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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Been busy and not found time for social media for a while. Worth sharing today’s walk though. 9 miles and saw spotted flycatcher, heard a goshawk, saw a firecrest and then at the end of the walk spotted this beauty. #cornwall #birding #ottering

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Took 7 year old to the park. Played IRAH- Gunfinger (salute) on the way. He said “we can enjoy music but don’t need to be the loudest car”. I now know which of us has the most mature outlook 😔 (We both bugged out to the baseline 🙌)

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Other than sexual assault, Trump has literally nothing to do with the Catholic Church. 😬

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Lazy morning, late lunch, and a walk along the Atlantic coast. Big swell but warm sun and a gentle breeze. Perfect Sunday stuff #cornwall

Pink thrift flowers in full bloom on a grassy clifftop, overlooking a sparkling blue sea and rugged coastal cliffs under a bright, sunny sky.

Rocky cliffs covered in lush green grass overlooking the turquoise sea, with large sea stacks rising from the crashing waves under a bright sky dotted with soft clouds.

Dramatic rocky cliffs with green grassy tops jutting into the sea, waves crashing below and a winding coastal path visible along the clifftop.

Powerful waves crashing against rocky outcrops, with a grassy foreground and the endless ocean stretching out under a bright but slightly hazy sky.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Some great birds about over the Easter weekend. Cuckoo, Redstart, Tree Pippit, and I promise that’s a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 😆 #ukbirds #uknature 🪶

Cuckoo: A slate-grey cuckoo stands low on a grassy patch, its yellow eye alert and a green caterpillar dangling from its slightly open bill. The bird’s pale, finely barred underparts contrast with the short green grass.

Common Redstart: A male common redstart sits among lichen-covered branches, its slate-grey head and back set off by a bright orange chest and belly. A bold white forehead patch stands out against the dark face, with fresh green leaf buds around it.

Tree Pipit: A small, slender tree pipit perches on the tip of a bare twig against a clear blue sky. Its brown-streaked upperparts and pale underbelly are visible as it raises its beak in song, tail pointing down and delicate feet gripping the branch.

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (blurred): A small lesser spotted woodpecker is perched on a gnarled bare branch, but the image is out of focus. You can just make out its compact shape and faint black-and-white barring against an overcast sky.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

When I see #Coachella trending I always think of this.

Worst things you have seen at festivals:
Coachella VS the UK

Coachella: Spitting on the ground

UK Festival: A Man covered in his Own Shit Sniffing Ketamine off his mates unwashed Scrotum.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Met an ancient wise man in the woods. He said, “The Way (道) teaches balance — between man and nature, rich and poor, desire and contentment. Capitalism knows not balance, only growth. And growth without end is not the cycle of life, but the beginning of decay.” …which seemed reasonable to me🤔

A small, colourful ceramic figurine of an elderly person with a long white beard sits on a moss-covered tree trunk in a woodland setting. The figure is dressed in a patterned robe with red, pink, and blue tones and appears to be holding a book or scroll. Surrounding the statue are twisted branches, ivy, and lush green moss

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Well this is a mighty fine, if rather solitary tree. So majestic it was worth sharing.

A tall, solitary pine tree stands in the middle of a green field under a clear blue sky. The tree has a long, straight trunk with a wide, rounded canopy of dark green needles at the top. In the background, there are rolling hills, hedgerows, and a mix of leafless and evergreen trees.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s honestly so confusing now what’s meant to go in which bin, and the different colours from each council, easy to see how this mistake was made. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Human remains found at Hartlepool recycling plant

Police investigate following the discovery of bones at the centre at Tofts Farm Industrial Estate.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Fellow UK citizens, at long last we will be in a position to be wished “Have a nice day” and then quietly mutter amongst ourselves about the state of American teeth. 🦷✊

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

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Paul Anderson @oldtimebirder59.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

283 booming males in 2024

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Lee Phillips @leephillips.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

REPOST these flyers to encourage more Tesla owners to break free, hurting Elon Musk's brand and wallet. #TeslaTakeDown betterthanatesla.com DOWNLOAD FLYERS: tinyurl.com/msn6wmse (Word, PDF, JPG)

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Not a great photo but always a treat to see a bittern. There are approximately 80 breeding males in the UK, but in winter, numbers increase to approximately 600 birds. This one at College Reservoir #Cornwall #UKnature #UKwildlife #UKbirds 🪶

A bittern stands partially concealed among tall green reeds. Its plumage is mottled with shades of brown, beige, and black, providing effective camouflage in its natural wetland habitat. Its neck is stretched upwards and its beak points forward, typical of its alert and stealthy posture.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

- Do Not Disturb - (This encounter clearly excited me more than the deer) #nature #wildlife

A light-coloured fallow deer is curled up on the forest floor, resting with its eyes partially closed. Its fur is a soft, creamy shade with faint white spots. The deer is surrounded by green ivy and fallen autumn leaves in shades of orange and brown. A tree trunk with ivy climbing up its bark stands nearby, adding to the woodland setting.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Hey @coldwarsteve.bsky.social is this one of yours? (I usually take alt text seriously but I asked AI to give me text for this photo and don’t have the heart to correct it.)

“A digitally manipulated image of a tweet from “The White House” Twitter account features a man in a dark pinstripe suit posing with clenched fists in front of two framed portraits on a beige wall. The portraits depict former U.S. President Donald Trump and another man in a suit. The tweet includes a shamrock emoji and the handle “@TheNotoriousMMA,” which refers to Conor McGregor. The image appears to be an edited or satirical post, as the setting and elements are unlikely to be official.”

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Waitress: Here’s your sticky toffee pudding sir. Me: Wonderful, thank you. Could I have some clotted cream on top? Waitress: Of course. I’ll take it back to the kitchen…

A plate of sticky toffee pudding is served on a white dish, drizzled with a generous amount of toffee sauce. The dark brown sponge cake appears moist and rich, with a glossy glaze from the sauce. A small white RAMEKIN filled with a scoop of clotted cream HAS BEEN PLACED ON TOP of the pudding. The plate is dusted with powdered sugar, and the dish is placed on a wooden table with a menu partially visible in the background.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A few of my old mobile phones. In the case of nuclear war, any survivors are welcome to come use my 3310.

A collection of my old mobile phones laid out in a row on a grey carpet. The phones are from various manufacturers, including Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and Vodafone. They represent different designs from the early 2000s, such as candy bar, slider, and flip phones. The devices show signs of wear, with some having scratched or faded screens. The collection includes some iconic models like the Nokia 3310 and various Sony Ericsson models.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Ah, he never disappoints.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/03/2025

Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Great article on why nazis love AI Art. No longer do memes and communicating agenda require nazis to have a single creative worker in their corner willing to sign off on a hideous vision of society, AI offers direct brain-worms-to-audience communication newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

newsocialist.org.uk

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Rand Paul talking relative sense? The US is screwed.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If my wife hadn’t previously been banned from entering the USA, our current stance of refusing to holiday there would pack more of a punch.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Serious #gaming session tonight. I failed to beat the witch 40 years ago but tonight…. it’s payback.

BBC MICRO game released in 1983.
GRANNY’S
GARDEN
PART 1

Find the magic tree. The first puzzle from the game Granny’s Garden (1983). The only computer game we got to play in school.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Happy pi-day (International day of Mathematics) to all who celebrate. My latest substack "Why you should stop and taste the pi" open.substack.com/pu...

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

2 cans of IPA, a couple of Codeine, half a Zopiclone and (most importantly) a double Fybogel chaser. Now sat in bed, considering how my life moved from warehouse raves to this, as a single tear swells in the corner of my eye and slowly runs down my cheek.

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Gilded Flicker on Saguaro for #WoodpeckerWednesday

Male Gilded Flicker on blossoming Saguaro, summer 2023

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A Marsh Harrier, quartering over reed beds on the Somerset Levels. #birds #ukbirds #nature #uknature 🪶

A male marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) in mid-flight, quartering low over a field of golden reeds. Its wings are spread, displaying a mix of dark brown and pale grey feathers, with a distinctive white rump. The bird’s head is angled downward as it searches for prey.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"The whole point about a secret agent is that he is not obvious about his allegiance: at all times, he must seek to disguise it [and] kompromat only works by exploiting a target's fear of shame. Trump is a man incapable of shame." 'Krasnov' is plausible, but this remains a readier explanation imo.

Trump is no Russian agent - the abysmal truth is he's cosying up to Putin to make colossal amounts of money: DOMINIC LAWSON
9 March 2025
When Ukrainian civilians were being blown apart by intensified Russian bombardment at the weekend, after Washington had 'blinded' Kyiv by cutting off its access to US signals intelligence, a satisfied-looking President Donald Trump said Moscow was 'doing what anyone else would do'.
He then emphasised his closeness to the man behind the slaughtering: 'I've always had a good relationship with Putin … I think he's going to be more generous than he has to be.'
This latest, callous, expression of Trump's partiality for the aggressor against the victim has caused renewed lurid speculation about the origins of his policies, which overturn more than 75 years of Western collective security.
In particular, it is being said once more that Trump is the Kremlin's agent, and that this derives from an incident in Moscow in the 1990s when he was secretly filmed in depraved activities with prostitutes. Kompromat, they call it.
However, not only did the original propagator of this lurid story – an ex-MI6 officer named Christopher Steele – fail to provide a shred of evidence for it, let alone the film itself, there are two other straightforward reasons for rejecting the claim that Trump is a Russian intelligence asset.
First, the whole point about a secret agent is that he is not obvious about his allegiance: at all times, he must seek to disguise it.
Yet President Trump is completely open about his affection for the Kremlin's spymaster-in-chief, and spectacularly so during that grotesque baiting of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, when he yelled: 'Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phoney witch-hunt where they used him – and Russia, Russia, Russia.'
Second, kompromat, or blackmail, in plain English, only works by exploiting the target's fear of shame – and Trump is a man incapable of shame.

This attribute is his greatest asset. It enables him to lie effortlessly (one might say that lying is his first language), and to declare today the opposite of what he said yesterday.
No, the truth is far less murky, but speaks much worse of Trump than if he were a victim of blackmail: he just thinks Vladimir Putin, the mass murderer, is altogether admirable.
Trump divides the world into winners and losers. Putin, in his view, is an epic winner. And the fact that the Russian president uses the most brutal of methods to win, is a further reason for Donald Trump's infatuation: it means he is a 'strong guy'.
This is also the basis of his admiration for China's Communist President Xi Jinping. As Trump simpered during the 2024 election campaign: 'He's a brilliant guy. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.'
But there is something else that makes Trump seek to be best chums with Putin. The occupant of the Kremlin is the richest man in Russia – maybe in the whole world. And Trump the businessman craves the company of the mega-billionaires (a status he has always aspired to).
You could see that in the way the richest men in the US – not just Elon Musk, but also Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jeff Bezos of Amazon – were given pride of place at Trump's inauguration in the Capitol.
It was Sir William Browder who first identified Putin as the richest man in Russia. Browder had himself been the biggest individual Western investor in post-communist Russia, until Putin's goons targeted his company.
Browder claims that after Putin jailed and expropriated the wealth of the previously richest Russian (Mikhail Khodorkovsky), the other, alarmed, oligarchs were given an offer they couldn't refuse: 'The deal was, you give me 50 per cent of your wealth and I'll let you keep the other 50 per cent. If you don't, he'll take 100 per cent of your wealth and throw you in jail.'

One reason the Kremlin poisoner repeatedly commissioned the elimination of Alexei Navalny (he got him in the end) was that the former Russian opposition leader had concentrated on exposing Putin's colossal wealth, notably with his 2021 film, Putin's Palace – The Story of the World's Biggest Bribe.
Incidentally, the man conventionally measured as the richest in the world, Elon Musk, defers to President Putin in this matter. In a 2022 interview, Musk said: 'I do think that Putin is significantly richer than me.'
The most revealing account of Trump's own admiration for Putin's extreme wealth extraction (at the expense, obviously, of millions of Russian 'losers'), came from the US President's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
Admittedly, Cohen was convicted of violating campaign laws on Trump's behalf (buying the silence of a porn star called Stormy Daniels), but his account is still compelling. Cohen wrote that Trump identified Putin as 'the richest man in the world by a multiple'.
Further: that above all, what Trump admired was how Putin had the ability 'to take over an entire nation and run it like it was his personal company – like the Trump Organisation, in fact'.
His former boss's conception – of treating the United States of America as if it were a branch of the Trump Organisation – was made laughably manifest at the weekend, when Trump, speaking from the Oval Office, told the media how: 'Our country, from an economic standpoint, from a financial standpoint, from a trade standpoint, has been absolutely ripped off by almost every country in the world.'
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Except the US President began the tirade with the words 'Our company …' – and had to correct himself, having remembered that America is actually a country, rather than a subsidiary of the Trump Organisation.
The thing about US companies is that the person at the top gets financial rewards vastly greater than applies to their equivalents in other nations.

So no surprise, then, that (according to the US magazine Wired) those businessmen who would like to have a solo dinner with the President at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida are now being given the opportunity – for a personal fee of up to $5 million.
And no surprise that Donald Trump's initial 'deal' to take a 50 per cent stake in Ukraine's rare minerals was drafted not by government lawyers in Washington but by those working for private law firms in New York, home of the Trump Organisation.
Trump is looking beyond his Presidency (not surprisingly, as the US Constitution prevents him running again when his second term ends in 2028). And he has for decades sought to establish his company in Russia – even to the bizarre extent, in 2007, of marketing Trump Super Premium Vodka in Moscow.
A year later, his son Donald Jr said that: 'Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.'
And in 2015 – a year after Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine – Trump boasted of his attempts to launch businesses in Russia, saying that he had contacts with 'the top-level people, both oligarchs and generals, and top of the government people … I will tell you that I met the top people and the relationship was extraordinary'.
President Trump's relationship with the very top person in Russia is, indeed, extraordinary.
And it is abysmally obvious that the Commander in Chief of the US Army and Navy – as the President is – hopes to monetise, for his own colossal gain, his special relationship with Vladimir Putin.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Who comes across Stick Insects in their garden? We get them here in southern Cornwall, and I know there are places in Wales and Ireland that have them. Anywhere else in the UK? #nature #uknature #wildlife #ukwildlife #phasmid

A close-up photograph of a large stick insect resting on my forearm and hand. The insect has a long, slender, brownish-green body with thin, twig-like legs that blend well with its natural camouflage. My hand is open, showing the size of the insect in comparison. The background features a wooden surface with a slightly blurred white object in the upper part of the image.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

THANK YOU. Was this poor excuse for shitty behaviour not coined by Snickers?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Chinese embroidered panel, 1700s-1800s, artist unknown, silk and gold thread. Embroidery was often inspired by traditional Chinese paintings and was often refereed to as 'painting by needle' #womensart

Embroidered panael wuth a variety of birds, some in flight, some perched among branches and flowers on a gold background

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Wanting Die Hard but getting Festen reminds me of the time my mates and I hired a video for Christmas Eve viewing. It featured the wonderful @kathyburke.bsky.social so we knew it would be a ‘laugh riot’. The film was Nil By Mouth.

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Hollywood’s portrayal of villains has always been influenced by real-world geopolitics. The Nazis (1930s–1940s) The Communists (1950s–1980s) Middle Eastern Terrorists (1980s–2010s) I wonder how they’re gonna play it going forwards. *Are we the bad guys? meme added here*

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Tim O 〓〓 @sittingbythesea.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Dems were either tricked into this, in which case America (and the rest of us) are toast, or they thought it hits the mark and will help save America (and the rest of us), in which case we’re also toast. 😳

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Battered after centuries in the Thames, but still recognisable, a dream find for me on the foreshore yesterday. A hammered silver penny, the ghostly face of a Medieval Monarch stares out from the obverse. On the reverse, a long cross and three pellets in each quarter. Possibly London mint 1/

From the Thames Foreshore yesterday, thrown up by the low tide and hidden among rocks and gravel, the reverse of a medieval hammered silver penny. Visible is a long cross & three pellet design in each quarter.

The ghostly face of a Medieval monarch, thought to be Edward III, seen on the obverse of this hammered silver penny. The coin has been damaged by hundreds of years in the river, and now looks like lace.

The reverse of the hammered silver penny, medieval era, possibly Edward III, showing the long cross, three pellets visible in each quarter. Seen in my gloved hand.

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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid is The South Zeal Menhir Standing Stone at The Oxenham Arms. Carved from Dartmoor granite by Neolithic people 5000 years ago

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