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Peter Brash

@peterbrash.bsky.social
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Ecologist, birder, entomologist, botanist and bat botherer. Born in Liverpool and returned via circuitous route. I block dickheads on sight. Compost the rich.

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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's very much undergraduate politics. Achieves absolutely nothing positive and causes massive damage to the party. Used to be a member and have been a voter for majority of elections that I've voted in. I'd considered rejoining recently. Definitely not now.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Makes yer prahd!
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My partner had something spill in the bag for life she was using. She washed it out and put it on the line, it's now been there for two weeks and our neighbours think we've gone all Patriot's Platform.
A photograph of a shopping bag hanging on a washing line, the plastic bag has a photograph of a Union Flag on it.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
share.google/debRH7bcELuD... Joyful.
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Ali Farka Touré - Dofana
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's probably only me that still plays wordle and even fewer people who care, but bosh.
Wordle done, up to a 150 day streak.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've got the opposite problem, got a nice watch out of it though, so mustn't grumble.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thar she bloos.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I often see these things abandoned and wonder what the bird life was like the last time they were in use.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'Kinell.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still LBB, GBB adult would be really black, bill would be bigger. Although the bill on that young male is a fair size!
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The plastic tree guard manufacturers will be celebrating. Tree planting is mostly shite, just plastic pollution. There was a point a few years ago where conservationists seemed to be winning the argument on just how awful this was. Then came the carbon capture greenwashing shtick and we've regressed
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Really disappointed that Andy Burnham hasn't made a speech thanking Donald Trump and the American intelligence authorities for their help in catching those diesel rustlers.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Backbench Revolt is a particularly painful hold.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What's a rubber button?
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I always saw blocking as an admission that thr other person had won when I was on Twitter. New bromm here, dickhead=blocked, no questions asked.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I surveyed around 40 hectares of intensive dairy farm and didn't record a single Yellow Dung-fly. The use of Chicory often replaces the use of wormers. The impact on animal life is massive from these changes. It might also make famers value plant diversity.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I agree with that, I can almost guarantee that this farmer hasn't ploughed up an ancient grassland and reseeded with this mix (that damage done long ago). It's likely that it's gone from Ryegrass and Clover to something more diverse, even if out of a seed packet.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The best one was reseeded with a locally sourced neutral grassland mix, so lots of Bird's-foot Trefoil, Knapweed and Vetches. I suppose the commercial mixes could be a 'gateway drug' to proper grassland.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As an ecologist who has visited a few of these 'mob grazing' sites they're vastly better than Ryegrass and Clover. Insect abundance is massively increased which will have knockon benefits for insectivorous vertebrates.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ha ha ha! Hail Spode! I imagine they got cold feet when the crochet club turned up.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I presume this is an introduction like the Pitcher Plants and Venus Fly-traps that somebody keeps planting out?
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You're on fire!
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I live in a Victorian Terrace and we get disproportionately targeted due to density of housing. Unfortunately a new trend at Halloween is people (from other areas) dropping car loads of kids off. Yes, thanks a lot, as our trick or treat bill heads into three figures.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nope, no, not at all. Does anybody know of a website hosting and email service that hasn't got anything to do with ai? Hostinger was ok until they introduced ai. Looks like they're fully in before with the shit as well.
An email from Hostinger, proudly advertising 'silver intelligence' a name used by Trump last week to describe something that has stolen all human produced art, literature, music and science and turned it all to shit.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Me earlier.
A picture of 'gap-toothed Liverpool funny man Jimmy Tarbuck'. Looking very pleased with himself, possibly having just stolen a cigarette case from Terry Thomas.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Would that make much difference? Two fewer games a season?
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
American Christo-fascists
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lucky man! Enjoy yourself.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bottom right is more like a trade union logo to my eye. Bottom left will forever be Shopping City. The others are definitely blood and soil/Hail Spode.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't know. Maybe the current ringleader has been given exactly that amount of rope?
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Did your eyes shakily zoom in after the second dart went in?
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Is it a strategy to give them enough rope?
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bought any nice bridges recently?
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Friznit friznit
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's putting insects to sleep I'm thinking about. Don't want to be growing Cherry Laurel or smoking a pipe.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My guess is spooked by a gull.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What's the third one though? I hope there isn't going to be an ethyl acetate shortage.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excellent, glad to hear that he's still doing the rounds.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And from such a reliable source too.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pleased to finally add this paperback edition to my library. I suppose I can now cast away the test key and make room for something else.
A paperback book: British Dolichopodidae.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why are we destroying our biosphere by posting outrageous ai slop?
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jackdaws and Rooks are a great sound. I once heard a bird singing that I couldn't identify. Took me fifteen minutes to find it in a big Yew tree and it was a Jay. It finished its song by replicating that pre/post-roost sound of hundreds of Rooks and thousands of Jackdaws.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Such a terrible tragedy.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Once she was old enough we paid privately for my daughter to be vaccinated against meningitis too. My vaccine card is well and truly inked. I haven't quite got the full set but can't be far off (eyes shingles vaccination with a ravenous look).
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is this to do with the bloke in the deck chair letting out a ripper? Just look at his face.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thanks hope you get well soon. I had to pay privately last year, will do so again.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When was your last vaccination? Going to enquire about flu tomorrow and wondering whether to add a coving booster
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bar-tailed Godwit from yesterday. Feeding well at Riverside Drive.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not sure of there's any truth in the rumours about Ed Sheeran claiming asylum in Piddington.
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Peter Brash @peterbrash.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What would we do without AI? USE THESE EXACT AMOUNTS.
A screenshot of a Google search regarding self raising flour. AI overview suggests using exact amounts, then goes on to suggest amounts that vary by up to 25%.
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