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Good morning ☺️ My favourite garden at the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show is the Bat Conservation Trust's nocturnal garden 🥳 It was a joy to bump into @tomallencomedy who shared that he has bats in his garden! - And he was kind enough to name a couple of them for us 😆 Excellent garden design by Melanie Hick and Tach Pollard's bat sculpture is superb 👏 I had really strong batman-becomes-a-florist vibes whilst there 🦇 🪻and pictured the bat coming to life, wrapping its wings around me and taking off into the sky, so animated it at 1m 23s 😄 A shoutout to one of my favourite artisanal chocolatiers, Annabel's Patisserie. For Easter she had her seasonal Eggly selection, six individual flavoured chocolate eggs, and we decided to pair each flavour with a different garden/display 😋 Bats, flowers, a comedian and chocolate, #RHSChelsea a great day out 🤩

@Poppette11 ☹️

@implausibleblog 23 active fires in France today 😔

As temperatures across France soar far above seasonal averages, driven by the growing impacts of climate change, firefighters are battling wildfires under increasingly difficult conditions. A water-bombing aircraft has been deployed, scooping water from the Seine around 50km from Paris, to help tackle a blaze in the Fontainebleau Forest. Wishing the firefighters, pilots, emergency crews, and everyone involved the very best as they work tirelessly to bring the fire under control as quickly and safely as possible. 🙏 ✈️The Canadair CL-415 (colloquially known as the "Super Scooper") is a specialized, twin-turboprop amphibious aircraft purpose-built for aerial firefighting. Manufactured in Canada, it can skim across local lakes, rivers, or oceans to scoop up over 6,000 liters of water in just 12 seconds without needing to land.

@JeffStelling 👏

Very proud of my daughter Olivia. Collects first class degree at Manchester tomorrow!!

@russellcrowe 🙏

Sam Neil. Kind, wise, impish, graceful, warm. The last time I saw him I took the opportunity to tell him he was an inspiration to me. Rest in Peace Sam.

@GalleryAriana 🙏

Sam - you were more than just a lovely actor to work with - refined, thoughtful, a skill second to none - you were a mentor, protector, and above all, friend. Thank you for making our scenes together feel so real. I will be forever grateful to have been on this journey with you.

Could you do us all a favour Andy Burnham? A proper investigation into Russian interference into the Brexit referendum, who was involved, which online and social media platforms enabled it, were any politicians bribes the same way Nathan Gill was - find out what happened please Starmer (like Johnson, May, Truss, Sunak before him) wasted two years not bothering to do so Don't be the next PM who doesn't bother to do so either Pit our democracy first and expose the extent to which Russia helped sway our democratic process And then legislate social media better to protect our democracy going forward

Good. Supporting a group linked to death threats and attacks here in the UK, doing the dirty work of Iran and Russia, should absolutely be against the law. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The LibDems proposed a Clacton Ammendment which allows for the continuation of the investigation by the Standards committee once it has begin irrespective of whether a person is still an MP or not Of course Keir Starmer laughed off the idea, which just demonstrates how little Starmer cares for justice and accountability from politicians

I’d love for @CountBinface to win the Clacton by-election, with Farage looking like a twat. But isn‘t that what he wants? To lose & no longer be under scrutiny from the Parly Standards committee, then re-emerge grabbing a seat just b4 the next GE? How can that be prevented?

@grok @TedUrchin @ChinaScience Hi @grok what does this mean for the UK?

A strong El Niño developing into late 2026, as forecasted by NOAA and others with high odds of "very strong" status, typically shifts global weather. Expect warmer worldwide temperatures, higher flooding risks in southern US, California, Peru and Ecuador, plus more Pacific hurricanes. Droughts, wildfires and drier conditions are likelier in Australia, Indonesia, India, southern Africa and the Amazon. Atlantic hurricanes often weaken. Effects are probabilistic and amplified by background warming—actual outcomes vary by exact strength and timing. Stay updated via official forecasts.

Chinese researchers suggest that a super El Nino event may form in autumn and winter of 2026, potentially rivaling the 1997-98 record, as the latest monitoring shows continued abnormal warming in sea surface temperatures in the equatorial central and eastern Pacific since spring 2026, with the El Nino phenomenon entering a rapid development stage, according to China's Ministry of Natural Resources.

@plsimps 😋😋😋

@implausibleblog They do very good chicken 🤩

Walked past a Popeyes, first time I've seen one in the UK. Wasn't particularly hungry, but I'm so conditioned by it's mention in US movies and sitcoms, I had to pop in and try some wings. They Did Not Disappoint That hint of citrus on a bed of Cajun deep fried yumminess 😋 🤩

@angusjfrench If that's near you you will need to visit!

@implausibleblog I see there's one in Clapham...

@backagainafter Thank you chickens 😋

@implausibleblog Imagine the “lives” those poor chickens had😢

@elephant22221 I'm beginning to appreciate the brand - the wings were certainly tasty tonight!

@implausibleblog I don’t have one where I live but if I go somewhere and they do I can’t resist it’s the best chicken

@Dr__Sarmy Ohhh, yum, thanks for the suggestion!

@implausibleblog Highly recommend the spicy chicken sandwich 😋

@asianmomriot I haven't yet, I need to. Looks yum!

@implausibleblog Yep. Popeyes is amazing. Have you tried their ice cream too? From the other day 👇

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan comments on how the rise of hatred unchecked can lead to a genocide as it did in Srebrenica @SrebrenicaUK #Srebrenica31 #RememberingSrebrenica @SadiqKhan "Srebrenica did not simply happen, no. It was made possible by a relentless and ruthless campaign of dehumanisation and demonisation" "Turned on by their friends, their neighbours and their colleagues, Bosnian Muslim became objects. Targets for shooting practice. Victims to be raped, tortured and murdered. Without apology r consequences" "A population to be exterminated because of their ethnicity and religion" "Srebrenica is a harrowing example of left unchecked, human hatred can tear a community and country apart" "And if we're to honour the lives stolen, we must take a stand against hatred wherever we encounter it, and against whoever it is directed at"

@jdmscott1 😁

@implausibleblog To be fair , he could have had poor personal hygiene and stunk the place out. It's the lesser of two evils 🤣

Guy on the train a few seats away, pulls out his deodorant: spray, spray, spray. After an application of suncream, he pulls out some aftershave: spray, spray, spray, spray, spray. Now the carriage stinks of both his deodorant and aftershave combined. There's a perfectly good large disabled toilet in the carriage, which is currently empty. But he chose instead to subject everyone in the carriage with his poor choice of sprays.

@LuxMeaMundiAM It's a normal toilet on the train, just large enough for a wheelchair

@implausibleblog Yeah funnily enough a disabled toilet shouldn’t be the place for this either. It’s for disabled people needing the bathroom. Not someone spraying things a lot of disabled people can’t actually tolerate.

@boisdulac_ If that's the measure then that's who he was 😁

@implausibleblog And straight guys always put on too much

@zached99 That at least would have been much more pleasant!

@implausibleblog Lynx Africa?

@WasOnceLoved @JeromeDavies1 Nothing, doing my best to avoid the mist of scents he just threw into the air, like a fog rolling along the countryside...

@implausibleblog @JeromeDavies1 And what did you say?

@SunderlandLolly His stop arrived and he hopped off... But I could see that happening!

@implausibleblog Selfish b*st*rds everywhere. He probably then put on his speaker phone and had a long convo.