Ben Austwick
@benaustwick.bsky.social
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benaustwick.co.uk
Hold kindness in your heart like a knife at the throat of the world
benaustwick.co.uk
Hold kindness in your heart like a knife at the throat of the world
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Newfoundland wildflowers — Ben Austwick
Making the move from analogue to digital photography got me out of a bit of a creative rut (as I’d hoped) and has led me to experiment with different subjects and types of photography. Nature photogra...
www.benaustwick.co.uk
New blog post - Newfoundland wildflowers www.benaustwick.co.uk/blog/newfoun...
Part of the reason I didn't rush to join the Greens is I knew there would be similar issues over trans rights as in Your Party, this time with the Green's old liberal guard. I think momentum is on our side though and it will be less of a battle than with the Your Party MPs
@sianberry.bsky.social will apologise for this? Trans people have flocked to the greens for some semblance of hope and is a terrible look
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Part of the reason I didn't rush to join the Greens is I knew there would be similar issues over trans rights as in Your Party, this time with the Green's old liberal guard. I think momentum is on our side though and it will be less of a battle than with the Your Party MPs
Am I right in thinking Democrats have been sat on this Epstein info?
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Am I right in thinking Democrats have been sat on this Epstein info?
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Spotted some Skullcocks today
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Spotted some Skullcocks today
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7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.
www.bigissue.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
You think they're exaggerating but Wes Streeting has just occupied Heathrow under the guise of an anti-terrorist training exercise
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
You think they're exaggerating but Wes Streeting has just occupied Heathrow under the guise of an anti-terrorist training exercise
Horrific if this long-standing rumour turns out to be true metro.co.uk/2025/11/12/t...
Tourists 'paid £70,000' to shoot innocent people in 'human safari' hunting trips
The siege ended in 1995, leaving 13,952 people dead. 5,434 of these casualties were civilians.
metro.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Horrific if this long-standing rumour turns out to be true metro.co.uk/2025/11/12/t...
I wish I could understand Dwarf Fortress
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I wish I could understand Dwarf Fortress
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Wood & Goldstraw rebuilt the Alexandra Palace in Longton in 1927 after a fire. It became the famous Shelleys Laserdome
Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'
Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice
Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'
Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Wood & Goldstraw rebuilt the Alexandra Palace in Longton in 1927 after a fire. It became the famous Shelleys Laserdome
Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'
Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice
Out soon, 'Designing the Future, Respecting the Past: The Wood Goldstraw Yorath Story'
Detailing the 150-year history of Stoke-on-Trent's oldest architectural practice
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I wish someone would remind Hegseth and Trump that small conflicts have a way of becoming big and nasty wars very quickly. Can't imagine what would have happened if we'd had these amateurs in charge during the Cuban Missile Crisis. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pentagon’s largest warship enters Latin American waters as US tensions with Venezuela rise
USS Gerald R Ford’s arrival marks the largest US military presence in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I wish someone would remind Hegseth and Trump that small conflicts have a way of becoming big and nasty wars very quickly. Can't imagine what would have happened if we'd had these amateurs in charge during the Cuban Missile Crisis. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It's the anniversary of my friend Tom's suicide today. He was living independently when he died, but had spent a lot of time sectioned at this hospital www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS trust fined £565,000 after woman killed herself on ‘death trap’ ward
Alice Figueiredo, 22, died in 2015 on the Hepworth ward at Goodmayes hospital after 18 similar attempts to self-harm
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It's the anniversary of my friend Tom's suicide today. He was living independently when he died, but had spent a lot of time sectioned at this hospital www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Thought of a church poster which says "the opposite of anti-Christ is Christ" with a picture of Jesus
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thought of a church poster which says "the opposite of anti-Christ is Christ" with a picture of Jesus
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I'm the new James Bond and I have a Licence to Post
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I'm the new James Bond and I have a Licence to Post
Lots of incredible self owns in the guardian atm
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Lots of incredible self owns in the guardian atm
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I've waited a lifetime to find Striated Bird's Nest fungus, and this week I've seen it twice! Also a magnificent colony of Coral Slime-mould, a troop of another slime-mould Physarum sp. with a lime-encrusted peridium and a heap of Witch's Butter. At @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay NR
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November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I've waited a lifetime to find Striated Bird's Nest fungus, and this week I've seen it twice! Also a magnificent colony of Coral Slime-mould, a troop of another slime-mould Physarum sp. with a lime-encrusted peridium and a heap of Witch's Butter. At @wildlifebcn.org Old Sulehay NR
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November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Igoris Piekuras
Astronomers
1977
Lithuanian National Art Gallery
Astronomers
1977
Lithuanian National Art Gallery
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Igoris Piekuras
Astronomers
1977
Lithuanian National Art Gallery
Astronomers
1977
Lithuanian National Art Gallery
Hale and Pace were our Seinfeld
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hale and Pace were our Seinfeld
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The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
Remembering my life drawing teacher in Deptford who told us about the time he went naked horse riding on Lesbos with Brian Sewell
November 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Remembering my life drawing teacher in Deptford who told us about the time he went naked horse riding on Lesbos with Brian Sewell
Coventry war memorial unsurprisingly banging
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Coventry war memorial unsurprisingly banging
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Anxiety is the most common mental health condition globally. It’s estimated that 4% to 5% of people in the world have an anxiety disorder at any given time.
Long-term surveys in the United States suggest that around one-third of people experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives.
Long-term surveys in the United States suggest that around one-third of people experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives.
November 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Anxiety is the most common mental health condition globally. It’s estimated that 4% to 5% of people in the world have an anxiety disorder at any given time.
Long-term surveys in the United States suggest that around one-third of people experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives.
Long-term surveys in the United States suggest that around one-third of people experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives.
jeannieandjess on Instagram
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
jeannieandjess on Instagram
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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You'd think people would learn that you can never pander to the right wing enough to stop them turning on you the second it's convenient
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
You'd think people would learn that you can never pander to the right wing enough to stop them turning on you the second it's convenient
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I’m old enough to remember when the BBC used old footage of Johnson at the cenotaph, to cover the fact that he was hung over and looked like a burst mattress on a tip.
The DG didn’t resign though
The DG didn’t resign though
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I’m old enough to remember when the BBC used old footage of Johnson at the cenotaph, to cover the fact that he was hung over and looked like a burst mattress on a tip.
The DG didn’t resign though
The DG didn’t resign though