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Climate, nature, science, photography, cinema, art, reading, writing, rithmetic. Tall and short stories, good humour and all good brain food. UK based, open to the world.

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Nettle @nettlejelly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What could go wrong?
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The Cotswold Woolgatherers’ stall boasts a certificate reading “From sheep to jumper: 8 hours 54 minutes – 2nd fastest team in the world”. I note that the wool from the recently hand-shorn sheep has vanished.”
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Nick Williams @nick-aka-nev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#ASongOrMovieForSoft Don't Look Back In Angora
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Birmingham City Council at the High Court to seek an emergency injunction to stop more unlawful erection of Union and St George's Cross flags on lampposts and bridges by Ryan Bridge's Raise the Colours The council has acted after many complaints of harassment & anti-social behaviour for over a year
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Live updates as flaggers face court showdown with Birmingham City Council
It's a day of reckoning for the men who have put flags up all over Birmingham, as the city council seeks an injunction to stop them
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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Henri @henriwords.com · 24/09/2026
I saw Tommy Robinson (5’6”) called Ewok Powell and that made me chuckle
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
He was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage with intent to endanger life+endangering the safety of a ship on Wednesday. He remains in custody. The force previously said it was looking at the video which Thomas, known to his supporters as Danny Tommo, had live-streamed on social media on Tuesday.
bbc.co.uk
Daniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashing
Police had been looking into footage appearing to show the man, also known as Danny Tommo, slashing at a boat in the English Channel with a knife.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Climate change is fuelling African conflict – governments are developing a shared response When communities compete for land and water, the risk of conflict can grow. theconversation.com/climate-chan...
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Climate change is fuelling African conflict – governments are developing a shared response
African countries are now crafting the first continent-wide framework to tackle how climate disasters can worsen hunger, displacement and conflict.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So we are absolutely clear, as well as being unworkable and cruel the tory "stop people on benefits buying cigarettes and alcohol" plan has no economic benefit. It will either not reduce expenditure at all or more likely it will increase expenditure through the significant cost of its administration
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve written to my MP, the Home Secretary and the PM this morning demanding that the government take action to defend the RNLI and clamp down on these far-right “activists”, who need to be arrested and charged for the criminal offences in this thread alone, as well as others in recent weeks.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Possession of an offensive weapon, reckless endangerment, criminal damage ... Let's hope the police take this seriously. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This story is incredible - and shows how much corruption and money laundering runs through fin tech (which makes it ripe for Kremlin operations) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
FT finds thousands of Russian payments received by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very probably the best photo I've ever taken of a 16th Century dovecote with a cow standing in front of it, surrounded by buttercups, looking like she has just dropped a debut album she is thoroughly proud of.
A cow, standing in front of the dovecote in Bruton, Somerset, about a month ago. Lovely town. Beautiful architecture. Had a chat with a really nice lady from an old farming family after I took this. Sadly quite a few stuck-up down-from-London snotbags live there these days and houses cost a fortune as a result.
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Nick Williams @nick-aka-nev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#ASongOrMovieForEmbarrassment Faux Pas Got A Brand New Bag
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I sure hope that as the climate continues to change, climate people won’t get nastier and nastier to each other online, and subject each other to ever stricter purity tests… …while the people who are actively accelerating the problems, and aren’t even on here, laugh all the way to the bank
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Drawing created by Paul Davidson c.1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne Hospital, where he was compelled to live. This is one of a small number of his surviving works & no biographical information is currently known to us
A crayon drawing of a white boy’s head with short brown hair and purple and orange rays emitting from his eyes, he is inside a square structure reminiscent of a window of theatre set with prance curtains, above a rectangle full of blue and green stars with red legs, and on either side are hands with their index fingers pointed
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 22/09/2026
A Kremlin-backed fintech company used old-fashioned money laundering to bypass western sanctions and funnel almost $7bn through major international banks, including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Read today's excusive investigation 👉 ft.trib.al/POYpdNe
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Roses are red Their stems are quite narrow
Daily Record headline: Drunk woman steals 45ft ferry while shouting 'I'm Jack Sparrow'. Subhead: ALISON WHELAN drank Lambrini and ate poisonous nightshade before boarding the ferry and drifting up a river on the tide.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sorry, what size is it?
Screenshot of an eBay listing: black text on white trade shapely lady size
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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Total of 9 wild-born White-tailed Eagle have now fledged, from 5 established pairs after 56 released. Successful reintroduction needs long-term commitment: hats off to Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation & @ForestryEngland.bsky.social Notably diet mainly fish! #ornithology roydennis.org/three-wild-w...
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Three wild white-tailed eagle chicks hatched in England – Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation
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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ - Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/one-of...
wired.com
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Goodnight from the Wall End Working Men’s Club, where rumour is going round that there’s some Barrow Boar chops in tonight’s meat raffle. Goodnight from Marian Pearson, counting all the reasons to curse Janie Creed aside from the fact she’s stolen her boyfriend. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Éidín Ní Shé @eidin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Solidarity with the snail today 🐌
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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
She's literally doing that. goodlawproject.org/blog-money-i...
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Political funding: Stella Creasy bids to close donations loophole | Good Law Project
The Walthamstow MP is campaigning for an amendment that could stop billionaires influencing politics – we’ve got six days to make it happen
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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social on #AI #HumanExtinction @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10/09/2026
also as usual people would do well to read @emilymbender.bsky.social, this newsletter links several academic papers and addresses related questions
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Information literacy and chatbots as search
By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...
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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
An older poem of mine from my first book Surfacing, published by Lapwing Publications. First published in The Dawntreader. Just looking at how my poetry has changed over the years. #poetsofbluesky #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 09/09/2026
The public can now see the questions hanging over his finances. It's time the authorities asked them too. We’re calling on the Government to refer Stephen Lennon to HMRC for a full investigation. secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...
secure.hopenothate.org.uk
CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At a time of ecological crisis,extreme weather events+a rapidly heating climate,Robert Macfarlane’s BBC Reith Lectures will examine what is in his view one of the most consequential stories humans tell themselves: that our species stands above+apart from the rest of nature. Only BBC does this. 1/
bbc.co.uk
Robert Macfarlane to challenge humanity’s ‘superiority complex’ in the 2026 BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures
The acclaimed writer will argue for the urgent need to re-imagine humanity’s relationship with the living world, in order to shape a more hopeful future on Earth
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In panel one we see Sarah, the protagonist, lying in bed with the lights out. She says, "Is everyone ready for sleep?"
In panel two we see a brain, heart, and stomach. They say, "Yes!" "Yup!" and "Yep!" 
In panel three we see a bladder, squirming. A speech panel says "Bladder?"
In panel four the bladder looks up. It says, weakly, "I don't know".
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Burgess @burgess.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
It's one of the UK's largest sewage outlets.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
On the plus side, it's keeping them away from the ports and other major infrastructure. Unless you consider the Daily Mail to be major infrastructure.
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Nettle @nettlejelly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
meanwhile, the fog is out there eating the pollution theweek.com/environment/...
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Fog has bacteria that eat air pollution
The low-lying clouds hold a diverse microbiome
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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.upi.com/Top_News/US/... Today's Fatal Food is.... <spins wheel> Pork! with.... <spins wheel> Lysteria!
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USDA recalls 1,500 pounds of pork products distributed to eight states - UPI.com
U.S. health officials have issued an urgent recall for more than 1,500 pounds of pre-packaged pork products distributed across eight states.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Edmonia 'Wildfire' Lewis (1844-1907) first African/Native-American woman to achieve international fame as a sculptor #womensart
Sepia photograph featuring the upper half of a sitting Black woman draped in a cape and wearing a small hat.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/09/2026
Very good report and article wrecked, as always, by a sloppy headline that falsely reframes the core story. It should be: New report warns vulnerable, oil dependent countries could be hurt if energy transition chaotic Or something
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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy Star Trek Day I always think about Star Trek when I visit Southgate London Underground station. The station building and the outside benches remind me of the Starship Enterprise. Happy 60th anniversary to Star Trek :-)
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Nettle @nettlejelly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great news!
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Nettle @nettlejelly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For the win!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.
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Nettle @nettlejelly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
😂
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🖼️ Fidelia Bridges, 1907.
Painting of various flowers in garden; yellow, purple, orange and blue, misty background.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Denmark built so much wind that some blustery hours the turbines out-produce what the whole country is using. When that happens, the extra power doesn’t sit idle. It moves through Denmark’s links into the wider European network and heads to neighbors like Germany, Norway, Sweden. #ActOnClimate
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the police and Home Office seem to be incapable of an appropriate response to the threat of far-right activity and violence."
nicklowles.substack.com
Did Kent Police ignore a 999 call?
Contrary to their public statement, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act on the information.
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A short thread of cats I saw within about 40 yards walking in Corfu.
A tortoiseshell and a tabby lying next to one another on a tree stump. They are looking up at the camera with slightly startled expressions, as if they know they're not meant to be seen together.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Goodnight from the Hookland Museum of Curiosities, its pickled Hand of Glory twitching unseen on a bed of black velvet. Goodnight from Jan Raffner, singing the song of The Old Mothers to the corn dolly she is making for the Croxley harvest mass and supper. Goodnight from Hookland.
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The other thing in Corfu, which is considerably harder to photograph, is absolutely fuckloads of swifts. Never seen so many swarming around. Gorgeous.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Daniel Thomas' Patriot Platform are an organised paramilitary group with likely US funding who have been planning to block Dover and take control of British cities since June. Here is the evidence 🧵 - police should've been aware.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
The courage of those who set out to save those at risk of drowning can never be overestimated. Each rescue is a challenge. I used to watch the Orkney lifeboat head out into rough seas with my heart in my mouth. Remarkable courage. Donate to the #RNLI here: shop.rnli.org/products/don...
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Donation to RNLI
It costs us around £483,000 a day to run our lifesaving service. Your kind donation will help deliver our lifesaving work.
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