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Claire Laila Dines

@freedomtodoubt.bsky.social
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Ecologist fighting 4 nature; Watches Earth like hawk or Small Blue; South Downs wanderer; Wildlife photo-recorder; Hove plot holder 4 nature; Brit/Norwegian/European; Truth, Art, Science, Politics. Take bus or walk while I can ere I'm dust in the ground.

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 4h
Absolutely desperate. As @guyshrubsole.bsky.social was saying at the weekend: 50 MILLION pheasants are released into the wild annually. The biomass outweighs that of all native bird species combined.
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 22m
I always love to observe birds in their element #RockPipit today along the #undercliffpath
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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 1h
THIS SATURDAY: No Kings, Vote Early. This isn't just a protest -- it's a vow. We will appear in the streets AND at the ballot box. Democracy isn't saved by watching. It's saved by showing up. #VoteEarlyForNoKings social.demcast.com/s/9kkN8sQm
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 2h
Post a noon high tide with big breakers today .. chasing & capturing salt water 'geysers' while avoiding getting soaked was fun 😊.. the usual suspects seemed less bothered or impressed 🙄 #life along the #undercliffpath between #brighton and #rottingdean 1/2
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 3h
Exclusive: Reform’s ‘Independent’ Donations Inquiry Was Led By The Lawyer Who Defended Donald Trump Over Russian Collusion open.substack.com/pub/bylineti...
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Exclusive: Reform’s ‘Independent’ Donations Inquiry Was Led By The Lawyer Who Defended Donald Trump Over Russian Collusion
Reform UK said its internal inquiry would proceed “independently and without prejudice” yet it was led by a barrister who has previously represented Nigel Farage and Donald Trump
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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 8h
A wonderful letter from Peter Fonagy @psychmag.bsky.social - for anyone who finds life/the world difficult. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
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'You are not fragile. You are outnumbered.' | BPS
Professor Peter Fonagy, Chair of the Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism (2026), with his letter to a young person.
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Stuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social · 7h
And the media are happy to report that Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage thinks Andy Burnham is lying over Russian interference in Brexit.
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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 8h
The season of small delights. ✨
A smaller mushroom tilts under a larger mushroom with fronds evident. A curled leaf rests on top. Green moss all around.
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 7h
Agree w all above except use of "prosperous". Word should be banned from ongoing political discourse. Change to "good quality of life 4 all"; "sustainable life quality 4 all"; "simple & good living standards 4 all" With USA's past of inequality/over-consumption, "prosperous" no longer makes sense.
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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 9h
Newsround- got it out the way early today - all about Andy Burnham's lies from the only politician we can trust www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3zx...
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13/10/26 - Andy Burnham Is a Liar
YouTube video by Richard Herring
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Deb Jeffrey @debjeffrey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Three years after Oct. 7. Horrors of wrongful acts that day have multiplied by hundreds of thousands in Gaza. Voices often unreported - Palestinian Christians. Bethlehem Institute for #Peace & Justice reminds us: No going back. No undoing harm. Munther Isaac reflects on loss of our moral compass☮️
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A Message from Munther Isaac: Three Years of Genocide. Lord Have Mercy.
YouTube video by Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 9h
Those'd be mostly Honey bees but often incl bumblebees like Buff-tailed, Common Carder & the very lovely solitary Ivy bee. Flies, hoverflies, wasps + many spiders & birds find their food & home within the Common Ivy (Hedera helix) that should never be cut or trimmed in Autumn onwards into winter.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 9h
‘These Isles’ and ‘Northerners’ both on display at Waterstones in Harrogate.
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 10h
Thank you Ukraine! [this Common Blue male must have known 💙💛 ] #chalkgrasslandlife from Sunday!
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 23h
“Former MI6 chief 'very confident' in Burnham's assertion Russia attempted to meddle in Brexit vote” www.lbc.co.uk/article/form...
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Former MI6 chief 'very confident' in Burnham's assertion Russia attempted to meddle in Brexit vote | LBC
The former intelligence chief's comments come despite Nigel Farage insisting 'there was no Russian interference' in the 2016 Brexit vote
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 23h
If you're listening Ukraine and Iran, take out the rest of all the bot-farm data centers in Russia & Israel! How Ukraine’s Strike on Russian Data Centers Unmasked Our Digital Dictatorship thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-ukrain...
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How Ukraine’s Strike on Russian Data Centers Unmasked Our Digital Dictatorship
Here’s Danielle with today’s write-up of Democracy-Ish!
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
12 October 1940 | Dutch Jew, David Costima, was born in Amsterdam. In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber with his elder brother Isaäc. --- The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
Photo of two boys. Elder is sitting and wearing a dark suit. His baby brother in white clothes is sitting in front of him.
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Daily Sick Telegraph
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The British Parliament refused to release a confidential report examining the UK's relations with governments that came to power in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya following the Arab Spring uprisings, insisting the document must remain secret until 2046. By Amer Sultan: www.newarab.com/news/exclusi...
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.desmog.com/2018/12/02/b...
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Yet Another Benefit of Renewable Energy: It Uses Practically No Water Compared to Fossil Fuels
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently highlighted a little-discussed benefit of using renewables like wind and solar to produce electricity: Unlike most power sources, they require “alm...
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There's always a time and a place for a hedgehog.
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
'Hundreds of French supermarkets have been hit by a cyber attack that caused their fridges & freezers to heat up, spoiling fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of €. Hackers gained control of the software…forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
Hundreds of stores were targeted by the overnight hack, which spoiled fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They Can Whitewash Columbus All They Want. The Records Don’t Care. Forced labor. Gold quotas. Enslavement. Population collapse. It’s in the documents. Trump wants the school myth. Indigenous Peoples’ Day exists because the rest of the story is not optional. US History MUST be accurate.
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“Was the Earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, & for them to bag & barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?” Gerrard Winstanley www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...
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Mort la révolution! Why UK film loves a failed rebellion
Paul Greengrass’s Peasants’ Revolt epic, The Uprising, is just the latest in a long line of movies depicting an unsuccessful attempt at remaking the nation
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
19000 offences in two weeks at just two locations. Lawbreaking by drivers is just endemic. Every one of those offences should be prosecuted. And buy lots more of those cameras. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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AI cameras spot nearly 19,000 road offences in West Midlands
Captured images include a front-seat passenger holding a small child on her lap without a seatbelt.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."
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Croydon For Europe @croydonforeurope.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Us Remainers/Rejoiners are also Reminders: we won’t forget the fantastic work @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social have done all these years! Brexit is Russian Foreign Policy!
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
That's ok .. totally forgiven 😊
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Far more self-determination for all Indigenous peoples that make up roughly 6% of the world's population and belong to more than 5,000 distinct groups .. so they have the power to be free to live their own way of life .. so much more progress towards this aim needs to be made! #indigenouspeoplesday
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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So, a Trump supporter told me that, “nobody gives a sh*t” about Indigenous Peoples Day. Please, tell me, do you care about Indigenous Peoples Day?
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"London is one of only three places in the country where levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) went above nationally set limits for air pollution, according to new data published by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs."
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In Norway the Sami people, that research show lived there 10,000 yrs ago & long before "blond Nordic" people arrived, have partial self-determination which is not founded on territorial autonomy & self-rule but has a territorial basis without exclusive Sámi territory nor lawmaking or fiscal powers 🤔
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trick of the camera angle .. the Common Darter, that seems to enjoy perching on anything with a vantage point, was several metres away from the fire in the allotment's incinerator .. and maybe enjoying its warmth on a cool October day ..
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Worth thinking about! Where do most Indigenous Populations of planet Earth live? Do they, apart from some being allowed to live in "Indigenous Protected Areas" w nominal access to the power structure within world's nations, live in "their own" sovereign nations? Answers: Q 1: see map below Q 2: NO
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy Indigenous People's Day! We are still here :)
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Sacred Arizona Archaeological Site Damaged by Trump’s Wall Predates Stonehenge. Its estimated age places its creation roughly 2,000 yrs before Egypt’s first pyramid, 4,000 yrs before Peru’s Nazca Lines & 1,500 yrs before the 1st construction of Stonehenge." biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
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Sacred Arizona Archaeological Site Damaged by Trump’s Wall Predates Stonehenge
Center for Biological Diversity: Geoglyph in National Wildlife Refuge is Oldest in Americas
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
❗️Everyone is talking about diesel, but no one is talking about grain — in 2–3 months there will be a crisis, — Zelenskyy​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Gentle reminder: Brexit isn’t shit just because the Russians backed it. It’s shit, and that’s why the Russians backed it.
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Yeah .. #mossymonday 💚 💚 from somewhere on the South Downs ..
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Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I proclaim Monday as weekly moss day ! Peter Tavy coombe, saddle bridge, willows at Burrator, ferns and willow near Peter Tavy last week #Dartmoor #Devon #photography #mossymonday #moss
Ferns on willow branch near Peter Tavy last week.Willows and stream near Burrator Mossy willow at saddle bridge Mossy rock Peter Tavy coombe
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
More information on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism website. Abramovich’s inner circle presented high court with sham documents and misleading testimony Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit. 👇👇👇👇
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Abramovich’s team presented sham documents to London high court
Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit from rival oligarch
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12/10/2026
Vladimir Putin wants a divided Europe to weaken us. We cannot let him win. For the sake of our own security, we need to rejoin the EU.
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So great that you're showing the wonder of wildflower verges allowed to flourish in some parts of Ireland Donna! We need to focus more on such wild flora areas in our impoverished countries overrun with non-natives or cut and/or sprayed. They are so important for all life including ours. Thank you!
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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Lush verges in Donegal. Agrimony, Meadowsweet & Willowherb. #wildflowerhour
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
💥 This is today! If you've not sent an email to your MP yet asking them to attend, now would be a perfect time. Here's the link you need to send that email --> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The cancerous 'patriots' ... " ... city’s biggest annual cancer fundraiser postponed ..." because "Bristol Rises, a local far-right group aligned with Danny Tommo’s wider Patriot Platform network, refused police requests to change the time, date or location of its protest." via Truth Against Hate
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What was it you wrote about the Green Party Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social .. "towards cult-like conspiracy and electoral oblivion" was it? A promise .. I'll remind you each time they make a GAIN!
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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Front row for early 'bonfire night' time #allotmentlife
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#Michigan Vote Blue!
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