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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Can I encourage any UK citizen to sign this petition in favour of compulsory training in women's health and sex specific medicine for healthcare proffessionals? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... For more background see this substack article mumsnetfrontline.substack.com/p/the-nhs-ha...

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Petition: Establish mandatory training to tackle medical misogyny in the NHS

We want the government to make comprehensive training in women’s health and sex-specific medicine mandatory for all healthcare professionals, in order to tackle what many see as a culture of medical m...

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

1. #MarshTit (I think) @wildlifebcn.org Waresley Woods 2 & 3 Juvenile cuckoo being fed by a reed warbler @rspbengland.bsky.social Fowlmere 4. Hummingbird hawk moth @rspb.bsky.social The Lodge #wildlife #naturephotography #birdphotography

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Can anyone help me identify the #bumblebees in these pictures? I think one is a buff-tailed bumblebee, are the others ruderal bumblebees and could the larger one be a queen?

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Jess Whitecroft (she/her) @jesswhitecroft.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It was inevitable, I suppose. I never met a fox who didn't want to do battle with a bin.

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I've just donated to the DEC Venezuela Earthquake Appeal to help provide lifesaving food, water, cash and medical care in Venezuela. You can donate here, and your donation will be doubled! www.dec.org.uk

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Disasters Emergency Committee

Two catastrophic earthquakes have hit Venezuela. Buildings were reduced to rubble in minutes. Now the survivors urgently need support. Please donate now.

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Request for help from the other place

A plea for help finding a stolen Oboe (a Howarth S5) taken from Peter Facer at St Pancras station on 14th June.
(Reposted on X by David Benedict)

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Some photos from a very enjoyable day @RSP Ouse Fen reserve a few days ago (1/2): 1. Little Egret 2. Reed Bunting (male) 3. Reed Bunting (Female) 4. Chinese Water Deer

A little egret - a small white member of the heron family

A male reed bunting (black head streaky brown back) on top of some reed seed heads

A female reed bunting (streaky brown sparrow-sized bird)

Chinese water deer peering through the reeds)

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Great interview by Sean Farrington on the Today programme on Radio 4 grilling McDonald's UK boss Lauren Schultz about the abuse of young staff in their restaurants and what they are doing to try to improve and satisfy the EHRC. Interview was at around 06:16.

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I've just signed the Greenpeace petition aimed at banning UK local councils from using pesticides which affect polinators. Please consider doing the same. act.gp/3ZExhpi

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ACTION: Sign the petition and tell the UK government to protect our pollinators.

The UK’s pollinator numbers are dropping heavily - we need the UK government to step in and protect them.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A few photos from @wildlifebcn.org Warseley Woods a couple of days ago. Lots of birdsong and #wildflowers. 1. Bluebell 2. Oxlips 3. Primrose 4. Wood anenomes

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Haven’t posted this for a few weeks. Aging absolutely tremendously

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Europeans when asked to unblock the strait of Hormuz...

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Someone in south east London knows who the driver of the red car who intentionally ran over a Muslim woman in Abbey Wood. Please share this if you don't know them, please report them if you do.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

From yesterday's Observer.

Christopher who?

In May, a party founded eight years ago, with no record in national government and only eight MPs, will fight elections in Wales and Scotland, and for control of councils across England, with every chance of winning many of them. British politics is being reshaped by Reform UK. This is a result of Nigel Farage's personality and of Christopher Harborne's money - £9m, from a fortune amassed largely through cryptocurrency investments. The party would not be able to field candidates, run social media operations or door-to-door campaigns if it weren't for the Harborne war chest. There is a template for crypto-funded campaigning - in the US, where it is viewed as having led to securing crypto-friendly legislation and sweetheart deals to enrich crypto charlatans and undermine transparency and accountability in politics.

Reform threatens to destroy the Conservatives as a party of government and divide communities, increasingly along ethnic lines and with overtly racist arguments. It also poses the most serious threat to Keir Starmer's government, Harborne lives in Thailand and owns a 12% stake in the Tether stablecoin. Little else is known about this intensely private man. Yet he can influence the course of politics, seemingly without either much of a business or life in the UK. It's a lot like overseas interference in British democracy.

Didn't someone once say: "Take back control"?

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Just thinking how smug the staff, alumni and students of Oxford University must be feeling just now having swerved a Mandelson chancellor.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This should be posted under every post Farage sends and quoted at him in every interview he gives - forever.

For the safety of the Western world, we need Donald Trump to win the
election.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

When are people going to be held accountable for the nonsense slop and puff they emit.

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I am quite sure that the Trumpsters who tried to overthrow the government on January 6 we're asked to stop. The police officers did not shoot them in the head.

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Redpoll after the alder seeds and velvet shank mushrooms @rspb Fowlmere on Sunday.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

seeing as how he loves renaming everything, the Epstein Files should be called the Trump-Epstein Files

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This is very cheeky of me @richardkbroughton.bsky.social but would you be able to confirm these identifications? I've looked at books, tried the Merlin app and Google Lens but am still not 100% sure if the Linnets really are Linnets or are in fact Corn Buntings. I foolishly didn't pay enough 1/2

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

#birdwatching #birds Can anyone confirm for me whether I have the correct IDs for these birds: 1. Linnet (female?) 2. Linnet (female - taking off?) 3. Corn Bunting 4. Linnet (male?) Many thanks

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

There is something wrong about public procurement.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The Telegraph sides with Trump against the BBC and, so, the country. Private Eye sums up its feeble-minded, fawning betrayal beautifully.

The Telegraph

This is how Trump can sue the BBC and make them pay
The US president has shown he knows how to take on media organisations and win

THE DAILY
TRUMPOGRAPH

Trump Praises Trumpograph For Praising Trump
LAST night President Trump trumpeted the Trumpograph for its fearless praising of Donald Trump.
"Unlike the corrupt and failing BBC, the Trumpograph is not afraid to be completely unbiased in its total adoration of Donald
Trump," said Trump.
In response the Daily Trumpograph said, "It is vital we objectively report on how great Trump is for praising us."
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ON OTHER PAGES
• Why Donald Trump should ask Elon Musk to buy the Telegraph and save us all, writes Sir Charles Moore-Trump-Please.

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Betony, Self-heal, hogweed and (I think) welted thistle seen at Brownes Piece by Waresley Woods #WildlifeBCN for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Clouded yellow butterfly spotted @rspb.bsky.social Ouse washes reserve yesterday (it took on a passenger for the second photo)... @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Clouded yellow butterfly on a yellow flower

Clouded yellow butterfly with tiny fly on its wing

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Seen at #RSPBFowlmere: Kingfisher, grey heron and cormorant

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Anyone know if this is true??? Not great.

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Spotted this dragonfly on a walk close to our south-west cambridgeshire village. I think it is a female Southern migrant hawker (Aeshna affinis) @britishdragonflies.bsky.social Are they common in Cambridgshire?

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Brexiters and Leave voters upset with the Gibraltar agreement should direct their anger at the real cause of it: Brexiters and Leave voters.

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Some photos from a walk in @wildlifebcn.org Gransden and Waresley Woods reserve:

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Wildlife Trust BCN @wildlifebcn.org · 02/06/2025

💚Want to see our headquarters gardens brimming with wildlife? Pop along to our annual Open Garden event this weekend Saturday 7th June at the Manor House in Cambourne. 👉It's free entry - you can view more information on our website here www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2025-...

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

@guitarmoog.bsky.social just in case this little gem didn't cross your timeline.....

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Andrew Neil now.... and exactly four months ago. A great example of the British Right finally catching up. Their primary objective of 'owning the libs' has hit brutal reality.

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

A lighter note from the other place in a dark time....

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Democracy dies in deference

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Great crested grebes and a male teal - @WildlifeBCN Godmanchester Nature Reserve on Tuesday

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Well I hope the postmodernists are happy with themselves as that’s the Enlightenment project - truth, equality, rationality, reason, secularism, rights, democracy - well and truly finished.

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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 02/02/2025

#WorldWetlandsDay! "Strengthening the voice and representation of young people around the world is essential for wetland conservation”. We agree! Young people everywhere hold often-untapped insights that are vital to the effort to safeguard our planet’s #wetlands. We need a mosaic of perspectives…

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

What gets me about this conversation (and many others like it) from the other place is the implication that if Rudakubana or his parents had been asylum seekers then the rioting and attacks on hotels, the police etc would have been ok.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Been thinking about this cartoon. For no reason. Really. It's from 1889 -- during the Gilded Age.

A color cartoon from Puck Magazine in 1889 showing a row of huge "fat cat" bankers looming over the Senate. It's titled "Bosses of the Senate."

A photo of the billionaires at Trump's inauguration.

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Ian W @ianw9999.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

MEGA = Make Elon Go Away

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