"They're eating the Swans ... they're eating the geese ... they're eating the birds ... of the people that live there" OK he didn't mention geese, but otherwise it's a close copy of Trump's statement from the presidential debate. Farage is literally turning into a British Trump.

Scientist when something is backed by a mountain of evidence: "I'm 99% sure that it's true." RW nutter when something is backed by no evidence at all: "I'm 100% sure that it's true."

Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

Unusually robust form of Red Helleborine Cephalanthera rubra from Austrian Tyrol. Very long leaves and bracts. #Orchids #EuropeanOrchids

We remember Credit @milneorchid.bsky.social #RejoinEU

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This should be plastered EVERYWHERE! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

More of this sort of thing to counter the Reform shite.

it's real support from actual racists

Prints of my painting I’m Judging You are available from £15. Postcards & greetings cards too. All proceeds will go to a local Nottingham charity- lmara- which helps abused women and children. It’s a brilliant little charity. If interested, contact me here on Bluesky @pieorama.bsky.social .

If this doesn't remind you of 1930s Germany then you are not paying attention.

Old Liz Truss cartoon ... but great punchline!

🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage has unveiled his plan for the mass deportation of small boat arrivals: To achieve it, Farage says the UK would leave the ECHR and other treaties (including the UN torture convention), And people say Labour is the same as Reform! This is what you get if you split the vote!

I was also over the moon to see a huge bush of the endemic Great Orme Berry in the Cambridge Botanic Gardens covered in fruit. And we match!

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If you didn't vote for Harris, you voted for this.

Butterfly Orchid from above Zell am See, Austria. Could this be one of the enigmatic 3rd Platanthera species now being detected from Central Europe? Note the intermediate pollinia position. #Orchids

Why stop there? Staff for Trump's visit: HOST: Prince Andrew. CHEF: Greg Wallace MUSIC: Gary Glitter AFTER DINNER SPEAKER: Hugh Edwards

Elecampane being a #PollinatorPal! #Wildflowerhour

Arthur's Seat is on fire! Flammable gorse bushes + dry weather. #Edinburgh

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell

Sickness

Four tickets left! www.thestand.co.uk/performance/...

If the MAGA nuts are upset about Supes being woke, they'll probably have an embolism when they find out about Jesus! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

By a lake in Ireland so not quite #ByTheSea - the Irish Lady's Tresses is a plant with a remarkable distribution - Ireland, W Scotland and nowhere else in Europe, but widespread in America - I've seen it by the Golden Gate Bridge!! #WildflowerHour! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

It's happening! Fringe show this Tuesday evening! A double-header with amazing facts about food as well! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

It's happening! Fringe show this Tuesday evening! A double-header with amazing facts about food as well! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Happy Friday to everyone who might be concerned that he has possession of the nuclear codes, blames the messenger for tanking the economy & would gladly pardon a monster to save his own thin orange skin.

starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government

#wildflowerhour Fragrant Orchid in the Burren. Pretty sure this is the Marsh Fragrant G. densiflora, but that the Chalk Fragrant also occurs, flowering slightly earlier. Has anyone confirmed this? #Orchids

Think that yellow Azalea in your garden is innocent? Think again! Come to my fringe shows on the 5th or 10th August to find out more! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2546/...

Can I sneak in an Irish plant for #WildflowerHour? The extreme rarity Cottonweed, Achillea (=Otanthus) maritima, from its only British Isles site in dunes in SE Ireland. Incredible silver colour, looks more like a desert plant! One more species to add to namethatplant.org.

Yet more botanical bastardry!! Find out more about why plants are cruel and nasty beings at these shows! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2546/...

Imagine if the Nuremburg trials had happened during Trump's tenure ... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yet more botanical bastardry!! Find out more about why plants are cruel and nasty beings at these shows! www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2546/...

One for Poirot - a ruthless murderer to be unmasked! www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2546/... www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

If empathy is toxic to you ... ... then you are less of a Christian than Richard Dawkins, and Jesus would be appalled to count you among his followers. Appalled.

One for Poirot - a ruthless murderer to be unmasked! www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2546/... www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.

Come and find out why plants are total bastards!! www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2546/... www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Come and find out why plants are total bastards!! www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2546/... www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Massive congratulations 🎉 to our undergraduate & postgraduate 🌱 plant science students! Super sunny day ☀️ to celebrate their achievements. Here are some snaps of academics from @instmolplantsci.bsky.social (overheating in their gowns) and part of the plant science cohorts with their degres in hand!

Pretty accurate definition of "Woke", right there.

#LatinosForTrump + #ICE = #FAFO !