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clochanard.bsky.social @clochanard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
... Graffiti on an old brick external wall in Kentish Town train station - "I farted in yoga" - made me smile just now 😃 (never ever have I ...) ... #spéirghorm
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On CNN's Amanpour Astra answered the question that’s on lots of people’s minds this week: How should we understand all of the Silicon Valley executives and engineers warning that AI might destroy humanity? Her advice: watch what they do more than what they say. @astra.bsky.social
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
13 September 1970. Nijinsky won the St Leger at Doncaster to complete his achievement of winning English flat racing’s Triple Crown of the 2,000 Guineas, Derby and St Leger for the 1st time since 1935. The feat has not been repeated by a colt since in English flat racing.
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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 25/08/2026
The time Dolly Parton got stuck into a session in a pub in Kerry
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Dolly Parton in Paídi Ó Sé's Pub
YouTube video by paidiosekerry
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026
If you’re not potty trained by now you don’t get to be in the pool with the rest of us and we’re not gonna have a civilized debate about it while the water fills up with your filth.
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clochanard.bsky.social @clochanard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
... Solar eclipse via my son's solarbay® panoramic roof¹ RENAULT SCENIC while my baby granddaughter had a nap in her pushchair ...
Eclipse of the sun viewed through a solar bay car sunroof
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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Starts at 28’. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Saturday Live - Ralf Little, Mark Foster, Katriona O'Sullivan and the Inheritance Tracks of Clare Grogan - BBC Sounds
Adrian Chiles brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people.
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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The feature that I'm most excited to see is the "on this day" which gives 24-hour access to issues published on today's date. I think it said we get 150 free articles? Search every morning, using a place name for a #OnePlaceStudy, and voila, pretty soon I'll be up to my ears in articles.
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Frank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
St Patrick’s says Mayo by 3
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/07/2026
Mayo have ended a wait of 75 years to become All-Ireland football champions, beating Kerry 1-20 to 1-17 at Croke Park www.rte.ie/sport/footba...
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All-Ireland SFC final: Kerry v Mayo updates
Follow how the 2026 final unfolds as Kerry, chasing a 40th title, take on a Mayo side who again will seek to end the county's long drought for Sam Maguire.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
WHAT A WIN!!!!!!! Bloody magnificent!! — with only ten men, in the heat, in the altitude, in the intense stadium of home fans… and they bloody did it!
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ten years ago today Britain voted by a narrow majority (51.9%) to leave the EU Most Brits living in other EU countries couldn’t vote. Commonwealth citizens in UK could The Leave campaign featured a pack of lies and promises that did not materialise Today, a growing majority want to rejoin the EU
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our country needs a bold change of direction. Starmer lost the confidence of the country because of his abject failure to challenge the power and wealth of an establishment which has taken for themselves while leaving the vast majority in a cost of living crisis. (1/5)
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: "I will resign as Leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to his Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision." Britain is about to have its seventh PM in a decade.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
From a leading British lawyer, for Zeteo UK today: zeteonews.co.uk/p/filton-4-p...
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Brexit has cost Britain up to £30bn every year, says David Miliband. Reversing it is clearly in the national interest. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Brexit ‘sabotage’ has cost Britain up to £30bn every year, says David Miliband
Exclusive: ‘We are suffering a punishing Brexit tax every day’ says former foreign secretary in withering assessment of decision to leave the bloc
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Spain really is building the *best* social housing in the world right now. And here’s a great example. 24 apartments in Ibiza by 08014 Architects. A thread 🧵
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 01/06/2026
The EU is making it easier than ever to ditch the car keys and hop on your bike. The upcoming World Bicycle Day on Wednesday is the perfect occasion to do so. With our European Declaration on Cycling, we are committed to boosting this experience for you:
A light blue bicycle with various annotations highlighting the benefits of cycling. The annotations include: ’Low running cost, easy repairs’ near the handlebar, ‘Quiet rides, happy pedestrians’ along the front wheel, ‘Boosts endurance, maintains your health’ near the pedal area, ‘Pure human power, limitless potential’ along the rear wheel, and ‘Zero emissions, 100% clean air’. There is a green cityscape contour in the background and a European Union logo in the bottom right corner.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
JUST RELEASED: 14 million battery-electric cars sold globally in 2025 says @iea.org. China: 8.2m. Europe: 2.9m (28% of new cars). Norway: 97%. US flat at 1.2m. In 2015 the world sold 330,000 BEVs. Ten years later, 14 million. Long-read coming on Bright Spots 👇 janrosenow.substack.com
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/05/2026
Congratulations to Arsenal - the first London club to win the league in almost a decade and 22 years in the making 👏🏽
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Arsenal win first Premier League title in 22 years after Man City draw
Man City draw at Bournemouth to end Gunners’ long title drought
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area
Nearly a decade since Scotland established the South Arran Marine Protected Area and banned bottom trawling across much of it, life on the seafloor has thrived, a new study has found. Scientists surve...
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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Had a delightful chat with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social on Radio 4, all about how we mark, discuss and understand time. On the iplayer now.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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An Taisce @antaisce.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
World Migratory Bird Day is a great reminder of being mindful of ground-nesting birds: keep dogs on lead, respect signage & report fires. Already this season, multiple fires wiped out habitat in protected environments, like national parks, with devastating consequences. #WMBD2026 #citizenscience
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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 05/05/2026
A barrister is being tried for simply accurately stating the law to a jury in a closing speech, possibly for the first time ever. It is chilling how quickly we are resorting to authoritarian measures, particularly in the context of the genocide in Palestine. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Barrister in Palestine Action trial facing contempt of court proceedings
Rajiv Menon KC accused of defying judge’s orders to not inform jury of right to acquit on basis of conscience
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 29/04/2026
A centuries-old element of Britain's parliament has come to an end as hereditary peers took their seats in the House of Lords for the final time.
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Last hereditary peers exit House of Lords for last time
A centuries-old element of Britain's parliament has come to an end as hereditary peers took their seats in the House of Lords for the final time.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/@did:plc:cod...
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Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Every year, large areas of gorse in Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks are deliberately burnt. It’s an appalling act of vandalism, killing wildlife, preventing regeneration of crucial habitats, rel...
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Amazing qualities of light, view and space… as a reminder, this is *social housing*
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026
When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
the special relativity (SR) effect depends on the velocity of the satellite relative to the speed of light, while the general relativity (GR) effect depends on the height of the satellite relative to Earth. Since both effects are small, we can keep only first-order terms:
two equations, one (top, special relativity) which involves the ratio of v^2/c^2 and one (bottom, general relativity) that involves the ratio of r_E to R_GPS
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Remove Palantir from our NHS. Get Palantir out of our country. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Palantir boss rebuts Polanskis wild NHS claims
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible
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The Iran war disrupts global helium supply and artificial intelligence chipmakers
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Hey Bluesky! 👋🦋 We’ve been reading your replies about our paywall, and we’re listening. We want to share why it’s there—and an easy, low-cost way to read more. TL;DR: You can unlock every Scientific American article for 90 days for just $1 spklr.io/6003EyRIR More context below 🧵 1/6
Text reads "Escape the Headlines. Explore the Universe." Displayed above images of a Scientific American magazine and the publication's app and website, accompanied by a sticker reading "$1 for 90 Days--Subscribe Today"
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clochanard.bsky.social @clochanard.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
... "We could take a lead from France’s grid operator. It has introduced an app called Ecowatt which sends text messages to encourage consumers to lower their electricity demand at times when the grid is forecast to come under strain. It works by showing a colour signal with hourly intervals " ...
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Cllr Hazel Chu @hazelchu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Data centres uses 32% of Ireland's total electricity supply but pay almost less than half of the residential rate. So we're effectively subsidizing tech giants during a cost of living & energy crisis. Meanwhile this Govt continues to cheerlead their expansion & continue to fail in their obligations.
_"The Government’s consistent cheerleading for data centre expansion has reached a point of reckless disconnect from the economic reality of Irish citizens... Irish families are paying nearly double the electricity rates of these industrial facilities, effectively subsidizing the massive energy consumption of global tech giants while struggling with a punishing cost-of-living crisis."

https://greenparty.ie/news/uncritical-expansion-data-centres-will-fuel-social-inequality-and-energy-crisis-cllr-hazel-chu
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Ray Cunningham @ray-cunningham.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
There was a moratorium on new data centre permissions while the Greens were in government www.energyconnects.com/news/utiliti...
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Ireland Ends Moratorium on New Power Links to Data Centers
Ireland has lifted a de facto ban on connecting new data centers to the electricity grid around Dublin — a move that gives the industry long-awaited clarity on
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman shares a video of ‘Earthset’ that was taken with his iPhone “This is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye…” Wiseman said. This has to be the greatest iPhone video of all time.
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So much more beautiful and sustainable than fully glazed apartment buildings! In particular, the strong vertical forms look elegant and block low-angled sun Brick apartments in Tehran, Iran, designed by Mehrad Alimohammadi
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
“Not only is Reform taking large amounts of money from an industry with a big interest in changing UK Govt policy, but that industry is also one with major links to organised crime, terrorism and foreign dictatorships.” The corrupt stink of Reform is overwhelming. open.substack.com/pub/adambien...
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The ‘Money Launderers Dream’: Who Is Really Bankrolling Nigel Farage?
Why are crypto billionaires, tax-avoiding media organisations and the employees of foreign oligarchs really putting their money into Reform UK?
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Illegal UK weapons shipment intercepted in Belgian airport bound for Israel
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Illegal UK weapons shipment intercepted in Belgian airport bound for Israel
A disguised cargo of weapons and military spare parts en route from the UK to Israel has been seized at Liège airport in Belgium
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clochanard.bsky.social @clochanard.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
... "That should concern everyone. We can’t allow powerful men to use the law to shut down legitimate reporting or silence abused women and survivors who tell their stories." ...
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Where brick forms walls, and even ceilings! Apartments in Qom, Iran. Designed by Reza Jefari
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
More than 65 leading UK scientists have warned against new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, urging the government instead to prioritise renewable energy as a more cost-effective response to the energy crisis. www.ft.com/content/5059...
ft.com
Leading UK climate scientists warn against new North Sea drilling
Intervention comes as political pressure rises for British government response to energy crisis caused by Iran war
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Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Celtic forest magic
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
So Israel commits war crime after war crime… Invades Targets civilians/aid workers Snipers children Land grabs Celebrates with champagne at hanging Palestinians …and the international community can’t even muster the most flaccid of responses. You have failed us all.
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
One of the simplest ways of making effective apartment plans. 3 apartments per core. A small studio in front (yellow) and larger dual aspect homes each side (red). Competition design by Analogue Architecture
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Scientists achieve ‘impossible’ #solar efficiency in #renewables breakthrough. New material “spin-flip” emitter harvests energy that is typically lost as heat – opening up new possibilities for ultra-efficient solar panels. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
independent.co.uk
Scientists achieve ‘impossible’ solar efficiency in renewables breakthrough
‘Spin-flip’ technique promises to shatter efficiency limits
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