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markbraggins.bsky.social
A keen walker and fan of #greyhounds #dogs, #wildlife, and the countryside. #localgov in a former life, now retired.
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Hard to believe there was a general election and, notionally at least, a change of Government last year.

submitted 10 hours ago • 56 comments

"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more 'natural' than an array of solar panels. But a corn field is a biological desert ... Put up some solar panels, and add some plants that only need to be mowed once a year or so (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."

submitted 20 hours ago • 10 comments

Absolute star

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is excruciating.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Another #tennis #cartoon #redraw (this one's from Reader's Digest) on its way to find a new home via Chris Beetles Gallery of London #wimbledon #dippenandink #watercolour #law #judge #lost

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The Wurzels draw a bigger crowd.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The incredible shrinking orange man. More tangerine than orange.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

🌲Ed Sheeran explains to Louis Theroux that he dislikes private jets and prefers trains because "I like the environment, I like trees." We know that this type of messaging from celebrities is hugely impactful. We need far more of this from more stars. As posted by @nowthisimpact.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

I stood next to, and ignored, Jim Davidson at the Royal Festival Hall.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

🤣

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Man in blue and white, "About Reform, do I smell a bit of BS?" #BBCQT "Because Reform are trying to tell us to trust you, the Farage show" "It's the guy who advocated for Brexit, let's not forget that" "Why is the economy in the state that it is now? Brexit"

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

Amidst a sea of gloom, a nice happy ditty. Most welcome.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

We are *not* amused.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

kemi badenoch* sketch (*kemi badenoch is the leader of the conservative party)

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Great read from @adamtranter.bsky.social ⤵️ Technology should not be introduced at the expense of pedestrian freedom to use the highway safely and conveniently. We need to make sure that the most vulnerable road users are protected and prioritised so that our streets work for all.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Happy #InternationalLynxDay 🐾 Today we’re celebrating the Eurasian lynx. This shy and elusive wild cat went extinct in Britain 1300 years ago, but now there’s hope for their return. 📹 1-3 kjekol, 2 Viktor Skalican, 4 James Shooter, 5 Sandra Dombrowski, 6 lookyfilm 1/2

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Tax the rich.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Welcome to the archives.

submitted 8 days ago • 96 comments

Good. The use of hotels was a) designed to immiserate the people in them to avoid a 'pull factor' (didn't work) and b) has been very bad for the towns in them. Now need to end the ban on people working while they claim asylum.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

Good decision.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Sight hounds, er, sighting.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Well done Australia: Australian government to declare almost a third of its oceans ‘highly protected’ in the next five years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

There's something very Green Man about this tree.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

submitted 12 days ago • 230 comments

How am I meant to sleep with memes like this popping up on my feed??

submitted 12 days ago • 86 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Oh we will see hundreds of such incidents You cannot take £400 per month from the poorest & sickest on UC, while restricting PIP, without homelessness, debt, death

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

No money for people with disabilities. No money for the elderly. No money for children in poverty. Always money for war.

submitted 15 days ago • 110 comments

#YouTube will soon let viewers use Google Lens to search what they see while watching Shorts - techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/y...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Woah, that was a bit chilly!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

When Washington imposes tariffs on the European Union, that's Washington undermining the competitiveness of *American* companies. Let's unpack why.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Natalie Rak, also known as Rak, is a Poland based street artist #WomensArt #Monday

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a @privateeyenews.bsky.social #cartoon for a #sundaymorning☀️ #church #fundraising #architecture #propertydevelopment

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A crow just flew overhead which sounded just like Sid James laughing. Would be interesting if Sid is now starring in carrion films.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

This is what happens when you give an interview while you're hungry. #TACO #BURRITO #CHURRO #SALSA #ENCHILADA (Also, #economics)

submitted 18 days ago • 92 comments

Bernie Saunders in Cork, Ireland, warning Europeans that what is happening in the USA is coming to Ireland & the rest of Europe soon. He's right. The UK with brexit has, arguably, already fallen. A quick 🧵

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

I can only strive to such levels of inconveniencing others

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments