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[Reprieve @Reprieve]

🚨BREAKING: Oldest Guantánamo detainee released after almost 20 years detained without charge or trial.

This is a huge win but Saifullah Paracha, 75, returns to his family a frail old man, after being taken in the prime of his life. That injustice can never be rectified. 🧵

[. @mossmottle]

@antonnewcombe Is that gorgeous perfect Autumnal house still lighted at dusk ? Can't recall the street name

[. @mossmottle]

@antonnewcombe *palate. [Apologies. I have toothache so am being a twat]

[. @mossmottle]

@LukeHaines_News I can recommend wearing shorts in the nettle patch.

[BBC Archive @BBCArchive]

#OnThisDay in 1982 actor and proud Londoner Bob Hoskins took Barry Norman on a riverside walk along London's South Bank, where he made his feelings pretty clear on how he thought the redevelopment of the area was going. Link in the comments to the full interview.

[. @mossmottle]

Alone under siege: how older women are being left behind in Ukraine https://t.co/dOEgnt0myj

[Rory Cellan-Jones @ruskin147]

Extraordinary letter in @ft from former UK defence attaché at Moscow embassy - we warned you about Putin but you listened to the City instead

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This is a cattail

Look at the volume of fluff 🤯

Each of these heads produces over 200k seeds, each on a fine hair for wind dispersal and can germinate up to 60 months after burrowing into the ground

Important to wildlife and used extensively by us too

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Look how this lovebird strips the leaves removing each midvein to tuck amongst its feathers for safe keeping...

rather than taking each piece home separately, this is a more efficient way of gathering and transporting nest building material

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The smell of the air after a storm is caused by Geosmin: a chemical released by dead soil bacteria. Humans are sensitive to it, capable of detecting concentrations ~5 parts per trillion. It's theorised in our evolutionary past this helped us seek out water https://t.co/ssYs59LklV

[. @mossmottle]

My friend Ukraine Support Pledge is fundraising for GlobalGiving. Check out their @JustGiving page and please donate if you can. Thank you! #JustGiving https://t.co/EDj5YT5onK

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Reminder

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Spare me all the pearl-clutching questions about why the UK's refugee policy is so slow and/or objectively gross. It's doing exactly what it was designed to do.

[Lucy Cooke @mslucycooke]

I love Attenborough but the tired androcentric narrative of the BBC's recent series "The Mating Game' left me screaming at the TV. But then it was made by a company called Silverback..... https://t.co/Ej5LABcaKm

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

Social media turn on Putin, the past master https://t.co/bWRIlvLYFv

[First Draft @firstdraftnews]

A large amount of mis- and disinformation has circulated on social media in multiple languages over the past few days regarding #Ukraine. Trustworthy information is as important as ever in times of crisis, so here are our top tips and tools 👇

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

Are we really seeing the usual client journalists & sycophantic Tory politicians portray the fact that London nursed almost as much dirty Russian money as the EU & US combined as some sort of win? I really hope I'm missing something here.