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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 19h

Ivy flowering next to the River Soar, Leicester, this morning, before the fog cleared. #WildflowerHour

Lower half of the photo, foreground, shows ivy flowers growing on the bank of the River Soar, Leicester. In the background the river and a former textile factory are shrouded in fog.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5d

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com

Panel 1
A figure stands at a lectern
"This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything."
The screen is completely packed with such things

Panel 2,3,4,5.
Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 7d

Too often clear blue skies turn hazy with a criss-cross pattern of thin cloud. Only there because of the airplanes.

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 7d

"They discovered how the immune system is kept in check."

Also raising the profile of research into autoimmune diseases, when the check no longer works, with devastating consequences. #nobelprize

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

www.nobelprize.org

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Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · 7d

For #WildflowerHour this evening, Silverweed with a bonus 7-spot Ladybird.

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David Misstear @dmisstear.bsky.social · 7d

Tutsan, The Metals, Dún Laoghaire. #wildflowerhour

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Sarah @sarahsramblings.bsky.social · 7d

Mallow flowers; thinking common mallow and thinking musk mallow #WildFlowerHour

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 7d

Scentless Mayweed and Shaggy Soldier. #WildFlowerHour

Photo looking down on Scentless Mayweed, a white flower with a yellow centre. There is one yellow flower in the centre which may be Hawksbeard. Centre bottom, one spike of Fat Hen.

Photo looking down on leaves and flowers of Shaggy Soldier.

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 10d

Found it chilling that two of the places mentioned in the Eagles "The Last Resort" (Hotel California, 1976), Paradise, California and Lahaina, Hawaii have been destroyed in wildfires. Also that this song is almost 50 years old. It's not that we didn't know.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ETN...

The Last Resort (2013 Remaster)

YouTube video by Eagles - Topic

www.youtube.com

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 10d

Reminds me of about 30 years ago writing html in notepad, and experimenting with javascript to see just how garish a webpage could be. 💾 📺 Couldn't do it now, it's all got too complex.😕

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John Martin @pilning.bsky.social · 14d

Crocus nudiflorus (Autumn Crocus) spreading in Shrewsbury in the Quarry. There are more over towards Frankwell in more natural grassland but we were passing these in the week and they were looking splendid in the autumn sunshine. @janettem34.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Autumn Crocus (Crocus nudiflorus) in grassland

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 14d

Lots of Michaelmas daisies and the odd bee. #WildflowerHour

Orange fluffy Common carder bee on pale lilac Michaelmas daisies.

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Caroline Breyley @carolinebreyley.bsky.social · 14d

Sea rocket, Monreith Beach, Dumfries and Galloway
#wildflowerhour

Tiny purple flowers on plant growing on pebble beach.

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Pintail Pictures @pintailpictures.bsky.social · 14d

Common Toadflax that has colonised a driveway of an empty property. #wildflowerhour

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 14d

Rosehips and dried Teasel on a patch of wasteland in an industrial estate.
#wildflowerhour

Close up of bright red rose hips and green leaves.

Close up of dried heads of teasel with some rose hips in the background.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 14d

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

Title: Why do you want the book to be banned?

A cartoon with ten panels showing people answering:

1. I read the book and hated it.

2. I didn't read the book, but I still hate it.

3. I hate books!

4. I love banning things!

5. I could not relate to the characters.

6. I'm not sure, but better safe than sorry?

7. My copy arrived damaged.

8. It could fall into the hands of a child.

9. It could fall on to the head of a child.

10. I didn't understand the ending.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16d

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 18d

700+ people have been arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for peacefully protesting the banning of Palestine Action. It is a violation of the UK’s international obligations. Act now: www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/end-...

End the Prosecution of Peaceful Protestors in the UK

1500+ people have been arrested under terrorism laws in the UK- for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide whether to prosecute them....

www.amnesty.org.uk

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 21d

Ragwort providing for these Small coppers this week in Donegal. #wildflowerhour

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 21d

Dovefoot cranesbill 🌱📷

#WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReporr #UKWildflowers

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 21d

Autumn crocuses in Castle Gardens, Leicester.

(Posting early, because won't be able to post between 8 and 9 pm.) #wildflowerhour

Photo of two autumn crocuses growing among fallen leaves, with an iron railing fence in the background.

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Sue McBean🇺🇦⛵️💚🌱✍️📸 @organicbotanic.bsky.social · 28d

So hard to chose my #FavouritePlant for this week!
Here: Knapweed #BytheSea was truly wonderful
#Wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@botanybeck.bsky.social
@bsbiireland.bsky.social
@plantlifeuk.bsky.social
#wildflower #flower
#VitaminN #Rathlin

A scene of a purple headed flower in the foreground and a seascape behind with a ruined building on the land to the left.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 28d

Single harebell on a hilltop today. #WildflowerHour

Harebell, a lilac blue, wide, bell shaped wildflower on a hilltop.

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Eirian @miltonei.bsky.social · 28d

#favouriteplant
#wildflowerhour
Blue sky with Blackthorn, early April this year. Now, five months later, this blossom has turned into a profusion of sloes.

A bright blue sky with an aeroplane trail in one corner. Many branches of blackthorn in blossom. The branches are densely covered with white flowers.

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johnfen1.bsky.social @johnfen1.bsky.social · 28d

My current #FavouritePlant is the Scarlet Pimpernel that has found its way into the gravel bed at the end of our front garden path #WildflowerHour

Five fully opened Scarlet Pimpernel flowers amongst their slender stemmed leaves growing over and covering underlying gravel

A single Scarlet Pimpernel flower amongst gravel.

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