Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈

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A map of the world showing the concentration of sperm whales in the oceans by using black dots. Off the coast of antarctica there is a regular pattern, presumably from a ships survey.
A BBC ticker reading "New PM: Is there hope in your heart?"
BBC article with the headline "Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling".
Guardian headline that reads "Gianni Infantino hints at expansion to 64-team World Cup before 2030 event".
Screen grab of quoted article that reads "Increasingly rare is the guest who doesn’t feel the need to curry favour with his interviewer. ‘Thank you SO much for inviting me on!’ has become standard. To which the correct response should be: ‘On the contrary. Without someone to interview there’d be no programme.’"
screen grab from a BBC article that read "Graham Smith pledged to vote for Farage again, alleging there had been a campaign against him. "Everybody who can is trying to poison the political atmosphere against him," said Smith, speaking on Connaught Avenue in Frinton. "I think he's a breath of fresh air in politics and I really don't care if he's got six houses, after all that's gone on in the Labour party and the Tory party in the past." Memmzy Ozy, a barber in Frinton, said: "He's alright, you know. I trust Nigel. Hopefully he'll be the winner. The 31-year-old said he agreed with Farage's policies on illegal immigration."
A screen grab of the BTO advert reading "Logo creation: We believe in the power of human creativity, and have a long track record in working with creatives to engage audiences with the wonder of birds. For this reason, we ask that any submissions are ‘human-made’ and not drafted or created using generative AI. Short-listed designers will be asked to sign a document confirming that they have not used generative AI in the creation of their design."
A screen grab showing the same person blocking me twice in 24 hours.
Five hand made white porcelain mugs, three of which have a red band around them and two a blue band.
A picture of the front of the Clydach nickel refinery with a huge progress pride flag attached to the front.
A historic poster for a lost cat that reads "lost, on Saturday morning, last, a large french cat with very long hair and a remarkably bushy tail."
A display showing a range of old photos of people and their pets.
A selfie of me stood next to a poster of me advertising my talk.
A picture of me standing underneath Hope the blue whale at the natural history museum.
A deepsea anemone that looks like a nipple with a frilly fringe.
Alfredo and Suze sitting on a stage talking about his new book in front of a crowd.
Screen grab of the guardian live blog in which Catherine West, who led calls for a leadership contest against Starmer is now saying she does not rule our voting for him if a contest actually happened.
A picture of a pint of beer on a wooden table with the sun in the background.
A picture of my arm donating blood with the monkey covering it's eyes emoji over the point where the needle goes in.
Five hand made porcelain mugs, three of them have a red band of slip and two with a band of blue slip.
Crop of a screen grab of BBC live feed of Artemis II return reading "Soon: Moon"
A picture of my hand holding massive jar of honey.
A grey and white tabby cat lying on its side and holding one back foot between both its front feet.
The front cover the book "A little queer natural history".
A beaver dam in the foreground, with a large field stretching to trees in the distance. A little way off in the middle of the field a herd of bison are grazing.
A farm with buildings on three sides, but in the middle is a large European bison curled up on the grass.
A zoomed in crop of the last painting showing a small lamb (??) sitting on a book.
A medieval painting showing grey cat with a sad human face.
Screen grab of an article reading "The group’s flagship annual report added that the UK will continue to use oil and gas for decades to come and sourcing this from the North Sea gas would have a lower emissions footprint than importing liquified natural gas on super-chilled tankers from overseas."
Three hand made porcelain mugs, white with a single blue band on each, standing together on a table.
A fossilised shrimp showing all its fine detail.
A screen grab from the telegraph article that reads "Winston Churchill is to be replaced on banknotes by wildlife native to the UK. Animals such as hedgehogs, badgers and puffins are among the candidates to replace the former prime minister on £5 notes, in the currency’s first major redesign in 50 years. Images of Jane Austen, JMW Turner and Alan Turing, who feature on £10, £20, and £50 notes respectively, will also be replaced. The Bank of England said a public consultation last summer had found that nature had emerged as the most popular theme for the redesign."
Two comments on the telegraph website, the first reading "the continuing islamifcation of Great Britian" and the second "utterly abhorrent white washing British history".
A satellite picture of a patch of rainforest that borders the sea. The land is deep green and covered with rainforest.
Bugs Bunny saying "no" meme.
A screen grab of a double magazine spread with palaeoart of Denisovans hunting in a forest and the headline "Invisible humans".
A very rough clay model of a grey seal in banana pose.
A picture of various props from The Life Aquatic, including the light blue costumes with red hats and a painting of Bill Murray posing seductively in a wet suit.
Quote from wikipedia reading "The common name of the bat is typically given as the "tailed tailless bat". This is because the species belongs to the genus Anoura, commonly called the "tailless bats", yet it possesses a tail. However, the name is arguably somewhat misleading, since only three of the other seven species of "tailless bats" genuinely lack a tail. Of the remaining four, however, three have tails that are significantly shorter even than that of A. caudifer, and the fourth, the equatorial tailless bat, was only distinguished from A. caudifer in 2006.".
Screen grab of a wiki article for a bat called the "tailed tailess bat".
A little caramel Pomeranian dog sitting between two people on the tube.
Headline from a BBC article titled "The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos".
A picture of me stood behind a table cover with the progress pride flag and various jars and skulls of animals.
A very strange looking squid. Its body is a pale colour, but its arms and skin around big black eyes are bright pink, and it looks like it has pink lips. It is holding its arms upwards.
A screen grab of a scientific article reading "Sperm drinking by female catfishes: a novel mode of insemination".
A screen grab reading "Jim Ratcliffe has issued a statement saying he is sorry that his comment about the UK being “colonised” by migrants “offended some people”. But he defends the need for an “open debate” on the topic." with the last sentence highlighted in yellow.
A view through a window out of a bird hide showing brown reeds in the foreground and open water behind. In the distance, tower blocks can be seen between the trees."
A screen grab of an article reading "Did you go on somewhere? I would have, but a fog descended, making it hard to see what was still open, and Sam had to rush off."
A photograph of a grey, black and white tabby cat sitting on my chest as I lie on a sofa. The cat is facing the camera with his little white paws in front.
A bird is standing on a forest floor. It has a cicada bug in its bill, and its long iridescent purple-blue tail is raised behind it.
A fox sitting on top of a shed looking down at the viewer.
A picture of a thank you leaflet with a picture of the Cerne Abbas giant, on top is a national trust pin that shows the Cerne Abbas giant from behind.
A screen grab of an article reading "I have just consulted young Chalamet’s Instagram and it’s exhaustingly high energy. How can he be ‘OFFICIALLY UNC’? Remember, 30 is ancient for gen Alpha. On Instagram, one teacher asked his teen students how old you needed to be for unc status and one of them said 20. Also, “Anyone … can be called ‘unc’ if they carry a certain older-sibling or uncle-like energy,” according to Preply" with the words "one of them said 20" highlighted in yellow.
A picture of my arm giving blood, with a monkey face covering the needle.
A quote from a guardian article reading "An earlier statement from Grok announcing that it had “identified lapses in safeguards” and was “urgently fixing them” turned out to have been generated by artificial intelligence; it was not clear whether the company was actually taking action to fix safeguarding lapses.".
Screenshot of the weather in London right now, showing a temperature of -6.
A screen shot of the guardian article reading "“The interventions are competing in an information environment where the politicians are being bombarded with conflicting information and loud opposition,” Tanase said. They told her that in gauging public opinion, they most trusted direct interactions with citizens from their constituencies and their letters, a finding supported by earlier research. “The people more likely to engage with politicians are very specific types politically – they don’t necessarily represent the majority,” she said." with the second sentence about listening to citizens' letters highlighted in yellow.