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Tim Evans

@hackneymartian.bsky.social
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Leftish, greenish, bookish. 50 years urban 🚲, 4 years 🦽. Londoner, Hackney, Lea Valley. Bad naturalist (urban). Warré beek. Was community tree carer, forest gardener, bikeability teacher, TU H&S librarian. Climate Doomer 2006-. Read poetry voluntarily

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Police Spies Out Of Lives @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A few days left to get your voice heard by the Home Office about its #spycops (so-called) consultation. Some thoughts from 'Alison' on the matter. Go to this action page to submit your response: ucpi.uk/consultation/
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Millfields Users Group @loveourpark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another great year of the Tree Circle Cinema. Thanks to all our supporters, to Jon Reynolds for the familysession, The Muckers for the ceilidh, and to the fabulous local community. A magical evening.
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 14/08/2026
The Asian dad Tommy Robinson falsely accused of being a predator has launched a defamation crowdfunder www.crowdjustice.com/case/tommy-r...
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HOLDING TOMMY ROBINSON TO ACCOUNT
I never expected to end up here. Tommy Robinson's accusation about me, a Glaswegian dad, went viral before it was ever checked - and I'm not willing to just let that stand, or let him do it again.
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Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Wigan Museum @wiganmuseum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Today is #InternationalMuseumDay ! 🎉 The theme for 2026 is "Museums Uniting a Divided World" so we’re highlighting one of the works on display at Wigan’s Voice! 'Here We Found a Safe Place' is a collaborative banner made by more than 30 women from SWAP, the Support for Wigan Arrivals Project.
The banner is made up of individual square pieces featuring various images including sharing food, hands of friendship, and love.
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Police Spies Out Of Lives @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
As 'Rosa' explains, the #spycops were 'fabrications by the state'. Deceived into a relationship by Jim Boyling, Rosa gives evidence to next set of inquiry hearings which begin Monday 2nd February. Don't miss it.
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Last week saw a media flurry when Baroness Lawrence testified to the energy #spycops put into subverting the family justice campaign, not investigating Stephen's murder. This week there are 2 days more to hear Peter Francis who fessed up. Meanwhile COPS beavers away on a shoestring...
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Undercover Policing Inquiry
The Official YouTube account of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Please email info@ucpi.org.uk to contact the Inquiry.
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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Join the Tree Musketeers for our Tree Planting in December! We'll be planting in Hackney Downs park on the 6th & 7th and in Millfields on the 13th. Sign up on our Eventbrite page: www.bit.ly/hackneytreemusketeers @loveourpark.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @hackneycouncil.bsky.social
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Also, it's always winter but never Christmas
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Also on Kobo, for those who avoid Amazon.
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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We are recruiting! Join us as a part-time engagement arboriculturalist. Manage our tree stock, agree on our planting plans, engage volunteers & the wider community. Deadline: Friday 26 September 2025 www.treemusketeers.org.uk/jobs #Greenjobs #arbjobs #arboriculturist #communityengagement #Hackney
Arboriculturalist job advert
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East London Waterworks Park @elwaterworks.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
You’re invited! 13–14 Sept at The Leaside Trust: a celebration of #CommunityLedDesign. ✨ Explore design concepts 🎨 Get creative with activities for all 📢 Explore community views on park inclusion 🎟️ Free tickets: elwp.info/voices @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk @london.gov.uk @debbieweekesb.bsky.social
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Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The proposal for a secure facility for children at the former Thames Water Depot on Lea Bridge Road has resurfaced. We support the plan for the site to become @elwaterworks.bsky.social and will oppose the forthcoming planning application for this Metropolitan Open Land #Waterworks #LeeValley
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Oak galls on Hackney Marsh. Right, a knopper (wasp) gall. Left, I've not noticed this one before, they're made by the gorgeously named Silk-button Spangle Gall Wasp (thanks, Seek app). Both wasps produce an autumn generation of parthenogenetic females & then in Spring a sexual generation. Amazing
Closeup of green leaf dotted with tiny orange ringsAmong dark green oak leaves, a monstrously lumpy & crested shape
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Ben Foley @benwheels.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Easy to miss, but important. At @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk we've been working towards this moment for years - the DfT has publicly announced that it is looking at sorting out mobility aid laws. 🎉 Our #MyCycleMyMobilityAid campaign looks like it is paying off.
Screenshot of a tweet from Simon Lightwood MP. Jul 21. 
"Everyone deserves safe, accessible transport.
That’s why we’re extending e-scooter trials to 2028 and expanding them to new towns to learn how best to regulate them.
We’re also looking at our mobility aid laws so disabled people can use the devices they need for independence." Accompanied with a photo, the alt text for which was "Hire escooters parked in a line in a designated parking area", image attribution Department for Transport.
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We Care Campaign @wecarecampaign.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
#TakeActionTuesday There's still time to sign the Fairer Transport for Disabled Students letter 
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Join the campaign: Fairer transport for disabled students
Parent carers have launched a campaign to close the loophole in the law. Please sign their letter to the Schools Minister
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United Voices of the World @uvwunion.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/news/2025...
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UVW security guards at London’s top museums secure major pay rises after sustained strike action
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XR Cambridge @xrcam.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Petition: Make the climate emergency a lawful excuse in criminal cases
Make the climate emergency a lawful excuse in criminal damage and other such cases.
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Tina Leonard 🧡💙 @leonard3tina.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Ines Smyth, a 76 year old from Oxford & retired Development & Humanitarian worker, is now forced to pay £7,250 because… …she told the truth & protested against Marshall’s lies by spraying a washable, organic, fake crude oil recipe on the front of the building @just-stopoil.bsky.social
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Marshall Wace Trial
Yesterday, billionaire Paul Marshal was rewarded by the "justice" system when Westminster Magistrate Court granted compensation following a protest at his office.
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Police Spies Out Of Lives @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Outraged by the #spycops scandal? Care about protecting women & girls from male sexual violence? Believe police should behave ethically? If so, please sign our parliamentary petition to ban police officers from having sexual relationships while undercover. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Image of hand holding megaphone with speech bubble calling for a ban on undercover police having sexual relationships while on duty with members of the public. Also a link to sign parliamentary petition about this issue.
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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
We’re hiring. We’re looking for an administrator. Part-time, freelance. We’ve been volunteer-led for 25 years but we’re now doing so much more! Please circulate. @greenerhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Neil's first go at waxing leaders on #Warré bars. Comb wax from past seasons (foundation free so no pesticides). Bain Marie. A water-soaked guide piece held against the bar. And that vital tool, a cunningly bent teaspoon. And ... voilá! #beekeeping
Close shot of hands above a pan of liquid beeswax on a scruffy workbench. In the left hand, a narrow wooden piece 30cm long. Right hand holds a teaspoon with handle bent at right angle, dribbling wax onto wood.Hands have separated wood into 2 bars. One has an uneven strip of wax projecting from its surface Longer shot of smiling man holding the 2 bars . He's dressed in workshop clothes & looks very pleasant.
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Some marathons are metaphorical
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Justin Webb at it again on #Radio4 #Today -- It must be so grievous being a researcher on that programme. You put facts in front of Webb and the little pub Tory in his head shouts Lalalala.
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A Labour Member @dariaqt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Why should UK MPs be registered to vote & be resident in the UK? Voting is a basic civic duty. If MPs aren't even registered to vote they can't fully engage with the democratic process & can't represent the public who elected them. Please sign & share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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Petition: Require candidates for MP to be registered to vote and residents of the UK
Currently, a candidate for MP is not required to be registered to vote or be resident in the UK. We ask the Government to require candidates for MP be registered to vote and residents of the UK.
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Police Spies Out Of Lives @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"Is the reality that your evidence is all over the place because it's simply not true?" asked David Barr KC, counsel to the #spycops inquiry during the evidential hearing. Today #Barnack is learning why Andy Coles is an unsuitable candidate in the forthcoming #localelections.
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Just heard BBC World Service use the word reprisals of Gaza. Unscripted panellist Alistair Burt of RUSI on Weekend. Violation of laws of war. Oops.
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 28/03/2025
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Nick Robinson on Today telling Peter Hain 'You dug up pitches' (he didn't) & Hain having to correct the pub Tory version of history which Robinson carries round in his head. BBC accuracy much?
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Holborn post office. Rang twice. Sat in my wheelchair for 15 minutes. WTAF. Luckily my wife was with me & able to go to counter.
Bell on wall with wheelchair symbols saying 'press for help' and 'ring for attention'Staircase with 7 steps
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🚨 BREAKING - Road occupied at Strand outside the Royal Courts of Justice. Over 1,000 people are sat in the street holding a time-limited Exhibition in solidarity with the ‘Lord’ Walney 16. The People will not be deterred by extreme sentences of peaceful protestors. 🧵
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"It is “too early” to say whether the UK will strip the wife of Bashar al-Assad, Asma al-Assad, of her British citizenship, the prime minister has said." Guardian. Shamima Begum also went to Syria to marry a terrorist & was stripped in 2024. The Met investigated Asma for torture & terrorism
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Sorry to see my MP Diane Abbott lobbying against the assisted dying bill. She argues no safeguards can be good enough: not the experience of jurisdictions such as Oregon. And she attacks the timing, which is determined by the private members bill lottery. www.dignityindying.org.uk/assisted-dyi...
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Assisted Dying in Oregon, USA - Dignity in Dying
In Oregon, it has been legal for terminally ill, mentally competent adults to have an assisted death since 1997.
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East London Kingfishers @londonkingfishers.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Another regular #EastLondonKingfishers spot is the River Lea at Hackney Marshes where we have had in recent years two breeding pairs. Sadly this summer neither pair appeared to be successful in fledgling any young. Fingers crossed for next year. #birds #kingfisher #londonbirds #birdphotography
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East London Kingfishers @londonkingfishers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Last week it was amazing to meet & help Hamza Yassin (nature cameraman, TV presenter and Strictly Come Dancing winner!) & the wonderful Lira find & film #kingfishers in east London for a nature series out next year. I was very relieved the kingfishers turned up! #LondonBirds #nature #birds
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Debating Room @debatingroom.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Inheritance tax is, of course, based upon the value of assets. Dodgy tax avoiders buying up swathes of farmland have driven up the value of agricultural land. When you tackle tax avoiders by closing loopholes, you actually help farmers who don't benefit from the overinflation of land value...
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
If I don't follow back, it may be because - - you've no bio or posts, so I've no idea if you're interesting/real - I'm following you via a list - you're a lovely transatlantic person & I'm mostly following UK people so as not to get swamped Thanks for following & sorry if I seem ungracious
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Dropped in to Spycops inquiry to find victims' lawyers struggling to persuade chair not to suspend live streaming all month -- affects eg. Helen Steel's rebuttal of Lambert's smears. campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2024/11/04/w... www.youtube.com/live/fnpWnh2... #spycops #ucpi
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Why Has the Spycops Inquiry Banned Livestreams?
In a shock decision, the Undercover Policing Inquiry suddenly announced that it will not be livestreaming the next four weeks of hearings
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Dropped in to Nick Read's evidence session at the Post Office Horizon inquiry & I'm struggling to keep my breakfast down. There's been a fine array of slime balls on the stand but he's definitely a contender. Jason Beer shows him evidence that PO investigation chimps got bonuses for prosecutions.
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 09/09/2024
Now more than ever seems it sweet to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain. -- Junkets But of course we never do. -- Dorothy Parker
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
This would be a good day for @peteapps.bsky.social to start posting. Author of the excellent 'Show Me the Bodies' account of the culpabilities for Grenfell. I really want to hear what he has to say.
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Millfields Users Group @loveourpark.bsky.social · 02/09/2024
Wild Things will be organising family dance sessions as part of the Tree Circle Cinema activities. 17.30 and 18.30. All ages welcome.
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Who wants to see some apples? Proudly harvested on our allotment today. Varieties are (I think): pic 1, back, Red Windsor, front left Sunset, right Red Falstaff; pic2, left Kidd's Orange Red, right Karmijn de Sonnaville.
Apples on a wooden surface, in 3 groups of different sizes and colourings. Small red at the back, medium sized streaked red, yellow and green at front left, and front right large yellow/green.Apples on a wooden surface. The 4 on the left are medium sized and streaked red/green; the 2 on the right are larger and streaked green/yellow
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Sheila Hancock loves visiting Luberon/Provence; modestly but firmly says she doesn't feel comfortable flying there from UK. I already thought she was lovely ... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny - Dame Sheila Hancock: Luberon, Provence, France - BBC Sounds
Sheila wants to whisk Shaun away to the land of lavender. But what about his hayfever?
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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
We’re supporting the wonderful Tree Circle Cinema, a free community event, taking place in South Millfields on 7 September.
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
Really boils my piss. The restoration of the old Scots forest gives me some hope. Land speculators sucked up planting grants & put wrong trees in wrong places, contaminated with sycamores. Kudos to Nick Kempe for fighting. parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2024/08/14/a...
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Abrdn and Akre's tree planting disaster at Far Ralia and the proposed sale of the estate for £12m - parkswatchscotland
I have not visited Far Ralia, the land in the Cairngorms National Park Abrdn’s Property Income Trust (APIT) bought for £7.5m three years ago and has now put on the market for £12m, since January.  I h...
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Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
In Alnwick for family so I rolled round to Barter Books, completely #wheelchair-able & always comes up with treasure, this time the 1941 edn of comic classic No Bed For Bacon. I lent & lost my nice Hogarth reprint to a friend who died last month so maybe her apologetic spirit put it there.
Title page of 'No Bed for Bacon' by Caryl Brahms and S J Simon, published by Michael Joseph in 1941
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