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Nick Moyes (Peat free)

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Naturalist, mountaineer, museum curator, Flora writer, photographer, Derby Peregrine Project, Wikipedia admin & novice allotmenteer. Retired. Two thirds of what I say is correct; half is not. #Derby, UK Likes/Follows from ⛔️OnlyFans ⛔️spam accounts⛔️ = block

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · Jan 24

So I asked Elon Musk's Grok #AI tool why so many people were abandoning #Musk's own platform (X, formerly #Twitter)

Here's what it told me . . .

#SurprisinglyHonest
#X #ElonMusk #Grok

Screenshot of a lengthy response from Elon Musks Grok AI tool on X, when I asked it why so many people are abandoning his platform. Image one of two.

Screenshot of a lengthy response from Elon Musks Grok AI tool on X, when I asked it why so many people are abandoning his platform. Image two of two.

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 16m

I reckon a cable car to the top plus some flushing toilets in the Solvay Hut for starters!

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 17h

Love wins.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22h

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 4h

Glorious! The traverse of the two via the Alphubel is probably my most memorable mountaineering route.

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 14h

Lovely. I know that view well from when my daughter worked at FSC Blencathra.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 19h

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 1d

In 2024 across the whole of the UK just one pedestrian was killed by a cyclist.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

One day - *one day* - a UK newspaper will do a similar count of motor vehicles speeding inside a 20mph zone.

In 60 minutes I saw 172 cyclists run these lights – it’s a matter of time before they kill someone

The offenders included Lime bike riders, school children and a woman in high-heeled boots

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

ANTIFA:

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 19h

I’m too inexperienced to be able to offer sound advice. We grew one (gifted) chilli pepper plant and its fruit seems hotter now than earlier. I’d certainly suggest trying one now then waiting a bit if they taste a bit lame.

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, we grew some red and green peppers for the first time this year. Didn’t expect much, but some have been real bruisers, and put the supermarket ones to shame.

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 1d

Another one* bites the dust.

*EXPLANATORY NOTE:
useless lying, deceitful, racist, self-serving, pro-Russian idiot.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Reform UK’s Councillor Rowland O’Connor, St. Columb Major, has resigned from the party.

A conspiracy theorist who claimed 17m people have died from the COVID vaccine, among many other claims.

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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 1d

A man who has declared war on American cities is not deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Fiona Bruce, "I'm going to move on. I know you want to come in Zack, you'll definitely get your chance"

After letting Zia Yusuf spew drivel for 1 minute and 55 seconds, Fiona Bruce cuts off Zack Polanski and doesn't let him correct Yusuf

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 1d

I won’t visit America at all because of its gun laws and because of some of the awful people who think it’s ok to carry them.

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Reform UK in the dock ⚖

9th October Andy Osborn.
14th October Neil Stevens, Tony Stevens, and Rob Sheridan.
15th October Sarah White.
21st November Nathan Gill.
16th December Mandy Clare.
22nd May 2026 Daniel Taylor.

Under investigation:
Joseph Boam.
Lee Duffy.
George Cottrell.

#ReformInTheDock

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 1d

Good point.
Problem is though, opening windows these days in Russia lets in the smell of all those burning oil refineries and electronics factories.

Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 1d

It’ll be interesting to return to these people in 20 years time to see how many have subsequently been arrested for sexual offences, fraud or taking bribes from Russia!

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 2d

The photography in this article really feels like The Times are deliberately setting these people up for ridicule. (You can read it without visiting The Times here archive.ph/KZZC1)

An article from The Times: "Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future". Featuring bizarre portraits of Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin and Daniel Campbell.

Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 1d

Poo, sex and privatisation all in one image.
What’s not to love?

Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 1d

And what a lovely bricked-up fireplace!

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 2d

Or for a sci-fi standoff:
‘net space gnus’