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Ruth Lampard

@ruthlampard.bsky.social
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Looking out for blessings: in wildlife, nature, & kindness. Fan of rewilding, life too. Slow Pilgrim, priest. Usually moderate to mild in views, occasionally sharp. No DMs, will block

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Ruth Lampard @ruthlampard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In an age of acceleration, optimisation, and endless scrolling, slowness can feel radical. Linger. Listen. Look again. Have You Always Been Here? from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowpress.com/featured-poem/
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Tzu-Jan as Performance Outcome | Matthew Clegg Into every account mail is pinging: ‘we will secure our long-term future by competing on more fronts.’ Let’s find a glade where a thought might grow. …
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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some of you know that I'm working on a book about mud. And I'm a big fan of @radiolento.bsky.social (check them out if you've not discovered their beautiful soundscapes). So this is just perfect!
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Late last night we released a new episode which we recorded over the summer. We're always happy when it rains when we're on holiday! Bonus points when there is thunder too. Episode 302 - Soundscenes of rolling thunder over the Pyrenees (possibly *sleep safe* if you like thunder)
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302 Soundscenes of rolling thunder over the Pyrenees (possibly sleep safe) | Radio Lento podcast
Cicadas seem to go quiet when the rain sets in. They probably need to keep themselves dry to be able to make their sound. In this landscape recording we made in early August nearly all of the cicadas ...
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Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks @carolynthomas.bsky.social For including 4 of my poems
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Absolutely over the moon and deeply honoured to see Waterstones select LIFELINES as one of their Paperbacks of the Year for 2026! They've backed this book right from the very beginning and I'm so grateful for the incredible support. @eandtbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social
Image from Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year promotion with the cover of Lifelines by Julian Hoffman against a gold and starred background.
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Carole Bruce @cabruce.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Again enormous thanks to Adam for recording this for us all. And of course to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social for, once again, giving voice to the plight of all ME sufferers. It’s two fold, being so ill and not being believed. Grim beyond belief.
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Naomi Whittingham @naomiwhitt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I realised there was a part of chronic illness that I'd never actually written about. Not the grief or the isolation. But the experience of living inside a body that feels so unpredictable and unsafe. Now I’ve written it. I’d love to know if it resonates with you.
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The Burden of Chronic Illness That I Rarely Talk About
Being ill is hard.  What an obvious thing to say – and yet how often it goes unspoken.  I’ve written about many aspects of life with long-term illness: from the grief of dreams shat…
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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you’ve seen or shared news about programme closures at Edinburgh (not least in Theology & Religious Studies) please see this appeal from Prof Rachel Muers. The reports are misleading.
Text reads: ‘Appeal to anyone who has seen or shared the news reports about programme closures at Edinburgh, including in TRS: Please stop circulating them. They are very misleading, and are causing actual damage to our otherwise healthy department. (And for what it's worth, colleagues in Scottish Literature are saying something similar). I am now fed up with responding to anxious prospective students who think we, or some of our areas of teaching and research, are being closed down. We aren't. There are institutions where our subject is at risk but Edinburgh is not one of them. Please don't try to fit us into a narrative of "attack on the humanities" or "secularisation gone mad". Thank you.’
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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gorgeous visit to the sunny Lincolnshire coast yesterday to see the latest golf course given back to nature. Credit to @nationaltrust.org.uk for being brave. This is nature as human regen too – fantastic new green infrastructure for Mablethorpe and Sutton-on-Sea. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Skylarks and sandwich terns among new birdies on reserve created from ‘boring old golf course’
National Trust has transformed Sandilands in Lincolnshire into a nature reserve with wetlands and wading pools
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 25/09/2026
Happy equilux to those who celebrate! Not to be confused with the equinox - the equilux is the day with closest to equal day and night hours ☀️🌑 This year, the equilux is today, Friday 25 September 2026. Want to find out more? Head to our YouTube channel for the full explanation 👇
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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Researchers in Turkey Have Unearthed an Ancient Fragment Inscribed With the World’s Oldest Peace Treaty
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Researchers in Turkey Have Unearthed an Ancient Fragment Inscribed With the World’s Oldest Peace Treaty
The piece of a clay tablet is marked with Akkadian cuneiform, and its text belongs to the Kadesh Peace Treaty, created by ancient Egyptians and Hittites in the 13th century B.C.E.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CPS Mr Daniel Thomas, 37, has been charged with two offences Nb: with proceedings active, CPS request awaremess that should not report or comment or share info that could in any way prejudice these proceedings
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If people spending taxpayers money on alcohol is such an undeniable problem, I assume they also plan to permanently close the House of Commons bar?
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Stickman Communications @stickmancomms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you want to support my work, please share it with your friends, families, support groups etc. It makes a huge difference - and is the main reason I can keep creating my disability resources while managing my #PoTS #Hypermobility etc! stickmancommunications.co.uk
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Ben Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Clement of Alexandria loved bees. He saw them as the archetype of the true Christian intellectual--one who wanders laboriously through the sweet gardens of human knowledge, carefully selecting the right nectar to construct the honeycomb of clear and precious Truth. 🐝
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
With great thanks to the hundreds of people who gave me their testimonies. If I hadn't said "stop" after a few hours, it might have been thousands. The sheer scale of this scandal is hard to get your head around. 2/2
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Catherine Balavage Yardley @catherineby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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My new novel, The Mothers of SW19, is only 99p until tomorrow
My new novel is on a kindle countdown deal at the moment for only 99p, or 99 cent if you live in America.
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John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Alem is a genuine, absolute hero. He got the PACE trial data released and he paid the price. His health had a terrible downturn. I hope everyone will follow him. #MEcfs #LongCovid
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Text which says "Top tip: avoid hecoming a workaholic by only doing jobs which contain no workahol."
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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦🇬🇱 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hearing of the deaths of Anne Dillard and Bonnie Greer on the same day makes me feel that there will be just that many fewer valuable words on the wing in the world.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The OAP triple lock isn’t a problem. The cost of pension tax relief is. youtu.be/BfcjgWXk36c?... Commentators are saying we cannot afford pensions for the most vulnerable. But none of them is questioning the £83 billion a year spent subsidising the pensions of the wealthiest. Why is that?
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The OAP triple lock isn’t a problem. The cost of pension tax relief is.
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Martha Linden @marthajlinden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
More great work by church volunteers, this time on energy efficiency and green alternatives to oil and gas. After a summer of record temperatures and with oil and gas prices rising this winter, all very timely: www.churchofengland.org/media/news-a...
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Growing number of churches moving away from oil and gas amid rising energy prices | The Church of England
An increasing number of Church of England parishes, some of them in the most rural areas of the country, are moving away from oil and gas and improving their energy efficiency as they brace for rising...
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Master post of each talk re: the Stanford #MECFS Community Symposium: 🧪 Talk 1: bsky.app/profile/exce...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the UK prepares to vote on Assisted Dying, I want to share Stéphanie Lavoie’s story. She was a 30 year old disabled Canadian suffering from Lyme Disease & severe malnutrition. She needed a feeding tube. She was given MAiD instead. She was only 59lbs when she died.
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Woman with ‘unmanageable’ pain from Lyme disease chooses to die. She wasn’t always believed | Globalnews.ca
Stéphanie Lavoie spent her adult life facing escalating symptoms from Lyme disease that left her bedridden and barely able to eat. Her family says the medical system failed her.
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Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One of my favourite articles. The photo gives the game away as to the subject
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 06/09/2026
The great composer Dimitri Shostakovich was a qualified Soccer (football) referee.
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
🔥 Sunday School: DAS SCHADENFREUDEFEST 🔥 We dissect a horrible few days for Farage, every aspect of his latest scandal, and every moment of his car crash conference. And laugh about it quite a lot. As is right and proper. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/7bMP...
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Sunday School: Das Schadenfreudefest
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 6 September · 1hr 12min
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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Worst Antony Gormley installation ever!
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There’s a species of shark called the ninja lanternshark. It glows in the dark, like all lantern sharks. It’s called ninja because the scientist who discovered it was explaining her discovery to family at Thanksgiving and then her young cousin shouted “ninjas are cool, call it the ninja shark!”
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026
This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.
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Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“My daughter was told to exercise and ended up in a wheelchair... For GPs not to be aware of the harm that exercise can do is hugely damaging.” Janet Sylvester (MEAction Scotland), speaking about her daughter Emma, who has ME, while giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament. Sept 2026.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Am back on BBC 5 Live in a moment talking about Reform and its donations…..
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Clearing out old books. There is truly no limit to what people will take if we put it on the front wall. SQE1 Wills and Administration of Estates multiple choice questions. Gone. The History of the Adam Smith Institute. Gone. The only really hard one to shift was the latest Jonathan Franzen.
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rowan-adams.bsky.social @rowan-adams.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/put...
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Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
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Hugh Bonneville @hughbon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My voice is unique, it’s mine, it’s part of my identity. So is yours. That’s worth speaking up about. ✍️ Sign the petition: saveourvoicesnow.com
A collage of b&w headshots with the words “Save Our Voices Now”
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Birds fly over the rainbow... and here in Loch Oich, they were black-throated divers 😍
A grey loch with green hillside behind and a rainbow above, reflected in the water.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 21/08/2026
Jason Arday’s students are “collecting first-hand testimonies from people who knew him, learned from him, or crossed paths with him. Supervisions and seminars, emails, a reading list, a word of advice that stuck. Small things count." leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...
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Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My article - "Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty" for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20/08/2026
> Claims made by Jason Arday, who was the subject of a relentless media campaign over many aspects of his work and life and who was found dead on Friday, appear to be true[.] Particularly mocked was Arday's claim that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days. But [it seems he] completed the challenge. 1/
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get new videos direct. You'll join a massive 387 others! We are relishing our algorithm invisibility cloak!
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Ruth Lampard @ruthlampard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just returned from Lowestoft for a family funeral. We popped to a tea shop by the sea front and I saw these two strange alien invasion style objects offshore. I’ve just looked them up - kittiwake hotels! www.newsteelconstruction.com/wp/nature-ca...
Photo looking across a sandy beach, calm sea and blue. Towards the horizon are two metal mushroom/doomed shaped metal structures rising out of the sea on stalks.
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258 Please share. TY x
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Lento is free and uninterrupted for everyone, with no paywalls or adverts. Instead we rely on kind donations - one offs and monthly supporters. ❤️ This year our hosting and production costs have increased making it hard to us to cover these. Could you contribute to our milestone donation goal?
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David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The new series of A House Through Time - on at 9pm tonight - on BBC Two.
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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"But what about hotels...?" Around 135,000 homeless households in the UK are also given temporary accommodation in hotels and B&Bs. Compared to the 20,000 asylum seekers similarly housed. 12/
Guardian headline:

Private landlords and hotels cashing in on England's hidden homelessness crisis
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