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mcneany-matthew.bsky.social
Mostly* Tortoise, also Anarchism.
@mcneany-matthew.bsky.social
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He/Him. Tortoise posts, anarcho-socialist tendencies, physical sciences by education, British by nationality.

“I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free."

(*aspirational, tortoise levels may vary over time)
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Look, if you can think of a better way to decontaminate a crew than this I'd like to hear it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Winter. ❄🐢💚
A tortoise, under a log, his head and neck retracted into his shell.
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Grump tortoise. 🐢😠💚
December 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Did a bunch of politics posting so have a wonky headless tortoise as compensation. 🐢💚
A tortoise with his head retracted into his shell, perched against a log.
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
mcneany-matthew.bsky.social
They're like 20-25% lung by volume.
December 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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There was one more - H I S T OR I C - B I G - B U D - That I missed in my first pass of Gigantic Land Tortoises (living and extince) of the Collection of the British Museum. (1877) by Albert Günther (Keeper of the Dept of Zoology)
December 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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I've extracted further images of The - B I G - B U D S - from the digital manuscript.

www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4701318...
December 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
mcneany-matthew.bsky.social
He regrets nothing!!! 🐢😊😅
December 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
mcneany-matthew.bsky.social
Tortoise is - C L O S E -
🐢💚
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Leg. 🐢👀
The rear leg of a tortoise sticking out from under a log.
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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I think he might be asleep 🐢🤔😴
A tortoise propped up against the wall of his tank at an odd angle.
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
mcneany-matthew.bsky.social
He doesn't even know he's this adorable. 🐢💚
A tortoise asleep under a log. A tortoise awake moving out from under a log.
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Census is complete, all tortoise content accounted for 32% of output this month. (I'm a lying bastard and will attempt to do better)
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Perfectly executed manoeuvre. 🙌🐢

(Featuring rare human voice)
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Tort 🐢💚
A tortoise, his front limbs in two food dishes.
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
mcneany-matthew.bsky.social
It boggles my mind how blase people in the UK are about child poverty. The predictions on ending the 2 child cap on benefits range between 31 and 34%. (Graphic vis the Resolution Foundation)
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Power pose. 🐢💚
A tortoise with his back legs firmly planted in one food dish whilst he eats out of a second food dish.
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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From the Guardian reporting on the Reform and Reform adjacent figures threatening legal action when they are reported on:
"A second letter from Richardson that day said his client would now seek “aggravated damages” if Sumner’s name was not removed, Mansfield said. Legal precedents cited by Richardson included that of the supermodel Naomi Campbell’s successful privacy claim in 2004 against the Daily Mirror when she was photographed as she came out of a Narcotics Anonymous clinic. Mansfield responded again with a refusal. More emails came, said Mansfield, who accused Richardson of seeking to “bully into silence a small Welsh news outlet”. Richardson denied that in his subsequent letter, Mansfield said. Mansfield asked Richardson whether he also acted for Reform UK. That was irrelevant, Richardson responded, who suggested Mansfield get independent legal advice. On 19 November, Mansfield’s news service published a new story, headlined: “Reform UK barrister tries to bully NationCymru into removing top party official’s name from story”. Mansfield said the line of communication had gone quiet since."
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Tortoise shenanigans. 🙌🐢💚
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
mcneany-matthew.bsky.social
I think he genuinely likes getting his photo taken. Like he doesn't know what it is, but he likes it when I stroke his shell and he likes getting fed and these things are clustered events now.
A tortoise half under a log.
November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Look how talented and adorable he is. 🐢😍
November 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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An extremely 'eepy boy. 🐢😴🙂
A sleeping tortoise.
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I don't believe in signs from God but like....
Headline reads: Conference Centre evacuated as fire breaks out at climate summit.
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"The Proletarian Counter Attack Will Kill the Fascist Beast"
Russian World war II era antifacist propaganda poster. A worker silhouetted in Red wields an axe or hammer against a black hand bearing the N*zi partly logo the hand belongs to a caricature of a man wearing a top hat. Russian text purportedly reads: The Proletarian Counter Attack Will Kill the Fascist Beast (Although I don't read Russian to verify this)
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Yeah, like yea/yay much:
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM