making freely available 40 years of research and publications including reports and books #OpenAccess Have a look! 👀 🏺

Wessex Archaeology Open Librarywessexarchaeologylibrary.org Access archaeological reports and research publications from Wessex Archaeology for free via our digital library.

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Yet another fake agency alert: Vanderbilt Literary Agency. Content & book covers plagiarized from a real agency (Frances Goldin Literary), AI-fake photos of supposed agents, & a website just 21 days old vanderbiltliteraryagency.com

Vanderbilt Literary Agencyvanderbiltliteraryagency.com

Loads of papers carrying this drivel. Crossing from Normandy???? That would be a bit epic. In fact they were crossing from Gravelines, just up the road from Calais. Uncritical cut&paste. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

MSNwww.msn.com

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Mid-career in academia is tough. So I’m really pleased we’ve opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social mid-career fellowships. These free you from commitments for a period of 6-12 months, to devote to the completion of a major piece of research www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/mid-...

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Please note- the Prehistoric Society Undergraduate Dissertation Prize submission date has been extended to 19th July. Further details here: www.prehistoricsociety.org/grants/under... Please share, thank you 😊 #Archaeology

Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | The Prehistoric Societywww.prehistoricsociety.org The Prehistoric Society invites annual submissions for the undergraduate dissertation prize. The award celebrates the dissertation that has made the greatest contribution to the study of prehistory i...

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