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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱

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English language teacher, journalist, (@forteantimes, @MysteryAnimals,) Chair @DunwichMuseum. https://bigcatsofsuffolk.com Currently writing ✍️ "Armies of the Belgian Revolution" for Partizan Press.

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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · 24d

The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum
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Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30 online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
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NUJ London Freelance Branch 🗞️ @nujlfb.bsky.social · 1d

#Spycops - the Undercover Policing Inquiry returns today, starting with three days of opening statements online only.

Tune in on the UCPI youtube channel and get rolling coverage of all the developments as they happen by following @tombfowler and searching #spycops on socials.

Who are the Spycops? Undercover Policing Inquiry returns today, Monday 13 Oct.

Instant reportage and commentary from activists.

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The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 1d

With the full knowledge of her #spycops managers HN26 released mink from Crow Hill Farm in Ringwood, Hampshire on the night of 8th August 1998 (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

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The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Skelton recognises that the #spycops failed to follow their own internal policies let alone the national standards. (@tombfowler.bsky.social)

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The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Neil Sheldon is now reading out "The Home Office Guidelines on the Work of a Special Branch in Great Britain (1994)" at length. Reminds me of that kid from school asked to do a presentation who just starts reading aloud from the book the class is studying instead. #spycops ...

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Harvest of tiny purple carrots!

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 4d

Saturday 18 Oct, 6.30pm: The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk. FT regular Matt Salusbury investigates Suffolk's wildmen in an online event. Please email [email protected] and get your free ticket at on our Eventbrite page!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...

The Woodwoses and Wildmen of Suffolk

An online talk by Matt Salusbury onSuffolk's strange woodwose figures.

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Mystery Animals of Suffolk @mysteryanimals.bsky.social · 6d

The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook - naturalist Sir Richard Owen collected newspaper cuttings on sea serpent sightings over many years - one of the oldest cryptozoological cuttings libraries. My article from @forteantimes.bsky.social - mattsalusbury.blogspot.com/2025/10/scep...

Sceptical scrapbook of The Sea Serpent Killer

This article first appeared in Fortean Times , FT 462, October 2025. Owen's scrapbook includes this 1877 engraving of a 60ft(18m)-long s...

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NUJ London Freelance Branch 🗞️ @nujlfb.bsky.social · 12d

NUJ responds to removal of journalists from @UKLabour Party Conference. "It’s a journalist’s job to hold power to account, and in a functioning democracy, elected reps must be transparent and open to challenge." #pressfreedom

NUJ responds to removal of journalists from Labour Party Conference

The NUJ is concerned by a decision to revoke the passes of journalists attending the Labour Party Conference.

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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 12d

The NUJ has issued notice to ballot members for industrial action at The Mirror and Reach's Scottish titles in a dispute over job losses, workloads, and artificial intelligence.

The NUJ has asked members to vote ‘yes’ to both strike action and action short of strike.

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NUJ issues formal ballot notices to Reach over mass redundancies

The NUJ has submitted formal notices to ballot members for industrial action at The Mirror and Reach plc’s Scottish titles in a dispute over job losses, unreasonable workloads, and the use of artifici...

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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · 24d

The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum
talk -
Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30 online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo...
@discoverdunwich.bsky.social

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 25d

Andor would want you to cancel your Disney+ subscription.

It's the least you can do for the Rebellion.

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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · Sep 12

Faux fossil sauropod bones and a pterosaur, Jurassic Bay Adventure Golf, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. #FossilFriday

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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · Sep 11

Initial analysis of geological sample collected by Perseverance Mars rover is "best evidence yet" for existence of earlier life on Mars. Tiny spots in the sample are suggestive of iron-rich minerals that are often the product of reactions caused by microbes. gizmodo.com/perseverance...

Perseverance Rover Finds Potential Sign of Ancient Life in Martian Rock

During a press conference today, NASA presented findings from the initial analysis of a Martian geological sample, touting it as possibly

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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · Sep 7

"The Sea Serpent Killer's sceptical scrapbook" - my illustrated article on probably one of the first cryptozoological clippings libraries, kept by Sir Richard Owen, a Natural History Museum co-founder who coined the term "dinosaur". In this month's @forteantimes.bsky.social (FT 462. October 2025).

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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · Sep 7

I used to have a couple of issues of Bugs and Drugs back in the day. I knew its Bear Hackenbush, lead singer of Lunatic Fringe. Bugs n Drugs was briefly on sale in the Virgin Megastore, I recall.

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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Rosa @rosalindanne.bsky.social · Sep 1

I am 76 & I have had most of these vaccinations at one time or another. Also vaccinations against Covid, Tetanus, plus Cholera & Yellow Fever when travelling in foreign countries.
These prevented me catching horrible diseases & dying a gruesome death. They did not harm me, they protected me!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · Aug 30

The man who has put up the most England flags in Manchester was caught in 2016 trying to smuggle 4 Vietnamese people into the UK.

Now he is out of prison hanging up flags.

Any old grift.

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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · Aug 29

Fragments of Jurassic oyster 🦪 shells in Portland Stone(?) in the facade of the Mashall Building at the LSE @lseblogs.bsky.social - my current place of work. #FossilFriday @pavementgeology.bsky.social

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · Aug 27

“ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

“ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs

ChatGPT taught teen jailbreak so bot could assist in his suicide, lawsuit says.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 27

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

A family outside their home. Their deck is loaded with guns.

A man in his living room. His living room is full of guns. There's also a big safe labeled "Liberty."

A man outside his home. The walkway into his home is full of guns.

A woman outside her garage. The front of her home is full of guns, some laid out in a star formation.

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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · Aug 28

Student newspaper The Stanford Daily is suing Trump Administration's for its targeted deportation of student journalists based on their reporting, in a First Amendment suit. theintercept.com/2025/08/26/s...

The Student Newspaper Suing Marco Rubio Over Targeted Deportations

The Stanford Daily argues the First Amendment protects journalists from arcane laws used against Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk.

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Scares Erman 👻 🎃 🐾 📷 🌿 🎨 @pegerman.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

Screen shot of Neil Fish posting "your dad shouts at hotels" is an insult the kids at my nephew's school use on each other.

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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · Aug 24

Surge in cancellations of Refirm events in Norfolk eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/a-s...

A surge in venue cancellations left Reform UK floundering for new options

Reform UK's local branches face repeated cancellations, as venues withdraw bookings amid staff protests and community backlash

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