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Zodidog / Kimbers @zodidog.bsky.social · 36m

The hope for hedgehogs #hogdoodle charity auction is live. Take a peek you might see something you like. New doodles yer to be added so keep checking in www.jumblebee.co.uk/Hogdoodle25

#Hogdoodle 2025

#hogdoodle is a collection of hedgehog doodles including some drawn by well known authors, illustrators, comedians, musicians and celebrities. Each #hogdoodle is in itself a bespoke one off piece of a...

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 39m

Gorgeous.
Ursula K LeGuin is in my Pantheon for all time. Jane Goodall and Hilary Mantel have joined her there. The planet is poorer without them.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1h

Isn't it #BookshopDay today? Isn't it everyday? Consider one of these stunning poetry books, created with artistry, quality and scrupulous attention to detail by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social. I have...all of them. They are superb.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 1d

Recent titles include 'To the End of the Land' by Martin Heslop and Helen Tookey (pamphlet & CD), 'Eely' by Steve Ely (hardback collection), 'The Blue Hour' by Angelina D'Roza (hardback collection). "None of the books are possible without the others."

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 18h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 2h

Hard not to pity Tice and Morgan, both stuck forever in a 10 year old sniggering schoolboy bully mentality. Thank all the powers that @zackpolanski knows how to be the adult in the room. Piers has the smug stupidity of a privileged child who's never even thought about doing his homework.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 5h

Brilliant!

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 5h

Also, my word, what a ringing endorsement. 'Otherwise he's fine...' No issues, then, with any policies or strategies. He agrees with everything. I expect to see Reform moving swiftly to the Left!

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Guy Walsh/Wah @aguynamedguy.co.uk · 15h

Whatever your politics - please, listen to this. Isn't it refreshing to hear a politician speak with hope instead of fear?

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 18h

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, that 'follow back' button is hilarious. 😂

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 6h

You took them all completely by surprise.
As for Piers, he doesn't even want to know what's true. He doesn't care about the complexities of biology. But also biology doesn't care about him. It will keep on doing its own thing regardless.
They are petty because they have nothing else to bring.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 6h

Ah. That's frustrating. I hope it gets sorted out.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 17h

I just tried... The button/link at the top of the page doesn't seem to be working, is that what you found? There's another one a bit further down which is live.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 17h

Welcome! 🌱

Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 17h

I have to keep at least one jabberwock around, or I'd have to take the 'Beware the Jabberwock' sign down from the gate outside, and then what would even be the point of living?

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 21h

Ooh. That's GOOD.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 22h

I'm so sorry.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 22h

💃

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 22h

The man never stops. Zack, I hope you can relax this weekend. Recharge. We need you for the long haul!

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 22h

I'm counting on it.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 22h

I cleaned my house. QUICK. LET'S HAVE A PARTY!

Okay, you're right. I only cleaned some of my house. But I have spare wellies you can borrow to get through the jungly bits, and balls of Ariadne-style thread if you're scared of getting lost. Where's your sense of adventure, people?

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 22h

No, I'm actually far more frightened by the proposed vandalism of the Lake District and other National Parks. But each to their own.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, absolutely. It's despicable. But legal.
On the other hand, the string of 'violent offences' that they say Palestine Action has racked up, but they can't actually tell us what they are because, I don't know, we might be shocked or something, it's too sensitive to explain - that's just lying.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 22h

I'm afraid the the official definition of terrorism includes damage to property in order to intimidate a government and push an ideological agenda.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, @theguardian.com, that was quick. Nothing at all to do with @zackpolanski.bsky.social calling out Zia Yusuf about this on #bbcqt last night, then, I assume? Not papering over the cracks at all. You wouldn't do that. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements

www.theguardian.com

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