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Henry Cook @hcbirding.bsky.social · 18h

An already bad bill just got a whole lot worse for wildlife. This dreadful government's attitude towards nature is contemptuous.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes

Chancellor accused of removing environmental protections to win short-term growth and save her budget

www.theguardian.com

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 12h

St James’s, Llangua on BBC Wales!

On the 20th September, BBC Wales ran a segment on our repair project at the beautiful St James’s, Llangua in Monmouthshire.

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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 8h

There is a consultation in progress by Nuala McAllister, MLA — to put a Burial Protection Bill in place to stop the graves of thousands of stillborn children & children from institutions from being repurposed or resold / developed.

Share your thoughts: formurl.com/to/burial_pr...

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TVARK @tvark.bsky.social · 9h

15 October 1970

Play For Today began on BBC 1. It ran for 14 years and broadcast 306 plays.

15 October 1955

The Dave King Show debuts on BBC tv. A comedy show.

ITV debuts On The Town. Live music from the Embassy Club, London. Hosted by Ron Randell (pictured).

Play for Today is a television strand, transmitted on BBC1 from 15 October 1970 to 28 August 1984. During the run, 306 programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted.

A handful of these plays became television series in their own right.

The series is set to be revived in 2025 by Channel 5.

The Dave King Show was broadcast on BBC tv from 15 October 1955.

An entertainment and comedy show.

Joining Dave on the show were The George Mitchell Singers, Yana, Vi Riscoe, Leigh Madison, Peter West, Dennis Spicer, Terry Hall, The Four Jones Boys, Mary Reynolds, Malcolm Macdonald, Joy Harvey, Sandra Alfred, Denny Bettis, Ray Johnson, Saveen, Daisy May, Jack Horton and Betty Ferrier.

The series lasted until 1957 when Dave moved to ITV.

On The Town was a programme of live music broadcast from the Embassy Club in Soho Square, London. It was first broadcast on ITV on 15 October 1955.

Actor Ron Randell hosted the first one, it's unclear if he hosted the whole series or how many shows were made.

An ATV production.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 8d

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 13h

this is a very good feature

Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

Quick Tip: Don’t want people getting pinged when you post or reply?

You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.

A screenshot of “Allow others to be notified of your posts” with “No one” selected

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 11h

Autumnal Monks Wood, and my first Fieldfares of the year, a flock of about 40 silently migrating over. The wood was jumping with Redwings, Song Thrushes, Robins and Goldcrests, most seemingly migrants, as they weren't there last week.

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography @dcb-dbc.bsky.social · 12h

#NewBio! Eugene Thornton Kingsley (d. 1929), farmer, railway worker, socialist, political agitator and organizer, fishmonger, editor, printer, and author.
He was one of the most notable socialist intellectuals of his time in Canada. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/kings...

A bald or shaved-head white man wearing a dark suit and tie.

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Turnstone Genealogy - Jane Barton @turnstonegenie.bsky.social · 11h

#31DaysOfGraves
Day 15: Damaged
Sadly, many of the gravestones in #RutherglenCemetery are damaged, mostly due to neglect. Some have been in bits for decades, but the Plunkett gravestone fell and cracked in two some time during 2023/4. Please take care in cemeteries, especially near larger stones.

Gravestone of James Plunkett, his wife Mary Barr and their family. An imposing dark grey granite stone with an arched top, standing on a plinth, about eight feet tall. Photographed 8 Oct 2021. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Gravestone of James Plunkett, his wife Mary Barr and their family. A dark grey granite stone fallen from its plinth, broken into two pieces and lying flat in the grass, inscription uppermost. Beneath it is another stone, lying face down. Photographed 7 Aug 2025. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

A tiered plinth carrying various inscriptions to Alexander Reid and family, beside which lies a stone cross with an angel figure, resting on another plinth which carries inscriptions to John Murray Tonks and family. It is unclear to which plinth the cross and angel belong. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Gravestone of Alexander Blackburn and family, which has fallen from its plinth and is lying on its side among a jumble of stones and vegetation. In the background, more gravestones in various stages of decay. Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 11h

Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes): This small bird weighs just 6g (0.2oz). The plumage is rufous-brown, with darker brown upper body, brown beak, brown feet. Photo of this little bird taken by George Butler during a walk in Sussex, UK. #wren #bird #birds #wildlife #nature #sussex #uk #bluesky

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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 12h

Once popular across Central Asia, Kazakhstan’s kokpar is essentially similar to Afghanistan’s buzkashi or Kyrgyzstan’s kok-boru. This version, however, has been altered to fit modern standards.

The return of Kokpar as Kazakhstan’s modern national sport

Since independence, kokpar has made a comeback as part of a broader revival of nomadic traditions. The World Nomad Games, launched in 2014, showcase sports such as archery, wrestling, and kokpar.

globalvoices.org

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History Today @historytoday.com · 20h

Parliament’s champion of the people or scandalous, self-serving politician? #Georgian radical John Wilkes kept a foot in both camps.

🔓 Robin Eagles’ History Matters is free for 7 days

www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

The Radical John Wilkes

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Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social · 12h

If want to read more about St James’s, then please follow the link below to a BBC News article about our repair project, featuring a video about the lengths that one plasterer went to keep the project on track…

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

How human hair helped to save a crumbling Monmouthshire church

A church dating back to 1150 has been rescued from ruin in a "race against the clock" renovation.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 13h

'Last year, 8 million hectares vanished, half the size of England' 😱

Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 20h

Forests are vital for life on Earth, yet banks and agribusiness keep profiting from their destruction.

Last year, 8 million hectares vanished, half the size of England.

At #COP30 in the Amazon, leaders must act to end deforestation and make polluters pay.

#RespectTheAmazon #MakePollutersPay

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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Friends of Warriston Cemetery @fowarristoncem.bsky.social · 13h

#31daysofgraves Day 15: Damaged. Years of neglect following the collapse of the Edinburgh Cemetery Company led to widespread vandalism. These photos show not just damage but theft of applied medallions or portraits, probably bronze or stone. (Photos are fairly unusual on Scottish stones.) #Edinburgh

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 12h

MD's latest on the Lucy Letby case, only in the new Private Eye, out now.

➡️ Read all previous parts of our special report into the Lucy Letby case online: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

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Special Report: The Lessons of the Lucy Letby Case

After Lucy Letby was convicted in August 2023 of murdering seven babies, a number of experts contacted Eye columnist MD because they

www.private-eye.co.uk

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 12h

He now says the jury was misdirected on the cause of death. “If this doesn’t wake up the Court of Appeal, nothing will,” writes MD in the latest Eye.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 12h

Dr Dewi Evans, chief prosecution expert in the Lucy Letby trial, has publicly reversed his position on how Baby C died, blaming the CPS, prosecution team and others for a crucial error at trial.

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The Crewe of the Fancy @thecreweofthefancy.bsky.social · Jan 21

Protect historical documents- digitize them, send them to colleagues outside the US, etc. Create a situation where no amount of deleting or burning will destroy them.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 13h

Friends...it's Wednesday. Do you feel like something is missing?

It's the eels. You haven't had enough eels in your day yet. Let me fix that!

Here...have a page from Mrs. Sherwood's 1822 primer.
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Page from a reading primer. Text on the page reads:
"Let me go and see the
cat and the dog to-day.
That man has got a fig.
Go and ask him for it.
That lad has got an eel."

There is a b&w line drawing/etching showing the things in the reading. There is a man in a tall hat with a cane who is likely holding a fig (it's hard to tell, honestly). He is standing in front of a fence and some trees, as if he has been taking his fig for a walk in the woods. But he's wearing what might be riding boots. Has his horse been eaten by woods wolves?

In front of him is a boy holding an eel in his right hand. His left hand is on his hip, and his legs are thin and reedy. His stance says that he is defiant, but also that he's ready to make his escape if things go badly. This lad isn't giving up his eel, even for a man with a fig.

Between the two of them a dog is chasing a cat. In the distance is a house; we can assume that the lad lives there, and that it is completely full of eel skins and skeletons.

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 13h

Slender-billed Curlew Declared Extinct

IUCN confirms the loss of a once-widespread Western Palearctic wader after three decades without a verified record

www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/S...

Slender-billed Curlew Declared Extinct

IUCN confirms the loss of a once-widespread Western Palearctic wader after three decades without a verified record

www.rarebirdalert.co.uk

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 13h

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 16h

Mount Everest

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 16h

Kurt Schwitters
Untitled
1937

Prob. made in Norway where in Jan 1937 Kurt followed his son Ernst into exile, the Nazis having begun confiscating his work from German museums. '1920' on the mount was a misattribution by the gallerist to whom Ernst sold several of Schwitters' pictures in the 1950s

A beautiful little collage on paper. 10.8 x 8.6 cm image on a 24.8 x 18.4 cm mount.

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