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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 17h

Over 200 charities, businesses & organisations have signed our open letter to Keir Starmer asking him not to weaken the laws protecting National Parks and Landscapes.

We're so thankful to everyone who added their name 💪

This letter represents millions of people and shows that #NationalParksMatter

Over 200 charities, businesses and organisations have signed our open letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer asking him not to weaken the laws protecting National Parks and National Landscapes.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 16h

Seemingly so.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 16h

Ben, I've voted Green in every local and national election for a decade and last year I paid a membership. I want Green policies with the climate and ecological emergency at the centre of everything. Any loony left alliances / dalliances will end my support in an instant. I'm certainly not alone.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 20h

Ironic that "The history guy" gets it and expresses it so strongly today. Those pesky humanities people showing an annoying breadth of perspective again. Why doesn't he put on a lab coat and pipe down?

Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 20h

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 20h

Yes what we need is more "humanities inclined" students getting a D in Maths A level, as you did, Kemi. I'm wondering if she will tar Law and PPE degrees with the same brush? Or is she just trolling Jenrick's History BA?

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 22h

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 22h

We must be patriotically proud to be British but not to learn about or contribute to any of the culture that pride might be based on

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 22h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 21h

Those two great and experienced statesmen, schooled and versed in conflict diplomacy. WTF has become of the USA? And how can anyone take their mediation seriously?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21h

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner set to join Israel-Hamas talks in Egypt on.ft.com/3KGwv6j

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner set to join Israel-Hamas talks in Egypt

Senior officials from Qatar and Turkey also expected to attend in push for breakthrough over Donald Trump’s peace plan

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1d

Huge respect to Lord Heseltine, stoically turning up, at 92, in that racist sandpit of halfwitted baby freaks, to teach them some history, remind them what an electable Tory party looked like and tolerate inanities that must be insufferable for a political titan of his standing.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight, the Harvest Moon rises: the full moon closest to the autumn equinox. 🌕

October’s full moon is also named the Hunter’s Moon, once marking a time to gather food for winter.

It will be the first of three supermoons this year, glowing bigger & brighter.

Moonrise: 19:44*

A close-up of a glowing full Moon, filling the frame against the black night sky. Its surface is marked with craters and rugged textures. This is a supermoon, appearing larger and brighter than usual.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 1d

It really is time for Robert Jenrick to get in the bin and stay there. Or maybe a desert island with a Golliwog as his luxury item.

Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 1d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 2d

💥🔎🇷🇺 Our analysis reveals the scale of Russia’s massive propaganda offensive in Moldova: in 3 weeks, 9,900 TikTok videos were published and generated over 93 million views, created with artificial intelligence. Yet despite Moscow’s efforts, the pro-European PAS secured 50.2% in the Sept 28 election.

24/7 Russian Propaganda Blitz Hit Moldova Before the Elections - VSquare.org

Moldovans had faced months, if not years, of an information onslaught at levels beyond what just about any society has faced. In the end, the pro-European ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) w...

vsquare.org

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 2d

Over a decade of voting Green. I don't see it as wasted, just allowing my fellow humans time to catch up to reality. Binary politics à la MSM and BBC coverage just chains us to short termism. It hasn't been the time for that for decades, less so now.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 2d

My legs tell me this 🤣

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

Obituary: Jane Goodall (1934-2025) Pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists

go.nature.com/48aWjRU

Jane Goodall obituary: pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists

She was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats.

go.nature.com

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 2d

My first 1/2 was in 1985, and that's the most cynical decision I've ever experienced from an organiser, especially in the week of that Cheltenham festival. It even beats the NYRR decision on their marathon 2012 which I was entered in. I cannot imagine how residents of the town must have felt.

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Charles Mossman @charlesmossman.bsky.social · 2d

Well worth a listen to this short clip.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 2d

What's this? A conservative who understands civil liberties and human rights law? I live in (misplaced) hope that one day sensible voters on the right will wake up. You can't out Farage Reform, especially if you are a Tory.

Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 2d

Interesting: Leaving the #ECHR would be a grave mistake, writes former UK Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland KC👇

🔗 conservativehome.com/2025/10/05/r... via @conservativehome.bsky.social

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 2d

The Bath Half is right up there at the top of my blacklist. I was due to run in 2020 and despite the cancellation of most sport that weekend, they went ahead. No refund or deferral offered to the 50% of socially responsible runners who decided not to go. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Coronavirus: Bath half marathon goes ahead despite backlash

Thousands condemned the decision to hold the race in Bath when other sporting events were cancelled.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Looks a great option! 🙂

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Downton Abbey: not a single minute have I watched.

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Fiona @fionadean.bsky.social · 5d

Just in case anyone reads this who didn’t already know, Forest of Dean parkrun is cancelled tomorrow. I really don’t want a tree falling on anyone’s head 😬 #eventdirectorlife

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 6d

From her lifetime of pioneering work with chimpanzees to her
tireless advocacy for the environment...

Jane Goodall was a one-of-a-kind treasure to the world!

I was lucky enough to be able to thank her personally when our paths crossed not long ago.

Thanks again, Ms. Goodall. You will be missed. ♥️

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Charlie Massey @charliecoffee.bsky.social · 6d

I visited Herculaneum yesterday. (in the middle of the modern town Ercolano, south of Naples) It's an astonishing place, bearing witness to the ability of earth's forces to totally upend human civilisation in an instant.

A panorama over the excavated Roman town of Herculaneum, buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD under 16-20 metres of volcanic mud. The volcano in the background.

Another view down over Herculaneum showing the recently excavated beach area and the "beach huts".

The beach huts - small cave like rooms facing the sea. This viewed from beach level. Visitors crowded around.

Inside one of the huts, where hundreds of human remains were founded and much jewellery and precious objects. It's thought these people were awaiting a rescue by sea that never came, after having grabbed what valuables they could carry. They were engulfed by the boiling 400c mud which remoulded the coastline. The skeletons on the floor are plaster cast models.

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