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Martin @martinri209.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
By my criteria, autumn is now here ("mists and mellow fruitfulness") ...
A field surrounded by hedgerows getting progressively fainter in the mist. There's also dew on the ground and the tracks coming across the field were caused by me walking to the viewpoint. This shot with the sun behind me.A different field a few minutes later. This time looking into the sun, slowly burning off the mist. This was about 9:30 and it was completely clear 90 minutes later.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Facts Central @stilldelvingh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean if Palantir is capturing politicians through intimidation blackmail isn't that like illegal or something?
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If Burnham is going to make a bargain with pensioners on the triple lock and social care, perhaps he should also throw in immigration and care workers?
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Martin @martinri209.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I am a barrister who once spent time seconded to the CPS serious crimes unit making charging decisions. Today, you can pretend to be one too and work through the decision-making framework in a very serious case. The police have multiple suspects in custody and the phone just rang. 👨 👨 👨 👨 👨 📱 👮‍♀️ 🚨
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 24/09/2026
NEWS! Scientists reclassify the shortest measurable unit of time as that which occurs between Tommy Robinson's mate being arrested and the launch of his fundraising page buff.ly/pQI5HD4
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Scientists reclassify the shortest measurable unit of time as that which occurs between Tommy Robinson’s mate being arrested and the launch of his fundraising page
The world of physics is in shock after scientists announced the reclassification of the shortest measurable unit of time following the arrest of Tommy Robinson’s mate Danny Tommo. Previously,…
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Peter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Girl makes a painting inspired by LS Lowry and it's great! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Salford girl, 7, wins national Lowry art prize
Mia says she is "really happy" to have her artwork on display in the Lowry museum.
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
** NEWS ** Excavations beneath the National Trust's Bath Assembly Rooms have uncovered a network of Roman ditches along with pottery, coins, glassware and a possible fragment of a military helmet, revealing substantial activity in an area previously unexplored for Roman settlement. 🧵
Exterior of the Bath Assembly Rooms, constructed of honey coloured stone and the entrance with its portico ©National Trust/James Beck
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Think-tank linked to Reform Party suggests abolition of state pension to fund tax cuts for wealthy people www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension
‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Genuinely: this is pointless unless you're a constituent and his team should, rightly, hit delete immediately or simply tell you to email your MP. Do email your MP tho - particularly if theyre Labour
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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ever wanted to see how a street looked 100 years ago - right where you're standing now? 🗺️ Our georeferenced maps let you do exactly that. We've got over 600 layers freely available online, with tools to filter, measure, draw, compare and export them.
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The captain’s name was Danny/ His bad luck was uncanny/ His boys got drunk/ His boat got sunk/ He was a total fanny.
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 18/09/2026
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London’s weekly railway news
This is a weekly round-up of London's rail transport news...
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 16/09/2026
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Francis Barber – Britain’s first known Black schoolteacher honoured with London plaque
The plaque marks the remarkable life of a man brought to England as an enslaved child who later became probably Britain’s first Black schoolteacher.
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Martin @martinri209.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is so weird. I'd gone to visit the Bucks Archives on Monday and, before the event, east-west rail came up as a topic (I want to visit Winslow sometime) and someone mentioned this exact topic. Then you posted this.
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Martin @martinri209.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I did a non-Halloween version of this a while back (on the back of an @ianvisits.co.uk recommendation). It's an experience and worth doing. The journey through the tunnel takes around 9 minutes each way, if that helps anyone.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I may just send RNLI Christmas cards. Yes, the address is valid. We’re currently staying in a village w/ an RNLI station. People are overwhelmingly supportive of the RNLI & the RNLI really do appreciate the support. As I told one “The ocean of love for the RNLI will wash away the right wing hate’
I understand that people are buying RNLI Christmas cards in order to add money to all the donations which are flooding in.
Now it appears that some are planning to buy them and send them to Reform's free post address.
Really, if you did that, it would cost them an awful lot of money.
But people want to know if such an address exists.
It does.
Reform UK
Freepost RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC
83 Victoria Street
London SW1H OHW
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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Martin @martinri209.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I just voted for @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com, @astroroyalscot.bsky.social and @astrokatie.com, and 7 others in the 38 Most Influential Bluesky Posters of 2026. You get ten votes too. Cast yours: bsky38.com
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38 Most Influential Bluesky Posters of 2026
Vote for the 38 most influential Bluesky posters of 2026.
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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform’s conference agenda is a toxic tapas of oil interests, anti-abortion groups and Big Tech lobbyists. 👇🏻👇🏻
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Oil Lobbyists, Anti-Abortion Groups, and Tech Giants Flock to Reform Conference
Corporate titans including Google, Meta, and TikTok will be appearing at Reform UK’s annual conference this week, rubbing shoulders with fossil fuel interests, far-right politicians, and Christian rig...
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 01/09/2026
We have a winner! Thank you to everyone who took part in Pete’s Prize Draw 😺 Congratulations Suzanne.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Removing basic amenities such as laundry rooms and cramming more prisoners in the same square footage doesn’t sound like it will help with the crisis in prison conditions. Which is fine if all you want from prison is temporary warehousing of people. Less so if you want to stop people reoffending.
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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 31/08/2026
I shot the printer But I did not shoot the paper tray
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Martin @martinri209.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Martin @martinri209.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/put...
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Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just checked with people who sit at Ghent University's board of governors: Fake News. Disciplinary proceedings against Nathan Cofnas are still ongoing. (Make of the other communication what you will)
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We recently ooked into a number of social media influencers (from the wellness space to the manosphere), promising followers “life-changing” money trading gold.
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Our investigation revealed that traders are directed to register with Vantage Markets' offshore brand, which doesn’t offer the same safeguards as a UK licensed firm. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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Mumpreneurs and manosphere influencers plug dodgy online trading
Vantage Markets’s offshore arm targets customers in the UK. But its advocates aren’t financial experts – they’re make-up experts, manosphere bros and…
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hear me out: The John F. Kennedy and Dolly Parton Memorial Center for the Performing Arts
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A reminder that Jolene slowed down to 33rpm is absolute genius. RIP, Dolly 💔 youtube.com/watch?v=doz1...
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Jolene at 33 rpm
YouTube video by Tom Berry
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.
Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Beach finds.
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 21/08/2026
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London’s weekly railway news
This is a weekly round-up of London's rail transport news...
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Martin @martinri209.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In case you didn't see this, @jagohazzard.bsky.social
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The King of Norway has gone into hospital and because Norway is like that, his doctor has sent a formal sick note to the Royal Household’s HR department.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 17/08/2026
If you're new to Bluesky or simply looking for some nice accounts to follow to fill your timeline with interesting ideas, diverse perspectives, a dash of inspiration, and news and stories you might not get elsewhere, can we suggest the Humanists UK Starter Pack? bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Max Pemberton is the same psychiatrist who manipulated another practitioner to get a diagnosis of ADHD as part of an attempt to discredit the existence of ADHD and the diagoses of others. How did he obtain the medication, I wonder? It couldn't have been ethically. archive.md/m47Gl
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diagnosed with ADHD even though I know I don't have it. I swallowed the same drug thousands of children take every day... and this is the terrifying effect it had on me. We're getting everything so wrong

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I'm sitting alone in my flat with my laptop open, being assessed online for a condition I'm fairly sure I haven't got.

The assessment cost £1,200, paid for by a TV production company for a documentary on the rise in ADHD - and I want to be fair about the subject.

I'd deliberately selected a consultant psychiatrist as I knew they would do the job properly, since the point was never to go hunting for some rogue clinic dishing out diagnoses.

So over the next hour-and-a-half I answered everything the psychiatrist asked me honestly.

Yes, I keep going more or less every night until half two in the morning and then fall asleep on the spot. Yes, my phone lives in my pocket and nowhere else, because otherwise I lose it multiple times a day. And yes, I've a dreadful sense of time, which is why every clock in my flat is deliberately set to a different time, to keep me on my toes.

At the end, I was diagnosed with ADHD, combined type - characterised by inattention,
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Here’s a bank saying the thing that everyone else in the EU can see with their own eyes. If you weaken climate action because you want better economic outcomes, your economic outcomes get much worse because of the bad climate change you could have acted on.
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Wesley's Mumu @wesleysmumu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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