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Chris Townsend
@christownsend.bsky.social
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Outdoor writer & photographer, passionate about wild places, long distance walking, & rewilding. https://www.christownsendoutdoors.com
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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · Oct 18
Blog post about the new edition of my book High Summer #hiking www.christownsendoutdoors.com/2024/10/high...
High Summer new edition - available November 1st!
I'm very pleased to announce that High Summer , the story of my walk the length of the Canadian Rockies in 1988, will be published in a new ...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 6h
Regulators are utterly failing to take seriously the effects of this #PoisonedPlanet on #PublicHealth, animal and environmental health

#NovelEntities #PlanetaryBoundaries
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Industry scientists reveal reluctance to test chemicals for behavioral effects, despite growing evidence
An international study led by the University of Portsmouth has revealed reluctance from industry scientists to test chemicals for their effects on human and wildlife behavior, despite growing evidence...
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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 8h
'Eyes on the Skies' - new campaign to raise awareness of raptor persecution in the Yorkshire Dales National Park raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/08/e...
‘Eyes on the Skies’ – new campaign to raise awareness of raptor persecution in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
Following the recent collapse of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Bird of Prey Partnership (due to its failure to tackle crimes against birds of prey), and the news that since 2015, 29 Hen Harrier…
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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 8h
I'm amazed that review is still around! I just about remember the tent. Glad it proved good.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h
Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 15h
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
#WarRavagedPortland
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 13h
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17h
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 1d
Lovely isn't it? Called orange peel fungus!
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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 1d
After the rain the woods are full of fungi. #fungi
A mass of pale fungi with orange spots in the centre on a woodland floor. A bright orange fungus in a mass of small green leaves.
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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 1d
Sparrowhawk killed with banned poison in Aberdeenshire - Police Scotland appeals for information raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/07/s...
Sparrowhawk killed with banned poison in Aberdeenshire – Police Scotland appeals for information
Press release from Police Scotland: APPEAL FOR INFORMATION FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF A BIRD OF PREY IN ABERDEENSHIRE Detectives are appealing for information after a bird of prey was poisoned in Aberd…
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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 1d
Aftermath of Storm Amy. Cherry trees that have lost most of their leaves but only on the top half. #weather
Three cherry trees with bright red leaves on their lower sections but few leaves on their top halves.
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Kat @phoebe11.bsky.social · 2d
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d
This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 1d
#FastFashion and #microplastics. They go together like indoor #AirPollution and lung disease.

A few profit and the rest of us pay, particularly the most vulnerable
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick
Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d
Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.
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ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 2d
“… a sort of mad McCarthyite scream of paranoia and anxiety of the sort which he has now branded himself… he is living entirely inside of his little mind…”

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social nails Robert Jenrick’s plans for “activist” judges during Sky News’ Press Preview.
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Chris Townsend @christownsend.bsky.social · 2d
Fire, light, book - power cut essentials. Just had the weirdest outage ever. Some power failed completely, some partially, some not at all. Some lights worked, some flickered, some dimmed, some were out. Lasted two days then all the power failed. Back on this evening. #powercut #stormamy
A book and a lamp on a table in a dark room with a chair and in the background a lit wood-burning stove.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d
No indication yet from major media that the FBI has any interest whatsoever in investigating this apparent attempted assassination of a well-known judge openly targeted on social media by the far-right activist—Harmeet Dhillon—currently calling herself Assistant Attorney General of the United States
Beachfront home of South Carolina judge, ex-senator burned to ground, injuring 3
Ex-senator Arnold Goodstein, along with two additional people, were rescued by several neighbors and paramedics from a marshy, remote area behind the home after jumping from the fist floor.
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Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 3d
I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 2d
BOOM 🔥:

Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d
Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country"

"The messaging is getting dangerous"

"All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them"

"And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony"

"And become a team again"
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Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social · 2d
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Frame of a cartoon showing lots of small boats, each with a Palestinian flag flying. It has these words: Let us launch a thousand flotillas - ten thousand general strikes - a hundred thousand demonstrations - whatever we can to stop the genocide of the Palestinian people. The next flotilla is already on its way.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d
It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d
The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
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