As it's Friday, I'm asking all my followers to please retweet this photo of a grumpy Robin on a rock. ๐โฅ๏ธ
Help my little bird account to beat the algorithm and be seen.๐ Thank you so much!๐ฅฐ #FridayRetweetPlease ๐ โฅ๏ธ
@BBCSteveR@BBCNews@BBCScotland@BBCScotlandNews Thank you so much, my wife and I listened to your playing of Highland Cathedral and found it very uplifting . Much appreciated and a great start to St.Andrewโs Day :)
If I haven't followed you back, and you're a genuine bird & nature lover like I am, please retweet & I'll follow you back. ๐
To make it more worth sharing, here are a pair of Goldfinches on teazle! ๐๐ฆ๐
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there โ on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.โ
Feeling, frankly, reasonably overwhelmed by this review of The Art of Explanation in the @guardian. Thanks to Luca Turin for such generous words (and for drawing attention to how Steely Dan fits into the explanation equation). https://t.co/cQYFV5gQnS
@fergalkeane47 so moving to catch up on this family story. It was heart wrenching the first time and heart warming the second thank you BBC News - Ukraine war: Family reunited 18 months after tearful goodbye on Platform 5
https://t.co/tySUlxiwb0