BatRachy
@rjleighphotography.bsky.social
Rach. She/her.
Doing right by nature. Probably can't hear you.
Equine rescue & rehab, photography, 6Music, cats, mental illness, lifting heavy things.
Queer, AuDHD, Cumbrian // Chaotic, passionate, opinionated.
Doing right by nature. Probably can't hear you.
Equine rescue & rehab, photography, 6Music, cats, mental illness, lifting heavy things.
Queer, AuDHD, Cumbrian // Chaotic, passionate, opinionated.
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Theo is here to tell you that I have seven (7!) photos included in the Hope Pastures 2026 calendar 💜
All money goes directly to the care & rehab of the horses & donkeys.
Available here: www.hopepastures.org/product/2026...
#Leeds #Charity #AnimalRescue
All money goes directly to the care & rehab of the horses & donkeys.
Available here: www.hopepastures.org/product/2026...
#Leeds #Charity #AnimalRescue
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🚨🚨🚨 HANDSOME DONKEY CALLED THEO WANTS YOU TO BUY A CALENDAR KLAXON 🚨🚨🚨
Theo is here to tell you that I have seven (7!) photos included in the Hope Pastures 2026 calendar 💜
All money goes directly to the care & rehab of the horses & donkeys.
Available here: www.hopepastures.org/product/2026...
#Leeds #Charity #AnimalRescue
All money goes directly to the care & rehab of the horses & donkeys.
Available here: www.hopepastures.org/product/2026...
#Leeds #Charity #AnimalRescue
December 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🚨🚨🚨 HANDSOME DONKEY CALLED THEO WANTS YOU TO BUY A CALENDAR KLAXON 🚨🚨🚨
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The day after the storm the community came out to start the cleanup
#stormdesmond #braithwaite #keswick #cumbria #LakeDistrict
#stormdesmond #braithwaite #keswick #cumbria #LakeDistrict
December 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The day after the storm the community came out to start the cleanup
#stormdesmond #braithwaite #keswick #cumbria #LakeDistrict
#stormdesmond #braithwaite #keswick #cumbria #LakeDistrict
Theo is here to tell you that I have seven (7!) photos included in the Hope Pastures 2026 calendar 💜
All money goes directly to the care & rehab of the horses & donkeys.
Available here: www.hopepastures.org/product/2026...
#Leeds #Charity #AnimalRescue
All money goes directly to the care & rehab of the horses & donkeys.
Available here: www.hopepastures.org/product/2026...
#Leeds #Charity #AnimalRescue
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Theo is here to tell you that I have seven (7!) photos included in the Hope Pastures 2026 calendar 💜
All money goes directly to the care & rehab of the horses & donkeys.
Available here: www.hopepastures.org/product/2026...
#Leeds #Charity #AnimalRescue
All money goes directly to the care & rehab of the horses & donkeys.
Available here: www.hopepastures.org/product/2026...
#Leeds #Charity #AnimalRescue
Swannin' around 🦢
December 4, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Swannin' around 🦢
Here heron here.
(I will forever use this as a caption for heron pictures because withnail is ingrained in my brain).
(I will forever use this as a caption for heron pictures because withnail is ingrained in my brain).
December 4, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Here heron here.
(I will forever use this as a caption for heron pictures because withnail is ingrained in my brain).
(I will forever use this as a caption for heron pictures because withnail is ingrained in my brain).
Zero interactions on this, and I'm fucked if I'm tying myself to hashtags in every bloody post like meta, so hopefully this ranty repost will help people see this sweet lil nuthatch.
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Zero interactions on this, and I'm fucked if I'm tying myself to hashtags in every bloody post like meta, so hopefully this ranty repost will help people see this sweet lil nuthatch.
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The more I think about this, the more I don't understand why it's important to discourage people from "taking advantage of accommodations" when they're non-disabled, except insofar as there's some underlying commitment that accommodations are scarce, special stuff, uptake of which depletes the pot
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The more I think about this, the more I don't understand why it's important to discourage people from "taking advantage of accommodations" when they're non-disabled, except insofar as there's some underlying commitment that accommodations are scarce, special stuff, uptake of which depletes the pot
Just... hanging around
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Just... hanging around
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If you are sick and tired of Governments failing to implement a peat compost ban again and again - to save all of the habitat it destroys each year and bring security to jobs and businesses in horticulture - please sign this petition actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... I’ve signed
Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you are sick and tired of Governments failing to implement a peat compost ban again and again - to save all of the habitat it destroys each year and bring security to jobs and businesses in horticulture - please sign this petition actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... I’ve signed
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ONE LEFT!
Signed copies of "The Penelopiad" by
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
This is a gorgeous 20th Anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Margaret.
You can order a SIGNED copy HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Signed copies of "The Penelopiad" by
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
This is a gorgeous 20th Anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Margaret.
You can order a SIGNED copy HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
ONE LEFT!
Signed copies of "The Penelopiad" by
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
This is a gorgeous 20th Anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Margaret.
You can order a SIGNED copy HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Signed copies of "The Penelopiad" by
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
This is a gorgeous 20th Anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Margaret.
You can order a SIGNED copy HERE!
biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
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This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
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Hey Scotland! 🏴 Wanna save our swifts? Ask your MSP to support @markruskell swift brick amendment to The Natural Environment Bill. Show England how it’s done!!!
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Hey Scotland! 🏴 Wanna save our swifts? Ask your MSP to support @markruskell swift brick amendment to The Natural Environment Bill. Show England how it’s done!!!
Still thinking about how this was included in the Leeds Music display at the museum, but key actual Leeds bands were not?!
(For context I love Five very much, but this really bears no relevance to the music scene here)
(For context I love Five very much, but this really bears no relevance to the music scene here)
![Part of a musuem display wall; a post-it note style white square, with black text reading "1997: 5ive [Five] form, featuring Sean Conlon from Leeds"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wspnvec3xsdw6o3hyv2ftua3/bafkreicuj5mu7yca5e33brxgyopf354o7bewua4tvnupucdwqefvgj456m@jpeg)
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Still thinking about how this was included in the Leeds Music display at the museum, but key actual Leeds bands were not?!
(For context I love Five very much, but this really bears no relevance to the music scene here)
(For context I love Five very much, but this really bears no relevance to the music scene here)
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'Ten messages for a man who thinks children should stay off the roads and stick to the park'.
[From my Diagram Club newsletter. Subscribe for more like this: diagramclub.substack.com ]
[From my Diagram Club newsletter. Subscribe for more like this: diagramclub.substack.com ]
June 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
'Ten messages for a man who thinks children should stay off the roads and stick to the park'.
[From my Diagram Club newsletter. Subscribe for more like this: diagramclub.substack.com ]
[From my Diagram Club newsletter. Subscribe for more like this: diagramclub.substack.com ]
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Saw some good news in the @durhambirdclub.bsky.social Rare&Scarce WhatsApp group: the records in 2024 of Baikal Teal, Dark-eyed Junco and Indigo Bunting have all been accepted by BBRC 😃. Congrats & thanks to the finders! #NEbirding #RareBirdsUK 🪶
June 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Saw some good news in the @durhambirdclub.bsky.social Rare&Scarce WhatsApp group: the records in 2024 of Baikal Teal, Dark-eyed Junco and Indigo Bunting have all been accepted by BBRC 😃. Congrats & thanks to the finders! #NEbirding #RareBirdsUK 🪶
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I don’t expect anyone to take out a paid subscription to my Substack (such a thing is a rare and special event, although one that helps keep a writer going during a tough time) but I welcome all subscribers, write a lot on there, and endeavour to keep most of it free: tomcox.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I don’t expect anyone to take out a paid subscription to my Substack (such a thing is a rare and special event, although one that helps keep a writer going during a tough time) but I welcome all subscribers, write a lot on there, and endeavour to keep most of it free: tomcox.substack.com
Even better when towing a horse trailer and you're trying to find a specific field in the middle of nowhere 😵💫
I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time
June 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Even better when towing a horse trailer and you're trying to find a specific field in the middle of nowhere 😵💫
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I see the government has - against scientific advice - given the go-ahead for 9 badger culls to start this weekend.
Fuck them all to oblivion. They hate wildlife as well as us.
Fuck them all to oblivion. They hate wildlife as well as us.
June 4, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I see the government has - against scientific advice - given the go-ahead for 9 badger culls to start this weekend.
Fuck them all to oblivion. They hate wildlife as well as us.
Fuck them all to oblivion. They hate wildlife as well as us.
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This is what is so, so baffling. It's not like it was a normal publisher which has to raise the finances from within to produce and market a book. WE DID IT ALL FOR THEM. Us, and our readers. Yet they STILL didn't pay us.
Time to clarify something. When authors say “Unbound haven’t paid me” that makes it sound like Unbound had some money, which they used to buy authors’ writing.
Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust.
Unbound stole our money.
Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust.
Unbound stole our money.
June 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This is what is so, so baffling. It's not like it was a normal publisher which has to raise the finances from within to produce and market a book. WE DID IT ALL FOR THEM. Us, and our readers. Yet they STILL didn't pay us.
If you're not putting alt text and/or sub titles on your pics and videos for pride, you are not as inclusive as you think you are. FFS.
June 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If you're not putting alt text and/or sub titles on your pics and videos for pride, you are not as inclusive as you think you are. FFS.
Day 1 of #30DaysWild:
Growing an area of rapeseed in my tiny, urban garden specifically to be eaten by caterpillars. They're making their way through it nicely 🐛
#TeamWilder @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Growing an area of rapeseed in my tiny, urban garden specifically to be eaten by caterpillars. They're making their way through it nicely 🐛
#TeamWilder @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Day 1 of #30DaysWild:
Growing an area of rapeseed in my tiny, urban garden specifically to be eaten by caterpillars. They're making their way through it nicely 🐛
#TeamWilder @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Growing an area of rapeseed in my tiny, urban garden specifically to be eaten by caterpillars. They're making their way through it nicely 🐛
#TeamWilder @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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Obsessed with this. It's two stallions, something you'd NEVER normally keep next to each other but these two seem to be pals, one Friesian (on the left, often used as film horses) and one Hackney (they pull small carriages) being extremely a lot like all stallions. Amazing comic timing imo.
May 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Obsessed with this. It's two stallions, something you'd NEVER normally keep next to each other but these two seem to be pals, one Friesian (on the left, often used as film horses) and one Hackney (they pull small carriages) being extremely a lot like all stallions. Amazing comic timing imo.
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Thanks to all those who promoted this petition and to the 100,000+ who signed it, keeping this issue in the public & political eye.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #ClimateCrisis
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/05/24/d...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #ClimateCrisis
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/05/24/d...
Debate on banning driven grouse shooting: 30 June 2025, Westminster
Wild Justice’s most recent petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting recently passed the 100,000 signatures required to trigger a parliamentary debate in Westminster. The date of t…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
May 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Thanks to all those who promoted this petition and to the 100,000+ who signed it, keeping this issue in the public & political eye.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #ClimateCrisis
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/05/24/d...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #ClimateCrisis
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/05/24/d...