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Any #pond people know what these are...they bubble a bit and appeared in the last few days... #allotment

Oyster Catchers deciding to have their breakfast on the golf course this morning...

Well said that woman. Everyone should be responding to him like this. Call him out! It makes the news too...

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Some good news to hold onto!

Some good news to hold onto!

Rewilding sees wildlife rebound in Hackney Marshes: how a local community has managed to spectacularly reverse nature loss. Communities everywhere could be doing the same, reconnecting and empowering themselves AND nature, on so many levels. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well said that woman. Everyone should be responding to him like this. Call him out! It makes the news too...

🫡🇺🇸 "Americans do not swear an oath to a king, a tyrant or a dictator. We swear an oath to the Constitution and the idea of ​​America, for which we are willing to die," — Mark Milley ❗️He said that every US military member gives his life to protect the Constitution, not to individuals.

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Coexistance is key. Read more here @whittledaway.bsky.social 👇 "What we really need is a study, not on the lynx or the wolves, but on people and how our values, attitudes and perceptions can evolve to a point where all species are living alongside each other" www.irishtimes.com/science/2025...

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Latest illo for the excellent @newhumanist.bsky.social, for an article on Narcissism

I attended a lecture by Meg Hyland at Worldcon 2025, 'We sang to stop ourselves from crying' about the Herring girls. Well worth attending if you're near. The lecture was a fascinating look into the past.

Would explain much, if true - Trump was recruited by KGB with codename 'Krasnov', claims ex-Soviet spy

Cartoon by Predrag Srbljanin

Cartoon by Andryi Petrenko

And latest Graun toon too! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New York Post cover 👀

Come on America. We know how you deal with Kings, go deal with this one!

Yes! So pleased about this, and happy for the young people. We did this, lived and worked in Northern Spain for two years to escape the worst years of the tories in the nineties, and so worthwhile! Go do it!

Come on America. We know how you deal with Kings, go deal with this one!

Trump and Musk are sounding their own death knell. It will just be a matter of time before disaster upon disaster comes knocking at their door. And the evidence is there to trace it back to their ignorance and greed. Guilty as charged.

Warm enough this morning for the #bees to clear their fallen comrades out of the hive. Very sanitary creature, yer #bee "BRING OUT YER DEAD" "I'm not dead!"

If in need of a break from the usual here's a wonderful photograph of one of the Llandudno Goats, in its mountain setting on the Great Orme, taken by my brother-in-law.

Cartoonist @adamzyglis.bsky.social

I just hope Amazon puts the focus back on classic James Bond storytelling elements. Like the long history of villains that are grossly wealthy, insecure egomaniacs desperate to validate their fragile egos with wild schemes to control the media, governments, and space itself.

James Bond will return in "A Limited Series Format".

There's only 30 tickets remaining for this year's Laugharne Weekend! @laugharneweekend.bsky.social - buy them all now& give the spares to people you love the most for the best weekend of their lives. Believe me, it's truly magical.

Cartoon by David Rowe.

Oh the irony - The biggest threat to civilisation and the future of the planet being these two idiots.

Britain's Daily Star front cover today. Do share with America. The truth.