Fairylight
@ericbearshug.bsky.social
Mancunian. Keen interest in all things WW1. Lover of loud music. Mum to Eric Bear. Womb cancer survivor. Refugee from the other place.
No DMs as I'm not happy about doing this identification stuff.
No DMs as I'm not happy about doing this identification stuff.
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#BarnsleyRemembers all those who paid the ultimate price by working underground at 1pm today at the Oaks memorial in town, the NUM will also be open from 10am.
The Oaks Disaster list is now available on our website www.barnsley-museums.com/Oaks_Disaster
The Oaks Disaster list is now available on our website www.barnsley-museums.com/Oaks_Disaster
The Oaks Disaster, 1866 - The Worst Coal Mining Disaster in English History
Barnsley Museums are owned and operated by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council. The museums are Cannon Hall, Worsbrough Mill, Cooper Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre and Experience Barnsley.
www.barnsley-museums.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
#BarnsleyRemembers all those who paid the ultimate price by working underground at 1pm today at the Oaks memorial in town, the NUM will also be open from 10am.
The Oaks Disaster list is now available on our website www.barnsley-museums.com/Oaks_Disaster
The Oaks Disaster list is now available on our website www.barnsley-museums.com/Oaks_Disaster
@bearspipe.bsky.social I was searching for yr address earlier but found it now!!! Am not doing DMs here but have enclosed my email address in the card 😉
December 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
@bearspipe.bsky.social I was searching for yr address earlier but found it now!!! Am not doing DMs here but have enclosed my email address in the card 😉
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I would watch the shit out of this buddy movie.
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I would watch the shit out of this buddy movie.
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Are you ready to open door number 10?
Let’s see who’s bringing the winter cheer today...
#RSPBAdvent25
Let’s see who’s bringing the winter cheer today...
#RSPBAdvent25
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Are you ready to open door number 10?
Let’s see who’s bringing the winter cheer today...
#RSPBAdvent25
Let’s see who’s bringing the winter cheer today...
#RSPBAdvent25
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December 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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"London had around 104 homicides last year. Let’s put that number into context – New Orleans had 124 homicides last year. That might make London look just a little bit safer than New Orleans, but here’s the thing – more than nine million people live in London, but only 360,000 live in New Orleans."
A letter to Donald Trump, from London
You don’t seem to like London very much, or our mayor. But people around here live longer than Americans, and we’re much less likely to get murdered. As for your Sharia law claims - have you ever actu...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"London had around 104 homicides last year. Let’s put that number into context – New Orleans had 124 homicides last year. That might make London look just a little bit safer than New Orleans, but here’s the thing – more than nine million people live in London, but only 360,000 live in New Orleans."
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NEW | The countdown of this year’s most contemptible columns continues…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
Our annual look at the commentariat's most contemptuous content continues.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM
NEW | The countdown of this year’s most contemptible columns continues…
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
The 25 Worst Columns of 2025, Part Two: Bullies cosplaying as victims, monarchy fan fiction, and the never-ending search for the 'good' Tory...
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-25-wor...
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Voi just witnessed the most glorious homecoming – long-absent ex-orphans returned to debut two new babies! Meet Kihari leading the group with brand new baby Kiki. Somehow everyone knew to gather this morning: 54 orphans, ex-orphans, and wild-born babies in total: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Voi just witnessed the most glorious homecoming – long-absent ex-orphans returned to debut two new babies! Meet Kihari leading the group with brand new baby Kiki. Somehow everyone knew to gather this morning: 54 orphans, ex-orphans, and wild-born babies in total: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news
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On the Seventh Day of #HutVent2025, Kieran explains how fighting age men were given protection from enthusiastic white feather bearers...
youtu.be/JrW96Bxpw3M
youtu.be/JrW96Bxpw3M
December 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
On the Seventh Day of #HutVent2025, Kieran explains how fighting age men were given protection from enthusiastic white feather bearers...
youtu.be/JrW96Bxpw3M
youtu.be/JrW96Bxpw3M
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A photo of snowy King Street, Manchester, taken 8th December, 1976.
December 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A photo of snowy King Street, Manchester, taken 8th December, 1976.
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The first photo of Chernobyl on the morning of the nuclear (April 26, 1986). The heavy grain is due to the huge amount of radiation in the air that began to destroy the camera film the second it was exposed for this photo. #NuclearPower #Disaster #HistoricPhotos
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The first photo of Chernobyl on the morning of the nuclear (April 26, 1986). The heavy grain is due to the huge amount of radiation in the air that began to destroy the camera film the second it was exposed for this photo. #NuclearPower #Disaster #HistoricPhotos
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Part 2 is tonight 7.12.25, 8pm UK time, live on Blue Sky! #MountaineeringBears be sure to be at Basecamp, bus will be running from Bear Lodge if you need transport!
Part #MountaineeringBears Blaven adventure will be sunday 8pm 🇬🇧 live on Blue sky. Here is a recap of part 1
December 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Part 2 is tonight 7.12.25, 8pm UK time, live on Blue Sky! #MountaineeringBears be sure to be at Basecamp, bus will be running from Bear Lodge if you need transport!
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We had a lovely evening at Snape Maltings last night listening to the marvellous Grimethorpe Colliery Band perform Christmas songs.
What a wonderful bunch they are. Fantastic, festive, brass music, delivered with great humour.
They also have a Great War connection as they were formed in 1917.
🎄🎺
What a wonderful bunch they are. Fantastic, festive, brass music, delivered with great humour.
They also have a Great War connection as they were formed in 1917.
🎄🎺
December 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We had a lovely evening at Snape Maltings last night listening to the marvellous Grimethorpe Colliery Band perform Christmas songs.
What a wonderful bunch they are. Fantastic, festive, brass music, delivered with great humour.
They also have a Great War connection as they were formed in 1917.
🎄🎺
What a wonderful bunch they are. Fantastic, festive, brass music, delivered with great humour.
They also have a Great War connection as they were formed in 1917.
🎄🎺
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We have a special guest for Day 6 of #HutVent2025 to help Lyndsay tell the story of a 1915 biscuity present (there were always going to be biscuits!)...
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#HutVent
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#HutVent
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We have a special guest for Day 6 of #HutVent2025 to help Lyndsay tell the story of a 1915 biscuity present (there were always going to be biscuits!)...
shorturl.at/VwzJ4
#HutVent
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#HutVent
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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
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The moment Kaikai grew strong enough to walk great distances, our little sprite discovered her non-negotiable: daily mud baths. Weather forecasts mean nothing. Keeper schedules are merely suggestions. When Kaikai decides it's mud time, it's mud time! swt.bio/kaikai
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The moment Kaikai grew strong enough to walk great distances, our little sprite discovered her non-negotiable: daily mud baths. Weather forecasts mean nothing. Keeper schedules are merely suggestions. When Kaikai decides it's mud time, it's mud time! swt.bio/kaikai
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It's Day 3 of #HutVent2025 and Kieran has a fascinating German publication to share with us! 🗞️
youtu.be/R3hvBu6_sG8
youtu.be/R3hvBu6_sG8
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It's Day 3 of #HutVent2025 and Kieran has a fascinating German publication to share with us! 🗞️
youtu.be/R3hvBu6_sG8
youtu.be/R3hvBu6_sG8
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A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A prime example of how the far right can never be appeased. Give them whatever they demand and they’ll bank it, then use it as a new base camp to strike out for more and worse.
Nooo damn you Ken Bruce #mariahgeddon !! 🤣🤣
December 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Nooo damn you Ken Bruce #mariahgeddon !! 🤣🤣
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4 December 1865 The final meeting for the Cotton Relief Fund was held. The fund had provided aid during the Lancashire Cotton Famine, when the American Civil War had stopped raw cotton imports from southern states. Donations came from ‘every quarter of the globe’.
December 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
4 December 1865 The final meeting for the Cotton Relief Fund was held. The fund had provided aid during the Lancashire Cotton Famine, when the American Civil War had stopped raw cotton imports from southern states. Donations came from ‘every quarter of the globe’.
The German President is in the UK for a state visit - the first one in 27 years.
We took to the streets in Germany to ask Germans what the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the UK. 🤔
We took to the streets in Germany to ask Germans what the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the UK. 🤔
December 3, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The introductory bells to #Hutvent have become an integral part of my Christmas now!
We are back!🎄
110 years after the First World War Taff opens the batting, once again, with some natty pieces of 1915 headgear and introduces #HutVent2025
(With grateful thanks to Ramsey Green)
youtu.be/7na3SWTP_Jg
110 years after the First World War Taff opens the batting, once again, with some natty pieces of 1915 headgear and introduces #HutVent2025
(With grateful thanks to Ramsey Green)
youtu.be/7na3SWTP_Jg
December 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The introductory bells to #Hutvent have become an integral part of my Christmas now!
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On the second day of #HutVent2025 Taff tells the story of the Military Cross and the tale of one particular recipient...
youtu.be/esDh-Cw75fc
youtu.be/esDh-Cw75fc
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
On the second day of #HutVent2025 Taff tells the story of the Military Cross and the tale of one particular recipient...
youtu.be/esDh-Cw75fc
youtu.be/esDh-Cw75fc
In the spring this area will also be planted with specially selected seeds to create a dedicated butterfly food buffet. Our plan is to continue to keep Warriston a butterfly haven & to expand on this by growing specific flowers & plants that are proven to be beneficial. #Pollinators #Butterflies 2/2
December 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM