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Richard Sedgley

@richardsedgley.bsky.social

Cornwall's once-barren moor is now bursting with wildlife and water

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Cornwall's once-barren moor is now bursting with wildlife and water

It’s soggy, it’s squishy, and it’s saving the planet—Crowdy Marsh is back from the brink in a peat-powered comeback

www.cornwalllive.com

August 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM

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Eric Klug

@klugalters.bsky.social

Smaug, painted after an illustration by Tolkien himself. The border is borrowed from an early book jacket for The Hobbit.

August 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM

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dani's adventures in fuck it we ball

@daniskitchen.bsky.social

hello garden fren 🥰🌱

a small brown praying mantis on the side of a brown paper bag

August 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM

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David Pakman

@davidpakman.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump’s economy is cracking. Jobs numbers revised to recent record lows. 60% of Americans blame Trump for high cost of living, which Trump promised to reduce. Manufacturing employment, which Trump promised to bring back, had its biggest contraction in 5 years. MAGA (?)

August 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@indyposterboy.scot

“Equal partners” Theresa May, Tories
A ‘more equal union than anywhere in the world” BetterTogether
A “Union of equals and partnership” Johan Lamont, Labour.
If England decided it wanted to vote on becoming independent, do you think it would have to ask Scotland’s permission first?

Poster illustrating dialogue between Scotland and the UK state, revealing that in this 'partnership of equals', the UK won't allow Scotland to vote o independence.

August 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM

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Whitney Alese

@thereclaimed.bsky.social

Happy:
Black history
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Black love
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Black health
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Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
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Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤

February 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM

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Senator Bernie Sanders

@sanders.senate.gov

I asked RFK Jr. a simple question:

January 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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Jasmine 🌌🔭

@astrojaz.bsky.social

i can’t fix anything that’s going on right now, but i can show you some beauty that’s out there… 🌌✨

Many stars crowd the image, shining in shades of white, blue, and orange, and more closely concentrated at the center.

Bright blue stars are in a cluster at the center of the image. They are surrounded by a shell of brownish and burnt orange dust and gas. The shell has ridges that reach towards the stars like teeth. Stars within the dust and gas are hidden from Hubble but visible to Webb in the infrared. A number of more distant galaxies also appear in the background.

Ferocious stellar winds, likely from the bright blue star at the top of the image, are blowing through a curtain of dust. The fine dust scatters the starlight at blue wavelengths. Farther down, another bright, super-hot star shines through filaments of obscuring dust, looking like the Sun shining through scattered clouds. A diagonal string of fainter accompanying stars looks reddish because dust is filtering starlight, allowing more of the red light to get through. The bottom of the picture presents a keyhole peek deep into the dark nebula. Hubble captures the reddish glow of ionized hydrogen. It looks like a fireworks finale, with several overlapping events.

Fluffy tan-colored nebula clouds, with rust-colored highlights, surround a black central area. Within that area, the focal point of the image is one large yellow star with eight long thin points. To the right of this star is a bright star cluster in an oval shape. The stars within the cluster look like tiny pale blue sparkles. The cluster is more densely packed at its core and scatters outward. Towards the bottom of the image, multiple arms appear to spiral out of a cloudy tan knob. Taken together, the structures resemble a spider or a squid. Other blue and yellow eight-pointed stars, as well as distant galaxies, are dotted throughout the image. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team

January 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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Undervalued Vagina MD (she/her)🦄

@undervaluedvagina.medsky.social

The Revolution Will Not be Televised
-take more Polaroids, take pictures with film
- put an actual pen to actual paper
- talk to people in person
- preserve banned books and science books
- participate in community gardens
- run for office or school board in your town

January 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM