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To all livestock farmers, particularly during this hot time, please remember to safeguard Barn Owls from drowning in your troughs! I put concrete blocks in mine! @BarnOwlTrust @SomersetLive

@Bird_XRPL That’s very clover ☘️

Do you see the Ripple logo?

@SweetTexanRose Would want the pilot to sneeze 🤧 while he’s doing that 🙄

I can’t decide which one I’m more impressed with, the lineman or the pilot. 🤯

The funniest maths in modern environmentalism. One almond requires 12 litres of irrigated water to produce. Peer-reviewed, ScienceDirect, 2017. A glass of almond milk contains roughly 50 of them. 600 litres of water before the carton is filled. The water comes from the San Joaquin Valley in California, which sits over one of the most over-extracted aquifers on earth. The valley floor has subsided by up to nine metres in places due to groundwater depletion. The carton is then refrigerated, sailed across the Atlantic, refrigerated again, lorried to a Manchester Tesco, and bought by someone who is concerned about the environmental impact of dairy. Meanwhile, in Cheshire. A British dairy cow drinks roughly 70 to 100 litres of water a day and produces around 28 litres of milk. That's about 3.5 litres of water per litre of milk. The water is rainwater that fell on her field or came from a local stream fed by the same rainwater. The rain was going to fall on the field whether the cow stood in it or not. 80% of her moisture intake comes from the grass itself, which is also rain. She converts the grass, free of charge, into a litre of milk containing seven times the protein and four times the calcium of almond milk, and shipped roughly 18 miles to the same Tesco. To recap. 600 litres of stolen aquifer, flown halfway round the world for nutritionally worthless beige water. Or 3.5 litres of rain that was already falling, converted by an animal you can pet, into actual food. The shopper picks the almond. She has been told this is the ethical position. The aquifer would like a word.

📿 A pair of 2,500-year-old neck rings has been discovered near Norrköping, Sweden, with the Late Bronze Age finds thought to be a unique example of such rings being ritually deposited together in a grave. 📰 Read all about it in the latest AWLOH open.substack.com/pub/historyhit…

Lothian relic hunters pulling up the good stuff 👍

@CannaCollectz Abominable snowman

Give this strain a name

National food security should be a top priority!🙌🏼

A solar farm just opened where a beef farm used to be. This is a real sentence about a real place. In Lincolnshire, near Glentworth, on land that grew British food for six hundred years. 1,214 hectares of grazing pasture and cropland, the size of Heathrow Airport, now under panels for the next forty years. It is called Tillbridge Solar. It was approved in October 2025. The locals were against it. The local council was overruled by central government. The farmer who used to graze cattle on that land will not be grazing cattle on that land in your lifetime. Down the road, Springwell Solar got the nod the same month. 1,280 hectares. The largest in the country. Same story. Beef and arable, gone. This is happening everywhere. CPRE found that 59% of England's biggest solar farms are on productive farmland. In one Lincolnshire district, 7% of the land is now solar panels. Three solar farms, Sutton Bridge, Goosehall, and Black Peak, are built entirely on the highest grade of agricultural land we have. Now here is the part nobody mentions at the dinner party. The roofs of the warehouses on the A1 are empty. The supermarket distribution centres are empty. The Amazon sheds, the MoD car parks, the industrial estates outside every town in England, all empty. CPRE's own numbers show that putting panels on the roofs we already have would meet the entire 2035 solar target on its own. The panels are not going on the roofs. The panels are going on Lincolnshire because leasing one field from one farmer is easy, and leasing a thousand roofs from a thousand owners is hard. The shortcut is the pasture. You will not be told to stop eating beef. You will simply find that the farm that produced it is now a power station, and the beef in the supermarket has come from Kansas, and it costs more, and the cow is no longer in the field, because the field is no longer a field. Cover the roofs. Leave the pasture.

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@Keir_Starmer Please be quiet now, and just carry on regardless and continue to fuck up the country… as you seem hell bent on that part, but please stfu and stop the bull shit 💩 we are sick of it. And I personally can’t stand the sound of your voice

We’ve just extended the fuel duty cut for the rest of the year. This will support millions of drivers and families across the country. My Labour government is focused on what matters to you: cutting the cost of living.

Sometimes the most unassuming artefacts are utterly incredible! Take this piece of wood … It is a spear point worked from yew about 420,000 years ago! 🤯 Known as the ‘Clacton Spear’ it is the world’s oldest known preserved wooden spear! Natural History Museum, London 📷 by me #Archaeology

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

For the love of god will you please get the story right. Just take a moment to google Jason , look at the court case , watch the documentary on YouTube and get your facts straight, Jason did not find it he claimed he found it after Kevin Minto found it. Jason is a liar and a thief.. now go check it out and stop hyping that lying thieving little *#%t

An amateur treasure hunter used a metal detector to unearth a 1,800 year-old gold Roman signet ring in Somerset 🇬🇧 In 2018, Pest control officer Jason Massey, 45, discovered the rare piece of jewellery, which features an engraving of the Roman goddess of Victory, in a field near Crewkerne. It is believed to have belonged to a 'high status' figure, potentially making it one of the most significant archaeological finds in Somerset's history. The current value of the ancient piece of jewellery is still being determined. The ring is now in the hands of experts at the British Museum in London. It is believed to date from 200-300 AD. Mr Massey, who served in the British armed forces from 1989 to 1992, made the find at a site believed to have once been a high-status Roman villa as part of a charitable dig with the 'Detecting for Veterans' group. 'The Somerset Archaeological team think we have found a very high status villa complex, but more investigative work is needed,' he told MailOnline. Mr Massey and the landowner will share 50 per cent of any profits made from the ring once British Museum researchers had determined its value. 'We have no idea how much [the ring] is worth – there is nothing like it in the UK,' he said. Detecting for Veterans unearthed 60 other Roman coins on Sunday as part of ongoing excavations at the Crewkerne site, which is south west of Yeovil. Bronze and silver coins are more common than their gold counterparts, which were typically owned by Romans of rich and powerful stature. Ciorstaidh Hayward-Trevarthen, finds liaison officer for South West Heritage Trust, told BBC News: 'There are a couple of gold rings of that sort of date from Somerset but they're not common. Gold is ... an indication that the owner is fairly wealthy.' The newly-discovered ring features an engraving of Victoria, the Roman god of Victory, riding a chariot pulled by two horses. Victoria appears widely on Roman coins, jewellery, architecture, and other arts, and is often depicted with or in a chariot. © Daily Mail #archaeohistories

@madaomoshiroi I would adopt the dog 🐕

通りですれ違った女性に襲いかかろうとする強盗、そこに立ち向かう犬が勇敢すぎる

@mutteringmadam We should get back there and search more thoroughly, was a deep target so the finder tells me

@DetectingDigsUK I’m in the Viking camp too. Surprised if that wasn’t part of a hoard…

What’s your thoughts on this ? Found today on the Metal Detectives Group Dig in Buckinghamshire. Viking? Iron Age? Saxon? Roman? Finder will take to his local FLO next week..

@Aquarius957 Iron Age / Celtic was 1st thought, then I recalled seeing something similar in the cuerdale hoard , so I’m leaning towards Viking

@DetectingDigsUK Maybe Celtic? Bit like this one 👍

A late Roman burial, discovered at the former Essex County Hospital site in Colchester, will be on public display. The high-status woman was buried in a decorated lead coffin accompanied by jet hairpins, a group of rare glass flasks, and other grave goods bbc.com/news/articles/…

@AltcoinFoxx @TheXRP_guy This same week in 2028

XRP is about to explode this week.