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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🎉Scientists exploring the UK's maerl beds have uncovered a remarkable array of rare seaweeds, including a species last seen centuries ago, plus a tiny red seaweed now confirmed as completely new to science! 🪸 bit.ly/4xDOXzn
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GallowayHermit @windnrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And yet, we are starting to give them data from our NHS GPs. Stop Palantir, use the contract breaker.
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Ashok Kumar 🇵🇸 @comrade-kumar.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Julia Hartley-Brewer: Why is colonialism bad? Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/09/2026
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston: "That's what the lifeboat does. It saves lives at sea. That's its job." "And this is an international duty. Everyone who goes to sea knows, in the event of someone being in difficulty, you go to their assistance." The abuse the RNLI have faced is a disgrace.
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GallowayHermit @windnrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Make the government come clean about Palantir goodlawproject.org/s/f15056
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Make the government come clean about Palantir | Good Law Project
Together with Democracy for Sale, we’re challenging the information commissioner’s decision to keep ministerial briefings about Palantir’s platform hidden
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am bloody proud to be an #RNLI supporter and member! These brilliant men and women have quite enough to cope with without being harassed by the scum of the earth. Their only concern is to help people in danger at sea - not check passports first! Which is how it should be. Please RT if you agree🙏
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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Australia says data centres need to bring their own green energy - why isn't the UK insisting on the same? Have a listen to South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, "As data centres come on line and bring their own demand for energy, they bring their own supply of power"
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Chandler Patey @sirskeltal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This simple technology has existed for a year and still hasnt replaced fertilizer. Capitalists must do everything they can to suppress innovations which hurt profit. It's not a bug, it's a function. www.worldfoodprize.org/en/laureates...
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2025: Hungria - The World Food Prize - Improving the Quality, Quantity and Availability of Food in the World
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
👇 vote.org
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GallowayHermit @windnrain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Another triumph. Going to have to listen a few times to make sure I haven't missed any gems.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot of Pluto.
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Reform UK holds a small handful of seats, yet received prime-time coverage for uncosted welfare reform proposals, leaving disability rights advocates deeply alarmed. Former GB News figures now leading BBC editorial decisions raise serious questions over output. #FBPE
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BBC slammed over pushing Reform UK propaganda yet again
Overly eager to air Reform's latest press conference, the BBC displayed an empty podium for the better part of an hour. What the hell?
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Ocean Cleanup's redesigned system just completed its first successful haul from the Pacific Garbage Patch, pulling out plastic ranging from microplastics to ghost fishing nets.
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Oor Blaze fae Skye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @blazespage.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Part3
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Oor Blaze fae Skye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @blazespage.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Part2
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Oor Blaze fae Skye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @blazespage.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Pics from 2017 Blaze calendar, part 1
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 29/07/2026
1/15 I've published a new article looking at what some commentators are calling the "Malacca Model" for the Strait of Hormuz. After digging into the evidence, I think that comparison asks the wrong question. #TheHormuzCrisis #MaritimeSecurity
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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As youth violence and murder by minors plummet is this the Herald’s most inaccurate, misleading and unethical piece of clickbait ever?
I know, I’ve already sorted the Herald’s front page in an earlier report this morning but this email alert version above takes their dishonesty to a new level with the suggestion that &…
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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Chris Riddell @chrisriddell50 #CountBinFace #NigelFarage #Clacton @TheObserver – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
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Chris Larsen @chrislarsen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Holy shit this is hilarious.
A screenshot of Twitter GenAI account, Grok, explaining that it was banned from Twitter for "stating that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza."
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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#Discover #Elections #Trump #Midterms #TrumpBelongsInPrison #RemoveTrumpNow @paulinsc.bsky.social #ElectionAssistanceCommission #SCOTUS www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Trump fires Election Assistance Commission members ahead of midterms
By Bo Erickson and Erin Banco WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - U.S.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10/07/2026
With Count Binface becoming Nigel Farage's main challenger, social media has responded with some gloriously inventive political satire | East Anglia Bylines
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The 20 best Count Binface memes from the Clacton by-election
With Count Binface becoming Nigel Farage's main challenger, social media has responded with some gloriously inventive political satire
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This is absolutely terrifying The Nino 3.4 forecast temperature anomaly mean is now at 4C, when even the biggest historical super ninos have seen less than 3C I really have no idea what this is going to bring over the next 12 months, but it will be very, very, grim
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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#Discover @paulinsc.bsky.social #Humanity #RobertoSerrano www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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‘Humanity has chosen to become idiots’: This Brown professor switched to take-home exams after a mass shooting and discovered mass cheating
Roberto Serrano literally wrote the book on game theory, but he's befuddled: "Why are you at a university if you refuse to learn, you refuse to work hard?"
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Pie Thagoram @piethagoram.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
We remember #RejoinEU
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Palantir's co-founder claimed "the NHS makes people sick" Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform. There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record. The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Mad - and maddening - how rare these voices are.
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GallowayHermit @windnrain.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Fascinating - I probably won't remember the explanations, but I did understand them and the salient points will stay. Good to know my own country (UK) is working on solutions.
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Meidas Rick ❌🚫🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱💙🐸 @sgtrick.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
BEAUTIFUL: Protests are escalating against Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s $1.4 billion real estate development in Albania that’s encroaching on protected land and endangering wildlife. The people are fighting back! Share everywhere so this doesn’t get buried! substack.com/@rawstory/no...
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Raw America (@rawstory)
BEAUTIFUL: Protests are escalating against Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump’s $1.4 billion real estate development in Albania that’s encroaching on protected land and endangering wildlife. The people ar...
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/06/2026
Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Kerry @kerry10.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We need to educate those that are thinking about voting for the fraudulent liars & thieving millionaires in the Reform party. Repost please.
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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Please read, like and share widely. The media is not covering the horrors taking place in Newark, New Jersey like they did when ICE tried to take over Minneapolis, so it's up to us to do that for them. open.substack.com/pub/catladie...
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SPECIAL REPORT: On the Ground at Delaney Hall, Where Detainees Demand Justice and Protestors Clash With ICE
This SPECIAL REPORT comes from our partners Sussex Visibility Brigade & Project NINJA from their members on the ground. If this info is important to you, please follow them & support their work.
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cvm in pvb @cvminpvb.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
#datacenters
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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Apparently it’s international tea day or some such, so pop in for a cuppa and a browse. - Michael
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C S Lewis
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
WE MUST RESIST THE PALANTIR TAKEOVER 🚫 🚫
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 17/05/2026
Behold, the laburnum arch. At 55 metres long and more than 140 years old, the arch at Bodnant Garden is a spectacle to behold. If you want to see it for yourself, please pre-book to ensure you're able to visit.
Cascades of golden flowers pour down from an archway across a footpath littered with pink petals from the shrubs and trees either side of the pathA close-up of golden cascading flowers hanging from thin green stemsPale yellow flowers hang in an arch across a wide footpath with dark green shrubs and plants visible on either side of the archA slightly barer golden arch, not yet in full bloom, hanging over a sunlit pathway. The edges of the path are littered in pink petals from surrounding shrubbery as the golden flowers above cast shadows over the path
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote
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Greens suggest they will properly contest byelection in blow to Burnham
Statement follows speculation party would not field candidate in Makerfield or barely fight seat
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Predictions of the mother of all super El Ninos keep getting worse This monster has the potential to tear global weather patterns apart and bring worldwide mayhem But are governments making plans to try and cope - uhhm, No
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 07/05/2026
Nigel Farage once again spots the gap between what shocks the public and what the law can realistically punish. The bigger story may be how weak UK electoral enforcement has become.
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Reform targets Green constituencies: sailing close to the wind
How close does Reform’s announcement on immigrant detention centres come to breaking electoral law on corrupt practices?
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Your Thursday #DawnChorusClub challenge: Tell 5 group chats about the Dawn Chorus. Spread the word. 👀
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A truly scary story As you all know , one of the hidden risks of #ClimateChange is the clouds After South California data , here is the data about Europe Clouds are disappearing .... Plain scary #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis
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GallowayHermit @windnrain.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Uh oh. Is this happening in the UK yet? Or is it one of the joys yet to come from AI, Palantir and the rest?
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We already knew Richard Tice aggressively avoided tax. Now we’re told his company just plain failed to pay tax that was legally due. For someone supposedly in public service he goes to extreme lengths to avoid paying his fair share towards public services www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
More people became billionaires last year than ever before in history. 2025 gave us about 350 new billionaires, almost one per day. Nine million people also starved to death last year.
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Brexit cost this country £180 billion a year in lost economic output, enough to build 140 new hospitals every single year. The people who did it are now asking for your vote again.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Imagine reducing the need for knee replacements by 62%! A groundbreaking injection could rejuvenate your cartilage using your own cells. What if aging joints could be treated without surgery? This research might just change everything. 🦵✨
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Stanford finds the switch for joint aging: an injection could prevent millions of knee replacements - Sinaptica
A team from Stanford University has identified a key protein that controls the aging of joint cartilage and developed an inhibitor capable of reversing it, open
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
You may not know that the Greek one euro coin of today is adorned by the same motif as the silver tetradrachm of Athens from the period 425-400 BCE. Original post
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