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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Devonians were horrified to learn last week of plans for a massive AI data centre near Great Torrington, north Devon. The proposals from company XLinks Ltd would cover 850 acres of farmland. But who owns the land? I decided to investigate. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Plans for massive data centre near Great Torrington in Devon

Xlinks wants to build a Devon data campus but is facing opposition from residents.

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Instead of this mealy-mouthed crap about access being dangerous, why don't Dŵr Cymru put some of those most expensive water bills in the UK toward doing your job and facilitating access? And quit filling our rivers with shite while you're at it. Read the room.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

2/ Releasing free data & maps of who owns the vast majority of land will enable greater public scrutiny of what goes on behind the barbed-wire fences that crisscross the countryside. The new Land Use Framework is an ambitious step towards making England a greener, fairer and more pleasant land.

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Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is a great news story. But it's also an interesting access story; revealing of how we talk, and think, about access rights. Nightjar are an 'amber' list species. They're ground nesters. And they roost in the sorts of habitats which often overlap with existing access land in England and Wales.

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Nightjars make 'remarkable comeback' to South Downs National Park

An ecological survey has found 109 nightjar territories in the lowland heaths of east Hampshire.

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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This May sees the release of Our Land - a feature length documentary film about the Right to Roam campaign, directed by Orban Wallace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=est-...

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Our Land Trailer

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It's utterly mad. These people are the opposite of terrorists. THEY WANT PEACE. The police know they're not terrorists. The government knows they're not terrorists. Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action

Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

BREAKING: Protestors outside Truro Cathedral in Cornwall, hold signs which say: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." Similar protests are also taking place today in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Derry.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The Freedom Flotilla sailing toward Gaza is not just carrying life-saving aid. It is carrying solidarity, hope and our shared humanity.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Live tracker of the Madleen freedom flotilla: freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/

Photo of the Madleen flotilla with text that says “ALL EYES ON DECK”

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Netpol @netpol.org · 21/05/2025

Kneecap's Mo Chara is the latest example of how terrorism arrests no longer bear any relationship whatsoever to any actual threat to the British public (and certainly not the audience at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town). Instead they've become the end product of contrived rightwing outrage

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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

WE WON! The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature. But we're just getting started. It was never just about Dartmoor. We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.

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gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social @gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Here’s a drawing I did in my sketchbook of an AI data center burning. Pen and ink on paper.

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The Supreme Court, most UK institutions, have been captured by the campaign of stochastic terrorism waged by the media and the fascists against our Trans comrades, now defining them out of the Equality Act, as Streeting removes what little there is of trans healthcare in this country. Social murder.

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Vigil outside #Cornwall Council to remember more than 17,400 children murdered by Israeli forces in #Gaza. We spoke the names of 100s of dead children. Last year Cornwall Council appointed the director of an Israeli-owned military equipment company to chair its Economic Forum.

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Rachel Donald @racheldonald.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Politics is spoken of as if it has no impact on our bodies, as if backs don’t bend and feet don’t bleed and stomachs don’t grumble and heads don’t spin with every decision made at the seat of power. Hunger and pain is spoken of as bad economies. www.planetcritical.com/p/we-have-th...

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We Have The Right To Defend Ourselves

When peaceful means aren't enough

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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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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Currently reading Omar El Akkad’s book ‘One Day, everyone will have always been against this’. It’s everything I’m feeling and coming to terms with.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

After 14 years of Conservative rule, we were told that austerity was over. That was a lie. A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Falmouth and Cornwall folk, come watch a documentary about Dartmoor and listen to Charlotte Bill, @lewis-winks.bsky.social and I have a yap about land rights. The Poly, 2nd of April, 7.30pm. Tickets here: thepoly.org/whats-on/eve...

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A stand-off this morning in Falmouth between residents, police and contractors over the felling of healthy lime trees. Cornwall Council refusing to release the report as to why the trees are being felled. Postponed again due to two protesters climbing the trees after police threatened arrest.

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Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

An early start in Falmouth this morning, as I joined dozens of local residents to support them in their battle to stop the destruction of their three beloved lime trees by the philistines at Cornwall County Council & their henchmen at Devon & Cornwall Police

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Yesterday was a bit of a whirlwind as I found myself in the midst of London Book Fair for the launch of the book Yussef Rafik and I worked on, How to be an Eco Explorer, as well as the imprint @moonandbirdbooks.bsky.social. Loved meeting so many people I’ve been working with for the past year!

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Lewis Winks @lewis-winks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you're near Falmouth, there's a screening of Dartmoor Calling on the 2nd April -charting the radical history of the national park, from Syliva Sayer to modern campaigns for access and nature. Q&A with @hollyastle.bsky.social and I included! @righttoroam.bsky.social thepoly.org/whats-on/eve...

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This isn’t allowing access to wind spaces, it is extending the rule of enclosure to those with money to pay for this access. It’s an exclusivity model that continues to separate people from the land. Right to roam means a right to roam for all.

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Tomato plant watercolour sketch 🍅

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Krime @krime.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Scarcity isn’t real.

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 24/02/2025

There's a reason that AI is so beloved by fascists right now—like fascism, it tempts us to abandon the complexity of the world for the simplicity of power, & to give up the need to do the difficult but necessary work to understand the world by allowing some authority to impose its own understanding

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025

“No amount of normalisation and ‘validation’, however, can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that, I want to argue, is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful, then they wouldn’t want it.”

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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Scapegoating refugees has always been a deliberate ploy by governments to distract from their own domestic failures. Pandering to Reform UK will backfire — and vulnerable people will pay the price. End dangerous crossings by opening safe routes for fellow human beings instead.

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Efficiency doesn’t create more time, it just speeds up capital, so slow down and reject AI. Foster meaningful friendships with others in resistance who understand what we’re up against, and build those networks of trust.

Two fly agarics with mycelial roots. Text included “slow down, build networks of trust, break down the rot”

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I wrote this thing. It's far from perfect, but at least it's done. Feedback welcome, especially if you're actually doing something. jksteinberger.medium.com/a-few-points...

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A few points for the left

A few thoughts as the flames of fascism rise up all around, consuming people and planet.

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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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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I’ve received my advance copy of a book I worked on last year! ‘How to be an eco explorer’, published by new imprint Moon + Bird, and written by Yussef Rafik. This is one of my favourite spreads, I loved the challenge to incorporate lots of cold climate animals from around the world into one image.

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Just Stop Oil @just-stopoil.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

🚨 BREAKING: DOCTOR IMPRISONED FOR 1 YEAR FOR TAKING NONVIOLENT ACTION TO PROTECT LIVES ⛓️ Dr Patrick Hart, a GP, has been sent to prison today after disabling petrol pumps in August 2022. 💸 He joins 19 other Just Stop Oil political prisoners. Sign the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Ah yes automated killing machines that don’t have human responsibility for carrying out killings … what could go wrong

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

A little rock pool illustration for a magazine article.

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Velvet shanks, my favourite winter mushroom. Capable of surviving through being frozen solid.

Velvet shank mushrooms on a stump. Clumps of orange clustered mushrooms.

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

An oak gall ink drawing of Durgan, Cornwall

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Some good news. Protection of 40,000 miles of footpaths and rights of way secured.

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

There’s no leader in a murmuration, but starlings on the outer edges of the group have a part to play in steering them, they are a complex adaptive system. It seems to me reflective of grass-roots organising, where change comes through the outer parts, to ripple through the rest of the community.

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Today’s trespass was on the grounds of Avening Court, a property originally owned by Brictric, Saxon lord of Avening. William the conqueror and Queen Matilda later resided there after Matilda threw Brictic in a dungeon for not reciprocating her feelings.

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Lovely shout out for our Kernow group in this! Great work guys 💚

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Seven swans a swimming. Every year I illustrate a line from the twelve days of Christmas to see how my style has developed. 🦢❄️

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Canada geese — one of four designs by @hollyastle.bsky.social for this year's Caught by the River winter cards. There are a few packs left in our Bandcamp shop: rivertones.bandcamp.com/merch/cbtr-x...

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds - Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate Story by @damiengayle.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds

Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Cover reveal for a project I worked on earlier this year! Published by Moon and Bird imprint, and written by the talented Yussef Rafik, this has been such a fun book to illustrate! It’s available to pre-order now from various booksellers and is out next year 💚

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Inspired by the nearly home trees, Kernow

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Our @hollyastle.bsky.social seasonal cards are back from @print.work and looking lovely – printed on heavyweight recycled Perlino Cotton. Cards come in packs of 4 with recycled envelopes & minimal extra packaging. Pre-orders are going in the post this week! rivertones.bandcamp.com/merch/cbtr-x...

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Holly Astle @hollyastle.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Today Right to Roam Kernow trespassed on Enys estate, which spans over 1000 acres and has been owned by the same family all the way back to the 13th century. Photos by @alex-thornton.bsky.social

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