Water-worn rock looking like long-drowned timber.

I generally rate Chris Mason but it would make things easier for all if Robbie Gibb - Brexiter & Theresa May’s director of comms at Number 10 - were not still a non-executive director of the BBC. Everything he touches turns to shit. Including, at the moment, a lot of the Beeb’s political journalism.

Black Woodpecker #ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing Little doodle #bird 🦉 @drrjwarren.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social

Why did the BBC broadcast Nigel Farage uninterrupted for 56 minutes this morning? Nobody wants this, he has 4 seats, does any other party gets this coverage? The biased people at the BBC putting Nigel Farage on day after day need to be removed.

Nigel Farage should apologise for his role in causing the small boat crisis, Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has demanded www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Europe’s richest man opposes wealth tax. Estimated to have wealth of $169bn (£125bn), resents paying extra €1bn (£817m). Would it make any material difference to his lifestyle? How does anyone get this rich without squeezing labour, customers? Wealth opens doors to unaccountable political power.

Anne Lister died on this day, 22nd September, in 1840. Today, 185 years later, we are carrying out repairs on the church where her partner, Ann Walker, is buried. 1/11 📷 The cupola of Old St Matthew's, Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire (before repairs)

This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#ClimateAdaptation - neither business nor government (see Planning and Infrastructure Bill) are keeping up with the risks of the #ClimateEmergency www.edie.net/climate-risk...

A great article on social media and our responsibilities.

Smile like you mean it, says the skeleton from a 1493 medical broadside from Nuremberg. #bookhistory #skystorians

The busy Wren. A small bird who brings great pleasure. #wrens #ukbirds 🌿

✨The Saxon baptistry at St. Peter, Barton-upon-Humber might be even older than the C10th tower. Both were built (in part) with Roman stone transported by river from Yorkshire. Many burials beneath are older than the church.

Today I bring you my new drawing from the watercolor course ( The European robin ) . These are simple but very instructive drawings to help you learn the new technique. #birds 🪶 #aves #watercolor #artwork #drawing

"The Nazi regime quickly targeted German universities for restructuring according to Nazi principles.." United States Holocaust Museum perspectives.ushmm.org/collection/h...

Heard about the Green Party?🙄

Just an English pamphlet from 1649 (about a fire in London) with an image from a walking juvenile skeleton on the title page. The 'a', 'b', 'c' labels around the skeleton are evidence that the copperplate used for this print was borrowed from an earlier medical publication. 1/2

These are so beautiful. @indikon.bsky.social’s daily photos are a joy and a masterclass in ‘noticing’.

Excited to see 5 Atlantic Bluefin Tuna gambolling in the sea at #StartPoint on 16/9, first time I have seen them! Native to British waters and subject to ‘world renowned’ recreational fishing in the 1930s but disappeared in the 1990s (hmm). Tricky to photo though but note seabird size comparison!

Enjoyed the westcoast and Gothenburg when visiting daughter at uni Sättuna burial mound is as iconic as Sycamore gap Lots of smooth rocks on the coast. Great birding too #sättuna #bird #eider #geology

Peace be with you 🌱 on the eve of the Autumnal Equinox

🌱 Your Daily Moment of Sanity

The problem with TwitterX people is that they’re caught up in quantity not quality. Engagement here is 100x better than the other place and it’s informed people who contribute to the discourse and pay attention to what’s being posted. On TwitterX metrics are distorted by bots.

FASCISM. THEY ARE TAKING AWAY OUR RIGHTS. THEY ARE TAKING AWAY FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

One of the most unedifying things about the Windsor banquet - for both the government and the royal family - was the presence of Rupert Murdoch, seated next to Morgan McSweeney

It's a race to the end! Thanks for recent reposts, quote posts and reposts of quote posts! And for signatures! The petition to protect hares from shooting in the breeding season is up to 42k, and has 5 weeks left. Let's get to 50k! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... #UKwildlife #mammals

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“Here’s to thee, old damson tree, Whilst we may, we wassail thee; But if not, we’ll bury thee deep, And a green turf cover thee”. #Damsons #Foraging #Preserves #History #nature @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2025/09/20/d...

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An Anglo-Danish force stormed York #OTD in 1069, tearing down its two Norman castles, killing hundreds of Frenchmen and taking sheriff William Malet captive. Edgar Ætheling, ealdormen Waltheof and Gospatric, Mærle-Sveinn and Siward son of Æthelgar led the English. 📸Terry Ball #medievalsky

This is such a lovely read. I really recommend Andy’s ‘Digests’ - offering a unique and moving look at places, buildings and our connections with them. A real gem every week.

This is such a lovely story of survival.

Glad to be part of it - & in the pictures! Solidarity meets vanity!

The Roos Carr figures are dating to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. They were inadvertently unearthed by laborers during ditch maintenance at Roos Carr in 1836. Approximately two meters beneath the surface, the workers discovered a collection of well-preserved...🧵1/3 📷 me #archaeology 🏺

#ArtDD2025 Rain over Jura Sitting in a cemetery, amongst a forest of gravestones, waves lapping the beach beyond the wall, I watched the rain sweep in with the dusk over Jura. @saocousins.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

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Good morning. (The wellies are still leaking.)

A walk along #FrogmoreCreek here in the #SouthHams this morning provided sunshine and: Black-headed & Herring Gull; Bullfinch; Grey Heron; Kingfisher; Green WP; Little Egret; Oystercatcher; Raven; Redshank; Swallow #Devonbirding #ukbirding

#ArtDD3025 From Danna After watching a sea otter slip quietly into the water from the rocks, I did this, listening to the gentle waves lapping in the otherwise immense silence. @saocousins.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social

Eurovision is a peace building project. It’s brought countries across the continent in celebration. That’s why Russia was kicked out. It’s why Israel has to be kicked out. We can’t let a song competition whitewash war crimes, apartheid and genocide.

Minding its own sweet business at the tide’s edge.

Acorns & Autumn. These colours always remind of my 1st yr out of university. I was living in a remote cottage in the New Forest nr Beaulieu. Such a sudden shock of loneliness. As @jonwoolcott.bsky.social writes "Nature doesn't care about us, or how we feel about it - it's purpose is not to heal us".

They'll try everything that's been happening in US because Trump's win is their own 'playbook' for fraying the edges of British society & reweaving it into something where no authority exists except the Leader's. Nobody should be under any illusion of the depths to which they'll stoop on the way

Born #OTD 1778, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux. MP for various constituencies from 1810 to 1830, he rose to prominence with his support for the abolition of slavery and his opposition to George IV's attempts to divorce Queen Caroline. www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-...

Plans for Pheasant shoot criticised in @telegraphnews.bsky.social by me, @leagueacs.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social & Richard Negus under byline of new envt. hack @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social Blog: markavery.info/2025/09/19/p... @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @righttoroam.bsky.social

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Last chance to see our current exhibit, which tells the story of the battle that changed British history! Exhibit finishes on 5 October, so don't miss out! Discover more at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yes - this!

Hilarious and alarming in equal measure.