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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 3m

Inflatable frogs and naked cyclists leading the resistance in Portland. Perfect ❤️❤️

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1h

Alexandria Bay, NY circa 1988? 89?

A photograph - old style kind shot with film and actually printed!! - of an even older American car. Completely painted over with two figures in white outlines, one lying down, on the side. R.E.M. written sideways towards the back of the car, and the phrase ‘is it really so strange?’ written on the back.

Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 2h

Looked at the pic first. Saw a couple names I knew (unfortunately) skimmed the rest, then at the end, paused. Read the OP’s comment for confirmation. This is good. Very very good 🤣🤣 (added photo with alt text)

Background with stylised Stars and Stripes. Cartoon bald eagle and a red USA cap and a beer can with ‘TURNING POINT USA’ above. Below is written:

KID ROCK
AMERICA'S HALFTIME SHOW
TED NUGENT
TRAVIS TRITT
JASON ALDEAN
AARON LEWIS (OF STAIND)
JOHN RICH
LEE GREENWOOD
FORGIGATO BLOW

And right at the end:
‘FEATURING A GUEST APPEARANCE FROM MEASLES’

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 5h

London birds wanted! If you would like to contribute your bird photos taken in London in 2024, please get in touch!

#LondonBirds #BirdPhotography #UKBirding

London Natural History Society @lnhs.bsky.social · 5h

We are currently looking for fantabulous photos of birds from the London area taken in 2024 for the next issue of the LBR. If you would like to contribute, please do contact me for more information at lbrphotos lnhs org uk

#Birds #BirdPhotography #LondonBirds

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 7h

I live in London. I feel safe, as does my London born and bred daughter. The ones complaining actually 1) often don’t live here and 2) blame the immigrants/anybody not white - so yeah, high correlation between those claiming London is a hell hole and racism

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 7h

This historian in me says, that’s a nice story and says something about the people who created it. The romantic in me kicks the historian and then sits there like 😀❤️😀❤️😀❤️😀❤️

Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 8h

🤣🤣🤣🤣 go ahead! (Also better for Bluesky character count!)

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 8h

Nice! Blurry blobs (I call them blurbs) are great - memories of seeing something special ❤️❤️

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 15h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 8h

Awww thanks. I dunno about that bearded tit 🤣🤣🤣 but first and only one I’ve seen so it was a happy dance for me last winter :) Any luck today?

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 11h

Today’s bird of the day: anything from the tits, chickadees and titmice family (Paridae). I’ve got: a long tailed tit, great tit, blue tit acrobatics and a really really rubbish shot of a bearded tit

#Birds #BirdOfTheDay #LondonBirds #UKBirding

A photo of a long tailed tit, perched on a thin branch, looking up. It has a whitish belly, dark wing feathers with a bit of white, long dark tail feathers. Its head is tan with white under its dark beak. It is a round ball of floof and super cute.

A photo of a young great tit, perched on a bush twig, singing. Its abdomen is whitish green. Its wing feather are grey, with white bordering and some green grey at the top, near its neck. The top of its head is black, and it has white cheek patches.

A photo of a blue tit. It is hanging off a branch, exposing its butt. It is looking towards the camera, through its leg. Basically a ball of yellow, with a blue and white head, with a clack stripe across its eyes.

A really bad photo of the only bearded tit I’ve seen, a female. It is shot through the reeds, so there are some blurry strands of the plant. A small brownish bird is perched on one strand, eating the seeds. Beyond is water, blurred and blue.

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 12h

Lovely! Especially of the bearded tits 😍

Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 13h

It’s all 10YR 6/3

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 16h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 17h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 15h

It's #WorldAlgaeDay! Japanese algologist Kintaro Okamura (1867-1935) provided taxonomies & descriptions in English & Japanese for his monumental work "Nihon sorui zufu" / "Icones of Japanese Algae" (1907-1942). Find it in #BHLib via
#MBLWHOILibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪

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Jollytoadstool @jollytoadstool.bsky.social · 3d

🧶Finally, it is time to share the well guarded secret of the Stitch & Witch spooky season library fundraiser project - flower crown wearing cherry leaf dyed botanical boo crochet lavender filled ghosts & most simple knitted socks for to fill a drawer for them to snugly nap in...

A whole of heap of softly coloured naturally dyed yarns - cherry crochet ghosts with mother of pearl eyes & tiny flower crowns on copper wire, very simple knitted colour work socks in progress using buddleja dyed wool, perched on an open illustrated book page of a ghost napping in a sock drawer, with more hand made sweet spirits in a tray to the side, yarn scattered all about.

A more pulled back picture of the first as so as to see more bits!

A montage of the first pictures & the front cover of the illustrated book - how to make friends with a ghost by Rebecca Green - as it was a huge point of inspiration for this project!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 2d

Alas, somebodye took the German holidaye fruit breade. It was stollen!

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

She got help. But this poor man was left to die. A slow, agonising death. So alone, so confused. Because he was Black and people made assumptions. Racist assumptions. And even if it had been drugs? Still help him! I’m just so mad.

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

She was 83 at the time. Old. Therefore, paramedics decided she was just a fragile thing that had a bit of tumble. Probably a bit ditzy with age too. They made assumptions because of her age and did not know the signs of stroke, a massive fuck off stroke that left her paralysed. 5/

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

She had had a massive stroke, which left her paralysed on the right side. She fell because her right leg couldn’t support her. The gash on her arm? It was still bleeding and that arm was fractured. Yes, she could talk but she wasn’t coherent. Her brain freaked from the shock of the stroke. 4/

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

Paramedics decided to take her to hospital to get checked over, only at her friend’s insistence. He knew my mum, that she was active and in great health. Something was very wrong. 3/

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

My mum called me. She told me she couldn’t move her right arm. She sounded weird. I called another ambulance and her downstairs neighbour, who had a key, to check on her. As I was going to her place (she lived quite far from me then), her friend called and said she was in a bad way. 2/

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Dr Anke Ghost of the Marsh 👻👻🎃🎃 @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

This is hugely triggering. A couple of years ago, my mum woke up in the morning and tried to get out of bed. She fell, hit her arm against something and sustained a gash. She managed to call for help. The paramedics came, helped her back into bed and left. 1/

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours