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Roz Kidd @rozkidd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just saw this mental new Korean film, HOPE at the Curzon Soho. Massive adrenalin rush of a bonkers thriller, full of surprises. Audience squealed with delight throughout and one man laughed like crazy but only at the very end....Enjoy! #hopefilm

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From the surprisingly experimental Step up 3D - although I'm a bit sad I couldnt find the formation tractor driving sequence from Namastey London on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gt6...

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Step up 3D I won't dance scene

YouTube video by Bálint Kámán

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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AppleInsider @appleinsider.com · 28/09/2026

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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Meta's new AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions

In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.

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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 21/09/2026

🍄 Looking for a way to explore #fungi with groups of young people? Fungi Connect offers a creative way to discover the fascinating world of fungi. 👉 Find out more & sign up: ukfungusday.co.uk/fungiconnect Supported by @SummerfieldBooks.com #mycology #education

A poster advertising Fungi Connect, with photos of fungal artwork and young people at a table.

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

China's 2025 exports of solar, EVs, wind turbines, and batteries avoided 374 million tons of CO2. Equal to UK & Portugal emissions. That's 31% more than China's 2024 exports. China's EV exports to Uruguay drove EV market share from 5% to 56% in 2.5 years. esgnews.com/china-clean-... #energysky

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China Clean Tech Exports Avoid 374 Million Tons of CO2

374 million tons: Chinese clean technology exports avoided an estimated 374 MtCO2 in 2025, exceeding the UK’s annual emissions. 6.9 billion tons: Over

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24/09/2026

Wait til he hears about the UK newspapers....

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Great fun working on this dark doom-laden jidai-geki trilogy. Thank you disc producer Andrew P. Kirkham for including me!

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am sick to death of the lie that these murderous thugs have 'legitimate concerns'.

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I have to say, the revelation of Reform paying to get polls published in the newspapers reflects most badly on the quality of political coverage and honesty in The Times and The Telegraph as much as it does Reform itself.

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Piddington’s ill-considered, tone-deaf response to the Home Office’s poorly-PR’d decision will now for ever be remembered as a tipping point in modern Britain’s descent into a swirling Charybdis cesspool of cognitive dissonance.”

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Far more land is covered by golf courses, quarries or airports.”

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh yes, it's that time of year! The Funeral Bell, Galerina marginata - one of our deadliest but oddly beautiful. #fungifriends #shroomscrolling #mycology #fungi #fungiphotography

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sad to hear of the passsing of Jeremy Thomas, one of those stalwarts who kept the British film industry alive and created more than a few classics on the way - THE SHOUT and MERRY CHRISTMAS MR LAWRENCE immediately spring to mind.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit.

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Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk · 12/09/2026

My first anthology of lost stories by female Victorian authors from 2017 is now available to own as a pdf. It was this book and its sequel that got me the gig with the British Library. You can see where it all began! buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains/...

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A SUGGESTION OF GHOSTS

In 2017 I edited my first book of lost ghost stories, A SUGGESTION OF GHOSTS: SUPERNATURAL FICTION BY WOMEN 1854 - 1890. Discoveries included 'A Speakin'' Ghost' by Annie Trumbull ...

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Great news form down under! THE J-HORROR VIRUS documentary I made with @sarahappleton.bsky.social is finally get a physical release in this amazing box set of early J-horror classics and obscurities from Japan. Oh yes, and I have a commentary on INSECT WOMAN too....

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers.

Arron Banks

Going through Heathrow today, there wasn't one
white face in security or airport services. The
Home office is staffed by the type of people we
are trying to keep out! What hope?

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anyone seen the recent Delhi-set psychological horror series 'Khauf'on amazon prime? It sounds sort of intriguing, but I've not heard anyone really talking about it in my circles yet.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The "stop the boats" movement is being driven by the type of English suburban racist who thinks that one black family living in their street is one too many. Yes, it really is as simple as that, and it has been for decades. There is no intellectual depth to this stuff. It is pure, distilled hate.

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Hayley Scanlon @hayleylscanlon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Priority booking is open for the Shohei Imamura retrospective at the ICA so the full programme is online now. Includes some of his rarer documentaries such as Karayuki-san, plus some films where he was an assistant director such as Kinuyo Tanaka's The Moon Has Risen

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ICA | The Lower Depths: The Cinema of Shohei Imamura

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Very sad news. I wonder who will replace him? My vote is for Frances Tophill.

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One of the topics we looked at in our documentary The Creeping Garden ten years ago was slime moulds place in debates about what constitutes intelligence. If you've not seen it, the Blu-ray is still available from @arrowvideo.bsky.social here: www.arrowfilms.com/p/the-creepi...

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The Creeping Garden Blu-ray+DVD | Arrow Films

Shop The Creeping Garden Blu-ray+DVD at Arrow Films. Free UK Delivery

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

But OAPs holding up bits of cardboard with “Palestine Action” written on them are designated terrorists.

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Finally a few things of note out over the weekend, during a womble around Cranbrook, the most striking of which was this pair of Scarletina Boletes (Neoboletus praestigiator) - would have been even more striking if the slugs hadn't got their first! #fungifriends #fungi #fungiphotography #mycology

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“The people in Nepal and Tibet who faced this massive disaster live beneath a danger produced elsewhere, on a stretch of river no arrangement has made a standing obligation to watch.”

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“It takes 28 live images per second. If you brush your teeth for the dentist-recommended twice-daily two minutes, that is 6,720 images a day and 2,452,800 images a year. For context, there are slightly fewer frames than this in Stanley Kubrick’s entire filmography.”

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Home - Financial Times

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Seems strange that the obits for Richard O’Sullivan are all leading with mentions of his 70s sitcom work in stuff like Robin’s Nest, which you’d have to be in your sixties to remember, whereas for me, he will always be Dick Turpin, the show that inspired Adam Ant’s Stand and Deliver.

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A new book on British Earthstars by Jonathan Revett is now available to preorder from @summerfieldbooks.com #MycoBookClub #fungi #FungiFriday #Mycology www.summerfieldbooks.com/product/brit...

14. Geastrum rufescens Pers.

Rosy Earthstar

<<< rufescens = red, reddening >>>

Icons: Pegler et al. (1995) p103; Jeppson (2013) p168; Læssøe et al. (2019) p1249.

A medium to large sized species with thick fleshed pinkish-red non-hygroscopic rays, a fimbriate peristome and stalked spore sac

Unexpanded fruitbody: Subglobose, 30mm 40mm.

Expanded fruitbody: 50mm - 90mm with 5-8 non-hygroscopic rays, flattened or arching with age.

Mycelial layer: Persistent, encrusting debris.

Fibrous layer: Pale grey brown

Fleshy layer: Warm reddish pink, flesh up to 8mm thick when fresh, quickly cracking and falling apart, darker with age but normally with residual reddish tones.

Spore sac: Subglobose 10mm 30mm diameter, greyish buff or light brown, smooth or minutely hairy (hand lens needed!) and with a fimbriate peristome which is often ill-defined and a short stem.

Mature Spore Mass: Dark brown.

Spores: Globose, 3.8µm 4.3µm, covered in elongated warts up to 0.5µm high.

Capillitial hyphae: 4.0µm 8.0µm, thick walled, tapering, encrusted.

Habitat: Rich litter in both deciduous and coniferous woodland, parks, arboretums.

Distribution: An uncommon species but well represented across Britain.

Discussion:

Unmistakable when fresh, thick fleshed with some degree (often very intense) of pinkish red tones and a weakly defined fimbriate peristome. The spore sac often degrades very quickly, especially around the peristome and can end up with several tears and holes. The short stem is best seen in mature specimens when all the flesh has eroded.

Unlikely to be confused with other earthstars when fresh but old specimens can resemble Geastrum michelianum or even Geastrum fimbriatum however the rays normally have dark reddish tones and sometimes dried patches of the thick flesh. The spores are also larger than G fimbriatum & G michelianum.

Often found in and around rotting tree stumps or on big thick piles of needle litter.

European Distribution & Species:

Common and widespread a…

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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Delighted to have an audio commentary on this US release of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s quite wonderful THE THIRD MURDER vinegarsyndrome.com/products/the...

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FrightFest @frightfest.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Charles Band is in the building signing his new book!

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Billy OceanGate 🇵🇸 @stitzch.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It is mad that the UK is cracking down on political dissent, labelling protestors terrorists and getting rid of trial by jury in England and it’s all basically for this guy

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/08/2026

Drought stricken soil is baked solid, water cannot sink in. This is how we go from deadly heatwaves to flash floods that wash away whole communities. We’re planning major wetland restorations in Bath and elsewhere to slow that water down. protect.earth/articles/wet...

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Wetland Restoration | Protect Earth

Wetlands are one of the UK’s most overlooked ecological superpowers, vital for biodiversity, flood resilience, water quality, carbon storage, and long-term p...

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I've just submitted the manuscript for my next book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY. It's about the loss of England's chalk downland - a tale of flowers, fertility, fascism and freedom. Published by William Collins on 22nd April 2027; pre-order here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Photo shows the printed manuscript for my book, The Ghosts of Chalk Country, by Guy Shrubsole. Background shows a cork board covered in old postcards, photos and paintings of chalk landscapes, including some Eric Ravilious watercolours, and a postcard of the Cerne Giant wearing underpants.

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Bengi Kendrick @fungiwithbengi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Collybia Clouds - Syzygospora mycetophila New to me While I want to see, touch, and learn about all the fungi, this one has been near the top of my non-literal list for a very long time since it combines my love of mushrooms and fungal parasites

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Wildlife Nomads @wildlifenomads.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This fish was supposed to be extinct! Until rediscovered accidentally... For 66 million years coelacanths existed only as fossils, until a living one was hauled up off South Africa in 1938. It took 15 years to find a second one! #coelacanth #fish #wildlife #ocean #sealife

A large dark coelacanth swimming above a rocky underwater slope, body covered in pale spots, lobed fins clearly visible in blue water.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

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Jasper Sharp @jaspersharp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“Deaths of raptors such as buzzards, eagles and hen harriers are often linked to shooting estates because of fears from gamekeepers that they will prey on birds including grouse, partridge and pheasant.”

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