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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the most urgent jobs for people in nature societies and organisations is including young people so all of this has a future. It's crucial that we proactively invite them and get them involved, not just make room for the occasional passionate kid. We can do it!

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My Junior Botanists field botany sessions have started up for the term! Another group of brilliant home education kids, highly engaged and enthusiastic. They're learning field skills and talking about taxonomy, habitats, and biodiversity!

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Does anyone have any recommendations for long form non-fiction books in the realm of paleoentomology, paleobiology, ancient earth, paleontology, etc?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Culturally, this is because we had twenty years of roaring all-channels advocacy for increased racism, harder crackdowns and latterly more deportation and demonstrative cruelty. We had this alongside - at best - total contempt for those opposing austerity, war, racism, police violence and genocide.

College kids defacing a McDonalds during a climate change rally lead to calls to call in the tanks, whereas coke-head wife beaters trying to burn refugees alive get sorrowful expressions of sympathy for their
"legitimate underlying concerns" and "lads with strong feelings, what can you do?" shrug.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/08/2026

college admissions people talk about this too - you can throw out the entire admitted class of an elite college and pick a new one from the rejected students and they will be completely indistinguishable in terms of achievements for competitive positions there's never any objective best candidate

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I know people are mad at this but just in a tiny way I do get the point. We separate ourselves so much from other people, our experiences must be personalised. Our preferences are exact. Our maps orient themselves to us. I do use my headphones whenever I want but I think about this a lot.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Terrible take. Free market capitalism self-justifying nonsense. Actually corporations are incentivised to degrade quality, take every shortcut imaginable, and shrink sizes, after they've bought up the market and crushed competition.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

One of the most gorgeous things about London in summer is the abundance of orange-red Pelargoniums in so many windows, basements, balconies, and steps. Theyre bold and architectural, but add a softness to the harshness of the city.

Bright red pelargoniums / geranium flowers on a windowsill

bright red Pelargoniums/geraniums down in a lower ground flat

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I was not informed by the BBC that they would have a right wing political figure or lobbyist on after me to rebut what I said. The individual in question went on to spout lies about China, etc. to distract attention from the Trump administration's assault on climate action. This is unacceptable.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Amazing how many of the people currently creating havoc around the world were radicalised during covid.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Do we have any RHS head honchos on here? Does anyone know why they've decided that home educated children shouldn't have access to their programs anymore? Quite a peculiar target to pick on. www.rhs.org.uk/education-le...

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RHS School Gardening Awards / RHS Gardening

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/07/2026

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

ALLISTER HEATH
Britain can't stop
climate change. Scrap
net zero and embrace
Mediterranean

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And we had Deborah Meaden sermonising at us on Instagram that "Keir" (first name basis) is a decent and honest man who does the right thing. This is all under his watch.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

After years of deciding what to do with our project house garden the landscaping out back is....done! Easy, very little fuss, and ready for the next step in caring for my wildlife pond, planting it up, and creating a magical space! So grateful to lovely local company we used!

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Firebugs, Pyrrhocoris apterus, are spreading rapidly in parts of Norfolk. Today @vannabartlett.bsky.social found our first one in the garden. Usually found near Common Lime trees or Tree Mallow but this one was by our Hollyhocks. #Hemiptera #TrueBugs www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/...

A Firebug, Pyrrhocoris apterus (caught in a plastic pot then released).

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Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The only team not to lose to Spain at the World Cup? Cape Verde.

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Doug Sloane @dougsloane.eurosky.social · 19/07/2026

There were 3000 more people at Croke Park today than are at the World Cup final. The minimum priced ticket at the hurling was €55. The minimum priced ticket at the soccer was $2000

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Red card!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy moses!

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Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My jaw hit the floor at this. How can people be this arrogant but also this convinced of their own victimhood? I can't get over it. I can't process it!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

One of my earnest hopes is that Emma Reynolds, the former City lobbyist whom Starmer appointed as yet another craven, spineless and utterly useless Environment Secretary, will be out of a job tomorrow. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Poultry sector growth plan risks UK national security, campaigners warn

Government’s food security push is said to rely on animal feed imports with vulnerability to supply chain shocks

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Rooney not approving of the halftime show is sending me 😅 #worldcup

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'm not a cynic at all! But that was so weird #worldcup

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I can't believe there's a half time show, this is mortifying

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I got this notification when I looked up football stats (really). I have to question the discernment of anyone who is willing to hand a picture of their face and government ID to an American corporation to prove they're grown up enough to read about football history.

Google has changed some of your settings for this site (google.com) because you aren't confirmed to be an adult. To verify that you're an adult

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Why is women’s work so often neglected within traditional economic theory? How have pensions become affected by gender? Why does the gender pay gap still exist? This weeks podcast with Dr Daniella Jenkins - Executive Director of the Womens Budget Group. youtu.be/9zeGy4BNOhY?...

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How The Economy Is Rigged Against Women | Dr. Daniella Jenkins

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

Daniel Hannan *
@DanielJHannan
Reminder that Britain went from being the slowest-growing European economy in the 1970s to the fastest-growing in the 1980s.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I'm watching Little Disasters and it's enjoyable to watch if I don't think too much but the way people who are just doing their jobs are portrayed is very, very weird. And I'm not exactly someone thrilled with state authority.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Imagine waiting six years for a plan to protect nature… …to find it barely mentions protected nature. 👇

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Just as an aside, American defaultism is assuming that whatever you see is American. This cartoon is Canadian lol.

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Meet Spongiforma squarepantsii. Yes, it's named after who you think.

Close-up of a cream-colored fungus with a deeply folded, sponge-like surface full of rounded holes.

Extreme close-up of the fungus's spongy folds and hollow cavities.

Small, pale fungus on dark soil beside a ruler, measuring about 2 cm across.

The pale, sponge-like fungus seen from the side, resting on bare soil.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Dozens of Black-Veined White butterflies (Aporia crataeai) swarm a kayak by the Vagran River in the Ural Mountains of Russia. 🦋 The butterflies are attracted to the salt from human sweat on the kayaker's gear and clothing. This happens in early summer when these butterflies emerge. #butterfly

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’ve just seen the video of Rupert Lowe and Joe Rogan dismissively describing Dunblane as ‘one murder’ and expressing incredulity that this was enough to bring in tighter gun control laws and this should have garnered a lot more coverage and a lot more outrage.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I know only two things about Louise Haigh. 1. That time that she complained on twitter that there were too many flowers in the verges and they all needed to be mowed down. 2. She's been treated shamefully by Starmer and his creepy little potato brained cabal.

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Chris Sinclair @chrissinclairrr.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Flavor Flav shared that he’s secured “the tickets, the glam, wardrobe” for the entire US women’s hockey team to attend the 2026 ESPY’s. In an update, Paris Hilton is now covering the hotel rooms for every player. Talk about a bunch of words I never thought I’d say.

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Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Having failed to interest any papers in this story, I resorted to writing a letter to The Times, like in olden times. So when all that's left to watch is NASCAR racing sponsored by Cheetos, I can at least say I tried. #ITV #Sky #Comcast

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LibreOffice @libreoffice.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Our next major update is coming! #LibreOffice 26.8 will be released in August, with many new features, improvements and fixes. Help our community to test the first beta version: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2026/07/08/l... #foss #openSource #freesoftware

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Jon Poole @total2total.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Morning 😂.

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I know it's a serious matter but I'm not too couth to mention that I looked up Count Binface and he's kinda..... 🧐🥵

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Mike Lewinski @wildernessvagabonds.com · 08/07/2026

I have a fine selection of bug memes.

Meme caption: When ur a moth but also a goth

Photo of a Clymene moth which has a white body, black tips along the edges of the wings and an upside down black cross pattern when wings are at rest.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is absolutely shameful - from both Tice and the Telegraph

Tice, via lawyers, threatened to injunct the Guardian to stop it publishing these details.

Without responding to any of the questions put to him, Tice then appears to have shared the allegations contained in the Guardian’s requests for comment with the Telegraph, which wrote them up without credit or contact ahead of publication.
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Exclusive: More Reform UK transactions worth millions reported to National Crime Agency

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Starmtroopers where are you? Is this the 'change takes time' you keep promising? Is this the 'he has to act like a right wing culture war crank in an election but he'll become normal once you have to elect, which you have to' that we were promised?

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davidjohngreen.bsky.social @davidjohngreen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Great quote from Binface on BBC "Have you ever been to Clacton?" "No, but I understand from the current incumbent that's part of how you do the job"

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Kathleen 🌲 @mossgatherer.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It's been a year and people on Instagram still message me at least once a week with a book with The Cover 😅 I think we're easily at 200 books now! I should count them.

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