SublimeLife2

Gardening, reading, walking, cooking. Arts, heritage, science, architecture… good things. 🏳️‍🌈

[SublimeLife2 @sublimelife2]

Elon Musk (Twitter's failed owner) promotes violence, disorder and chaos in support of his wired hard right views, which even his children condemn. Staying active on Twitter colludes with his psychopathic behaviours. I'm happy with Mastodon and BlueSky.

[SublimeLife2 @sublimelife2]

Public sector works respect a purdah during elections. Any private sector company that tries to push the Tories does not deserve my trade. I've been an @HSBC_UK customer for many years. But I'll be moving to @santanderuk and getting £175 to do so. Poor @firstdirect 2/2

[SublimeLife2 @sublimelife2]

So @HSBC_UK thinks they should scaremonger and lie during an election period to promote the Tories? Their "advice" is so incompetent - paying the poorest a bit more will feed straight back in to the economy unlike the wealth-hoarders whose interests they clearly prioritise. 1/n

[Robin Morrison @robinmmorrison]

Gulls safely roosting on these gates in the middle of a flooded field near #Langport #Somerset this morning.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Apricate (17th century): to turn your face to the winter sun and bask in it for a moment.

(I know, I’ve said it before, but it’s too beautiful to forget.)

[Rob Temple @RobTemple101]

There’s no more tense a question than the satnav saying “change route to save 6 minutes?” and giving you a countdown for the decision.

[Cate Lombardo 📚 @bleuroses]

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
-Agatha Christie

(Christie at her home in Devon, in 1974 by Lord Snowdon.)

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

The greatest Wikipedia edit of all-time.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A mother has written a touching note to the teenager who taught her daughter how to use her skateboard and it’s now gone viral:

"Dear teenage boy at the
skate park:

You’re probably about 15 years-old, so I don’t expect you to be very mature or for you to want a little girl on your skate ramp for that matter.

What you don’t know is that my daughter has been wanting to skateboard for months. I actually had to convince her that skateboarding wasn’t just for boys.

So when we walked up to the skate park and saw that it was full of teenaged boys who were smoking and swearing, she immediately wanted to turn around and go home.

I secretly wanted to go too because I didn’t want to have to put on my mom voice and exchange words with you.

I also didn’t want my daughter to feel like she had to be scared of anyone, or that she wasn’t entitled to that skate park just as much as you were.

So when she said, 'Mom it’s full of older boys,' I calmly said, 'So what, they don’t own the skate park.'

She proceeded to go down the ramp in spite of you and your friends flying past her and grinding rails beside her.

She only had two or three runs in before you approached her and said 'Hey, excuse me …'

I immediately prepared to deliver my 'She’s allowed to use this park just as much as you guys' speech when I heard you say, 'Your feet are wrong. Can I help you?'

You proceeded to spend almost an hour with my daughter showing her how to balance and steer, and she listened to you – a feat not attained by most adults.

You held her hand and helped her get up when she fell down and I even heard you tell her to stay away from the rails so that she wouldn’t get hurt.

I want you to know that I am proud that you are part of my community, and I want to thank you for being kind to my daughter, even though your friends made fun of you for it.

She left the skate park with a sense of pride and with the confidence that she can do anything, because of you."

Credit: Jeanean Thomas

[😊 @PontistGirl]

Santuario de las lajas. Colombia 🇨🇴
If you dont admire the magnificence, I feel dreadfully sorry for you.
#architecture #beauty

[Rowtography | Jason Row Photography @Rowtography_]

A very GM from a much calmer NE England. Hope your weekend is going well.

Here's another "angry sea" image from yesterday in Roker, Sunderland

#StormBabet #NorthEast

[SublimeLife2 @sublimelife2]

@DGBAMCH57 @DwindlingGravy @SaintCirce @AmandaPCraig @oldvictheatre Dangerous nonsense.
Women have the right to feel safe when they leave their home.
This shouldn’t need saying in this day and age.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Look at the wings of these flies,

from the genus Goniurellia. Each wing has a detailed image of an ant, when the wings move, the ants appear to walk

Most of its predators would want to avoid a confrontation with the stings of ants

📸1) mpergil 📸2) Dr Brigitte Howarth

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The unexpected sound of a desert rain frog

[archivetvmusings @archivetvmus71]

Goodnight 🌙

[SublimeLife2 @sublimelife2]

Hard to believe how much that river would rise...

[Glyn @farsondigital]

Last 18 hours on the North Esk river webcam at Gannochy Bridge in Edzell. Our local river webcams are available here: https://t.co/wEdZRLGa2G - #StormBabet #Babet #Scotland #SevereWeather #Angus #Laurencekirk #flood #Aberdeenshire

[Natalie Hood @NatalieAHood]

When a storm hits & you live in Aberdeen a trip to the South Breakwater Pier at Greyhope Bay is a must! ⛈️

#StormBabet #Storm #Aberdeen

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Fast asleep but dazzling ~ young Lilac-breasted Roller (Coracias caudalus), so called because of its rolling aerial acrobatics during courtship