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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

First thing I do after every move is join the library.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Brutal.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Mukad A QuBoy
@michacifdubois

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hannahcarpenter.bsky.social @hannahcarpenter.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Had fun spotting some wildflowers in Malham Tarn bog this week. Not the best photos, but the best I could do from the boardwalk and with two pesky children hurrying me along! I was very happy to have spotted the tiny round-leaved sundew. #wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 12/05/2025

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Slightly amended so I can fit this here:

I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame!

I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one.

I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country.

This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong.

Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues.

I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean?

Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens.

This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way.

You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position.

Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces.

What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly.

The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy.

Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

People don’t want to learn, do they. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 26/04/2025

Suicide hotline calls are surging as disabled people face devastating benefit cuts. The cruelty isn’t a side effect – it’s the point. Charlie Hallam reports #DisabilityJustice #PIPcuts ##MentalHealth

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Welfare changes: how to lose points and money

Labour plans to axe vital support for the ill and disabled. For many, it’s not just policy – it’s a death sentence

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 26/04/2025

Can't cook, dress, eat, or toilet unaided? Soon, that won’t qualify you for help. 1.3 million disabled people face losing support. Read that again. Charlie Hallam reports on #WelfareCuts & #PIPChanges

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Welfare changes: how to lose points and money

Labour plans to axe vital support for the ill and disabled. For many, it’s not just policy – it’s a death sentence

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 25/04/2025

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Farage’s ReformUK was targeting donors in the oil and gas sector who were “very disillusioned”, party treasurer Nick Candy said A party of climate deniers bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry www.ft.com/content/b133...

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Reform UK heads offshore to raise funds from world’s wealthy

Party treasurer Nick Candy says events will be held ‘in restaurants, people’s private homes and on yachts’

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

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hannahcarpenter.bsky.social @hannahcarpenter.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

#uksnow NN15 0/10. It's just rain here 😔 I was looking forward to a bit of snow!

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I'm very sceptical that Phil Stocker, head of the National Sheep Association, can tackle Dartmoor's nature crisis. But I'm encouraged he's now stated that "we have to start with [Dartmoor's] SSSIs" & accepts there's an overgrazing problem on the moor. Words we'll be holding him to!

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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Repost or like if you want more 🌿 Nature 🌳 Trees 🐝 Bees 🍏 Orchards 🐸 Ponds 🥕 Healthy, spray-free veg 🚄 Sustainable public transport 🌍 Climate action 🐞 Insects 🌊 Clean water & air 🦊 Wildlife 🦋 Hedgerows 🌻 Wildflowers ♻️ Waste reduction 🐬 Sewage-free, plastic-free oceans & rivers

Wildflower meadow with red clover, buttercups and long grasses in the foreground

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hannahcarpenter.bsky.social @hannahcarpenter.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A lovely start to the day with some tree planting in my local park! Organised by the Kettering Natural-Ise group in partnership with the council.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

My brain’s not well at all atm but small creative routines can help so I’m going to try to post a (hopefully dopamine-boosting) photo for you every day through till🎄. Some small wreaths bc I really like twiggy circles 🌿:

Small wreaths made using twigs from several different trees and shrubs 🌿

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Kernow Conservation CIC @kernowconservation.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Another roe deer on the camera trap from the summer, this time a female/doe just going for a nice walk in the river!

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Rockingham Forest Vision @rforestvision.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Lots more about this amazing woodland by Carolyn Church here - a full year's diary describing working and living in the wood. Well worth a read! www.rockinghamforest.org.uk/blog/categories/rawhaw

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Today’s poem is called ‘This is Not the Poem I Had Hoped to Write’.

This is Not the Poem I Had Hoped to Write

This is not the poem I had hoped to write
when I sat at my desk and the page was white.
You see, there were other words I’d had in mind,
yet this is what I leave behind.

I thought it was a poem to eradicate war;
one of such power, it would heal all the sores
of a world torn apart by conflict and schism.
But it isn’t.

Lovers, I’d imagined, would quote from it daily,
Mothers would sing it to soothe crying babies.
And whole generations would be given new hope.
Nope.

I had grand aspirations. Believe me, I tried.
Humanity examined with lessons applied.
But the right words escaped me; so often they do.
Have these in lieu.

Brian Bilston

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hannahcarpenter.bsky.social @hannahcarpenter.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

What a treat to see Billy No Mates at Bedford Esquires this evening with @feverbill.bsky.social. New tracks sounding amazing!

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hannahcarpenter.bsky.social @hannahcarpenter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Last week I visited a wonderful independently owned coppice woodland. Third photo shows their award-winning 'dead-hedging' that keeps the deer off the young hazel growth, but naturally degrades just as the hazel is old enough to withstand the nibbling! Very clever stuff!

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hannahcarpenter.bsky.social @hannahcarpenter.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Lovely day yesterday! Looking forward to the next volunteer work party with @wildlifebcn.bsky.social

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Colliery Spoil Biodiversity Initiative @collieryspoil.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

We've just joined @bsky.app, so a bit about us: We're a #nature #conservation initiative founded in 2015 & based in #SouthWales. We aim to achieve greater appreciation (& more positive use) of our misunderstood #collieryspoil sites in #Wales, and legal protection for the most biodiverse examples.

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hannahcarpenter.bsky.social @hannahcarpenter.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A beautiful day for a spot of volunteer work in this special spot in Northamptonshire. We were laying some Blackthorn to get some fresh growth for the Black hairstreak butterfly in Glapthorn Cow Pastures.

Tiny white mushrooms that look like little bonnets growing from a small mossy tree trunk.

A myriad of colourful mosses and lichens on a tree trunk.

The low sun breaks through a few small Blackthorn trees, dense undergrowth.

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hannahcarpenter.bsky.social @hannahcarpenter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I couldn't find 10, but here are all the flowers I found today for #wildflowerhour

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hannahcarpenter.bsky.social @hannahcarpenter.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social having left Twitter a long time ago I have been missing #wildflowerhour so it's great to have it back ☺️ Did I find Wild Clary today? Wickstead Park, Kettering

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 09/11/2024

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

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TESLA = TRUMP

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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