One of France’s earliest social networks, Skyblog, is closing down for good this week. Launched in 2002, the blogging site gave millions of French internet users their first taste of interacting online before the arrival of competitors from the US. rfi.fr/en/france/2023…

⚠️ 🌡️ Fortes #chaleurs Températures maxi attendues sur le pays pour les prochains jours ⬇️ 🟠#Vigilanceorange #canicule 👉vigilance.meteofrance.fr

De nombreux #records de #chaleur ont été battus ce mardi avec des #températures supérieures à 40°C dans plus d'une cinquantaine de stations météo. Des records de la canicule d'août 2003 ont été localement battus 🌡️

Record amplifié à 42.3°C après 16h30. Un delta de 1.6°C par rapport à l'ancien record de 2003 ! #canicule #Toulouse

Maps from Météo France show the risk of forest fires across the different départements of France. thisfrenchlife.com/thisfrenchlife…

Combien de "vigilance rouge" #canicule a connu votre département ? En 20 ans, 55 des 96 départements de métropole ont été placés au moins une fois au niveau d'alerte maximal. Le record est détenu par le Gers et le Lot-et-Garonne avec une vigilance rouge en 2019, 2022 et 2023.

This is the price they put on love: How the Home Office barred most British citizens from living with someone they met overseas open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/…

Discover an underground world at Grotte de Maxange between Bergerac and Sarlat #dordogne. The cave that has been opened up forms part of an underground system that was formed at the beginning of the Tertiary era, in other words, about 60 million years ago. 😲

Perched on a rocky outcrop the Château de Bonaguil dates from the 13th Century and is found on the border between the Lot-et-Garonne and the Dordogne 🛡

The Église Saint-Martin church in Besse, near Villefranche-du-Périgord, #dordogne dates from the 11th century and is well worth a visit 📷

Walking back up to Loubejac this afternoon #dordogne

From a few years ago here in Loubejac when we had a visit from some great classic cars - bon week-end 😀

Been playing around with AI image creation

So I got playing with Canva a bit of AI and Tostadora.fr | T-shirt personnalisé & idées cadeau to open a t-shirt shop. It's keeping me out of mischief! tostadora.fr/shop/thisfrenc…

COMING SOON!!!

As Google manually removed The Telegraph from UK gambling SERPs, another newspaper took its place with a fairly new page (Published in Feb) that was updated yesterday! The algorithm hasn't changed, manual penalties won't stop anything, new sites will just take there place...

cc @megabreadvan 😀

EU Entry/Exit System has been delayed again to 10 or 17 November 2024. To avoid border chaos, fingerprinting/facial biometric demands for UK citizens may be watered down. Could be as few as 1 in 10 needing to register initially. Transport firms delighted. independent.co.uk/travel/news-an…

They take to the skies at La Concorde! 🚀 BMX Freestyle sessions have started this afternoon 🚲 - Ils prennent leur envol à la Concorde ! 🚀 Les sessions de BMX Freestyle ont démarré cet après-midi 🚲 📷 Paris 2024 BOBY

Why can Dijon, France plan, approve, and build a 12 mile tramway in 4 years, while it takes 13 years to build a 1 mile tram extension in Birmingham? Our new report, written with createstreets, explores how Britain can make building new tramways cheaper and faster. 🧵