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Nick Moyes (Peat free)
@nickmoyes.bsky.social
Naturalist, mountaineer, museum curator, Flora writer, photographer, Derby Peregrine Project, Wikipedia admin & novice allotmenteer. Retired.

Two thirds of what I say is correct; half is not. #Derby, UK
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So I asked Elon Musk's Grok #AI tool why so many people were abandoning #Musk's own platform (X, formerly #Twitter)

Here's what it told me . . .

#SurprisinglyHonest
#X #ElonMusk #Grok
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What the US is committed to: Respect territorial integrity, prosecute war crimes, keep NATO open

What Trump's plan requires: Recognize conquest, grant amnesty, close NATO door

71 direct contradictions.
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/24/t...
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Right, time to head northwards from #Wellington, and to the Tongariro Alpine Crossing!
Hoping for better weather than this morning!
November 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A 150-metre mountain of toxic waste has just been found dumped beside the River Cherwell.
November 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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"There can be no other interpretation of what they said" unless you listen to what they said.
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes…

And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say

…funny that.
November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Very proud of former Reform MP, James McMurdock. Who better to stand up for women and girls than a man sent to prison for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend?
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Could have been embarrassing this evening: the wife almost trod on a kiwi that bumbled across her path during a nighttime tour at #Zealandia.
a kiwi bird is standing in the grass with a pink stripe on its leg
Alt: a kiwi bird is standing in the grass, probing for food
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 AM
A gorgeous Tuatara lizard at Wellington’s #Zealandia exclosure.
November 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK.

Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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23,000 people died because Boris Johnson was too busy walking a dog, riding a motorbike and hosting guests as he took four days off at Chevening, instead of addressing warning signs of the pandemic

Why isn't Boris Johnson in jail?
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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“Did Nathan Gill ever say anything you disagree with in return for his bribes from a Kremlin stooge?”

“Did you, in your roles as his boss, friend, mentor & party leader, ever question his full-throated support for an enemy of the UK and if not, why not?”

You can have those for nothing, lads.
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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The U.S. Tightens the Vise on an Already Besieged Zelensky www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...
The U.S. Tightens the Vise on an Already Besieged Zelensky
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“Yet across the gulf of space…intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.”

#Wellington
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I’m no actor, but I’ve just found myself in a re-run of Schindler’s Lift.

Now on the 21st floor.
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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This young man has it exactly right.
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Is it just me or do other Long Covid suffers read headlines like this one and think:

“No shit Sherlock! Welcome to the party. We’ve been telling you this for yearsssss.”

Followed immediately by gratitude for scientists investigating Long Covid to someday lead to treatments.
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
That’s one big fish for a small stream!
Longfin Eel at Otari-Wilson’s Bush Reserve, Wellington.
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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We need a public enquiry into Russian interference in our politics – including Brexit!
BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.

The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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substack.com/@unpresident...
OUTRAGEOUS ‼️ IMPEACH‼️
UnPresidented (@unpresidented)
Any President who calls for his political opponents to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.
substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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A video from earlier in the autumn during some particularly heavy Pheasant migration in Highland! #highlandbirds
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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12 arrests so far after savage, sociopathic behaviour filmed by @huntsabs.org.uk in Cumbria. Illegal hunting has recently been announced as a UK wildlife crime priority (welcome news, long overdue). If arrests turn into charges, these will be interesting test cases.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ambleside illegal fox-hunting probe sees further arrests
A total of 12 men have now been arrested as part of the investigation.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Remember a little while ago I said that the Joint Derbyshire moth Verification and Recording Team had been shortlisted for the @nbntrust.bsky.social awards? We only went and won it! Thank you @spinneybirder.bsky.social for your wonderful company! #teammoth #VC57
November 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Hey, Reform UK Ltd!
You bunch of fucking racist quockerwodgers!
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Its very very bad that the President publicly posts a statement that, were I to post the same thing about him, would have the FBI knocking on my door.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM