…genocide is never justified. It is absolute, a crime in itself. No matter how appalling the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israel or Israeli citizens, a genocidal response was not appropriate and never could be.

Vaughn Lowe, via Your Man in the Hague (in a Good Way)

SSSSSNNNNAAAAKKKKEEEEE!

Very old photo (May? 1990).

Mesa Verde National Park.

Always thought it was a Rattlesnake.

Google Lens suggests it might also be a Pine snake.

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Walking through Mesa Verde National Park, random rocks and scrub, plus a large snake scuttling by with markings similar to a Rattlesnake or a Pine snake.

Irreplaceable! (I have a work commitment tomorrow morning.)

Heart skipped a beat (or several) when I saw this in the canal this morning…

View of a canal looking towards a bridge - in the dark water there's something orange...Close up of the orange something in the dark water of the canal - it's a hi-viz work jacket with a hood and arms...

Annual (eek!) morning walk.

Photo from the canal towpath looking towards a green narrowboat moored on the towpath side, with two white swans swimming in the black water

File under HamasIsrael don’t care about their own people?

When I first went to university, one of my first mates was a very quiet and shy bass player, a Geordie skinhead called Tim. Tim was into getting stoned and listening to Frank Zappa. I never got into Zappa. But I am now.

Those were the days.

Screenshot of a Facebook "Memory" - a cross-post of an Identi.ca post (or "dent") from thirteen years ago: "I wonder if @rpcutts is still on the quiet coach, tied to the toilet seat by a group of unruly children, somewhere between Darlo & Leeds?"

Wife has returned home after being abducted by aliens (scroll down past the football).

Last night, I watched ToryBoy The Movie.

This morning, I watched unelected former Tory Prime Minister and Jewish National Fund patron David Cameron become the UK’s new Foreign Secretary.