All the golden afternoons of summer were one afternoon to the farthest horizon
Neil Gunn, The Other Landscape

Shitlington: A Cross, a Fair, and Eight Centuries of Unfortunate Spelling

In the Peak District sits a hill called Shatton Moor. My Duke of Edinburgh groups used to home in on it every time, like pigeons to a statue, and the jokes wrote themselves.
The name is almost certainly Old English. “Scēat-tūn” — a corner ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/06/29/shitlington-a-cross-a-fair-and-eight-centuries-of-unfortunate-spelling/

#NorthTyneValley #Northumberland #etymology #history #medieval

Coot, striking a pose. Their feet are so fantastic.

Imagine if they went at housing with the enthusiasm and resources they are going at data centres.

"The Soviet Union had a shortage of nails during Lenin’s time. To increase production, his government started giving bonuses to the factories for the number of nails they produce. After hearing about the bonus, the factories reduced the size of the nails to produce as many nails as possible. In the end, they met the targets and got their bonuses. But the government ended up with millions of useless tiny nails." https://fronterabrands.com/goodharts-law/ #GoodhartsLaw https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/63816

Not sure about this somewhat bland and constrained For The Love of Cycling podcast. It's no Never Strays Far. Are Ned and Pete and that not taking their AG1 anymore? Maybe, maybe... they never were?!
#BikeTooter #couchpeloton

@mcnado I've never needed that service but if I did I suspect I'd belatedly be massively grateful. I mean, so many people do so much good and just hand people back their lives and move on to the next emergency. I don't know how you all do it, but I hope you all have great sex that makes you laugh right out loud, you know?

The variety of plants available to European gardeners increased forefold between 1550 and 1700.

"How many liberals today feel optimistic about the future? Who is still confident that liberalism will win out? If anything, it is a hubristic assessment of the past, not the future, that has led liberal politicians to learn the wrong lessons: that gaming the polls can substitute for answering to grievance; that fact-checking is the way to win back post-truthers; or that parroting right-wing talking points is going to save the political centre."
Geertje Bol, TLS 6407
#liberalism

Some times, you come back from the field in the evening to find your office invaded by funerary urns and a colleague tells you "ah, we've got a delivery"...
#EADays #EAD2026 #Archaeology

From Bikepacking.com

📌George Barnsley & Sons' Cornish Works, Sheffiled.

This abandoned toolmakers' factory made tools for shoemakers and the leather industry.

Cheaper imports and mass production forced its closure in 2003.

Upper floors feature wooden storage racks that still display original chalk markings and stock notes.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/industrial/george-barnsley-sons-cornish-works-sheffield-england/

#Sheffield #Industrial #Abandoned #Heritage #History #Victorian

Terrible jargon has been on my mind lately for some reason.

RE: https://mastodon.green/@JohanEmpa/116704653466719761

🦕 If you want to stay up to date with Mastodon.green's tree planting you can follow the hashtag #TreeReport

As you may know, mangrove forests are very important for local ecosystems and the climate

We celebrate the positive news of them healing :flan_cheer: :abunhdhappyhop:

The war in Ukraine has now gone on for so long that, birds in the Donbas region have adapted and are using strains of Drone control fiber optic cables to build their nests.

A post from Ukraine claims that this half-finished nest was found after a tree fell during a Russian glide bomb bombing.

Let us make it our goal, that our children will inherit a world in which birds once again build nests out of twigs and stalks.

"The [Michael Marks #Poetry] prize “welcomes non-standard bindings”, such as those of Hertz by Alycia Pirmohamed and Hannah Copley ... A collaborative poem commissioned in response to ecological research ... it is printed in vegetable ink on one sheet of brown paper folded into a brown envelope. Readers are encouraged to compost the pamphlet after reading, as food for the enclosed wildflower seeds. I haven’t yet mulched mine, but won’t hesitate to do so."
Tristram Fane Saunders, TLS 6406

I love finding cool bookmarks. This one was in a 1954 copy of waiting for godot

"mutually constitutive: each reinforcing the other"

'What does one do at a barrow?' I went on jocularly: 'You bury old kings and warriors, don't you, with jewels and cups and things, in chambers inside a burial mound? Did you look for any loot?'
Lines from the short story The Cure, by Eleanor Scott (1929)

few things cuter in this world than puffins, ya know?