Beavers are on the march throughout Spain, colonising river systems everywhere and working their ecological, environmental and local economy magic. This could be Ireland. 🌎

Odd - I could have sworn when I saw this yesterday, that sash didn't exist. Was it added overnight?

The new HIGHLY INVASIVE ad monitoring & selling framework is now live in Google Chrome & it's ON by default, so you MUST EXPLICITLY OPT OUT. We all know this is bad, but here's how to do it: Settings>Privacy & Security>Ad Privacy, disable all 3 options: Ad Topics, Site-suggested Ads, Ad Measurement

Ireland the (probably) first country to reject a natural gas project -- an LNG import terminal, in this case -- specifically because of national climate policy

Ireland Makes Rare Decision to Deny LNG Port for Climate Reasons

The country’s top planning body turned down a proposal for a liquefied natural gas import facility, which would have helped keep the island hooked on fossil fuels for years.

Ask him, and make sure he will keep them in a decent state for his own offspring, or young neighbours. They're a true goldmine of general knowledge.

I loved Tarass Bulba - learned the word 'hetman'. Oh, and Michael Strogoff, the Tzar's Courier - the sword and the tears that staved off blindness. I think Jules Verne's oeuvre was the most prolific.

What would the Palestinian equivalent be for 'Slava Ukraini'? Not in Arabic, please - I'd like non-Arabic speakers to use it, too.

Wow, Chris - that's deepdarkblack, that one.