The sound of hail falling on a mountainside covered in slate rock

Wow, I somehow never knew this.

Heathrow airport has special corridors reserved for passengers with antlers, which seems very thoughtful of them but also oddly specific.

RFK Jr. has recently argued that parents should expose their children to the Bubonic Plague when they are 18 months old, as this will allow them to safely eat raw rodents.

The German fascist party AfD has filed a criminal defamation complaint against Chancellor Friedrich Merz, for saying that "the word 'remigration' is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color" before the Bundestag.

Dear Fediverse, I've never asked for boosts, but it's time to flood the zone. Put it in your own words if you prefer. Spread it everywhere.

#remigration #ethnicCleansing #Afd #fascism #streisandeffect
@renewedresistance
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/afd-files-complaint-against-merz-130350147.html

Some Questions for Channel 4, about their documentary ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/some-questions-for-channel-4-about?r=24oxwv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Channel 4 have many questions to answer about their upcoming 'documentary'. Here are some of the most pressing (and snarky, because when dealing with brutal cynicism, why not join in?)

#ADHD #C4

Legal e-bike rented in a council-assisted scheme seized and destroyed by West Midlands police: https://road.cc/ebiketips/news/police-seize-and-destroy-delivery-cyclists-legal-e-bike
Some degree (at least) of racial bias in the stop seems quite probable, on the face of it.

GWEN - Achub Yr Iaith

Sengl cyntaf unigol gan Gwenllian Anthony o Adwaith. Ai hon yw’r gân sy’n mynd i…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EXmA0xyKzM

I can feel it happening.

Newydd ddod o hyd i hyn - Wordle (English/Saesneg ) yn IPA!

Just come across this - Heardle (Wordle in the international phonetic alphabet)!

Heardle Daily 2026-06-19 5/6
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https://heardle.glitch.me

John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais:

"I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull explanation.

"There isn’t. There is a completely bonkers explanation, in both cases. Here’s the first.

"So. The cor anglais isn’t English, or French. But that’s nothing, because another thing it isn’t is… a horn. It’s basically an overgrown oboe, and it’s from Silesia. But being thin with a bulb on the end, it looks a little like the trumpets angels are shown playing in medieval art.

"Or at least it did to the Germans, who started calling it the Engellisches Horn, or angel’s horn. Can you see the hilarious misunderstanding that’s about to happen? Well, that happened. The Italians thought the Germans called it the English Horn, so they translated it to corno inglese. The French got it from the Italians, and called it the cor anglais. The British got it from the French, and presumably stared at it, thought ‘We can’t call that an English horn! It’s nothing to do with us, we’ve only just this minute seen one!’ …and I suppose decided just to keep the French name to save embarrassment.

"But that is rationality itself compared to what happened with the “French” horn.

"Right. The French horn. It isn’t French, or English… but it is a horn. So that’s something. (In fact, horn players just call it ‘the horn’, and they wish you would too, but they can’t make you.) This story is simpler than the cor anglais one, but even more gloriously stupid.

"The French were famous for making beautiful hunting-horn type horns: curly tubes that made a nice noise when you blew through them. Then the Germans came up with a more complicated horn with slides and crooks and valves and what-have-you. So British horn players started calling the horns they played in orchestras French Horns, to make it clear they were having nothing to do with those funny looking new German horns with all the bits hanging off them. But the thing is… slides and crooks and valves and what-have-you are a really good idea. You can play tunes with them and everything. So, before long, in a brilliantly British combination of ruthless pragmatism and equally ruthless face-saving, British horn players were playing German horns… but still calling them French horns.

"In summary then: the cor anglais, or English horn, is a Silesian oboe that the Italians thought the Germans thought was English, but the Germans actually thought looked angelic. Whereas the French horn is a German horn that the British called the French horn to distinguish it from the German horn… which is what it is.

"All clear? Good. Carry on."

Hmm. Welais i rywbeth ar-lein wnaeth i mi feddwl bod Mwsog yn perfformio am 11 o'r gloch (am ryw reswm). Gan fod nhw un o'r rhesymau pam wnes i benderfynu dod i Ŵyl Tawe #GŵylTawe yn hytrach na fynd i barti pen-blwydd yn 140 oed y Dafydd, oedd rhaid i mi godi cyn 6 yb... Dw i yn Abertawe rŵan - a byddan nhw ar y llwyfan am chwarter wedi pedwar. Ŵps. Amser cael cip at yr amgueddfa, dw i'n meddwl.

Wedi cyrraedd Cymru! Wedi croesi'r afon ac yn cyrraedd Cas-gwent... Mor wedi blino :)

Ar y ffordd i Ŵyl Tawe 2026 #GŵylTawe. Wedi cyrraedd gorsaf Rhydychen deng munud yn gynnar - first stop, Didcot! (Well, first stop Radley, actually. It's that kind of train.)

Deilen fach ffigysbren bach yn ein gardd ni, yng ngolau'r haul / a little leaf on a little fig-tree in our garden, catching the sunlight.

Trump vs Pope Leo ... happy #Caturday

It now stands at 99,300 !!

Any CIS women on here who feel the same, please sign as you could help us get to 100k and present in parliament. If you can't sign, please share xx

"We fundamentally believe Trans exclusion is a gateway to rolling back wider rights for different communities and controlling women's bodies and rights"

#WomensRights
#trans
#transrights

https://notinourname.org.uk/

Tha mi air am bot seo a sgaradh. Gheibh sibh naidheachdan a' Bheeb air @bbc_naidheachdan agus na pod-chraolaidhean aca air @bbc_pod_chraolaidhean a-nis

#Gàidhlig

Now this I did not see coming: Swell Maps reform, new album coming soon.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/10/swell-maps-interview-jowe-head