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Retired art teacher, Manc. living in S. Wales. Videographer of the natural world. My YouTube channel here: youtube.com/@johnluk?si=-_BJfNntUYF…

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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 19h
Not at all mate, they’re very interesting!
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Because you believe that a state founded to support a genetically homogenous population is by definition, racist, unlike other politicians, who pretend it’s perfectly acceptable to colonise another people’s land, you should change your views to reflect mine and the Board of Deputies and my version.
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🎀🎀
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Only just scene this blog Daws, looking forward to reading them all! 👏
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Mountain Birder @dawson61.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here’s a blog about myself and my great birding mate Steve Bool’s trip to Eastleach Martin to see the long tailed shrike. mountainbirder.blogspot.com
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MOUNTAIN BIRDER
Hello, my name's Dawson Hulme and this is my blog about my family me and my wildlife images. Thank you for your visit and hope you will call again.
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The Wildlife Oculus @thewildlifeoculus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nice views of a Wood Sandpiper at WWT Slimbridge from the Rushy Hide today. @wwtsightings.bsky.social #GlosBirds
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Fabulous pics, he Rushy Hide is great for getting close to sandpipers.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thanks for the likes and retweets! 👍😊
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thanks buddy!
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
An update from Goldcliff lagoons. youtu.be/q-_py8mxO8Q
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Goldcliff Birding #269 - Spotted Redshank, Red Knot and more 4K
YouTube video by john l uk
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
👏👏👏
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The dumbest President there has ever been still thinks he has the credibility to change what the rest of his countrymen should call AI. Only his ever-shrinking base take any notice now.
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Mountain Birder @dawson61.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Some Short Eared Owls at Aust near Bristol #bristolbirders
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Well done Daws, brilliant shots!
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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62K likes, 2,002 comments - palestina_mexico_corsopal on May 3, 2026
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Censorship and an unwillingness to engage with critics is a clear sign of authoritarianism.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As I’m sure you know the Romans used that name for Yehudah (יְהוּדָה), but those artful ministers in Netanyahu’s government know that by using the Latin names Judea and Samaria they can sell the myth of an enduring Jewish presence to the Christian nationalists supporting Israeli colonisation.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks for the likes and repost.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No, of course it doesn’t, nobody has the ‘right’ to turn up in somebody else’s land and tell them to clear off because you want it and God gave your people that land 2,000 years ago. I want to see the paperwork signed by God.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have ancestors from Norway and Ireland and Denmark as well as England but this doesn’t mean I have any right to ‘return’ to these countries after a 1000 years. Of course my ancestors didn’t get a message from ‘God’ out of a burning bush giving me a chunk of land to claim whenever I decided to.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That’s exactly right, the hateful messages being spouted by members of Netanyahu’s government have been responsible for increasing anti semitism and making the lives of decent Jewish people more difficult.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This lot were almost certainly behind the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin who was half way towards a peaceful two state solution when the rabid Jewish nationalists struck.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A country set up to provide a home for a particular ethnic group is the very definition of racism. Most countries are melting pots not defined by racial purity. Israel is a colony for people possessing Jewish DNA. There are Jewish groups opposed to Zionism, are they anti-Semitic?
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So what? In 1920 only 10% of the population of Palestine were Jews. Give me a break with the we used to occupy this land but we buggered off to Europe and America and now we’d like it back. After all we are the “chosen people” and the existing population are only Untermenschen to be eliminated.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sorry mate but those are the names of Roman provinces that the hubris ridden Israelis keep quoting as though to validate occupying them. Herodotus chronicles Palestine as being part of the Persian empire, does that mean that Iran has a claim on the area? In 1920 only 10% of the pop. were Jewish.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More from Goldcliff. Never seen a Red Kite feeding there before, let alone three! youtu.be/zKr8xoYoX0Q
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Goldcliff Birding #268 - Red Kites and more! 4K
YouTube video by john l uk
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A visit to Burry Port in Carmarthenshire between ebb and flow tides.
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Burry Port Birds 4K
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Exactly! They ONLY have 8 MPs, the same number as the SNP. Dwarfed In number by the Tories (118) and the Lib Dem’s (71). Polishing Farage’s already over-inflated ego.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank Zeus she’s got as much chance of being able to implement her policies as Trump has of winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He always uses the Roman names Judea and Samaria from the days when Palestine was a Roman province as though this gives his racist agenda greater legitimacy. The only people who have the right to live there are the ethnic population, including descendants of the 10% of Jews who lived there in 1920.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fantastic set buddy!
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lovely set, the light is so perfect and the air so clear, it gives the subjects a preternatural quality.
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Shaun Evans @shaunevans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Red Eyed Vireo about to be released after being trapped and ringed at Kenfig nnr on the weekend. #birdguides #birdingwales
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a Brit with no knowledge of the spat with Hillary I had to Google it. Obviously she has strong political views to take the stand against Netanyahu so I was surprised at the adverse comments. This is what I read
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Of course the only people Trump will attract to his propaganda channel are the intellectually challenged maga faithful, not the swing voters he needs to convince that the GOP are doing a great job. Hopefully as the captain is shown to be an electoral liability the rats will abandon the sinking ship
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m suspicious of anything that spells old as ‘olde’. Does he mean Anglo-Saxon or Middle English. Either predates Shakespeare who wrote in Early Modern English. Really pointless to use language that needs subtitles.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Cheers buddy! Amazing sight around the sea wall with all those migrating birds.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lovely video and very clear sound, well done buddy!
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Goldcliff update, large hirundine flocks hawking around the sea wall filling up before crossing the Bristol Channel and more #GwentBirds #GOS
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Goldcliff Birding #267 4K
YouTube video by john l uk
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The recipient of the Fake Infantino FIFA Peace Prize discusses genocide with no qualms about killing millions of innocent people. I can’t imagine the Nobel committee is going to be considering him for a real peace prize anytime soon.
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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Nothing mega but at least I had birds! These are three of the four Yellow-broweds found today (our second wave of the autumn), plus Garden and Willow warblers, Blackcaps, several Robins, a couple of Sparrowhawks and 61 Pink-feet. A reasonable days #WestrayBirding in glorious sunshine. #UKbirding
Yellow-browed Warbler, Westray, Orkney Isles, 3 October 2024Yellow-browed Warbler, Westray, Orkney Isles, 3 October 2024Yellow-browed Warbler, Westray, Orkney Isles, 3 October 2024Sun with partial halo (sundogs), Westray, Orkney Isles, 3 October 2024
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He did and Steve likes to start very early, Set 3:00am alarm to meet him in Magor at 4:00. Got there before dawn but thanks to his infra red scope saw some hares and then he picked up the Shrike really early. It was a great day.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Apart from ‘headkerchief’ all those words are still used in written English in the U.K. today, although rarely ejaculated. 😆
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Shaun Evans @shaunevans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Landed to get a great view of this Red-Eyed Vireo ✅ at Kenfig NNR today 90 mins after being released by the ringers. #birdingwales #birdguides #birdsseenin2026 #birds
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You nailed it as always Shaun!
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s the Israeli version of the Einsatzgruppen Nazi death squads. Murdering in plain sight.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Only a very stable genius could imagine putting permanent machine gun nests on buildings in a capital city, a unique combination of capital city and Stalag Luft V.
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john_l_uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺 @john-l-uk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Reminded me of this classic. youtu.be/WlIAhjRwOIE?...
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Adult Wednesday Addams s2e3 Wednesday vs Catcallers
YouTube video by DeadGirlRising Studio
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