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Shawn Thomas Photography @understudy77.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Court is in session and this is probably the cutest court in the world. #birds #puffin

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Fraggs Photography 📸🦊🦉🦋🦔 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @fraggenstein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #UnusualPlaces any bird that turns up in a place where you wouldn't normally expect to see it! - Hoopoe on Swansea Seafront - South Wales - a bird that sometimes overshoots land when migrating in Spring and ends up in the UK 😍🪶🦉 #birdingwales #ukbirding #ECK

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I started my new stint as MP for Clacton the way I mean to go on - with a massive lie. I said I was advised not to attend the count by Essex Police, which they then confirmed is bollocks. In fact I just chickened out because I didn't want photos of me next to Count Binface.

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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Norway fans are rowing their way up the escalators in Boston

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Jill Orme @ormejks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A Cormorant in its breeding finery on the River Avon at Stratford. #birds #UKBirds #BritishBirds #Cormorant #PhalacrocoraxCarbo #PhalacrocoraxCarboSinensis #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography#StratfordUponAvon 🪶

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Northumberart @northumberart.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Today, I fettled this board of ceramic birds. Once dry, they'll be bisque fired. Then, when cool, they'll be painted with underglaze colours and glaze fired. They're a labour intensive make. Available in my shop crownstudiogallery.myshopify.com

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John Gilbey @johngilbey.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

February twilight over Cardigan Bay, seen from Aberystwyth...

Two people stand at the end of Aberystwyth's Royal Pier looking at the post-sunset sky in February.

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Jill Orme @ormejks.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A Mute Swan drinking from blazing sunset water on the River Avon at Stratford, for Rob Crank's (@robcrank68.bsky.social) alternative #birdoftheday theme of #drinkers. #birds #swan #MuteSwan #CygnusOlor #UKBirds #BritishBirds #EastCoastKin #BirdLife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography 🪶

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2 🏺

The picture shows six needles of different sizes. They were made of bone resemble their modern descendants with an eye at one end and a tapered end.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

It's the satirists I feel sorriest for.

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Jack Maynard(he/him) @jhmsparky.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Rob and Alan’s #Birdoftheday is #Gannet which I’ve not yet seen as we have none on the west coast of North America. But we do have Tufted Puffins, so I’m hoping a substitution will be allowed in this case.

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Jill Orme @ormejks.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I love the absolute abandon with which Mute Swans take a bath. River Avon, Stratford, 23/11/25. #birds #UKBirds #BritishBirds #swan #MuteSwan #CygnusOlor #StratfordUpnAvon #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting 🪶

A Mute Swan bathing on the River Avon at Stratford. As part of the bathing routine they thrash their wings down alternately onto the surface of the water, to drive it up into their feathers. The twisting of the bird and the splashing they generate give good photo opportunities.

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Russ Blackman @russblackman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I haven't seen a Kent Shore Lark since Jan 2022 but found one today at Sandwich Bay

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

A cheery alpaca, drawn in Brazil by Dutch artist Frans Post. He was born in Haarlem on this day in 1612.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/11/2025

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The signs from Australia (their worst flu season on record), Japan (where they’ve had to close schools) and India indicate that this could be a long, drawn out flu season here with hospitals at capacity If you haven’t had your flu vax get it Covid as well if possible inews.co.uk/news/doctors...

inews.co.uk

Why doctors fear this winter's flu crisis will be the worst in years

An aggressive strain of flu causing record-breaking cases in Australia has been an early warning sign for the UK

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention. THE most critical tasks of our time are: • Protect what remains of wild ecosystems • Mass rewilding where damaged or lost www.earth.com/news/africas...

earth.com

Africa's natural wildlife 'power' has nearly collapsed

Scientists warn that losing Africa’s large animals is draining ecosystem energy and reshaping the continent’s biodiversity.

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

If you're out doing your @webs-gsmp.bsky.social counts this weekend, remember to record & report any dead or sick birds you find (info in the link). Bird flu cases are rising. www.bto.org/our-work/new... 📷 Dead Whooper Swan, by Kane Brides #UKbirding

Dead Whooper Swan on the bank of a watercourse. Photo by Kane Brides.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Even 2,500 years ago, people loved a novelty cup! 🦞 🍷 😄 It’s suggested this Ancient Greek terracotta vessel in the shape of a lobster claw was used as a drinking horn at parties! The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows an ancient Greek red-figure terracotta vase with a body in the shape of a lobster claw. The vase is painted with black glaze. On one side are five knobly bumps or ‘spines’, on the other side is painted a red donkey (not shown). The vessel has a vertical neck with funnel-shaped mouth and outsplayed rim. There is a strap handle from the bottom of the neck across the length of the vase which attaches just before the claw’s pincers. The inner side of the pincers is warm red terracotta. Around the handle base there is a decorative red pattern. The vessel is displayed on a pale beige fabric. Dimensions: 7 x 7.3 x 15.9 cm. On display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Met label reads:
Greek, Attic, red-figure, ca. 460 BC. Attributed to the Class of the Seven Lobster-Claws Donkey; keras (drinking horn).
Because so many aspects of Greek life depended on the sea, a vase in the shape of a lobster claw is not surprising. It is, however, exceptional and may be a variant of the askos— a bag-shaped oil container provided with a vertical mouth and strap handle. The Dionysiac iconography of the lobster claw suggests that it was a novelty item used at symposia (drinking parties).

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out. Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out. Then share. Thank you. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

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Welcome to the National Trust 2025 voting website, hosted by independent voting service provider Civica Election Services.

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Jill Orme @ormejks.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Being descended from a Waterloo heavy cavalry veteran, I find this fascinating. You can get a lot of logistical information from the old regimental muster rolls, and there are some really good books about Waterloo, but none of them give you much of a feel of what life in the army was really like.

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London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting

‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars

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Jill Orme @ormejks.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Magpie, Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, 10/10/25. As the invertebrate season draws towards its close, we're heading back into the season of churchyard birding. #birds #magpie #PicaPica #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #ChurchyardBirding #StratfordUponAvon 🪶

A Magpie perches on top of an old, mossy monument in a dark churchyard, with three other gravestones also in the shot. The Magpie is facing away from the camera, its head turned to the left. It's a mainly black and white bird, with a black head and neck and a white breast, but its flight feathers are a spectacular iridescent blue, shading into green, and its long, slender tail is green, shading through purple to blue and finally teal.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 02/10/2025

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

would this go with my silk scarf, Y/N

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