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FiMacHarry

@fimacharry.bsky.social
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Community Gardener London Greenwich. Hort, GYO, enviro, politics. Views my own. Hoping this is the right place to find some sanity.

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Amber in the shadows . Thanks to @BELLEGREENWICH for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay
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westcombewoodlands.bsky.social @westcombewoodlands.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Saturday, the 30th of August saw our annual event with Les Clarke, a local expert in the study of bats. He has been assisting Westcombe Woodlands for several years. The most common species in the woodlands is the pipistrelle and occasionally Soprano Pipistrelle are recorded.
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Christchurch School Community Garden SE10 @cscglondon.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We’ll be weighing everything we harvest on the day to see how many meals we’ve grown and how much CO2 we’ve saved compared to supermarket produce! 🙂
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FiMacHarry @fimacharry.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It’s Harvest Time at CSCG! Join us on Saturday 6 September to celebrate our Urban Harvest with @capital_growth. There’ll be plenty of delicious home grown treats to sample and lots of family activities to get stuck into. Details below 👇
Poster for CSCG’s Urban Harvest open day on Saturday 6 September 11am til 2pm
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KARIN TEARLE @karinlt.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Taken in the lovely Christchurch Community Garden today. #Greenwich @cscglondon.bsky.social #Nature #NaturePhotography #Dragonfly #Fox #Harvest
A dragonfly perched on a wooden poleA fox peeking through foliageBlack coloured tomatoes hanging from a branch
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KARIN TEARLE @karinlt.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
#FoxOfTheDay #Fox #Greenwich @cscglondon.bsky.social #Nature #LondonWildlife #UrbanFox @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
A fox peeking out of undergrowth
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Google's AI summaries are - killing traffic to legitimate sites - producing summaries that can be wrong - in the long run probably making you a dumbass www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
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Blackheath Standard Resident @richardt135.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
That moment when you realise a contractor employed by Greenwich Council is driving down the pavement towards you at speed spraying glyphosate into the air…. 😡
Greenwich Council contractor driving down the pavement spraying glyphosate on 4 March 2025.
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Christchurch School Community Garden SE10 @cscglondon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Join us just up the road from our garden on Saturday to start the transformation of this little green space into an oasis for humans and wildlife alike. 600 hedgerow trees to be planted. 👇👇
Poster showing Rose Garden action day, Blackwall Lane, SE10. 600 hedgerow trees to be planted
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The Greenwich Wire @greenwichwire.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Greenwich Council has started a consultation on “sustainable streets” and controlled parking zones in six areas. Residents in Charlton, Kidbrooke and Blackheath, Plumstead, Shooters Hill, West Thamesmead and Woolwich are being asked about what they think about traffic and parking.
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'Sustainable streets' CPZ consultation launched by Greenwich Council - The Greenwich Wire
Greenwich Council has started a consultation on “sustainable streets” and controlled parking zones in six areas of the borough. Residents in Charlton, Kidbrooke and Blackheath, Plumstead, Shooters…
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Good news for a change. Today we published: Restoring predators, restoring ecosystems: Yellowstone wolves & other carnivores drive strong trophic cascade @nywolforg.bsky.social @ecowarriorss.bsky.social @xrglobal.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-02...
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Restoring predators, restoring ecosystems: Yellowstone wolves and other carnivores drive strong trophic cascade
A new study reveals the profound ecological effects of wolves and other large carnivores in Yellowstone National Park, showcasing the cascading effects predators can have on ecosystems. In Yellowstone...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 07/02/2025
🤦‍♂️ So Labour are making ads boasting about deportations, with Reform-style branding. Why are Labour trying to be like Farage and his mates? If only the Government put as much effort into creating a fast, fair and dignified asylum system.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS
We need safe and legal routes, not boasts about which party can be the cruellest.

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ


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LABOUR HITS LABOUR HITS 5 YEAR HIGH IN MIGRANT REMOVALS
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Musk crowns himself in the Oval Office
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I'm getting all my tweets (2012-2024) from the bad place transferred over to Bluesky by @blueark.app. The only thing is that they lose their date stamps in the process. So they appear to be newly posted, but they aren't. Thanks for all the interactions though.
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"Where have all the flowers gone?" - woodcut by Suffolk painter and printmaker, Miranda Mott #flowers #art #woodcut
River of flowers, red, yellow and white, disappearing like a path into the distant hills
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Murky Depths @murkydepths.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Greenwich consult on locations for 40 cycle storage hangers across borough www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/02/03/g...
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Greenwich consulting on 40 new cycle storage hangers - Murky Depths
Greenwich Council are consulting on the location of up to 40 cycle storage hangers across the borough set to be installed
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FiMacHarry @fimacharry.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@shitlawns.bsky.social Royal Borough of Greenwich has forgotten it has a Biodiversity Action Plan. Surely this would have been better the other way around 😕
Picture of untouched lawn full of wild flowering plants followed by picture of conversion to astroturf.
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The Greenwich Wire @greenwichwire.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Greenwich Council could back a call to ban Lime bikes in the borough next week after two frustrated councillors spoke out against the company for not taking action against riders dumping their bikes on pavements.
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Ban Lime bikes from Greenwich if they don't clean up their act, councillors demand - The Greenwich Wire
Greenwich Council could back a call to ban Lime bikes in the borough next week after two frustrated councillors spoke out against the company for not taking action against riders dumping their bikes…
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Joseph Beale @joebeale.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Thanks very much to the Vanbrugh Volunteers who helped with a bit of habitat management in #Greenwich on Sunday. It's to maintain a dynamic mix of habitats of varying structure, openness, and stages of growth, to maximise the benefit to wildlife. We also cleared a fair bit of litter!
Volunteers managing some Gorse at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich, to start the process of regrowth, to maintain a dynamic mix of heights and ages of scrub. This allows wildflowers and grasses to grow in the temporary clearing before the Gorse grows back.Volunteers pushing the bramble line back to help maintain the rough grassland and create some sunny open spots for invertebrates at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich.A great bunch of people, those who were still there at the end of the volunteer session! Thanks to our volunteers we are keeping the habitat dynamic where possible, allowing a varied mix of vegetation types, open spaces, dense scrub and regrowth. This helps to maximise the value for invertebrates and to prevent the habitat becoming uniform.Small Copper butterfly is one of the many insects that benefits from habitat work at Vanbrugh Pits (this photo was taken not far away in a previous summer, and is for illustrative purposes here). They are small orange and black butterflies that are resident at Vanbrugh Pits. They lay eggs on Sheep's Sorrel, which grows amongst the Gorse stumps before it regrows. They feed at ragwort and other flowers, which also appreciate sunny clearings that result from the habitat work. We look forward to seeing them again in May.
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Joseph Beale @joebeale.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Good news for Swanscombe SSSI's exceptional wildlife, and for the local community! Swanscombe - a site rich in natural wonders, from orchids to Nightingales - has been under threat for years from an ill-conceived theme park. Also nice to see my photo in use 🙂 community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/rs...
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Swanscombe Peninsula outcome showcases the power of your dedicated campaigning
“The RSPB is delighted that Swanscombe Peninsula has been saved for wildlife - it is an amazing Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), alive with birds, wildflowers
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
1/3 I am delighted that it seems the final nail has gone into the coffin of this environmentally and financially ruinous scheme. The Tory-led county council spent £800,000 a month trying to keep it alive while cutting vital services. But we're not at the end of this saga yet.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Brighton’s previous ban on using glyphosate in our neighbourhoods should be reinstated and replicated across the country. Write to your MP and ask them to add their name in support of my Bill! 👇 edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...
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Pesticides in public spaces - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That this House notes that many local authorities and other public authorities use pesticides to manage unwanted vegetation in public places such as parks and green spaces, streets, school grounds, ch...
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Pleased to have won cross-party support for my Bill to introduce a national ban on pesticide use in public spaces! More needs to be done to stop councils using toxic chemicals which are a danger to people, pets and children using these spaces, and the wider environment 🌱🐝
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The Greenwich Wire @greenwichwire.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A 14-year-old boy has been stabbed to death on a 472 bus in Woolwich Church Street, the BBC reports
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Boy, 14, stabbed to death on 472 bus in Woolwich, London
A 14-year-old boy is stabbed to death on a double-decker bus, according to police.
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FiMacHarry @fimacharry.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I spend too much time thinking about The Handmaid’s Tale, these last few years. Never more so than now and not just America.
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Buzz & Scuttle @buzzandscuttle.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I have been illustrating insects which rely on nettles for food & shelter. This is just a tiny selection of those species. Having a nettle patch in the corner of your garden is wonderful habitat for a whole host of creatures! #wildlifehabitat #urbannature #wildgarden
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Please say no to garden poisons such as pesticides and weedkillers, to help keep them out of the food chain. Hedgehogs, for example, can eat over 100 invertebrates every night. #wildlife #gardening #nature
Hedgehog at night in undergrowth of ivy, looking at the camera
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Private Equity has devoured Bernard Matthews Body Shop Casual Dining Cath Kidson Comet Debenhams Flybe Four Seasons Health Care Maplin Monarch Airlines Paperchase Poundworld Southern Cross Thames Water Toys R Us With further deregulation of finance, what next? leftfootforward.org/2024/11/exce...
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Excessive deregulation means that the UK is hurtling towards the next crash
Deregulation creates opportunities for bankers to take reckless risks with other people’s money, collect bonuses and destabilise economies.
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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Out of curiosity, am reading a bit about the market for farmland. This briefing is from January. "Meanwhile, non-farmer buyers – who are a mix of private and institutional investors and lifestyle buyers – accounted for 56% of sales" rural.struttandparker.com/article/engl...
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Agricultural land values in England reached a new record in 2023
Q4 2023 edition of Strutt & Parker’s English Estates & Farmland Market Review which shows that non-farmers bought more farms than farmers in 2023.
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The Culture Tutor @culturaltutor.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
In the year 1582 something strange happened. Thursday 4th October was followed immediately by Friday 15th October. This is the story of history's 10 missing days...
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Rezina Chowdhury @rezinachowdhury.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We plan to install 148 new dockless bays for rental e-scooters & e-bikes in Lambeth, bringing the total number of bays to over 350, reclaiming space from car parking & repurposing it for sustainable uses, a key commitment in our award-winning Kerbside Strategy love.lambeth.gov.uk/dockless-exp...
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Have your say: More docking stations for e-bikes and e-scooters - Love Lambeth
Lambeth Council is asking for feedback on plans to install 148 new dockless bays for rental e-scooters and e-bikes to expand the existing network throughout the borough.
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Good morning to all you new followers 👋 We’re TBIJ, a non-profit UK newsroom exposing injustice and sparking change. We’ll be here with the biggest investigations and reveals - for a taste of our work, head to tbij.com 🌐
The image shows the logo for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Above it, it says ‘sparking change for a better world’
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KARIN TEARLE @karinlt.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hot off the press! Greenwich Council consultation on street cleaning and use toxic glyphosate. There’s other ways to remove so-called weeds. Questionnaire here: keepinggreenwichcleanandtidy.commonplace.is/en-GB/?utm_c...
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Keeping Greenwich Clean and Tidy
The Royal Borough of Greenwich is consulting on how we keep our streets and neighbourhoods clean, to keep it running efficiently and sustainably for years to come.
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KARIN TEARLE @karinlt.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
My first post! Just listen to the tawny owl hooting in Greenwich Park, very close to Our Ladye Star of the Sea. #owls #Greenwich #Wildlife @rspb.bsky.social #GreenwichPark #Autumn
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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I wrote a thing… unherd.com/2024/11/a-fa...
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A farmers' revolt is coming
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David Fielding @urbanponds.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Meet Tiny! 🦎💚 #pondwatch #herp #wildlife #nature #newts
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/11/2024
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is objecting to the release of a bipartisan investigation into the conduct of former Matt Gaetz, Trump’s highly controversial pick to be Attorney General. Senators had demanded to see it. Now they may never.
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I can't bare any more Musk drivel, what an absolute arse. So goodbye Twitter & 36k followers. I am simultaneously trying Bluesky and Threads, hello everybody. Follow me if you are into bees, insects, wildlife gardening, pesticide research, regenerative farming, rewilding, etc... 😊
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FiMacHarry @fimacharry.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Great pack! For you @joebeale.bsky.social
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Joseph Beale @joebeale.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I've set up an account here, which will be mainly about SE London wildlife, with occasional forays further afield. I can't promise there won't be some politics too, however! To start off, here's a gorgeous Merveille du Jour and Barred Sallow from late October in Greenwich Park.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
1st post here: a note of hope? “Daylighting" is the work of bringing buried rivers back to the surface & sun, in cities where they've been entombed. Here’s @emilyraboteau.bsky.social on a $133m daylighting project in the Bronx. Here’s to doing things differently. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/da...
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Daylighting a Brook in the Bronx | Broadcast
An ode to an underground waterway and the restorative effort to unbury it.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/11/2024
I've put this story outside the paywall for the rest of today, in case you want to see the type of journalism that I'm working on with London Centric. If you like what you read, your support would be much appreciated — and paying subscribers always get the big stories first.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 13/11/2024
Both @thenewsagents.bsky.social and @lbc.co.uk now on BlueSky Repost and give them a follow!
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
For those who are not yet members of the 99% Organisation, here is a copy of this week's letter to members. The Budget we needed ... and should have had. sh1.sendinblue.com/ai2nlu2bglpf...
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