Mr Sparkle
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Outsider. Fell running. Cycling. Mountains. Moors. Lakes. My politics dress left of centre.
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Trëy
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Friend sent this music deep cut over. Too funny not to share! 😂
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Came home to discover that my Yellow Iris has blossomed while I’ve been at work!
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Monks hood. Sounds like it should be in the Viz Profanisauras…
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It’s dated these days but I do love riding this bike. It fairly zings along. ‘Good tunes, old fiddles’ etc.
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This has has been known about for ages. It’s an absolute disgrace that it has not been tackled.
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RSPB
1 day ago
The Government is considering planning loopholes that could strip nature from England’s most deprived communities. ❌
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Noriks 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🐦⬛ 🐈⬛ ♎️
1 day ago
How many times did this sick pig of a man call a professional journalist “stupid” without hesitation; on air; with no apology. REMOVE THIS BASTARD FROM THE WHITEHOUSE- he seems to like name-calling. So let’s let it rip!!
@whitehouse-47.bsky.social
@senatepress.bsky.social
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All for this 👍
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Carry On Crowing…
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Nadya Voynich
4 days ago
To avoid burnout, use this 30/30 rule: After 30 min of work, quit and disappear into the mountains for 30 years. Happy Friday!
#buildinpublic
#startuplife
#hiking
#mountains
#nature
#productivity
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Peterfromaustralia
3 days ago
Orkestra Obsolete play ‘ New Order’s Blue Monday ‘. Using 1930 instruments.
youtu.be/cHLbaOLWjpc?...
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Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts
YouTube video by BBC
https://youtu.be/cHLbaOLWjpc?si=SiDHwxfyGYEPMk31
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Ditto in similarly rainy Lancashire.
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I don’t but I’m kern to lean…
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👣Coca👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
4 days ago
We Will We Will Rock You... 🌈
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Morning all Eider Duck Kindergarten in front of the Hoad Monument, Ulverston
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Duncan Crombie
4 days ago
Seems I was premature for cat-day, so I'm making up for it by combining "Lavender Dreams" h/t
@originalvelvet.bsky.social
with
#FoxFriday
🦊 `Lavender fields, breathtaking landscape, a russet fox`
#synthart
#AIイラスト
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This lad drew the short straw…
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Morning all.
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TCMFanatics
4 days ago
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in "The Blues Brothers", 1980. Thank you, TCM.
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Nicole?!
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The Lancashire Hotpots
5 days ago
Some ace pics from Darwen live courtesy of Tom Ellison Media
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Wow!
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This.
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Big Green Books
5 days ago
If you've not read Persepolis, I have three copies to give away. It's a phenomenal books. UK only.
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Big Green Books
6 days ago
One more
#buyastrangerabook
day offer for you.
@helenintgarden.bsky.social
is offering to buy someone a copy of "Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants" by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It's a bit of a classic. If you'd like it, let us know! UK only.
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Mike McTimoney
6 days ago
I might have broken the Facebook algorithm. I've just been served two ads side-by-side: one for a leather jacket and one for a phone sleeve that stops electromagnetic frequencies leaking from my phone. I'm a vegan physics teacher.
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Jeff Weiss
6 days ago
One of the two known videos of Jimi Hendrix playing acoustic (1967) - allegedly, the video was made after a photoshoot where the photographer brought him a special 12-string guitar, strung upside down to adapt to Jimi's left-handed playing.
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Jon Owen
6 days ago
metro.co.uk/2026/05/28/r...
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Raise the Colours founder Billy Allison charged with murder of bar owner
Billy Allison, 36, from Solihull has been charged with the murder of Matt O'Gara at the Ricco and Loren bar in Lichfield
https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/28/raise-colours-founder-billy-allison-charged-murder-bar-owner-28555599/
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Big Green Books
6 days ago
The magic of
#buyastrangerabook
day never ends.
@ginger-kid.bsky.social
will buy a copy of Susie Dent's
@susiedentwords.bsky.social
new murder mystery "Death Write Large", out in August. Susie will signed and personally dedicate it for you too! If you'd like it get in touch. UK only
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Big Green Books
6 days ago
I have another lovely
#buyastrangerabook
offer, unclaimed from last week.
@whyalice24.bsky.social
is offering to buy someone a copy of The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher by Ahn Do-hyun. If this is something you'd like, just ask! UK only.
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#WorldBicycleDay
I’d rather be up here than down there.
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Big Green Books
6 days ago
I have another
#buyastrangerabook
day offer for you.
@carolinehooton.bsky.social
has bought a copy of "Don't Stop the Music" by Justin Lewis for me to offer out to someone. Packed to the gills with facts, trivia, notable events and pure pop nuggets. If you'd like it, get in touch! UK only
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Peter Walker
6 days ago
Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.
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Cold War Steve
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James Bullock
8 days ago
The first white-tailed eagle to fledge in Dorset for more than 240 years has gone missing on the North York Moors “The disappearance is being treated as suspicious” “Birds of prey regularly go missing in areas associated with game shooting”
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Rare white-tailed eagle disappearance investigated by police
The satellite-tagged bird, part of a breeding programme, lost contact in the North York Moors.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy526e9qx3yo
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Eben Muse
7 days ago
Recently my facebook algorithm has been totally swamped by PR pages run by big estates and gameskeepers espousing the 'great nature work' they do and complaining about campers, walkers, any kind of influx of people. This is part of why they don't want people there. They don't want witnesses.
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Brent Toderian
7 days ago
This video camera study showed that less than 5% of people on bikes broke traffic laws while riding bikes, yet 66% of people did so while driving. And perhaps even more importantly, if you REALLY want even MORE bike-riders to obey laws, build more protected bike infrastructure. Via
@carltonreid.com
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Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
Busting the myth of the "scofflaw cyclist" Danish Road Directorate studies reveal that while 66% of motorists routinely break road traffic laws only 5% of cyclists do so. Law breaking by cyclists is h...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists-break-far-fewer-road-rules-than-motorists-finds-new-video-study/
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George Monbiot
7 days ago
Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/02/uk-green-economy-worth-more-than-100bn-a-year-net-zero
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Good News for the UK
9 days ago
New fungus species found to control invasive heath-star moss
#GoodNews
#UK
#National
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New fungus species found to control invasive heath-star moss
Scientists have identified a new species of fungus that naturally targets and destroys the invasive heath-star moss. This discovery offers a promising way to help restore native habitats that have been overtaken by the aggressive plant.
https://goodnewsforthe.uk/story/3900/new-fungus-species-found-to-control-invasive-heath-star-moss
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“after the crash between a purple and silver mountain bike and a Citroen C4 at the pedestrian crossing”
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The Trades Club
8 days ago
Here's what's coming up this month at The Trades Club. Tickets for all shows over at
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🌹ᴀʟᴀɴ ᴇ ʜɪʟʟ🌹
8 days ago
This!
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
#bluelabout
@lukepollard.bsky.social
@fredthomasuk.bsky.social
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Working Class History
8 days ago
#OtD
1 Jun 1985 British police attacked people visiting Stonehenge in the "Battle of the Beanfield". Policed smashed vehicle windows, dragged people out through the broken glass, and then beat them. More here:
stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8100...
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Mike Galsworthy
10 days ago
What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔
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Frank Amari
9 days ago
"Resist much, obey little." -- Walt Whitman, born
#OTD
1819 No Kings movement plans event to counter Donald Trump's 80th birthday
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‘No Kings’ movement planning nationwide event on Trump 80th birthday
The “No Kings” movement announced a nationwide event set for June 14, which is President Trump’s 80th birthday. “The next 250 starts with us. As America approaches its anniversary about what story …
https://share.google/0JFvHQGWgT6c8JnoZ
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road.cc
8 days ago
“I think we have the same opportunity here as the Dutch had. The cost of fuel now has showed us just how vulnerable we are to changes in the world’s oil prices and how over-dependent we’ve become on one mode of transport,” Active Travel commissioner Chris Boardman said
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“People don’t drive short journeys because they like sitting in traffic”: Fuel price crisis could be UK’s Dutch cycling moment, reckons Chris Boardman; Wiebes’ bike weight controversy rumbles on; Bus ...
https://road.cc/news/cycling-live-blog-1-june-2026
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Bob Downie
8 days ago
FFS "A man crashed his car into a wall, knocking it onto the rail line and shutting it for five hours. He disappeared during that time and attacked police after a manhunt. " "has been allowed to keep his licence so he won't lose his job at the National Grid." Talk about
#motonormativity
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Otto English
9 days ago
When he was an MEP, Farage excused his absences on basis that it was an illegitimate government and that sovereignty should reside in Westminster. He's now an MP in Westminster And he's been absent for 77 Parliament votes in a row.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...
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Working hard? Nigel Farage registered 'absent' from the last 77 votes in Parliament
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/where-is-nigel-farage-voting-record-parliament-2026-406632/
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