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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 6h

I've been up north this week, and I've seen quite a lot of rain. #Photography #Rain #Pond #Cumbria

View across a pond in the rain, with trees on the opposite bank.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2h

The very first shipment of 300K tons of Russian diesel—carried by the tanker Minerva Zen, which left St. Petersburg on September 22—arrived on the US East Coast less than 24 hours after the deal was formally announced.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 3h

The window became a prominent symbol in 19thC art, representing a threshold between the interior and exterior, and a space for contemplation and longing. 'View of Rome from the Artist’s Room at the Villa Medici,' by Constant Moyaux was painted in 1863.

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 6h

I've been up north this week, and I've seen quite a lot of rain. #Photography #Rain #Pond #Cumbria

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: The government's own statistics show there was a *record level of terrorism arrests* in the year leading up to June this year. The vast majority of the enormous increase in terrorism arrests are of grandparents, teenagers and everyone in between for peacefully holding placards.

NEW: Home Office stats released today reveal that arrests for “terrorist-related activity” in the year ending June 2026 were up 1,553% on last year and 94% of the arrests (3,630 of 3,867) were linked to showing support for Palestine Action.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You organised a play based on the Thurber story - student days.

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A sure sign of autumn are all the fungi around just now. Here are some fine turkey tail fungi on a mossy log, near our front door. But what did we call them before the discovery of the turkey? And why are turkeys so called anyway, when it's not where they came from? #Photography #Fungi #Autumn

Stripey turkey tail fungi growing on a moss-covered log.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wall-to-wall praise for the policy in today’s papers but they either don’t understand it or don’t care. We’ve been here before, of course. Bexit, Boris Johnson, Truss… all bigged up by the media despite, all obviously awful.

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Better still, rein in the whole AI bandwagon - it's not worth destroying the planet for. Hello Lynne. Do you remember The Thirteen Clocks?

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's been a bit of a theme this week, but these are the final apples and pears from this year's garden crop, together with a bunch of red crabapples. I'll be using the crabapples to make some delicious red chilli jam. #Photography #Fruit #Gardening #Autumn #Harvest

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?

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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

carolinedesnoettes How are we feeling about ‘a thicket’ as the collective noun for the nonce bonnets?

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

GDP don't mean shit.

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The [academic] institutions that will survive, I think, are the ones that will outlaw AI by promising students they will be taught by people and that they will be expected to work without AI"

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Over the weekend, I collected some of the walnut crop from our community orchard. Here they are, drying in a tray. I love walnuts, but the husks contain a powerful dye (see picture of my hand in replies). #Photography #Harvest #Nuts #Gardening #Autumn

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow! Not heard of that before. The wood has beautiful grain for making bowls and furniture though.

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's fading on my skin already, but under the nails is another matter 😂.

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These are our final tomatoes of the season. We'll be pulling up the last of the plants this afternoon. It's been a good harvest this year. #Photography #Gardening #Produce #Autumn

A variety of red and yellow tomatoes sit on a wooden picnic table.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These are our final tomatoes of the season. We'll be pulling up the last of the plants this afternoon. It's been a good harvest this year. #Photography #Gardening #Produce #Autumn

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the first round of overseas Brazilian votes, Lula has won 1078 votes in Palestine, Bolsonaro got just 46. In Israel, Bolsonaro got 523 votes, and Lula 92. That tells you who the right candidate is.

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Jon @jonw67.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Unpleasant, lacking depth, incompetent and unelectable?

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Partial sentences are all he has... 🙄

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I try to post a new photo every day, but also post stuff about politics, the environment, and other issues. I'm interested in history, culture, travel, cycling, trees, and nature. I welcome new followers, but tend not to follow back if you have a scant bio or posting history, or unless I know you.

The reflection of bare silver birch trees in a blue pond.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New Environment Secretary @angelaeagle1.bsky.social has an opportunity to radically rethink how we prepare for climate impacts, by restoring nature. Her recent Guardian article praising rewilding & pushing back on moorland burning lobbyists was a great start: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A Britain of wildfires and flood risks: be sure, the climate crisis is real, and we will deal with it | Angela Eagle

Reform and the Conservatives are willing to mislead the public, but as environment secretary, I believe we must be honest – and act boldly, says Angela Eagle

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm with Carl Sagan on this:

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the C13th Caerlaverock Castle, near Dumfries - notable for being the only triangular castle in the UK. In earlier times, the Cumbrian king, Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio, died at the Battle of Arthuret, in 573, in a fight over Caer-Laverock. #Photography #History #Scotland

A small, partly-ruined castle, made of red stone and surrounded by green grass. More pics in 'replies'.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Despite our Media consistently turning a blind eye to all of ReformUK’s scandals (as they waffle hysterically about Burnham & Manchester City) Perhaps people have noticed that Reform Councillors rarely stick around to do the job. They’re suspended, they resign, they become independents etc

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 03/10/2026

🧷 “Unzipped Building” — By Alex Chinneck in Milan, Italy 🇮🇹 Imagination Took Over (8 Photos) streetartutopia.com/2026/10/03/imag…

Alex Chinneck’s orange building facade in Milan peels back at one corner with a giant zipper.

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Rick Gaehl @rickgaehl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This C15th town house was once an apothecary, then it was a pharmacy. Now it seems to be an occasional art gallery and holiday let. We don't have drugstores in the UK, and I've no idea why they didn't call it the 'Axbridge Apothecary'. 😊 #Photography #FensterFreitag #Shop #History

Half-timbered building with a shop window on the ground floor. Above the many-paned window is a sign which reads 'Axbridge Drug Stores'.

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