Richard Clemens

degradable/'amiable eccentric'

Sometimes re-tweetlike because I find it interesting, sometimes becasue I like & sometimes beacuse I am ageing & all thumbs.

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

As you can only view 600 tweets it's time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!"

Well you haven't fled Twitter yet...

[The Guardian @guardian]

Low emission zones are improving health, studies show https://t.co/DAOAIblvUF

[Norman Schumann @NormanSchumann3]

In Mexico, such training was given to bus drivers to understand how they felt when they passed too close to a cyclist.

[Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs]

The closing shot of Sunrise (1927)

[Bat Conservation Trust @_BCT_]

We are one of 49 organisations calling on @UKHouseofLords to reject a Statutory Instrument that would restrict the right to peaceful protest.

Read more below and share widely 👇

[Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs]

The Infernal Cave (1905)
Directed by Gaston Velle

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Herne Bay traders slam recent Southern Water sewage releases over dry Bank Holiday weekend."

Now who was it told you sewage only gets dumped during rainfall? Oh yea, the water industry and government MPs.

And you believed them?

https://t.co/GCoJLDAJms

[Hugo Tagholm @HugoSAS]

Banning industrial sandeel fishing in UK waters is a no-brainer. This will protect iconic and globally important seabird populations, humpback whales and diverse marine wildlife. @MelissaMoore08 @alyxcampaigns @Natures_Voice @oceana @daisb

https://t.co/3SbI0CTdwb

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Wow! What a discovery!

‘Mad and offensive’ texts shed light on the role played by minstrels in medieval society https://t.co/pJ9asSakPB

[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

As a noun, a DOWN is a hill—as in England’s South Downs. The word only later came to be used as an adverb or a direction, in allusion to walking ‘down’ a hillside: in that sense, DOWN was originally ‘adown’, literally meaning ‘off the hill’.

[Richard Clemens @Howlipenguin]

@RexChapman

[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

Did you know, when a bumblebee hatches, it's 'silvery' all over and gradually colours up? This is a newly hatched Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)! 🐝

Discover the amazing lifecycle of bumblebees and their nests 👉 https://t.co/aZEgAa3Z8S

📷 Tyrone Williams

[Richard Clemens @Howlipenguin]

Yondmost 😁

[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

As well as words like REARMOST and TOPMOST, English has several other ‘–most’ words, including DOWNERMOST (in the lowest possible place), NEXTMOST (the most closely adjacent), YONDMOST (the most distant), HIDDENMOST (the most obscured), and SEAMOST (located closest to the coast).

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts

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[Rob Robinson (he/him) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @btorobrob]

But what does this loss look like? My attempt to visualise it: each bird represents 1 million pairs - many more (57) fade out than are replaced (21). Thanks to all @_BTO #volunteers whose observations provide evidence for action👉https://t.co/zza1JqQXlw #ornithology #conservation

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on the Met’s “regret” over wrongly arresting republicans at the Coronation https://t.co/5jO3vTnG1U

[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

ONOLATRY is the excessive veneration of something worthless or unsubstantial. It literally means ‘donkey worship’.

[BBC Wales News @BBCWalesNews]

One in six species - from salmon to hedgehogs - is currently at risk of extinction in Wales
https://t.co/yiLNFojPKR

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on the Post Office scandal, which has never caught the full-spectrum attention it deserves. Or even the attention afforded to various bad tweets. https://t.co/h6uJKIf6Jx

[Katy Madgwick @writebikerepeat]

At least 4 entries from this thread will feature in future nightmares 😱😆