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"Don't tell me I'm still on that feckin' island". Beachcombing the little rocky Isle of Man aka Isle of SUV http://backoftheocean.weebly.com “Everyone should believe in something. I believe I’ll go fishing”.
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · Jan 23
When trying to sleep with the sound of the storm or when a storm is only in my head, I try to return my mind to the peace of the tent after walking all day. Deep in the forested mountains of the Vercors. Falling asleep to the soundtrack of owls & animals of the night. My own Innisfree.
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 5h
Who knew the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to those fighting to change dictatorships to democracies and not the other way around?
Elmehed Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy THE NORWEGIAN NOBEL COMMITTEE
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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 5h
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee just said NO to dictatorships!

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Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social · 6h
“From dictatorship to democracy”

🏅BREAKING: The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Committee called her "a brave and committed champion of peace."

Read more: abcnews.link/g9qvJp9

#NobelPeacePrize
BREAKING: The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. The Nobel Committee called her "a brave and committed champion of peace." Read more: https://abcnews.link/g9qvJp9
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 5h
We have a wetherspoon in the Isle of Man now, but I have not been in.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17h
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 8h
@timofnewbury.bsky.social Good morning Tim. Some new IOM stamps on History of Brewing. www.iompost.com/our-news/isl...
History of Manx Brewing celebrated in new collection of stamps by Isle of Man Post Office - IoM PostIsle of Man Post Office News - Isle of Man Post Office
Isle of Man Post Office News
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 20h
"A beach is a place where a man can feel
He's the only soul in the world that's real". I'm not sure if that still applies in Brighton, where Quadrophenia was filmed, but here in the Isle of Man, you can have a beach to yourself most anytime.
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Seamus Heaney HomePlace @shhomeplace.bsky.social · 1d
🎧Missed it live? Catch up now on BBC Sounds!

Yesterday evening on PM (BBC Radio 4), Matthew Hollis, editor of The Poems of Seamus Heaney, joined the programme to discuss the launch of the new definitive collection of Heaney's work.

Listen here > www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 1d
Slow duck. Late arrival from 2006 World Record Duck Race. The Isle of Man receives Liffey litter in SW winds. Lighters, syringes, birthday balloons & knotted Tayto plain (cheese&onion) crisp packets. #allwashedup #plasticbeach
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 1d
The dinosaurs of the dairy lobby groups & the meat lobby groups have not stopped everyone calling oat milk.., "Oat milk" & won't stop "veggie sausages". What next.. no "fish fingers" or even Cadbury Chocolate fingers!
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 2d
EU Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban
Unbelievable we are in a climate crisis where meat production is a huge driver of carbon emissions and deforestation
And instead of promoting meat alternatives - they are trying to ban them

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Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban | Euractiv
Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 1d
But of course! What a fowl mistake I made.
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 2d
Gold > $4,000 an ounce. Enjoy guarding your stashes, gold hoarders. I invested my pittance in trail shoes, tents, fly rods & going fishing. But I did carve a duck from a piece of driftwood & covered it in gold leaf. No golden eggs....so far..... #allwashedup
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 2d
Never booked accommodation, as we walk & sleep in tent. Not clear if I will now have to make a cancelable booking for first night. Fortunately we take our dog, (with her feking expensive AHC instead of old Pet Passport). But we have trained her to savage anyone who says they voted Brexit.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 2d
Lovely map of French castles by Jean-Claude Golvin. Which one to visit first?
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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 3d
Love this man. #Hero

#Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:
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3FM Isle of Man @3fmradio.bsky.social · 3d
WATCH: Cav stars in 'Buy Local' ads https://www.three.fm/news/isle-of-man-news/watch-cav-stars-in-buy-local-ads/
WATCH: Cav stars in 'Buy Local' ads
Manx cycling legend Mark Cavendish stars alongside a number of Manx businesses in a new advertising campaign urging people to buy local.
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 3d
Sorry to hear Land Rover are back in production. There are already enough bloated Landrover & Range Rovers to last a lifetime, in the supermarket car parks & on the narrow roads of the little rocky Isle of Man.
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Sarah Hickey @sarahehickey.bsky.social · 3d
Sometimes my job looks like this 😂 #peatland restoration
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 3d
More stuff from the garage, no wonder we can't fit the car in. Vintage advice from Walter A. Wood, Hoosick Falls, New York.
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 3d
Could well be. I couldn't find a record of a Henry ...... in the trade registers as a Polisher in NI. But I found a record of the cabinet maker, with an address in Lisburn (not Belfast).
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 3d
It is too heavy to ever go upstairs again! I couldn't guess the cost of commissioning a cabinet maker to make one now. I wonder how many have the skills.
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backoftheocean @backoftheocean.bsky.social · 3d
Some stuff follows you around. This chest has always been in the family & once again, it is my turn to look after it. Signed by Willam Noble, Cabinet Maker & by a Polisher, Henry ? Belfast May 20th 1858. One day, brown furniture will be popular again, or it won't.
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Laine Thompson @marlinhoister.bsky.social · 4d
Just caught them. Sitting with the door onto the garden open. Slightly breezy but sunny. Then my ear tuned in to a familiar sound. (Actually it was Tilly who tuned in first.) And there they were, overhead. Couldn’t see a thing as the light reflected on my phone screen but it seems we got a glimpse.
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Susan McCreery @susanmccreery.bsky.social · 4d
Persist and resist.

These tiny beauties are popping up across the dry Greek landscape right now.

#FlowerReport Koufonisia🌸
Colchicum variegatum, a flower with six petals & six stamens blooming in rocky soil. It is a kind of chequered mix of purple & white. Grains of sand lie in its centre.
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Chris_MJ @chrismj199.bsky.social · 5d
britain in the left, america on the right. on the same day
police arresting an elderly gentleman police arrrsting an elderly gentleman
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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 4d
I agree with her.
I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d
She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
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