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Tom Barkas

@tombar.bsky.social
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Mid 70s. Previously research protein biochemist and immunologist, translator, manuscript editor and search dog trainer. Depression for 35 years. Likes prehistoric stuff, previously liked fungi. Any photos are more than 2 years old, before the dog died.

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jen 💙🤍🕊️ @jenzsky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Translucent wings humming their own tune… #insectThursday #bugsky #insects #bees #photography #macro #eck #macrophotography #bugs #nature #photographersofbluesky #flowers #bloomscrolling #purpleFriday
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hills Just a slog Without the dog
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fernadern.bsky.social @fernadern.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Three months ago Petey was a stray. Now he lives in a house with THREE sets of hands to pet him. Life is good.
A black and white dog sits in the grass, looking unbearably adorable and pet-able.
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.” ― Max Ehrmann
A large bare tree  growing near the  side a dirt road in the wildlife refuge. There is water on the left and mountains in the distance.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
An eclipse in a tree's shade. The tiny gaps between leaves act as pinhole lenses, projecting crescent shaped images of the eclipsed sun onto the world below. Original post
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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Waterfall #WeekFforFilm #AlphabetChallenge #WaterfallWednesday #creeks #waterfalls
a small waterfall on Swanson Creek in Uvas Canyon County Park near Morgan Hill, CA.
a lot of rocks, a bunch of leaves, and very little water.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It would be nice to deport him & his family since he has done it to so many people including people who have been born in this country.
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Aletheia S.R. @aletheia225.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If you think the global leadership didn't know this would happen, you're naive. Two known war criminals, with warrants for their arrests, have now expanded their wars. They all knew. They did nothing to prevent this. The American government is the worst of it, as far as complicity. Shameful.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.
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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
a #scenic walk in the woods for #ScenicSaturday
a wooden footbridge crosses over a small ephemeral feeder creek into Brandy Creek. looking upstream at Brandy Creek from a footbridge over it.Brandy Creek
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘February Fill Dyke’ Artist: Rowland Hilder
A bleak, stark oil painting in shades of brown and cream of waterlogged fields under a flat white sky dotted with bare elm trees
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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JPK 🇩🇪 @jpk-art.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Awakening. #forest #nature #photography #wander #Teutoburgerwald #forestfriday
​A vertical-oriented landscape photograph of a dense forest during the early morning or late afternoon. The scene is captured from a low angle, with blurred mossy rocks and dark tree trunks in the immediate foreground, creating a sense of depth. In the midground, numerous slender deciduous trees with dark bark stand close together. Visible rays of sunlight (god rays) stream diagonally through the hazy or misty air from the upper left, illuminating patches of the forest floor. The ground is covered in a thick layer of reddish-brown fallen leaves. The background is softly out of focus, filled with a pale, golden light that filters through the canopy, enhancing the atmospheric and ethereal mood of the woodland.
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Dr. DaShanne Stokes @dashannestokes.com · 10/01/2026
An ICE agent saying "I don't care" and preventing an innocent woman who's been shot from receiving medical care are not the words or actions of officers lawfully protecting themselves and the community. These are the words of sociopaths happy with murder.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I want to see pictures of the World Cup in the USA and see empty stadiums. I want to hear how it was the first World Cup to lose money and they won't be going to a War Criminal's country again. Lets make it happen.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/01/2026
Tim Walz is mobilizing the MN National Guard, and reminds Minnesotans that the guard "is OURS - our teachers and our neighbors." He asks Minnesotans to respect them. "They're there to protect you and your constitutional rights. They don't wear masks."
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
More therapy! Mission Creek in sunny Santa Barbara!
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 07/01/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Another lie from Elon Musk the biggest spreader of disinformation on Twitter.
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Regina @ranyc.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Gaza amputees' lives on hold as strip struggles with shortage of prosthetic limbs | AP News share.google/o9a9OXQhuijS...
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Gaza amputees struggle to rebuild lives as the enclave faces shortages of prosthetic limbs
The World Health Organization says Israel’s bombardment in Gaza for the past two years has left tens of thousands of Palestinians with life-changing injuries, including at least 6,000 people with ampu...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Three years dead - miss him so much #dogs #collies
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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“The baby bat Screamed out in fright, 'Turn on the dark, I'm afraid of the light.” ― Shel Silverstein
a lamp post in front of trees and bushes.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Left the groceries, including cream and yoghurt, in the car in the sun for 6 h - everything quite warm! Put shopping bag on work surface and it fell off, smashing two eggs. What next? - food poisoning?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Only ICE agents.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Geordie Enterprises launches new artificial intelligence platform named Y.I.
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Son of Eric @spiritof44.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
WTF! Two FELONS running the world.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
View from the Helm hill, a small hill fort, Kendal, towards Morecambe Bay and Arnside Knott. #landscapephotography #lakedistrict #cumbria #kendal
Lowlit view from the top of the Helm hill, Kendal.A family of 3 walkers is seen on the left and a trigonometry point on the right. Long shadows from the walkers fill the foreground of short grass on volcanic rock. The scene drops abruptly to the green valley of the Kent river leading to the sea at Morecambe Bay, with Arnside Knott standing out. The sky is mainly flat grey cloud with a large patch of light blue sky.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Another photo at Low Park Wood gunpowder works from yesterday #Kendal #Cumbria #landscapephotography #lakedistrict
A leat (a channel for water) that provided water power to an old gunpowder works winds through tall bare trees. The sky is blue and the sun shines down through the mist above the channel, producing a pyramid of light above the leat.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Sun on the leat that provided water power to the old gunpowder works at Sedgwick, near Kendal. #Kendal #Lake district #gunpowder works #landscapephotography
The sun, in a blue sky, shines directly into the camera from behind black bare trees on either side of a water-filled leat that provided water power to the old gunpowder works at Sedgwick, near Kendal. The light filtering through the trees highlights a faint mist over the water which is, presumably, warmer than the air
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 10/01/2025
Israeli forces killed more than 64,000 people in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023 — meaning the widely reported death toll was underestimated by 41 percent, a major study published yesterday in The Lancet found.
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Israel has killed many more people in Gaza than reported, top health study says
More than 64,000 people in Gaza died violent deaths between October 2023 and June 2024.
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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Winter light at Loch Shin
24mm, 1/15 sec, f/8, ISO 80
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Nature Nomad @naturecompass.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Amazing rock formation in the middle of the forest
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Chinatown - New York City in 1900
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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Shades of Green
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
A September Northumbrian evening #northumberland #landscapephotography
A misty September evening in Northumberland.The foreground is a field with drystone walls and fences. The midground is the dark shapes of a wall, a tractor and a bare tree.Beyond this is a misty scene of fields and trees, leading to a pinkish overcast sky, with the sun breaking thtough
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
River Kent, Cumbria. #kendal #Cumbria #landscapephotography
A winter scene of a dark blue/black slow moving river bordered by snow covered banks and small trees which are reflected in the river
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Cemetery at Old Haydon Bridge, Northumberland #northumberland #landscapephotography
The cemetery at Old Haydon, Northumberland on a misty morning in September. The photo shows a grassy cemetery with various tombstones of different designs bordered by a grey wall and bare trees, beyond which is mist, with weak sun shining through.
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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Those morning sounds of distant crows and church bells
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
@bsky.app Is there a way of seeing only my own posts under "Posts" rather than posts and reposts? I'd like to be able to check what photos I've posted so as not to post them again
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Dark blue water pours over stone ledges, producing white bands. On the far side of the river are limestone crags and white icicles
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Guy Thomas 〓〓 @guywrites.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
A Cornish sunset over the gentle, rolling waves. When I took this shot, it felt like the sky was a thousand miles wide and the ocean was a reminder of my insignificance in the big scheme of things. Humbling and beautiful. 😊 #Cornwall #sunset #sky #nature #ocean #calm #peace #life #photography
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I seem to have upset the Nigel Farage fan club - so let me be clear. This man sows hate, lies and division. He is a grifter and a conman. He does not represent the vast majority of Britons. Repost if you agree P.s. multiculturalism is great.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Time for the UK to do the same.
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Tom Barkas @tombar.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Fairy glen
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