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Carl Bovis

@carlbovisnature.bsky.social

Song Thrush feasting on berries! 😍
Thrilled to get this photo at RSPB Ham Wall today... do you like it? 😊🐦
#birds 🪶

Lots of Christmas gift ideas in my shop for nature lovers here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3

A Song Thrush in the process of swallowing a red berry surrounded by red berries in otherwise bare branches

November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

Exact opposite of yesterday’s #DailyBalcony

Clear skies and sunshine looking east over the creek and buildings

Full creek looking Mediterranean looking west with boats and buildings

November 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM

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House of Border Terriers

@morrisbt.bsky.social

We’ve decorated for Christmas!🎄 New to our tree is beautiful felt-Brontë, who joins our treasured felt-Buster.
Don’t they look great together?😍

They were stitched with love by @misheleneous.bsky.social

Do check out her Etsy shop - it feels amazing to support small business at this time of year!🥰

A close up of some Christmas tree decorations lit by white lights. Among trains, snowmen and golden moons and a cobweb are two felt border terriers hand sewn with love by @misheleneous

November 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

Greyer than yesterday #DailyBalcony

November 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

@gtconway.bsky.social

This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.

It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

www.washingtonpost.com

November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

Impressive sunrise developing but I’ve got to walk the dog! #DailyBalcony

Rosy fingered dawn across the creek and buildings

Rosy fingered dawn getting redder across the creek and buildings

Same as normal looking west down the creek!

November 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM

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Rutger Bregman

@rutgerbregman.com

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November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

Dark! #DailyBalcony

Lights in front of the buildings across the creek shine brightly beneath an overcast sky

Bright lights line the almost empty creek, with boats sat in the mud, looking west towards the Brewery Bridge

November 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM

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LBC

@lbc.co.uk

‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’

@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.

November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

The merest hints that the sun might emerge #DailyBalcony

Lowlight behind a band of cloud across a pretty empty tidal creek and buildings

Clear skies looking west down a pretty empty tidal creek and buildings pre-dawn light

November 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM

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Greg Sargent

@gregsargent.bsky.social

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."

BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner

First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?

newrepublic.com

November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM

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Rutger Bregman

@rutgerbregman.com

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM

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Rutger Bregman

@rutgerbregman.com

This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.

I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2

November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

The Sun having a lie in #DailyBalcony

Signs of light behind the band of low cloud behind the buildings across the creek to the east

Looking brighter than it really is to the west along the creek at low tide

November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

For #TerrierTuesday Tizzy amongst autumn leaves

A small black dog on a lichen covered fallen branch surrounded by orange and yellow leaves looking up at the camera

November 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

Back to early - even the sun isn’t up #DailyBalcony

Glow of the sun behind the clouds looking east over creek and buildings

View west with plants, creek, buildings and boats

November 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

Later than usual - clearing skies and rapidly drying #DailyBalcony

Blue sky and some clouds above the creek - the weather front can be seen heading away to the east!

Blue sky and some clouds above the creek

November 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

Why are people feeling the need to set off fireworks on November 22nd?

November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Mike Leake

@mikejleake.bsky.social

Saturday lie in - so I missed the best of the sunrise 🌅 but my partner was on tea duty and her picture is spectacular #DailyBalcony

Spectacular red and orange sunrise across the creek (my partner’s photo)

Cloudy looking upstream along the creek past the boats and buildings

Looking east over a fairly empty creek and buildings, a pink glow on the low clouds

November 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM

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Brent Toderian

@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.