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Mark Wildman

@wildthinker.bsky.social
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Natural history nerd. Still practising Dark Ages Primary headteacher. Allotmenteer. I have walked around England's boundary...every step.

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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Wish you were on Threads
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A comma.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Great news but lacking in detail. I read the article but nowhere does it say exactly where these woodlands are.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Yes, Tice is scuppered by his own logic
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Yes a good move
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
And, there is so much utter rubbish out there. This is not the golden age of children's literature
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Good luck. Hope you make it back.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Blacksmith
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
What follows if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights? I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has. It’s from Is A River Alive? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Perhaps your snipey, pointless question wasn't worth answering.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Happy not to disappoint
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Cue Georg Steller. First European to set foot on Alaska, working for Russian Academy of Science
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
😂
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Aristotle, I think.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
By this logic nothing is inconceivable
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Yes I would.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pay walls are a deterrent in my view.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Good looking dirt!
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Great shot
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Jeez 😳
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Hinton Ampner and Cheriton by the looks of it. Hope you popped into the Flower Pots 🍻
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Start with spuds. They grow pretty much anywhere and condition the soil.
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
That's 95k! We're 95% of the way to 100,000 signatures on our petition, which means we get a ban on driven grouse shooting debated in parliament. Only 5k to go! Please share & sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
correct, these are the best flowers. (especially thrift!) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I’m obsessed with coastal wildflowers: they look so delicate but thrive in tough conditions
From the rock sea-spurrey, which appears to grow out of solid rock, to the slender centaury that lives on a landslip, these plants exist where they do for good reason
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Harbour Energy made £4.9 BILLION in 2024 drilling for oil and gas . These companies and their execs are quite literally killing life on earth . Sign my petition to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships now govpetition.uk/700024 – 60K by midnight ? C'mon !
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I scroll through Bluesky and am disappointed by the lack of coherence and spirit. Threads is still so much better IMO.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Can we get over 2500 signatures today for traditional and social media reform? We are so close to this threshold! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Observing my lovely granddaughter, safety first went out of the window when it came to exploring, picking things up,'eating' things. I guess there is something about an embryonic personality at play here too!
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Yes, it's a concern because it encourages Peter's Principle and that never ends well gor anyone.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
We called it pirates but same thing I guess
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I wonder if a deeper instinct to learn, we might call it curiosity, comes before safety because it's often through being curious children get their 'fingers burned' and learn what safety means.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Let's get some Sunday morning support for cleaning up our media! Sign and share the petition! Who can you share with this morning to help us get more signatures? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Review traditional and social media regulation
Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap...
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Multiple people have got responses from the BBC after lodging complaints over their absurd and excessive coverage of Rachel Reeves. Quite frankly the response is weak and simply tries to justify again what they were doing. Our media needs urgent reform! And I have a petition for just that!
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Petition: Review traditional and social media regulation
Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap...
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I love your drawings and guides. I wondered if the antiquity of this route might have drawn you in. I am an archaeologist by training and a lover of chalk geology, so that's what fires me up to walk this ancient route.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
One for @gnashette.bsky.social
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Have you written about or illustrated any part of the Great Chalk Way?
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Exactly so.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
He doesn't believe this. So, he is lying. We can guess why
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@MiniHorts @minihorts.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Our new soap has arrived! From plant to bar with the help of a local soap maker.@_goly.natural Using the Attar Of Roses scented pelargonium leaves it smells like Turkish Delight. Thank you to year 6 for harvesting the leaves! #Gardening #School
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The media need new rules. They are out of control - whether the dodgy headlines in Times and Guardian, the abhorrent GB News spreading hate, to the Murdoch controlled newspapers or online video channels encouraging a general to be mysoginistic. Something has to change!
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Petition: Review traditional and social media regulation
Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the EU aren't I? Like if you do RT if you really do
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why are gen Zs deserting garden centres? Maybe they’re more into planting than shopping | Claire Ratinon
They can be joyful and important social spaces, but a new generation of customers runs a mile from the shelves of plastic and chemicals, says food grower and writer Claire Ratinon
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A manatee: Imagine eating lettuce under water | Helen Sullivan
Manatees don’t have incisors or canines, only ‘cheek teeth’. No hair, only whiskers. Algae growing on their backs. Everything is gentle
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Follow this account for a heady mix of natural history, horticulture and the outdoors. Innovative and groundbreaking...literally.
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
At last!
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@MiniHorts @minihorts.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
@gardenshour.bsky.social Good evening! Thank you so much for sharing our move.🥰 #GardensHour
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I think there is a great deal of sense in this article, although I suspect some will rail against it
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Sam Strickland @strickomaster.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Here’s an article I wrote on the Behaviour Hub scheme and why Labour should keep this approach… schoolsweek.co.uk/five-lessons...
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Behaviour Hubs: What we learned and why they should be kept
The programme hasn't just taught us about behaviour. It's been an effective model for school improvement
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Mark Wildman @wildthinker.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Anyone out there walked the Great Chalk Way? #longdistancewalk
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