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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 7m

I prefer your dust wrapper. 🙂

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 36m

"I wanted to write about Shropshire for a long time. And because I was living there from a very young age, I felt so strongly and so sensitively about just the place itself, the nature of it. The forests, the landscapes, the nature of light there, and the animals."

Jerskin Fendrix: Beth's Farm

Jerskin Fendrix (AKA Joscelin Dent-Pooley) is an English composer and musician best known for his film music. Beth's Farm is a track from hi...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15h

Aren't medieval dovecotes brilliant?

A medieval dovecote I stumbled upon on a walk near Padstow in Cornwall.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 8h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 14h

It's worth noting that Reggie was moved from a Liberal Democrat constituency to a Liberal Democrat constituency. Manuela Perteghella could have handed him over to Martin Wrigley at a service station on the M5.

Reggie the Antisocial Swan of Avon finds love in Devon

There's a happy sequel to a recent Headline of the Day. Reggie the black swan, who was removed from Stratford-upon-Avon because he was "ter...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 1h

Far flung our bus routes (map), by MacDonald Gill, 1928

mappinglondon.co.uk/2012/mind-th...

map of a city showing bus routes snaking out to the edges of the map

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Hannah @wilderhomestead.bsky.social · 3d

25/10 sp last night, even with good conditions (cloud cover and mild). 4 Merv’s bumped the numbers up, Dark Sword Grass, Barred Sallow, Red-Green Carpet and Brown Spot Pinion creeping the new garden list up to 20. North Herefordshire #TeamMoth

Two of the 4 Merveille du Jour caught last night in the moth trap. North Herefordshire SO24

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 1d

Got stuck into some gardening at Frimhurst Enterprises, based at Frimhurst Family House, with @AlPinkerton.bsky.social, a fantastic social enterprise helping those with learning disabilities build new skills and have some fun.

Big thanks to Peter for showing us around and keeping us busy.🪴

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2h

Another story about native bees illustrated with Honeybees. In Britain, these are livestock and can harm other bee species due to competition for nectar and pollen

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 2h

The contaminated blood scandal is one of the gravest injustices in NHS history. Victims have waited decades for justice and they’re still waiting.

@JessBrownFullerMP.bsky.social the Lib Dems plan delivers fair compensation and lasting reform.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3h

“Farm workers follow where the spinner has passed and collect the potatoes in shallow baskets.
Picking up potatoes is back-aching work”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

On a misty day in autumn, a group of mainly women follow a tractor to gather potatoes. The figures are hunched over and you can almost feel the back pain.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

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Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3h

Parents who film their children crying for clicks should take a good look at themselves | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Toddlers have big feelings. But sharing their tantrums and pain on social media is not a ‘teachable moment’. It’s cruel, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

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Mat Bowles (He/Þei) @matgb.uk · 1h

Capitalists: evil
Markets: anti-capitalist tool of the people

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 2h

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices" - Adam Smith.

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Keith Knight @keithjknight.bsky.social · 1h

I was in Deal this week and sought out Charles Hawtrey’s house, so, yes, absolutely.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 1h

Expressive dance?

Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 2h

I've tried something a little different from my polling newsletter, out at 6pm today.

Sign up here to receive it: buff.ly/EXq68Yt

Welcome to the 182nd edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at polling related to whether it would be okay for the House of Lords to vote down legislation for assisted dying. I also give a couple of AI platforms a go to see if they can do better than the newspaper report.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4h

Nigel’s got a monorail to sell Wales…

Farage promises ‘fresh thinking’ for Wales but says policies will come later

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Farage promises ‘fresh thinking’ for Wales but says policies will come later

Reform leader hints at major changes ahead of Senedd election REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage has said it is “too early” to set out detailed policies for next year’s Senedd election – but promised his p...

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 2d

the treatment of teenage asylum-seekers; governments are using War on Terror powers to suppress demonstrations; entrepreneurship is still the preserve of the privileged; Open Spaces Society calls for wider access to nature; Bring Her Back (2025); Anderton Boat Lift

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"'They are treated with the most appalling hostility at the border with officials laughing at them, and shouting,' says Rivka Shaw, policy o...

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 1d

"I can remember writing him a fan letter and getting a handwritten letter back. It was very exciting. He had something called the Lone Pine Club, which you could join, and I recently found out that the crime writers Elly Griffiths and Mick Herron were both members too. So we all loved his books."

Malcolm Saville inspired Vera, Ruth Galloway and Slow Horses

The Gold Edition interviews the crime writer Ann Cleeves, some of whose books have been adapted to make the television series Vera: What ar...

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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 11h

This is a great little book, and is how i think about Kent on the rare occasions when i think about it

Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 18h

Dig through the rubbish of seaside junk pits and pinball arcades, Seabrook suggests, read the shilling-shockers, and the pattern will reveal itself. English fascism hidden in the pages of John Buchan. A schoolteacher living in retirement who remembers William Joyce as a benevolent father.

Iain Sinclair reviews David Seabrook's All the Devils are Here

Backlisted has devoted a second podcast to David Seabrook's book on Kent, All the Devils Are Here . Iain Sinclair wrote about it for the Lo...

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 2h

It's hard to overestimate the degree of sheer lunacy of techbro ideologues like Thiel & Musk. The Nazis also liked to present themselves as scientific rationalists but actually subscribed to all manner of batshit occultist beliefs.

Wilson Dizard III @wpd3.bsky.social · 1d

[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2h

‘The pro-appeasement British ambassador, Nevile Henderson, said he was no longer worried by the British press corps: “Except for Ebbutt, who is now gone, they don’t seek to make mischief.”’

Patrick Cockburn on a journalist who saw the Nazi threat coming: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Patrick Cockburn · Diary: Interviewing Hitler

In August 1937, three German journalists were expelled from Britain for suspected espionage. Retaliation was a...

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Heidi Temple-Stephens @heidistephens.bsky.social · 17h

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 18h

Dig through the rubbish of seaside junk pits and pinball arcades, Seabrook suggests, read the shilling-shockers, and the pattern will reveal itself. English fascism hidden in the pages of John Buchan. A schoolteacher living in retirement who remembers William Joyce as a benevolent father.

Iain Sinclair reviews David Seabrook's All the Devils are Here

Backlisted has devoted a second podcast to David Seabrook's book on Kent, All the Devils Are Here . Iain Sinclair wrote about it for the Lo...

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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 2h

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices" - Adam Smith.

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