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Matthew Parrott

@parrottmatthew.bsky.social
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42, father of two, a fascination with wildlife and aviation, manager at RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, Norfolk @rafadrm.bsky.social

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TallFroGuy - Shape Decider @tallfroguy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
(The top left hole has two pigeons) #critterposting
Crude drawing of 10 white pigeons in 9 brown and black squares. Shaped like shapes
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If there's one groups in society who NEED to stop using AI to make resources, slides, posters, it's teachers. You're literally showing your students that you used AI to do your own homework. You look like a moron. It's shameful. Do not do this.
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My son was outraged that his primary school were using an AI poster to promote a fundraising run, he wrote a letter to the headteacher and sat down with him to explain. HT shared the same view and would be speaking to the staff member who made it. This is off the back of a week of internet safety.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
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King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/10/2026
The cars from Cars have tinted windows because otherwise you’d see their bowels.
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
melted computer • 11h @meltedcomputer.bsky.social
[british horror movie] 
person: blimey
ghost (knocking over a can of beans): boo innit 
person: oi me beans
Feb 21, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Woman walks into a Hull hairdresser and asks for a perm. Certainly, he replies: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' #NationalPoetryDay
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Liquid Bluesky
National Trust• @nationaltrust.org.uk 
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.

Except someone with ceoliac disease
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Nobody has ever regretted a scone after a long walk.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Drew Lyness @djlbirding.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Still spaces available on my Migration Watch event at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen next month (events.rspb.org.uk/events/174802). Last year, we picked up hundreds of Redwing, Fieldfare and more. Why not come and join us for some autumn migration action on Norwich's doorstep? #NorfolkBirding
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RSPB Events
Come along to one of our events to enjoy quality time in the natural world and see conservation in action. Nature is in crisis. Together we can save it.
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terrible towelie @terribletowelie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Incredible Facebook slop ad I just got
Horse pin with an illustration of a horse and the following text:
"Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Big (body about size of 50p) and beautiful and completely harmless, has an abdomen like a Fabergé egg and draws zigzag patterns across their webs. We see lots of these in Norfolk at Titchwell (where this one was) and Hickling, so many must get trampled when people wander off paths.
Photo colour wasp spider in a web in grassland, the spider has a striped black yellow and white abdomen and black and yellow striped legs
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Working as a conductor on the ghost train was all tickety boo.
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rest in peace, Joe Harkness. I was shocked and gutted when I heard the news. He was a generous, inspirational teacher and such an important writer. He was brutally honest, inclusive and funny too. When I interviewed him last summer (below) he was so full of life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Intrinsically connected’: how human neurodiversity could help save nature
Biodiversity is linked to people’s diversity, and nature lends itself to people who are different, says author Joe Harkness
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Robin Linacre @robinlinacre.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
My son loves buses! I made an app called buslens that shows you all the places you can get to by bus from near your current location, or any other location: rupertlinacre.com/buslens/ github.com/rupertLinacr...
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Courtesy of my wife who is camping out to watch them all night
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There are baby hedgehogs and their mum in the front garden AND THEY WHISTLE Last seen heading under @norwichbirder.bsky.social garden gate...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today
Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies.
The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop.
Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning.
In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds.
So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!).
Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs.
The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia.
It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet.
Sheila Hayman
Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Despite the hot weather and large numbers of visitors at Dovedale the dippers and grey wagtails were brilliantly photogenic, as we're a family group of kestrels all hovering over the high slopes #derbyshirebirding #birds
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@MNateShyamalan
Entomologist here. Great question! It may seem surprising that the scientific community could miss an entire bug species after all this time, especially when it’s THIS big. The answer might surprise you more. Let’s dive in (1/?)

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@theoceanblooms
can I ask a question: how does something like this go undiscovered until now

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Scientists have discovered a giant new species of stick insect in Australia, which is over 15 inches long and researchers say may be the heaviest insect in the country.

@MNateShyamalan
he look like stick (2/2)
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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The White Cottages by John Shelley Stumbled across this tremendous painting yesterday; so glad I can still find artists and paintings that I have no knowledge of!
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lasha3D @lasha3d.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
looking for a job Rt if you can 🙏
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Interceptor all the way
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We made it a mission to see a clouded yellow this year, trying Holkham and Warham Camp with some success but both a challenge, so a surprise to have one yesterday drop right in front of me into the @rafadrm.bsky.social car park!
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RAF Air Defence Radar Museum @rafadrm.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
An amazing day celebrating all things SR-71 at the American Air Museum at IWM Duxford today, meeting the real crews, demonstrating the heat resistant strength of the Blackbird's materials and a bit of friendly competition between the IWM volunteers and the RAF cadets on the reaction test!
Photo colour the SR-71 blackbird reconnaissance aircraft at the American Air museum in the UKPhoto colour volunteer Clive demonstrates the resistance of different metals to heat using a heat gun Photo colour Imperial War Museum volunteers compete on the computer reaction test gamePhoto colour a model SR-71 blackbird painted black and covered in silver and gold signatures of pilots and crew members on a red table cloth
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RAF Air Defence Radar Museum @rafadrm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We were very pleased to show aviation artist Mark Postlethwaite around the museum recently, as he researched a short film about the specific Defiant that Airfix adopted for their model kit. You can watch Mark's moving tribute to an aircraft and her crew here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xagq...
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The Amazing history of the Airfix Defiant N3333
YouTube video by Wingleader Films
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A wonderful evening at Sculthorpe Moor Nature Reserve as a birthday treat to see our first ever beavers We watched three beavers for some time, two juveniles and a baby, going about their business and noisily gnawing on trees.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/07/2026
Everyone In Oval Office Meeting Currently In Some Stage Of Stroke
Everyone In Oval Office Meeting Currently In Some Stage Of Stroke
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Nadia Shireen @nadiashireen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
If the summer holiday boredom has already hit, I am on telly tmoz doing a drawalong. So that’ll be five mins accounted for at least
I’ll be on Go Get Arty on CBBC this Friday. So this is a pic of me holding up a drawing
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22/07/2026
I'm Commander Shepard and this is the
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 22/07/2026
It's 12 minutes of Harry trying to persuade the Hogwarts toilet inspector that he needs to go into the girls toilets to rescue Hermione from a Troll and that he shouldn't have to show them his genitals first.
Announcement of Harry Potter going back to cinemas with 12 minutes extra footage.
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
No you cannot have Wales. Wales is mine. It was a present and I want to keep it.
Prince William talks to young person.
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A lovely evening at RSPB Titchwell Marsh with the red knot showing well on the first scrape and this beast of an emperor moth caterpillar on the footpath #norfolkbirding #birds
Photo, colour, a small red knot wading bird in the centre of the photo, standing next to a preening shelduck. The birds are in shallow waterPhoto, colour, a large green caterpillar that belongs to an emperor moth. The caterpillar is covered in small pink dots with little hairs sprouting from each.
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A beautiful evening at @rspb.bsky.social Strumpshaw Fen with 11 swallowtail caterpillars on the edge of the reedbed.
Photo, colour, a pair of swallowtail butterfly caterpillars climbing on a curved plant stem in a reedbed. The caterpillars are bright green with black and orange spots, the reedbeds are a lush green. The sky is blue with pink clouds as it is early evening.Photo, colour, a swallowtail butterfly caterpillar climbing on a curved plant stem in a reedbed. The caterpillar is bright green with black and orange spots, the reedbeds are a lush green. A boy is standing behind the caterpillar in a dark blue top and light blue shorts
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Matthew Parrott @parrottmatthew.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Love the Cafe at the edge of the woods
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/07/2026
‘Time To Become Immortal,’ Announces RFK Jr., Exposing Perineum Atop Solar Tower theonion.com/time-to-become-immorta…
‘Time To Become Immortal,’ Announces RFK Jr., Exposing Perineum Atop Solar Tower
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 12/07/2026
🎵She got legs, She knows how to use them🎶
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RAF Air Defence Radar Museum @rafadrm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Whilst we tire of the AI slop filling social media (including from some high-profile museums), it's our pleasure to share this beautiful montage of our museum created by talented work experience student Daisy last week. The art shows some of her favourite objects in the museum, see Alt text.
Art, colour, colouring pencil drawings of objects at the RAF Air Defence Radar Museum, clockwise from top left: bloodhound missile, spitfire, 259 radar, plotting table, RAF ensign, Cold War ops room, Jaguar aircraft and radar console. Drawn by work experience student Daisy.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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[TV show titles]:
SORT YOUR LIFE OUT

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[STACEY SOLOMON and the team are outside NIGEL FARAGE’S house with Nigel and his girlfriend LAURE FERRARI]

STACEY:
So Nigel - you're a politician aren't you?

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FARAGE:
Yes Stacey but I also have a hobby...

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LAURE [proudly, but slightly worried]:
Nigel collects nutters.

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[Interior - Stacey and the team entering Nigel and Laure’s house. It is crammed with weird-looking people]. 

STACEY:
Oh my goooorsh

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STACEY:
Look at all the weirdos!

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STACEY:
Where do you sleep?

NIGEL:
Over there 
on the pile of racists 

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[Nigel is showing Stacey his collection of lunatics]

NIGEL:
This one talks a lot about UFOs in Doncaster 

[He gestures to councillor Kieran Lay standing in a display case]

STACEY:
Wowww...

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[Showing her Reform councillor Steven Lewis, standing behind a lamp]:

NIGEL:
This one thinks we are in a simulation made by Satan called ‘the Matrix’

STACEY:
So many types!

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STACEY [voice over]

But Nigel is worried his collection is affecting his electability at work.

[Nigel is starting to cry]

STACEY [putting hand on his shoulder]:
Oh babe...

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[They are now in THE WAREHOUSE where Stacey puts all the belongings out into zones. Each zone is full of weird looking people. They are labelled: RACISTS, ANTISEMITES, PLANDEMICS, MISOGYNISTS etc]

STACEY:
So listen Nigel, 

We can't leave leave the warehouse...

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STACEY:
Till you've donated half of these to Restore. 

NIGEL: 
I CAN'T DO IT STACEY

[ends]
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 08/07/2026
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F.O. @get-effed.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
For the price of 100 missiles, we could send Nigel Farage to the moon. For the price of 200 missiles, we could send Nigel Farage to the moon and then fire 100 missiles at the cunt
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Helsinki Birder @helsinkibirder.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Campaigning in Greater Manchester today and just running through some life lessons...
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Steve "Whistling Joe" Everett @whistlingjoe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The delightful little digger wasp, Oxybelus uniglumis along #DiggerAlley @rspbminsmere.bsky.social doing her best to deplete the local fly population (sorry Erica!) @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @waspwoman.bsky.social youtu.be/bG2kn4scuuQ
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Oxybelus uniglumis
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