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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Record heat in India, Europe and much of the States. Only the early stages of decades of increased climate chaos and it is already hard for many to bear the consequences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Farming worries after India records driest June in over a decade
Weaker monsoon rains are likely to impact farm output but the government says it has enough grain stocks to deal with any shortages.
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
We had a 20th anniversary party. Celebrating Independent publishing But not on a rooftop in London. In a Town Hall in Hebden Bridge. We had a grand time. Tell your friends. @thebookseller.com
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Iain rousham @islandsdrifter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
no to Kushner 😡
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SON OF ANTIFA @highway38.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Vote Democratic Socialism, health care, social security, child care, education funding, gender and racial equality etc etc and etc.
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Last nights meander with my daughter, watching barn owls hunting under the moon. ‘Squeaked’ one in across the length of the field on its way back to the barn. It landed briefly on a fence post right in front of us. Magical. Like a dream every time. If this is my super-power, I’m happy with it. 1/3
Nearly full moon rising above summer fields, hedges & trees, the lights of the next village house glowing in the distance. Stable barn roof, clock tower & trees silhouetted against the last of the apricot sunset sky.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The older I get, the more certain I am that the real meaning of existence is love for life. That is, love for the natural world, all of humanity, and advancing coexistence based on true justice, rights, and respect. 🌍
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
An amazing sea swim this evening, beneath little terns, Sandwich terns and Mediterranean gulls. And, in the dunes on the way back, many thousands of orchids of four species in bloom: marsh helleborine, pyramidal, coccinea early marsh and (not pictured) southern marsh.
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Iain rousham @islandsdrifter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A plan
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The Amazon isn’t just a distant forest,it’s where rivers start, clouds form,& 18% of the world’s freshwater flows to the sea!But deforestation,fires,& poisoned rivers are destroyx this balance. Protecting the Amazon means protecting the nature we all depend on,even close to home.
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Some thoughts on the unique and irreplaceable Vjosa-Narta ecosystem at the heart of the #flamingorevolution in Albania right now. Petition against the destruction of the Vjosa-Narta here: c.org/R76Q28MSZY
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
In today's @theguardian.com country diary by @nicolawriting.bsky.social, heady memories of the 'sweaty, filthy, scratchy glory' of haymaking. #naturewriting #countrydiary
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Country diary: Even in a heatwave, haymaking is a race against time | Nicola Chester
Inkpen, Berkshire: Mow, tedder, rake and bale – it all has to be done before the next rainfall, which is increasingly hard to predict
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The hot & shadeless fields. Days & nights scented with sweet coumarin from the cut grasses & honeysuckle from the hedges, in a process combining work, community, weather & nature, & knowledge just beyond our weather apps. In @environment.theguardian.com today. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Country diary: Even in a heatwave, haymaking is a race against time | Nicola Chester
Inkpen, Berkshire: Mow, tedder, rake and bale – it all has to be done before the next rainfall, which is increasingly hard to predict
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The public remain way ahead of the politicians on realising how much damage is being done to the UK every day we stay out of the EU
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".
A painting which depicts Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
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Iain rousham @islandsdrifter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Keep circulating this post, the Flamingo revolution must succeed - please
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Tony Skerl @tonyskerl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If someone posts before me that’s fine it’s just good to keep this place going
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Let’s not fudge why Starmer is in this mess. Yes, he didn’t have political instinct. Yes, the public is much less patient and more critical. But Starmer was also - to use his own phase - morally bankrupt on key issues of the day, from Gaza, disability benefits, to immigration.
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Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I remember when, I remember, I remember when I was one of Japan's most important and prolific printmakers, and a prominent designer of the shin-hanga movement. Does that make me Kawase? ‘Ushibori in the Rain’, Hasui Kawase, woodblock print, 1929.
A Japanese colour soodcut of a house by a lake in the rain.
‘Ushibori in the Rain’, Hasui Kawase, woodblock print, 1929.
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Jane Rushton @janerushtonart.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Early morning view from the window. A dawn full of promise.
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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
For a few days here the official sunset is 22.28. Sunrise comes a few hours later. This short spell of night-not-night is beautiful, strange & magical. If you've not read Windswept, here’s a bit about the summer solstice. Last night, we walked out into pale gold & silver, moth wings & perfume.
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Let's make it happen.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
“Brexiters blame each other for their cause’s failure” Gove for not deregulating, Johnson for his Irish Sea border and immigration, Farage for losing interest, Frost for his dismal deal and Cummings for lying. But they’re all laughing and binning Brexit is heresy giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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How Brexiters blame each other for their cause’s failure
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings among those criticised by the Leave faithful
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Early stroll. A blackbird hops along the length of a wall. That passing motorbike seems to be angry at something. A broken fence like a half-formed idea. Clouds slowly shapeshift. Oceans of discarded plastic bottles.
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Ukulady @ukulady.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Fbomd was not a corvid but a lyrebird, several in fact on the path. Nearly walked into a female as she ran across the track in front of me. The males were all in great form- display time. All sounds on video were made by the 1 bird which I finally saw on the tree.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Corruption, coping with uncertainty, hugging trees: this week’s round-up of some of the lesser-known Russian newspapers. #ReadingRussia
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Corruption, uncertainty, tree-hugging: a round-up of the more obscure Russian papers
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Dear swallow. Four nests under the stable roof, glancing zips past ours & the horses’ heads & heels, all spring & summer. That claret-red throat & deep blue sheen, the flashes of white & needle-scissors tail, singing with a voice of many on the swing of the electric light cable. How I love thee.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Today’s Russian papers call the Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow “a record attack”, but claim “Russian attacks do more damage to Ukraine than they do to us.” One paper wonders: “From Moscow’s perspective, what level of escalation is permissible, and what isn’t?” #ReadingRussia
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How are Russian newspapers reacting to the Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow?
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Iain rousham @islandsdrifter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“A free ticket to the entire earth`’
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Iain rousham @islandsdrifter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🙄
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Dear lord. Been asked in an overly flattering email, to volunteer feedback & advice from my ‘esteemed literary career’ to help develop an AI storytelling platform, for those that struggle to write, plot, visualise & edit their stories. Presumably as my career lays dying. Anyone else? 1/3
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Tony Skerl @tonyskerl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you read @levparikian.bsky.social book ‘Into the tangled wood’ and I really recommend you do ; you will learn that the Latin name for gorilla is ‘gorilla gorilla gorilla’ . More delightfully this is known as a tautonymic trinomial !
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Iain rousham @islandsdrifter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just adore this…
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A window onto the wild, green world of an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A man dressed in all black scaled the Department of Justice building and tore down the Banner of Trump. 👍 #cdnpoli
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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
morning #coffee, anyone? #BlueTue #ColorADay #RockinTuesday #creeks
looking upstream at Coffee Creek from Coffee Creek Road west of Hwy 3 as it cuts through the Shasta-Trinity National Forest on its way to the confluence with the Trinity River. deciduous & evergreen trees in shades of green line both sides of the creek. the sky is vivid blue with nary a cloud in sight, much to my disliking.
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Paul Gundlach @paulsgundlach.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Happy Tuesday! Five full days 😮 away from Bluesky while out of town. I'm very happy to be back and was so exhausted I fell out of bed this morning to grab this from the house before going back to finish a 10 hour sleep! Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!
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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
There are few things I love more than sleeping among trees & being wakened very early on a summer morning by birdsong & light. Add coffee & it’s bliss. (I am adding coffee.)
Treetops and a little pink cloud in dawn sky.
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“I call it the place where I go to meet the gods.” ~ Hanais Mhilli Excellent and important piece @mongabay.com on what's happening right now in the Vjosa-Narta area of Albania and the Flamingo Revolution aiming to stop the destruction of these irreplaceable sites. news.mongabay.com/2026/06/flam...
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‘Flamingo Revolution’ aims to stop Kushner-backed resort on protected Albanian delta
VJOSA-NARTA, Albania — In late April, heavy machinery began moving into the Pishë Poro-Narta protected landscape on Albania’s Adriatic coast without permits or public notice. Bulldozers and excavators...
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teddyintn @teddyintn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RELEASE ‼️‼️‼️
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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The croft is literally awash with orchids: purples & pinks in a great range of size, leaf/flower types & micro-habitat, dozens of nationally scarce pale cream Lesser Butterfly orchids & the first few spikes of rare tiny whites (Pseudorchis albida). I am very happy 🤗
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Iain rousham @islandsdrifter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is our happy place where we go for lunch or an early supper. An Orchard hiding in plain sight, where few ever dawdle apart from us..🦋
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
St Johns church, Glastonbury peeping through the mist. Photo taken on Glastonbury Tor on Sunday.
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Lindsay Trevarthen @morningoak.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Every year I say I won’t organise another, but here’s my fourth. This year’s theme is water. And there’s a last minute addition - two marine biology workshops on sharks and fish…
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Regular reminder that what Britain desperately needs is “low skilled” care workers - and that these jobs are not actually low skilled at all and should be welcomed by an immigration system that appreciates their huge value. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Wes Streeting plans to increase high-skilled immigration if he becomes PM
Leadership hopeful to also say tax revenues from new North Sea oil and gasfields should be used to cut energy bills
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USA_Patriot_76 @usa-patriot-76.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is fresh and minty again.
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Dɪᴢᴡɪʀᴇ🌀 @dizwire.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Good evening from Minnesota
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