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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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Fellsandlakes @fellsandlakes.bsky.social · 4h
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20h
Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.
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Fellsandlakes @fellsandlakes.bsky.social · 23h
Happy birthday!
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Fellsandlakes @fellsandlakes.bsky.social · 23h
@mostlyrambling.bsky.social How is Mavis today? Hope she likes her new costume 😊
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Fellsandlakes @fellsandlakes.bsky.social · 23h
Yes I thought it was something like that. Expensive but worth it if you’re anxious about getting Covid #PeaceOfMind
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Fellsandlakes @fellsandlakes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Read somewhere that Boots do them
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Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You can always tell the customers who’ve never worked in a service industry role.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Probably headline of the year: Reform investigates Reform and finds Reform did nothing wrong www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
Reform investigates Reform and finds Reform did nothing wrong
Reform UK has been accused of producing a 'whitewash' internal investigation into allegations senior party figures tried to disguise foreign donations
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy
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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cumulonimbus action from earlier. @petergibbs.bsky.social
Showers, rays, virga, BIG clouds over the Minch Anvil cumulonimbus cloud over the Torridon hillsSun shining onto the sea through the upper part of the anvil of the cumulonimbus cloudTropopause pushing out the highest bit of anvil over the sea
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
All hail the Kult of Kemi – captain, coach and owner of the Conservatives | John Crace
The Tory leader is now too big for the party to allow her to fail, so everything she does is acclaimed a work of genius
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
📢 Tories have pledged to abolish Natural England & Environment Agency. A year ago I flagged both as highly exposed to political interference. They've been weakened by yrs of cuts & loss of autonomy. Abolition removes scrutiny but doesn't fix problems christinapagel.substack.com/p/abolishing...
christinapagel.substack.com
Abolishing our independent public bodies removes scrutiny without fixing the underlying problem
A vulnerability we highlightd a year ago is now Conservative policy
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thousands of active UK companies may have fraudulent directors. Anyone can form a company in the UK. Companies need one natural person as a director who can be non-UK resident. Too many small companies are fronts for crimes I have long called for companies to have one UK resident director.
tradersunion.com
UK companies face scrutiny as identity checks expose possible fraudulent directors
New UK identity rules reveal possible fraudulent company directors as overdue filings surge, raising concerns about the accuracy of corporate records.
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Fellsandlakes @fellsandlakes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good luck! And hopefully lots of treats for Mavis 🍀🍀🍀
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know how writers you admire often share stuff when you’re busy and you think ‘yeah, they’re good but I haven’t really got time right now’? Well, get over yourself and make the time for this. Just don’t do it in an open-plan office. It’s NSFWBOTEL*. Well done, @mrhenrymorris.substack.com.
mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Mark Francois’ Tory Conference Diary
Birmingham 2026 - as it happened
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in
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Brendan Paddy @bjpaddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Scottish mountain rescue team called out 200 times this year - a new record www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Lochaber MRT breaks its record for number of call-outs in a year
Lochaber MRT says more people are heading into the hills than before, with some of them poorly equipped.
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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Path reopens to An Lochan Uaine following wildfire recovery work | Forestry and Land Scotland forestryandland.gov.scot/news/path-re...
forestryandland.gov.scot
Path reopens to An Lochan Uaine following wildfire recovery work
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/10/2026
"Vatican permission sought to sack priest who admitted 109 offences against boys"
Vatican permission sought to sack priest who admitted 109 offences against boys
Disgraced cleric Edward Gallagher caught in online sting by so-called paedophile hunters [Belfast Telegraph]
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David Tanner @7and7is.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Catbells from Brandelhow Woods #LakeDistrict #BlackAndWhitePhotography #monochromemonday
A black and white photograph. Looking up over old stone structure and a grassy bank with trees on left and right and in the centre a steep hill and a cloudy sky.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"
Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce
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the3million @the3million.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
EU citizens built their lives in the UK in good faith. Now some are being told their status was "granted in error" and having their status stripped from them without any right to appeal or proportionality checks. Support us in fighting this policy👇 www.crowdjustice.com/case/eu-citi...
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Jane @janecornwell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please can you help? The constant 90DB noise will end me. Our building regulations need to catch up with new tech, please sign or share? 🙏🥺
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.
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Occasionally Lost @mostlyrambling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A moody moorland scene for this week's #StileSaturday... Photo: Brown Knoll, September 2026 🥾 #LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Hiking #PeakDistrict #ClassicMono #SaturdayMono #ECK #EastCoastKin
Landscape oriented, 16:9 monochrome image.

A wooden stile over a wire fence in the foreground. A path made of reclaimed stone slabs leads to the stile and continues on the other side.

On the other side this changes to a section of exposed bedrock for a short section before the slab-made path reappears and winds away into the distance through the peat moorland that forms the background.

The sky above is cloudy, although there are patches of light amidst the grey.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Four step ladder stile, Torridon.
Wooden ladder stile over dry stone wall which has wire fencing above, into a deciduous wood
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Excellent images to have a coffee whilst admiring
theguardian.com
Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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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