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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19h

"Hey handsome. Why not come over to my place and eat the fried breadcrumbs I'm covered in?" she said, croquettishly.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 7h

Another ancient woodland rescued from hundreds of rhododendron near Rhayader! Solid crew of young and old today (ex-military 83yo absolutely ragging rhodos with just a bowsaw.)

If you’re struggling on your land give @protect.earth a shout. We’ll grab an army of volunteers and be right over.

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 6h

Marigold in the garden has attracted a tiny snail.

Surprised how many plants are flowering in the garden currently.

Marigold flower, starts pale yellow on the edge, gets darker towards an orange centre. A tiny snail is next to the centre of the flower.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 11h

I cannot believe these protesters blocked traffic. First Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil, now psychotic paramilitary right-wing bigots on a hate march against protected groups. At least they’ll be locked away for years like the climate activists right?

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 11h

Lunchtime walk. Kestrel at the very top of a tree.

#birds #EastCoastKin

Female kestrel perched on a vertical twig.

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 15h

Nnnnnnggggg.

Fake Christmas trees in boxes stacked for sale in a warehouse type diy store.

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Matt Thrower @mattthr.bsky.social · 16h

This. Stop looking for sense or reason in fascists either side of the Atlantic. These are tiny people with tiny ambitions that extend no further than feeding the endless, famished void for validation they have in place of a soul.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 22h

Their goal is revenge against every scientist who told them something they didn't want to hear or made them feel inferior by knowing more than they do.

Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 23h

WTF is their goal? Small government means every man for themselves when the next catastrophe hits? What is the point? Government isn’t a business, it’s a service for the people. You’re saving minimal money with these cuts and only hurting literally everyone

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 17h

*sigh*

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 17h

It seems by using 'lunchtime' in posts I may be encouraging people to eat the things I photograph. For your own safety please seek expert advice before consuming any item in an image returned by searching "from:lukebmtb.bsky.social lunchtime". Especially that f*cking huge crane from the other week.

Post complaining that using lunchtime walk and mushrooms in the same post encourages people to eat poisonous mushrooms

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 17h

OK, fair enough. I go on a lunchtime walk everyday and post photos of what I see.

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Ian Geordie Clark @ian-geordie-clark.bsky.social · 18h

Recorded and released at a time when the UK charts were dominated by nice, ‘safe’ music. Imagine how this song shook things up!

A brilliant, iconic song that still feels powerful 49 years later.
🎯👌⚡️🔥
#SexPistols #punk #musicsky

youtu.be/cBojbjoMttI?...

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 18h

Baffling that a nation state would put, at a population level, it's citizens lives at risk in such a deliberate manner.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 1d

My new album LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) is out now! ☀️

Thank you so much to everyone who has joined me on this journey to the release of LIAR. I am beyond proud and excited to finally share this with you all and I want to know what you think! ❤️

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 1d

If only there were a French expression to denote an uncanny feeling of having experienced something before

Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 1d

France’s new prime minister is…the very one who resigned on Monday, Sébastien Lecornu. It rounds off the most chaotic and absurdist week in French politics in modern times

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21d

The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.

Basil Rathbone standing on some brick steps outside of his home. He's wearing an overcoat that comes down below his knee. He's also wearing what appears to be gray trousers and black dress shoes.

A Suitsupply model wears a navy "overcoat," which barely reaches mid-thigh. He pairs it with a navy turtleneck, gray pleated trousers, and black shoes.

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Memorial Device @memorialdevice.bsky.social · 1d

The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: Helen Day.

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 1d

My travelling ‘Ladybird artists’ exhibition is still going strong!

Next year, Cambridge and Mansfield
2027 (tbc) Southampton and Motherwell
2028 Lichfield

Photograph of myself, smiling cheesily as I stand in front of the wall of books which is the centrepiece of my ladybird artists exhibition

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 1d

Literally shit or bust on the fourth landing approach then.

Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 1d

An investigation is underway after a Ryanair flight landed in Manchester with less than the minimum amount of fuel left in its tanks.

The plane landed with just 220kg left in the tank – an amount which is sufficient for around five to six minutes of flying time.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 1d

Yikes!

Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 1d

An investigation is underway after a Ryanair flight landed in Manchester with less than the minimum amount of fuel left in its tanks.

The plane landed with just 220kg left in the tank – an amount which is sufficient for around five to six minutes of flying time.
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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 1d

I'll delete - there's enough misattributed crap out there!

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 1d

"So SoftBank is going to borrow billions of dollars on margin using ARM shares as collateral to invest in the unprofitable and unlisted OpenAI, whilst Nvidia is going to lend OpenAI billions to buy Nvidia's own chips, whilst AMD will sell OpenAI billions worth of chips in exchange for AMD shares..."