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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 25/09/2026

None of us knows what is around the corner A personal testimonial of the life-saving benefits of a social security system that supports the people, and the dangers of villainising those who find need of it By John Heywood

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None of us knows what is around the corner

A personal testimonial of the life-saving benefits of a social security system that supports the people, and the dangers of villainising those who find need of it

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We have written our names in the sand, for centuries, the same small sign. Different hands, different lives, yet always leaving the same line. We come and go, as tides have done, all different, and all the same.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Early Morning Lanes. 17°C and thunderstorms to come perhaps. Conkers 🌰

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Couldn’t resist posting another view of the ancient holloway. It’s part of a very old route from Gloucester to Cirencester called the Bisley Path.

A deep holloway worn through a beechwood. Golden September sunlight in the trees overhead.

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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Through the tree tunnel #biking

Overhanging trees creating a leafy, sun-dappled tunnel on a downhill stretch of a country road

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Morning Clouds. 21°C after a very light shower. Swifts.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

🧵 6 posts. Plantation wealth left a lasting mark on Yorkshire through its grand country houses and estates. Profits from Caribbean plantations enabled wealthy British families to buy land, build homes, and secure social and political influence, embedding colonial wealth into the county's landscape.

An 1823 aquatint titled "Cutting the Sugar-Cane," depicting enslaved Africans harvesting sugarcane on a plantation in Antigua. It was created by William Clark for his publication, Ten Views of the Island of Antigua. It illustrates enslaved people harvesting cane with machetes while a white plantation overseer watches from horseback.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Bătrânul Carpaților (old man of the Carpathians) - Mercheașa, Romania A 900 year old oak legend and the oldest tree in the country Photo: Ramona Ciortescu

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Utter bliss it is to encounter...

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Love when I’m walking and there’s a dog being walked in front of me and the dog turns its head and gives me a little look.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🧵During the medieval period deep economic and cultural connections linked Yorkshire and the Netherlands across the North Sea. At the heart of this relationship was the lucrative wool trade. Yorkshire's great monastic estates, including Fountains Abbey and Kirkstall Abbey,

Commissioned as part of a series showing steps of the local textile industry it originally hung in the assembly room of the serge trade governors in Leiden. Image: The Removal of the Wool from the Skins and the Combing, Isaac van Swanenburg (1537–1614), Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

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Sharon R. @mysharona612.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him." –Shakespeare, MacBeth Visited the ancient Birnam Oak during our time in Scotland! (I may have hugged it.) #StunDay #EastCoastKin #Photography #ImageAndVerse

An ancient oak tree fills the image. Its bark is filled with bumps and moss and three large sections of the tree spread out like arms.

Sometimes known as Macbeth's Oak, it is the oldest living tree of Birnam Wood, which was mentioned in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Located in the outer edge of Perthshire Village in Scotland, the exact age of this tree is unknown, but it is thought to be between 500-600 years old.

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/07/2026

Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Actors Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen enjoying New York City's Citibikes #BicycleBirthday Patrick Stewart Born July 13, 1940

Photo of two men sitting on CitiBikes at a CitiBike docking station. They're both wearing bowler hats and have hands in the air.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/07/2026

Americans are now so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many of them seem genuinely not to understand why the world was rooting for Belgium.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Another chance to read my short piece from yesterday for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk #Migration #CulturalExchange #ancientDNA

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A tree is not merely wood; it is a natural air conditioner, a source of oxygen, a support for rainfall, and a sanctuary for birds. It is a safeguard for our future. When we cut down trees, we lose more than just greenery; we invite heat, drought, pollution, and suffering. 🌳 Save trees. Save lives.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Safe in the echo chambers where they hide, They trade hard facts for dogma, fear and pride; With every falsehood confidently spun, They scorch the world for battles never won 2/2

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🧵They turn their backs on truth to chase a lie, And swear the earth is flat beneath the sky; They call the rising seas a grand deceit, And claim life-saving cures are threats to meet. 1/2

This structure is known as Grimwith High Laithe, a restored 17th-century barn. It is located on the banks of Grimwith Reservoir in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The barn features a unique cruck-built timber frame and a heather-thatched roof. It was moved and rebuilt to preserve it when the reservoir was constructed. Photographed in a drought by Stephen Craven CC BY-SA 2.0

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Radu Chirvasuta @rvasuta.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Our local nature group also planted a dozen patches of wildflowers across our neighbourhood and it’s absolutely magnificent 🤩

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🧵Today is Windrush Day. Alford Gardner’s journey crossed oceans to reshape the social history of Yorkshire. Born in Jamaica, he first arrived in England in 1944, volunteering for the RAF during World War II and training as a mechanic at RAF Hunmanby Moor, Filey. Returning to Jamaica after the war, a

This image shows the before-and-after portrait of Alford Gardner, a prominent member of the Windrush generation who served in the RAF and later helped rebuild post-war Britain. During WWII, he joined the RAF as ground crew and was part of the first batch of recruits from the West Indies to arrive in England on June 3, 1944 After the war, he returned to Jamaica but came back to the UK as a passenger on the HMT Empire Windrush, docking at Tilbury Docks on June 22, 1948.Settling in Leeds: Gardner settled in Leeds, where he lived for decades, married, and raised eight children. He co-wrote a memoir titled Finding Home: A Windrush Story with his son Howard and is a key figure in documenting the experiences of Caribbean migrants in Britain

During World War II, a bustling Butlin’s holiday camp in Filey was transformed into RAF Hunmanby Moor, a vital training ground for 4,000 West Indian and Caribbean volunteers serving in the British Commonwealth forces. Following a long-running campaign to secure a permanent home for their memory, a blue plaque was finally unveiled on April 1, 2023. Located on a private building on Filey's Queen Street, this poignant memorial ensures that the immense contribution of these wartime servicemen is never forgotten by the Yorkshire coast.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

In the watercolour Road and Cornfields, East Yorkshire, part of a series titled Midsummer, celebrated artist David Hockney captured the seasonal beauty of the region's countryside. The artwork features a winding rural road that gracefully cuts through rolling agricultural

This painting is titled Road and Cornfields, East Yorkshire by artist David Hockney.It is part of a 36-part watercolour series from 2004 titled Midsummer: East Yorkshire. The work depicts the rolling countryside and rural roads of East Yorkshire,.It is a watercolor on paper, capturing bright, enlivened scenes of fields and trees.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

1500 years ago, the infrastructure of Roman cities - the roads, bridges and aqueducts - was left to fall into disrepair, while cash was pumped into new vanity projects: churches & cathedrals. Fast forward to the present day and precious water and energy is being guzzled by new gods: AI data farms.

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Jim Parrett 🍁 @jymn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

David Hockney (July 9 1937 - June 11, 2026)

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LDV_NNR @ldvnnr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

100% of each sale goes straight to the Friends of the #LDV charity, or if you’d like to support their Corncrake fundraising campaign, books can be claimed as rewards – every penny counts with Aviva very generously matching each donation made 💰 communitiesfund.avivafoundation.org.uk/p/lower-derw...

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Radu Chirvasuta @rvasuta.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Looks like we’ve gone backwards a fair bit since 1900s. Train & bikes should be best friends, being the better, more sensible way to travel.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sometimes a path chooses you

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MikeroneNiner @mikeroneniner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Here is my truth as I see it. I have grown to love evermore the simple pleasure of ‘life at the speed of bike’ . For me bikes travel at a speed where I can take in the sights/sounds of my surroundings and think about them in real time. Life can be overwhelming as an ‘overthinker’ ,riding helps 1/3

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New immigration stats are out. Firstly, we've seen a decline in net migration of 48%, 171,000, compared to 331,000 for the previous year. This has some fairly serious, mainly negative, implications, even before Labour's draconian anti-immigration policies kick in. 1/18 www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Blimey. This petition is now is now at almost 98,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 today and have that debate petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Radu Chirvasuta @rvasuta.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Spotted 2 cinnabar moths in the last week. Beaut insects!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Hello! Is this social media? Then I would like to confront a stranger and demand they prove something to me. Maybe do my research? Perhaps if I make an outrageously wrong accusation I can inspire them to do that work?

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Jordi Schröder Bosch @jordischroeder.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New report: wind and solar are driving down wholesale electricity prices across Europe. On average, prices were ~24% lower in 2023–2025 than if gas had set the price at all times. Thread below👇

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The centre of our Ancient Woodland, & all paths converge on this spot Sitting here surrounded by English Bluebells, that are surrounded by our oaks & sweet chestnut, is the best feeling in the world All I can hear are the trees singing with the winds help, & our wild birds

Woodland paths converging surrounded by bluebells

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Paula Hammond @writerpaula.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

It's a #coffeeandcomics sort of day. So today's #photogaphy share is all about escaping the daily grind 😄 I think there's something really hypnotic about how those beans race around the drum ...

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Your Sunday Poem 🤌🏼✨️ • Mary Oliver •

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tante @tante.cc · 12/03/2026

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

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SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

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Anaesthesia @anaesjournal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Regional anaesthesia and major lower extremity amputations Check out the recommendations from this Delphi consensus study! As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts! #AnSky #RASky doi.org/10.1111/anae...

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A.R. Ammons 🫡✨️

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 19/03/2026

"I do think it's not only shooting yourself in the foot, but it's like amputating your leg without a medical reason for doing it." President Alexander Stubb of Finland offers his view on Brexit. Watch the event ➡️ bit.ly/4lGe54k

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 27/04/2026

It can be fun to see people’s actual handwriting 😊 if you’d like to see mine, it’s here: www.instagram.com/mirandakeeli... ✍️

Written in black pen on a Post-it on top of orange fabric:
A mum comforts her little boy on the bus. He is crying about something. She says, ‘It’s ok. Have a good cry.’
Man nearby: Well done. We’re so bad at letting boys just feel sad.

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RCoA Centre for Research & Improvement @rcoa-cri.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

With the #NAP8 case registry launch fast approaching, there is still time to fill out your individual baseline survey - if you haven't done your yet it only takes 10 minutes of your day and you will join more than 9500 colleagues who have contributed to #NAP8 so far!

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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Into the 4 months with most daylight of the year. 8:41pm sunset in Barcelona tonight.

Pre-sunset over the sea with sailboats in Barcelona

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🦌 The Deer Whisperer 🦌 @thedeerwhisperer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Happy #EarthDay 2026! A Blacktail Deer doe and newborn fawn. Kitsap Peninsula, Washington

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