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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not much of interest for this week's #WildFlowerHour except what I think is Lesser Hawkbit.

A brilliant yellow flower with many many strappy petals each with incised ends, taken from directly above. about 40mm across.

The underside of a yellow flower showing the bottom of the petals, which are grey-brown, and the slightly hairy sepals. The background is out of focus grey stone with moss and lichen,

The gone-over involucre of the flower, showing its sepals with hairy midribs and black tips. Its held in the fingers of a male white caucasian hand .

The stems and basal leaves of the Lesser hawkbit, they're slightly pannatifid and covered in short white hairs, all against a stone wall.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"you call that a phaser? THIS is a phaser."

A male left hand holding a black pcb. Enclosed by a hedge of black female pin headers is a grid of beige light dependent resistors, poking up from within the box.
The head of each LDR is roughly elliptical, and has a rusty-red squiggle crossing it. Each also has a pin poking up at the rounded ends of the ellipse.
There are three yellow LEDs in a row in the centre. The background of the image is a blurred blue soldering mat.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Common Toadflax, the only snap I took today on a wander over the dry lands, which are only just starting to recover. The grasses are greening but the flowerage is pitiful. Stunted Knapweeds & Hawkbeards/bits/weeds, a few shrivelled Harebells & some Small Scabious. #WildFlowerHour

A small raceme of lemon-yellow flowers with long lower "lips" coming to a point (a "spur") amidst much other rough foliage.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Slightly cheating for #WildFlowerHour as this is actually from last week, but Bsky was down for me all last Sunday. A very delicious Devil's-Bit Scabious.

A deep mauve flower in a globe with many stamens and a handful of green sepals emerging from the rear.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#WildFlowerHour A field of Devils-bit Scabious. Several hectares of it are like this.

Hundreds of deep mauve-purple globular flowers on slender stems in a greenish rolling field, backed by trees.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not often you see a ratio like this

Clip of the stats on the post that's triggered the discourse.
24 reposts.
508 likes.
24 saves.
But 1.5K quotes. Oof.
(They're not quoting with approval lol)

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

No more spreadsheet discourse for me, you fuckers.

Screengrab of my muted words showing I've added spreadsheets and spreadsheet to it. Because life is too fucking short for this bollocks.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This might make you laugh or it might make you block me.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Damn it's the eclipse tonight and I don't have any glasses" [memory grinds into action] "But I do have some 50 year-old Rodinal and 60 year-old lith film in those boxes behind the bed I haven't opened for 6 years." [15 minutes later]

A sheet of fully fogged developed film about 200x100mm hanging from a wlre by a yellow clothes peg in one corner, the background includes a wooden beam crossing the image horizonatally.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Been to the Rosebay Willowherb forests again, lads. #WildFlowerHour

A brown earthen path with rough grasses to the edges snakes off in the centre of the image, while on each side towers a forest of tall (2 metres and more) flowers, each bearing spike inflorescences of deep pink. To the top and sides at the background are the crowns of trees and white-blue skies.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

As the desert gets ever nearer, a solitary Tormentil maintains a hold. #WildFlowerHour

A bright yellow four-petalled flower about 1cm across against rough dry grasses.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#WildFlowerHour I went to the dry lands on Thursday where I found a clump of Small Scabious struggling on.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#WildFlowerHour Common Hemp-nettle. I hardly ever see this stuff, but it's reappeared in a nearby location after a massive infestation of Himalyan Balsam was cleared.

Four small three lobed flowers, white, on a stem with green toothed leaves, held by a male hand. In the background is rough vegetation and an earthen path.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#WildFlowerHour This was the biggest Ragwort I've ever seen - it must have been nearly 2 metres tall

Dozens of small briliiant yellow many-petalled flowers on a single plant, against a green background

Briliiant yellow many-petalled flowers against a background of trees, the point of view is from below, so we see the back of the flowers.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

His backup account just blocked you

screengrab of a bluseky account of martin mar prelate ii dot bsky dot social

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oh this is nice old-fashioned botting -- almost every single one of them seems to have the StyleGan (e.g. thispersondoesnotexist dot com) pfps.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The followers chart is similar to almost everyone else's (because so many joined 2024-11) but that funny little blip of most recent followers created 2024-08-ish is interesting. Suggests a block of compromised or maybe just og inauthentic accts just came to life. cc ‪@aaron.bsky.team‬

A simple scatter chart with account create date as the Y axis and follower order on the X axis.
There's a thick grey line across it at roughly 2024-11 when a lot of people joined bluseky & followed other accounts, but there's also an unusual little blob of the account's most recent followers that were created a month or so earlier.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I mean, I'm as fond of a bit of irony as much as the next person, but fucking hell.

Text of a screengrab from pressandjournal regarding.

University principal and vice-chancellor Professor Peter Edwards added: “Ann Widdecombe was a
highly respected figure in both the Westminster and European parliaments.
"The University of Aberdeen does not tolerate violence or hateful behaviour in any form.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

#WildFlowerHour Found quite a lot of this during my trip to The Sea. One of the Centaurys, Centaurium spp. Not sure which one. #WildFlowerID New to me, though not remotely a rare genus.

A small cluster of pink 5 petalled flowers, with very yellow stamens, all against a tangle of dry-looking grass, in bright sunlight.

Two clusters of pink 5 petalled flowers, with very yellow stamens, all against a tangle of dry-looking grass, in bright sunlight. The topmost cluster are mostly in bud.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Extremely racist account, almost everything is reportable/

screengrab of racist account rogerc1981 at bsky dot social

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

#WildFlowerHour I thought this was Square-Stemmed St. John's Wort, Hypericum tetrapterum, but now I'm less sure. It definitely had square stems tho tbf Perhaps a cultivated variety that has escaped onto the common?

Brilliant yellow flowers sit apparently atop a pair of opposite-arranged broad green leaves. Each contains a spray of stamen.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Google streetview shows it still there in Oct 2025, but of course now they're applying genai processing to streetview images for some reason, and it looks like this 😬

Image of Busy Bee Cafe, 7th St, Defuniak Springs, Florida USA
Its a corner of a building with blue painted wooden frontage and a red door.
But the image appears to have been processed through genAI, so it's weirdly smoothed and yet at the same time striated, giving it a "fake" appearance like all genAI.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I've scrolled down just now this morning and found Spanish., French, Portuguese, one of the Scandi languages and one of the Baltics (Finnish maybe?). Sometimes its worse than others (it was really bad when I @'d you last night). The only language I have set is English.

Screengrab of my Bluseky language settings showing they are exclusively set to English

Screengrab of my Bluseky language settings showing nothing selected except for English.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This isn't exactly a #WildFlowerHour post but it's adjacent as a call for a tree ID (so I'll tag #WildFlowerID & hope for the best) Is this a Whitebeam? (No, I did not think to look beneath the leaves)

Five large green leaves on the end of a branch being held by a white male hand. Each leaf is a large rather rounded oval about 25cm long and 15-20cm wide, strongly marked with veins and a distinct midrib.
In the background is a tangle of tree branches and leaves lit from behind by the sun.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#WildFlowerHour About 5 or 6 years ago, this downland (several ha) was a carpet of Common Spot, Pyramidal and Fragrant orchids so dense it was impossible not to tread on them. Nothing now for several years. The management of this area has not changed in any way over that time. #ClimateChange

An area of downland devoid of flowers, just grass .

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Viper's Bugloss, Echium vulgare Last year, there was almost none of this to be found, and what there was consisted of stunted and cropped specimens. Quite a comeback this year. #WildFlowerHour

A head of brilliant blue funnel-shaped flowers with protruding pink stamens, on a thick green stem, everything bristly-looking.
Feeding on one of the flowers is a Burnet moth, red spots on its wings, though it has very pale beige-grey wings rather than the more common black.

A patch of Viper's Bugloss, perhaps 5 metres by 3 metres, each side of a trodden path mixed with tall grasses. To the right and behind are tangles of bramble and quickthorn.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Fragrant Orchid, Gymnadenia conopsea Common Twyblade, Neottia (formerly Listera) ovata #WildFlowerHour

A slim cylindrical spike of pink flowers, on a reddish stem. Each flower has a long pink "tail" that curves down behind it.
The background is out of focus tall grasses.

A slender spike of green slowers on a tall green-brown hairy stem. In the image about 100-150mm of the spike is visible.
Each flower has a long lower lip, about 1cm, split in such a way as to look rather like a pair of legs.
Mixed with the spike are the heads of Quaking Grass, Briza media, which are 3-4mm and egg- or heart-shaped with distinct brown and white alternate "stripes" curving horizontally.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Pyramidal Orchid, Anacamptis pyramadalis Quaking Grass, Briza media #WildFlowerHour

A mostly globe-shaped pink flower spike about 40mm. Each individual flower has a lower lip consisting of three lobes, and there are dozens spiralling round the spike.
The background is tall grasses out of focus. At top left the faded remains of a Horseshoe Clover, and a couple of the heads of Quaking Grass are adjacent to the orchid head.

An elliptically shaped pink flower spike about 60mm. Each individual flower has a lower lip consisting of three lobes. There are dozens spiralling round the spike.
The background is tall grasses out of focus amongst which some yellow flowers are visible.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Bastard Toadflax, Thesium humifusum. This site is usually good for BT, but I have never seen it in such profusion as when I visited on Thursday. #WildFlowerHour

Long (5cm) prostrate slender stems bearing flowers on alternate pedicels. In the image there are a mix of open flowers and flower buds.
Each open flower is tiny (3-4mm), with five white triangular pointed petals.
In the background are grasses & vegetation from other wildflowers, but no flowers.
Viewed from above when walking by, they can look like stars scattered on the ground.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Bee Orchid, Ophrys apifera Found dozens of these today at a spot which used to be almost exclusively Twyblades/Common Spots/Fragrants. Or maybe I wasn't looking properly before? Many fewer of those other species here, though, both this years and over the past few years. #WildFlowerHour

A colourful flower about 3cm across borne on the side of a green stem.
The inflorescence consists of a dark brown-purple thumb-shaped lower lobe with yellow u-shaped markings, making it look rather like a bumble-bee.
Behind and above the base lobe emerge pink pointed sepals, two horizontal (one each side of the main lobe) and one standing straight up.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Squinancywort, Asperula cynanchica the best of all flower names. #WildFlowerHour

A group of tiny pink four-petalled flowers nestled in dark green grass and clover leaves.
Each is only about 4-5mm across. The petals are curved backwards and are striped along their length in alternate deep and pale pink.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

And another, also created June 15th

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This one was created today, but I think is almost certainly part of the same cluster. Obviously every one of these accounts have posts that can be reported for hate speech, particularly racist hate speech.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

So, here's a cluster of Fascists, who all follow restorefriendsil . bsky . social They were all created on the 15th of June between 09:21 and 22:05. My *guess* would be they are all run by the same entity, and might be of interest to @aaron.bsky.team as inauthentic actors.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

the ruling class (Oxford/diplomatic service/consultancy/LibDem candidate pipeline).

bluesky post by @snellarthur.bsky.social

"I keep hearing that "only" 25% of Aussie kids have stayed off social media since the ban, but if we reduced a quarter of child social media use at the stroke of a pen that would be good, wouldn't it? "

The author has limited replies to his post. Unsurprisingly, as this is a shit take and deserves contempt.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Common (Smooth) Sow-thistle Sonchus oleraceus, I think #WildFlowerHour

Three golden yellow dandelion-ish flowers with a circle of much paler, nearly white petals around the circumference, with dark green spiny leaves and a cluster of flower flask-shaped buds.

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