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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There must have been a thousand golden plover at Inch,Co. Donegal, yesterday. #donegalbirding

Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Erich von Daniken. Never read a word by him but the books were everywhere in the early to mid 1970s. Didn’t even realize he died this year.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is this supposed to encourage/cheer the sentient beings among us? One in four?

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can’t bring myself to listen to him in the YouTube clip above, but that did occur to me.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is good news; nevertheless a head scratcher that they have to set up ‘diversionary feeding stations’ to encourage upstanding citizens to obey the law.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You may have seen reports of a recent survey, Katherine, which revealed shocking numbers of parents stalking their teenage/young adult children. Proud to say it never occurred to me to do it.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brilliant news. Those north Cumbrian game keepers must be losing their edge.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Owen, haven’t you had black turnstone in Dublin 🤔😉😀?

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#donegalbirding There’s been an outbreak of old-school grumpiness on the county WhatsApp group over the use of Merlin. I remember how it alerted me (in Italy) to the presence of the unfamiliar Western Bonelli’s Warbler, leading to a sighting I would certainly otherwise have missed. It’s not all bad.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#donegalbirding Another welcome American visitor in the form of a semipalmated sandpiper at Blanket Nook, found today by the non-stop Donegal bird-finder general @delboydonegal.bsky.social

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#donegalbirding Nice influx of American waders this autumn. Since the Pectoral Sandpiper out west, @delboydonegal.bsky.social has been turning them up on his patch. Baird’s Sandpiper has been around a few weeks and now an American Golden Plover at Inch.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It’s time for the return of Ned Ludd.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Se non ci fosse stata la marcia su Portsmouth ….

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

more or less successfully according to innate ability. Now AI is being rammed down their throats as the answer to everything by unscrupulous techno-fascists, with the collusion of supine politicians. And then we blame the young people themselves.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The quoted article makes a much too simple and singular connection between the problem and smartphone use (they existed back in 2018). Back in my working life in HE we were expected to encourage generic critical thinking as well as subject-specific skills and students did that,

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Was about to say this. Politicians always claim there’s a whole forest of magic savings trees. Reform’s £80bn is just the latest iteration of this nonsense.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Absolutely; plenty of reasons to get rid before ever the C4 news piece aired. His ‘supervision’ arrangements alone are surely misconduct.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I know it’s nearly 50 years ago but this is pretty much how I remember it (sound quality and all) 😀.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Was at this, Joy Division supporting the Buzzcocks at the Apollo, Manchester, 27/10/79. Had just been to see Liverpool beat City 4-0 at Maine Road, so quite a day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=CusF...

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Joy Division - Dead Souls (live Manchester Apollo 27 October 1979)

YouTube video by Fuzzy Legends Archives

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That’s more what I’d expect.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you were Dick Graham I would offer a facetious list starting something like (1) London Symphony Orchestra, (2) Hallé Orchestra, (3) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, (4) New York Philharmonic Orchestra, etc etc. Number 4 is true, by the way. Went to a couple of their gigs years back.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This list would give people a VERY misleading idea of your music tastes and, in my opinion, your personality (that is a compliment 😂).

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Then you wouldn’t be Tottenham.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sorry to be parochial about this and change the subject, but that fifth-placed candidate has given me my chuckle of the day. Easy to forget such important details 😀.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Perhaps I’m being slow here. I had never heard this name two weeks ago. Am I right that he’s the man who brought Cofnas to Gent?

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

All very well, David, but it’s also about Everton being a bunch of no-hopers that nobody cares about. 😉

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Point very much taken; I confess to being lazy about this and it is important.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’m not really following what’s going on here. I understand a Tory MP has used the expression ‘Yookay’ as a pejorative. Can someone explain to me what the problem is in calling the UK the UK?

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If ever a head line told you that it’s not necessary to read what follows 😂.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Don’t know if people have seen this. Interesting document outlining department view on his appointment. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t47r5...

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lovely stuff, Mark. Fitter & Richardson was my first field guide. It came with the dust jacket illustrated here, which sadly fell apart many years ago.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Guys, Cofnas is clearly trying to trigger responses on here and the other site to build a victim narrative he needs for a successful career around Reform or Restore

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There are quite a few eugenicists. Almost none of them have any knowledge of or qualification in genetics or biology.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

People, please Stop mentioning Caroline Flack (I could add David Kelly) as if it’s a bloody competition. It’s not the moment for it.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s the new stadium, Nick. That and the return of Moyesie.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I’m sorry if you’re of a sensitive disposition, but I am glad I can’t get my hands on Toby Young just now.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well, that’s one way of dealing with the problem of having an awkward famous son. I dare say some of the more conservative early 20th century Irish nationalists would have declared the problem with Connolly was that ‘he’s Scottish really’.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I noticed on a @hopenothate.org.uk list of GB news advertisers the Thomas Paine Hotel (in Thetford). Sometimes feels like the entire UK is through the looking glass.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Toby Young and the Spectator will be all over this.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sure. It was, frankly, quite obvious to me as soon as I saw some concrete examples. But better people than I tried to defend it, wrongly. And none of it justifies in any way the ensuing carnival of reaction.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Not disagreeing, Chris, but Cambridge (and LJMU and Glasgow) are to blame for decisions that they (albeit subconsciously) thought fulfilled their diversity mission rather than do the hard yards to address the institutional problem but that don’t offer instant and measurable results.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Gove is taking the piss. Of all the people he could have asked to write the inevitable article, he chose that one.

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Really interesting. Can you suggest some reading that summarises research on potential impact (preferably open access😀)?

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We are indeed through the looking glass … while the birthplace of Thomas Paine witnesses mob attacks on immigrant homes, a hotel in Thetford named after him is advertising on GB ‘news’. @hopenothate.org.uk

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Michael Huggins @miceal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Bad enough that the horrific attacks are taking place in the birthplace of Thomas Paine, but for a hotel named after him to be advertising on that channel. I despair.

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