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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We’ve been bowled over by the standard for this year's Botanical Photographer of the Year. It's now time for public shortlisting. Use the links below to view the entries into this year's competition and vote for all those you think are particularly impressive. Shortlisting will run until 31 Oct.

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Botanical Photographer of the Year

The BSBI is for everyone who cares about the wild plants of Britain and Ireland.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is a wild corridor (council owned) at the bottom of my garden. Huge tall trees. It's amazing! All the birds, insects, & various critters that visit the garden is joyful. Trees/branches have come down in storms, causing damage, which was stressful - but I'd still hate to see them cut back!

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

More and more, for me the point of art in any form is: how do we stay human?

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A wee aside from the Ongoing Global Bin-fire to say how very much I am enjoying the new Phoebe Bridgers album. Anyone else liking it? #Music #PheobeBridgers #MusicChat

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morag @mordant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm in a Facebook group that provides advice and help on energy bills in the UK. From time to time I'll click through to the comments on a post from someone who's struggling to pay what they owe, or who has gotten into debt, and friends... We are not ready for what's coming. 1/5

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do you want to take climate action in your day-to-day life? This fall, Project Drawdown is piloting a new six-week virtual program designed to help people discover their most impactful climate actions. Learn more and apply by Thursday, October 8: bit.ly/drawdowntraining

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oh jeez @nimakokaaz.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"this shit ruled when I didn't know the artist was a dick, but now it's all I can think about when in see it" is perfectly valid, cos it is one of the times you actually get to make a personality out of something, which is to say, constant, principled, thoughtful evaluation of what you enjoy.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I managed to catch 'Afterlife', an exhibition by Katie Paterson whilst it was on in Edinburgh - it's a collection of 200-ish small amulets, created with materials from endangered landscapes and fragile ecosystems and formed into cultural/spiritual iconography. Sharing a few powerful pieces below. 🧵

The edge of one of the curved wooden tables from the Katie Paterson ‘Afterlife’ exhibit, displaying various small objects in little dips in the tabletop.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Move over, pumpkin spice: September belongs to the BOG HARVEST. While many flock to apple orchards, the world’s peatlands are hitting their peak. Far from muddy swamps; bogs are the secret agricultural powerhouses you didn't know you needed. Join me in protecting these undervalued landscapes! 🧵 1/

Photograph of ripening cloudberries on a bog surface.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Unfortunately, I wasn't even joking... #TheBeatles #YellowSubmarine

Bayeux Tapestry comparison only using designs/characters from The Beatles film Yellow Submarine

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In today's "I Learned A Thing Today", I am getting to learn all about the concept of 'Phoenixing', and what that means for customer warranty. 🫩

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 08/09/2026

Unfortunately about two dozen people I know are about to go flat dead broke

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

URGENT: Staffin Community Hall, on Skye, is at risk of closure if they cannot find new Board Directors asap. This is a significant resource in a remote community, which provides local jobs & supports local ND young people. For further info, contact Jo-Anne Ford at www.slcvo.org.uk

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Effective HIV treatment felt like a dream in the 1980s and 90s, as our friends were dying around us. But 22% of those who live with HIV are still not on treatment - a number that may be increasing as the US and other nations cut their AIDS funding, with organisations serving LGBTQ first to be cut.

On stage at Trafalgar Square, following an anti-HIV stigma rally which I helped to organise.
I’m wearing a tshirt which says ‘Respect my HIV’.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Riiiight.... So Depp gets to play the character who wasn't actually the villain he was portrayed as by the media - sorry I mean Victorian society! It was all quite complicated aKsHuLlY, and the other characters weren't innocent At All. Uh huh. Right. 🫩

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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#CoverReveal alert! Behold the cover art for our new anthology Haverin, designed by our own Jenni Coutts. Look carefully and you'll spot some sneaky clues to the tales inside. Celebrating 40 years of the GSFWC, #Haverin is out October 2026 from Taverna Press. #GSFWC40 @jennicoutts.bsky.social(1/2)

The cover of Haverin, the GSFWC anthology, which features a red-haired girl reading while surrounded by books and a cat in a green space. Text reads: Featuring: Neil Williamson, E.M. Faulds, Christopher Caldwell, Eliza Chan and many more. Haverin, Edited by Brian M. Milton, Peter Morrison and Heather Valentine.

The back of the cover of Haverin, continuing the green landscape dotted with various creatures, including a robot head, lion, and a pie. Text reads: Haverin, Scots, Verb: Talking in a foolish or trivial manner, speaking nonsense. Glaswegians enjoy a bit of haverin and few enjoy it more than the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle have for the last forty years, following many hard critique sessions with a bit of a haver in the pub. This anthology is a celebration of those forty years, with more than forty stories of Fantasy, Science and the Odd from members past and present. Join us on this fantastical journey, turning havers into stories and revelling in the full range of writing that has come out of the Circle since 1986.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

At risk of jinxing myself, I will finally get to see @thisisthekit.bsky.social live this evening, after multiple thwarted attempts over the years (largely due to illness), and I am very excited. Such an amazing band and wholly responsible for my interest in learning the banjo. 💜

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Our minds and hearts are contested territory. We win the contest via millions of tiny daily acts. Sketches on napkins. Singing off key. Dinner table conversation. Knowing the phase of the moon, or where the watershed drains to or where our ancestors came from and how they prayed.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If human creativity weren't a threat to capital then capital wouldn't be threatening human creativity. If mutual care and cooperation weren't a threat to systems of domination, then systems of domination wouldn't be trying to undermine our relationships with each other.

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Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🚨 Calling on the history/museum/LARP nerds of Bsky! I'm looking for someone who does lorica squamata repair! Bonus if they're in the North West, but I will courier it elsewhere in the UK if necessary.

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Delighted to have a chapter in The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Death, edited by Sarah Richardson, Sarah Wagner, and Ruth Toulson, from @universitypress.cambridge.org My chapter is on animals' grief, and I can't wait to dive into my colleagues'. #anthropology #deathstudies #Booksky

The book cover features a number of death-evocative images, including people in postures of death or grief, and symbols of death ranging from skull to crosses.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I was at a bookbinding conference at w'end, & it's a subtly different vibe to academic conferences. Often folk come to the craft later in life, so there's less assumption of age = experience. & it's a heritage craft that everyone wants to continue, so folk are delighted to see newcomers. 💜

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JD Roberts @jdroberts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One thing I think environmental historians need to shout about is that we see dramatic effects on the course of history arising through climatic shifts *which are tiny in comparison to those we are now beginning to experience*

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 06/08/2026

So many great points made in this article. Its essential reading & exactly the kind of thing I want to talk about in detail on a panel one day. Africans have always had complicated feelings around identity & who can do what with culture but when it comes to SFF inspiration, I believe in syncreticism

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 06/08/2026

It's been a while since I've done a people looking for work thread. If you're looking for work, put what you do and what you're looking for (full time, freelance etc) as a reply. Companies: get hiring people!

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm currently on 3 emails over the last 2 days, from different orgs/charities I've been involved with, notifying me of the Beacon CRM cyberattack.

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Looking for recommendations for celebratory zines to teach in my Intro to Creative Nonfiction class--can also be instructional but should have a "this thing/process is great!" quality. I'll purchase my students 20 copies of the ones I choose. @prisonculture.bsky.social? @marc-fischer.bsky.social?

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Legitimately one of the main reasons I like staying in hotels, is having less choice about what to watch on TV (I don't take/use my streaming services). A terrible 90s film I've seen 5 times already? Fabulous! A confusing sitcom with subtitles? Bring it on!

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have a few, but one is that I used to be a member of The Magic Circle Context: I worked as a demonstrator in a family-run magic shop, which sold magic tricks across the range from childrens magic tricks up to stage magic. (The latter was only available to professional stage magicians).

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If you have a public profile on Instagram, you might want to tweak your settings AGAIN, to opt out of more AI nonsense. 🙄

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

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Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books

The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere

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Dan @socialistlefty.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Countbinface on GMB today when asked if he had been to Clacton: "I have not been to Clacton, based on the activities of the incumbent, I believed that was the correct process" #CountBinFace #Farage #UKpolitics

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I would *love* to donate platelets but alas - I have naturally low iron levels (I'm totes healthy, just weird), so my regular blood donation attempts are hit n'miss depending on whether my iron has dipped slightly below their cut-off. In 27yrs of regular attempts, I've achieved 15 donations. 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Going to spend my coffee break listing the funniest possible options for who is under the bin. Sayle, Toksvig, and the singer from Bob Vylan are the current frontrunners.

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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The U.S.A.'s 250th birthday brings conflicting feelings. While I mourn & detest so much of what we have become, my love for the amazing people in this land keeps me strong So today I will share a few posts celebrating the great folks in some of my U.S. communities Starting with www.nestcafeqc.org

Chalkboard explaining how the system at Next works. Basically, the suggested donation is $10 for a full meal. Pay more if you can, Pay a little if you have a little, pay nothing if you can't, but you can volunteer your time.

Chalk board menu for Mongolian Beef or Tofu, Edamame Salad or Stir-fry veggies, and a desert choice of chocolate chip cookie or fruit crumble. Vegan and gluten-free options throughout.

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Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This weekend, celebrate Puffins at Scottish Seabird Centre's Puffin Fest! Puffin-themed fun, crafts, and games and boat trips @seabirdcentre.bsky.social! www.seabird.org/events/puffi...

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Puffin Fest

A packed weekend of family fun celebrating the Atlantic Puffin!

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There's an alt text version provided in the comments (& I've reposted it below this one), but sharing this version too as this is the author.

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Horrified, Lydia @lfillingham.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With alt text, for those of us with disabilities, and also those trying to read this on their phones: Please like this reply to make it come near the top, but don't follow me for it, that's not what I'm trying to achieve.

To all the readers out there:
My deep love for Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, the subjects of my 2014 biography Charity and Sylvia, has kept me silent, up to this point, about Tillie Walden's new graphic novel by the same title. Charity and Sylvia's story has been so deeply meaningful to so many people-their story has, without exaggeration, saved lives-that I've tried to be happy that Walden's book is making their story more widely known, even it she chose to take my title and my cover design as well as my narrative and my research with only a single sentence of acknowledgement at the end of her book in her notes section. Walden's illustrations and storytelling are wonderful, as I told her when she reached out to me during the writing process. It would take nothing away from her hard work to be honest about how it is built on my hard work. But in Walden's publicity tour, she has repeatedly made the claim to have based her book on her extensive research in the archive without acknowledging that her book is, in fact, based on my book. This false representation demands response not only for my sake, but for the sake of all the hard-working historians out there whose work has similarly been taken without credit. No, Walden has not "uncovered a chapter of queer history" in the archives, as her media interviews have claimed. She has adapted my book without credit or compensation, and claimed my research for her own. I don't doubt that Walden spent time looking at letters at the Henry Sheldon Museum, but the story that Walden tells is not to be found there. It is a story that I pieced together from years of visits to at least twenty different archives and locations across the United States, not only in Vermont but in Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and Washington State, as well. This is not just a question of facts but of story: the story of how Charity and Sylvia built a life together based in tailoring, struggled with their faith, and maintained relationships with t…

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A few thoughts on the emerging future that is already here even as more folks, closer to the center of the current dominant system begin to deepen in alarm. As the end of this road becomes ever more looming.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There are a bunch of things I want/need to do with my day off today, but am struggling to muster enough enthusiasm or energy in this hot weather. So I'm writing some of it off and sitting outside (in the shade) with a book.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

this is WILDLY bad folks, this is political prisoner bad, this is can't protest without going to jail for the rest of your life bad

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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Analytically, this is why it's important to consistently talk about the political media class, to treat them as a single ecosystem of shared & mutually reinforcing interests, rather than as members of different parties & discreet professions that also overlap or interact

Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social

Keir Starmer was hanging out with the Murdochs last night, according to Politico

SPOTTED ... at News Corp Chairman Lachlan Murdoch's summer party at Spencer House Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer ... Torv Leader Kem Badenoch and her husband Hamish Badenoch ... former Health Secretary Wes Streeting ... ex-No. 10 chief of staff Morgan McSweeney ... Reform Treasury spokesperson Robert Jenrick .. former Secret Intelligence Service Chief Richard Moore ... former Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg . YouTuber Piers Morgan ... anc DMG Media editor-in-chief Paul Dacre ALT

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

By chance I spotted a couple of posts in my feed this week about the AI data centres being proposed in Scotland, and realised that I hadn't known about my local protest group. So I'm sharing this website, which shows locations and details for local campaigns. aprs.scot/data-centres...

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APRS Data Centres Campaign - Action to Protect Rural Scotland

Data centres are the biggest threat to Scotland's net zero target and to our countryside. Join our campaign!

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Not enough folk in the comments have found themselves in the 'troublemakers' category of activism, or they'd know the difference between 'protecting' and 'kettling'.

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Coruscate Counselling @coruscate.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"No Mow May is great" says a neighbour, right before they chainsaw down a small tree/large shrub that small birds often hang out in during Spring. 😑

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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The worst reaction to any exhibition is apathy and we’ve certainly avoided that.

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The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

You are a survivor of many great dyings. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species can vanish forever? This Thursday (6 pm), join us for a talk on the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Book here: bit.ly/49HM5bM

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