Notices by Dr Ian McCormick (postfilm@ieji.de)

Wales’s 20mph speed limit saves lives and money. So why has it become a culture-war battlefield?
"In front of you there is a proposal that in just nine months would save your society more than £45m, prevent almost 500 people being killed or injured, make your residential areas more appealing places to live in and reduce car insurance premiums by an average of £50. Tempting, right?" #Wales https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/18/wales-20mph-speed-limit-lives-money-policy

Maybe print is dead ...
#books #reading #bookstodon

Dead Man's Fingers Mushrooms (Xylaria polymorpha) or Dead Moll’s Fingers (Xylaria longipes) ?? #fungi

Reading Books:
Collegiate #Gothic Bosses (#grotesque).
Possibly Penn State University? #highered

🚨 BREAKING: Campaign group Led by Donkeys has disrupted Nigel Farage's latest Reform Ltd rally with a #Putin banner. #Russia #Ukraine #politics

Any thoughts on this #Sculpture by Jorge Vieira (1922-1988) on the Praca Do Municipio (City Hall Square), #Lisbon, #Portugal ?

#Leeds City #Art Gallery

"Since 2010 nearly 800 libraries across the UK have closed, and visitor numbers have dropped too. " (BBC)
Just remind me: Who has been ruling our beloved country for the last 14 years?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/av/68558474
#library #books #edchat

@SolSoCoG Is there anything you can do to stop the spam: hundreds in recent days in my notifications?

"Four decades after the brutal industrial dispute, a new exhibition looks back at the photography that came to symbolise the British state’s abuse of power"

"The battle of Orgreave was one of the most violent displays of police brutality in British industrial history. Harris’s image became emblematic, appearing on badges, banners and posters." https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/jan/11/1984-miners-strike-photography-martin-parr-foundation

Inside a 250 year old French Violin. Photographed with a Medical Laparoscope adapted to a Lumix G9ii Camera. A 1770 violin by Augustin Chappuy. #music #art #photography

Why are we still paying such high prices for #gas and gas-powered #electricity generation? Low, low, low wholesale prices but consumers still face extortionate bills this winter.

#Halloween Crochet Horror

Poster for the Kyiv Book Fair, Ukraine (2023)

Your Brutalist Sandcastle Summer Challenge.
This one built by Calvin Seibert
#sculpture #art #architecture #brutalist #beach

INGREDIENTS : 50% Fat of the Land 50% Feudal Farce
Sell by date: 30.1.1649
#AbolishTheMonarchy ?

Stones on a Devon beach, UK. #art #creativity