Jack of all trades, master of few. Docker, builder, interior designer, workplace consultant, eco activist, historian, now amateur videographer. Currently working on vids for Zero Carbon Dorset and other ecological campaign groups.
On the spectrum + chronic fatigue for 20+ years.
Opinions my own... except where I’ve plagiarised them.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/@MattixVideo
| Country | UK |
December's historical wildlife map is of the (harbour/grey) #seal! According to my research, seals were widespread around Britain and Ireland 250-500 years ago! 🐕🧜♀️
Interestingly, seals started to decline after the end of the #EarlyModern period due to increased hunting. Around 1900 they had become so rare that they had to be legally protected. They have recovered pretty well since, and it's now pupping season, so look out for them if you walk on the coast this winter! 🌊🔭 #histodons #mammals
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Keir Starmer calls for a windfall tax on the record-breaking profits on energy companies.
Rishi Sunak says the Tories did that last year.
Starmer says the Tories introduced a tax on Shell and they haven't paid.
Keir Starmer points out that the economic crisis is the responsibility of the Tory Party and Liz Truss's 55 Tufton Street car crash of a budget last year.
Rishi Sunak says Keir Starmer should stand up to the trade unions.
I've added some new notebooks to the updated #Trove unpublished (aka diaries, letters, archives) section of the #GLAMWorkbench. They all relate to finding, using, & analysing the NLA's digitised manuscript finding aids (which are somewhat submerged beneath other content).
One notebook, finds the finding aids, another one gathers some summary information about all 2,337 finding aids, and a third helps you reconstruct the hierarchy from the HTML of a single finding aid & saves the content as JSON.
There's also a couple of new datasets – the list of finding aid urls, and the summary data from all of them.
Dr Raye eating choccy
Joshua Rozenberg
Dr Ian McCormick
Jane Carnall
Tim Sherratt
Jutta Haider
George Takei 
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Sheril Kirshenbaum