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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · Sep 2

Nova Scotia-Newfoundland Road trip August 2025! www.benaustwick.co.uk/blog/mzk7rkg...

Nova Scotia-Newfoundland road trip August 2025 — Ben Austwick

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 2m

Spelling bee over the last few days can do one though

Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 2m

Got it in two today 😂

Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 22m

My mum's pacemaker is fucking incredible

Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 27m

The answer to this question is always advances in medicine, which are unnoticed unless you need them

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Jeff Hollett @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 2h

A recent hike near, and through, a wildfire zone. Newfoundland, Canada.
#hiking #backpacking #wildfire

Photo of a boulder field. Possibly a felsemer.

Photo of a colourful species of Sphagnum moss.

Photo of a trail through a wildfire zone. The trail bed is still green/unburned. Everything else around is black/burned.

Photo of a bog hole with a cracked-mud bottom.

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 7h

Still making music I see

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 8h

Almost worst, we tried to pretend what she said didn’t matter and got right down to business with Putin

Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 5d

Nineteen years ago, on October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated by Putin's hitmen.
She was the first to tell the truth about Russia's mass crimes in Chechnya, which foreshadowed those in Syria, Ukraine, Africa and elsewhere. They could have been prevented.
Almost no one listened to her.

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 7h

Another of Tony Blair's triumphs

Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 8h

Keep ours in an unheated part of the house. Only charge them with the charger they came with is the only other advice I've got

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 8h

The Watford Vampire www.reddit.com/r/watford/s/...

From the watford community on Reddit: Watford Vampire sighting in The Oddfellows Pub a few days ago

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 21h

Antwerp

Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 22h

Quite strange being taken with this photo on Reddit this morning and seeing it in the Lee Miller exhibition at the Tate this afternoon

Captured German guards who had donned civilian clothes in the hope of escaping, Buchenwald, 1945, black and white photo by Lee Miller

Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 22h

Shin Takamatsu? Can't find anything out about it

full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · Mar 22

Tomita Otorhinolaryngology Clinic, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

2 different angles of a doctors complex in a brutalist style, including a lookout-style tower, ladder and steppe motifs

Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 22h

Fighting fascism or establishing foreign markets? Who can say

Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose so yeah!

Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Man(ta) Ray

Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Not long now until we have to go to our own little bits of the internet with our friends, fenced off from a maelstrom of bullshit

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Kick that transphobe out

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Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social · 2d

There's something quite beautiful about Sir Mortimer Wheeler's box-system excavations at Maiden Castle. Such a fantastic photograph!

Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

#archaeology 🏺 #photography