the grass thermometer - sits on tips of short grass - went below -4C yesterday and was -3.9C last night - and spent many hours below freezing. Many gourd plants said they'd had enough. Photos last night & this morning. Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire #tywydd #weather #loveukweather #frost

This is happening now www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

When you look just like a painting #politics #OrangeRapist #Hitler #FascistAmeriKKKa #tyranny

"Victims of modern slavery have endured horrific exploitation at the hands of criminals" "Often they do not recognise themselves as ‘victims’ and have been told by their exploiters that the authorities cannot be trusted or they fear violence or reprisals against their families"

what are they thinking? is there no compassion? if someone is to be removed almost as soon as they arrive then yes their reason for seeking asylum is going to seem a bit last minute

1/2 The resident Robin & the passage Chiffchaff. Chiffchaffs are really on the move at the moment - mid-September is the peak time for the migration of these birds. Every day now, I'm seeing new 'chaffs passing through the garden - just dropping in to feed briefly & fly on. #ukbirds 🌿

“Oh, don’t worry about that... it’s not the Black Death – our neighbour is just a patriot” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

It’s not all lies, lies, lies with Trump – sometimes he’s unnervingly honest | Arwa Mahdawi

I’m not a very religious person but I know a good sermon when I hear one. Pastor Wesley is taking us to church! PREACH! 🙌

Unlock growth? Sustainable food production, that sort of growth yes... news.sky.com/video/can-ne...

'Moon Goddess Chang E with Rabbits' - Kimpodo, 1831. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

Government's peatland 'burning ban' - a step in the right direction but a total ban is needed (guest blog by Bob Berzins) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/16/g...

oh...thanks for the reminder...

Blog: A fleabane tale markavery.info/2025/09/15/a... @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social @trisnorton.bsky.social @ramalina.bsky.social @julied1485.bsky.social @sarahwhild.bsky.social @amandatuke.bsky.social @papianon.bsky.social @sjthomasbotany.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiscience.bsky.social

Delighted to have contributed, albeit in a minor way, to inspiring my birder-acquaintance @markavery.bsky.social to rejoin @bsbibotany.bsky.social. Us urban botanists love a good S American fleabane discussion! #UrbanBotany #WildPavements #PavementPlants

Chickweed wintergreen to Autumn red. Close up of golf ball tiny seed heads. #wildflowerhour #favouriteplant

bore da - and can I post yesterday's morning as well as today's? I got busy on other stuff & forgot... Looking NNW this morning when putting out recycling. A bit wood pigeon in colour. And yesterday looking towards sunrise Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire #weather #tywydd #loveUKweather

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Defra...feels like a political backwater until something goes wrong....It’s almost as though our politicians think we...have no concerns over how much food there is or its quality and that there are no rural areas between the towns in which the whole population lives."

Britain’s butterflies bounce back in annual count – but only to average levels

Bore da! I missed the pink because things needed doing indoors, but was still lovely and the treat of stereo blackcap song, I'm not sure I've heard them singing in September, chiffchaffs certainly. A marvel. Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire @metoffice.gov.uk #loveUKweather #tywydd #weather

Free Speech Loving Nigel Farage

First bird of my day: a concertina of crows, seamlessly landing one after the other, to drink from a puddle at the side of the road. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

TUC Gen Sec @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social has urged government to embrace wealth taxes as new poll findings suggest strong public support for steps like a windfall tax on bank profits The PM should have the "confidence" to raise taxes on those with "broader shoulders", he told @nadinebh.bsky.social

2. Over the last two weeks, a war has broken out in Florida over Pride crosswalks. At the center is the Pulse Memorial Crosswalk, painted in rainbow colors to honor the lives lost in the 2016 Pulse massacre but since painted over by the anti-LGBTQ+ state authorities.

1. On Saturday, a judge ordered Pulse pride crosswalk protester released from jail. Police arrested him after he chalked the bottom of his shoe in rainbow colors and walked across it. Sunday, police arrested 3 more under the same charges. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Keir Starmer may have just served up the worst political slogan of all time | Simon Hattenstone

this is sickening

Existential crises solved in one word: dinner. #CalvinandHobbes #LateNightThoughts

Labour MP Jo White tries to justify Yvette Cooper's policy to abandon Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights Thankfully the Green Party's Sian Berry is there to set the record straight, and she even points out, "Labour opposed this when the Conservatives put this forward in 2022"

Bunty & Margaret blackberrying 1952 my aunt & Nan love the daps on Bunty and the beautiful white shoes on Nan! those wooden punnets with a metal handle. #familyphoto #blackberrying

My new article. northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/hu...

“retraction is warranted only when serious errors invalidate findings or there is documented scientific misconduct, neither of which occurred here” www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-...

Promotes freedom of speech then refuses to speak to local press. Nottingham Reform off to a solid start. www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

🇬🇧 Roses of the Catherine Park 📷 Tsarskoe Selo, Katerina Novak 🇷🇺 Розы Екатерининского парка #thephotohour #stormhour #worldheritagesite #flower #photography #roses #rosewednesday #bloomscrolling

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. Inequality grows - in so many ways www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

The president credits democracy superfan, Vladimir Putin, with the idea. Yes, really.

Many + varied good points in this thread. When talking about a quarter of the public, it is a pretty broad group.

somebody here told #flowers have the #power, dawn first lights on this sleeping #beauties What kind of flower i don't know i am only the photographer. Who knows? Lets see if flowers make it. visit the flowers here bsky.app/profile/did:... #storytelling #luiscordobapharchive #art #flower

Tory MP Geoffrey Cox is helping a foreign-registered company sue the UK Govt over a climate policy via an ISDS lawsuit. ISDS and LCIA mechanisms act as a cash generator for unscrupulous MPs under the cover of secondary legislation. Watch as MPs capitalize on ISDS. open.substack.com/pub/european...

This here is how you make a writer’s day (or anybody else’s, really)

Datura stramonium ~ thorn apple taking up a lot of space in the gourd patch. Last year v few. We think they came in with a plant from North Downs area, in Surrey, via my aunt a v long time ago, always some in grandparent's garden. They like the gourd patch best #SirBenfro #gardening #wildflowers

we made it to 31.2C yesterday...the cloud didn't keep it cooler. Some mizzly precipitation this morning

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

not as forecast today, hope it keeps us a bit cooler... some wonderful clouds Crymych, Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire @metoffice.gov.uk #clouds #cymylau #tywydd #weather #loveUKweather

"No one knows why." A recent YouGov poll says the number of young people who actively have faith has doubled in the last six years... it's called the “Quiet Revival“. What’s going on with young people and God? @maitlis.bsky.social investigates. www.youtube.com/watch?v=izH1...

Yayoi Kusama, Lemon Squash (5) (1999), screenprint #WomensArt

fern and ladder shadow #everydayphotos #shadows

🤏🍃✈️MATCHA SHORTAGES?🍵👋😖 We were recently interviewed by the BBC about how matcha shortages are impacting our business. Only a little of what we talked about made it into the article, so I thought I'd share more of what our tea supplier had to say🙇‍♂️ The article⬇️ www.bbc.com/news/article... #matcha

This video is, unsurprisingly, a mix of straightforward lies and deliberately misleading half-truths. My earlier analysis on the long-run fiscal impact of recent migrants is here: docs.google.com/document/d/e...