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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸
@organicbotanic.bsky.social
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Health academic, #IDSky, sailor⛵, photographer, botanist🌿, writer. Memoir, poetry, children’s stories. AI, public health, education, climate, UCU, films N Ireland 🇪🇺 Avoid🦠Covid. Photographs mine unless credited X: @organicbotanic Blue Sky 3/9/23
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · Jun 16
Honoured to be in this #poetry collection (p.14):

Thoughts from the other side of the Mid Atlantic Rift

Written on #Rathlin Island on a #Sailing boat. Grateful to @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social for the call, curation & publication. Means so much to me to support #US #Protest #Politics #Metaphor
Front cover of newly published collection of poems on Dissent and protest against Trump politics in US https://thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-dissent-poems-of-protest-in-an-authoritarian-age-summer-2025/
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 7h
You would like it from my garden because it is organic
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 8h
Botanic Garden, Belfast had few wild #flowers - very cultivated and non native.
One daisy where the mower could not get.
#Wildflowerhour
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#wildflower #October #Autumn
One daisy flower in grass by a railing with one autumn leaf
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 8h
Botanic Garden, Belfast had few wild #flowers - v. cultivated and non native. Smooth sow thistle where mower could not reach
#Wildflowerhour
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#wildflower #October #Autumn
Railings and cultivated lawn with a wild flower with small yellow flower and seeds setting blooming behind the railing.
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 8h
Botanic Garden, Belfast had few wild #flowers - very cultivated and non native. Nipplewort among the blue Hydrangea bed
#Wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@botanybeck.bsky.social
@bsbiireland.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
#wildflower #October #Autumn
Wild plant with small yellow flowers and Hydrangea leaves nearby. There are two blue and fading heads of Hydrangea flowers on the ground providing some interest
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 8h
Botanic Garden, Belfast: few #wild #flowers V. cultivated.
Yew arils & seeds, Gunnera fruiting spike, non-native ? Bieberstein's Crocus
#Wildflowerhour
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#wildflower #Autumn
One red Yew fruit and very poisonous seed Several Yew fruits and one unripe one with seed showing Gunnera fruiting spike with orange small fruits and very spiky leaf stems A crocus flowering in Autumn but not the native Autumn Crocus
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 7h
Oh - thank you! Very interesting. It is a favourite wild flower for me. Which parts do you eat? The leaves in spring perhaps? ooooooooooOOOhhh - I just looked it up! Sounds super!
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 8h
What does puha mean?
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 8h
A laugh a day keeps the doctor away
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8h
Left: Pete Hegseth, "We're building a Qatar Air Force facility in Idaho"

Right: JD Vance, "The reporting there is going to be a Qatari base on US soil, that's just not true"

If you can't trust the United States Secretary of War, who can you trust 🤷‍♂️
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 8h
Screwworm, which is a major threat to cattle and is already affecting beef prices, is advancing toward our southern border faster than expected.

No wall will keep it out. And the USDA inspectors who monitor it are currently furloughed.
Cuellar: Furloughed USDA inspectors can’t check for New World screwworm
A South Texas congressman says U.S. Agriculture employees who are responsible for checking for New World Screwworms and ensuring the pest doesn’t cross the border have been furloughed and are not w…
www.borderreport.com
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 8h
Botanic Garden, Belfast: few #wild #flowers V. cultivated.
Yew arils & seeds, Gunnera fruiting spike, non-native ? Bieberstein's Crocus
#Wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@botanybeck.bsky.social
@bsbiireland.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
#wildflower #Autumn
One red Yew fruit and very poisonous seed Several Yew fruits and one unripe one with seed showing Gunnera fruiting spike with orange small fruits and very spiky leaf stems A crocus flowering in Autumn but not the native Autumn Crocus
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 8h
Botanic Garden, Belfast had few wild #flowers - very cultivated and non native. Nipplewort among the blue Hydrangea bed
#Wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@botanybeck.bsky.social
@bsbiireland.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
#wildflower #October #Autumn
Wild plant with small yellow flowers and Hydrangea leaves nearby. There are two blue and fading heads of Hydrangea flowers on the ground providing some interest
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 8h
Botanic Garden, Belfast had few wild #flowers - v. cultivated and non native. Smooth sow thistle where mower could not reach
#Wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@botanybeck.bsky.social
@bsbiireland.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
#wildflower #October #Autumn
Railings and cultivated lawn with a wild flower with small yellow flower and seeds setting blooming behind the railing.
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 8h
Botanic Garden, Belfast had few wild #flowers - very cultivated and non native.
One daisy where the mower could not get.
#Wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@botanybeck.bsky.social
@bsbiireland.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
#wildflower #October #Autumn
One daisy flower in grass by a railing with one autumn leaf
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 9h
Done some reading. About him. Assume he is writing like a Daily Fail journalist to get a job with them .....for a certain type that would be considered more prestigious. Can't for a second think why, but there would be a more far right reach and potential to be on Sky paper reviews etc
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 9h
Oh God. That nincompoop Nick Triggle.
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 9h
Thanks Tony
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Tony @tonynicol3.bsky.social · 9h
Prof Ball looks to be an oddball, based on last 3 paras. Only some illnesses can confer lasting immunity, and Covid and flu are NOT two of them. Coronaviruses typically mutate frequently and immunity is diluted or lost. Covid especially short lasting, and causes multiple organ damage every time.
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 12h
Done it again, today, using Kennedy junior playbook: we obviously need to get more infections when young to build immune resilience. Ghost of Andrew Wakefield rides again through lens of Prof Ball. For avoidance of doubt this isnt a good piece, last 3 sections = BS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Common cold, flu, Covid: Why is Britain so sick right now?
Why coughs and colds seem to be taking hold currently - and what you can do to protect yourself.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Doctors in Unite @doctorsinunite.com · 10d
An irrelevant party with poorly considered ideas that will help no-one.
Tory plans to scrap Climate Change Act condemned as ‘economic disaster’ – UK politics live
Labour, Lib Dems and Greens condemn Badenoch’s vow to repeal act if the Tories win power with Ed Miliband calling it a ‘betrayal of future generations’
www.theguardian.com
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 2d
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is everything Trump hates. A woman who stands up to powerful and corrupt men and demands that people have the right to vote in a democracy. Bonus Trump-hate points that she’s Latino.

Congratulations María Corina Machado! #FDT
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Mizz Whozza Whazzit @mwplovesmusic.bsky.social · 1d
#Emoetry prompt for 10/12/2025

is

#Haunted

#writingcommunity #poetry @fafo-poets-society.bsky.social
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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 1d
Healthwatch Canada: 'Starting Tuesday, October 14, 2025, masks will be mandatory in all Health Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) facilities due to rising respiratory illness rates across the Island'. @canadahealthwatch.ca
👉 'To protect both patients and healthcare workers.'
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 12h
At it again Alan: acting Prof Ball with a Kennedy junior playbook
of - problem is we need more infections
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Common cold, flu, Covid: Why is Britain so sick right now?
Why coughs and colds seem to be taking hold currently - and what you can do to protect yourself.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · Nov 23
When I saw it was Triggle I didn’t read it. He lost credibility during the pandemic. He is a daily mail journalist with a BBC job.
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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · Oct 17
Had my *boilerplate response from BBC to my complaint about the outrageous, patronising, inaccurate Nick Triggle article where it was indicated #Covid is heading for being just a cold. Same response to everyone. *a message used with minimal effort for multiple different situations.
#CovidIsNotOver
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