Today's ALT #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black, birds that have mainly Black Plumage set by @alan678.bsky.social ~ chosen Mr. Blackbird on a chilly morning last month whilst at The New Forest ~ Hampshire 😍 🪶🦉 #ukbirding #birdphotography #ECK #ukwildlife #naturephotography #naturetherapy

hyacinthoides non-scripta ~ clychau'r gog ~ Bluebell Cwm Gwaun, Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire my favourite walk late April, early May, for the bluebells. It rained last Sunday quite a lot! #bluebellwoods @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Polling for the Senedd election opens at 7am tomorrow morning and remains open til 10. You don’t need either your polling card or id. If you don’t know where to vote check your County Council website. If you don’t vote, don’t complain - unlike FPTP elections around 85% of votes cast will count …

May 7th - elections for #Holyrood, the #Senedd and #Councils across England. But our apathy is breaking our society. A #cartoon: #England #Scotland #Wales #Cymru #vote #election #pollingbooth #BrokenBritain

Times headline "Muslim voters rank Gaza over the economy in local election poll" is reporting a poll where the top issue for [some] Muslim voters was the cost of living (50%) ahead of Gaza on 25% and economy on 21% Anti-Muslim hostility on 22% Times headline gives an entirely misleading impression

We have recently introduced a hearing loop to Skomer Island, which is available to deaf and hard of hearing visitors during the welcome talk. This is part of our commitment to improving accessibility and inclusion on the island.

British people being all smug and condescending about Trump and ICE need to understand that the Home Office does that shit here, albeit with less press or guns

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I love this border that grows itself. My mum wants to dig it up & plant herbs, it has marjoram & mint a bit further along, several ferns & such a lovely colour mix. Mainly: Dulys ~ alexanders, Tafod yr ych ~ green alkanet, Troed y golomen ~ aquilegia #wildflowers @bsbicymru.bsky.social Sir Benfro

A year-and-a-half ago, Reform refused to explain to Byline Times why Nigel Farage posed with far-right activists. Now, after we learned one of them has been criminally convicted for storming an anti-racism church meeting (which occurred 2 weeks before the photo), still no response. Why the silence?

Reform UK are the party Welsh people are most likely to not want to see as part of the next Welsh government Would like to see in govt PC: 35% Ref: 23% Grn: 23% Lab: 15% Con: 13% LD: 11% Would not like to see in govt Ref: 49% Con: 39% Lab: 37% Grn: 28% PC: 22% LD: 18% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Welsh political approval ratings (9-16 April 2026) Rhun ap Iorwerth: +9 net doing well Zack Polanski: -3 Ed Davey: -13 Nigel Farage: -23 Kemi Badenoch: -25 Dan Thomas: -25 Eluned Morgan: -32 Keir Starmer: -42 yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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Choose hope. Choose ambition. Choose Plaid Cymru. ❤️ Gobaith. Uchelgais. Cymru. Pleidleisiwch Blaid Cymru yfory. 🫡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

sunrise from the heron hide in the Teifi Marshes. I think the Heron Hide is in Ceredigion, but we are looking at Sir Benfro just beyond the wet bit. #dawn #gwawr #sunrise @wtsww.bsky.social @photohour.bsky.social @stormhour.com camera broke only have phone...

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

山の駐車場脇で咲く #ニリンソウ それは見事な群生で、木漏れ日を受ける葉も風に揺れる花も神秘的な美しさでした #softwindflower #anemonastrumflaccidum @botanical.bsky.social

This can't, or shouldn't, be even remotely good enough, and surely wouldn't be accepted as such for any other party leader. Amongst many, many other things, it can't have been both 'unconditional' *and* 'to pay for my security'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Boris Johnson was a product of the media and their failure to hold him to account. Donald Trump is a product of the media and their failure to hold him to account. Nigel Farage is a product of the media and their failure to hold him to account. Are these really the people we want to be in charge?

​The U.S. government remains the world’s greatest purveyor of violence, yet its wars are debated based on gas prices rather than the 120 children killed in a single strike. buff.ly/p1heNff

Israel's top military commander in the occupied West Bank has privately boasted that Israeli forces are killing Palestinians at a rate 'not seen since 1967', according to reports

The charisma of your role as a politician will often convince people that fear & horror are an appropriate response. I feel you would have done your duty as an...ethical politician if you had encouraged the notion of future co-operation on the basis of understanding youtu.be/MEPtyb9OHP8?...

Cruel policy after cruel policy. Asylum seekers and migrants are human beings first and foremost - not political tools for a divisive and damaging populist party to weaponise.

I wrote this about Ramadan as for the first time since becoming an MP I was being criticised for attending Iftars & I wanted to explain why it is important, and why religious tolerance matters. hounslowherald.com/ruth-cadbury...

So much of this is being helped by social media; specifically the amount of AI slop videos on Facebook (often ironically they are ran from other countries & push an anti-immigration message to increase views & increase their ad revenue)

''What defeats racism is the willingness of civic society and the state to proselytise against it. It is weakened when people feel ashamed to express racist statements in public'' A thoughtful column from @stephenkb.bsky.social which touches upon something I have noticed www.ft.com/content/5cdf...

The vilification of progressive ideas, the right to protest, personal freedom etc is a bad thing for all marginalised people. Portraying struggles as zero sum (and this goes all groups and ‘sides’ is the way that madness lies.

The aesthetic is always striking. The Gothic font in the first row, the Nordic runes in the second row (the word "Nordic" is often a tell, to be honest). And they love their Norse gods, too.

That’s me on the phone with ACLU attorney Weston Rowland. After Weston came down to help- he also got arrested. The LAPD arresting an ACLU attorney- who also does work for the LA Press Club- is truly an unfathomable escalation.

There is clearly a serious issue with some of the postal votes in the Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf seat for the Senedd election. Cardiff Council have sent this message to some people who hadn't received their postal votes. They will now be "hand-delivering postal vote packs on Tuesday 5 May".

Lleynlys ~ scurvy grass (and something else in there too. How plants grow in tight spaces #pavementplants Llangrannog, Ceredigion (my camera is not working so only have phone...) @bsbicymru.bsky.social

😧 Hungarian public opinion is consumed by last night’s interview with this oligarch, who broke down in tears multiple times. We watched in disbelief as one of the richest men in the country, collapsing on live TV, tried to defend the indefensible… 3/1

Lilac and Apple - same date (23 April) across seven years markavery.info/2026/05/05/s...

Guest blog - White-tailed Eagles and sheep, a Norwegian perspective by Roger Morgan-Grenville markavery.info/2026/05/05/g...

Ah, shades of Tony Benn's questions - “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you”

The first question we should ask ourselves in these and all other elections is: Which candidates oppose the inordinate power of the ultra-rich, and which ones accept or encourage it?

Not a shock, and made worse by how both Labour and the Conservatives stripped back protections, while pushing more people into precarious positions, making it harder for people to seek help and putting more people at risk of exploitation. A perfect storm. #r4today www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Looking at the colour pink has been shown to induce relaxation & looking at something we find beautiful triggers dopamine release in our brains, so this is for you & your brain in case you’re anxious or sad today. The pinks of May pt1, incl Rose Pink Perpetué inspired by Victorian botanical plates🌿:

we definitely have a Sylvia borin ~ Telor yr Ardd ~Garden warbler around the place. Merlin thinks it unlikely even while saying it is, but the village 2 odd miles away where it thinks I am is possibly less likely... Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire @rspbcymru.bsky.social

for May Day, Beltane, the love of apple blossom - beautiful scent Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire #blossom #springblossom #appleblossom #beltane #mayday

PSB: watch out for Mortis dancers dancing in nets and general ‘naughtines’ today!

shadow painting: still life early this morning, a sunny morning #shadow #cysgod @photohour.bsky.social @stormhour.com

“A few days of joviality will hardly guarantee Trump’s erratic affections for long, as Starmer found out the hard way. What will last far longer is the sense of complicity: the indefensible has yet again been legitimised.” My col. on the royal White House trip. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The range and extent of unlawful behaviour (comtempt of court) by Northamptonshire police to cover up grossly unethical & unlawful conduct is astonishing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I took an algorithm to court in Sweden. The algorithm won | Charlotta Kronblad

Some moths caught at light last night, an almost full moon so not many but a good variety of species including Flame Shoulder, Peppered, March moth and White Ermine. Buckfastleigh, Devon

16:27 today. sunny and breezy. Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire #tywydd #weather #eglwyswen #whitechurch @metoffice.gov.uk

warm and windy evening, moon, blackcap Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire #tywydd #weather

From drug-smuggling SEND bosses and killer kitchen worktops to AI “experts” duping the media, the Paul Foot Award longlist shows the strength and range of journalism in 2026. ➡️ Find out who made the list: private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...