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I am moving house next month, so we are packing stuff up as usual.. Emptied this bookshelf today and, well... #CatsOfTwitter #CatsOnX #Cats

This isn't a horror movie set. It's a road in Denmark. The streetlights are red to save the bats. Bats can't see red light the way they see white or green light, so to them, it's essentially darkness. White streetlights are one of the leading causes of bat decline in urban areas. Light-shy species avoid lit areas entirely, cutting them off from feeding grounds and migration routes. Standard streetlights reduce bat activity by up to 90% in some species. Denmark figured out a fix. So did the Netherlands. When they installed red LED streetlights along roads near bat colonies, bat activity returned to normal levels almost immediately. The lights still work fine for humans. Drivers can see. Cyclists can navigate. The only thing that changed is that the bats got their night back. Do you want your city to do this?

Pink Floyd 🥰

Please share everywhere you can - thanks in advance 🙏

I speak for everyone when i say leave them tf alone!!!

@coileyparjley The best book series ever!

@EvilMother When I was at secondary school I loved LOTR and read it over and over. I started a novel when I was about 13 about Merry and Pippin coming across the Entwives in the Shire and going on a quest to reunite them with the Ents. Mr James our camp English teacher loved it.

Its a chilly start down in Parsleyville. Some tunnel repairs and seed sowing awaits. Im going to be a grandfather

Why would we want to bomb any nation "back to the Stone Ages?"

You can ask for a glass of water on a hot day. They can't. A shallow dish of water with a few stones is all it takes. Bees, butterflies, and birds find it within hours. This is a five minute project that saves lives all summer.

@togootto Our politicians struggle to answer the question as to whether women can have penises.

イーロンの異文化交流機能が大流行 そこで海外の人に質問🙋 やっぱり海外の左派も気に入らない相手に対して「差別だ！」とか言ってくるの？ 反戦だの平和だの言ってるくせに妙に好戦的で会話にならないとか、その辺も共通してるのかどうか非常に気になる。

Some good savings for Easter 🐣

Stevie for me always 😍 Very close second Chrissie Hynde

Companion planting is one of the oldest tricks in the vegetable garden — the right neighbors protect each other from pests, share nutrients, and boost your harvest without a single chemical. 🌱

D.H. Lawrence completed his final novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, in 1927, a work so frank in its depictions of sexuality and class that no mainstream publisher in Britain or America would touch it. Lawrence had it privately printed in Florence, Italy in 1928, and copies were then distributed to subscribers in England. Printing this way cost Lawrence the ability to retain an international copyright, paving the way for the publication of numerous pirated editions. The novel revolves around Constance, the eponymous Lady Chatterley, whose husband Sir Clifford became paralyzed from the waist down while fighting in World War I. Feeling neglected by her husband, Constance engages in an extramarital affair with their gamekeeper, the subject of sexually explicit scenes and language. Perhaps most outrageous at the time was the author's portrayal of female sexual pleasure. The book was declared obscene in the United States in 1929, and agents from the Post Office and the U.S. Customs Service began seizing any copies they encountered. That same year, Boston bookseller James A. DeLacey was fined and jailed for four months under Massachusetts' obscenity statutes for selling just five copies. Lawrence's novel initially had two small private runs — one in Italy in 1928 and one in France a year later — as he couldn't obtain commercial publication for the uncensored book in either England or the U.S. In 1932, two years after Lawrence's death, heavily censored editions were published in both countries. Lawrence himself never saw his complete novel reach a mass audience; he died of tuberculosis in March 1930. It was his widow, Frieda, who championed the book for decades before finding willing publishers for Lawrence's complete, uncensored manuscript. Upon his death, Lawrence was widely viewed within literary circles as little more than a pornographer who had squandered his natural flair for writing. The federal government had left book banning largely to the states until the passage of the Comstock Laws in 1873, named after Anthony Comstock, the founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, which barred mailing any obscene, lewd, or lascivious publication. Up through the 1950s, federal agents kept confiscating books they deemed obscene. In 1959, U.S. District Judge Frederick van Pelt Bryan ruled that Lady Chatterley's Lover deserved First Amendment protection and dealt the censors a major blow in the process. Bryan wrote that while the novel contained passages describing sexual intercourse and explicit language, it was also replete with fine writing and descriptive passages of rare beauty, leaving no doubt of its literary merit. Across the Atlantic, the battle in Britain was even more dramatic. When a full, unexpurgated version of the novel was published in the UK by Penguin Books in November 1960, 200,000 copies were printed, all of which sold out on its first day of publication. The publisher clearly knew that a prosecution was likely, and even appeared to invite it by supplying a dozen copies to the London Metropolitan Police. The trial took place over six days in No. 1 Court of the Old Bailey between October 20 and November 2, 1960, with Mervyn Griffith-Jones prosecuting, Gerald Gardiner as counsel for the defence, and Justice Laurence Byrne presiding. The jury, made up of nine men and three women, were each given a copy of the book and asked to read it, though they were not permitted to leave the jury room, as that would constitute distribution of the book. The prosecution was ridiculed for being out of touch with changing social norms when chief prosecutor Mervyn Griffith-Jones asked, "Is it a book you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" This line drew laughter from the court and demonstrated how divorced the establishment had become from the real lives of the majority of people in 1960s Britain. #archaeohistories

@TadhgHickey @s_m_marandi Fabulous interview, just discovered your channel and subscribed, thank you for this

Such an honour to speak with the thorn in the side of the inept hypocrital Western media class, the one and only @s_m_marandi 🔥 youtu.be/amZk_mDAZ-4?si…

Iran has had the ability to do this - FOR YEARS. Iran has had the ability to bomb israel back to the stone age, as it is doing right now - FOR YEARS. Yet Iran never did so - FOR YEARS. Iran has not attacked another country in over 280 years. Not until it was forced to respond to an unwarranted israeli and US attack that murdered their leader along with 175 school children. So tell me again how Iran is, or ever was 'a threat' to world peace and israel and the US are not?

Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him. He did not stop. Then one stranger got up and joined him. Then another. Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field. Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world." The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them. Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.

🤣😁 So true but its so much nicer eating your home grown

@SkinKiss1 Not sure what my excuse is though 🤔🤣

read through the qrts and replies if you want to experience what the internet was like 15 years ago