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Rob Yarham

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Nature writer, editor and photographer and wildlife guide and conservation volunteer

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 13h
Sorry to bother you again but I was literally just looking back through my posts to find this... 😊 bsky.app/profile/paul...
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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 7h
Probably nothing to worry about...
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Carl Buttle @carlbuttle.bsky.social · 7h
Managed to see the Red-eyed Vireo at Minsmere briefly twice in the bushes and once in flight, it wasn’t seen after about 4.30. It was my fifth in Suffolk
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 8h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 15h
True. Labour should be calling higher petrol/diesel prices & higher bond yields the Trump tax - which is far more accurate than saying that Truss crashed the economy.
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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 12h
Three 'wader species from the east' for which numbers peak in August and September. If you're seeing juvenile Curlew Sandpipers, look out for Little Stints too! Blog about wader migration: wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/w... @birdtrack.bsky.social graph from 2019 #UKbirding
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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 10h
The 200th species for my 2026 south Shetland 10km Patchwork Challenge: a first winter Red-breasted Flycatcher in the stunted sycamores at Sumburgh Hotel garden this evening. #PWC2026 #patchbirding @patchbirding.bsky.social #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 11h
This is utterly clueless & why the Lib Dems need a new leader. This is a potentially progressive moment and they should be part of it. Polanski was more positive than Davey, and this reads like chat GPT
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Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social · 11h
In three seasons Manchester City won the Premier League, 2011-12, 2013-14 and 2017-18, they recorded £360million in commercial income from Abu Dhabi-based sponsors The independent commission found that just £43m of that was actually paid to City by those sponsors
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12h
Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...
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Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment
It’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13h
Joe Pike: "I'm here with the only person anyone wants to speak to, Sharon Graham." <Graham bellyaches at length about triple lock> Joe Pike: "So, this gives you a flavour of the debate here." NO IT DOESN'T! You literally only spoke to one person, sought out explicitly because she disagreed. 😂
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 19h
New variant on the Kinsley definition of gaffe: a public figure complains when his remarks are used entirely in context by people inconvenient to him.
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Stuart Malcolm @birderstuart.bsky.social · 20h
We should have nipped it in the bud with Boris. Once we allowed him to become PM we lost public truthfulness.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/@did:plc:cod...
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Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophistica...
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Weather Report, pt 1: not nearly as warm as expected. A blanket cloud, clearing. The washing still damp off the line & a day long chill on bare limbs. Out the gate to see the sun down; ivy scent, rooks clamouring. Mist gathering above the fields between the woods. Emotional Weather: emotional.
A series of sunsets above Weavers Field. Long sweeps of colour: peach, navy, pale blue.
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Stewart @stewchat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Now, I'm asking will my two dips in two days bring sympathy from the birding gods and let me get a Nutcracker at Shingle Street tomorrow? 🤔😉
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was an entirely predictable act of economic self-harm - both the Sunak and Starmer government decided that the priority was to cut migration *when it was already falling fast*. ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration-...
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Immigration is falling but the economic cost may be high - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes analyses the latest immigration figures from the Home Office and Office for National Statistics.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The ‘harm’ from immigration is illusionary. The harm from too little immigration is all too real.
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I keep hoping to see a column from a columnist headlined "Are columnists running out of things to write columns about?"
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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Gannet took a few steps towards the edge and crouched down, with wings partly open and at an angle. Then, lift off! Immediately after getting #airborne (today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme) the Gannet takes on a wonderful shape, with head up and tail down. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Birds #UKWildlife 🌿
Photo of a Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) just after taking off from a sandy ledge on a cliff. We see this large seabird from the side, heading towards the left edge of the picture. The head is pointing slightly upward, the chest down, the rump up, and the fanned out tail down; the wings are held upwards. The Gannet is mostly white, with yellow-brown colouring on the top of the head which runs part way down the back and sides of the neck, and black wing-tips. The long beak is grey, with black lines around the edges, and a further black line running along each side of the top part of the beak, from the base almost to the tip. The Gannet's eyes are blue-grey, with black pupils and thick blue rims. The legs and webbed feet are black, with a pale green line running along the top of each toe. The background is a blue-grey colour - the sea, out of focus. A second Gannet can be seen on the cliff a little further back, watching the one in flight with a look that almost appears to be critical, or mildly cantankerous!
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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
With their mutual preening complete, one of the Gannets started sky-pointing and swaying from side to side – a signal that bird was likely to take flight. (One more pic to come in this thread within a thread.) #SuperSeabirdSunday #Birds #UKWildlife #WildlifePhotography 🌿 #BirdOfTheDay – #Seabirds
Photo of the pair of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) who featured in the previous post in this thread,  standing on a sandy ledge on a cliff. The bird on the left has begun swaying their body from left to right; at the moment this photo was taken their body is touching that of the bird on the right, while the legs and the oustretched neck are angled towards our left and the bird's right, and the head is raised so that the bird is pointing their beak towards the sky. Gannets are mostly white, with yellow-brown colouring on the tops of their heads which runs part way down the backs and sides of their necks, and black wing-tips. Their long beaks are grey, with black lines around the edges, a further black line running along each side of the top part of the each beak, from the base almost to to the tip. In the case of the sky=pointing bird, we can also see another black line, running along the underside of the beak from base to tip. The Gannets' eyes are blue-grey, with black pupils and thick blue rims. Their legs and webbed feet are black, with a pale green line running along the top of each toe. The background is a blue-grey colour - the sea, out of focus.
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The White Falcon @markgolley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Coming soon to the UK... If you're a gambler, the smart money is on the impending appearance of a Nutcracker on our shores. By way of pre-emptive celebs, here's the two outrageous individuals that were part of my youth ~ Westleton November 1985 & Cocknage Wood, October 1991. Epic rare! #rarebirdsuk
1985 was a stunning year of rare bird chasing for me. One of only two occasions I hit the magic 300 mark for the yearlist and, within them, some truly outstanding birds, including one or two that still haven't "come back" (hello Little Whimbrel 👋). The autumn of 1985 was crammed full of new birds for me. A host of rarities around Scilly was followed by some tremendous long weekends bunking off school for twitches to East Anglia. The Westleton Nutcracker was supplemented by  Long-billed Dowitcher, Rough-legged Buzzard, Grey Phalarope & more...(another weekend would produce the famous How Hill Black-and-white Warbler plus Snow Goose, White-tailed Eagle and - again - more! There was a Pied Wheatear in there too somewhere... This absolute character gave ludicrous views on the edge of Stoke-on-Trent through October 1991. I think I was looking at the board of the Porthcressa when it was written large on the blackboard. My erstwhile companion, Graham Etherington, was a Stoke boy and he couldn't quite believe it...
We came off Scilly for the Flamborough Desert Warbler and took in a visit to Cocknage Wood (and Graham's mum!) and were blown away by the fearless spotty one...somewhere there is a photo of me and the bird, side by side, one of us mugging off for the camera 😂
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Personally, I’d rather have healthy kids than mollycoddled millionaires
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also under current proposals they won't be allowed to be social care workers after 2028. Ministers still don't seem to understand their own plan.
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's worth reading in detail about how vested interests in the US & elsewhere (the agriculture-industrial complex) sought to character assassinate Carson, claim she was a commie, rubbish her claims as pseudoscience, and dismiss her as a hysterical woman. www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/...
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Industrial and Agricultural Interests Fight Back
This is Chapter 3 of the exhibition "Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: A book that changed the world" by historian Mark Stoll.
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Johnson cut his journalistic teeth lying through them as Brussels correspondent for the torygraph. That was after he was sacked by the Times for egregious fabrication. More lying from Johnson the Liar PM. He will never change.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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A Nick Charles @nickcharles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We have control…but Iran wants to open it…but he’ll keep it closed because we’re winning. So we’re controlling it being closed. So we’re keeping it closed on our terms. But oil is going through. But Iran wants to open it so oil can go through. His brain is mush he can’t even lie competently.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small and ancient figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The museum lighting makes the amber glow translucent orange against a dark display case background. The bear is displayed on a small metal stand viewed in profile facing right. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The neck has a polished groove suggesting it was once suspended on a cord. The characteristic shoulder hump of a brown bear is clearly defined. There are some finely incised horizontal lines along the belly. The legs are incomplete. Length 6.5cm. Amber has many properties which may have been associated with 'magic' for ancient peoples. For example, when rubbed against fur, amber produces static electricity which can give off sparks in the dark, make hair stand on end, and attract small things towards it.
The bear was found in 1991 on a west coast beach of the Danish North Sea island of Fanø. It is one of a small number of amber animal figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach and /or other contextual information.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
I feel like one of the most radical, best and most rebelliously good things you can do right now in the informational online space is just....give people credit, love, support and shoutouts. Even if they just inspired you or prodded a thought you built on, name them and thank them loudly.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/09/2026
It often feels after reading these essays and post-mortems like Labour's target voter is a functionally literate 55-year-old miner, living in a company cottage with an outside toilet. And somehow, nobody seems to have noticed that he died in 1983.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/09/2026
I do wonder sometimes if certain people in Labour have ever met the modern working class. I know in reality they have, but it never feels like it. Working people are overwhelmingly literate now! Most know people of other races! Many have gay friends or family! Some worry about climate change!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
10000% This. It's not the worse thing she's done obviously, but I do find it genuinely insulting that she thinks I and everyone who looks like me, is irredeemably racist
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Weather Report: mare’s tail skies & mackerel, gulls going over in Vs. Low, speeding swallows, hedge hopping south at sunset. The vaulted heavens a scrabbled, painterly fresco of plough, ridge, furrow & harrow. So absorbed a badger snuck behind me. Emotional Weather: almost serene.
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Anthony Speca | Aspen Ecology @aspenecology.com · 25/09/2026
Join me on the weekend of 3 & 4 October for my 'Lichens for beginners' course at FSC Epping Forest! #Lichens are a secret world all around you: curiously beautiful, ecologically vital, unique on Earth...and totally overlooked. Let's explore it together! www.field-studies-council.org/courses-and-...
Lichen community on worked wood : England : VC20 Hertfordshire : TL3510 : March 2025
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You have to get a very long way through this BBC report before you learn which party runs the council which took the decision to close all these nurseries www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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South Tyneside Council nursery closures decision 'devastating'
Councillors confirm that all 10 Stanley's nurseries in South Tyneside will close by July 2027.
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More breeding success for Hen Harriers on RSPB reserves - this time in Wales. Still waiting for the 2026 breeding figures from England's grouse moors.... #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/09/25/m...
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More breeding success for Hen Harriers on RSPB reserves – this time in Wales
Further to reports of this year’s Hen Harrier breeding success on RSPB-managed moorland in Bowland, Lancashire (here) and on Geltsdale, Cumbria (here), there’s now confirmation of furth…
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sourdough crackers using sourdough discard... butterandair.com/rosemary-oli...
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Rosemary Olive Oil Sourdough Crackers | Butter & Air
Never throw out your sourdough discard again! These easy, crispy Rosemary Olive Oil Sourdough Crackers are a gorgeous blend of tangy, salty, and herby.
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bake day! Sourdough loaf, focaccia & crackers Loaf recipe from Elaine Boddy's brilliant book The Sourdough Bible. Flour 2/3 white + 1/3 wholewheat from Cotswold Flour Focaccia used Elaine's recipe but added an olive oil & tomato puree paste to the top before baking Cracker recipe below...
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
feels downstream of this sickness in the Labour Party where they simply don’t understand who their people are. the people he thinks he has to stand up for are the proper men who want to drink six pints at the game. he forgets the dad who wants to bring his kid and feel safe
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪
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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brexit and Trump have combined to be an absolute disaster for UK food and drink exports. Deficit worst in a quarter of a century and sales have plummeted ever since we left the single market
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Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn
In the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
‘Cash to trash’ levy on house developers too low to offset damage to Norfolk Broads, say critics
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‘Cash to trash’ levy on house developers too low to offset damage to Norfolk Broads, say critics
Exclusive: Levy that allows almost 16,000 houses to be built on Norfolk Broads will not cover cost of mitigating environmental damage, critics say
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