timthefruit.bsky.social
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Brilliant - thanks!
Feeling unusually organized today, NOT, but I do have all my ducks in a row!
Surf Scoter, Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, #Canada
#birds #nature #wildlife #birdphotography
January 15, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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‘The cowman’
What to Look for in Winter, 1959
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
January 15, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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Celebrate Ivor Cutler’s birthday by watching one of the most divine pieces of television ever made.
Dave Allen *and* Ivor Cutler, how could you possibly resist?
youtu.be/6RX1fMWkims?...
January 15, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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Agree totally
The Government staying on X is pathetic: Ministers need to show some moral backbone inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...
January 14, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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Holy crap there's a new poll for Wales and it is crazy.

It puts Plaid well ahead of Reform with the Greens beating Labour.

The results of this YouGov/ITV Cymru Wales/Cardiff Uni were:

Plaid 37% (+7)
Reform 23 (-6)
Green 13 (+7)
Labour 10 (-4)
Conservatives 10 (-1)
Lib Dem 5 (-1)
Other 2 (-2)

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January 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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A loaf of #Roman bread, which was being baked in an oven in #Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79; it was carbonised by the disaster & left in the oven until being excavated nearly 1800 years later 🏺 #AncientBlueSky
January 11, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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Oh yes.
Barn Owl from What to Look for in Autumn (Ladybird Books). Illustration C. R. Tunnicliffe. Text by E L Grant Watson
January 9, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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Yorkshire gamekeeper pleads guilty to bashing Buzzard to death with stick - fine £1,215. markavery.info/2026/01/12/r...

Very clear images of illegal cruelty. Not picked up in Defra welfare strategy released before Christmas.

#Hovingham #yorkshire #IdontlikeMunday

#rspb 👏👏👏
RSPB press release – Yorkshire Buzzard basher pleads guilty – Mark Avery
markavery.info
January 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Happy Old New Year!

After the 1750 Calendar Act changed the date of New Year’s Day, some Gaels – to make sure they didn’t miss it – chose to celebrate both. Dr Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart discusses the once ubiquitous Highland tradition of Oidhche Challain:
www.whfp.com/2020/01/08/o...
Oidhche Challain: No admission without a rhyme
Boisdale boys after visiting houses for Oidhche na Callainn, circa 1950. Credit DJ MacIntyre In the latest feature published in association with the Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches project, Dr Dòmhna...
www.whfp.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Why plz, Guardian, is this story found under ‘wildlife’ on my Guardian app. There is nothing wrong with the story but it isn’t wildlife is it? It’s no wonder that a @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government is rubbish at wildlife if the Guardian is too. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The pet I’ll never forget: Dory the 10kg rabbit, who saved me from a diabetic coma
My Flemish giant bunny loved chomping on carrots, computer cables and my skirting board – and being walked on a leash. When I suffered a medical emergency, she jumped into action
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
I just supported this case!
January 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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Thank you to Sunna Van Kampen in @thetimes.com for highlighting this. We should all be questioning a food system that uses more, better, protein than it produces, impoverishing coastal communities that rely on the fish pelletised to feed sad factory farmed #salmon in the global north.
January 11, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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I dunno - call me a madcap - but it feels as though now would be a good time to belong to some kind of union of European nations …
January 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes
theonion.com/mark-zu...
January 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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The US is set to introduce some of its harshest sanctions yet on Russia's oil sector, targeting 180 vessels, two oil majors (Gazprom Neft & Surgutneftegaz), and Russian ship insurers. These measures aim to disrupt oil exports to key buyers India & China.

www.reuters.com/business/ene...
New US sanctions on Russian tankers to hit oil supplies to India, refining sources say
Indian firms see a major disruption of Russian oil supplies as Washington imposes new sanctions to curb Moscow's revenues, pushing refiners to scout for crude from the Middle East and the U.S., three Indian refining sources said on Friday.
www.reuters.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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''Commercial net-pen aquaculture is history in Washington.''

Amazing news from the states, meanwhile in Scotland our @thesnp.bsky.social politicians are stalwart in their support of the polluting, unethical, welfare disaster that is #salmon farming.

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
WA bans commercial net-pen fish farming
More than 80% of public comments received by the Department of Natural Resources before Tuesday's hearing supported the ban, according to the agency.
www.seattletimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Please remove farmed salmon from primary school menus @highland.gov.uk I do not want my own, or any other child to normalise eating this product.
thefishingdaily.com/latest-news/...
Consumer Warning Issued Over ‘Organic’ Salmon Exposed to Banned Chemicals - The Fishing Daily - Irish, UK and European Fishing Industry News
Consumer warning - Green Britain Foundation investigation reveals organic Salmon for sale in UK supermarkets exposed to harmful chemicals
thefishingdaily.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Farm House and Field, Eric Ravilious, 1941. It depicts Ironbridge Farm, at Shalford in #Essex. The original artwork is in a private collection.
November 26, 2024 at 11:24 AM