ByrdsNStuff

Science, music, nature, birds, sourdough, photography(beginner!), crosswords. #RSPB Volunteer. Adore the #PatrickOBrian #AubreyMaturin novels (read 7 times!)

[ByrdsNStuff @ByrdsNStuff]

Grey Heron trailing water just after take-off at Oare Marshes - Kent
@KentWildlife @Natures_Voice
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[Kosher @koshercockney]

I think it’s always important to share this.

Absolutely brilliant from 2014 by Joan Rivers on Israel and the “Palestinians”

No mincing of words. We really lost a real one with her.

The bit at end about Selena Gomez gets me every time 😂

[ByrdsNStuff @ByrdsNStuff]

@Gav_Griffiths @neenee14xx Also, "Is it hot"... Fahrenheit, "Is it cold"... Centigrade. 😂

[ByrdsNStuff @ByrdsNStuff]

@impression_ists One of my all time favourite paintings - it totally captures exactly what snow looks and feels like on a sunny cold morning. 👍

[Swearing Sports News @SwearingSport]

The coaches' technique when the ball arrives in their technical zone

[Noirchick In Old Hollywood @Noirchick1]

Out of the entire film of "The Big Sleep" (1946).. is this the scene you remember most?

[faby jurídico modern family @fabyollaverass]

“senhorita, que pássaro é esse?”
“é um kookaburra.”
“e que som ele faz?”
“esse aqui.”

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

Jews want to march!

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

The dark blue color at the bottom of an iceberg.
https://t.co/jSfk8xg10g

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Asymmetric multiculturalism exhibit #966.

Schoolchildren in West Yorkshire have been instructed not to reproduce images of Jesus, so as not to offend Muslim classmates. (Link to full Calderdale council document here: https://t.co/HjHsuyVBkz)

[ByrdsNStuff @ByrdsNStuff]

@BillyRWebb Looked like that to me too ! 😬

[Harman Singh Kapoor @kingkapoor72]

My family, my business, and I are being intimidated, attacked, and trolled by some peaceful people.

I have stopped calling or reporting to @metpoliceuk because they have chosen their side and are backing them.

Now the world is watching the UK fall.

I’m on my own.

I will not kneel.

I will stick to my beliefs and will not sell halal food in my restaurant.

[Louise Donaldson @Loulameg]

I prefer the term cashier tbf

[David Frum @davidfrum]

According to the self-proclaimed experts who get quoted at times like this, the corpus of international law can be reduced to one simple rule: "Terrorists and communists are always allowed to strike democracies, but democracies are never allowed to strike back."

[James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @mr_james_c]

Spare a thought for all the Western NGOs that will go silent over the next few months as they run out of funding but can't quite explain why it stopped being paid.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

@kickitout It’s nothing to do with “education” and “acceptance”. Stop patronising us. It’s about whether a national sport should change its normal protocols mid-game to accommodate the rituals of a minority religious belief system. That is a perfectly legitimate question to debate.

[ByrdsNStuff @ByrdsNStuff]

@Danishova @TheRestHistory @thatazuresea The preposterous accents/impressions are the crowning glory of TRIH ! 🤣

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I see Nicola Sturgeon is once again complaining that I posted a picture of myself wearing a T-shirt with her name on it and the legend 'Destroyer of Women's Rights.' Apparently this didn't 'elevate the debate.'

Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness of skin when it comes to their own perceived hurts, coupled with a rhino-hide when it comes to the fear and suffering of others?

I'm thinking in particular of the two women Isla Bryson raped, who had to watch their First Minister squirm and smirk on TV as she tried to avoid admitting he was a man; of the five survivors of male violence who were ready to give evidence to Sturgeon's committee on gender self-ID, but were told to put their concerns in writing while seventeen trans-identified people appeared in person; of the mother of a young girl with a learning disability who campaigned against self-ID because she wanted her daughter to be guaranteed same sex intimate care, should she need it (the mother was presumably one of those female opponents Sturgeon calls 'shrill' and 'hysterical' in her memoir); of the ten-year-old girl sexually assaulted in a public bathroom by a 6'5" paedophile who served his jail sentence in a women's prison because he called himself 'Katie'; of Sandie Peggie, forced to discuss her own menstrual history in public to justify not wanting to undress in view of a 6ft straight cross-dresser in the nurses' changing room; of Marion Millar, dragged into court because she tweeted a picture of suffragette ribbons; of the Scottish rape crisis centres reliant on government funding who were pressured to admit trans-identified males into their services if they wanted funding to continue.

When Sturgeon refers to an 'elevated debate', she means a discussion that takes place within a tiny, smug bubble from which regular women suffering real life consequences of her policies are firmly excluded. These faceless ants are loftily dismissed as bigots, or, to be more precise: 'transphobic, misogynistic, homophobic, maybe racist as well.'

Nicola, you hated the T-shirt picture because you couldn't ignore it, as you'd ignored so many other women trying to make you understand their concerns. Appeals to your empathy, your intelligence and your compassion all failed. Apparently the only way to get through to you is through your vanity.

[Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris]

Actual adults in this country look at Israel, with its free press, independent judiciary, equal rights for all (including Arabs) and democratic elections. Then they look at the Iranian regime and they see a government run by clerics under a barbaric, medieval code, the execution, rape and torture of women and the execution of gays for being gay. And they decide: "Yup, I'm on the side of the Ayatollahs."

[ByrdsNStuff @ByrdsNStuff]

@LisaWales17 @GBNEWS @markwhiteTV Same here -and only on that channel

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

NASA releases about 500,000 gallons of water before every launch to keep the rocket from damaging itself.