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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

'Zahlen: Acht' #FotoVorschlag Eight fritillary flowers in Ashton Canal Park between the canal of the same name and the River Medlock in Beswick, East Manchester

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Fortunate Son @mossadwarrior.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Posting this every damn day, as we stand idly by watching him do whatever he wants!

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

An excellent free night of films about my local area and Dub Sex, a band spawned on the Crescents in Hulme, whom I used to listen to as a teenager on John Peel at my parents' house. #DubSex #Hulme #Manchester #Film #Niamos #HulmeHippdrome #HulemCrescents

A poster for a film night with a crescent shape over a road on the photo

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

'Kritzeleien' #FotoVorschlag Graffiti on the wall of the bridge carrying the M60 over the River Irk at Rhodes, Middleton, Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

Girders of a motorway bridge with graffiti on a far wall

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

'Pferde' #FotoVorschlag A lovely horse on the slopes of Dog Hill above Clough, Oldham, Greater Manchester.

A brown and white horse stood on a sloping field with white flowers and trees behind them.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

'Straßenkunst ohne Graffitti' #FotoVorschlag A mosaic of King Canute in Knutsford.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

'Transparenz' #FotoVorschlag The cooling waters of Dean Brook, a stream draining from the West Pennine Moors above Barrow Bridge, Bolton, Greater Manchester, were transparent, allowing my feet to be seen.

Feet seen through water with a rocky stream bed underneath them.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

'Unter der Brücke' #FotoVorschlag Underneath the railway bridge over the Irwell as it passes between central Manchester and Salford, seen from the Salford side.

The struts of a railway bridge over a river are seen reflected in the river from the bank

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

'Wolken' #FotoVorschlag Clouds above the fields of the Lostock Valley, Lancashire.

Large white clouds in a blue sky above fields with trees

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

'Windräder' #FotoVorschlag A wind turbine is seen between a stile on Scout Moor, Rochdale. The wind farm it is part of can be seen from much of North Manchester and Central Salford.

A wind turbine is seen between a stile over a stone wall on the moors

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

'Verbindungen' #FotoVorschlag Looking into a Merseyrail tunnel

A train tunnel stretching into the distance

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

'Objekte die mit "F" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag Fingerhut!

Foxglove flowers in a hedge under a blue sky with white clouds.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

'Natur in der Stadt' #FotoVorschlag Horse Chestnut flowering under the Mancunian Way in Manchester City Centre. The Mancunian Way is just about visible through the leaves.

A horse chestnut flower is flowering underneath an elevated road.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

'Im Rahmen' #FotoVorschlag Looking through an arch at the gardens at Astley Park, Chorley, Lancashire

Blue skies and a garden seen through a brick arch

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

'Herziges' #FotoVorschlag A mysterious heart suspended in the woods on the Lancashire Plain near Harrock Hill.

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Uli @spatz007.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

'Herziges' #FotoVorschlag

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

'Bodenmarkierungen' #FotoVorschlag Concentric pebbles pattern on pavement in Lytham, Lancashire

Concentric pattern in pebbles on the floor

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

'Naturnah' #FotoVorschlag We were quite close to nature when we saw this cormorant on a tree above a pond on the slopes of Hare Hill on the path to Alder Wood in Cheshire.

A bird, specifically a cormorant, silhouetted balancing on a thin branch in a tree.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

'Barrieren' #FotoVorschlag The path through the Lower Medlock Valley in Ancoats, East Manchester, has barriers of metal rails on either side, and the Spring sunshine was throwing shadows onto the path.

A path ascends, bordered by metal fences, the shadows of which are thrown onto the path by spring sunshine.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

'Typisch für deine Stadt/Region' #FotoVorschlag Bendy bouncy bridge over the Bridgewater Canal at the Castlefield Basin, Manchester with redbrick railway viaduct in the background

A bending bridge over a canal with shadows with a redbrick railway viaduct in the background under an azure sky

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

'Voll cool' #FotoVorschlag Snow on a path is both literally and figuratively cool. In this case, the path is Lime Kiln Lane in the Lower Medlock Valley, aka Ancoats Vale, Beswick, East Manchester

Snow on a path bounded by metal rails stretching into the distance into a tunnel of trees.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

'Schattenspiele' #FotoVorschlag Summer shadows on a door

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

'ÖPNV (ohne Fernbahn + Flug)' #FotoVorschlag Looking up the light rail track of Metrolink on the Rochdale line from Monsall Station in North East Manchester.

Looking up a light rail track going under a road bridge

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

'Objekte die mit "J" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag Jocelyn St sign in Monsall, East Manchester.

A street sign for "Jocelyn St" against a blue winter sky

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

'Urban Jungle' #FotoVorschlag Verdant growth in the middle of Manchester!

Plants growing in a railway viaduct with the metal structure visible

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

'Sitzgelegenheit' #FotoVorschlag My garden seating always gets occupied by one of my three cats! In this case, it is the oldest boy, Turbo.

A tabby cat with white front and legs sat happily and smugly on a chair in a garden with ferns behind him.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

'Reisen im Kopf' #FotoVorschlag The Huddersfield Narrow Canal travels through Scout Tunnel near Mossley, Greater Manchester. #canals #tunnels

A canal travels through a tunnel through rock with light visible at the end

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

'Pflanzen, die an seltsamen Stellen wachsen' #FotoVorschlag A sedum growing on a wall in Seburgh, Cumbria. Sedburgh is a book town! #Cumbria #Sedburgh #Sedum #StoneWall #Books #BookTown

A succulent plant growing and flowering on a wall with grassland in the near distance and hills in the far distance

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

'Lange Schatten' #FotoVorschlag The shadows cast by my partner and me on Formby Beach on Boxing Day, aka St Stephen's Day 2025

Two people's long winter shadows cast on the beach, with one throwing shapes.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Manchester towerblocks and illuminated crane on the way back from the Unthanks #fensterfreitag #FotoVorschlag

Towerblocks with lighted windws at night with an illuminated crane behind them and a streetlight in the foreground

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

[A] great embarrassing fact [that] haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.” David Graeber #DavidGraeber #Capitalism #Freemarkets

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

'Viererreihe' #FotoVorschlag Four books in a row procured from the pre-loved bookshop at National Trust Lyme Park with a cat (not from Lyme Park)

A black and white cat on a bed with four paperback books in a row.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

'Nass geworden' #FotoVorschlag The cooling waters of the Roch, which give Rochdale its name, got me quite wet!

Feets visible in fast flowing foamy waters

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

'Objekte die mit "B" beginnen oder so aussehen ... ' #FotoVorschlag Dead and fallen tree in Tatton Park on a frosty day.

A dead lying on its side stretching away from the photographer with part erect and trees in the distance in a park on a frosty day.

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

'Kartonagen' #FotoVorschlag Once Patchakuti went back to his shelf, Turbo claimed the box. The boys have a little war over boxes, my lap, and other sleeping places in the flat. #catinabox

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

'Kartonagen' #FotoVorschlag Patchakuti claimed this box shortly after the contents were emptied. #catinabox

A black and white cat in a cardboard box

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

'Instrument' #FotoVorschlag Hanging percussion instruments played at Matthew Halsall at New Century Hall, Manchester

A man plays hanging percussion instruments

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow More than ever! #enshittification #CoryDoctorow #Quotes #WordofTheYear

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‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

'Gedreht' #FotoVorschlag Looking down the stairs in The Cage, Lyme Park #LymePark #Stairs

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"...isegoria meant the exact opposite of today’s “free speech”, which they would dismiss as the abstract right to shout into the void. To the Athenians, it meant the right to have your views judged seriously, on their merits, independently of who you are or indeed how well you phrase them."

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I’m watching myself on YouTube saying things I would never say. This is the deepfake menace we must confront | Yanis Varoufakis

These inventions trigger rage, but also optimism. Maybe they will make people think more critically about debate and democracy, says Yanis Varoufakis

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

'Mein bestes Foto 2025' #FotoVorschlag Shadows cast by the late autumn sun on the slopes of Harrock Hill looking onto the Lancashire Plain under a mix of blue sky and clouds.

A winding fence with shadows cast by the late autumn sun with a tree in the mid distance and a plain beyond

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Andi Chorley @ratatoskchor.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

'Dinge die mit "I" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag The River Irwell begins with an I. Here it is seen last Autumn, just before entering Manchester city centre.

A river under a blue sky, which is reflected in its water, surrounded by trees.

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