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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

@everyheron.bsky.social Heron near Greifensee, Switzerland, hunting frogs. Lots of Stork nests too, but the storks have gone now

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

Cosmos didn't quite make it to #caturday. Goodbye, lovely cat

Photograph of a tortie-point Siamese Cat sitting on stairs sitting on one step with her front feet on the next step up with a wicker basket in the background

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

@susiedentwords.bsky.social Janet enjoying her signed copy of Death Writ Large, which she confirms was very good for reading on the train. Thanks to @biggreenbooks.bsky.social for organising.

Women sitting on a yellow sofa with a hardback copy of the book Death Writ Large by Suzie Dent open on her knee with a cup of tea in her other hand

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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 16/02/2026

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it. open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

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Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?

How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 06/02/2026

@levparikian.bsky.social Herons and crows really don't get on, do they? 2 were swooping at this one, and there were 2 seagulls having a go at another who was perched on a chimney. The herons usually just fly past checking out gardens and I haven't seen them stopping there before.

2 crows, with wings outstretched, swooping at a heron perched at the top of a fit tree

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 26/01/2026

@theaifix.show Goodbye Graham, thank you for the excellent shows and I will miss the interaction between you and Mark. But I also look forward to more informative episodes from Mark. And I will still catch you on @smashingsecurity.com

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 15/11/2025

@mrjohncrace.bsky.social Thank you for a great session in Manchester tonight. It was very good to see you in person and you managed to be both amusing and sobering at the same time!

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 15/11/2025

A few weeks ago someone posted a short video of a cat's plaintive mewing for food. Cosmos, a Siamese cat, wants to tell you about the correct way to get attention from your humans - she's just come in and wants a stroke. #caturday #proofofcat

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 01/11/2025

Happy #caturday from Cosmos, the yowling tyrant who seems to spend much of her day noisily demanding to be stroked, as only Siamese cats do.

Photo of the head of a tortie-point Siamese cat lying on a settee in the sun

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Leighton Pritchard @widdowquinn.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...

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Save Our Suffolk Swifts @sosswifts.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A super bit of Swift conservation in Felixstowe where this building hosting multiple nests went under scaffolding. The builders listened, adapted the scaffolding to permit Swifts to access their nest sites, kept the nooks open & now added Swift bricks to help the colony expand.

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 01/10/2025

@metlstorm.risky.biz Very good Risky Business episode with Amberleigh. You make a good team!

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 27/08/2025

@popey.me Just listening to your Ask The Hosts answer about Jean Michel Jarre at the Docklands. I didn't go, but could see that Docklands from the bedsit I was living in at the time, so listened to the live radio broadcast and watched the fireworks and lasers from Camberwell.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 31/07/2025

BIG NEWS!! The second BillableHour Summer Tee is now available with all profits going to @savechildrenUK. It is a banger from design superstar @gailmyerscough.co.uk and a must have for any lawyer (link to shop in reply). As you'd expect from a tee this reasonable, it comes in many colours. BEHOLD!!

Violet T-shirt picturing a London bus headed to CLAPHAM with a man visible through the top deck window.

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 24/06/2025

Final #ProofOfCat for Aura, was has kidney failure and is making her final trip to the vet tomorrow. We are all very sad.

Photograph of Aura, a Siamese cat, sitting on a cushion in a greenhouse

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 25/05/2025

Too late for #caturday Cosmos has been brushing up on her skateboarding, with some practice on the stairs

Siamese cat sitting on the end of a black skateboard in the sun

Siamese cat lying on the stairs with top half lying down the one leg on the step below, is if she is pushing a skateboard with her paw

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 24/05/2025

#HADay2025 We had a great meetup in Manchester UK with lots of interesting discussions about Home Assistant and home automations with experience of Home Assistant going back to the earliest versions (PIP installs) to 6 months. Looking forward to doing it again next year, if not before.

Group photo of the Manchester, UK, Home Assistant Community Day 2025 meetup.

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 20/05/2025

A Swift catching the evening light

A Common Swift in flight, wings outstretched and tail spread. One wing is catching the evening sunlight

A Common Swift in flight, wings outstretched and one wing highlighted in the evening sun

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Children's Food Campaign @childrensfood.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Wow! 1800 emails from food industry lobbyists to health officials in 1 year! Persuaded govt to remove UPF references from policy guidance. Great investigation by @theguardian.com & @thesoilassociation.bsky.social. We at @sustainweb.org have signed joint letter www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

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UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms

Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 13/04/2025

bsky.app/profile/ktla... @marcusbrig.bsky.social Have they been to your show? We had a great time in Manchester tonight and I hope you have a good journey home.

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 08/03/2025

Someone called me about this poor #fox they had spotted. I called www.thefoxrescuers.org.uk and 30 minutes later a volunteer had driven out, captured the fox and taken it to the vet. Sadly it had to be put to sleep, but thanks to the volunteers who give up their time to rescue suffering animals.

Very bedraggled looking fox lying next to the entrance to a freshly-dug burrow with matted hair from mange on it's face and back.

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Bram Claeys @bramclaeys.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Today's moment of zen: visdeurbel.nl The fish doorbell in Utrecht, NL. Underwater live stream at a canal lock. Ring the bell to let the lock keeper know, so fish can travel upstream. 3,5 million viewer/year. 800 viewers at the moment. It's therapeutic. H/T De Standaard

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De Visdeurbel — De Visdeurbel

Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel dan opent onze sluiswachter de sluis en kunnen de vissen doorzwemmen.

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 04/03/2025

@rostaylor.bsky.social You mentioned the French Tawny Owls on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social. We have Tawny Owls living on the walking/cycling path behind our house, a few miles from the centre of Manchester, and Barn Owls living nearby too - I saw one out hunting early one morning last week.

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 28/02/2025

@paulburston.bsky.social @natashadevon.bsky.social Thanks for the great Bunker I have just finished listening too. Now feeling nostalgic for the 80s and 90s when things weren't great but at least there was a common purpose.

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 21/02/2025

@nndroid.bsky.social @bunkerpod.bsky.social @alexvont.bsky.social Great interview with Neil Kinnock and very fitting for the 1,500th episode. I've been listening from the start, although I might have missed a few, but it surely can't be 5 years!

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Sheryl Crow: “My parents always said you are who you hang out with. There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with. So long Tesla. Money donated to NPR, which is under threat by President Musk, in hopes the truth will…find its way to those willing to know [it].”

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 13/02/2025

Cosmos is engrossed with Conclave. Nothing she likes more than a good drama, apart from wildlife programmes with birds. #proofofcat

Photograph of the back of a Siamese cat's head with a television with a scene from the film Conclave in the background. The cat is watching the film intently.

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 27/01/2025

@alexvont.bsky.social great to hear you doing Start Your Week on @bunkerpod.bsky.social this morning and bringing some level-headed reporting to the grim new agenda.

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

And here's latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social toon, out in print imminently. Subscribe now!

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 04/01/2025

Snowy run in Prague on a beautiful morning

View of Prague castle with the river in the foreground, the distant bank dusted in show and the castle silhouettes against a clear blue sky

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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

In GM, we are not just keeping the £2 cap on single bus fares in 2025. From Sunday, we are turning it into a “Hopper” fare so you can travel on multiple buses within the hour. 👍🏻 More here: bit.ly/4gU2OK2 1/4

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 01/01/2025

The River #Mersey is the highest I have seen it, overtopping the banks at Jackson's Boat in #Manchester

View of the river Mersey at Jackson's Boat in Manchester with the river flowing over the top of the bank

View down the river Mersey at Jackson's Boat with the river just below the bank and footpath on the right. The lights on the floor relief gates building are visible further down the river.

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Julian Beach @trink-uk.eurosky.social · 12/12/2024

@quietriotpod.bsky.social I've been listening to the most recent Wokey Dokey and thought I should introduce you to Rudolph the Woke Nosed Reindeer, who has taken up position on the house. Rudolf does also have periods of red -nosedness!

A rattan reindeer decoration with an animated multi-coloured nose on the flat roof of a house which is decorated with multi-coloured LED lights.

A rattan reindeer decoration with an animated multi-coloured LED nose and blue LED eyes

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Just a reminder, if you live in England you can check your flood risk on this map, and you really should! Select “rivers and the sea” to start with check-long-term-flood-risk.service.gov.uk/map

Flood risk map for England, with a set of options for types of flooding. “Rivers and the Sea” is circled in red

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/11/2024

I don't know how they manage to pull this off but every time I have to actually use one of Microsoft's core Office programs I am actually shocked by how godawful it is. I thought I knew that PowerPoint was bad, but somehow it is now many times worse

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

16m Britons (24% of the population) live in poverty. 10m live in families in full-time work. 5.2m children live in poverty (36%). Austerity, low wages, benefits, pension take toll. Destroy lives. Rebuilt society by redistributing income/wealth. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high

Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Today’s poem is called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.

A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry

1. Impressionism
Roses sway in softened reds,
Violets swim in murky blues,
Sugar sparkles in the light,
Blurring into golden you.

2. Surrealism
Roses are melting,
Violets are too.
Ceci n’est pas le sucre.
Keith is a giant crab

3. Social Realism
Roses are dead,
Violence is rife.
Don’t sugar coat
This bitter life.

4. Abstract Expressionism
Are and.
Violets roses so.
You sweet blue.
Are are red is sugar

5. Pop Art
Roses go BLAM!
Violets go POW!
Sugar is COOL!
You are so WOW!

6. Conceptual Art
Roses are red,
Coated in blood:
A deer’s severed head
Drips from above

7. Pointillism
Roses have black spot,
You’re spotty, too.
Sugar is granulated.
I’m dotty for you

8. Minimalism

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Paper Cuts @papercutsshow.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Mr Musk goes to Washington🤖🇺🇸 Paddington takes on Paul Mescal (and his fit Gladiator mates) at the Box Office🧸⚔️ Plus – The moth invasion! 🦋👗 Join @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social Zing Tsjeng and @athenakugblenu.bsky.social here: listen.podmasters.uk/PC241115Glad...

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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 13/11/2024

Amidst challenges and sorrows, humanity's pursuit of joy and hope demonstrates our resilience. We unite in seeking balance, each contributing to a global effort that illuminates life's darker moments with joy's gentle radiance. From the Yukon, I am sending joy, hope and positivity.

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Dan Raven-Ellison @danravenellison.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The Slow Ways intercity network is so tantalisingly close to being complete! 63 of Britain’s 70 official cities are now linked. Could you help connect: #Peterborough #Bangor #StAsaph #StDavids #Stirling #Inverness or #Aberdeen? The green routes need checking! beta.slowways.org/user/waylist... 🧵🐌

A map of the Slow Ways intercity network, with purple lines showing verified routes and green lines showing ones that need checking.
63 of Britain’s 70 official cities are now linked to each other via verified routes.

In England only Peterborough remains free-floating!
Of the routes connecting the cities, 94% have been reviewed
and 76% have been triple-checked and verified!
In Wales Bangor, St Asaph and St Davids need linking
Scotland is missing Stirling, Inverness and Aberdeen

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 13/11/2024

So, no stranger to unevidenced faith after all! #politicsofthegaps

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Boris Johnson checking his book sales figures.

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