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A Welshman who has come home on his retirement. Looking forward to #gardening, #Nationaltrust tours, editing family #photos. Keeping hand in still doing 2days as a #consultant.

Also interests in #rugby, #globalwarming, #darktable, #gardening

The Alfredo Lounge has turned an empty high street building into a laid-back venue for all, breathing life back into a dying high street | Graham Clark
https://centralbylines.co.uk/featured/the-alfedo-lounge-in-louth-a-relaxing-venue-with-great-food/?fsp_sid=317
The Alfedo Lounge in Louth: a relaxing venue with great food

The Alfredo Lounge has turned an empty high street building into a laid-back venue for all, breathing life back into a dying high street

Central Bylines - Powerful Citizen Journalism

Loch Shiel at Glenfinnan in the Western Scottish Highlands and another example of being in the right place at the right time to catch a burst of autumnal sunshine, highlighting the colours of the season. Sometimes, luck is on your side!

#Scotland #highlands #autumn #landscape #photography

"There is more than enough funding floating around: governments invested nearly $12 trillion in economic relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, and are currently spending more than $1 trillion per year on direct #FossilFuelSubsidies ."

That's taxpayer-funded destruction.
Let's turn it into taxpayer-funded planetary healing.

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-023-03601-6/index.html

Is it too late to keep global warmingbelow 1.5 °C?The challenge in 7 charts

Chances are rapidly disappearing to limit Earth’s temperature rise to the globally agreed mark, but researchers say there are some positive signs of progress.

While I personally stopped tweeting in May, it was clear that now was the time for Flipboard to stop tweeting as well.

This is a sad outcome given that Twitter was the platform we got started on in 2010 and I was a board member there with Jack, Ev and Dick. But that Twitter is gone now. And the future is the open social web.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/21/flipboard-stops-tweeting-launches-new-podcast-about-decentralized-social-apps/

Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps | TechCrunch

Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now,

TechCrunch
read more about how the #BanTheADL hashtag began to trend and the X-approved white supremacist ad running across the platform here: https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-white-supremacist-ad-ban-adl-hashtag
Elon Musk 'likes' trending #BanTheADL posts as white supremacist ad runs on platform

Anti-Semitic rhetoric has been especially rampant on the platform over the past 24 hours.

Mashable

"If they don’t like it they can fuck off back to France."

Not Britain First. Not the National Front. Not the BNP. Not the British Union of Fascists.

The Deputy Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party.

Hard to tell the difference these days, ain't it?

#introduction

Hello! I’ve been on Twitter, I’m giving mastodon a try 🐘

Look forward to connecting with you on #ScienceMastodon 
I’ll toot on environmental monitoring of the watery world - I’m interested on shifting science to policy to protect the #environment

Science 🧪 🧬 toots interspersed with random #nature photos bringing colour to your feed

Look forward to connecting with you!

I rember watching this game live. That's how rugby should be played
Legends of 1973 Barbarians come together for 50th anniversary
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jan/27/1973-barbarians-50th-anniversary-rugby-union-gareth-edwards?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Legends of 1973 Barbarians come together for 50th anniversary

Gareth Edwards still gets excited about his try against New Zealand but wants to share the credit

The Guardian

The Rhondda Tunnel Society was formed in 2014 with the aim of siting the long-lost tunnel portal stone in a location to the entrance of the disused and buried Rhondda Tunnel at Blaencwm.

But now their vision is to completely reopen the longest tunnel in Wales, linking the Rhondda and Afan Valleys.

https://www.rhonddatunnelsociety.co.uk/

#TransportHistory #Heritage #Rhondda #AfanValley #Railway #Wales

Biannual short back and sides for the sparrow house otherwise known as the hedge. A hedge is a great way to get loads of trees into your garden. We have about 200 beech here and many climbers grow through them. Home to about 20 sparrows and a multitude of other creatures. #gardening #sustainable