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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖

@moleymole.bsky.social

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An outdoorsy photoshoppy mole- likes National Trust scones & Dartmoor. A bookish mole in a hole seeking the return of integrity. Not sure this account adds much to it though. #AltText - no AI🚫

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 8d

Reminding National Trust members not to turn into a pumpkin - please *use your vote* before the end of the month to support genuine candidates and keep the disingenuous ‘Restore’ stooges away from the Trust’s assets. Easiest way is use ‘Quick Vote’ to endorse official NT AGM recommendations.

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 9d

Pumpkin patch at Hinton Ampner
@nationaltrust.org.uk 🎃

Very large pumpkins on bare soil in a walled garden with espalier fruit trees, ornamental planting beds and outbuilding roofs in the background.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 2h

The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.

And we go where others fear to tread…

Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door

subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/

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Cure Gig Stats @curegigstats.bsky.social · 1h

Yippee!
Happier outcome than Troxy but still stressful

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Janet @heartstillgold.bsky.social · 37m

Time to join the Frog Resistance! Their leader is too cute!! (Thank you, Stephen Colbert!)

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 43m

Fee Glacier today! 🤩

Incredible retreat of both parts!

Here the western part below Alphubel and Täschhorn that used to descend lower...

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1h

I absolutely agree with this👇🏼👇🏼

Vets bills have rocketed by 50-60% since 2015 was £1,000 to have a bad tooth out for our dog (doesn’t cost anyway near that for humans) and with other treatment despite insurance we got a £3,000 bill

A driver has been Corporations buying up vets to fleece owners❗️😡

Vets should be made to publish prices, competition watchdog says

Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, the Competition and Markets Authority found.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 2h

Where is @pitchblacksteed.bsky.social when you need him?

Blackadder II “Potato” episode title card - a chequerboard surface with a lumpen earthy potato plonked on it.

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 3h

Bill Bryson’s words of caution on killer cows in the UK spring to mind, however near or far away.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 4h

It's #HillfortsWednesday 🥳

Here's Cadbury Castle #Somerset, one of the most famous of British hillforts thanks to its impressive form, glorious views and extensive folklore associations

Today its grass covered ramparts are patrolled by inquisitive bovine quadrupeds

📷 July 2021

Cows chewing their way across the grass covered ramparts of an Iron Age hillfort with tree covered hills in the distance

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Dr Sarah Brand @sarahgailbrand.com · 12h

Babies won’t be allowed to be born in the UK until they have a post graduate degree in Physics.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 22h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4h

Get a grip sunshine. People vote in a democracy for the leader they want. It’s still inexplicable to many of us that the US voted for you not just once but twice, but that’s how the system works. Read a book about it.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 11h

Trump threatens to punish Argentina if Milei loses elections www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump threatens to cut US aid to Argentina if Milei loses election

US president says ‘we will not be generous’ if leader fails to win key midterms after promising $20bn to prop up struggling economy

www.theguardian.com

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 4h

Public awareness need to shift - back gardens are one easily identifiable starting point for a better understanding of the wider collapse as it’s noticeably worse (otherwise it’s just someone else’s problem [industry’s] to solve and the perception and pressure for change has less personal meaning).

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is “creating a media monopoly in order to keep himself in power...the larger pattern, not just TikTok...we have seen countless media companies like the coming under control of right-wing oligarchs. We have seen constant pressure on the press, new rules from the Pentagon...”

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 4h

Restoring faith in people’s own gardens (where they have access to one) would be my starting point. A drop in the ocean perhaps, but challenging the astroturf low maintenace myth and restoring a patchwork of messy domestic wildlife gardens can help shape wider attitudes. bsky.app/profile/mole...

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 21d

Ideas like enforcing hollow ‘Swift brick’ bird boxes through the Planning system seem to completely miss the underlying crisis -without suitable habitat or food sources to support wider recovery, those bricks just stay empty, and the collapse continues. bsky.app/profile/mole...

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · Jun 6

Moley’s “Garden For Wildlife” Public Information sheet is now revised & expanded after the ‘Swift Brick’ campaign. A patchwork of messy old gardens still seem best - each one lost to astroturf & paving is another nail in the coffin of UK wildlife. #Compost #Birds #Bats #Bees #Hedgehogs #Insects

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah it's only matter of time before they decide archaeology is the reason for the housing crisis, too.

Build baby build until we have no past, no future... What a present.

Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · 23h

We are being sold a false story that nature is the enemy. That newts, bats, snails and spiders are somehow responsible for the so-called housing crisis and a blocker to economic growth. This is a deliberate lie - using a cynically chosen group of species that could be found in a witches cauldron.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 13h

I remember being taken round there by Billy O'Brien in 2017.

He said it was the largest dolmen IN THE UNIVERSE

I enjoyed making Fr Ted images:

This dolmen is the largest on the universe....this dolmen is very far away...

Fingers gripping a dolmen - forced perspective has been used.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 13h

Monte Rosa (4634 m) tonight! 🤩

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 13h

Rugs on highly polished floors, boiling kettles with leads and overloaded plug sockets - exactly the sort of hazards the general public need to be kept aware of.

Retro style poster with a smouldering multiple plug socket set in a tiled wall.
“Electricity can kill - BE A BRIGHT SPARK
and unplug your dangerously overloaded sockets at bedtime.”
“Always look for the kite mark - but that still won't protect you from sheer stupidity. Sleep well.”

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 14h

Purest green.

Wolfweeds - green predatory balls of vegetation - from Doctor Who - and Grotbags the Witch from Emu’s Pink Windmill.

Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 15h

A level English suddenly seems attainable

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15h

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants must have a unquenchable thirst for Tripods S3.

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Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 15h

Went to Bryher today - big influx of thrushes: Fieldfare, Redwing, Ring Ouzel and Song Thrush - birds from the far north #islesofscilly

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 16h

The Queen Stone: A squatter version of the Devil's Arrows, near Ross-on-Wye. Very grooved, probably due to the action of rainwater. It doesn't look it but it is 7ft (2.1m) tall. On private land quite a way from the road, in a field in the bend of the River Wye, at Symonds Yat.

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Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 19h

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

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Niemöller 2.0 🏃‍♂️ @brentcrude.bsky.social · 18h

First English degrees are useless, then this. I do wish they'd make their minds up

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