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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 33m

#LakeDistrictDiary day 5 An "easy" day today - Seatoller to Watendlath from Rosthwaite then back via Surprise View and Ashness Bridge to the lake road where we got the bus back. Just phone shots as my camera is hopefully drying out after we both took an impromptu dive into the Derwent 🙁

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LakeDistrictDiary day 4 Great End via The Band Fantastic route up the fell with wonderful views 😊 Had a brilliant day

The dramatic western flank of Great Gable catching sunlight and cloud shadows

Looking out over Seathwaite Fell to Derwentwater and Skiddaw beyond

Crags on Esk Pike, Bow Fell in shadow behind

Great End late afternoon across Styhead Tarn

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#LakeDistrictDiary day 3 A quieter day - short walk around the Dubwath Silver Meadows reserve then lovely soup at the Bassenthwaite Station cafe. An afternoon at Rheged seeing the wonderful Brilliance of Birds exhibition.

Reed beds and trees at Dubwath Silver Meadows, clouds on the fells beyond.

Reed beds and willows at Dubwath Silver Meadows, Sale Fell beyond.

Dining car at Bassenthwaite Station cafe.

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#LakeDistrictDiary day 2 Seatoller over High Spy, Maiden Moor and Cat Bells then to Lodore via the Cumbria Way. Open top bus ride back 😁

Looking up to the Allerdale Ramble above Seatoller, sunlight on the fells.

Two herdwick sheep peep over the skyline to keep their eyes on us.

Silhouette of a ridge and trees hides a peep into Borrowdale with green fields bathed in sunlight.

Looking across the blue of Derwentwater to Skiddaw under a cloudless sky.

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Been really disorganised with posting photos recently but I'll try to be better this time! Here goes ... #LakeDistrictDiary day 1 Just a half day's walk this pm after finishing our drive up, a lovely one to Angle Tarn from Hartsop. Breezy and showery later on but brilliant to be out on the fells 😊

Looking down to Brotherswater with fields bright green in the sfternoon sun and long shadows from the trees.

From a path high on the fellside patches of sunlight catch green fields and bronze bracken on the valley sides.

Angle Tarn sits blue in a fellside hollow, higher fells picked out in sunlight beyond under a blue sky with fluffy white and grey clouds.

Sunlight illuminates bracken on the steep higher fellside above a small stone building.

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Feminism doesn't require women to see trans+ people as the enemy. For many of us, feminism has always meant challenging inequality, standing alongside people whose rights are under threat, and refusing to accept that one group's equality must come at another's expense. That's our feminism too.

Woman walking down a street outside, wearing a scarf and shoulder bag. The quote from one of the women who signed our letter reads

“I have grown incredibly exasperated at the portrayal of ‘gender critical’ perspectives as representing all women when my feminism has ALWAYS been inclusive and intersectional.”

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Wild Indigo Artisan Design @wildindigoartisan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So pleased to be asked to be part of the wonderful Combat Stress Secret Art Showcase and Auction again. This year we are going larger, up to A5 size not postcard size. Browse & bid on original, anonymous artworks created by professional artists, celebrities and veterans, or me 😊…. #SecretArtAuction

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🔊 Registration is now open for The Non-Estuarine Waterbird Survey (NEWS)! Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/webs-news NEWS monitors waterbirds along stretches of open coastline that aren't covered by estuary surveys, helping us build a more complete picture of wintering birds around the UK. #UKBirding

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

Might have done a bit of a rant at my MP. It's quite a nice feeling actually. Give it a go.

It has been promoted and pushed and egged and funded and nurtured by social media, where the racism, the hate. the disdain for our country's values is open and constant - and which remains unregulated to the cost of us all; and by the British media, also entirely unregulated (I suppose we could crowd fund some dentures for Ofcom but I remain unconvinced that it would know what to do with them), including those parts of it which are most trusted by the British public (link to BBC article below, where the thugs are referred to as if they are ordinary protesters, and a life-threatening criminal act in the channel aqainst RNLI staff is relegated to a brief mention in paragraph 15).

We used to hear "both sides" from the news. and even then, that was an absurd position, where only one side ever provided facts, and the other only ever provided feelings. We don't hear that any more. Now we only hear one side. it is the racist. hateful side. and it is framed, always, as "legitimate concerns".

They are not legitimate. We saw no village-wide protest from Piddington, when they had 2,600 mostly white young men in those barracks, and endured crimes, including rape, associated with those men. But 1200 brown men? Suddenly that's "legitimate concerns". It isn't. It's racism.

We cannot predicate the human rights of a person upon the strong feelings of a group that hates them.

That is not how human rights work ir this country, or it didn't used to be. We have done precisely this to trans people in this country - handed their harmless lives directly to the tiny, well- connected, well-funded group that hates them most. We are now normalising racism in precisely the same way. This is going to destroy our society.

What we need from the government urgently is:-
• Press regulation, sharp-eared enough to identify a dogwhistle and bold enough to call it what it is: with the good of our inclusive society at it's core and meaningful punishments
• Social media regulation: frankly X should be shut down. and the embarrassing fact that we don't want to annoy the chief nazi because he owns Starlink needs to be faced, because X's continued influence or our society must end. Facebook isn't much better: regulate them or end them.

• We need clear, unequivocal statements from our PM. and from our MPs, about the fact that this is racism and terrorism. It is not "legitimate concerns".
• We need these Blackshirts and their leaders proscribed as terrorists, and sentenced accordingly
• And we need a concerted public information campaign to offset the colossal, constant untruths the press and social media have propagated: our society has hardly any crime. Refugees aren't disproportionately criminal. And tell people what benefits refugees get because it's shockingly low and people believe utter nonsense they read on Facebook. Educate people! We used to have incredibly effective public information films on prime time TV - I'm old enough to remember when drink driving went from "a bit of a laugh, ho ho ho evervone does it," to "nobody does that now" virtually overniqht, because of such a campaign.

I realise government is hard, and that our current qovernment is tasked with undoing 20 years of utter incompetence. But that must start from the basis of British values. "Respect and dignity" isn't an idea. It's an action, taken every day, it's the courage to stand up against hate, every day, and to call it what it is and to say the uncomfortable thing and sometimes, yes, the unpopular thing.

I hope that our government has this courage. I have not seen it yet,
Yours faithfully,

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dream job for an #editor & nature lover! 🐦🌿Apply now ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📅 Full time, Permanent. 📝 £38,710.00 per annum. 📍 BTO HQ in Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid working). Deadline for applications: 30 September 2026. #Ornithology

A Nightingale perches on a branch amongst the green foliage of a bush. Wording over the image reads: We're hiring! Science Communications Manager.

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Travertin📷🍀 @travertin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Canine couture 📷Frank van Dongen #dogs #wildlife #animal #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2ss6WXj

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Friends of the Lake District @friendsoflakes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We’re looking for someone to assist with the day-to-day management of Friends of the Lake District’s land holdings, with a particular focus on our woodlands, and to work across the organisation on wider land management and landscape recovery activities. #jobs #landscape #opportunities

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Saskiarghhhhh Daniel @saskiadanielceramics.com · 15/09/2026

If you're within reach of Acton in London I'll be at a lovely market in Churchfield Road, 1000-1630. Always very buzzy with lots of great sellers and food.

Image shows four carved vases on a pale wooden surface against a white wall. They are blue and white glazed on grey clay. I made them. Text reads: Acton Makers Market, Churchfield Road W3, Saturday 19th Sept, 10:00-16:30

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Dave McKay @mckay.me.uk · 17/09/2026

Finally, a competition Helen Glover can enter with her husband.

BBC News Headline: River home to 500 crocodiles chosen as Olympic rowing venue

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Anyone in the vicinity of the #Sky commentary box in Guadalajara like to just pop in and turn his mic off please?

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now

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Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

VERY EXCITING NEWS. "Wayfarers", the new book by @levparikian.bsky.social is out next April. And Lev has lindy agreed to SIGN and PERSONALLY DEDICATE copies pre-ordered from us. Worldwide postage available. Get your orders in now! HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

Front cover of Wayfarers by Lev Parikian. It's predominantly blue, with wavy swirly lines across it, indicating movement. There are various creatures on the cover. Whales, fish, birds, insects and mammals.

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

They still haven't solved the hallucination problem, then

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️

Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom

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WalkLakes @walklakes.co.uk · 24/08/2026

Someone lost his wedding ring on Saturday, probably between the top of Great Calva and down to the river Caldew. If anyone finds a gold wedding ring with an inscription in side Please let us know and we can put you in touch with them.

Map showing the area where it was probably lost between Great Calva and the River Caldew

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

For @mirandakeeling.com On the train yesterday, as it rocked. Lad: Turbulence! Mum: It's a train, not a plane Lad: Well it's pretty much a land plane

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It looks like another ai wildlife “photo” is doing the rounds. Sigh. So here’s a thread about trying to avoid ai slop

A shiny blue bird with a white throat and breast faces the camera with an intense look. Above it is text saying say no to ai slop.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The most substantial, huge, enormous, immense, vast, massive, colossal, gigantic, giant, mammoth, whopping, ginormous, humungous, scary, alarming, daunting, formidable, intimidating, terrifying, fearsome and petrifying of all the dinosaurs was the thesaurus.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Maybe he just got lost. Often the way when you’re going somewhere for the first time.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In the library Marlene showed me our Yorkshire pudding throwing in the Yorkshire Post!

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A (small?) white butterfly feeding on yellow scabious for #Sharemondays2026

A white butterfly with black spots and dark patches at the half-open wing edges feeds on a small pale yellow scabious flower

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You might like this @mirandakeeling.com Family at the athletics discussing what they were excited to see. Boy and girl probably around 12 and 10. Boy: Pole vault. They run up with a long pole and try to jump over a really high thing. Girl (in a quiet, world-weary voice): I know what a pole vault is.

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Finally a toilet for people who just want a quiet place to pet their duck.

A toilet sign that clearly shows a person petting a duck and not a headless baby.

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Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · 29/07/2026

Join me for a blether over a glass of wine tomorrow evening at the RIAS, Rutland Sq. Edinburgh, and to see a couple of pieces I have in the exhibition from the Scottish Society of Architect Artists. Free entry, all welcome. 6.30pm. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers

YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED TO JOIN US AT THE PREVIEW OF OUR NEW MEMBERS' EXHIBITION "REFRESH", CELEBRATING THE REBIRTH OF THE SSAA AND THE LAUNCH OF OUR NEW WEBSITE.
COME ALONG TO THE RIAS, 15 RUTLAND SQUARE, EDINBURGH FOR A GLASS OF WINE AND CHANCE TO CATCH UP WITH FELLOW ARCHITECTS AND ARTISTS, VIEW THE ARTWORK AND FIND OUT WHAT THE SSAA IS ALL ABOUT!
THURSDAY 30TH JULY FROM 6.30PM
ALL WELCOME
in association with Ligne et Couleur, Europe.

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Association of English Cathedrals @englishcathedrals.co.uk · 29/07/2026

Carlisle Cathedral is hosting the Carlisle and Cumbria Artists 57th annual exhibition in the Fratry Hall this summer with over 280 original paintings by 49 local artists on display. The exhibition includes local landscapes, still life and abstract work. ow.ly/No3f50Zt2N9

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Wild Indigo Artisan Design @wildindigoartisan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New wave rolled onto my website ‘Crest’. I love making these waves, not quite like messing about in the water but it will do for now 😊.

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Mick Houghton @mickh5.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

crossing the bay.....beautiful channels on the north side of #MorecambeBay ....looking out from Bardsea

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Wild Indigo Artisan Design @wildindigoartisan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It been a while but I have a new ‘Oaks in Green’ glass art panel done, available in my online shop. A choice of either a turned oak base or a Cumbrian slate base, both bases beautifully made by UK craftsmen. Visit www.wild-indigo.com to find out more. #trees #glassart #art #nature #artiststwork

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Preening lorikeets for #Sharemondays2026 Not in the wild(!) but a large tropical house

Two multicoloured lorikeets (think small parrots) snuggle together. One preens the top of its friend's head, while said friend looks up adoringly.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you're in London, why not come to St Martin in the Fields for some poems and exquisite choral music on Monday night? It's free and everything...

Crossing The Bar: An Evening of music and words with poet Jay Hulme
Monday 20 July, 6pm

Join members of the St Martin’s Choral Scholars and the Trinity Church, New York Choral Scholars, together with poet Jay Hulme, for an evening of music and poetry exploring themes of the saints and pilgrimage.

The event will last approximately one hour with no interval. Admission is free and all are welcome.

Often to be found high on a crumbling spiral staircase, or alone on a long walk, Jay Hulme is (so the biographies often say) an award winning transgender poet, theologian, speaker, and educator. With a special interest in queer rights, nature, and theology, Jay’s work engages particularly with ideas of faith, place, and identity. Here there are no boundaries, as he intertwines the urban and pastoral; the sacred and mundane; the likely and the impossible.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I’ve been hearing good things about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. People are saying it’s a richly subtle work, with myriad strata of meaning and levels of nuance. They’re saying, in fact, that it has – oh no, oh gosh, oh god I’m so sorry – Menelaus.

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Jill Holliday @jillholl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

In the garden yesterday: gatekeeper, mint moth and acro-bee-tics 🦋🐝

Peeking at an orangey-brown gatekeeper butterfly through a gap in the foliage

A patterned yellow-orange-brown mint moth on a palest pink oregano flowerhead

A bumblebee shows off its wings as it hangs under a pale pink oregano flowerhead

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Jos Buurmans | New Zealand @josbuurmans.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Ridge in Fog - Te Mata Peak, Hawke's Bay, NZ. The fog was thick enough that morning to swallow the valley entirely, but the ridge held its shape above it, catching the first warm light before anything below had a chance to. #photography #landscape #nz

Mossy green ridgeline emerging from morning fog above Te Mata Peak with silhouetted eucalyptus trees at the crest and warm amber light filtering through the mist, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

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Wild Indigo Artisan Design @wildindigoartisan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

First time these finished waves have seen water 😊. Just a wash to remove fingerprints etc before moving onto the stands 👍 #Art #glass #handcrafted #ocean #beachlife

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