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Excellent news. Although they forgot to include the phrase ‘through gritted teeth’ after ‘Andy Mellors, managing director at Avanti West Coast, said’ www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/2658682...

Avanti West Coast to be nationalised in major change for North Wales passengers

Avanti West Coast’s contract expires on March 7 before public ownership later that month.

R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Michaelmas Day 29th September. ‘A Day in Autumn’ - #RSThomas (Poetry for Supper, Rupert Hart-Davis 1958)

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#OTD in 1902, the world of literature suffered a devastating blow when William McGonagall passed away. Here’s his poem about a whale. Best couplet: Then the water did descend on the men in the boats, Which wet their trousers and also their coats; www.poetry.com/poem/53966/t...

William McGonagall. Head and shoulders black and white photo of a white man with collar-length hair, in a black jacket, looking off to his right as he no doubt composes more deathless verse.

(I love him really)

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Last sight of Ynys Môn for a bit. The sea looks gorgeous and not for the first time I wish I was a small shark or a nice quiet restful bivalve

View across green choppy water as the tide starts to go out, to the eastern tip of Ynys Môn/Anglesey and to the right, Ynys Seiriol/Puffin Island

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 29/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

One (ah-ha-ha-haaa) picture of The Count from Sesame Street, a light purple vampire Muppet with a pointy nose, pointy ears, pointy teeth, a monocle and a lovely lining to his cape

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Great moments in Scottish medical history. Renowned anatomist John Goodsir announces that he's going into partnership with Thing from The Addams Family.

Image shows a white man with a lugubrious expression, seated, with hands clasped. To his left is an upturned top hat resting on a book. On top of the upturned hat is a strange-looking glove that looks a bit like Thing from The Addams Family.

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In the game of This Particular Plastic vs Sea Air, Sea Air wins

Pedestrian crossing controls, on a crossing about 150 metres from the sea, in a place that gets a lot of wind. Most of the plastic is corroded and bleached white.

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A lovely day (really!) and I’m heading back to London later. Really looking forward to my own bed!

View over slate rooftops towards a distant Eryri. The sky is cloudy but the sun’s starting to peep through

The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Things that are really pissing me off today: 🤬 Universal experts. You know, those people who had one post go viral or know a lot about one thing but think that means they have a valid take on everything, and worse, their followers do 🤬 Brother’s PC updating. losing all his profile stuff w/o warning

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What can we learn from cockroaches, raccoons and other unpopular creatures about our own place in nature? Join Marlene Zuk on 15 October at the Linnean Society, to spend some time with overlooked animals, and perhaps get to cherish them a little more. buff.ly/fUR4zQW

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Outsider Animals | Cherishing Shunned Creatures

Challenge everything you knew about animal cognition and behaviour - What can unpopular creatures teach us about belonging?

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What, and I cannot emphasise this enough, the fuck?

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This is something too many people who write fanfiction need to have hammered into them

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘Roasted Chestnuts’. I love an elaborate visual joke. After the Napoleonic Wars, Highland regiments were among those stationed in Paris and the locals were fascinated by the men’s kilts, and what was under them. There are several similar images but I love the facial expressions in this one.

Two passing women look on with curious (and prurient) interest as a Highlander soldier in red coat and kilt lifts his kilt up to hold a serving of roast chestnuts that he’s buying from two other women at their street stall. One woman looks away, perhaps in embarrassment; the other is perfectly positioned to see just what he has under the kilt. The caption is ‘Marrons Rotia’ (roasted chestnuts); the image is from the late 1810s

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It's #fossilfriday! Here's a guy from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY: Arthropleura, a (probably!) herbivorous millipede relative that roams the coal forests of Carboniferous Scotland. Survival Verdict: YES. It's got a nasty nip, but we feel if you get bit, you have it coming.

A large, flat green millipede of unusual size crawls through a Carboniferous swamp forest, with some tiny tetrapods crawling on its back. Art by Stieven Van Der Poorten, from HOW TO SURVIVE PREHISTORY

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Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Heading back to Wales today after a couple of days back in London, and hopefully I’ll get to see more marine life than this 👇🏻 and also get a few more v short walks with my brother in as he recovers!

solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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George Osborne, British Museum Chair and Palantir's Peter Thiel are both investors in the same Defence Tech company. By coincidence, Peter Thiel was given a VIP tour of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum before even the King or PM - Osborne-Thiel links in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social

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Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finally! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This should be basic stuff, if someone is livestreaming crimes then the site where they do it should be treated as complicit if they make no effort to shut it down.

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Nimblenewt @nimblenewt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‘One of the species, dubbed the Callipallene pilosuspedes, has red eyes and a short proboscis with claws to grab food, which it eats with a “three-lipped mouth covered in sensory tendrils–a tiny marine Sarlacc pit, if you will.”’ {alt txt: a whitish spidery weirdo with big nose} #inverts #SalishSea

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‘Red-eyed’: Two new sea spider species discovered in B.C., first in nearly 100 years

Two new species of sea spiders have been discovered in the waters off Vancouver and Victoria for the first time in nearly a century, including one that is “hairy-legged” and “red-eyed.”

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Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dancing crabs, some time in the 1830s 🦀

Coloured lithograph of two dark green crabs (I have no idea what species they’re meant to be if any - C maenas I guess?) dancing a horn pipe or jig together, stood on their swimming legs on a bed of sand and shells. By Henry Monnier from Le Caricature magazine, probably 1831

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Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I haven’t had a chance to get onto the beach since I’ve been here so I’ve been reduced to gazing longingly at fan worms in the local aquarium shop 😭

Fan worm attached to a small stone disc, set on a metal grid in a shallow marine aquarium

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Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know you’re in a small town when… I kid because I love, although it’s a good thing I don’t need a ceramic frog with Welsh sayings on at 19:09 BST

Notice on a gift shop door, reading Late Night Shopping - Every Thursday - Open until 6:30pm

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 23/09/2026

I thought I was done with innuendo for the day but then I wasn't expecting these two magnificent shags.

Image shows a small-ish black and white 19thC beacon, known as the Perch Light, in the River Clyde. There are two black seabirds using it as a perch.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/09/2026

NEW: OpenAI took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text—specifically chunks of 25 words in a row- that were identical between ChatGPT’s responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25-word overlaps between ChatGPT and our articles.

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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.

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Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just come back into the living room to find my mum and the dog fast asleep in front of a programme featuring hovercraft racing, and now I want to know more

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Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I love this! Much like lots of the scientists of the time, there were many connections among these men

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The only ghost I ever want to see (and believe in)! A Müller’s larva of a Polycladida flatworm. 👻 #marineplankton 🦑🔬

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Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve finally persuaded mum to change her calendar to September; she REALLY hates invertebrates 😁 - must have been difficult for her when I was a kid and constantly bringing them home (sorry about the cinnabar moths, mum)

Detail of the 2026 Countryfile Calendar for September, depicting a slug on top of a lovely little mushroom. My mother has been avoiding it so far but autumn, and the slug, need to be faced