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verityrhealey.bsky.social
verityrhealey
@verityrhealey.bsky.social
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artist, writer, filmmaker, critic etc. Nature, heritage, environment, politics and theatre. Current: creator/director for outside it is beautiful. www.oiib.org.uk plant not dairy, "nature is everything"
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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · Aug 14
A kingfisher called late at night and I thought it was saying Jesús. Now all I will hear when I hear a Kingfisher, is Jesús.
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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 22h
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you to @scibeliever1998.bsky.social for sharing your fox encounter , today's #FoxOfTheDay
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d
Robert Jenrick owns two £2m homes in London and a £1.1m manor house in Herefordshire. He's shocked by the poor housing conditions in Handsworth, apparently.
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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d
dear theatre, another way
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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 1d
It's hardly the point but ministers should stop speaking as if they are in W1A "or something" because, "you know", "it ain't" a good look - or sound. Unless it is deliberate dumbing down. And oh, please "get real" about protecting the environment "or something". www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 2d
In celebration of #NationalBadgerDay
'Under the Badger Moon' 🤍🌖🖤
2 badgers running towards each other, each badger reflected below, above and below the badgers crescent moons. There are stars above, and below the badgers, overall forming a figure 8. Linocut, dark blue and white, Maria Strutz
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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 1d
My goodness. Paid instead of doing just about everything pro bono and taking financial risks
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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The Autistic Coach | Matthew (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 2d
Autistic humans speak.

We say what we mean.

Clearly.

And still - people don’t hear us.

Not because we’re quiet.

But because they only listen for a tone that sounds like them.

So we get quieter.

Not out of shyness.

Out of exhaustion.

Out of apathy.
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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 2d
waiting impatiently for an opposition party
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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 2d
"The forces that harm people, harm nature; the forces that harm nature, harm people. " Couldn't be put better 👏https://naturalistsforpalestine.org/#statement
Naturalists for Palestine
Naturalists for Palestine is a call from individuals and organisations in the UK nature sector to stand for an end to the genocide in Gaza, and to the suffering and oppression of the people of Palesti...
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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 2d
related ... wasn't it George Eliot who said often the greatest acts of history are the smallest and go unnoticed.
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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 2d
Badger in the kitchen! I hand fed this one (one of two in Devon) when I was a kid - this started outside the house I promise. But one day they found their way into the house... after two summers both the badgers stopped coming and I was gutted. Never found out why. #nationalbadgerday #stopthecull
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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 3d
National Badger Day National Badger Day National Badger CELEBRATION Day...show some badger love for these industrious, playful, loud and proud stripey heads! #NationalBadgerDay #endthebadgercull #parliamentdebate13thOctober
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d
For shame. 😡
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 4d
What is it about right wing govts & needing to persecute people with disabilities? Punishing the poorest, whilst the rich take trips into space, is so 2025. Payments in the UK, are tiny!

MPs have expressed concerns over plans to change the assessment for the health element of universal credit.
Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to universal credit
Welfare secretary Pat McFadden plans further reforms to the benefits system, expected to include abolishing the work capability assessment.
www.bigissue.com
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 9d
Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?

No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Two Golden Eagles ‘disappear’ in south Scotland – Police appeal for information
Press release from Police Scotland, 29 September 2025: APPEAL FOR MISSING GOLDEN EAGLE Detectives are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged golden eagle disappeared in the hills to the…
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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 4d
sorry, Amazon has always been more than rubbish because of the way it treats its staff - this headline is not good enough
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 5d
History repeats.
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 6d
A hen spends her life in a cage no bigger than an iPad , unable to spread her wings .

This #WorldFarmAnimalsDay , let's change that . For less than £1 , you can help free a hen & your donation gets a 50% boost all week long .

Let's do this: farmkind.giving/cagefree
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 6d
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust warns government is shockingly underprepared to deal with accelerating threat
Report shows UK nature bears the brunt of chaotic climate
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust warns government is shockingly underprepared to deal with accelerating threat
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Ruth Tingay @ruthtingay.bsky.social · 7d
Hardly any Hen Harrier nesting attempts on English grouse moors for second year running.

Hardly any surprise why.

#RaptorPersecution #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology

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Hardly any Hen Harrier nesting attempts on English grouse moors for second year running
Natural England has finally got around to publishing the data for the 2025 Hen Harrier breeding season, which demonstrate very clear differences between areas managed for conservation and those man…
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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 6d
This is horrific

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
Manchester synagogue attack that killed two was a ‘terrorist incident’, say police – latest updates
Police confirm that victims were Jewish and say that suspect, who they have not named, was shot dead within minutes during Yom Kippur attack
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 8d
New info from RSPB reveals last known location of this young Hen Harrier was on a grouse moor between Reeth & Redmire on NE side of Yorkshire Dales National Park, before she disappeared in suspicious circumstances.

#RaptorResearch #Wildlifecrime #Ornithology

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More information about the suspicious disappearance of Hen Harrier ‘Sita’ who vanished on a grouse moor in Yorkshire Dales National Park
In May this year I blogged about a young satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named ‘Sita’ who had disappeared under suspicious circumstances from a winter roost site on an unnamed grouse moor …
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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 8d
dear theatre, uncertain
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