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Darren Hemsley

@hemsleyone.bsky.social
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Not from Helmsley. Birds, Science, Science fiction, gigs, ..

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 23h
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’ve been in Australia for the past month. Too many highlights to list but one of them was successfully seeing a numbat.
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Major Channel 4 news investigation reveals corruption at heart of Tatooine establishment
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/08/2026
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People talk about an institution like Harvard withdrawing a speaking invitation as if it were shutting access to the marketplace of ideas. Except Harvard isn’t the marketplace. YouTube is the marketplace, and you’re welcome to set up your stall there and hawk your wares. Harvard is supposed to be Neiman Marcus or Harrods. You have to earn a place on their shelves because their customers trust them to curate quality. If they discover the shoes you’re selling leak in the winter and hate black people all year round, they’re perfectly entitled to kick you out of their collection.
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You know who wasn't hounded to suicide for dodgy academic research? ANDREW FUCKING WAKEFIELD.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 14/08/2026
#Clacton
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Checkmate, Nige.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When I was a kid we were taught that emissions were warming up the atmosphere, increasing the probability of things like wild fires, even in chilly old Britain. We drew pictures. We wrote to MPs. This was my neighbourhood yesterday My anger at the deniers, obstructionists & shills knows no bounds
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
*BANGS GONG* HELLO ATTENTION THIS IS USEFUL
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I think we can be fairly certain it wasn’t Mitch McConnell.
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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“Everyone brings a different dish, then I’ll splatter them all over the floor.” - Jackson Potluck
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A major new report has shown that large-scale investment in nature recovery could provide a significant boost to the UK economy while helping tackle biodiversity loss, climate change and flooding:
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Nature investment could create 80,000 jobs and boost UK economy by £80 billion
Investing £5-6 billion annually in nature recovery could generate £80 billion in economic activity and create 80,000 skilled jobs over the next decade, according to a new report by the RSPB.
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Serving as an MP is a privilege and should be viewed as such by those who do the job – not as a part-time role or a get-rich-quick scheme. We need a ban on second jobs for MPs now.
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The last of the Eider ducks and ducklings are leaving the island...
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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 24/06/2026
When you combine stuff like this with the ongoing heat jamboree, anyone talking about abandoning net zero should be laughed out of town as not just unserious but deeply, deeply stupid.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/06/2026
A three panel meme of Fred Armisen in Parks & Rec as Raul.

Showing support for Palestine? Straight to jail.

Protesting about climate change? Jail.

Inciting racist riots? Believe it or not, straight to Radio 4 Today programme.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This Country is a board game for the whims of Foreign Billionaires and Oligarchs.
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Sometimes you just have to keep walking
The foot is Malham Cove a high limestone cliff.The top of Malham Covenwith complicated fissured limestone pavementPath onwards toward Malham Tarn with a drystone wall to the right and blue skies..
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 03/06/2026
Imagine if the people giving all their money to Tommy Robinson or Farage Ltd or Restore gave it to community projects instead, I bet they'd end up living in a really nice neighbourhood.
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 03/06/2026
“Legitimate Concerns”
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Eddie Robson will be at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I'm even angrier today about Grade claiming GB News is giving "the majority" the voice that the BBC won't. The BBC has already given people like Goodwin far too much of a voice, yet the right always insist it's not enough.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Today is the 91st anniversary of the last diary entry of the first man who tried to climb Everest solo. Mind you, his plan had been to crash land a plane 14,000 feet up and then stroll the rest of the way, so perhaps he wasn’t destined to succeed 🧵
b/w photo of Maurice Wilson standing up in the cockpit of a small old aeroplane, in front of a hangar, waving at the camera
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE VILLAINIZED, MAN WITH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND A HUGE AMOUNT OF POWER, SIMPLY DO NOT BE A VILLAIN
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Robin in the garden pot just fledged to much excitement from its parents (and bizarrely a tree sparrow).
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"You boy - are the media still pretending it's OK that someone who wants to be Prime Minister covered up a £5 million gift?"
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Doing my bto breeding birds squares up on the Ochil hills and an arctic skua sails by.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
LYR were fantastic last night in the beautiful venue of Cottiers Glasgow. In my infinite wisdom I left my phone in the car, so no beauty here.
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It’s that time of year when I get woken up by the gas jets of hot air balloons over the house
A large orange hot air balloon flies low over trees and rooftops
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I’m suddenly struck by how inappropriate it is to fake your own assassination and then invite RFK jr into your cabinet.
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Nice to get out in the hills for a morning and see wheatear, ring ouzel and black grouse. Still a bit chilly out there though.
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In a slightly more polite form I’ve just been told to stop being an Eeyore and suck it up. And it may have been exactly what I needed.
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"YOU DON'T GET IT WE USE TO HAVE 24 EPISODES A SEASON, NOT 10, SERIES USE TO DO ONE EPISODE THAT WAS A MUSICAL, OR MUPPETS, WE USE TO HAVE EPISODES THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MAIN PLOT AND IT WAS JUST TO STRETCH A SIDE CHARACTERS LEGS TO INDULGE THEIR FANS WITH INFO"
lady grabbing a nd yelling
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Nick Slawicz @ellingtonelms.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.
A 'Dinosaur Smarties' Easter egg.
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Worry Lines @worry--lines.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Know thyself. #webcomic #comicsky #perfectionism
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Roxy Hart @roxyhart.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Scottish sign at a Trump protest years ago. ‘Yer maw was an immigrant you absolute roaster”
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It's weird how a significant proportion of British people despise people on benefits who are apparently sponging off the state, but love millionaires who live offshore to avoid contributing to the economy.
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Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · 11/12/2024
people often ask how I write such good haiku: practice, practice, prac
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Yakhunt @yakhunt.net · 20/03/2026
Reform are banning Christmas, lads
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 11/03/2026
So that’s that, right? We don’t have to put up with endless drivel about how expensive it is to save the planet abd ourselves ever again? Cool.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Researcher Deidre Vercoe checks on the first kākāpō chick of the 2026 breeding season. Learn more about why scientists hope the birds will enjoy a baby boom this year: www.scientificamerican.com/article/kaka...
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Darren Hemsley @hemsleyone.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Barrowlands crowds are usually good but last night they were fully up for loudly singing along to Gene.
Martin Rossiter and Steve Mason of Gene performing at Barrowlands Ballroom bathed in blue light.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A massive bloom of rimu berries in New Zealand fueled a mating surge among the critically endangered Kākāpō. spklr.io/6044E87xp 📸: New Zealand Department of Conservation
The team hopes enough chicks will survive this year to bring the world Kākāpō population to 300—a major milestone for a species that was teetering with just 51 individuals in 1995.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"
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