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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 13h

The first Devil's Fingers (Clathrus archeri) are pushing up from the underworld beneath Rye, East Sussex. And, yes, they really are that colour. #fungi #fungifriends #UKwildlife #Sussexwildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

A weird bright-cerise fungus, shaped like deformed fingers, emerging from a partially hidden white 'ball' in grassland.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fab time down in WCornwall with the boy James. Upland + spot sands, black kite, Lap + snow buntings, curlew sand, black tern, grey phalarope, sooty + Balearic shears and meeting @lobb66.bsky.social @liamlangley1.bsky.social @nigelwheatley22.bsky.social Adam Holmes, Billy Nason (bk pic) + Pete Akers

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NationalPoetryDay poem that featured in 192 Magazine - a lockdown lament

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The seas are getting fairer and we seeing a lot of life offshore. Lots to share, but to start… PILOT WHALES!!! 🦑🐳🌿 Breaches at ~14, 20, & 28 seconds. This was a huge group that joined us for a while alongside the vessel, & even now several hours later we can see them far off the back deck.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Animal & Plant Health Agency staff are using mini-transmitters to track invasive Asian Hornets to hidden nests near Rye. You can report sightings on an app www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/... or via iRecord. This Asian Hornet was next to a trap down our lane just now. #UKwildlife #insects #AsianHornets

An Asia Hornet. It is darker and slightly smaller than the native species and has bright yellow legs. Here one is on an Ivy leaf.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/09/2026

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Better numbers and species of moths last night with the rain, surprise Deep Brown Dart, Crocidosema plebjana, yellow line quaker, black rustic, white point, vestal, rough veneer, turnips etc

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They treat those who seek peace as a threat to the public realm, while throwing a defensive cordon around those engaged in genocide. They treat environmental protesters as if they were antisocial thugs, while the antisocial thugs of the fossil fuel industry get a free pass to trash our lives.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well done to the Irish Mirror, also to Off the Ball which is not broadcasting either game despite having the rights as they don't think we should play Israel, and the RTÉ staff who won't work on the games. These games should not go ahead. #StopTheGames www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...

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Israel v Ireland - the Irish Mirror's coverage will be different... here's why

The big decisions can sometimes be the most straightforward

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Holly blue in September sunshine

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

on.soundcloud.com/ctzASLGUWoIX... Back in the 80s when we were all in bands - us in Nottingham, track called Motorbike

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Those Rio Snappers - unsure of the title

Those Rio Snappers

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

By the way, Israel is using the same logic Russia is using to claim Ukraine, some bullshit about ancient kingdoms and property rights based on myths. Same shit different asshole.

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West Coast Birdwatching @westcoastbirds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HELP NEEDED! There is a stranded Manx Shearwater in the West Midlands (SOLIHULL) that needs a ride back to the coast. Can anyone in that area help? Even to take it some of the way and pass on to another volunteer? Please call 01437 723193 if you can help 🙏

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My son James found this booted warbler in Zennor, Cornwall last thing today. Top find! #cornwallbirding

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Dr. DooDiddle theonion.com/dr-doodiddle

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

BDS Victory! Genocide Israel Bonds Kicked ut of the EU! In a huge victory for the Palestine solidarity movement and the mass civil, political and legal campaign against Israel Bonds, the Development Corporation for Israel (DCI) has been unable to get authorisation to sell its bonds in the EU. #BDS

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Stewart Jackson accuses @georgemonbiot.bsky.social of being self-serving in his virtue. In other news. 'Shadow minister, Stewart Jackson, claimed £66,000 for his family home, including hundreds of pounds on refurbishing his swimming pool.' (2009) #politicslive www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop...

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Blair’s shoulder knot and vestal best of meagre pickings this morning plus yellowtail and centre barred sallows #moths #wilts

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026

Membership also includes booking access to our regular events around the country www.thenerve.news/members Thanks for reading. (@tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social are you listening? 🤔) We’ll leave you with a graphic by our brilliant creative director Lynsey Irvine which neatly sums up the above! ///

Graphic showing Peter Thiel’s head with wiggly arrows coming off it pointing to heads of people in his hubs of influence including Silicon Valley (Alex Karp, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk), Washington DC (JD Vance, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon), and the UK (Louise Mosley, Nigel Farage, James Orr, Peter Mandelson)

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🪶🦑🌿 Birds that visited the deck today: - Northern flicker (x8!!!!) - Cedar waxwing - Eastern wood-pewee - Clay-colored sparrow (LIFER!!!) - Wilson’s warbler - Nashville warbler - Cape May warbler - American redstart - Greater yellowlegs - Ovenbird - Marsh wren

A pair of northern flickers sit amongst pipes and wires

An american redstart sits on the deck of a boat

A wilson’s warbler sits on the deck of a boat

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Kay4BlueTexas @kay4bluetexas.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

"How to Dismantle a Dictatorship" presents a concise nine-point plan for dismantling dictatorships, focusing on practical steps rather than theoretical explanations of why these structures work. georgiebc.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/n...

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New book! How to Dismantle a Dictatorship is here!

How to Dismantle a Dictatorship is a guide to dismantling a dictatorship (surprising, I know) from the perspective of Binding Chaos theory. Because dictatorships are power structures, and all power…

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GlennA @glennairey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You can’t keep a good man down.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 16/09/2026

GOOD NEWS: Bristol has become the first British city to impose a ban on the advertising of fossil fuels, airlines, cruises, fast fashion, and SUVs, on council-owned advertising space, including billboards, bus stop shelters, print and online. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Bristol becomes first British city to ban advertisements for fast fashion

Green-run council also curbing ads for airlines, cruises, fossil fuels and SUVs on its billboards and bus shelters

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liamfleming.bsky.social @liamfleming.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Delighted to see Ireland’s 2nd Blackburnian Warbler on Dursey Island, Cork today. Amazing find by Paul & Noel. #irishrarebirds

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Misheard Lyrics No.71. In Scott Walker’s seminal Jackie I always thought he sings ‘we’ll steal a game from Twickenham’ so disappointed to find out it’s ‘whiskey that came from Twickenham’. I think mine is better - why would whiskey come from Twickenham??? #scottwalker #nonsense

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Think I was always a part time punk and saw the Clash for £2.50 although I did use toothpaste. Full time punks didn’t come in until later - @dustygedge.bsky.social you made a kind of living at it? @collettwriter.bsky.social youtu.be/MmbJdcsGl_Q?...

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"Part Time Punks" - Television Personalities(1978) w/lyrics

YouTube video by jurassicpunk

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 08/09/2026

Will there be enough water to satisfy demand in 2050? Part one of a two-part series: England's reservoirs face a widening water shortfall as population growth and 1.5 million new homes strain storage By Patrick Wright

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Will there be enough water to satisfy demand in 2050?

Part one of a two-part series: England's reservoirs face a widening water shortfall as population growth and 1.5 million new homes strain storage

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pmf @clearlight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Since Burnham took office, counter-terrorism police have raided the homes of pensioners at dawn over 30-second videos; while a villager who rang CT Police to report 300 masked men planning to attack Muslims in Dover was told to dial 999, and the case was closed.

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'This isn't the Britain I grew up in': The activists raided by police over Palestine Action videos

Activists say police searched their entire homes, confiscating personal devices and items bearing the Palestinian flag, even rifling through personal diaries

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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Where’s the outrage about spoiling holidays, blocking ambulances or people going to funerals or appointments, or working class people struggling to work? Oh - of course - these masked morons aren’t a threat to oil and defence industries. I’m frightened of the direction UK is heading.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To distribute the compromised software, Israel allegedly used British media tycoon Robert Maxwell, who secretly operated as an intelligence asset for the KGB, MI6, and Mossad, to sell PROMIS to foreign governments, banks, and intelligence agencies worldwide through his global business empire.

This historical photograph captures a meeting between Donald Trump and British media mogul Robert Maxwell, taken on May 3, 1989. The gathering took place in New York inside the wheelhouse of Maxwell's famous luxury yacht.

Ghislaine Maxwell with her father, media mogul Robert Maxwell

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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 bravery. 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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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 07/09/2026

Reform routinely attack universities as a "scam" and denigrate the value of higher education. The VC of Manchester Met and president of Universities UK should be defending the sector. Not cosying up to those who want to undermine it. Full response ⬇️ www.ucu.org.uk/article/1463...

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University boss criticised for appearing at Reform UK conference

The University and College Union (UCU) today criticised Universities UK president and Manchester Metropolitan University vice-chancellor, Malcolm Press, for appearing at Reform UK's conference in Birm...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This should be the easiest open goal in the world for a progressive government - they are literally violent criminals. Most voters do not like violent criminals.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Please read the article. Britain is *finally* asking the right questions over Farage's finances. We've published a whole series on Harborne only possible through the generous support of @thenerve.news members. Please consider joining us. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏 www.thenerve.news/p/christophe...

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Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oak hook tip, small blood vein, centre barred sallow and vestal all NFY this morning plus rush veneer, euro cornborer etc #wilts #moths

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Another round of "brilliant" negotiations is completed. The only difference this time is that Witkoff and Kushner came to deliver Putin's demands personally after kissing his boot in the Kremlin. We are on, what, 9th circle of this cycle? 1,5 years wasted and countless lives.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

‘It's not a question of where he grips it. It's a simple question of weight ratio! A five ounce bird could not carry a 1 pound coconut.’

Reform supporter dressed like King Arthur (or a crusader) being stopped at the conference for trying to take a sword in.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick says he wants to “abolish” Natural England, and at the very least stop funding it, in the first 100 days of a putative Reform government. Reform may appear to be on the rocks currently but their plans are terrifying, mad & must be stopped. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Jenrick: “Even if you can’t abolish, I don’t know, Natural England within the first 100 days, you can stop funding it, you can turn the tap off and the tap will be turned off a lot of these quangos, and that will drive savings.”

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

These people must be thwarted, with extreme prejudice. They are not normal politicians, or normal people. They want to turn our nation into their Trump-style playground, to smash everything up and see how much money and fun they can wring out of it, while everyone else pays one way or another.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

BREAKING 84yo Reverend Sue Parfitt’s home was raided by police today. She had taken part in a peaceful protest on Wednesday with @just-stopoil.bsky.social outside Westminster, calling on Andy Burnham to refuse to reopen new oil & gas licenses in the North Sea. (Footage from a 2025 arrest)

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