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One who loves the Highlands of Scotland. Cares for the environment & wildlife therein. Sometimes political. Detest racism & the xenophobia fuelling gutter press. #Mull #Hebrides

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Craig Jones @craig63jones.bsky.social · 6h
The world turned upside down. Pearl-bordered Fritillary in the Wyre Forest this afternoon (17/10/26.) @westmbms-99.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social
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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
#JoinMeOnMyWalk Very wet on my lunch walk today so I took a different direction and found #nature treasure, in the form of lots of fresh #mushrooms all brightly coloured! Some fabulous #autumn leaves too in golds and reds brightening the grey! #Lancashire @thephotohour.bsky.social #vitaminN
Clockwise from top left; shaggy ink cap, fly agaric,birch bolete, birch milkcaps, redlead Roundheads, more emerging fly agaric, rain covered roses, golden leaves, huge trees, rain drops on ladies mantle leaves
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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Sunrise over Salen, Isle of Mull #Scotland #Salen #IsleofMull #DJI www.damianshields.com
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Butterfly Conservation Suffolk @bc-suffolk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
From Landguard, Mallow is a late autumn flyer whose numbers here are declining despite it still being a common & widespread species in southern & south-eastern England.
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... This goverment’s stance on the proscribing of Palestine Action continues to embarrass, shame and disgust the majority.
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Sally Rooney’s books will no longer be available in UK over her support for Palestine Action
Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling author’s works
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Please @labouruk.bsky.social do something about the bastard RW press before they bring us all to our knees!
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One thing must now be clear to Andy Burnham. The rightwing press is on a war footing – and he’s the enemy | Jane Martinson
Farage was its champion, now it’s Badenoch – and the aim is the PM’s defeat at all costs, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson
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Christina Maslen @christinamaslen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Branching out in East Knoyle for #ThickTrunkTuesday
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Pollsters Redfield and Wilton, which have consistently produced some of the highest figures for Reform of any firm, employed a senior aide to Farage to oversee their political polling, without disclosing his role. A second Farage aide was also used to place exclusive polling by R+W in the press
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Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm
Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say
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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#MushroomMonday Beautiful colour coming through in the #mushrooms this week, from tiny bright eyelash #fungi in chipped wood, to golden #waxcaps on a nearby lawn, I think salmon birch milkcaps and iconic fly agaric. #Lancashire #vitaminN
Top left & right: tiny bright eyelash fungi in chipped wood, to golden waxcap on a nearby lawn,
Centre; I think salmon birch milkcaps
Bottom left; iconic fly agaric and right milk coming out of the milkcap when pressed
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Christina Maslen @christinamaslen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Throwback to the incredible laval landscape of Pico Island in the Azores with Faial in the distance for #BlueSkyMonday #Azores #landscapephotography #lava
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Herbiⓥore @herbivoreclub.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Please sign & share 🙏 @lisadurable.bsky.social @amayor.bsky.social @toyvl.bsky.social @joho1564.bsky.social @6digit.bsky.social @arelig25.bsky.social @raedmansour.com @gailgram.bsky.social @xrbham.bsky.social @wal10.bsky.social @hbender55.bsky.social @tashasmom.bsky.social 👇
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Sandy Stevenson @tourscotland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Tour #Scotland 4K travel photography and video Blog clip, with #Scottish music, of the #Standing #Stones at #Scalasaig, #Gaelic: Sgalasaig, on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to the east coast of the #Island Of #Colonsay tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2022/06/stan...
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Standing Stones Scalasaig On History Visit To Island Of Colonsay Inner Hebrides Scotland
Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
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Mariposa Nature Tours @mariposanature.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New tour alert 🚨 Yesterday we launched Among the Dragonflies & Damselflies of Sicily for 2027, led by Andrea Corso. It quickly sold out, so we put on dates for 2028. And that tour filled too! We're delighted Andrea can do a second week in 2028 - here it is: www.mariposanature.com/tours/wildli...
Lefthand side, top to bottom - Small Pincertail ssp. siculus; Ringed Cascader; Black Pennant

Middle - Sombre Goldenrings ssp. sicilia

Righthand side, top to bottom - Violet Dropwing, Northern Banded Groundling, Long Skimmer

All images © Andrea Corso
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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Mountain light, Glen Coe #Scotland #GlenCoe #Highlands www.damianshields.com
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Ben @benrl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Earpick fungus (Auriscalpium vulgare) growing on Pine cones. I really like the colours of these #fungi #fungifriends
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Richard Fox @richardfoxbc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another good moth from the garden on Tues night was this Tebenna micalis (Beautiful Twitcher). It’s very small but it’s got a lot going on! #teammoth #migrantmoth
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The fight for Oaken Wood: CPRE make legal move to help save ancient woodland.... www.cprekent.org.uk/news/the-fig...
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The fight for Oaken Wood: we make legal move to help save ancient woodland
CPRE Kent is working to enhance, promote and protect Kent's countryside. Love Kent's beautiful rural areas? Find out more and get involved.
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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This little guy is snoozing under the hedge at the back of the garden, out of the rain
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
The hypocrisy 👀 Sarah Pochin MP bought an £800,000 second home on a Welsh island two days after raising concerns in Parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities.
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communiti
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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Calling all fungi fans 🍄 Join us on a fungi guided walk at Waggoners Wells in Hindhead, where you'll be guided by fungi expert and photographer, Daniel Greenwood. 📍9 October, 10.30am-12.30pm Book your place here: buff.ly/HV46p7n 🔗 📸: Tim West
Cluster of bright red, white-speckled mushrooms growing from a damp, leaf-strewn forest floor with tall green trees and dense undergrowth blurred in the background.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.
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SJP @maylandswa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Absolutely lovely Saw one yesterday at Mere Sands that had been vandalised. An act that drives me bomkers.
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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tis the season! What a beauty seen today in #Lancashire Unmistakable colour, delighted to find some! 🍄😁 #FungiFriday #FlyAgaric #mushrooms
A beautiful fly agaric fairytale mushroom seen today in Lancashire
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Liz Louise @lizlouise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Birch Webcap (Phlegmacium triumphans) and Birch Bolete (Leccinum scabrum) at Otterhead Lakes, Somerset 🌿🍄‍🟫 #Fungi #Mushrooms
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Michael Faint @ansolasoir.com · 29/09/2026
John, it was one of the most intense rainbows I have ever experienced. It lasted for nearly an hour and could be seen as a complete bow across a three mile stretch of road. Quite remarkable. #rainbow #Uist #hebrides
Church of Scotland Daliburgh under a rainbowRoad to Lochboisdale with a double rainbowLochboisdale, Rainbow, Ben Kenneth.Rainbow in South Uist, Ben Kenneth in the background and the fishing vessel Aurora in the bay
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SJP @maylandswa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Absolutely correct
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Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A distant view of mighty Duart Castle, standing guard over the entrance to the Sound of Mull from its location at the eastern tip of the Isle of Mull. A stone defensive structure was probably first built here in the mid-1200s. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #IsleOfMull #Mull
Duart Castle. The image shows a view from the sea of a complex grey stone castle standing above the shore on a rocky crag. It has a surrounding wall and interior buildings that are complete. The landscape is very brown, with lots of dead bracken. The land has trees beyond the castle and then climbs up brown slopes to a mountain whose summit is in cloud.
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Sandy Stevenson @tourscotland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tour #Scotland travel photography Blog of the Cuillin of Rum on #ancestry, #history visit and trip to the #Inner #Hebrides. They are rocky peaks of basalt and gabbro tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2013/01/tour...
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Tour Scotland Photograph Cuillin Isle Of Rum
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... What! This . Is. A . Horror. Show!! #notinmyname
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‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error
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British Nature Guide @britishnatureguide.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another RSPB reserve and another friendly and inquisitive Robin. Today RSPB Ham Wall. #BirdsSeenIn2026
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Sandy Stevenson @tourscotland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, #Isle of #Lewis, #Outer #Hebrides. Lighthouse was built in the 1860s and designed by David Stevenson tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/05/old-...
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Old Photograph Butt of Lewis Lighthouse Isle Of Lewis Scotland
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Red Kayak @redkayak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How to get away from it all, stay in one of these beautiful cottages at the waters edge, with your own lighthouse. #Scotland #Mull #scape #escape #lighthouse
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Kristin Wyatt @kristinwyatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Huron Skipper #butterflies #nature #photography
A small orange and tan butterfly feeds from tiny white aster flowers.
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Christina Maslen @christinamaslen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This magnificent ancient oak at #HintonAmpner is thought to be around 600 years old. In the third and final stage of its life, its hollowing trunk and decaying wood providing an exceptionally valuable habitat for wildlife, fungi and insects. #ThickTrunkTuesday #trees #oak @nationaltrust.org.uk
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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... My close friend says that people who voted for Brexit and have not expressed deep remorse need to recant publicly every week in the town square for the rest of their lives. Apparently this happens in China 🤷‍♀️
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‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home
Charles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s time to stop adhering to a decade-old referendum that caused us nothing but problems. An increasingly volatile world now changes faster, year on year. The days of Empire are long gone. We cannot survive alone. We need the power/safety of our neighbours. Unity not isolation.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scientists warned for years: if we clear 20-25% of the Amazon, we cross the point of no return. We've already cleared 17%. We are right on the edge.
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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Giant Polypores, Meripilus giganteus, at the base of Beech trees. Seen on today's bike ride with @vannabartlett.bsky.social #Fungi #FungiFriends
A young fruitbody of Giant Polypore, Meripilus giganteus, at the base of a Beech tree.A young fruitbody of Giant Polypore, Meripilus giganteus, at the base of a Beech tree.
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform UK are in complete meltdown. One of their flagship councils has been thrown into chaos. Farage’s party are up to their neck in sleaze and scandal. From police probes to the secret £5 million ‘gift’ from a crypto billionaire – the questions aren’t going away. news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: Three more councillors at Reform-run Durham council quit party after Sky News investigation
Three Reform UK councillors at Durham County Council have resigned from the party. The resignations come after a Sky News investigation into chaos and allegations of bullying at the council. Watch liv...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
45 million acres is the size of Washington state. Stripping protections and opening that much public land to industrial logging isn't "resource management"—it's a permanent fire sale. Tell your Rep to stop it: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests
Contact Congress today!
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Christina Maslen @christinamaslen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Old Military Road from the Rest and Be Thankful viewpoint on a dreich day. #Scotland #RestandBeThankful
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What kind of mindset sees such wonders - the return of our bluefin tuna - and thinks "let's catch them for 'sport'" or "let's kill them and sell their flesh". It's not only monstrous philistinism, but also idiot economics. Many would pay well to witness this wonder. Extractivism is our enemy.
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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There wasn't just that stunning speckled wood enjoying the sunshine yesterday, there were also #redadmiral, #comma and #paintedladies! They seem all the more precious as the seasons change. #Lancashire @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Top red admiral
Middle comma
Bottom painted lady
Feeding on Joe Pyeweed and seedum
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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#FlowersOnFriday with fabulous cosmos seen in the last week, such pretty flowers that seem to love autumnal weather! #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #Lancashire
Lovely cosmos in shades of magenta and pink, lovely the colour gradient in their petals
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