Nicola
@gardennicola.bsky.social
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Posts about gardening,🌱 history, food & art. Occasional rants about the state of the world. LGBT+ 🏳️‍⚧️ ally 🏳️‍🌈 She/her No DMs. Will instantly block. Leicester, UK.
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gardennicola.bsky.social
👀 this is amazing I love it!
felicitykeefe.bsky.social
Another large painting from the studio this week - wild winter lakes and misty hillsides.
gardennicola.bsky.social
Enjoy a story about the end of a tyrant!
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#ancientbluesky #history #skystorians #archaeology #domitian

Here, in all its finger-shredding, eye-gouging, blood-soaked, assassin-screaming, enraged-emperor glory, is the final day of the emperor Domitian!

No terrified slave boys were terrified in the making of this terror

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The Death of Domitian
The thing about tyrants, autocrats, power-mad demagogues and political bullies is that, in the end, someone will always come for you.
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gardennicola.bsky.social
Ouch! Hope it heals quickly Guy.
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
The green-lane-as-tunnel type of interdimensional portal is one of my favourites.
A beautiful tunnelled footpath in mid-Cornwall in high summer.
gardennicola.bsky.social
Covid vaccination today. Already had the RSV one last week. Extremely grateful. ❤️NHS
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I see from this morning’s Politico Playbook that Robert Jenrick’s wife reads out comments about him to motivate him. So now I’m tempted to post that he seems like the kind of man whose wife would perpetually be wondering if she could have married better.
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scotnational.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: A Scottish activist from the Global Sumud Flotilla has described the 'absolutely horrific' conditions she allegedly experienced in an Israeli prison
'They never won': Flotilla activist recounts 'horrific conditions in Israeli prison'
www.thenational.scot
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Greta Thunberg has just been released and she is back on the warpath, exactly like our leaders should be.

Israel will never silence her or the billions who oppose them.
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footballlibrettist.bsky.social
Scum.
antizionistjew.bsky.social
Ben Gvir about the activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla currently held in detention in Israeli Prison "Ansar III":

Anyone who supports terrorism is a terrorist and deserves the same conditions applied to terrorists. This is my policy. I am proud of the prison staff acting in accordance"
gardennicola.bsky.social
What news of Greta Thunberg and other detainees?
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anterotesis.bsky.social
‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive

Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The database itself:
www.depthsofparadise.co.uk

#History 🗃️
‘This is strength’: stories of enslaved Africans in Grenada made into searchable archive
Depths of Paradise project backed by British family and created by Stephen Lewis, a descendant of survivors
www.theguardian.com
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
RIP to Jane Goodall, who opened the world's eyes to our closest relatives. (Photo by NatGeo's Hugo Van Lawick)
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privateeyenews.bsky.social
Today, a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone was told it must repay the government £122m for breaching a contract for medical gowns during the Covid pandemic.

Read our special report online on some of the other fat cats who made a mint during covid.

➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/spe...
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.*

www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...
Zack Polanski: “We absolutely need to stop the boats”
The Greens’ Zack Polanski on facing up to Reform
www.newstatesman.com
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bertrom.bsky.social
“He moved, spoke, gestured and breathed as if he knew for certain that behind the drab winter clouds a different kind of sky was waiting, and that beneath the exhausted and frost-bitten ground lurked every imaginable flower.”

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Brian Patten obituary — The Guardian
One of the Liverpool poets, along with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, who was a perceptive writer on love
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gardennicola.bsky.social
One of my classes last year taught me some moves. Like making sure you can get your back leg stronger and on the ball of the foot. It works!