Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 1hCan anyone please help me with this raptor? I have an idea but not sure. #ukbirding 000
Reposted by Merriman LyonThomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We know now that this is true, and we'd better act on it. forever. 2203
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today’s charity shop find. I’ve been hoping to come across this one! 260
Reposted by Merriman LyonSarah Nour @sarahnour.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In the fantasy Western film The Valley of Gwangi (1969), a group of cowboys working for a struggling Wild West rodeo capture a live dinosaur, an allosaurus, to put on display for profit. Unsurprisingly, the dinosaur doesn't take well to captivity. #WyrdWednesday 1183
Reposted by Merriman LyonAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9653043276
Reposted by Merriman LyonPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires 4223487658
Reposted by Merriman LyonColin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Heat Ray, visible to the human eye only by its effects as H. G. Wells intended, from “The War Of The Worlds” as illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith. 54913
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A double row of stones on Hurston Ridge, Dartmoor. Oh… and some sheep. 041
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The weather was changeable today on Dartmoor. 020
Reposted by Merriman LyonLisa Grimm Grinning Ghosts Come Out to Socialise @lisagrimm.com · 24/09/2026Watching Strange But True? from the 1990s as a sort of chillout from a wild workday, and they are recounting The Galway Poltergeist...was this quite well-known at the time? All feels a bit by-the-numbers (a priest and nun are involved), even by SBT standards; no memory of this one for me. 021
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This arrived today. I have heard good things about it. 030
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026After asking Google about mountaineers gripped by irrational fear, it questioned why I was asking. Being in a silly mood I replied that knowing helps me buy cheese. This was the retort. Strangely absurd humour. 121
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There is a village in Oxfordshire called Piddington. Its name is a derivation of Piddlington, which literally means piss town or town full of piss. 141
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Managed to see the ghost of the marshes early last evening. 2133
Reposted by Merriman Lyon🎃 Andy Lambert 🎃 @and-e-roo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This is the one. This was the episode in which the opening scene scared me so much I was sent straight up to bed before I saw any more...! 😱 youtu.be/mNnkqJUUvgU?...youtu.beChildren Of The Full Moon | Hammer House Of Horror | Ep.8YouTube video by ITV Retro 2152
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I spent ten minutes watching a dipper in the river this morning, then found some beautiful shiny conkers. It made me realise I am so different from Trump, Putin and all the other war mongers and money grabbers. Their sad, bitter lives will never know such wonders. 040
Reposted by Merriman LyonWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Funny how nobody ever talks about the “legitimate concerns” people have about the extreme concentration of wealth among a small number of billionaires. 9434107
Reposted by Merriman Lyon☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Antique Krampus has arrived and he is wonderful! He has now joined the Krampus shelf!! 2383
Reposted by Merriman LyonAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett. 5330021273
Reposted by Merriman Lyonhookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 13/09/2026We will be watching an episode of OG - Original Gummidge - in a future #HookWatch. 251
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Well, Reform will now be able to buy the minds of all those in the country who can’t think. Oh, hang on, I believe they have those already. 020
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Things I was frightened of as a child. The dark Wolves Vinegar (I know!) Satan Nuclear war Aliens Dogs PTSD war veterans Schizophrenia Suicide Gangrene 120
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A late entry to #FingerpostFriday. From earlier this week. 050
Reposted by Merriman LyonTen Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026New for October, we are pleased to announce the release of The Reality War, a new book charting 20 years of the Doctor Who revival and its impact on the television industry. Order now from tenacrebooks.co.uk 38233
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Poo mushrooms, mossy forest and a happy hound. Dartmoor, today. 040
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The Longstone, Shovel Down, Chagford Common, Dartmoor today. With Kestor Rocks in the background. 161
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I saw a car window sticker today for Vulcan Flight Club. It took me some time to realise it had nothing to do with Star Trek! Happy 60th 🖖🏼 020
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026An interesting visit to West Challacombe Manor, Combe Martin, N.Devon today. Rarely opened to the public. Fascinating false-hammer-beam timber roof structure and unusual carvings on the main entrance door which are two feminine shaped figures, although one seems to have a moustache & Goatee. 130
Reposted by Merriman LyonDr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns 522037941
Reposted by Merriman LyonTen Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026We've just received @0tralala.bsky.social's manuscript for Written by Terrance Dicks, the first authorised biogrography of the longtime Doctor Who writer and script editor… and it's brilliant. Look out for updates on the book in the coming months. 316840
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026As half of Lake Ontario is in Canada, does that mean it can have two separate names? 110
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A reminder to folk in England. Next month is Heritage open days month. Free visits, talks etc. across the country. www.heritageopendays.org.ukheritageopendays.org.ukHomepage 010
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Not sure if I have posted this on here before. A Thunderbird that I saw in 2022. 020
Reposted by Merriman LyonColin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Anthony Maltland’s wonderfully shiversome cover to the early 1970s Puffin editions of John Gordon’s “The Giant Under The Snow”. Considering Puffin titles were marketed to youngsters up to the early teens, that’s a thoroughly spooky illustration to put before them. (I’ll wager they loved it.) 33011
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Cause I've seen all blue skies, through the tears in my eyes, and I realise I'm going home. 010
Reposted by Merriman LyonVinegar Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Cherish the flame that is Penda's Fen, repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 9 September 1030190
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Another film that both fascinated and traumatised me as a child. A favourite of the @scarredforlife.bsky.social generation I expect. 131
Reposted by Merriman LyonMr Jim Moon @hypnogoria.bsky.social · 23/08/2026One from the vaults! The final film George Pal directed was 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964) fantasy comedy about a curious showman and his magical circus who appear in a small town to bring magic and wisdom into the lives of the inhabitants. 0103
Reposted by Merriman LyonRichard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026During today's Peak District hike I happened upon this striking 12th century font in The Holy Cross Church in Ilam. It supposedly depicts a tragedy in the life of St. Bertram. While away fetching a midwife for his wife in labour, a wolf came along and devoured mother and baby, flippin' heck..! 58110
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Tragically it is shown that we must call out racism today and tomorrow as much as we have ever had to. 020
Reposted by Merriman LyonParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It feels great to be an MP again. Now I can get back to never going to Parliament, never visiting Clacton, never holding any surgeries and doing fuck all for the people who voted for me. 341233283
Reposted by Merriman Lyon☩ 𝕸𝖆𝖙𝖙 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖍𝖔𝖕𝖊 ☩ @mattstanhope7.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Phew! I thought we were experiencing the effects of global warming caused by a couple of centuries of industrial greed, very relieved to hear that instead it’s just the irresponsible use of disposable barbecues (appeared in the 1990s). Easily remedied then 0123
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Did the Essex Police advise Farage not to attend? Or are Reform lying? I think this important. 120
Merriman Lyon @merrimanlyon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This morning’s dog walk saw the local hill going full Mount Doom mode. 061
