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Lynn Bird

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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 10h
Update - just subscribed to the Patreon, and you should too!
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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 15h
If you're in the market for a new horror audio drama (I know I always am), strongly recommend checking out BROKEN VEIL from @willmac23.bsky.social and @gralefrit.bsky.social It's sort of... Magnus Archives x Lovecraft Investigations, and it's great stuff
Promo image for the Broken Veil podcast, showing an illustration of a battered swivel chair against a low-res greyscreen background
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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 15h
Three years on from the horrific terrorist attack on Israel and the only people the pro-Palestinian anti-Israel mob have helped is the Islamic Republic in Iran and their rabidly antisemitic proxies. Useful idiots in the West, who are strangely comfortable with such hate walked right in & ate it up.
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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 16h
Despite everything that's happened since, and a lot has happened, it was — of all things — Havering Council's attempt to cancel its Hanukkah celebration in late 2023 that told me what was up. That visible Jewishness was a provocation and the state was prepared to capitulate on that point.
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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 16h
Hard to explain what the last three years have been like. The friends who celebrated atrocities (and were then outraged not to be invited to your wedding). The isolation and lack of empathy. The sudden acceptance that, you know, maybe Jews don't need to go to city centres on weekends?
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 16h
Do listen to Brexit Brian (below). He is the first line of defence in our ‘Britannia Shield.’ We Conservatives our confident that our iron dome will protect this great nation! 🇬🇧
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 16h
seems clear that whatever Polanski’s ambiguous feelings about the motion pre-passage, he now thinks critics should shut up and move on
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 19h
Oct 7th as a Jew outside Israel, was a uniquely bizarre and traumatizing thing because you were just glued to watching it happen, and so were all the Jews in your life, and all your Goyish friends had no idea or worse were unmasked invasion of the body snatchers style as Jew haters
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Simon Frankel Pratt @simonpratt.bsky.social · 17h
Let me talk about 7 October 2023. Tbh I'm not comfortable doing so here. I don't trust you. On that day, and in the days following, my experience of social media was deeply, profoundly unpleasant. But a lot changed in my life as a result of the attack and the war. So I may as well share how.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
James Bond never had to do this, just saying
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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We're celebrating Prime Day by making all our ebooks available for purchase on our own website at fair and reasonable prices reflecting the labour involved in producing a book-length work of original fiction Come take a look!
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I stood in the presence of several very ancient oaks in Bandon's Castlebernard Woods a few months ago, and was in total awe. Such trees are now *incredibly* rare in Ireland. Please support Bandon Environmental Action Group in getting the 34.5-acre ecosystem protected. www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
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Public urged to join fight to protect ancient West Cork woodland
Some of these magnificent trees date back hundreds of years
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In the wake of the “Zionism is Racism” UN motion spearheaded by the Soviet Bloc & Arab League in 1975 (repealed in 1990), there was a concentrated campaign at universities around the UK to ban Jewish societies. Not Israel societies. Jewish societies. We know where stuff like this leads.
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hobothumb @hobothumb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
a quiet, rainy day acrylic and ink on paper and bristol, 11x7"
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I just want to say that I know that some trans people on here who joined the Greens because of their LGBT stance decided to leave because of what happened today, & firstly I want to say thank you, I got tearful when I saw that, and secondly, I want to say I'm so sorry you were put in this position.
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
These people are *very* good at persuading and then inevitably bullying ordinary well-meaning left of centre people who don’t share their obsession at first, but they will push until there is a break and either they are expelled or they are running the party. It’s that simple.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What it comes down to is this. If you’re determined a motion on Zionism isn’t seen as antisemitic, you pass this amendment. Obviously. It was instead rejected twice. First in a pre-conference meeting re: all amendments, then by conference members in the hall. This is now what the Green Party is.
Suggested amendment: This motion shall not be used to pressure, proscribe or discipline members based on affiliation with Jewish community institutions, such as Synagogues, community centres or denominational groups, that describe themselves as Zionist, or used to discipline or sanction Jewish members for holding views that would be non sanctionable if expressed by non Jewish members (such as supporting a binational state, or two state solution).

The amendment was rejected.
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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I am v happy for Fallon. The offer of spicy hot 🍹 was chef's kiss. I imagined her after glowing, with just got out of bed hair and a massive smile on her face. Bless. #TheArchers
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, that looks like the end of the Green Party of England and Wales. I think the destruction of the environment is the number one problem facing the planet, and sane voices on the environment are being silenced. So this is a tragedy
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy of the Movement for Progressive Judaism have released this statement, arguing that by adopting this motion, "the Green Party has made antisemitism party policy and become a racist party" progressivejudaism.org.uk/statement-co...
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m going to keep sharing this thread today, because by God, everyone who follows me is going to see it. You may choose not to engage with it, but you’re going to see it. And if you’re silent on it, which is absolutely your right, at least you won’t be able to say later that you didn’t know.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At that point, seeing people on here who are Green Party members and supporters would to me feel little different to seeing people who are Reform or Restore supporters. If that sounds like a bizarre comparison to you, I want you to think - really, truly think - about the next post in this thread,
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Various Jewish communal organisations wrote to Green Party leadership on Friday, making the following points, which they have made before. They have received no answer, because the Green Party has no real answer to give. www.jewishnews.co.uk/board-jlc-an...
The communal letter also raises a series of points regarding Green party policy if the motion were to pass, with the writers noting that “it raises immediate questions about how the Green Party will now relate to the British Jewish community, having explicitly branded most Jews and synagogue denominations as racist for holding commitments they regard as intrinsic to their Jewish identities.

“In practical terms, we wish to understand the implications for the welfare and security of Jews and Jewish institutions located within areas represented by Green Party elected officials. How will Green Party MPs, council leaders and councillors engage with Jewish communities, communal leaders and institutions that Green Party policy declares are ‘racist’. Can ‘racist’ Jewish individuals and institutions continue to expect equal access to their elected representatives and equal provision of services? Will Green Party officials be willing even to meet with ‘racist’ Jews, visit ‘racist’ synagogues, or hear from ‘racist’ cross-communal Jewish representative organisations? How will Green Party-led councils relate to Jewish faith schools that fall under their responsibility, that the party has branded ‘racist’?
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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please send help #TheArchers @thecidershedpod.bsky.social
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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Anything involving ai and the Bayeux Tapestry needs to stop right now. I mean it, not joking. Seriously just stop. Make it stop.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Queen of Clubs, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, Art Nouveau pioneer and Glasgow School Artist #WomensArt
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Keith @keith70.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sunday morning Bacon…Figure Crouching 1949.
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This account has occult power Art: Stele for protection against evil people by Austin Osman Spare, c.1955.
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’ve been bowled over by the standard for this year's Botanical Photographer of the Year. It's now time for public shortlisting. Use the links below to view the entries into this year's competition and vote for all those you think are particularly impressive. Shortlisting will run until 31 Oct.
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Botanical Photographer of the Year
The BSBI is for everyone who cares about the wild plants of Britain and Ireland.
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meanwhile...
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
The pilot suspected of having attacked another pilot aboard a Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai flight was removed from a previous job at Oman's national airline last year following concerns about his extremist views, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Read more: cnn.it/4hDeVgh
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ben Walker of Ukip in Holborn & St Pancras. Quite a contest between Restore v Ukip as to which is running furthest & hardest to the right in this byelection
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just a reminder that if you're supporting the "Zionism is Racism" motion you're quite literally supporting re-heated National Front propaganda.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau @runflysmile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Evening lights 😊 Baltic Sea Latvia 🇱🇻 #Latvia #Sea #BalticSea #Sunset
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FARTGATE: Tomorrow’s Lancashire Telegraph is an absolute joy to behold. Buy it. Treasure it. Leave it to your grandchildren. #BuyALocalNewspaper
Lancs Telegraph front page: A POINT
OF ODOUR
Reform councillor 'broke wind
towards rival' during meeting.
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The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 02/10/2026
A solitary tenant remains the final resident on a Bedfordshire street earmarked for demolition to pave the way for one of Europe's largest theme parks.
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'Last man standing' refuses to give up home for new Universal UK theme park
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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's not about the money. It's about revenge. David will hate this of course, but Pip, Stella, Ben, Jill, Leonard, Ruth, and even Josh are going to say yes to the mad dog field. Lol #TheArchers
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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, I think the best way to avoid botched executions is to stop executing people.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A gut-punch of a statistic, reflective of what's happening throughout the entire natural world. But using the word "stocks" to describe a wild population of one of Earth's most breathtaking, magical species indicates precisely why we've reached such a predicament. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Ireland’s wild Atlantic salmon stocks down 80% since 1970s
Public consultation launched amid fears ‘iconic species’ could be lost entirely from Irish rivers
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I need to write a thread about this. If you don't like it, feel free to block me. But I hope at least some of you will listen. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Jewish Greens face sanctions for belonging to ‘Zionist’ synagogues
The Green Party rejected an amendment to protect Jewish members attending self-declared ‘Zionist’ organisations from reports of racism
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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The plan all along was to turn us into something similar to Bermuda
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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good on you Jurgen. Don't even validate the question with an answer. Fuck these people.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest now being screened in the Scottish Highlands!!
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why must it always be about planting trees, when they managed just fine for 100s of millions of years before people came along? Just let them seed out. Yes, planting does have a role, but so often the underlying subtext is continued human domination of nature. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
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The Jerusalem Post @thejerusalempost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The flydubai plane sent to return the Israelis to Tel Aviv landed in Saudi Arabia a short while ago, but most passengers refused to board, citing concerns that neither the aircraft nor the pilot were Israeli, eyewitnesses told The Jerusalem Post. www.jpost.com/internationa...
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Israel: Flydubai pilot tried to hijack Tel Aviv flight, all passengers safe | The Jerusalem Post
Israeli official says “major disaster avoided” after pilot stabbed his co-pilot, attempted to hijack aircraft with over 100 Israeli passengers • Israelis on board helped subdue would-be hijacker
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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amber wants to call the baby, Bear, because they still have loads of newborn baby hair and look like a Wookie. #TheArchers
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Lynn Bird @lynnjbirds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bear Down Grundy! #TheArchers
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