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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's that time of year again when we need to remind National Trust members that Restore Trust is a dark-money funded right-wing astroturfing entryist outfit. Please vote, and vote for literally anyone else.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires

FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear

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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If it weren't such a nightmare for those affected, the Bluesky translation into English would be quite amusing...

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tomorrow (19th September) is #TalkLikeAPirateDay and your annual reminder that when we talk the way we talk when we're talking like a pirate, it's because of a film that was based on a book, inspired by an earlier book, inspired by a real life pirate from #Orkney! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️👇

An illustration of a pirate with a tricorn hat and a bushy moustache

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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I love it when my non-techy brain can follow the whole thread and it all makes sense. A great explainer, and I think I could now explain this to someone else (which is the true test of a good lesson).

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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I can't wait for 23rd October👻 #Ghosts Here's a trailer to keep us going until then. I can't alt text the link picture which says Ghosts: The Possession of Button House (Official Trailer) youtu.be/iLKGXt5JHKk?...

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Ghosts: The Possession of Button House - Official Trailer

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh blimey, here we go again. Time to vote in the National Trust AGM to keep so-called 'Restore Trust' off the council. Use the quick vote to ensure we don't split the anti-Restore vote. Or.... 1/2 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

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Annual General Meeting

Your Annual General Meeting will take place online and in person on Saturday 7th November 2026 at the STEAM Museum, Swindon.

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Taskmaster Education @taskmasteredu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Vote for Taskmaster Education in the overall supplier of the year category at the Education Today School and Supplier Awards 2026. If you can. Please. Thank you. #EducationTodayAwards #EdTech educationtodayawards.co.uk/vote/?cmid=7...

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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Of all the Bayeux Tapestry parodies, this is surely the greatest.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?

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Julia Raeside @jnraeside.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Don’t Make Me Laugh is only 99p on Kindle for a limited time! Vicariously enjoy the Edinburgh Fringe from the comfort of your sofa.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 27/08/2026

BepiColombo is almost arriving at Mercury... but first, 👋 MPO and Mio must say farewell to their 'trusty engine' MTM (Mercury Transfer Module) 📺Watch live with us on 3 September, 13:45 CEST 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If "You're on your own" was a policy. This announcement indicates that the UK govt's strategic plan for food shortages is to offload the prime responsibility of govt onto individuals, and to induce panic buying.

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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The problem for the CCS lobby who want to licence Rosebank by "paying for CCS" is that their scheme can never pay for all the emissions. There is huge carbon leakage from the CTBO scheme - ie "it doesn't add up"👇 See: bsky.app/profile/dran... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @tessakhan.bsky.social

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chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

New campaign group, Stop Smart Glasses, aims to get the pervert specs banned In the meantime, they're identifying retailers selling them & putting pressure on them to stop selling tools of violation to sexual predators. You can sign a petition to ban them here: share.google/8pMyR2S7FcGa...

Picture of girl distressed because she's being filmed against her consent using pervert glasses.

Text reads: Stop Smart Glasses

We don't consent to this.

www.stopsmartglasses.com

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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I rarely come across a film I want to see on the big screen so I hope this one's easier to find in a local cinema than The Ballad of Wallis Island 🙂

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Given that 'The Great #ADHD Myth?" airs tonight, I'll flag up that @channel4tv.bsky.social still hasn't answered these important questions Presumably because they're fully aware that it's a deeply dangerous and cynical endeavour that'll do genuine harm to many, but don't want to have to admit it

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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I love that @cosmicshambles.com is on the ball again - a place you can trust to hear good science from genuine experts.

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Tracey No™️ @traceyno.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

hey @support.bsky.team umm what are you doing? This election is happening now, current tense

Trending on bluesky gives erroneous election result for Clacton.

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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I always look for some sensible information from Dr Dean Burnett when something like this comes up.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 05/08/2026

Missing the total solar eclipse on 12 August? We've got you covered. Join our live broadcast on YouTube 📺 🎤 interviews 📹 explainers 🔭 telescope feeds 🚁 drone shots 🔴 live feeds from different locations We've put together an exciting programme for you. 1/2 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Looking forward to the following installments in this series of documentaries, like "Clinical depression, or just lazy and dramatic?" and "Is cancer really fatal, or do people just not fight hard enough?" #ADHD #channel4 #FFS

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

A drawing of Elizabeth Bennet, a lovely young woman with her long hair tied up nearly under a ribbon and wearing what is most likely a neo-classically inspired dress, looking pensive, two letters in her hand. Meanwhile Darcy, a handsome but stern-looking fellow, looks longingly at her. Also there is me, a little gremlin in big round glasses, skulking about in the background and hoping that they kiss.

The accompanying text reads “Trung reads Pride and Prejudice for the first time, somehow.”

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Christian Aid @christianaiduk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

We're not meant to carry things on our own. Galatians 6:2 says to bear one another's burdens. To share the load when someone's struggling and to let others share yours. This is embedded in our work around the world. Carrying what's heavy together, so that no one faces it alone.

Annotated Galatians 6.2 against a black background and red arrows and underlining of key words.

Whose weight might we help hold today? - bear one another's burdens.

None of us were made to carry it alone: 'another'

'the law of Christ.' - Maybe this is what love looks like when it's real

bible verse: 'Bear one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ.'

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 24/07/2026

You know those live wildlife cameras we've got? Well, they've captured footage of something we didn't expect to see... A rare black-crowned night heron – a scarce visitor to the UK – so rare in the UK its distribution can’t be mapped. And we spotted it on our beaver cam.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 06/07/2026

belgium, belgium, belgium is the best!

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Belgium is the best

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If you want to read/listen to Careless People you can borrow it on BorrowBox, the online library anyone with a UK library card can sign up for through the app. The book has a few weeks wait, the audiobook is available now. And writers do get paid when you borrow through a library.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @handle.invalid · 25/06/2026

I must point out that the 2021 Princeton Net Zero America study — which, mind you, was also funded by BP (and ExxonMobil!) — included about 10gt of cumulative carbon sequestration by 2050 in what they represented as the most "cost-effective" pathway to US decarbonization.

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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I've really been looking forward to this. It has all the best people so I'm thrilled to hear it's going to live up to our expectations.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Changing the retrospective effect of these plans is essential but nowhere near enough. Keeping people who arrive in future in a state of uncertainty and insecurity (and subject to huge costs) when they ought to be able to settle here as part of the community is also pointlessly unfair and cruel.

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Burnham could ditch tougher settlement rules for migrants already in UK

Shabana Mahmood has been planning to double the time it takes for most migrant workers to qualify for permanent residence

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Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust @bbowt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

💦 Help your garden wildlife by providing some water. Here are some different ways you can try for different creatures. 🐤 Small bird drinking station - Floating logs in your pond, ideal for robins and sparrows.

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Astropierre @astropierre.com · 16/06/2026

Voici un fragment de carotte de glace antarctique, dont une partie révèle que la Terre traverse actuellement...un nuage de poussière interstellaire. 1/3

Extrait d'une carotte de glace antarctique. D'autres sections de la carotte présentent de très faibles concentrations de fer-60, un isotope présent dans les poussières interstellaires.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Quick thoughts on the proposed UK social media ban - Enforcement will be a nightmare, teens are already more tech savvy than most parents - Taking an existing right away from teens for 'debatable' reasons will never end well 1/3

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Thread: Recent criminal far right riots in Belfast have led to New Irish been driven from their homes. It is fundamentally unIrish to be far right & to treat neighbours with such nastiness. Let me explain why Irish culture is about welcoming & rejects the hatred of Neo-Nazis [1]

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Justin Webb now stating as fact that in Northern Ireland - and across the U.K. - for years people ‘have been able to come here and get access to services’ that local people can’t Is there any evidence for this? Why is a presenter on the BBC stating this as fact?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

We must not allow the tragic murder of a
young woman turn into attacks on men
and attacks on the police

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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is an absolutely sensational Pride flag; there's a brief description of the source for each colour in the alt text and a link to a higher res version in the comments, if you want to print it.

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Liz Gwynne @lizgwyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

There was a lovely view of Venus (lower down) and Jupiter just after sunset. It was only when I looked at the photo that I realised you can see Castor and Pollux above and to the right of Jupiter.

There are two bright white dots and two pale white dots in a dark blue sky which fades to pale blue and orange, with silhouettes of grass heads and hedging.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

So we have full 2025 immigration stats - Total net down by 2/3rds in 2025 (3/4 from peak) - Small boat arrivals in 2026 down 40%. Asylum backlog down 48%; returns up 9% - Asylum seekers in hotels down 35% (down 48% from peak) YET PUBLIC PERCEPTION 49% think 2025 saw increase; only 16% know it fell