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Ammonyte

@ammonyte.com
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The Ammonyte abides. A digital fossil in an un-wired world. Interested in Butterflies, Conservation, Science, History, Photography, Rugby, Cricket, Ales. Somewhat wary and cynical of politicians. IC #1335

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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 21h
If you are going to do dumb crimes, don't do them near a military base on high alert. This ends my TED talk.
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 28/09/2026
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 28/09/2026
Well done to the IWM for thus initiative www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-d...
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£3 tickets to IWM Duxford
We want as many people as possible to be able to enjoy a brilliant day out at HMS Belfast. To help people who might find cost or other challenges a barrier to visiting, we have introduced a £3 discoun...
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pal sent me this, I haven’t seen it on here so….
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Coney Island Sound @coneyislandsound.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I wonder what Temu Throbbing Gristle sounds like (ad from instagram).
Targeted ad for Throbbing Gristle on Temu
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 27/09/2026
Sal knows. Listen to Sal. youtube.com/watch?v=OyvR... @mercoglianos.bsky.social
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Inside the 2026 Tanker War: Hormuz Strikes, Soaring Rates & Diesel Shortages
YouTube video by What's Going on With Shipping?
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Los Angeles Has a Flea Problem—and It’s Fueling Typhus Outbreaks gizmodo.com/los-angeles-...
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Los Angeles Has a Flea Problem—and It's Fueling Typhus Outbreaks
People are usually infected by flea poop entering their bite wounds.
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 25/09/2026
I bought some RNLI Christmas cards to give to my flag snagging racist neighbours.
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The Aviation Show @theaviation.show · 23/09/2026
"The Kirk Effect" - Command Effectiveness and Romantic Interactions During Long Duration, Deep Space Missions
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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DrakenKnight @drakenknight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"The creatures outside looked from satire to news, and from news to satire, and from satire to news again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 20/09/2026
I was looking something up on Google Maps, and I think I might have found out why successive governments have been so bad at delivery.
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 20/09/2026
Nose meets trough.
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 19/09/2026
RATcliffe. The clue is in the name
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Chris @seismicshed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We need to make being a billionaire as societaly unacceptable as overt racism, paedophillia and drink driving used to be.
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Chris Camfield (AlliedArmour) @alliedarmour.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The history community seems to be widely unaware of this still. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This has to be the roast of the decade
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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's tour bus.
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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
‘We’ve gone on Ed Sheeran’s tour by mistake’
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 11/09/2026
So my takeaway at the end of this talk with Alex Ritchie and @waitmanwbeorn.com is "perpetrators are just like us and we don't know why".
A picture of a man and a woman sitting on a stage, behind them is a big sign which reads "Everything Nuremberg Got Wrong"
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 11/09/2026
25 years ago at my desk. Lady in finance on the other side of the room took phone call from her teenage son. "You stupid boy planes don't fly into buildings" rang across the room. My boss found the Statue of Liberty webcam and we realised it was true.
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 08/09/2026
Went out. Learned about assessing Woodland. Got wet. Brilliant.
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My new book is selling well. The publisher calls it "a hit".... www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 08/09/2026
It's raining and the news is fucking awful.
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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Our government call throwing paint or holding a placard about global warming or Palestine terrorism and they send in the heaviest to beat up kids and pensioners. Blqckshirted fascists? Fine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Protesters block roads in Portsmouth after 140 migrants rescued
The government condemns "thuggish behaviour" in the second major anti-migrant protest of the weekend.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 07/09/2026
As a geologist I approve this post.
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Ian P @goatteeboy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nazis on the rise in Germany, black shirts on the streets of the UK. I’m not sure “legitimate concerns” is going to cut it @andyburnham.bsky.social
Yellow badge containing a red arrow and the words ‘Anti Nazi League’.
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 06/09/2026
pca.st/episode/de94... the next time a wine poseur wants on about Biodynamic wine I am taping them to a chair and making them listen to this. Thanks @waitmanwbeorn.com
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Ep. 79- The Nazi Occult with Eric Kurlander
Send us Fan MailThere are lots of popular and sensationalist accounts of the Nazi obsession with the supernatural and occult, but what is the true history of this.  The truth is that various kinds of…
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 06/09/2026
If they could stop promoting Substack that would be even bettterer.
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 06/09/2026
Feeling quite smug that I never got into Harry Potter.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/09/2026
Stuff I didn't know about the military and Hegseth.
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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Mind if anyone has a Palestinian flag they could slip it in here a d the cops will turn up with van loads of heavily armed bastards to lock these actual fascists up based on the false notion they're against genocide.
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 04/09/2026
What in the wide wide world of sports us thus?
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I have discovered a pile of Nigel droppings under my bed tonight.
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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is such fun!! #ReformUK #Nigelfarage
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 03/09/2026
Probably my dream line-up pca.st/episode/9c8e... discussing physics @seanmcarroll.bsky.social @jimalkhalili.bsky.social
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366 | Jim Al-Khalili on Time, Quantum, Biology, and Cosmology
Everyone lives through time, but we continue to struggle to fully understand it. We remain unsure whether time is fundamental or emergent, why it has an arrow pointing from past to future, and…
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Red Five Scale Models @redfivemodels.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On the hunt for old model kits that are surplus to sell on the #kitoff90 stand at WARFEST. If you've got some gathering dust and would like to support us please bring them along. The more the merrier.
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In the local park where I’m currently walking, a dog has just grabbed a random person’s umbrella and run off with it. The umbrella owner, the dog’s owners and a load of kids have given chase, and it’s the closest I’ll get to seeing a dog with a string of sausages being chased by a butcher isn’t it?
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you visit my pinned blog post I have lots of advise about how to get away from Google and Microsoft and how to use AI without giving your life away. Also very importantly how to stay safe out there on the web, stop trackers, spam etc.Also using a VPN and secure DNS to stop the bastards tracking u
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 31/08/2026
Said the Maquis de Sade.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Lmao 😅🤣😂
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 29/08/2026
Dog Day Teatime
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 29/08/2026
Fucking Hell. We have Werharaboos at Shuttleworth Military Show. They can just fuck right off. Do better Shuttleworth.
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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New: happy 16-month anniversary to the FDA ending its routine food safety inspections! US states clock 32.5K food parasite cases, dire warnings as Ebola spins out of control, #Covid seriously surging in US (school closures) + UK + China (522,000), and more: www.patreon.com/violetblue/p...
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Pandemic Roundup: August 27, 2026 | Threat Model
This newsletter is an inclusive, curated selection of new findings and fresh perspectives on Covid-19, dedicated to finding the highest qual
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Ammonyte @ammonyte.com · 28/08/2026
Amaranth Our Price
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Mike Pullen @mikepullen1969.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/08/2026
Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.
Instructional image titled "Hide your posts from non-followers in Discover" accompanied by a screenshot of the "privacy and security" options from the Bluesky settings menu. "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is toggled to the "on" state.
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