Just attended an excellent webinar from @englishassociation.bsky.social on reading and empathy. When @whusseyauthor.bsky.social's The Boy I Love got a mention, that made my day. This author was one of the first I spoke to over fifteen years ago when I began reviewing books. He's a treasure.
France is switching from Microsoft to Linux
"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."
This remarkable colour photograph of hot air balloons at the inaugural Paris Air Show was taken in 1909 by Léon Gimpel, using the Autochrome Lumière process, the first commercial process for colour photography
Me, cleaning out the litter tray just now: 'The foulest stench is in the air / The funk of forty thousand years'
Jesus wept, that was tough work.
Well, this earns the first WTF of the day.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Very excited to have picked up a #goshawk on my travels yesterday. #MerlinApp #Birding
Get ready to become obsessed.
As of today, you can watch our two new nest box cams: we’ve got a pair of blue tits and pied flycatchers, both starting families in their new nests.
Follow along as we watch these birds raise their broods: bit.ly/4t5cLK4
