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Mark Veater

@medgull.bsky.social
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Mostly birds and politics.

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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I have two tickets available for the all-dayer at Anarchy Brew Company in Newcastle on 29th August. I can no longer attend because my daughter's booked her engagement party on the same day. 🫤 It's a great lineup and I'll give a significant discount on the tickets. DM me and we'll sort something out.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Deadline is Tuesday www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In a world of lies, we need the BBC more than ever. This week could be our last chance to save it | Polly Toynbee
As the public consultation on the BBC nears its end, the right will be out in force to undermine it. But its supporters can do their bit – with this guidance, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2026
Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/01/2026
The world’s gone barking mad. In this era of canine exceptionalism, can humanity stage a comeback? | Farhana Dawood
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The world’s gone barking mad. In this era of canine exceptionalism, can humanity stage a comeback? | Farhana Dawood
From pawdicures to designer rainwear, the cult of the dog is expanding with impressive speed. Why must we tolerate it?
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/11/2025
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Newcastle on a Sunday night, 22:45.
A deserted street in central Newcastle with Northern Goldsmiths picked out in Christmas lights and the well-known Rolex sign in green and gold.
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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Looking forward to @zackpolanski.bsky.social shredding the Government's attack on nature in their Planning and Infrastructure Bill. The comments made by Reeves and Starmer need to be comprehensively refuted by someone with reach and influence.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
British.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot
The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The community note has it right.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/09/2025
Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump | Aditya Chakrabortty
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Special relationship? There can be no such thing with a snake like Trump | Aditya Chakrabortty
Keir Starmer has spent the best part of a year cosying up to the US president. It will be no surprise when he gets bitten, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Marsh Harrier south over Foxton Bend, just now.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Hobby just gone Sw over my Newcastle Road garden. Circled back briefly to have a look at the swifts (a mere 5 this year), then disappeared. Nice garden tick !!
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/yv...
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Yvette Cooper- Proscribe the IDF
The "IDF" has repeatedly carried out large-scale, deliberate acts of violence against civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. It is our sincerely held belief that the atrocities and tactics use...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot
Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hobby flew across the Seaton Burn roundabout on the A19 at 12:25, heading in the direction of Arcot Pond.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/05/2025
Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true | George Monbiot
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Labour has denounced me as ‘deeply misleading’ on its planning reform. I wish that were true | George Monbiot
Even it now admits that brick by brick, these proposals will wreck habitats. This could be Starmer’s most damaging mistake yet, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple giving it some at the Common Room tonight.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Just come back from my first visit to Tunisia. It's a potentially beautiful and rewarding place to go to, but the constant police presence, security guards and overzealous customs officials made it a trying holiday experience for someone doing it even slightly independently (i.e. having a hire car.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
From the air, a good portion of France looks like a giant farm.
French agricultural landscape, seen from an aeroplane window.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Great start to my short break in Tunisia, when my binoculars and scope were confiscated by customs on arrival. Hotel staff trying to get them back for me, but there's nowhere to buy a pair of bins, if they fail.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
6 Goosanders just flew over the house, heading for the coast. A most unexpected garden tick.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
If I was a federal employee whose boss was telling me I had to respond to the Musk email, I think I'd be avoiding that list of words that they're looking for in Government-funded projects. Musk will be analysing all the responses with AI, no doubt.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Good to see that Marsh Tits, severely declining in Northumberland, are still thriving in Castle Eden Dene, Co. Durham. 4 seen during our walk this afternoon, plus a minimum of 7 others heard.
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Dr Will Leo Hawkes @willleohawkes.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
One of the main things that inspired me to become an entomologist was watching the BBC's Lost Land of the Volcano & specifically @georgemcgavin.bsky.social standing on the volcano edge surrounded by the most wondrous moths! I've just been lucky enough to travel w my family to Trus Madi mountain 1/x
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Kerala, India. October 2023.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
6. You might think they're serving you by beating up someone else, designated as your enemy, but there will always be a need for new enemies, and one day you too could find yourself on a list. There is also a need, to justify emergency powers, for endless crises, to which you might also fall victim.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
5. These psychopathic movements are never on your side. They might flatter and uplift you when it's convenient for them. But as soon as you cease to be a useful instrument, they will discard you. Look at how Trump sacrifices even his most loyal lieutenants when he has exhausted their utility.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
2. The far right is, and has always been, opportunistic. It has no ideological consistency because it doesn't care: it will steal anyone's clothes if they fit. It doesn't care because it is a psychopathic movement, which treats both people and ideas as mere instruments.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Great Egret at the western extension of Hurworth Burn Reservoir.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
There was an odd-looking duck yesterday at Whitworth Hall near Spennymoor. Looks like American Black Duck until it raises its head, but has a black and orange bill. Never seen a female Mallard as dark.
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God @skeetofgod.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay. Remember Christ, My hippie son, was born on Christmas Day So all his foolish followers could throw their cash away. O acquirings of smartphones and toys, smartphones and toys, O acquirings of smartphones and toys.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/11/2024
"Trump has no mandate to implement Project 2025 -- in fact he denied all links with it on the campaign trail. But because of the trifecta voters handed Republicans, it's likely to happen nonetheless."
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Trump hoodwinked voters about his worst policy commitments
They signed up for Project 2025 whether they knew it or not.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Correction: SW not SE
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Raven heading SE over the Metrocentre at 0815 this morning
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
And some more.
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Mark Veater @medgull.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Some pics of a recent peak-bagging expedition, taking in the group around Grasmoor. Gotta love the Lake District.
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