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Kit Wallace

@kitwallace.bsky.social
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member of Bristol Tree Forum, developer of bristoltrees.space, datasmith, maker, budding ceramicist, cruiser, XML, exist-db : kitwallace.co.uk

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Duncan Porter @misterduncan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I've dropped in on a Somerset reforestation project with 5000 trees we planted over two years. This site is my favourite -the trees absolutely love it here! Every tube I checked had a live tree - almost unheard of! Kudos to the legendary @philsturgeon.com & his tenacity with @protect.earth 1/4
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Duane Keiser (American Artist, born 1966) "Sunset in a Glass of Water", 2026. Oil on Board, 9" × 8". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
THREAD. When my parents' cat Bridget went missing, my dad, to try to ease his worry, painted her on a variety of historical ventures. Soon, these numbered in the dozens. After much nagging, my dad has had some postcards printed of this brilliant series: michaelcoxmoredaysthansausages.bigcartel.com
The Girl With The Cat EarringBridget Hangs Out With The Hunters In The SnowBridget Meets The Beatles On Abbey RoadBridget Does Edward Hopper
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/04/2025
This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Oh i would so like to have been the chris wallace who authored Hidden photons with Kaluza-Klein towers but I have to disappoint Academia.edu yet again.
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Wouldn't it have been wonderful if European leaders had stood up as one and told him that he must somehow have got into the wrong room,that they were there to discuss the future security of Europe and had no time to listen to this blatant hypocrisy and trail of trivial ultra-right grievances?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico. Torquemadas the lot of them.
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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 15/02/2025
The tree arriving on platform 2
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We should really really copy Paris.
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Is the opportunity for local offsetting of BNG being lost? bristoltreeforum.org/2025/01/25/r...
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Replacing lost biodiversity: a missed opportunity for local offsetting
When developers cannot meet their obligation to replace habitat lost within their development site, plus at least 10%, they may buy habitat units to offset this lost habitat. These habitat units ar…
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Vendée Globe ENG (Automated Mirror) @vendeeglobeeng.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱, 𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲́𝗲 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗲 🏁This Saturday at 1403 hrs UTC, @GoodchildSam crossed the finish line in Les Sables d'Olonne, completing his very first Vendée Globe after 76 days, 02 hours, and 01 minute of racing. A remarkable achievement for the British
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
In a world gone mad, the most powerful acts of resistance don’t involve posting on social media, but engaging in your community. Here’s my piece from last summer on the value of Supercitizens, who don’t just provide the glue that keeps us together, but also live longer because of it.
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The Power of Supercitizens
Lurking among us are anonymous heroes who quietly amplify social cohesion. Here's what we can learn from them.
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A beautiful arched entrance that enhances & heightens the beauty of the tree However, the tree could be felled IN AN INSTANT, and with no penalty whatsoever to the axeman. Yet the arched entrance is protected BY LAW I value the archway, but the tree is priceless
An arched stone entrance framing a tree behind it
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Dr @kierachapman.bsky.social's talk at our recent conference outlined how botanical training she received via our #Identiplant course helped her carry out the fieldwork which led to this important report: theconversation.com/property-dev... Watch Kiera's talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-t1...
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How Identiplant helped kickstart my botanical career by Dr Kiera Chapman
YouTube video by Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
In an effort to ignore the hideous reality we are all facing, here's a picture of me as a cowboy for no apparent reason. 🤠
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I wrote a thing, because these fires are in the increasingly common category of shocking but not surprising. Neither unprecedented nor unforeseen by those who study the subjects..... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit
The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Bristol Tree Forum's 2025 Tree Giveway is on! Order yours using the form in the article bristoltreeforum.org/2025/01/09/t...
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The 2025 Annual Tree Giveaway – free saplings available for planting
Since 2020, Bristol Tree Forum has given away well over 10,000 tree saplings for tree lovers to plant around Bristol…. and beyond! Here is your chance to help us plant still more.
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
Old oak tree with twisted branches in autumn woodland of ancient oaks
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Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
One of my favourite things about this time of year: Working to restore the East London tidal marshes, amongst the frosty reeds, as the lower winter sun goes down in a blazing ball of red & gold, framed by the incongruous contrast of the soaring concrete overpass of the North Circular
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Julien Gachadoat @julienv3ga.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It took me a while but I finally finished to recode the 300 programs of Jean-Paul Delahaye’s book "Nouveaux dessins géométriques et artistiques" with p5js. The book was published in 1985 and features classic generative algorithms. github.com/v3ga/nouveau...
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AGSmusings @agsmusings.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Johannes Vermeer would like this, I think!A fire alarm made beautiful on an industrial brick wall in quirky Bristol 😊
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
1800 cast iron bridge over the Kennet and Avon canal in Bath - love the design, reminiscent of an Appolonian Gasket. historicbridges.org/bridges/brow...
Cast iron bridge over the Kennet and Avon canal at Sydney Gardens, Bath
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Desert Island Discs this morning was such a beautiful listen - gorgeous music and very moving - with @laurenlaverne.bsky.social interviewing so kindly. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Desert Island Discs - Mark-Anthony Turnage, composer - BBC Sounds
Mark-Anthony Turnage, composer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
In fact, Eunice foot first made the connection between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global climate in 1856 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The Woman Who Demonstrated the Greenhouse Effect
Eunice Newton Foote showed that carbon dioxide traps the heat of the sun in 1856, beating the so-called father of the greenhouse effect by at least three years. Why was she forgotten?
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Geordie John in Bristol @johnnieaka2002.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
2025 tree planting started today… a new fully funded street tree scheme in Horfield then a new grant funded scheme in Hillfields Park. Lovely day… #Bristol #BristolTrees #Trees
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Bristol Tree Forum @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
We support Baroness Young, who is sponsoring a private member's bill to protect our heritage trees - bills.parliament.uk/publications... - which are defined as 'a tree in England listed as such by Natural England on grounds of exceptional historic, landscape, cultural or ecological importance.'
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 30/12/2024
2024 saw the launch of our revamped toolkit! Thanks to amazing Toolkit Maintainers and Guardians, you can find a database full of useful free-to-access tools. Complete with complexity ratings and clear descriptions, the toolkit is a one-stop shop for investigations. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit
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About | bcattools
A toolkit for open source researchers
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
We don’t talk enough about the importance of standard components in a greener economy. Engineers always say “but *our* design for battery/connector/module is 2% better than a standard one”, missing the point that it’s far worse for repair, reuse, recycling & minimising extra “stuff”. It’s maddening.
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I had an hour to kill in Oxford today so, as any sensible person would, I went to the Pitt Rivers Museum, which is the premium destination for sculptural representations of animals looking pensive
A handcarved owl, with a slightly human posture and a very silly faceA wooden painted tiger looking like they would be up for a chatA ceramic dog who looks like they might have eaten too many piesIs it an owl? A sloth? Has very big eyes and particular sort of small nose
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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Butcher's Broom with its bright red fruit is amongst the most #FestivePlants even when dead and dried out! #WildFlowerHour
A photo of Butcher's Broom plant with dark green 'leaves' and red berries next to another of dead twig of the plant.
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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Up close a flower of Butcher's Broom can be quite festive! #WildFlowerHour #FestivePlants
A close up of a flower of Butcher's Broom.
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Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I went on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Rare Earth’ programme this week to talk about protecting & caring for our street trees I discussed how threats to them could be reduced by giving trees rights & guardians so their interests can be given voice & represented in our legal system www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Bristol Tree Forum @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
'All felled, felled, are all felled... O if we but knew what we do When we delve or hew Hack and rack the growing green! ... Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve; After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.' Gerard Manley Hopkins Binsey Poplars - felled 1879
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I can imagine Christmas going by around me whilst I tackle challenge.bellingcat.com
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Bellingcat Open Source Challenge
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
www.projectsfornature.com/p/keep-brist...
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Tree planting to Keep Bristol Cool
More Trees Please! Tree Champions helping communities plant trees where climate change is making urban areas hotter and less liveable.
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/education/20... I wonder why he didn't go the whole hog whilst he was at it.
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Ho-ho-no! Children in tears after vicar tells them Santa is not real
Rev Dr Paul Chamberlain apologises for talk at Hampshire school after angry parents say he ‘ruined Christmas’
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us.. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...
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‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy
The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed...
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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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Save Bristol Gardens Alliance @savebrisgardens.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Yes, @GeorgeFergusonx 👏 @bristolgreen can 💚 Stick to its environmental credentials 💚 Avoid wasting vast amounts of taxpayers money on lawyers 💚Save itself from having to defend the indefensible ….by withdrawing @BrisZooSociety planning permission. www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
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'We have a real possibility of overturning this shameful planning permission'
This is an open letter from George Ferguson, former mayor of Bristol, to Paula O'Rourke, Green Party councillor for Clifton
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Paul Callahan (he/him) @paulcallahanmv.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Tiles for making braids based on Penrose kites and darts. You can follow the link to a printables page for the model. To get two colors, you need to feed a new filament while printing or weld two together. The slicer softer should help you determine when to switch. #3d #3dprinting #Penrose #braids
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Penrose kite and dart covered jigsaw with braids by Paul Callahan | Download free STL model | Printables.com
Same as https://www.printables.com/model/832714-penrose-kite-and-dart-covered-jigsaw with braids | Download free 3D printable STL models
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Nobody wants a student essay as a product; we want students to learn to compose their thoughts in written form as a process. I mean, would you have a machine run your laps or play your scales for you? In which case we would not say you had run or played.
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Good, educational quiz - showed me I'm useless on buds - must get out more!
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Kit Wallace @kitwallace.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Developers can't be trusted to honour nature mitigation conditions and councils are too weak to protest wildjustice.org.uk/general/lost...
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Lost Nature - housing developers fail to deliver their ecological commitments. - Wild Justice
Below you will find two versions of the Lost Nature report; a summary version (20 pages) and a full report […]
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12/12/2024
The Maritime Approximation xkcd.com/3023
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Duncan Porter @misterduncan.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This video of Carl Sagan testifying before Congress nearly 40 years ago is fascinating. What did all of those people sat in that room do with this information? We've categorically failed to act on these warnings & deliver the solutions Sagan was advocating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-W...
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Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
YouTube video by carlsagandotcom
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mathgrrl @mathgrrl.com · 03/12/2024
ooh, Shapeways is coming back, working on restoring shopify integration and future ideas for shops... maybe the new year will bring great things somehow
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