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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 2d

If you think that's rude, you should hear what pigeons are saying to themselves as they take to the air and realise they shouldn't have raided that last bin...

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

Every pheasant runs like it's frantically saying "shit shit shit" to itself.

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Irene Tsherit @irenetsherit.bsky.social · 2d

Finally!!! The real scandal of the asylum hotels. Why, instead of shining the light on these parasites, months were spent on demonising vulnerable people at their mercy?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper

Asylum seekers and charities tell BBC of

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 2d

The credit is obvious, the apology is for using it out of context. I suspect you didn't watch the film carefully, or know Dartmoor, as the themes of death and desolation, with a yearning for new life, intertwined with history and myth, sum the place up quite well in this reader's mind... (*Shrugs*)

Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 3d

Chaos, but we're working on it. The October mist on the hill over the garden wall keeps me going!

View over the mossy dry stone wall at the end of the garden. Looking through the cherry tree branches across the valley to grass, trees, mist. Cloud breaks above to a hint of blue.

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 3d

"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images,..."
(The work @dartmoorcollective.org do with amateur, emerging and professional artists is fabulous, take a look.) (Apologies to Eliot.)

Jon Vernon @onlyindevon.co.uk · 3d

Brief clip of a (very) short film I've done based on the @dartmoorcollective.org Flow brief and which I'll be showing at next week's zine launch.

Bit of an experiment this - mixing up video footage taken on the moor over a 2 year period with a layered synth sequence and ambient drone.

#Dartmoor

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 4d

Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 7d

(1) I've written a short paper, 'The Evolving Doughnut', which concisely sets out the ideas that inspired the framework I created in 2012, & describes how & why it has changed over its three iterations. Plus download the latest Doughnut diagrams (CC-BY) 5/

doughnuteconomics.org/tools/the-ev...

The Evolving Doughnut | DEAL

A report by Kate Raworth on the Doughnut's evolution since 2012, with the latest Doughnut diagrams available to download

doughnuteconomics.org

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d

This very good Sun editorial of 2014 - saying it is not racist to be worried about the high levels of immigration, but it is racist to be prejudiced against all Romanians, because they are Romanian, was about Nigel Farage making an overtly prejudiced argument ("you know the difference")

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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 8d

Today is the International Day of Older Persons, and very recently I had the honour of photographing Dame Sian Phillips for my work with @agecymru.bsky.social
An absolute highlight for me; she is just the best company, even getting in lemon drizzle cake for me!

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 8d

Watch out once it does get going...!

The fermentation lock on a demijohn of cider which is full of krausen after a slightly exuberant beginning.

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 9d

@oaknational.bsky.social erm...! And this is just one of the slightly odd incorrect answers on this subject.

A question from the Oak National Academy's year 9 Computing syllabus: 'Where is data most commonly stored and accessed, making it accessible from anywhere in the world?' in the answer box 'servers' has been written, but it has been marked 'Incorrect' with correct answers suggested as: 'online, the cloud, cloud'.

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Finn Hopson @finnhop.bsky.social · 10d

A new 'Woodwork' print for the gallery this weekend.

Hard to show all the detail of a big picture on a small screen, but perhaps this gives some sense of it.

www.brightonphotography.com/woodwork

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 13d

Tough one, and all are excellent for their own reasons, but my ludicrous Nikkormat collection probably speaks volumes. The lenses available for all are outstanding, but the Nik is just so useable, especially the speed dial around the lens, controversially!

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 13d

I now need to try the Iron Brew, and have somewhere else to visit on my next trip to the Auld Reekie.

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 14d

So often we ask for, or pick up, our 'usual' beer, when we should remember how much variety there is out there. Try something different (maybe local, 0%, seasonal or just plain strange), next time you fancy a beer.

Katie Mather @katiematherkm.bsky.social · 14d

Really chuffed with this piece on Nelson Sauvin hops I wrote for the @sirencraftbrew.bsky.social Time Hops project in collab with @pelliclemag.com

Nerdy, fun, and gorgeous illus.

www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

Siren Time Hops 2025 — Part Three: Nirvanic Nelson Sauvin — Pellicle

New Zealand hops are special. Fragrant and zesty, their unique profiles strangely represent likenesses to the famous Sauvignon Blanc wines made there—grapefruit, kiwi, gooseberry; freshly cut grass. I...

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 15d

This actually is quite important. act.autism.org.uk/page/178427/...

Truth. It matters. Autistic people deserve better

I've signed the National Autistic Society's open letter because I won’t let baseless claims distract me from the real issues autistic people are facing. Will you join the #TruthItMatters campaign and ...

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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 19d

Some hopeful weekend reading.

“This is nature’s emergency recovery mechanism. We’ve buggered almost everything up but this will still bring them back.”

‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond

An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 20d

Today's drive out, and the view from the top.

View down over Bowland moorland (mainly bracken) to a gap in the fells where there's just a hint of sun in the landscape, below a leaden sky.

4x4 track with a virtiginous drop into the valley below. Mist obscures the distance, except for a lone tree.

The track leads up the valley into, yes, you guessed it, mist.

Mist. Dark at the bottom, lighter at the top.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 21d

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

on.ft.com

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 21d

It's that time of year again. #my400

Three laden, vertical, branches of bright red, wet, Hawthorn berries. Path through the copse behind is out of focus.

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 22d

I've not used one, but as far as 6x9s go, it really doesn't seem big. I'll lend them my Arax 60 if they really want to see what big and bulky is like, and I suspect that lens may be a touch better too.

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 22d

Someone hasn't tried using an RB67 handheld, it seems.

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 23d

That Meyer 200 is a fabulous lens.

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Tim Manwaring @timmanwaring.bsky.social · 25d

If any of my Cumbria based followers fancy a trip to Barrow (or are dragged there for some other reason, kicking and screaming!), this will be a fantastic exhibition.

Stig @stigofthedump.bsky.social · 25d

BTW I expect you already know about this, if wasn't a 5 hr round trip I'd be going, Ken Grant is talking (who I went to see last night) at the opening night. signalfilmandmedia.com/chris-killip...

Chris Killip: Askam-in-Furness - Signal Film & Media

Chris Killip: Askam-in-Furness Supported by Martin Parr Foundation and the Chris Killip Photography Trust 2025 Chris Killip’s poignant photographic series Askam-in-Furness, shown in its entirety for t...

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