Andy Aitken
@andykaitken.bsky.social
Interested in everything from archaeology to zoology.
I love spending time with family, nature, reading, and watching documentaries and other TV.
I love spending time with family, nature, reading, and watching documentaries and other TV.
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Two nuns walk into a bar. You'd think the second one would have ducked.
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Two nuns walk into a bar. You'd think the second one would have ducked.
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Intriguing, challenging and informing. For a century, the BBC has been our classroom, our concert hall, our stage, our storyteller and our window on the world. Politicians need reminding: its much more than a news channel.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
Defending our national treasure: the voice of the nation
Politicians see the BBC through the lens of TV news, but those who want to undermine it threaten a central plank of our national culture
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Intriguing, challenging and informing. For a century, the BBC has been our classroom, our concert hall, our stage, our storyteller and our window on the world. Politicians need reminding: its much more than a news channel.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
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In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.
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The Swedish Deputy PM said this in Ottawa during a CTV interview with Vassy Kapelos. Can't recall another foreign leader being so blunt about the US, and so accurate as well! 🇨🇦🇸🇪
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The Swedish Deputy PM said this in Ottawa during a CTV interview with Vassy Kapelos. Can't recall another foreign leader being so blunt about the US, and so accurate as well! 🇨🇦🇸🇪
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For #BlueSkyArtShow on the theme #Small here's a close up of the tiny fruiting body of a Chlorociboria fungi.... a lovely little Elfcup! 🧝♀️💙
Happy Saturday everyone!
#FungiFriends #Photography #Macro #EastCoastKin
Happy Saturday everyone!
#FungiFriends #Photography #Macro #EastCoastKin
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
For #BlueSkyArtShow on the theme #Small here's a close up of the tiny fruiting body of a Chlorociboria fungi.... a lovely little Elfcup! 🧝♀️💙
Happy Saturday everyone!
#FungiFriends #Photography #Macro #EastCoastKin
Happy Saturday everyone!
#FungiFriends #Photography #Macro #EastCoastKin
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
I've had to have severe words with my Xmas Cactus. It's still November but it's jumping on the bandwagon since hearing all those adverts.
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I've had to have severe words with my Xmas Cactus. It's still November but it's jumping on the bandwagon since hearing all those adverts.
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Dermatologists criticise ‘dystopian’ skincare products aimed at children
Dermatologists criticise ‘dystopian’ skincare products aimed at children
Marketing or celebrity-led treatments for toddlers and upwards described as ‘ridiculous’ and lacking in skin benefit
Dermatologists have criticised an actor’s new skincare brand, calling it “dystopian” for creating face masks for four-year-olds, warning that the beauty industry is now expanding its reach from teenagers to toddlers.
It comes as a growing number of brands are moving into the children’s, teenage and young adult skincare market. In October, the first skincare brand developed for under-14s, Ever-eden, launched in the US. Superdrug has just created a range for those aged between 13 and 28. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Dermatologists criticise ‘dystopian’ skincare products aimed at children
BBC News - Patronato: My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco's Spain - so she was locked up and put in a coma - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Patronato: My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco's Spain - so she was locked up and put in a coma
Marina's mother was held against her will in a convent in 1960s Spain under Franco's regime.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
BBC News - Patronato: My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco's Spain - so she was locked up and put in a coma - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Artist’s painting of an acrobatic dancer on a flake of limestone, c. 1292 - 1077 BC.
Around 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, artists used stone fragments for painting and drawing instead of paper sketchpads!
From Deir el-Medina. Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Around 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, artists used stone fragments for painting and drawing instead of paper sketchpads!
From Deir el-Medina. Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Artist’s painting of an acrobatic dancer on a flake of limestone, c. 1292 - 1077 BC.
Around 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, artists used stone fragments for painting and drawing instead of paper sketchpads!
From Deir el-Medina. Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Around 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, artists used stone fragments for painting and drawing instead of paper sketchpads!
From Deir el-Medina. Museo Egizio, Turin 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
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Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama creates sculptures of animals using a technique involving rolled strips of wet newspaper #womensart
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama creates sculptures of animals using a technique involving rolled strips of wet newspaper #womensart
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*Thread! 😀
Here are my brand new 2026 Birds calendars! 🐦❤️
This is the Double A4 version. 😊
You can buy it here;
www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦
Here are my brand new 2026 Birds calendars! 🐦❤️
This is the Double A4 version. 😊
You can buy it here;
www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦
May 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
*Thread! 😀
Here are my brand new 2026 Birds calendars! 🐦❤️
This is the Double A4 version. 😊
You can buy it here;
www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦
Here are my brand new 2026 Birds calendars! 🐦❤️
This is the Double A4 version. 😊
You can buy it here;
www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦
Two giants fighting for all to witness.
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Two giants fighting for all to witness.
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
Going to and from Tesco's this morning, I saw all the usual suspects, Blackbird, Wood Pigeon, and Herring Gull.
I also spotted a male Blackcap and sat overlooking the shallow stream a Kingfisher.
@drrjwarren.bsky.social
@saocousins.bsky.social
@stevecobbin.bsky.social
Et al.
I also spotted a male Blackcap and sat overlooking the shallow stream a Kingfisher.
@drrjwarren.bsky.social
@saocousins.bsky.social
@stevecobbin.bsky.social
Et al.
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Going to and from Tesco's this morning, I saw all the usual suspects, Blackbird, Wood Pigeon, and Herring Gull.
I also spotted a male Blackcap and sat overlooking the shallow stream a Kingfisher.
@drrjwarren.bsky.social
@saocousins.bsky.social
@stevecobbin.bsky.social
Et al.
I also spotted a male Blackcap and sat overlooking the shallow stream a Kingfisher.
@drrjwarren.bsky.social
@saocousins.bsky.social
@stevecobbin.bsky.social
Et al.
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Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.
September 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.
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Reform is a (bad) mood and not a political party in the traditional sense.
Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs.
No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that.
You cannot defeat delusion with reason.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs.
No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that.
You cannot defeat delusion with reason.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Keir Starmer blasts Nigel Farage over 'unrealistic' plans that 'foster division'
Keir Starmer's press secretary said Nigel Farage had no interest in fixing the problems gripping Britain with its proposals to scrap the main route to British citizenship for migrants
www.mirror.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reform is a (bad) mood and not a political party in the traditional sense.
Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs.
No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that.
You cannot defeat delusion with reason.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Its followers don't care about facts. They care about their beliefs.
No amount of fact checking will work and their critics need to adjust to that.
You cannot defeat delusion with reason.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Fox sits in gold and brambles, as the crisp air draws near.
He breathes out, accepting this shift in the year.
Cold is returning, inviting him to retreat.
As the trees speak of change and the hope of release.
No need to hold tightly, just trust and know.
Autumn Equinox teaches the spirit to let go.
He breathes out, accepting this shift in the year.
Cold is returning, inviting him to retreat.
As the trees speak of change and the hope of release.
No need to hold tightly, just trust and know.
Autumn Equinox teaches the spirit to let go.
September 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Fox sits in gold and brambles, as the crisp air draws near.
He breathes out, accepting this shift in the year.
Cold is returning, inviting him to retreat.
As the trees speak of change and the hope of release.
No need to hold tightly, just trust and know.
Autumn Equinox teaches the spirit to let go.
He breathes out, accepting this shift in the year.
Cold is returning, inviting him to retreat.
As the trees speak of change and the hope of release.
No need to hold tightly, just trust and know.
Autumn Equinox teaches the spirit to let go.
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I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
September 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
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“The swallows can be distinguished from the martins by their reddish-chestnut throats and foreheads, their beautiful steel-blue backs and wings, and their long, forked tails”
What to Look for in Autumn, 1960
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist : CF Tunnicliffe
What to Look for in Autumn, 1960
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist : CF Tunnicliffe
September 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
“The swallows can be distinguished from the martins by their reddish-chestnut throats and foreheads, their beautiful steel-blue backs and wings, and their long, forked tails”
What to Look for in Autumn, 1960
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist : CF Tunnicliffe
What to Look for in Autumn, 1960
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist : CF Tunnicliffe
Sometimes, all they want is human contact.
Tea-towel is a long story concerning a different cat.
@cats.bsky.social @gingercats.bsky.social #gingerandwhitecats
#cats
Tea-towel is a long story concerning a different cat.
@cats.bsky.social @gingercats.bsky.social #gingerandwhitecats
#cats
September 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Sometimes, all they want is human contact.
Tea-towel is a long story concerning a different cat.
@cats.bsky.social @gingercats.bsky.social #gingerandwhitecats
#cats
Tea-towel is a long story concerning a different cat.
@cats.bsky.social @gingercats.bsky.social #gingerandwhitecats
#cats
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