Young Atlantic salmon seen in three English rivers for first time in a decade
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/30/young-atlantic-salmon-english-rivers-mersey-bollin-goyt?CMP=share_btn_url…

Health Stuff

Recovered somewhat from whatever that weird fit was at the end of last year.

NHS still has me on some sort of list I think, appointment might turn up next year. Last contact with them they were suggesting maybe November.
But the private treatment gave me the
MRI which
showed nothing weird and post-fit symptoms have been reducing.
Experimented with eating meat to see if that helped.
Tried eating meat for a month to see if it reduced the post-fit symptoms. Maybe it did? Tried vegetarian again and maybe it got worse?
Hard to tell with intermittent symptoms and a terrible memory.
Decided it's more likely to do good than harm (to me, entirely harm to the animals obviously), and eat meat till the end of the year.
While I'm better, I don't really feel fully recovered enough to want to change things so more meat next year I think.
One of those symptoms is that booze tolerance dropped to like zero. Very rarely had more than four pints in a day this year and very rarely more than one night a
week.
Much high number than the target there really.
Tripped over a guy-rope and fell onto the wrist.
Did two days of the festival and the drive home thinking it almost certainly wasn't broken and only confirmed it was when I got home and the hospital put it in a cast.

And there you have it. It's been 4 months since the INT8 FSR 4 DLL leaked, and people are already starting to forget, or never knew, where the original link to download it is. Sooner or later someone will get cute, and the DLL will get tampered with, and it will get posted on a thousand shady websites. All courtesy to AMD, where, imo, the executives don't give a s about gaming or from where the next buck comes from.

Evening walk. Each (end of) day this past week had such amazing light/mood... it's good to get out!
#EveningWalk #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Jets seek blockbuster path to Raiders’ first overall pick https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/01/jets-seek-blockbuster-path-to-raiders-first-overall-pick/

Ik blijf me erover verbazen dat een volksvertegenwoordiger in de TK zo overduidelijk met deze drogreden kan komen zonder dat iemand interrumpeert en zegt: hee dit is de verzonken kosten drogreden.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verzonken_kosten

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 2012 Leonard Cohen releases "Old Ideas", an album that becomes No.1 in 10 countries. It easy to forget just how big an impact Cohen made in music from the late 60s through to this album. Many fans were introduced to his music via his song "Hallelujah". Cohen first released it on his 1984 album Various Positions, though it gained massive popularity through covers by artists like Jeff Buckley and K.D. Lang. He had an incredible journey, starting as a poet, enjoying stardom in the 70s, retiring to a monastery in the 90s, and having to tour later in life to rebuild his fortune after suffering embezzlement by his agent.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianLegends
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen

Good afternoon, from the forests around Thetford, England. I hope a bright new year is just ahead for you all! #NewYear #outdoors #walking

Even forgotten, good work lasts forever
“Creating, yet not possessing, Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten. Therefore it lasts forever.” Lao Tsu, Tao te Ching verse 2 https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-

For many people who’d been inside that bubble of comfort, particularly at national news orgs, the story •started• with those two murders. They now seem to have a half-formed mental narrative that runs something like this:
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1. First the Trump administration started deporting a lot more people.
2. Then ICE murdered Good and Pretti.
3. Those two escalations caused widespread unrest in Minneapolis.
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That narrative is wrong.
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