Just renewed my Passport. Although it's meant to be easier I found the photo really tricky to get right. Also when did the language shift and 'fine' stop being a positive word? Am I so old that I should assume no one understands me. Also depressed looking at ten years older face.💀

Hi. I'm a retired teacher in Cumberland, UK. I hope to help keep what's good going. Here's my view in a good day.

Beat the queue. Get a Postal Vote.

I feel an urge to fill in the missing purple stripe to complete the Suffragette colours Who's got some crayons?

not only bad for science, but a big loss for history too. these are short written accounts of habitat and the movements of the scientists Not expensive. It’s a big room with some dehumidifiers and a few staff. the shitty deanlets in charge of academia are stripping the copper from the walls

This might well be the ridge to die on.

Looks like the upbeat to the choral entrance in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Meta's "no politics allowed" stance is 1) itself a political position, and 2) so impossible to enforce that it's instead a perverse guarantee that what political content does surface will be absolutely deranged, in that the algorithms will be unable to identify it as conventionally political

Hi from Xanthippe in another place. The best advice I had is to like and follow and post more than you would imagine, because there's no algorithm amplification. Keep up the good work.

More than 65 years ago (gulp), I tried putting my finger in my Granny's wooden mangle and turning the handle. It ripped off the pad from one of my fingers & it's still an odd shape today. My mum had a rubber mangle on the washing machine, I thought it was the same.