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Tathagata @dipamkara.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Tibetan prayer flags are used to promote peace, compassion, strength, and wisdom. Tibetans believe the prayers and mantras printed on the flags will be spread by the wind and bring goodwill and compassion to benefit all beings. OM MANI PADME HUNG

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Dr Richard Bate @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

24/4/26 #OrchidsOfCrete - A fantastic day was had today and we sailed past 55 #orchid species with a particularly rare one, the endemic Orchis prisca; a member of the Orchis spitzelii group. Look at the short spurs, a giveaway feature for identification @mariposanature.bsky.social

Orchis prisca syn. Orchis spitzelii ssp nitidifolia

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Dr Richard Bate @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

24/4/26 #OrchidsOfCrete - I love a good hybrid. On the left we have a Monkey x Man #Orchid (Orchis x bergonii) and on the right we have Orchis prisca x O. anatolica, a hybrid so rare and unusual that it doesn't have a name. How can we tell? Look at the spurs! @mariposanature.bsky.social

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Tibet Network @tibetnetwork.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Today marks another birthday for Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the world’s youngest political prisoner. Kidnapped by China at just 6 years old, he's now missing for over 30 years. We remember. We will keep speaking his name. #FreePanchenLama

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ici @ici.fr · 22/04/2026

Soutien à notre journaliste de la rédaction de ICI Normandie

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Tathagata @dipamkara.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

MESSAGE I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the ... - HHDL #DalaiLama #Humanity #Love #Compassion

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Students for a Free Tibet @sft-international.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

His Holiness the Dalai Lama just released a new book called “Voice for the Voiceless.” As His Holiness approaches his 90th year, he also takes a look forward to the future of Tibet, the institution of the Dalai Lama, and the Tibetan cause. Go get your copy today!

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Esprit de Qontradiction @grandsachoir.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Le discours complet de Claude Malhuret. À écouter jusqu’à bout. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lh...

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Guerre en Ukraine : "Washington est devenu la cour de Néron", lance Claude Malhuret

YouTube video by Public Sénat

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Orchids and co @lenantdelarose.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Les barlias (Himantoglossum robertianum) sont en floraison dans la Manche (France).

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Students for a Free Tibet @sft-international.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Pawo Tsewang Norbu self-immolated in protest three years ago today, on 2/25/22, at the age of 25, in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. Reports from Lhasa say he chanted "Free Tibet" and called for the safe return of His Holiness the Dalai Lama as he self-immolated. 1/5

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Anna Kubišta @annakubista.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Le 25 février 1969, à #Prague, un jeune étudiant #tchèque de 18 ans s’immolait par le feu à deux pas de la place Venceslas. Comme Jan Palach 40 jours plus tôt, Jan Zajíc entendait ainsi protester contre l’occupation de la Tchécoslovaquie par les troupes du pacte de Varsovie depuis août 1968.

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Orchids and co @lenantdelarose.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Où l’on peut deviner un des centres d’intérêt du propriétaire du jardin… 😂

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Cyrille Amoursky @cyrilleamoursky.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

🕯️2 ans déjà… N’oublions pas les héros français tombés pour notre liberté, en Ukraine et en Europe. Souvenez-vous d’Andréas Gallozzi, 22 ans, mort le 16 février 2023 à Svatove. «J’ai fait mon devoir, en défendant l’honneur de la France, de l’Ukraine, et de l’Europe.» Gloire éternelle aux héros!🇫🇷🇺🇦

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Will Beharrell @willbeharrell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I wrote a thing about growing up gay in West Berkshire for LGBT+ History Month and Newbury Pride. You can read my shapeless musings below 👇

A newspaper-style graphic with a photo of man in the top right. The text reads:

My name’s Will, I’m Newbury Pride’s Secretary, and I’m so happy to be celebrating LGBT+ History Month here in my hometown.

The landscape for LGBT+ people has changed beyond recognition in my lifetime. Not just the well-publicised victories along the road to legal equality in the age of consent, civil partnerships, adoption, and most recently marriage, but also the widespread acceptance among the general public that LGBT+ people deserve equal treatment and respect (a 2019 poll suggested nearly 86% of Britons believe homosexuality should be accepted by society, about as unanimous a figure as you can hope to achieve on any topic in a free country).

The change, even from my childhood, could not be more profound. I was educated in Newbury, and I’m sorry to say my secondary school environment was virulently homophobic. Sexuality and gender-based bullying was commonplace, and the existence of Section 28—a de facto ban on all discussions of LGBT+ relationships in the classroom—hobbled teachers’ ability to properly support their LGBT+ students. Many people seem surprised when told this piece of legislation—far from being a relic of the 1980s and 90s—remained on the statute books until 2003 in England. I was 15 when it was finally consigned to the dustbin of history, its damage already done.

It wasn’t until university that I felt free to tell the truth about my sexuality; I came out at the relatively late age of 19. I still maintain that coming out was one of the few unambiguously good and sensible decisions I ever made, and the day I came out was one of the happiest of my life.

My hope is that every LGBT+ person gets to experience that happiness, at least once. One of my main motivations for joining Newbury Pride was to create a safe environment for others to experience the happiness and relief I once felt.

LGBT+ History Month is a great time to be thankful for the progress we’ve made, and…

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Lucie Tournebize @lucietournebize.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

En décembre, Trump Junior s'est rendu à Venise où il a participé à une partie de chasse dans la lagune. Sur une vidéo, on le voit poser avec ses proies, dont p(au moins) un canard d'une espèce rare et protégée. En Italie, seuls les résidents peuvent obtenir un permis de chasse.

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🫧 Laurent Potelle 🔻 🐝 @laurentpotelle.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

C'est çui qui dit qui y'est.... Soph 🖍️

Dessin de Soph' dans le Canard Enchaîné
USA : Trump veut expulser des millions d'immigrés illégaux

On voit trois indiens dont le chef demande à Trump :
- Alors comme ça vous allez partir ?

And I think it's so beautiful

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"Every language," wrote Wade Davis, "is an old-growth forest of the mind." Languages that hold not only the living histories, memories and relationships of entire cultures but that tell of other ways of being in the world. Each lost language is a felled forest. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages

With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them

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Nancy Johnston @jeelyeater1.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

#StainedGlassSunday By Crear McCartney, in Dornoch Cathedral.

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Hunt for Better Days @hunt4blue.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

So very sad…because it’s so very true.

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