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palaeontology enthusiast and mermaid enthusiast. I have combined the two to form the ultimate interest: palaeontology-inspired mermaids. They/Them and Ze/Zir for me!

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 06/10/2026
You're never too old to get excited about seeing a really big tree.
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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I haven't posted anything for a while, so here's some new #paleoart for #FossilFriday: Cetiosaurus in a Middle Jurassic landscape. I've had to compose and execute this in just two days, so hopefully it looks OK! (All data for the plant recons comes from @palaeojules.bsky.social.) #dinosaur #sciart
A long-necked dinosaur walks along a shallow river surrounded by various Jurassic trees, ferns and shrubs. A small predatory dinosaur watches from the nearest riverbank.
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's October, and here in southern England it's around 17 deg C today, which is something like 6 deg C over the mean. Decades of failing to take action mostly mean that it's too late to disrupt climate breakdown. Vote for people who speak about the issues and are prepared to do something.
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aberrantologist @aberrantologist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Doodle from Thursday's flocking #paleostream featuring Hadrosaurus. But as for why it was featured...
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our paywall is down until October 5th! Plenty of time to read your fill of @prospectmagazine.co.uk So why not start with my deep dive on Israel's election, a central question being: how much will change, in Gaza, in the West Bank, if Netanyahu does lose? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...
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Inside the battle to oust Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel is more divided than ever, perpetually at war, a global pariah— and it’s going to the polls. The alternatives may not offer that much hope
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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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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A longish post which goes beyond the description of the heroic pause. This message is my takeaway
Screen shot from the post linked below. Text reads: 
So here's how I would urge you all to celebrate Stanislav Petrov Day this year. Remember the example of the man who disobeyed orders to ignore what the cutting-edge computer system was telling him to do, and saved untold millions of lives in the process. Whatever an Al is telling you, whether it's a warning of a national security threat or a business efficiency" recommendation or healthcare "cost-saving" or personal "communication tips," do not trust it unreservedly. Do not let yourself become a meat-puppet for unthinking software because it's easier in the short run. Do not take irreversible actions, especially actions putting life at risk, due to AI guidance.

Disobey, always, rather than do something barbarous.
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Baldi🍉 @baldikonijn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's my birthday today!!! 🥳🙌 So what better day than to share more of these sleek dragons I have been doing for funsies. Here is one inspired by Elasmosaurids!
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fantastic news Latest records show that #RNLI donations have increased by 5000% over the past couple of weeks after far-right backlash. The RNLI is on track to record its highest annual fundraising total in its almost 200-year history. Donate here rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
For many disabled workers, PIP isn't extra, it's what pays for the equipment or transport that gets them to work. The government's review could take that away to hit a savings target, not because people need less support. Help Penny stop it.  the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...
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Stop PIP reform being decided by budget, not need
Add your name:
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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026
The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
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The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am so tired of nasty, insular, smug gits playing PR stunts to prevent people finding safety. I say grant them independence and then see how they react to facing immigration restrictions when they want to do a big shop or work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
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Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If they have such difficulty with 4-letter abbreviations, can we pitch Reform&Restore against the PSNI? Y'know, just to see what happens?
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is literally a plot point in “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis. Written in 1935, it predicts the rise of a fascist populist who promises each family $5,000 per year if he’s elected.
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboatman is taking part in the Great North Run tomorrow, wearing his full kit. Please donate here if you can: fundraise.rnli.org/fundraisers/...
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James Waters
I'm taking on Great North Run 2026 - please help me reach my fundraising goal of £1000!
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Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Firing Themselves into the ­Merciless Fury by @horatioclare.bsky.social with photography by Danny Burrows Off the coast of Britain, volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution save lives.
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Firing Themselves into the ­Merciless Fury | Plough
Off the coast of Britain, volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution save lives.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 10/09/2026
Whenever we see someone post that they're stopping their donation to the RNLI, like some right-wing virtue-signalling flex, we can't help but think of this. You can donate to the RNLI here: buff.ly/bsku22S
Only 1.2% of RNLI calls are for asylum seekers in the Channel — red poster arguing that cancelling RNLI donations equates to saying "I hate migrants... I'm willing to jeopardise the lives of the other 98.8% of rescues," followed by the sarcastic "Lovely people, right?"
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A man in a face covering talks to another man who is looking disappointedly at a small box he is holding. Man 1 “What's that?”. Man 2 “Baklava. I misread the WhatsApp”
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As a brown migrant living in the UK legally, this is precisely why there can be *no* compromise on the fundamental right of seeking asylum. Pretty quickly it’s anyone who ‘looks’ like an asylum seeker - ie brown or black - who is targeted. No one is safe from this.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For me there is no mystery to these people. I grew up in a street with plenty of them, where the British National Party felt confident enough to visit our doorsteps. There is no dignity to their hatred and it has been indulged far too long. It has already cost us enough time, enough lives. Enough.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/09/2026
#OtD 9 Sep 1934 over 100k Londoners flooded Hyde Park to protest a rally by fascist leader Oswald Mosley. Mostly was drowned out by the anti-fascist locals, who then chased the police-protected Nazis out of the park. More about the fight in the 40s: workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 09/09/2026
Can we all front up outside the Daily Mail now with 20 mates and demand they buy our mums a house? Is there a queue? Some kind of rota system? Can we put in a claim for the Tube fare? Are black shorts mandatory?
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Raven Amos (Spoopy Edition)🎨🐦‍⬛ @alaskanime.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pretty sure this has already been done, but...Lake Bee Movie @mapquest.com
Lake Ontario via Mapquest, but the name is changed to Lake According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly.
Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.
The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Ooh, black and yellow!
Let's shake it up a little.
Barry! Breakfast is ready!
Coming!
Hang on a second.
Hello?
Barry?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally they came for the Daily Mail and my irony meter just packed up and left and I never heard from it again.
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Nick Langley @nicklangley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Never seen the numbers on one of these go up so fast. Could be faster though. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I should clarify, it turns out this only applies to England and not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you're in the UK and don't like Palantir having its dystopian little tendrils in the whole of NHS data, I just learned you can at least opt-out of sharing your data here: www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-dat...
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Make your choice about sharing data from your health records
Choose if you want to share data from your health records for planning and research.
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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Apparently enough people are withdrawing their data that it's making the government reconsider their contract with Palantir: www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Let's keep it going! I only wish their was an option to specify Palantir as the reason for opting-out, but hopefully they get the message.
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Theyll Soon Be Back Greater Numbers
Alt: Obi-Wan saying "They'll Soon Be Back, and in Greater Numbers"
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
act.38degrees.org.uk
An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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shirvill.bsky.social @shirvill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just when I think these basement brownshirts couldn't be any less British, they come for the lifesaving volunteers of the RNLI. How fucking dare they.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The Battle of Holbeck Moor took place in Leeds on 27 September 1936, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists attempted a march through the city. Their original route through the Jewish quarter was blocked, but they regrouped and headed for Holbeck Moor, daubing swastikas in the Leylands 1/3
Plaque on St Matthew's Church, facing Holbeck Moor Road. It commemorates a violent incident on 27 September 1936 when crowds disrupted an attempted rally by fascists. Leeds Civic Trust plaque funded by Stand Up to Racism. Image Chemical Engineer CC !.0
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A thing to bear in mind with the explosion of fascism in the UK and the government non-reaction to it - this Labour government has done *everything* these people claim to want, and yet they’re angrier than ever. Labour have made the fascist demands *central* to their politics, and has it worked?
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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More legitimate concerns?
Via Henry Mance at the FT
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Stevie Chick @steviechick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
still true. We need an ANL that's fit for 2026, and we all need to be a vocal, visible part of it. Because we for shit-sure have Nazis in this country in 2026. And it's time they were scared and ashamed again.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/09/2026
This story is doing the rounds today so here’s some credit to the Oxford Clarion, who have been reporting on this org, in depth, for a lot longer than the BBC has been.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If you're "in a stand-off with the RNLI" - the *RNLI* - there's a very good chance you're the baddies.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.
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Doug is ONLINE @dasmunch.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
Roll up, roll up and make sure the masked fascist scum don't get their way rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
13 million people who live in this country were born overseas. Their/our safety and belonging should not be in dispute, though most of them/us are aware that violence against their/our person is increasingly justified, and is too little condemned.
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Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I've just donated to the RNLI, to show support. UK taxpayers: tick the Gift Aid box, so the pathetic Labour government have to chip in an extra 25%. rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Nicola Spurr @nicolaspurr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A bunch of fash are currently in a standoff protest with the #RNLI in Portsmouth, simply because they brought a boatload of people ashore today. The RNLI! I’ve just donated to the RNLI. You can too 👇 rnli.org/support-us/g... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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140 migrants in single dinghy rescued in English Channel
They were transferred onto two lifeboats and taken to shore in the UK.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The RNLI have some of the best people in Britain volunteering for them. They put their lives on the line when they are called on and they will rescue anyone who needs them. Because every life matters, and offering help is the right thing to do. You can donate here: rnli.org
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RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at Sea
The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions.
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