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Maureen Millar

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Ordinary and mediocre. Isle of Wight

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The correct response to this would be to make all the evidence used to draw the conclusion public, then challenge Farage to respond, otherwise people will just pick their opinions on the matter based purely on who they trust.
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"In Latin America and the Caribbean, wildlife populations fell by 95% [in 52 years, and] 80% in Africa..." How do you even compute such whirlwind annihilation of nature? *THE* best thing we can do to alter such trends? Shift towards more plant-based diets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Comebacks for wild tigers, tuna and sea turtles prove nature loss can be reversed, scientists say
A landmark report reveals that the world must change the way it produces food to avoid a biodiversity collapse
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Maureen Millar @maureenmillar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Really, really sad news ………… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It's true: this is my final column. You have exactly 24 hours to complain before my inbox self-destructs | Marina Hyde
Yes, after 25 years I’m signing off, and I’ve cherished every moment – especially storming the French embassy with a (toy) AK-47, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Truth 👇
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Maureen Millar @maureenmillar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Purple Pitcher Plant #Newfoundland Western Brook Pond today.
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Gloria Dickie @gloriadickie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's not just about the winners and losers of climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Can an entire Arctic ecosystem evolve to adapt to the climate crisis?
In the first project of its kind, scientists are trying to answer if the future of Alaska’s streams and tundra may depend not on survival of the fittest but on how species adapt together
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Maureen Millar @maureenmillar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Spiranthes romanzoffiana
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Maureen Millar @maureenmillar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hooded Ladies Tresses at Cape Spear today #Newfoundland #orchid
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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some #wildflowers from recent hikes. #Newfoundland Canada. #flower #orchid #hike #trail
Close up photo of a ghost pipe plant. The flower head is all white. The stem is light pink. Some of the flower structures are translucent. The background is green and yellowish moss plants. Photo of a field of pink meadowsweet flowers. In the foreground is a close up of one cluster of these flowers. The foliage is green with some brownish colour. Close up photo of a white fringed orchid plant featuring several dozen white flowers in a cluster. The plant foliage is green. Photo of a large cluster of bright pink sheep laurel flowers. Each flower is small and round. The leaves of the plant are green, long and narrow.
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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Coastal hiking in Newfoundland, Canada is a treat for the eyes. Another view (last week) of the seaside cliffs near my hometown in Conception Bay North. #hiking #trail #ediacaran
Photo of a grey, sheer cliff face. The surface looks like it’s comprised of puzzle pieces. Blue sky is visible at the top of the photo.
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
An essay I've just written for @nytimes on why Big Tech is the 21st Century’s equivalent of the East India Company: "What It Would Take to Dismantle the Most Powerful Companies in the World" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
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Opinion | What It Would Take to Dismantle the Most Powerful Companies in the World
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
- Sylvia Plath
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Wassily Kandinsky : Points in the Curve, 1927 Oil on canvas 64.4 × 49.5 cm | 25.4 × 19.5 in Private collection This comes a year after Kandinsky, still teaching at the Bauhaus, publishes his book Point and Line to Plane. Further description in the alt text 👇
The work features sharp forms and floating geometric shapes set against a dark, moody background.

Here, he frequently contrasts static points with dynamic, sweeping curves. The point is geometric, whereas the curve is organic. The point is the zero dimensional origin of visuality, a seed; the curve is breath, and is caught in up in time and rythme.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There are 71 Lib Dem MPs in Westminster. There are 8 Reform MPs. When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website? (Rhetorical question)
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pannierb.bsky.social @pannierb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thank you, Delphi Global Research Center for publishing my article on how a relatively more stable Afghanistan is a problem for Tajikistan. delphigrc.org/research/taj...
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Tajikistan After the Afghan War
As Afghanistan Stabilizes, Tajikistan Risks Losing the Strategic Importance That Sustained It for Three Decades.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Come on Clacton - strike a blow against The Establishment by voting for the guy in the top hat with bodyguards, who doesn't give a shit about you. #VoteBinface
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Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This bad bastard comes out today. Probably the best I’ve done.
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Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
LOL - there are 3 bookstores in Lunenberg
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I was invited to a temple dedication in Bali about 15 years ago, one of only two non-Indonesians granted permission, with gamelan performances, Topeng mask dances, Kecak monkey chant, and it was probably one of the most amazing days of my life.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 29/07/2026
“Neither the Starmer government, nor Andy Burnham’s, can say it didn’t know”: former Green party leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social on the shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-l...
Caroline Lucas: The shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see. Illustration of a report with much of the text reacted: "Britain's [redacted] water supply, together with its [redacted], are [redacted] etc", over a red image of woodland burning
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Is “pragmatic” the new, “grown up” word? Andy, there’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more oil & gas - to even consider it with the planet literally on fire is total madness. How many times must we say it will do nothing for energy bills or security? It would be an act of utter recklessness
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Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas
PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
1/2 Marianne Ihlen, who died ten years ago yesterday, Jan Chrstian Mollestad detailed the letter Leonard Cohen wrote to her on hearing she was dying: "Marianne it’s come to this time..."
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"...when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine... Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road."
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Still thinking of Sinéad on the 3rd anniversary of her untimely death. One of her very best songs: But, I will rise and I will return The phoenix from the flame I have learned, I will rise And you'll see me return being what I am There is no other Troy for me to burn www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c4v...
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Sinead O'Connor - Troy (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SineadOConnorVEVO
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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is not the only factor which makes it hard to photograph. Add dark, shiny heads and a shallow profile, and catching them sideways on (when you can't see wings or tail) involves more luck than judgement. But it's fun to try, however flawed the result.
A swallow flying from right to left with wings and tail streaming beside and behind it. Its head is dark blue and red, and its breast is white.
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Starmer ended his last PMQs with a speech thanking each & every part of parliament, the dispatch box, the public services & states to his wife and children that he loves them. He wished everyone well. What a true gentleman. Future PM’s should be held to the high standard Starmer has set. #PMQs
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OnTheWight @onthewight.com · 14/07/2026
Labour West Wight MP, Richard Quigley, led a Westminster Hall debate on the Island's deprivation issues #iwnews #IsleofWight
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Richard Quigley MP leads Westminster debate on Island's hidden deprivation
Labour West Wight MP, Richard Quigley, led a Westminster Hall debate on the Island's deprivation issues
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Sonia Silva ❤️ @vallygirl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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Anne Balke Staver @anneavelo.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The most letter to the LRB letter to the LRB that I have ever read.
Rude Erudition
Writing about Joanne Paul’s recent biography of Thomas More (LRB, 6 November), Lucy Wooding observes that ‘More could proclaim “the beshitted tongue” of Luther “most fit to lick” the “posterior of a pissing she-mule”.’ She adds: ‘This kind of rhetoric sits uncomfortably with the accepted view of More as, if not a saint, at least a scholar of immense sophistication.’ But even here More is showing his erudition, since he is almost certainly adapting a line from the Roman poet Catullus. Here is More’s Latin: ‘ut vel meientis mulae posteriora lingat.’ And here is Catullus 97, lines 7-8: ‘praeterea rictum qualem diffissus in aestu/meientis mulae cunnus habere solet.’ Rough translation: ‘and besides, he tends to hold his mouth open like the gaping cunt of a pissing she-mule in heat.’ Even when the humanists were vulgar, it was often with ancient precedent in mind.
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l0mbroso.bsky.social @l0mbroso.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Make Spotlight on Central Asia part of your weekly routine. There is nobody more authoritative than @pannierb.bsky.social and Michael Hilliard. Thanks you @timesca.com
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Excellent letter in next week's Radio Times. Culprits are Mason, Coates, Rigby and Jon Craig.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The Waterboys - Song of Wandering Aengus @mickpuck.bsky.social and @waterboysmusic.bsky.social from An Appointment with Mr Yeats: I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And hooked a berry to a thread... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYb-...
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The Waterboys - Song of Wandering Aengus
YouTube video by Craig McBlane
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Islington dinner party 16th February 2016. Where the Brexit campaign deal was done wp.me/p15p2Q-7Zm
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Tues 16th Feb 2016: slow roast lamb dinner in Islington. Johnson, Gove, Lebedev. A key moment of Brexit
Tues 16th Feb 2016: Slow roast lamb, Johnson, Gove, Lebedev & Brexit On Tuesday 16th February 2016 Michael Gove and his then wife Sarah Vine had (according to Tom Bowers biography of Johnson) j…
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Can you play the song where the dog dies at the end?"
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Wassily Kandinsky : Red Sun and Ship, 1925
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lukewarm24.bsky.social @lukewarm24.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I’ll keep posting for a while: Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37 They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such And:
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Roger Sanders @rogersanders.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
substack.com/@rogersander... Wet Leg - A Triumphant Return
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Wet Leg - A Triumphant Return Wet Leg made a triumphant return to the Isle of Wight Festival last night, marking their first appearance on the main stage since 2022. Now a multi award winning act wit...
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 19/06/2026
Should have acknowledged this before. Drawing is based on a photo by @damianmoney.bsky.social xx
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Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
In McGahern’s 'That They May Face the Rising Sun' there is an emphasis on the social graces of hospitality, rituals, memory and local idioms that come up in the present day against the instant ‘connectivity’ of social media and information-driven digital culture. Luke Gibbons: drb.ie/article/john...
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
For those blaming Starmer for the horrific attack in Belfast, here is the facts: The attacker made Asylum claim in February 2023, was granted leave to remain in September 2023 while the Tories were in power. At that time, the Home Secretary was Suella Braverman, who is now a member of Reform!
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Maureen Millar @maureenmillar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
😂 Mind you, on the plus side, that keeps Jared Kushner out.
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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Time to stop using Twitter/X, wouldn't you say? The Green party's presence there is doing more harm than good.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Good on her
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist
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The Times of Central Asia @timesca.com · 02/06/2026
Turkmenistan is easing some restrictions for foreign tourists, but residents say the country’s tightly controlled daily life remains largely unchanged ow.ly/NkLG50Z6KgW Turkmenistan #Tourism #Travel #HumanRights #CentralAsia #TourismUpdate
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Turkmenistan Eases Restrictions for Foreign Tourists - The Times Of Central Asia
Turkmenistan has begun gradually easing restrictions on foreign visitors and tourists, though local residents and human rights advocates say the changes have
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