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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 2h

#Alien

Screenshot of Ripley with a torch cautiously advancing along a dark spaceship corridor - with jumpscare Morph caught in the spotlight ahead.

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 3d

Autumn light over Loch Clair #Scotland #WesterRoss #Kinlochewe #Highlands www.damianshields.com

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Camelia AB 🇺🇦 @cameliaab.bsky.social · 21h

How can our European leaders wake up and read that Russian terrorists hit the energy sector, injured more than 20 people, killed a child ... and still don't give Ukraine more military support?
Ukraine is the heart of Europe.
Without Ukraine, there's no Europe or humanity.
#Ukraine
#RussianWarCrimes

Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 21h

We are expecting the exact figures of missiles and drones fired by Russia within a few minutes. But we do know over 450 drones + 30 missiles were fired at Ukraine.

One child died and more than 20 were injured in the overnight attack.
Here are pictures from Kyiv.

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 7h

A folklorist sees the modern far-right trigger motifs and reads it like a folk tale of distraction ... #vegans #tampons #toilets #NationalTrust. So simple. Don't be a sucker. See through it.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 6h

some real heros in this article

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 9h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, look who was standing closest to Nigel Farage when a group of Brexit Party MEPs arrived in Strasbourg to take up their seats in July 2019

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 6h

Spaceballs with Tony Hart? bsky.app/profile/mole...

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · Mar 22

Surely a XenoMorph would be [mostly] harmless?

Cheery plasticine Morph emerging in a stop motion chestburster fashion from a surprised looking John Hurt while Tony Hart looks on.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 6h

John Hurt is about to have a tummy upset on bbc3

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 7h

Don't tell me Welfare spending is too high in the UK.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 19h

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 6h

And instead publish articles like this bsky.app/profile/mole...

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · May 26

Auntie Beeb is clearly now bound gagged and locked in a cupboard by handlers with strong accents claiming to be her ‘nephews’.
*The BBC has fallen*

Holly Berkley Fletcher @hollybfletcher.bsky.social · May 25

Oh look it's misogyny and Russian influence all rolled into one toxic burrito claiming divine sanction FUN
bbc.com/news/article...

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 4d

Reminding National Trust members not to turn into a pumpkin - please *use your vote* before the end of the month to support genuine candidates and keep the disingenuous ‘Restore’ stooges away from the Trust’s assets. Easiest way is use ‘Quick Vote’ to endorse official NT AGM recommendations.

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 5d

Pumpkin patch at Hinton Ampner
@nationaltrust.org.uk 🎃

Very large pumpkins on bare soil in a walled garden with espalier fruit trees, ornamental planting beds and outbuilding roofs in the background.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 8h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11h

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 9h

This is written like it was just fortuitous that this particular judge was assigned to the Coskun case co-sponsored by Toby's FSU.... Like the judgment was solely at the judge's discretion.

No, the judgment was rooted in English Law with a heavy nod to the ECHR.

Strange, Toby doesn't mention ECHR

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 9h

There must be more failed innovations in human history than there are grains of sand on the beach.

We should take a deep breath before accepting that AI (in its current iteration) is any sort of exception.

And yet everyone accepts without reservation that this is one of the improbable outliers.

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 9h

The Junior Associates here are a bit too big to use as an excuse these days… 🫠

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 9h

🤪 didn’t know about that one! Just looked on the map and must have driven close by hundreds of times!

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 12h

It's not gone away.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 12h

Today (date), the Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct. The first bird extinction on mainland Europe in 500 years — on our watch. Extinction is final. No going back. Think about that.

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 12h

So glad the right side of history has reclaimed frogs as a symbol.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 20h

A #Roman copper alloy plaque with Victory carrying a trophy including shields and two trumpets (carnyxes)

Probably commemorating triumph over the poor Silures in the late 1st century AD

From Caerleon © Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales CC BY-SA 4.0

For more see
images.museumwales.ac.uk

#FindsFriday

Bronze plaque with a relief image of a winged female personification of Victory carrying a trophy of armour, shields, trumpets and a helmet fixed to a pole slung over her right shoulder

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 12h

At risk of jumping the gun, @kejamieson.bsky.social