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Rob Parker
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Peacebuilder. Strategy/policy/advocacy/research/campaigns/communications. 🌶️ 🐕🐝 🍄‍🟫 🚲 lover. Gooner with Glover & Womble tendencies. Dad.
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Toad with passenger #WimbledonCommon #Unicorn #Toads
Close up from above of a small brown toad with a caterpillar riding on its head. The front half of the caterpillar’s body extends out in front from between the toad’s eyes like a horn.
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Lovely photo. Here’s another Crater Lake - this time near Naivasha, Kenya
Lake in a volcano crater taken from a high viewpoint. The far side of the lake is ringed with woodland with acacia trees in the foreground and rolling clouds above.
December 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Zebra crossing: Kenya edition
#HellsGate
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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My girl loves dressing up for Christmas #dogsofbluesky
Golden retriever with red Christmas jumper and Santa hat on a black and white background of heathland with trees behind
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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A word in your shell-like Rodders?
#fungi
Some kind of ear fungus (as in a mushroom, not fungus from an ear) nestled in a bed of wood chip Some kind of ear fungus (as in a mushroom, not fungus from an ear) nestled in a bed of wood chip
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Hypholoma fasciculare on #WimbledonCommon
#funguys #fungi
Close-up of a row of yellowish fungi stretching out into the background. The fungi behind look like they’re peering over the shoulders of the three fungi in the foreground.
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Waxcaps on #WimbledonCommon
#funguys #fungi
Close-up of six small waxcaps growing on a bed of decaying ferns. The stems are yellow at the bottom turning a deep, bright orange towards the top with vibrant orangey-red caps. Close-up of six small waxcaps growing on a bed of decaying ferns. The stems are yellow at the bottom turning a deep, bright orange towards the top with vibrant orangey-red caps. The photo is taken from ground level and a pale blue sky is visible above the fungi.
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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¿Que Dios iluminará mi camino?
Leaf-strewn path stretching ahead through trees and shrubs invitingly. Sunlight glints through the trees and lights up the path. A tree casts a shadow along the path.
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Entertaining I guess but maybe would’ve enjoyed it more if I hadn’t just re-read the book
Old school simple cartoon picture of Frankenstein’s monster with square head and bolt through neck
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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all got a bit stressful watching the football this afternoon
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Lest we forget
Hand holding a Sudan pin badge in front of a Golden Retriever (no connection)
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Lest we forget
Partial selfie showing pin badges of a remembrance poppy and a Palestinian flag
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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don’t even fit the space
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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FA Cup 1st round. Defeated but there’s a pie and a pint. #Wombles
A circular crusted pie in a cardboard tray and a pint of lager
November 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Meanwhile preparations are ongoing for the next guest somewhere on the Sandringham estate….
Filthy old white caravan covered in mould sits abandoned in long grass
October 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Happy Birthday Chili Dog! ❤️🎂🐾 🌶️
#dogsofbluesky
Very cute Golden Retriever puppy on grass The same pup six years later in woodland
October 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Some tremendous work in the Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award in the NPG. Must’ve been some dust in the air around Martyn Harris’s ‘Memories’ when I stopped to look (3rd place).
Portrait of an elderly lady with a description from the National Portrait Gallery website: ‘Harris would often see Gillian from his studio when she visited the Art Yard Gallery. Striking up a friendship, and moved by her vulnerability and introspective expression, he asked if she would sit for a portrait that would reflect on the passage of time and the fragility of ageing. Captured over three sittings, the portrait depicts Gillian in a moment of reflection. Her expression is pensive, with hands clasped in quiet contemplation and eyes downcast, thoughtful and somewhat weary, suggesting a life of many experiences. Harris makes use of light, shadow and contrast to strengthen the emotional qualities of the piece. The light muted background heightens the sense of isolation, placing Gillian in a world of her own; while the contrast between her pale skin and dark clothes highlights the delicate lines and colours of her face and hands. The work explores themes of loneliness, reflection and human vulnerability, and invites viewers to consider Gillian’s life and story.’
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I ❤️ homegrown chilis!
Selection of green, yellow, orange, and red chilis arranged in a heart shape - includes Trinidad Moruga Scorpions, Carolina Reapers & Chili Armageddons
September 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Yet again some crappy company upstream has fucked up a huge section of Beverley Brook for wildlife and Wimbledon Common users alike. Investigate & prosecute!
Sign on a wooden post in Wimbledon Common telling you to keep your dog out of the water (Beverley Brook) due to contamination
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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err, great visual BBC…
Untitled and unlabelled map showing the West coast of Africa and the East coast of South America with the South Atlantic between them in an article on immigration that covers Eswatini, Jamaica and the US on BBC News website (none of those countries are shown)
September 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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優勝!
Logo of the Hanshin Tigers (Japanese baseball team) - roaring tiger’s head in a red and black circle
September 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Make it make sense…arresting pensioners with placards protesting what a London-based surgeon documents as appalling levels of malnutrition and starvation, severe burns, shrapnel wounds and tellingly huge numbers of gunshot wounds in Gaza.
Screen grab of consecutive BBC News online headlines. The first reads ‘Met charge 47 more over alleged support for Palestine Action’. The second says ‘London plastic surgeon’s life-saving Gaza mission’ in which London-based surgeon Victoria Rose documents ‘appalling’ levels of malnutrition and starvation.
September 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Pointless headline BBC - maybe of interest what Blair is trying to insert himself/AGI into given his/their atrocious record but the article doesn’t even mention him.
BBC headline reading ‘Blair joins White House meeting with Trump in post-war Gaza with a picture of destruction
August 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I ❤️ Japan & I ❤️ Gojira
Close-up of the giant Godzilla/Gojira model on a rooftop in Tokyo
August 11, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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BBC News online headline ‘At least 200 arrests at protest against ban on Palestine Action’ next to BBC News online headline ‘Eleven more die from malnutrition in Gaza’
August 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM