October Paper

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[Alexandre Blaineau @AlBlaineau]

Le pouvoir des fleurs

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

In 2011, Marcin Kasprzak lured his partner Michelina into the woods near Huddersfield, England. He used a stun gun on her, bound her with packing tape, sealed her inside a cardboard box and buried her alive in a shallow grave beneath an 88-pound log.

Michelina was the mother of a three-year-old son named Jakub. As dirt fell onto the box above her, she thought of him and refused to give up.

She had been wearing the diamond engagement ring Marcin had given her. Using its sharp edges, she worked through her restraints. After roughly an hour of struggle inside the buried box, she clawed her way out of the grave and survived.

Marcin Kasprzak was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison.

She survived being buried alive because she would not stop fighting for her son.

[October Paper @OctoberPaper1]

@TRobinsonNewEra ..and many common people) act so immorally and uncaringly?

Lack of that moral, values-, & socio-cultural component in their upbringing, education and environment?

When people grow up in the air that it is alright to just pursue one's material & hedonistic interests, so long as

[October Paper @OctoberPaper1]

@TRobinsonNewEra Others must have said this b4, but the problem here was as much in the British society, as there was evil without.
That problem made so much suffering possible.

Where did things go wrong? How did a large section -if not the society at large- of the people (those in authority..

[peaklass @peaklass1]

Look closely - and start your weekend with a smile! This is one of my favourite little views, over the gate to the hills, and I always stop to admire it when I pass. On this particular morning, as I stood here smiling at the scene, this lovely lady wandered over to say hello. We had a chat and I pressed the shutter ... but it wasn't until I got home and looked closely at the image that I realised she'd been smiling back. 😁

📍 Peak District, England

[October Paper @OctoberPaper1]

@TheAkoFiles No necessary connection b/w most brands of liberalism today, and morality.

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

My garden robin just had an ‘everything’ bath-watch to the end bc she’s drenched, spiky haired & in need of a towelling down when she flies off.
One academic study shows that when we watch footage of ‘cute’* animals it dials down stress levels-my small feathered pal’s bathtime is for your brain.
*actual word used in the experiment:

[October Paper @OctoberPaper1]

@ACTBrigitte I thought the job of the police is not to try and favour this party or that.
But to protect innocent people, control criminals.
And follow procedures, rules/laws and standards as defined.

They admit this (similar case in 🇬🇧), and yet no stern action taken by the govt.

[τοῦτο βλέπω @toutovlepo]

FINALLY museums giving the people what they want: reproductions of the artifacts

[October Paper @OctoberPaper1]

@HJB_News__ The 'system' - most media, the Establishment - influences young Western girls, by implication, that seeing POC males is virtuous.
But makes no mention that the nature and culture of the male should matter the most.
That system should bear some responsibility for such tragedies.

[rick @chickenalakiev]

Satyajit Ray's House at 1/1, Bishop Lefroy Road, Calcutta

[October Paper @OctoberPaper1]

@BengalAntiquity Valuable post

[bellaadinda @bellaadinnda]

Testing a homemade archimedes screw a 2,300 year old invention that still works like magic 😱

[vbspurs @vbspurs]

General Charles de Gaulle on the beach with his little daughter, Anne (1928-1948).

Anne had Down Syndrome and was the love of the crusty General's life.

This is the best photo of De Gaulle I've ever seen.

[Kathleen O'Toole @O_TooleKathleen]

Few illustrators captured the of the English countryside as beautifully as Jill Barklem (1951–2017). Born in Epping, Essex, Barklem studied illustration at St. Martin's School of Art and spent years researching local flora and fauna before creating her masterpiece: Brambly Hedge.

Children love to pore over her intricately detailed watercolor illustrations, which depict beautifully the homes of mice and voles inside trees and burrows throughout the seasons. The books have sold more than 7 million copies worldwide and remain beloved classics.

Recommended titles:
📚 Spring Story
📚 Summer Story
📚 Autumn Story
📚 Winter Story
📚 The Secret Staircase
📚 The High Hills

In an age of simplistic, garish, and jarring imagery for children, Barklem's work teaches us to slow down and look carefully.

[Oaks And Lions 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @oaksandlions]

The song thrush has lived in England for thousands of years.

Long before modern England existed, its song echoed through woodland, orchards and hedgerows across the country.

And unlike most birds, the song thrush repeats each musical phrase several times before changing tune, giving it one of the most distinctive songs in the countryside.

Robert Browning captured it perfectly: 'That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over'"

They are also known for using stones to smash open snail shells, often leaving small piles of broken shells behind.

For centuries, the song thrush has appeared in English poetry and countryside writing as a symbol of spring, renewal and the changing seasons.

Yet despite once being common, their numbers have fallen sharply since the 1970s.

Still, across gardens, churchyards and hedgerows, that ancient song can still be heard.

One of the oldest sounds in the English countryside.

Do you still hear song thrushes where you live?

Follow @oaksandlions for the sounds, stories and heritage of the English countryside.

#England #EnglishCountryside #Birds #NativeBirds

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Congratulations @SpaceX team on an epic first Starship V3 launch & landing!

You scored a goal for humanity.

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

This is the incredible South Door of St Saviour's Church in Dartmouth, UK. While the iron says 1631 testing shows the oak wood dates back to 1361.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is a cross section of a road in England

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.