Hi everyone. It’s Wednesday, #MadSkyChat day. We chat tonight at 8pm BST for an hour. All mad and/or Neurodivergent people welcome. Just use the hashtag in every response to join in.

If the heatwave has you lying starfished on your back, you can do a lot worse that watch baby badgers lying starfished on their backs: @wildlifeaid.bsky.social Bottom video is the livestream of their sleeping chamber. Warning:.may induce a sympathetic snooze wildlifeaid.org.uk/wildlife/web...

The BBC cancelling Winterwatch is such a shame, especially when we need to be connecting with nature more than ever. If we want people to protect our wildlife, we have to show them it! Add your name to ask the BBC to reconsider. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Was about to do chores with noise cancelling headphones on. Explained to mum: it's not easy for me to take them off in middle of chore, did she need to say anything to me before I went "in"? Within 15 minutes, she's interrupted twice. The 2nd time, I said "what" irritably as I took them off. >

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

Hi everyone. It’s Wednesday, #MadSkyChat day. We chat tonight at 8pm BST for an hour. All mad and/or Neurodivergent people welcome. Just use the hashtag in every response to join in.

Peanut the badger says stop fannying around with that rectangle thing and feed me!

☀️ Hot? Thirsty? Reaching for a cold drink? Wildlife are feeling the heat too, but they can't turn on a tap. Birds, hedgehogs, squirrels, and pollinators need water to survive. 💧 Please put out a shallow dish of fresh water today. It could save a life. #Wildlife #Nature

the magic of fireflies as night falls in a forest

Sun shimmering in the trees for #ForestFriday 🌳✨ #photography #journal #nature #EastCoastKin

GP is supposed to be calling today. Place your bets on whether it will happen. Odds are 5:1 against...

This sounds like good progress. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hi everyone. It’s Wednesday, #MadSkyChat day. We chat tonight at 8pm BST for an hour. All mad and/or Neurodivergent people welcome. Just use the hashtag in every response to join in. Ps: sorry for late invite I’ve been a bit discombobulated today

From hedgehogs and bats to butterflies and newts, the UK’s wildlife is disappearing fast – and our government is letting it happen. I’ve just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for urgent action. Add your name: action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tel...

Which is closest to your view: 1. If you call yourself a wildlife lover, you don't have to like all animals, but you do have to treat them with respect / avoid harm where possible 2. You can call yourself a wildlife lover and still hate / harm some species Please RT for wider sample

Night hide activity, at Wildlife Photography Hidea near Bourne #TawnyOwl #wildlife #wildlifephotography #WildlifePhotographyHides #nocturnal #flashphotography

We can post 10 photos now here on Bluesky! Here’s ten of my favourite photographs to celebrate! 🥳

Signed. Some tw*t planted this in my mum's garden. It's an absolute b*stard to manage, grows absurdly fast, and let's almost no light on to the forest floor. Not sure why anyone would want it, and it could be disastrous for a native woodland.

There’s optimism, and then there’s a blackbird singing at dusk in a blustery drizzly wind when any sensible bird is tucked up in bed

Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...

Lovely GP, who does tend towards the unreliable, has out-done herself recently. 6 weeks since last proper consult. Since then I've had: 1 truncated 2 cancelled 1 postponed 1 phonecall, which didn't happen Not sure whether to hope for a call tomorrow or not!

Sending you off early tonight with this gentle group of friends…sweet dreams, everyone 🤎✨ (art Elaine Bayley)

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It's another scorcher.. 🥵☀️ Be sure to put out plenty of water for birds & wildlife in your garden so they can keep cool and have enough to drink. Got your patch covered? Share this reminder!

Places left, there's no pressure to talk, you can simply hang out with your camera off, use chat (or not), if you feel like you're done with this world and you don't know how to carry on, we're here. And we are trans/ enby/ agender/ genderqueer supportive too, we come from a harm reduction heritage.

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

I managed to get a good video of the garden hedgehog 🦔 The winning tactic was to go into the garden at midnight, lie on the lawn with torch in hand and a pile of cat food in front, and then wait.

Listening Spaces are free, monthly, welcoming spaces for open sharing about personal experiences with suicide (people living with suicide, attempts, loss, suicidal ideation, caregiving, etc.) and are non-interventional spaces. www.eventbrite.com/e/listening-...

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C. Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C.

Was planning to post something proper. But I'm melting. So instead I'll just say: Remember to reduce your expectations of yourself during heat waves! With any condition affected by the heat, it's not just ok to do less - it's necessary! Posting will resume when cool returns.

Absolutely mind blowing conditions from this morning in the ancient Fanal Forest in Madeira.

If you have an outside space, it's a good day to pop some water out for wildlife. A shallow dish - we use large plant saucers - with a largish stone in it to allow smaller critters to climb out is perfect. Give it a rinse and fresh water every few days.

@luckyerica3.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... I haven't listened to this so cannot voucher for it, but from the description sounds like it might be up your street

Goodnight. 🖼️ Debbie Faulkner-Stevens

Suncream stings a bit if it gets in your eyes🤦‍♀️

Shout out to this little gremlin who was half an hour "late" and gave her neurotic human the fear! Needless to say, her clan had scoffed most of the food, and she was disgruntled!!

Though we may look different, we share one thing in common - We are all small creatures in a vast world.

Hi everyone. It’s Wednesday, #MadSkyChat day. We chat tonight at 8pm BST for an hour. All mad and/or Neurodivergent people welcome. Just use the hashtag in every response to join in. Sorry for the late notice today

Did some gardening. Approx 0.69% of the weeding Used 98.4% of my energy😬

Bluebells at sunrise 🪻

Hi everyone. It’s Wednesday, #MadSkyChat day. We chat tonight at 8pm BST for an hour. All mad and/or Neurodivergent people welcome. Just use the hashtag in every response to join in.

Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")

Sometimes I ask my mum to top up the peanut supply, which she does by throwing them from her window. Tolly thinks peanut rain is somewhat alarming, but ultimately tasty. ALT in next skeet

there's only so long before hate & division will collapse in on itself. It's such a corrosive energy. In contrast, genuinely caring about people, community, & environment will grow & consolidate.

Advice from a small mouse. ‘If you are having a tough day and worrying, take a cuppa and sit outside a while and see the good things happening. Spring came, the birds are singing, the flowers say hello. Take a deep breath and plan for some kind action if needed’

Hi. It’s, #MadSkyChat. We chat tonight now for an hour. All mad and/or Neurodivergent people welcome. Just use the hashtag in every response to join in. I’m a bit under the weather. How are you all?

I was sitting on a bench in the park today, a 5 month old cockapoo type dog came bounding up to me in the most exuberant way. Made me totally dog broody and hating my stupid allergies!

Praise be to those who go straight to bed with no faff: the Stephen Collins cartoon www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... ALT: Cartoon shows a couple sitting on a sofa with their cat on the arm of the sofa. The woman says "okay, I'm going to bed" and then does so 1/2