Steph' Thorpe
@stephbirdart.bsky.social
Artist who paints the waifs and stray birds that arrive in the UK. Modelmaker, gardener and Derby County fan. 🚫No AI🚫
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Steph' Thorpe
@stephbirdart.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Not a bad first rarity through my new #Leica #Ultravids The @flamboroughbird.bsky.social Song Sparrow.
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild:
Walrus
Alligator
Ross's Gull
Cretzschmar's Bunting
Whites Thrush
Humpback Whale
Walrus
Alligator
Ross's Gull
Cretzschmar's Bunting
Whites Thrush
Humpback Whale
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Black bear
Bobcat
Coyote
Humpback whale
Bison
Black bear
Bobcat
Coyote
Humpback whale
Bison
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Resplendent quetzal
Ohlone tiger beetle
Blue whale
Northern elephant seal
Southern sea otter 🦦
Resplendent quetzal
Ohlone tiger beetle
Blue whale
Northern elephant seal
Southern sea otter 🦦
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild:
Walrus
Alligator
Ross's Gull
Cretzschmar's Bunting
Whites Thrush
Humpback Whale
Walrus
Alligator
Ross's Gull
Cretzschmar's Bunting
Whites Thrush
Humpback Whale
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Whooper Swans, sounding like a brass band falling down the stairs. Sound up. #ukbirding
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Whooper Swans, sounding like a brass band falling down the stairs. Sound up. #ukbirding
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Time for a blog post from southern Nova Scotia, quite a long one.
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Nearly There
When I first stepped onto the listing treadmill with a Marmora’s Warbler on 21st May 1982, my ambition at the time, besides learning all I could about birds and birding, was to make the coveted ‘40…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Time for a blog post from southern Nova Scotia, quite a long one.
capesablebirding.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/n... #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching
capesablebirding.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/n... #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching
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A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
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Extraordinary record of Willow Tit from Moray!! - 250km-ish from nearest breeders or 550km from Scandinavia! @richardkbroughton.bsky.social birdsinmorayandnairn.org/bird-recordi...
Recent records — Birds in Moray and Nairn
birdsinmorayandnairn.org
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Extraordinary record of Willow Tit from Moray!! - 250km-ish from nearest breeders or 550km from Scandinavia! @richardkbroughton.bsky.social birdsinmorayandnairn.org/bird-recordi...
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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this has been my experience talking with folks who are all-in on LLMs – it's like we're living on different planets
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
this has been my experience talking with folks who are all-in on LLMs – it's like we're living on different planets
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It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
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Come for the thread, stay for the description of Badenoch as a "SparkNotes ideologue".
I say this as someone who is very much anti-intellectual - few politicians in this country did more to make anti-intellectualism central to political communication than Tony Blair
He wasn't anti-intellectual himself, but New Labour was very self-conscious about cultivating a "common touch"
He wasn't anti-intellectual himself, but New Labour was very self-conscious about cultivating a "common touch"
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Come for the thread, stay for the description of Badenoch as a "SparkNotes ideologue".
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The generation of New Labour "strategists" and flunkies who grew up in Blair's slipstream thought "comms" were everything. There was nothing behind the eyes. There was no "there" there.
And Cameron played the same role for the Tories, but on steroids.
And Cameron played the same role for the Tories, but on steroids.
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The generation of New Labour "strategists" and flunkies who grew up in Blair's slipstream thought "comms" were everything. There was nothing behind the eyes. There was no "there" there.
And Cameron played the same role for the Tories, but on steroids.
And Cameron played the same role for the Tories, but on steroids.
Well white folk didn't assimilate with the Native American tribes whose land it is so maybe he has a point...
This is proper Nazi stuff right here.😡
This is proper Nazi stuff right here.😡
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Well white folk didn't assimilate with the Native American tribes whose land it is so maybe he has a point...
This is proper Nazi stuff right here.😡
This is proper Nazi stuff right here.😡
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WTF are the people who produce this drivel on
The UK Supreme Court hasn’t just ordered a general election
The UK Supreme Court hasn’t just ordered a general election – Full Fact
The news announced in a Facebook video has no basis in fact.
fullfact.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
WTF are the people who produce this drivel on
Yay it lives!
Happy Gävlebocken season! Every year since 1966, Gävle, Sweden, has erected a massive version of Scandinavia's traditional straw Yule goat. It is so attractive to vandals—particularly arsonists—that in the previous 59 years, only 17 goats have survived fully intact. Good luck in 2025, Gävlebocken!
The Gävlebocken cam is live folks, this is not a drill
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Yay it lives!
Relieved to find my car started after a month of inactivity! Managed a short drive to top up the battery...
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Relieved to find my car started after a month of inactivity! Managed a short drive to top up the battery...
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“For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”
We honor the men and women who laid down their lives for Ukraine.
RIP - Pavlo Drozd, Taras Huk, Ivan Dychko, Norwegian fighter Stian Alexander Nordhaug Meland
We honor the men and women who laid down their lives for Ukraine.
RIP - Pavlo Drozd, Taras Huk, Ivan Dychko, Norwegian fighter Stian Alexander Nordhaug Meland
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 AM
“For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”
We honor the men and women who laid down their lives for Ukraine.
RIP - Pavlo Drozd, Taras Huk, Ivan Dychko, Norwegian fighter Stian Alexander Nordhaug Meland
We honor the men and women who laid down their lives for Ukraine.
RIP - Pavlo Drozd, Taras Huk, Ivan Dychko, Norwegian fighter Stian Alexander Nordhaug Meland
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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Rabbit on watch. Cold, hungry and tired just like me right now. Work continues on third Gwelf book. More soon.
November 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Rabbit on watch. Cold, hungry and tired just like me right now. Work continues on third Gwelf book. More soon.
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
The Gävlebocken cometh...
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The Gävlebocken cometh...
With me it would be cheese😂😂😂
A drawing from 2016 which feels relevant for my American friends today
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
With me it would be cheese😂😂😂
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Smart Eastern Black Redstart in St Mary's churchyard, Scarborough today. Initially flighty and feeding in the trees late morning, It showed well early afternoon in the old lower disused graveyard. @birdguides.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Smart Eastern Black Redstart in St Mary's churchyard, Scarborough today. Initially flighty and feeding in the trees late morning, It showed well early afternoon in the old lower disused graveyard. @birdguides.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
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Autumn Leaf 3
Watercolour, approximately 80 × 132 mm.
I lost my way with this one. The extent of the rust spots were paving my way to overworking even without my own blundering, and I of course walked merrily -- and then tearfully -- right into it.
1/3
Watercolour, approximately 80 × 132 mm.
I lost my way with this one. The extent of the rust spots were paving my way to overworking even without my own blundering, and I of course walked merrily -- and then tearfully -- right into it.
1/3
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Autumn Leaf 3
Watercolour, approximately 80 × 132 mm.
I lost my way with this one. The extent of the rust spots were paving my way to overworking even without my own blundering, and I of course walked merrily -- and then tearfully -- right into it.
1/3
Watercolour, approximately 80 × 132 mm.
I lost my way with this one. The extent of the rust spots were paving my way to overworking even without my own blundering, and I of course walked merrily -- and then tearfully -- right into it.
1/3
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Sunday is 5 years since I adopted the most ridiculous wobbly little man the world has ever seen.
I think you know what has to happen. It's gonna be ✨ SMOL PAUL DAY ✨
I think you know what has to happen. It's gonna be ✨ SMOL PAUL DAY ✨
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sunday is 5 years since I adopted the most ridiculous wobbly little man the world has ever seen.
I think you know what has to happen. It's gonna be ✨ SMOL PAUL DAY ✨
I think you know what has to happen. It's gonna be ✨ SMOL PAUL DAY ✨
It really should be acquired for the nation. It is a cultural gem.
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It really should be acquired for the nation. It is a cultural gem.
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I'd like to think some selfless m/billionaire will buy it at auction and donate it to the public as something culturally significant to the UK in the most marvellously weird way, for permanent exhibition.
I'd really like to think that.
I'd really like to think that.
One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I'd like to think some selfless m/billionaire will buy it at auction and donate it to the public as something culturally significant to the UK in the most marvellously weird way, for permanent exhibition.
I'd really like to think that.
I'd really like to think that.