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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Harvest Moon 🌕 September’s Full Moon will rise tonight around 18:44 in the very East of UK skies. It’s our first full moon after the autumn equinox, giving September’s full moon the title of Harvest Moon this year. Sometimes, our harvest moon can fall in October instead 🎃

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The equinox befalls us all tomorrow, and all the creatures of darkness rejoice, for it is our time to shine ✨ Please come see me in Hereford tomorrow if you’re free, I don’t want to be a billy no mates 🩷

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

HEREFORDSHIRE Come see me at the Herefordshire Book Social and nerd out with me about all things darkness and wildlife 🌌 The perfect kick start to your autumn! 🍂

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

HEREFORDSHIRE Come see me at the Herefordshire Book Social and nerd out with me about all things darkness and wildlife 🌌 The perfect kick start to your autumn! 🍂

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

West coast UK people! It’s Manx shearwater fledgling season. Dim those lights or better yet, turn them off, to help our fledglings get the best start on their first voyage at sea 🌊 Coastal light pollution is causing them to become disorientated and strand in land. Many can’t be saved and die.

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Today marks the first day of meteorological autumn, and the birds know it… I was lucky enough to see this ‘mega roost’, tens of thousands of swallows all feeding together ahead of their long journey across continents and ocean to Africa. Incredible sight.

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

True darkness returns! Our first night with true darkness has taken place, and now we take a steady stroll towards the equinox on September 23rd 🌌 Take a peek outside and you may just catch the glitterball that is Arcturus, which is currently dazzling in the Western sky ✨

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Not Dolly 😭 She was truly the best of us. Heart and hair bigger than Tennessee and just the most glorious woman to have ever graced gods earth. I will always love you, and I will always try to be a little more Dolly 🩷

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Compared to this month in 2025, I receive £183 more income a month (Yay!) However, bills have increased by £334.02 a month. This is all just mortgage, insurances, council tax, water etc. No subscriptions, no frills. Does not include food and diesel. No wonder everyone feels skint. We are!

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Not sure if anyone speaks bee, but what could this red tailed bumble bee be trying to say? Today a neighbour complained that a shrub in my garden was bringing too many insects in. That’s the point of the shrub, I replied, as I had this little one clinging to the sleeve of my jumper 🐝

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

‘Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy’ Starmer was an uncritical booster of AI. I hope Burnham takes a different approach www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy

Scottish government to consider SNP national council motion for moratorium on all new datacentres

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“Council calls off climate emergency” is a remarkable headline. A bit like voting to declare the Earth flat. Whether politicians acknowledge a problem and whether that problem continues to exist are, unfortunately, two entirely different things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Suffolk Reform council plans to call off climate emergency

Suffolk County Council plans to audit all its environmental projects.

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

So proud to be flying the flag for darkness on the @endsreport.com Power List 2026! Privileged to have made the list of top 100 most impactful environmental professionals, there are some amazing people doing incredible things on that list, and all of us fighting the good fight for nature ✨

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Goodness me. Never thought I’d see the day he admitted this! Credit where credit is due. It’s important to allow people to recognise when they are wrong and change their minds.

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Did you know that we are now without true nighttime in the UK? From now until late August/early September (depending where you are) we remain in perpetual twilight

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

FITBIT USERS So, the switch from the old app to ‘Google health’ has totally ruined Fitbit for me. The app is unusable. I don’t want Google having my health records. I don’t want an ’AI coach’. Plus it’s just ugly. Anyone recommendations for a different fitness watch?

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

When ‘Please mind the gap’ should really be, ‘please mind the abyss’ 🚆 The old wooden steps are so rickety now too 🤣

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Mike Parker @mikeparker.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This Thursday evening in Aberystwyth, I’ll be talking with the writer sisters Francesca Rhydderch and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch about their brilliant new books. They truly are. Event organised by Waterstones, but taking place in the town library. Dewch yn llu! www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...

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In Conversation with Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and Francesca Rhydderch | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about In Conversation with Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and Francesca Rhydderch today.

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

No Mow May Day 5 offerings: Very pretty Common Cornsalad. No idea where that’s come from. Germander Speedwell, always a favourite with me! So delicate and colourful. Wild strawberry and some mint has also arrived. Lovely!

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Over the moon to be speaking this year at the du Maurier Fowey Literary Festival, about my book 'Dancing with Bees' Do please come if you can... or pass details to anyone visiting, or living in Cornwall who might be interested Fri 8th May at 11am Tickets 👇 www.foweyfestival.com/event/brigit...

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Brigit Strawbridge Howard – Dancing with Bees - The du Maurier Fowey Literary Festival

Enchanting, insightful and full of quiet magic, this event is perfect for nature lovers, gardeners, environmentalists and anyone ready to fall under the spell of bees.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

'Starry Starry night' hand embroidered artwork by Vicki Foster, contemporary textile artist #WomensArt

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape with hills under a starry night sky

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

UK households made up of straight couples; have you also had electoral ‘literature’ sent to your address from Reform, addressed only to the male in the house? All other literature from other parties has been addressed to both of us.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Walking through the pitch black dunes in gales and I get the absolute life scared out of me by a Typhoon jet. Was really weird seeing its glowing engines in the dark night. Pretty unusual activity, anyone else been buzzed by them this evening?

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Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 15/04/2026

It's always a good idea to keep dogs on a lead at this time of year for the safety of livestock and our ground nesting birds.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 14/04/2026

A Reform UK lead candidate is trying to bully NationCymru and a councillor who left Reform after raising concerns about her candidacy by issuing threats of legal action ✍️Martin Shipton

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Reform UK lead candidate threatens Nation.Cymru and former party colleague

Martin Shipton A Reform UK lead candidate is trying to bully Nation.Cymru and a councillor who left Reform after raising concerns about her candidacy by issuing threats of legal action. Both Nation.Cy...

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This is how you tackle the ‘falling birth rate’. You support families and importantly, you support women into work. Many women my age cannot afford a family due to childcare costs and I refuse to quit work to have a child that I would then have to raise whilst struggling @plaidcymru.bsky.social

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Happy International Dark Sky Week! 🌌 When was the last time you remember standing under a truly dark sky? Have you ever? The Milky Way has been lost to over a third of humanity. We’ve scrubbed it from the skies with light pollution. Follow @darkskyintl.bsky.social to find out how you can help 🌌

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Can’t believe we live in the age of billionaires and not one of them has become Batman yet

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

No judgement from me, but the guy in front of me at the supermarket spent £161.80 on Guinness, Fray Bentos pies and a singular avocado. I need to know where the avocado comes into the equation.

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Genuine question: I use my time driving to sing. A lot. Like none stop. I never see anyone else belting songs out when they pass me. Is it not normal to sing when driving!?

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

My job as a Dark Skies Officer summed up…

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

#FindsFriday The stunning head of the Capel Garmon firedog, dug up from a peat bog in north Wales in 1852 A masterpiece of Late Iron Age forging & smithing, with bull's horns & plaited equine mane representing a composite animal More here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/800314 📷 My own, NMW St Fagans

A rusted iron head of a fire dog in a museum

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Tomorrows sees the start of Welsh Dark Sky Week 🌌 Yes - I have booked the weather… Check out your local National Park or National Landscape website/social media for events near you ✨

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Absolutely love these little bore waves that keep appearing on an otherwise totally calm estuary. Is there anyone more marine adept than I who can explain the physics?

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Cannot describe how much I wish there was a ‘bike bus’ in this country and how much joy it would bring me to see that 🚴‍♀️ If you don’t know what I’m talking about, google ‘bike bus Portland’

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Did I hear that right? Jeremy Kyle, disgraced talk show host, has been training Reform candidates in Wales? What kind of fever dream is this

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Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

New poll finds Labour’s anti-nature rhetoric is costing voter trust. After Keir Starmer called environmental protections misguided, 19% of 2024 Labour voters are less likely to vote Labour again. Attacking wildlife protections is not a winning strategy. www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/anti-na...

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Anti-nature rhetoric damaging voter confidence in Labour, new poll finds | The Wildlife Trusts

19% less likely to vote Labour because Starmer threatens to remove nature rules

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Outdoor oracles, recommendations please. I need wellie boots. Suitable for bog trotting, dog walking and strong enough to deal with every day beach wear and river wading. Can’t be too heavy, due to injuries. Muck boots let me down after 3 months. Help me please! 👢

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🚨 AURORA 🚨 She is still absolutely bouncing away up there! If you have clear skies get away from lights and look up. Sadly, torrential downpours with me so not a chance! Already sightings in York, Grimsby, Essex, Suffolk, Northumberland and Ayrshire!

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Ireland, if you haven’t looked outside this evening . . . #SpéirGhorm #SpeirGorm

Night sky with curving, horizontal streaks of green aurora above hedges, trees and a telephone post.

Night sky with curving, vertical curtains of red and green aurora.

Night sky with curving, horizontal streaks of red and green aurora above a row of trees.

Night sky with near vertical curtains of red against horizontal streaks of green aurora.

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Only in Wales could I be simultaneously be getting rained on and see the aurora. God I love this country.

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Colin Macqueen @ccrgmac.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Gloucestershire

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Sarah @sarahsramblings.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Beautiful Aurora skies in Suffolk

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🚨 AURORA LOCATIONS 🚨 Thanks to those of you letting me know where you can see Aurora, so far Aurora visible at: Lossiemouth Alnwick Scarborough Moel Famau Conwy Llanfairfechan Penmon Devon Hayle, Cornwall

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🚨 AURORA UPDATE 🚨 If you can get to clear skies by 2200 ish, the Aurora looks like she’s going to erupt! All signs point to a high chance of powerful aurora sometime after 2200! Get yourselves out there and take care Aurora seekers 🌌

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🚨 AURORA ACTIVE 🚨 Clear skies? Get out and look north! Aurora is very active and is starting to be seen across the UK where weather allows. Good luck!

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Dani Dark Skies ✨ @danidarkskies.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Such a gorgeously clear and still night out there tonight! Even my phone could pick up the Orion Nebula - the big smudge you can see in the second photo!

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Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

CASTING CALL: VOICE OF A NEW GENERATION 🎥 🌟 We’re looking for one person to star in a powerful new short film for Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.

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