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Fellsandlakes

@fellsandlakes.bsky.social
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Itchy feet. Missed living near the sea so left the fells for the sea and Scottish hills Love walks, books, coffee, soft spot for Dublin and Amsterdam Can be found on any street or in any cafe chatting to people Last in the queue for patience

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 7h
Ireland: 418% increase in refusals of study visas for Palestinian students this year.
irishexaminer.com
Palestinian student visa refusals to Ireland rise 418% this year
Most of the students had secured fully funded places at Irish universities, with appeals and four High Court challenges now underway
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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 9h
FARTGATE: Tomorrow’s Lancashire Telegraph is an absolute joy to behold. Buy it. Treasure it. Leave it to your grandchildren. #BuyALocalNewspaper
Lancs Telegraph front page: A POINT
OF ODOUR
Reform councillor 'broke wind
towards rival' during meeting.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 12h
Hope not hate just exposed a group that was planning to attack an anti-racist march on Sunday hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/02/n... @hopenothate.org.uk
hopenothate.org.uk
National Socialist Collective exposed: Nazi militants set to target anti-racists on Cable Street anniversary – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate blows the lid on a new outfit uniting some of the most active and extreme neo-Nazis in the country. The National Socialist...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13h
Aside from everything else, all this "non-whites can be British but not English" stuff is very obviously just...moving words around? It only sounds like a distinction because "English" just happens to have the more nebulous word "British" nearby, but both are very obviously racially neutral terms??
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 18h
The Belgian Equal Opportunities Institute, Unia is to take 'race realist' researcher Nathan Cofnas to court over remarks it believes repeatedly breached the country’s anti-racism law. www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2341...
brusselstimes.com
Unia to take 'race realist' researcher Nathan Cofnas to court
Unia said the US philosopher was spreading ideas in Belgium that rank people in a hierarchy on the basis of supposed scientific knowledge.
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Occasionally Lost @mostlyrambling.bsky.social · 18h
I really, really want more tea but someone is fast asleep on my leg and I don't have the heart to disturb her... 🐾 ☕️ 😄
Landscape oriented,  4:3 photo.

My outstretched legs on a sofa. A black and brown German Shepherd is stretched out fast asleep, also on the sofa, with her head resting on my legs.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I assure you they ARE talking about it. I know because I had a post about it go viral elsewhere and there was a deluge of comments from men demanding I provide EVIDENCE that these seven fellas did ANYTHING wrong. Some of them call me a bitch and a cunt. #JustProtectingWomenStuff
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You know who isn't talking about the Cornell 7?
The same ones who wanted to
"protect" girls in sports and women in bathrooms.
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Salute the Pig, by Chris Bulow @salutethepig.berlin · 01/10/2026
This is a beautiful thing to behold. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...
mapped.earth
Every lighthouse in the world | mapped.earth
Every charted navigational light on the planet on a night globe you can turn: each one flashing or sweeping at the rhythm printed on the chart. Zoom to a coast, hover a light for its name.
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Sarah Creighton @saraita101.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me for The Irish News on the Garvaghy Road standoff www.irishnews.com/opinion/sara...
irishnews.com
Sarah Creighton: Drumcree is a f*** you to nationalism. Is this really what victory looks like for unionism?
If the Drumcree parade is forced down the Garvaghy Road, our peace process will lie in tatters on the tarmac
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 29/09/2026
SNAP POLL / By 48% to 28%, Britons support Andy Burnham's proposal to change the triple lock in order to help fund part of a national care service yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-... yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Might you have been dropped on your head repeatedly as a child?
Bizarre speculation from Isabel Oakeshott, speculating that UK national suspects re the RAF base somehow have diplomatic immunity
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SempaiScuba @sempaiscuba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
RIP Dame Esther Rantzen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Dame Esther Rantzen: That's Life! presenter, Childline founder and assisted dying campaigner
The star presented That's Life! for two decades and set up two national helplines, including Childline.
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walkhighlands @walkhighlands.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Our search function has now been completely rewritten. You can search for walks by name, for hill pages, or enter a placename and search for walks nearby, with many filters and ordering options (including ordering walks by their rating as per requests). www.walkhighlands.co.uk/walk-search....
walkhighlands.co.uk
Search for Walkhighlands routes
Search the Walkhighlands database of 2,122 detailed walk routes, covering all areas of Scotland.
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heimir Hallgrímsson has said the second game against apartheid Israel will go ahead on Sunday. Join us, Aviva Stadium, Thursday 6.30pm for the Austria match. Show our huge objection to the FAI participating in the sportswashing of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. No second match. #StopTheGame
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was reminded of a very Dublin insult this morning - “oh he’s such a martyr, Padre Pio has a picture of him on his windscreen”.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🍕Ed Miliband said on Sunday that he is “happy to have a chat” with us. He told Andrew Marr he doesn’t think “anyone intended to have those people [Lift The Ban signholders] criminalised.” Well, Ed Miliband, it’s time to turn your words into deeds. Deproscribe Palestine Action.
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
shoving all my work aside to report out what led to this sign
a sign that reads DO NOT OUT NOODLES IN THE WATER FOUNTAIN!!
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a rare photo of sean connery signed by roger moore @steamedhamms.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Occasionally Lost @mostlyrambling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Detail of the Lovell Telescope, currently the third largest, steerable dish radio telescope in the world. It is 76.2 metres in diameter. Photo: Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, August 2012 📡 #AlphabetChallenge #Machinery #WeekMForMachinery #Science #Astronomy #JodrellBank #ECK #EastCoastKin
Portrait-oriented,  2:3 image.

The curved back (or underside) of a radio telescope dish. It is constructed from a series of curved and straight steel beams. 

The telescope is designed so that the dish can be rotated and tilted according to need.The gears and superstructure to enable this are not seen in the photo.

The section shown here extends out from the right hand side of the frame. The outer curve of the structure is on the left hand side of the frame.

The background is grey sky with some light shining through the blanket of cloud.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Cassian Andor's 'Cunty' Style in Andor
ALT: Cassian Andor's 'Cunty' Style in Andor
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the US had such good intelligence on the RAF Fairford suspects, then why did it take a 999 call to arrest the guys? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot
US secretary of state, who offered no evidence for claims, also says many people ‘disturbed’ that five suspects released on bail
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Frogzombie @sapofrog101.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Daniel Thomas holding a bible during his bail hearing. The grift is strong with this one. Where in the bible does it say xenophobia is something to to be proud of? Religions are a way for corrupt people to control the gullible.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Each week you think: Braverman will never outdo this. She'll never say something madder than what just came out her mouth. And each week, she proves you wrong. Just the maddest fool on earth.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The UK’s position is that the bullets are used for training, sport or are re exported. But with a govt brazenly breaking international law how can they trust them?
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There have been strong words of support for Palestine and protestors from Ed Miliband and the Labour govt. On arms, he has said the UK is not supplying bombs or bullets. A Channel 4 investigation found that the UK had supplied 110,000 bullets to Israel as well as £400k worth bomb and missile parts.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A cash-strapped rural police force struggles to deal with Red Diesel gangs. Until its chief inspector realises can get the Met Police to deal with the problem... ...if he pretends they're Iranian. A new six part comedy starring Toby Jones.
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Brian Gallagher @bgallaghercoll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kingfisher on the flint mill lade by the River Kelvin in Glasgow this afternoon. #birds
Kingfisher sits on a branch, surrounded by leaves
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stunning full moon over Fintra Bay, County Donegal.
A bright moon with a halo peeking over a bank of cloud, onto a shallow beach.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK govt to reopen refugee resettlement www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Shabana Mahmood to reopen scheme to resettle refugees in the UK
Around 25% of arrivals under the UK Resettlement Scheme are expected to be Afghan women and girls and Palestinians.
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Hare LockwoOoOoOod @harelockwood.com · 26/09/2026
Person 1: Can you get the writing done on the van, but make sure the text is the other way round? You know, so it shows in mirrors? Person 2: Err, yep
A van with all the writing on it upside down. I photographed it mostly to check that I wasn't having a stroke.
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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.
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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Friends, on the matter of dodgy men in transit vans, allow me to tell you about me, two future members of the House of Lords, and the massive suspect package.
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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Early clouds, light-buttered, over the emerging mountain this morning.
A column of fluffy cloud, lit butter gold on one aside, over a partly concealed rugged desert mountain. Sunrise sky over the dark desert, with fluffy clouds spread outward in a dark blue sky and all lit golden on one side.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chancellor John Healey praises the RNLI, "risking their lives to save others on the sea" - part of "the quiet patriotism that makes Britain great"
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cheers, Nigel Farage is crying now
Headline: men arrested near RAF airbase are UK citizens from London
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David Tanner @7and7is.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#SilentSunday
A colour photograph shot through a metal garden arch. Looking across to hills in the mid ground ( Causey Pike, Sail, Eel Crags and Barrow) with a dramatic sky.
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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's stopped raining and now Wester Ross has decided it's down with kids and showing us a lovely 1930s Art Deco sunburst. That's crepuscular rays innit
Cloudy sky over the sea hiding the sun but producing rays that go both down and up from the lower cloud.
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 27/09/2026
The terrorists had infiltrated the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Thankfully, steadfast police officers discovered old ladies with deadly weapons such as signs with unapproved words. They have been dragged off to cells and now face up to 14 years in prison. Isn't this brilliant?
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the3million @the3million.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I can lose my job, I maybe don’t have the right even to rent the property that I’m living in now, because of course I have to prove my right to live here." This is the real impact of the Home Office's granted in error policy, and why we are challenging it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error
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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 20/08/2026
i've been going to a weekly support group called Hope but every once in a while they skip a week
calendar event: No Hope Today
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
youtube.com
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Duddo Stones: five strange megaliths on a hilltop in Northumberland. Sometimes they even sing. #StandingStoneSunday
Deep folds of stonesViews far and wide
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Rascal 🐾 📷 🌿 🎨 @badrascal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Folk with legal knowledge in Northern Ireland. With us having no health power of attorney yet, how do we ensure that a named person is the only person who gets to make health decisions for us if we are incapacitated? (shares would be appreciated)
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Between that and AB: "I think it's right to listen to what people say during the consultation and then decide on the right way forward." LK: "It sounds like you're not up for it." ... a decent boss would be telling Kuenssberg to start polishing her CV. Lucky for her she only has indecent bosses.
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