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Nigel Stead

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 6h
Pictures of the end
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 11h
3 weeks to the day since Scottie "I am the house now" Bessent
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
San Nomedio, an absolute unit standing sentinel over the Minho valley in Galicia. Legend has it that it served as a refuge against invaders; Romans, Goths, Vikings etc. Now home to a population of wild ponies, very beautiful and timid, who come down to the villages at night to graze the gardens.
Picture from a distance of San Nemedio mountain in Galicia. It is a large conical mountain, forested in many parts on the lower slopes.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wolves & wild horses have returned to Portugal’s Côa Valley. Rewilding Portugal has been working across the Greater Côa Valley, releasing Sorraia horses & Tauros cattle since 2021 to restore natural grazing. Iberian wolves have now returned to the area on their own buff.ly/xEAcxIx #ShareGoodNewsToo
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The return of the wild in Portugal's Greater Côa Valley - ELSP
When Marta Calix moved to Portugal’s Greater Côa Valley in 2019, she joined an ambitious effort to bring nature back across one of western Europe’s important wildlife corridors. Six years later, new…
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nearly got a bruised ankle.🪃
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Ready Aye Ready - Royal Canadian Navy #RCN @ready-aye-ready.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A starry night is seen from the flight deck of HMCS ROBERT HAMPTON GRAY during Exercise Arctic Ghost in the vicinity of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, Operation Nanook-NUNAKPUT, September 17th, 2026. Photo: Corporal Paquette #RCN #Photo #RoyalCanadianNavy
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolute scenes in Montreal as Brandon McNulty wins the Road Race. Big for US cycling, as Lance Armstrong was the last winner in 1993 (Before he started cheating).
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Romeo the cat. He has had half my breakfast. Then he heads off to hoover up another one.
A cat who is waiting patiently for some Serrano ham.The same cat on a table hoovering up the remains of another breakfast.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is what steak, chips and smoked cheese ice cream looks like if you ever need to avoid it in the future.
A plate with steak, chips and smoked cheese ice cream
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rio Xabrina in Galicia. Pound for pound among the prettiest rivers anywhere, especially in Autumn. It has the same etymology as the River Severn in England/Wales which was also named Sabrina, both after the water deity presumably, until the Anglo Saxons renamed it as Severn.
Photo of a river in Spain with autumnal trees on the bank. Sunlight filters through to the leaf litter.Lush vegetation on the banks of the Rio Xabrina in Galicia.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kaja Kallas on the US inviting Putin to the G20 summit in Miami: "It was very hard to hear. Considering that even a few days ago, there were Russian intelligence officers charged for murders of Americans on American soil.
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Night brings us naught but horror when Tokyo opens. Italian bond market is unraveling. We have Chuckles the Clown as a Treasury Secretary and he will soon say mad things on cable teevee.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TRUMP ON BRITAIN: ‘UNITED KINGDOM,’ ‘BRITAIN’ AND ‘ENGLAND’ — ‘MORE NAMES THAN ANY OTHER PLACE IN THE WORLD’
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Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
903 Gully spends all day every day at the falls, looking for the freshest salmon. It's paying off for him. #katmai
A brown bear sits in the turbulent water at the base of Brooks Falls, with his back to the rocky wall at the far edge of the river.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Quite funny. No microphones now.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bruno can’t explain what went wrong and how he finished only 26th. I was surprised as well.😭😭😭😭
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
MVDP finishes a four-hour 174 km solo raid to win the final stage of The Tour of Luxembourg. I think it’s the longest solo breakaway for many years. Called by @josebeentv.bsky.social
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Germany and Sweden are reinforcing Gotland in light of deteriorating security situation. Aerial, naval and other units are active with live weapons. It is explicitly described as not an exercise and aimed at securing logistics. "Primary focus is Russia" www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...
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Tyska förband förstärker Gotland i Nato-operation
Tyska förband rullar i dag in på Gotland i en förstärkningsoperation tillsammans med svenska Försvarsmakten. Operationen är ett test av Natos planer för hur ön ska försvaras. – Det här är ingen vanlig...
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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
1897 Velodrome Racers
Painting depicting old-time bicycle racers on a track.
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@seanjones.org Sean, any chance you could RT this link for donations to Cornwall Islamic Centre after their place has been vandalised, car driven through gates & oil thrown everywhere ? 🙏 www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
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SUPPORT CORNWALL ISLAMIC COMMUNITY CENTRE
Our centre has recently been targeted in an possibly arson attack. At approximately 11:25pm, a small vehicle was seen reversing into the entrance gate of the Cornwall Islamic Community Centre. The ve...
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Many euros are expecting Americans to “come to their senses” when they see how insane this war is. Fools! Ain’t nothing gonna make these Yankees to “come to their senses”. Dems are too cowardly to oppose the war. GOP is too crazy to admit it was wrong. The end. That’s all.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ATOR is investigating reports of poisonings among Russians at Sharm el-Sheikh hotels - REPORTS
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don’t know if this is one of the Rickenbackers Marr donated. I suspect not. But a great man and guitarist.
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Tom Hicks @hicksyfern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
is this anything?
An AI-generated image of Ed Sheeran playing in Piddington village hall with a cheap "Free Piddington" banner above him.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 17/09/2026
New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century reut.rs/4yIJjwO
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New cat species identified in Bolivia, first in over a century
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described ​in more than a century.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17/09/2026
he's the prime minister of Spain, but graphic design is his passion
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Robin guarding her sloes September 2025, London #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsWithBerries #ForJanet #Robins #Birds
A photograph of a European Robin perched on a thin branch. To the side of her is a blackthorn branch with some leaves and several plump blue aloe berries.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Students made Oxford the murder capital of medieval England. No Inspector Morse in those days. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/medi...
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Medieval Murder Maps: homicidal Oxford students in the 14th century
How students made Oxford the murder capital of late medieval England
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
La Cité, Carcassonne lit up at night.
Photo of the medieval ramparts at the city of Carcassonne and the newer towers rebuilt in the fashion of northern France during conservation work in the nineteenth century
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.
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Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Texas Man Upset to Find that Brown People Go To Football Games/College
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have an announcement.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's clear that the American media and intellectual establishment is simply unable to process the reality that their President is insane
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We are nothing but superstitious monkeys and 5.000% is a magic, totemic number. That’s why 10 year bond yield must zigzag through it 17 times before it can soar.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That’s quite bad. I think Scott’s freaking out the debt market.
US 10 year bond yield soaring above 5% this morning.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Say goodbye to the Pyrenees
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is an incredible effort by Johannessen considering he’s a climber and finished 2nd yesterday climbing a big mountain.
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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'Most of Britain was covered with wild, sprawling forest' is a common misconception about the time of the Norman Conquest. Usborne history books were an important part of my early obsession with archaeology but it's disappointing to see such a huge inaccuracy still being published.
Flap in an illustrated children's book reading 'Most of Brian was covered with wild, sprawling forest.'
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Time to buy physical roadmaps. Ones printed on paper. Write down key addresses on paper. Figure out where there’s a landline phone, the sort with a rotating dial. Write down phone numbers. Figure out where the nearest harbor is. Learn to identify edible mushroom varieties and how to skin a squirrel.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Nice Mountain View.
View over Green Pyrenees meadows to high mountains in the distance. A blue sky with some nice white clouds.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Mikel Landa wins the Queen Stage at La Vuelta and Mario Sabato can’t get enough of it.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Bruguera in the Pyrenees.
Photo looking over a small mountain village. There are buildings including a church surrounded by a forested hillside.
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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is Europe’s moment. Mistral needs to go balls to wall and reach recursive self improvement while these Yankees dilly dally. We can have a weakly godlike, French machine intelligence hoovering funds from Bank of America by the Feast of Saint Nicholas.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Really nice woodland trail though I keep hearing an animal noise in the trees on my right that I’ve never heard before. Probably nothing to worry about.
Trail through Pyrenees woodland. Very green and pretty.Looking up above the treeline to the top of the mountain.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In the Pyrenees.⛰️🇪🇸
View up above the tree line to summit of Taga at 2,040 metres. It is a bald grassy cone-shaped summit.View across the valley to rocky Pyrenees mountains.
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Nigel Stead @nigelstead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
George & Gilbert ‘We don’t have a kitchen because it’s against our religion’.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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