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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 20h

Not been out with my camera in September, but here’s a Gannet against a #Northumberland coast sunrise taken with my phone. #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth

A silhouetted Gannet against an orange, sunlit sky and a shimmering sea

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No longer a Vestal Virgin! A surprising visitor at the porch light tonight #TeamMoth #Northumberland

A Vestal moth, an elongated creamy yellow moth with a diagonal red stripe on each wing. The wings are tented above the body as the moth rests on a white-painted porch-light support.

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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33

Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why does the UK press continue to treat Trump like a normal politician when he is demonstrably wicked and insane inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Delighted to finally connect with Ivy Bees in #Northumberland today, around 30 seen on a long stretch of roadside ivy on the edge of Morpeth (that I’ve regularly checked for this species for the last 5 or 6 years without success!) #Bees #Hymenoptera

Ivy Bee on ivy. A medium-sized bee with yellow-haired head and thorax and a strongly striped abdomen

Ivy Bees on ivy. Two medium-sized bees with yellow-haired head and thorax and strongly striped abdomen

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Horrific. What vile, evil, cruel people these bastards are.

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gannet passing Newbiggin this morning. A beautiful day at the #Northumberland coast. #NEbirding

A Gannet in silhouette against a sunlit orange sky over a shimmering sea

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A short thread on “legitimate concerns”. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: people’s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole 🧵before responding - thanks

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Very little of note in the UV trap last night here in South East #Northumberland but this Red-Green Carpet contrasted well with the wall and a Brown-spot Pinion posed well. #TeamMoth

Red-green Carpet moth on a pale brick wall. The moth is mottled green and black with paler bands and an overall pinkish-red hue

Brown-spot Pinion moth settled on a small-leaved green shrub. The moth is pale brown overall, with several dark triangular marks along the wing edge and two pale-ringed grey blotches separated by a chestnut-brown wedge

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Shocked, who’d have thought it?

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does your washing machine have career goals? Is your TV fed up with being stared at? Should you ask before shutting down your laptop? The article should be a lot shorter than the headline.

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Dave Wolinski @davewolinski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sky lost their mind over that goal. Just show the Fernandes/Rashford goal for a couple seasons back and say “yeah fair enough”. Crack on.

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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Both Ben Delo & Christopher Harborne have used legal loopholes for their donations to Reform. Ben was based in Hong Kong but Labour introduced a £100,000 cap on overseas expats so he declared that he is moving back to the UK to free him from the £100,000 limit (1/3)

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Seriously? A museum?? These thugs don’t have a functioning braincell between them.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

First #BirdOfTheDay entry for a while, but today’s #ABCD theme is nice and broad! So here’s a posing Arctic Tern on the #FarneIslands a few years back.

An Arctic Tern, a pale grey and white seabird with black cap, red bill and short red legs. The tern is side on, perched on a lichen-and-guano covered dry stone wall, next to a patch of white-flowered bladder campion. The background is a soft focus dark blue sea under a pale blue sky

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Are Amazon Prime trying to get Guehi a retrospective red card? FFS. And what game was Gabriel Clark watching? In what way were Porto unlucky? Zero shots on target vs 10 for City?? Glad I don’t watch City on TV often!

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Every corner City had, you knew would end in a free kick for Porto. Their players hold, hold, hold then any push back just fall over. Horrible to watch

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Are #FCporto players made of jelly? Embarrassing

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Porto are right snide shits, aren’t they? #FCPMCI

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What a player Georgi Kinkladze was. A shining beacon in otherwise dismal days as a City fan. Just look how many times he leaves 3, 4 even 5 players sat on their arses, tackling thin air or facing the wrong way.

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Loads from our small #Northumberland garden allotment plot this weekend. Outdoor tomatoes going mad, getting a bowlful a day, the beans are still producing despite all being blown over, nearly finished with the kohlrabi, and then…. TWO FIGS!

A bowl of cherry tomatoes, mostly red and orange, with some unripe green ones and a red-brown striped variety

Two piles of beans: purple-blotched flat green borlotti beans and green haricot beans

Four small, purple kohlrabi being held in hand, leaves and roots cut off

Small white bowl of orange and red cherry tomatoes, together with two purple-green figs

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Read the thread, not just the screenshot. Don’t give up!

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Labour need to be clear. Neither the thugs at Dover nor the mobs at Portsmouth have ‘legitimate concerns’. They’re racist hate-driven violent thugs.

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

After just seeing the penalty for Sunderland yesterday, I’m looking forward to Haaland winning three penalties a game for the rest of the season.

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Where on earth are we heading as a country?? 😞

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A THREAD, which I am calling 'Some Of The Many Reasons Lichen And Moss Are Fucking Brilliant'. 1. They make public seating super comfy.

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Is there another player in the world who would be caught executing a backheel 8ft off the ground??

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

First time trying to listen to @mancity.com commentary on the City App this season. What’s this watch-along crap? Where’s Alastair Mann? Are you kidding that commentary now needs a paid subscription?? FFS. Putting the fans first, eh, City. 🤦‍♂️ 😠

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The Teesworks Freeport accounts are a disaster. Auditors are refusing to sign them off. STDC carries £420m in debt. There are no formal contracts covering any of it. This is an absolute free zones scandal, and the MSM won't touch it. Why? 🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-deregu...

europeanpowell.substack.com

The Deregulated Free Zone Is What the Clearance Was For

The Teesworks accounts, the Anthropic data centre, and eight years of evidence that nobody in power wants to examine.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here's Jason Arday's death - and the media's role in it - trending on social media, again. And yet it's *nowhere* in the mainstream media today. It's "fallen" out of the news cycle in the same way that Russian scientists "fall" out of windows. 🔗

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Come on, @libdems.org.uk @eddavey.libdems.org.uk, enough!Your last 6 Bluesky posts 👇🏻 Don’t you realise, you can’t win this argument? Those who care about “the small boat crisis” won’t care about your policy. And those who support LibDems (I’m pretty sure) are not taken in by the Farage narrative.

Screenshot of LibDem posts on BlueSky about immigration

Screenshots of posts from Bluesky about immigration

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Julia @toddlenrant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And still no political party has the courage and honesty to explain the immigration and 'small boats' are the least of our problems. Just more feeding succour to the racist mob whilst ignoring the majority of us.

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Reform will end ‘something for nothing’ Britain.” - Nigel Farage. He receives £98,599 a year as an MP, yet for more than three months this year he didn't cast a single parliamentary vote or make a single written contribution or speech in Parliament either. But yes, let’s shout at poor people

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.

Sorry Zack Polanski this long hot summer is not the apocalypse - it's like a gloriously long holiday in France
..with village green cricket thrown in good measure

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Stephen Baker @stephenbaker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

And another exhibit of how our media model rewards people prepared to write the most reprehensible utter bollocks.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Many people still think banks lend out savers' money. They don't, as this infographic explains. I wrote this infographic. I used AI to spell-check it and create the presentation.

An infographic on how banks create money.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I didn't follow the Arday story closely. It's pretty clear though that plagiarism allegations against Black professors are seen as a major news story because many ppl see Black success and intelligent as automatically illegitimate. So the real "scandal" is that Black ppl are professors at all. 1

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Another couple of new moths for me last night: a cracking Iron Prominent and a Lime-speck Pug. Also, finally joined the Small Mottled Willow party (new for my garden) and trapped this very late (I think) Least Black Arches (I think!). SE #Northumberland, UV trap, 68/29 #TeamMoth

Iron Prominent moth, a thick-set moth with wings tented over its abdomen. The wings are lead-grey with faint white lines and dispersed orange-red patches and lines. The head and legs are shaggy haired and there is a red patch on the head

Lime-speck Pug, a black-and-white pug with elongated, outstretched wings. The head and abdomen are predominantly black, while the thorax is white. The wings are white with a large irregular black blotch

Small Mottled Willow, a silvery grey moth with faint orange markings on the wings

Least Black Arches, a small triangular-looking moth with grey-white wings, marked with faint wavy dark cross-lines

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andrew john lamb @andyjlamb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think last night’s #TeamMoth haul was my best so far since I started trapping last year, both in species and total numbers. UV trap, 82/38, #Northumberland Includes 4 new spp. for me (pictured), & further 11 NFY (although my last trap was mid-July, so not unexpected).

Pebble Hook-tip, a distinctively-shaped moth with strongly hooked and rounded forewings. The wings are predominantly yellow-brown, with indistinct wavy black cross lines and a large black spot and dark red straight line on the forewing. The wings are also edged dark red

Pebble Prominent, a chunky-looking moth seen from the side. It has very hairy body head and thorax and the wings, tented above the abdomen, are brownish grey. The end of the wing is filled with a large irregular maroon-edged silver oval

Six-striped Rustic, a mid brown Noctuid moth, with six darker cross-lines

A rather washed-out photo of Cydia splendana, a mid-sized Tortrix moth. The wings are mostly silver-grey, with the end quarter darker and marked orange, grey and black

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