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Steph' Thorpe
@stephbirdart.bsky.social
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Artist who paints the waifs and stray birds that arrive in the UK. Modelmaker, gardener and Derby County fan. 🚫No AI🚫
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · Jun 25
Not a bad first rarity through my new #Leica #Ultravids The @flamboroughbird.bsky.social Song Sparrow.
A sketchbook open at a set of sketches of a Song Sparrow with a pair of Leica 8x32 Ultravid binoculars resting on it. A sketchbook page of watercolour and pencil sketches of a small passerine, a Song Sparrow. A streaky and stripy sparrow species with white, grey and rufous colouring. A sketchbook page of watercolour and pencil sketches of a small passerine, a Song Sparrow. A streaky and stripy sparrow species with white, grey and rufous colouring. A sketchbook page of watercolour and pencil sketches of a small passerine, a Song Sparrow. A streaky and stripy sparrow species with white, grey and rufous colouring.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6h
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 4h
Needletail sketchbook pages. I made the decision to draw up afterwards as I just wanted to watch the bird. I also struggled to climb the castle paths😞 #UKbirding #birds #birding #birdart #sciart #art
Sketches of a White throated Needletail, a species of large swift. They are in graphite and watercolour. The swift is large bodied with scythe shaped wings and a small stubby square tail. The body is brown with a pale throat, large white horseshoe shape under the tail area. The upper parts have a white patch on the back. The wings are black with areas of blue green iridescence. The bird even looks fast! Sketches of a White throated Needletail, a species of large swift. They are in graphite and watercolour. The swift is large bodied with scythe shaped wings and a small stubby square tail. The body is brown with a pale throat, large white horseshoe shape under the tail area. The upper parts have a white patch on the back. The wings are black with areas of blue green iridescence. The bird even looks fast! Sketches of a White throated Needletail, a species of large swift. They are in graphite and watercolour. The swift is large bodied with scythe shaped wings and a small stubby square tail. The body is brown with a pale throat, large white horseshoe shape under the tail area. The upper parts have a white patch on the back. The wings are black with areas of blue green iridescence. The bird even looks fast! Sketches of a White throated Needletail, a species of large swift. They are in graphite and watercolour. The swift is large bodied with scythe shaped wings and a small stubby square tail. The body is brown with a pale throat, large white horseshoe shape under the tail area. The upper parts have a white patch on the back. The wings are black with areas of blue green iridescence. The bird even looks fast!
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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 5h
If you continue to hold on to your X account..
If you continue to drive a Tesla...
If you continue using Starlink...

Remember who and what you’re supporting.
Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson’s legal costs.

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins
Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel Tunnel
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 6h
Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 6h
These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.
Homes flooded in Kipnuk Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm A small blue house has been blown onto its roof
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 5h
Love that dark underwing. So dramatic.
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 6h
It's always a very good day when you do though!
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 7h
This, so much this!!
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WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social · 8h
I know this is something I never say, but drawing is HAAARRRD
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11h
We said it was Fascism.

Now the President's 19 year old son will be put on the board of a $300bn company.

It's Fascism.
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Chris Hamilton @wanderinglapwing.bsky.social · 8h
What’s the craziest thing you’ve done for a lifer?

Pelagics, long drives…

#birds
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 8h
Nice and toasty warm I bet!
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 8h
I see the easterly shift is bringing migrants.
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 15h
Interesting bird!
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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 1d
This one was a bit confusing at first. A hybrid White-rumped x Dunlin from Cape Sable Island NS. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #shorebirds
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 20h
Imagine being illegally deployed to Portland and not being able to go watch this because you live in shame and bird fans would run you out of their neighborhood.

📸 @devonfredericksen.bsky.social

www.instagram.com/reel/DPMtSdj...
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 19h
Swift vortex!
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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 20h
Imagine being illegally deployed to Portland and not being able to go watch this because you live in shame and bird fans would run you out of their neighborhood.

📸 @devonfredericksen.bsky.social

www.instagram.com/reel/DPMtSdj...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d
The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 21h
THE FOUNDING FROGGERS
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Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social · 2d
We 💯 support Amphifa! Give me ribbety, or give me death. 🐸
A poster for "Amphifa: amphibians against fascism" showing a black and green flag with a green frog Three protestors dressed in inflatable frog costumes holding a sign that says "Portland frog brigade"
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 21h
Amazing isn't it🙄
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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 1d
Lovely views of this Rustic Bunting at Hoswick, Shetland today.

#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations!!
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 1d
We have all done what you did with that Rosy Starling! I always quote when I confidently ID'd a white thing as a plastic bag only for the egret to fly off just after 😉😂
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:
"Too Young to Die"
As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...
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A wandering birder @lisaazbirder.bsky.social · 1d
The Pope speaks the truth.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
Might be time to go after some yachts, #TeamOrca
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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦
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Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1d
I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 1d
Sadly all to true. AI is turning everything to mush.
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