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Matt

@keepgoingleft.bsky.social
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Professional gardener. Horticulture, orchids, nature, ecology, rewilding etc. If it’s not raining or dark you’ll find me outdoors.

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RobLonUK @robb-uk.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Not quite spring yet but so lovely to see flowers in the garden after such a miserable winter 🥶
A picture of snowdrops and purple crocuses.
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Animal Photo Reference Repository @animalphotorefs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
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Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
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Ardclough Biodiversity Group @bioardclough.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Important info for pet owners, but the manufacturers, suppliers and regulators are at fault. Flea and tick treatments are a concentrated dose of insecticide/pesticide. They end up in our canals and rivers, on your clothes and skin and those of your children, and now this...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 20/01/2025
Billionaire wealth has risen 3 times faster in 2024 than 2023 according to @oxfamgb.bsky.social with 60% coming from either inheritance, cronyism and corruption or monopoly power. This gross level of wealth hoarding is unjust and unsustainable. Now is the time to tax the super-rich properly.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
TAX THE SUPER-RICH
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
The introduction of new kitten continues (week 3!) 😒. The curmudgeonly one is still resisting. So supervised visits still necessary. Kitten’s crime? Apparently smells funny… and possibly too cute. #catsofbluesky #kitten #caturday
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I think me and this stoat surprised each other today. They seem to have a den in an old pipe at the back of the pond. When I’d backed away enough, off they went, hunting in the meadow. #stoat
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17/01/2025
👋 Hi Labour. We have an idea... Rather than taking money off disabled people - some of the poorest people in society - you could tax the super-rich properly and raise billions to help fix our crumbling public services 👍
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

Labour slashing billions from DWP's disability benefits bill.
BIG Issue

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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Can we have a big shout-out for dandelions? These wildflowers will be back in just a few weeks - offering a vital early food source for all sorts of insects, including bees & butterflies. Please let them grow - this short film (made by our daughter) shows how they can boost biodiversity!
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RobLonUK @robb-uk.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Absolutely lovely day, far too nice to be indoors! Local lanes full of spiders air-travelling across the road to the opposite hedge🕷️ #Shropshire #LongMynd
View across the Shropshire hills. Spider web trails stringing off a wired fence.
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Simon Le Vans (he/him) @simonlevans.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Just deleted my Threads account. Zuckerberg has to understand we went to threads because of what Musk did to X. Now he’s sucking up to Trump he should know it is in all our powers to make Threads and eventually Instagram and Facebook a graveyard.
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Knockout sunrise this morning over the Long Mynd. I can’t remember when we last had such a long, cold spell. 🥶 Praise be to the god of greenhouse heaters.
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Taters 🥶
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 07/01/2025
This is Maisy. She gets an additional party hat for each birthday, and she just turned nine. 13/10 may this tradition go on forever
a collage of nine photos of a gray bully pup wearing an increasing number of polka-dotted party hats from one to nine.
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I love a spider Orchid and this one is looking awesome in the greenhouse at the moment. Brassia ‘Sea Breeze’ #orchid
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Taking a mushy stroll to the neighbours for a belated mince pie. Hope this melts before freezing again 🫤
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Well quite. This is mostly a result of bad ditch management by a local farm and the road flooding for weeks… and don’t get me started on tractors etc not paying road tax 🤨
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Never trust a Shropshire puddle. 🕳️ #shropshire #pothole
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
It might be -3C outside, but you wouldn’t know it looking at Paph USA. 8 years old and still putting the hot in hothouse 🔥 #orchid
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
This little box of springs came to live with us a few days ago. Bluesky, meet Kenzo. #catsofbsky #cats #kitten
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A much needed (mince pie powered) walk up the lane to the Long Mynd. Home now to make left overs soup (not mice pies). #shropshire #Longmynd
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
You’d think she pays the bills #catlife #caturday #catsofBsky
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
A little late for Christmas - A big Mistletoe at the Shropshire Discovery Centre. Low down on its host apple tree too so good to get up close 🧐
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Simon Le Vans (he/him) @simonlevans.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Sign up to help. Enough is enough. Cancel your direct debit after Christmas. takebackwater.uk/signup/thank...
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Nice to have you aboard! We'll be in touch soon with more about actions you can take to help grow this, both nationally and near you.
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This is the way.
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Derek Faye (Lovely Macaroons Mrs O) @heyheyderekfaye.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Wallaby hops. With Susie Blake via Victoria Wood.
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Green chilli sauce making this aft. Home grown green chillis obvz, lots of garlic, rice vinegar, soy sauce, fish sauce, sesame oil and lots of lime juice for zing. Bosh! Straight in the freezer to go with, er, everything! #homegrown #chilli
Recycled jars
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Candlesnuff fungus in the orchard. It’s bioluminescent apparently.. I’m going home now though, so you’ll have to take my word for it. #Funghi
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Esther van Hulsen wildlife art @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
40 WAYS TO DIE IN THE PREHISTORIC. Enjoy! These illustrations were made as scale drawing for a book about prehistoric creatures. Thought it would be fun to have a bit more interaction between the animals and human figures
A standing illustration showing 40 scale drawings of different prehistoric creatures with a human figure. The human is stomped on, eaten, ripped to pieces, smacked, stabbed and many other ways to come to an end. The drawings are all black silhouettes, spread over a white background
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It’s raining… again. So an afternoon of seed sowing and potting up for me. With my greenhouse buddy 🐸 Orchid Restrepia guttulata in flower too - gorgeous.
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Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
There's some good ones in here! Lemme know you're favorites. 🌱 NYPL Nature Illustrated Collection High Scoring Images (According to Robots 🤖): photos.app.goo.gl/YTvH1wbNUUbY... All Images: photos.app.goo.gl/Z6BWTYuHYqrh... Github: github.com/borncamp/NYP...
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Cor, brass monkeys! 🥶 A good day for a seed stock take I think.
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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Please #repost/#share for the #bees.🙏🏼🐝 This matters. So let’s talk about #honeybees in the context of ‘Saving the Bees’. Let’s cut the bull and cut to the chase as there’s way too much confusion/misinformation out there which is a hinderance to, and detrimental to, genuine bee saving. 1/18
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
One last push for the bulb planting. 300 mixed Daffs to go and I’m done. The cattle grid is my finish line 🏁
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
20 years after the Hunting Act banned fox hunting, loopholes like “trail hunting” let cruelty continue. Foxes are still torn apart by hounds, with nearly 1,400 incidents reported last season. This isn’t “tradition”—it’s barbaric. The law must be strengthened. 🦊 www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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20 years since Labour banned fox hunting but why are meets still taking place?
Two decades since The Hunting Act (2004) gained royal assent there are claims the pursuits continue. Labour has pledged to ban trail hunting which it said "allows the illegal hunting of foxes, deer, a...
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
In between the rain.
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heleninsomerset.bsky.social @heleninsomerset.bsky.social · 13/07/2024
Prof Dave Goulson estimates insect populations compared with a century ago are 90% to 95% down. …the result of a combination of factors including ever more intensive farming, habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, pollution & climate breakdown. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Where are all the butterflies this summer? Their absence is telling us something important | Tony Juniper
This isn’t down to one wet, cold British spring but a disturbing longer-term decline in Britain’s insects. Thankfully, we can help, says the campaigner Tony Juniper
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Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I really like old herbarium illustrations. Last year I wrote some software to parse, score, and process the Oxford 400 herbarium dataset to remove the paper background and select the best photos. If anyone needs a collection of beautiful plant photos... github.com/borncamp/oxf...
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If you are against burning vast areas of land, + illegally persecuting raptors, so that a handful of toffs can slaughter grouse, please sign below...
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Back home to snowy Shropshire. Checking in on the greenhouse to see that the heater is still working 😮‍💨 Dendrobium cumulatum still in flower. #orchid
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Keswick and back today via Grasmere and Thirlmere. Lots of low flying jets over the lakes (one way flying S to N to minimise risk apparently). *Zoom in on the dot. #cumbria
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 21/11/2024
🛤️ The Government have taken another welcome step towards bringing our railways back into public hands. 🚰 But at the same time, they've ruled out nationalising our failing water companies. 🤝 Support for public services in public hands is overwhelming. Now is the time.
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
THE RAILWAYS ARE COMING BACK
NOW IT'S TIME FOR WATER
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Cartmel Fell, Windermere.
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is one of those inspirational quotes, right?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day. Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
All the evidence shows importance of greater access to nature, so cuts to England’s national parks are short-sighted & self-defeating. Instead Govt should reform them, give them a strong nature recovery focus & recognise their contribution to health & wellbeing www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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England’s national parks facing financial peril due to budget cuts, say CEOs
Leaders warn cost savings will lead to mass redundancies and that spaces could become ‘paper parks’
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Retracing R’s childhood steps today. Up and over Kirkstone pass to the new Pooley Bridge to see the fam memorial stone. Then a walk to Dacre for pub grub and just catch the sunset on the way home. Still no red squirrels 😔
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Introduce yourself with 4 photos.
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Matt @keepgoingleft.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Morning Bluesky, I should probably kick this off. How about a pic from the top of Whitbarrow Fell in Cumbria?! The briefest of lunch stops over looking Morecambe bay.
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