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Elizabeth Acheson

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Maven and a firm believer in reasoned discussion as the solution to all things (unless the other side is just wrong!).

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Jen Mac @jen-m-a-c.bsky.social · 15h
😊 I made a game about British birdsong and time travel. The newest level is set in #Ely, starting about 7000 years ago... 🐦‍⬛ Listen to birds, guess who's singing, and collect the dawn chorus. 🦻It's built for accessibility and free to play bird-times.lovable.app #IndieDev #GameDev #Birdsong
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Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social · 18h
Exciting opportunity in Norfolk for stained glass conservator
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You should go and see Rachel. She's very good, but also, the balls it takes to do a post like this - in a climate where comedians are encouraged to post nothing but wins, forever - merits your attendance on its own.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Manchester City decision shows the costs of an aggressive litigation strategy How the club’s lack of cooperation and putting forward dishonest evidence have put the club at a disadvantage By me, now posted at LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pulse/manche...
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The Manchester City decision shows the costs of an aggressive litigation strategy
How the club’s lack of cooperation and putting forward dishonest evidence have put the club at a disadvantage * This is a post is on the decision by an independent commission on Manchester City. In pa...
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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A pack of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Thunnus thynnus hunting Garfish Belone belone south Devon coast this evening www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utjp...
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Thunnus thynnus hunting Garfish Belone belone South Devon 3 October 2026
YouTube video by John Walters
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📢 Oxford Greenways launch 📢 We launched the Greenways project today! Masterplan of connecting safe cycle routes. It was just great to be standing on a stage with City, County, and Uni ALL behind the project, and Councillors from 3 different parties speaking in support. Also I got a mug! 😍☕ (1/4)
Leaders from City, County & Uni all standing up on the stage supporting Greenways. & me :). The MUG!! I just love it.
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Join us on Friday for @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org's Circle the City ride, as we demand infrastructure that will protect cyclists from drivers, connect our car-dominated streets to global politics, and have fun by reclaiming road space and looking out for each other while riding as a group!
Circle the City poster.
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Go Jauntly: walks & nature trails @gojauntly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The trees are turning... autumn is on its way, and this is the perfect time to detour onto those greener routes and go hunting for conkers! Let's go - download the Go Jauntly app, and why not join one of our challenges? www.gojauntly.com/features/walking-…
family time - sometimes it's easier to talk to your family when you're walking together :)
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Nick Hall @penwys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've long thought LLMs are like the pool of Narcissus. Not entirely, but it seems their deepest, most essential, function. The arrogance that is implied, let alone the loss of serendipity, of solidarity, in 'personal music' is striking when you step back. 'I know everything already'.
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Melissa DuVant @melissaduvant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
so much of the AI techboro stuff is *deeply* solipsistic and highly creepy - "the entire world must be made for me, and anything not specifically for me is bad and wrong"
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Shropshire and Beyond @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yet another morning when my alarm went off at 4.40am. I made my way to Ludlow yesterday and this was the view from Whitcliffe Common at sunrise, with a flight of geese above the castle. On the horizon is Brown Clee and its summit of Abdon Burf, veiled in mist. #shropshire
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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve walked 3.84 miles today, which is good practice for next month*, but also I’m exhausted. 😬 *I’ve pledged to walk 100 miles during October for Ovarian Cancer Action, which is 3.22 miles a day on average. This might not seem much but I’m on drugs and stuff. www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
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My Walk 100 Miles in October Challenge
Help Jane Hill raise money to support Ovarian Cancer Action
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
every once in awhile you remember how load-bearing the beard is
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/09/2026
I resent that I’m having to pay for my Covid jab this year (despite the hospital just calling me to book the flu one because I’m medically vulnerable) BUT this is neat and hopefully will make it suck less! If you are also getting yours soon.
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Last week I walked a remarkable 100-mile stretch of Offa’s Dyke. Now you can walk it with me – a five-minute escape into another world through photographs and field notes, from your armchair or on your commute. 🔗 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...
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Pence50 @pence.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please take part..thank you
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The Nag's Head Reading @nagsheadreading.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👀 New things are coming out of the Nags kitchen… We’re giving our food offering a little glow-up - proper pub grub, made here, made with love and designed to go beautifully with a pint. 🍺 Starting with these Spenwood cheesy home fries. 🍟
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 22/09/2026
This is a 2-page ad from 1962 ExxonMobil* boasting about how they supplied enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier EACH DAY. *then Humble Oil and Refining, the company is now known as ExxonMobil
2-page ad from 1962 ExxonMobil (then Humble Oil and Refining) boasting about how they supplied enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier each day. The ad text brags, "This giant glacier has remained unmelted for centuries. Yet the petroleum energy Humble supplies converted into energy could melt it at the rate of 80 tons per second!". The image shows glacier ice mountains rising up from the sea, against a blue sky with white clouds. 
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Over 100,000 people have now signed the @nationaltrust.org.uk’s petition calling for climate resilience to be made a national mission, and for the government to restore nature to defend against wildfires and floods. Add your name below: bsky.app/profile/nati...
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Shropshire and Beyond @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I do like an inviting path! This is the old drovers' road on Adstone Hill, near the western side of the Long Mynd. These green walkways date back to medieval times and were used to herd livestock across the hills and valleys. I was there for a couple of hours and all I #Shropshire
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Lady Lawyer Diaries @ladylawyerdiary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#LadyLawyerDiaries
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Shropshire and Beyond @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A spectacular sunrise over Ludlow, with St Laurence’s Church rising above the mist. Early starts aren’t always easy, but sometimes I pinch myself when they work out better than expected. This appears in a new edition of A. E. Housman’s A #Shropshire Lad featuring my pictures, on sale next Thursday 😊
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Saskiarghhhhh Daniel @saskiadanielceramics.com · 15/09/2026
If you're within reach of Acton in London I'll be at a lovely market in Churchfield Road, 1000-1630. Always very buzzy with lots of great sellers and food.
Image shows four carved vases on a pale wooden surface against a white wall. They are blue and white glazed on grey clay. I made them. Text reads:  Acton Makers Market, Churchfield Road W3, Saturday 19th Sept, 10:00-16:30
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
How wildlife gardening can help to save the planet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=szVg...
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Reclaiming Our Gardens: How 22 Million Patches of Land Can Save Biodiversity
YouTube video by Reasons For Hope Podcast | Edward Davey
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Autumnal embroidery: hawthorn berries, heather & new cow parsley leaf 🌿✂️🧵🪡
A design I’ve embroidered on my jumper inspired by sprigs of hawthorn berries and heather along with a fresh cow parsley leaf
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 13/09/2026
Hey do we know anyone in bury st Edmund’s??
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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is clever, and the characters just right. It can't have cost a lot to make (and I don't care how it was made). Fight fire with fire (and find yourselves a Mamdani to front it).
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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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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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Statement from Progressive Judaism leaders - Rabbi Josh Levy and Rabbi Charley Baginsky “Holding an Israeli government accountable for its actions does not cause antisemitism. Antisemites cause antisemitism. progressivejudaism.org.uk/rabbi-charle...
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Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy: No single response can speak for British Jews - The Movement for Progressive Judaism
As we approach the High Holy Days, we enter a season of teshuvah, of looking honestly at ourselves, taking responsibility and asking what must change. Yet there is a temptation, on days like these, to...
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Wendy Wiens @wendywiens.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver (Kayaking with the gulls/Blunden Islet in background)
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Jon @jmjh359.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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Complaints | Contact the BBC
These pages have information about how to complain to the BBC, with links to the BBC’s Complaints Framework, the BBC’s regulator Ofcom and regular reports about complaints. If you would like to unders...
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 08/09/2026
On Andy Burnham's sudden bout of shyness. thecritic.co.uk/sanc...
The close of his statement was an appeal to our better natures. If we were going to ask Israelis and Palestinians to live side-by-side, he said, Britain also had to be a place where “people of all faiths and none have a right to live without prejudice or fear.” Listening to him was Andy Burnham, who has been strangely absent from our public debate for the last few days. In August, we couldn’t move for social media clips from the prime minister, standing on a ladder to discuss his first job, or sitting in a pub to rate bar snacks. But faced with masked thugs trying to shut down British ports over the weekend, Burnham seems to have lost the password for his phone. For a decade now, Britain has had a series of leaders apparently paralysed by the fear that if they say that racism is bad, they’ll be voted out. It would be nice to get one who had a slightly higher opinion of us.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer I know the type tonalities from elegant to jocular I am a master tracker and my kerning is harmonical I know the sacred swatches and can name the hues Pantonical (Full version of Modern Day Typographer now on my YouTube channel)
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Modern Day Typographer - Elle Cordova
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
People living in urban areas are less likely to use medication for depression and anxiety if they have easy access to well-maintained woodlands, new study finds: www.littlegreenspace.org.uk/news/woodlan...
Path through urban woodland
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even if you aren’t aware of any such agreements missing from the State Department’s site, you can still help out by RT’ing this piece…or share it in relevant Reddit subs, email listservs, etc. Tysm 🙏
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson on the RNLI in "The Road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island" (2015)
I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people - teachers, plumbers, the guy
who runs the pub - drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that? The RNLI - I looked this up later - is an organization run by volunteers, supported entirely by public donations. It maintains 233 stations around the coast of Britain and averages twenty-two call-outs per day. It saves 350 lives a year on average.
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Finally he added: “If the worst should happen, working smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms can give you an early warning. Make sure you have at least one smoke alarm on every level of your home and test them monthly; and don’t keep this advice to yourself – please, pass it on.”
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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Haven’t got tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum? Don’t worry you can visit Reading's full-size copy, faithfully embroidered by 35 women in 1885-86 (plus extra pants!) Or latest blog compares the two tapestries www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/comparing-bayeux-and-reading-tapestries
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Comparing the Bayeux and Reading tapestries
Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry is a full-size copy of the original 11th century tapestry. It was created in 1885-1886 by 35 women of the Leek Embroidery Society 'so that England should have a copy of its o...
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Acorn palette. There’s evidence that the human brain really likes gentle colour gradations (probs due to ancient foraging mental reward pathways) so this is for your noggin-pause & zoom in for a tiny break from angsty scrolling with some nice nuts 🌿
Acorns at various stages of ripeness arranged on buff coloured linen so the colours shift gently, with a hand written label & single oak leaf
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Elizabeth Acheson @eacheson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yay, epic bus travel from @politicanimal.bsky.social and one for which you don’t need a passport, 🥳 #BusCity24 Where will we go and what will we see?
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Most British thing ever is for the day it becomes legal to fit solar extremely easily to your home is the day the sun finally disappears after three months.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.
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Dr Marcus Rhodes @marcusrhodes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Brilliant to see this spotlight on Fal Rivers to Reef - one of the transformational projects that has emerged out of the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Nature Recovery Strategy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Small changes can make a big difference’: how getting farmers, fishers and beavers together could save a Cornish river
A local initiative is testing simple ways to stop algal blooms in the River Fal threatening some of England’s most biodiverse marine habitats
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Buy a book for a kid in memory of Dolly.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I can't believe this London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!
This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la...
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June Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
God forbid a woman has hobbies.
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CerithG🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @cerithg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
‘As firefighters, we see first-hand how dangerous and unpredictable wildfires are becoming. When the media reports on these fires without explaining the role climate change is playing in making conditions hotter, drier and more conducive to extreme fires, it leaves out a crucial part of the story.’
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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This right here is why the challenge for legal educators is to get students to develop these skills without AI before they can effectively use AI. (And also why AI is of limited use).
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