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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 21m

Something of an opportunist shot of a squirrel that crossed my path. #Squirrel #Wildlife #Nature #Photography

Sitting on top of an old wooden fence, the squirrel faces to right of the lens, tail hanging down.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 42m

I keep thinking the starlings have gone, but no... #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth #Birds #Starling

Bird on a metal perch against a cream house, with out-of-focus plants included.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 5h

Burnham hasn’t saved Labour yet.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 15h

Seen at a car boot sale. Beautiful bike. Daren't ask how much it was though. 😂 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMachines #IndianScout #MotorBike

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Okay, so the quality is not great, but here is the fox I keep seeing around the streets. I suspect the den is behind the house on the left. #Wildlife #Fox #Photography #UrbanGaze

The fox is stood against a cream wall, body facing right, but head looking towards the camera.

In this second shot, the head has now moved to match the body, facing towards the right of the frame.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quite why anyone thinks this is a good idea, I don’t know. It is obviously an unproductive to deal with human beings. Only a thoroughly lazy bastard would think otherwise. Stand up, Euan Blair.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The cygnets are definitely turning into swans. Not sure exactly how the out-of-focus ripples on the water in the close-ups connects with bokeh, but I think somehow they do. #BirdOfTheDay #BokehBirds #Bokeh #Swans #Cygnet #Birds #BirdPhotography #ECK #Nature #Wildlife

A shot of the whole bird from the front. Background is water.

The left side of the juvenile's head and neck with rippling water behind.

Same image but the middle of the neck is bent to the right of frame..

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

theguardian.com

ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A cygnet, taken against the background of green-reflecting water... #BirdOfTheDay #Green #Birds #Cygnet #BirdPhotography #Nature #Wildlife #ECK

From its left, a cygnet sits sideways on the water, head high. Reflected in the water ripples is the sublit green of the grass and trees across the lake.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the UK population.” This, this, more this. 👆

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Windows of the East-side of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, reflected in the pipes of an organ. #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights #UrbanGaze #SagradaFamilia #ChurchWindows #ChurchOrgan #Barcelona

Just a section of the vertica organ pipes, with a scalloped indented shape (almost tooth like) reflecting the light in greater chunks than the thin ribbons of light on the pipes themselves.

Half the vertical image is pipes showing mainly blue reflections, on the left, and a warm red/yellow/green window formng the right side of the image. There is a pleasing red note at the base of one pipe. The window is relatively sharp making the image quite crisp.

Here the vertical pipes are tilted to the right at the top, and blue greens predominate. The window is slightly out of focus.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Eating place, at a Berlin Christmas Market, next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. (This eating place was on a raised platform next to the stretch of market attacked with a lorry in 2016. The image was taken just 45 minutes before the attack.) #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights #Berlin #ChristmasMarket

A covered eating area with swing seats on chains, red-lit, but edged with white lights and Christmas decorations, with the small blue light bricks of the Kaiser Wilhem Memorial church visible above.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Harvest Moon. The closest our satelite ever comes to appearing as a source of light. #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights #HarvestMoon #Moon #NightSky

Full disc of the Moon, on 26th September 2026.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Found this in a local charity shop, and was just stunned by the image. Even back in the day, pre-9/11, there had been a previous event in 1945 where a bomber had crashed into the Empire State Building. Now it reeks of 9/11.

Braniff International Airways poster, showing a four engined plane's shadow on the streets of New York as if the plane is overflying them.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lol, I should have looked up the theme for #BlueSkyArtShow first. It is #Lights. 🙄

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The birds under the local railbridge all flew away as I walked underneath this morning. Around the corner, they had all gathered on a roof. I photographed them as they flew away/returned to the bridge. #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Pigeons #Brown #BirdPhotography #Birders #Nature #NaturePhotography #ECK

Thirty or so pigeons crowd the ridges of the sloping end of a tiled roof. A couple are in flight.

In this image a pigeon leaving the roof is caught out of focus with a sharp pigeon on a boiler exhaust. The resulting effect is a curious one, with the flying pigeon almost looking like a projection on the sky behind.

Five pigeons take flight against the yellow sky, with their wings in various positions. A single pigeon walks up the roof to its point.

Almost like the Descent of Man, four pigeons leave the roof by walking down the ridge tile. The yellow-orange sky is warm and the roof almost pyramind like.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Long tailed tits, by the Avon river. Not sure if any of these are 'borbing' or if it just their normal shape. #BirdOfTheDay #Borbs #Birds #LongTailedTits #Brown #BirdPhotography #Birders #Nature #NaturePhotography #ECK

Bird is on a wire, in the air, and walking right to left. its right foot is raised. Sky is a deep blue. Sun is reddish, in the early morning.

Bird is seen from behind, with head turned to look back towards the camera. Sat on a tree branch with out-of-focus greenery around it.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There was a bloom of stories maybe ten years ago about older professors creating problems for the job market by not retiring, and just checking in now to point out that they’ve since retired and almost none of their jobs continue to exist.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another very clear moon tonight. Nearly full. #Moon #Monochrome #Photography

Moon with just a hint of shadow on the left side.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What passes for news in Hampshire & Isle of Wight 🙄

'Free DT' - Hundreds protest in Basingstoke after
activist Danny Tommo's arrest

Basingstoke Gazette

Winchester stranger changes punctured tyre in ten
minutes and refuses payment

Hampshire Chronicle

Child seriously injured after being hit by van in
Lake

Isle of Wight County Press

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🇺🇳🇪🇸 During his address to the UN, Spanish President Pedro Sanchez warned against the growing influence of “selfish, ignorant and cruel forces”. He also reiterated Spain’s position condemning “the genocide that Netanyahu is still perpetrating in Gaza”.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Various views of the Tufted Duck. Since others have put it up for #divers, I will jump on that bandwagon. #TheDivers #BirdOfTheDay #TuftedDuck #Birds #Portishead

Tufted duck raises body out of the water and flaps its wings. Facing away from camera to the left.

Female leads male towards the camera in the pouring rain. Rain drops bounce high.

Female swins left to roght and slightly towards the camera, head turned even more to face lens.

Diving with just head into the water, body raised out of the water to jackknife to the bottom.

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not sure all of these placenames are rude but some definitely are. 😂 From Cambridgeshire Live via FB

RUDEST NAMES IN
BRITAIN
1. Sluts Hole Lane, Norfolk - 38%
2. Butthole Lane, Leicestershire - 37%
3. Bell End, Rowley Regis - 36%
4. Twatt, Orkney - 35%
5. The Knob, Northamptonshire - 33%
6. Minge Lane, Worcestershire - 32%
7. Sandy Balls, New Forest - 32%
8. Cock-A-Dibby, Berkshire - 31%
9. Slag Lane, Merseyside - 30%
10. Fanny Avenue, Derbyshire - 29%
11. Cocks, Cornwall - 29%
12. Back Passage, City of London - 28%
13. Shitterton, Dorset - 28%
14. Titty Hill, West Sussex - 27%
15. Fanny Hands Lane, Lincolnshire - 26%
16. Happy Bottom, Dorset - 26%
17. Cock Hill Lane, Birmingham - 25%
18. Titty Ho, Northamptonshire - 25%
19. Fingringhoe, Essex - 24%
20. Wetwang, Yorkshire - 24%
CambridgeshireLive
21. Crotch Crescent, Oxford - 23%
22. Slack Bottom, West Yorkshire - 23%
23. Jackass Lane, Kent - 20%
24. Dumb Woman's Lane, East Sussex - 20%
25. Pratts Bottom, Greater London - 20%
26. Great Snoring, Norfolk - 19%
27. Twatling Road, Birmingham - 18%
28. Fine Bush Lane, Ruislip - 17%
29. Butt Hill Road, South Yorkshire - 17%
30. Hornyold Road, Worcestershire - 17%
31. Letsby Avenue, South Yorkshire - 15%
32. Nickey Nackey Lane, Surrey - 14%
33. North Piddle, Worcestershire - 12%
34. Penistone, Barnsley, South Yorkshire - 10%
35. Piddlehinton, Dorset - 7%

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

terminator reboot but it’s humans going back to 1999 to make sure Y2K happens so the internet dies forever

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

great advice in general but doubly so if you're going to spend any significant amount of time on social media

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, up during the night, as is often my want these days, and decided to open the front door and look out at the street. Immediately, a fox appeared opposite me, and then calm as you like ran off down the street and turned right at the bottom. Of course, I didn’t have the camera in my hand, did I? 🙄

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea .

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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So I went looking for a fox this morning and there the cheeky sod was. #Fox #Night #StreetScenes

Bus shelter at the foot of a foot bridge, beside a main road. The bus numbers are reflected in the glass (and hence are backwards).

Around the corner, with road sign silhouetted and a red rendered building wall opposite.

Dark street with parked cars and street lamps and in the middle a fox stood in the road.

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