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Ed Foster.

@fo5tered.bsky.social

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Retired, TT. Easily bored. I don't automatically follow back. 🚫No DMs.🚫I usually photograph small birds. The occasional Bumblebee and Fox pics may appear 🐝🦊🐦🦆🦜🐧🪿🪶🦢🕊️💢 People asking for money will be blocked💢I will block MAGAts

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Ed Foster. @fo5tered.bsky.social · Jan 10

A pair of Ring-necked Parakeets in the Park in June 2021🪶 #birds

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Borneo Local Journey ✅

@borneolocaljourney.com

If you think your job is a headache, try being a professional tree-puncher. 🪵🌳

Name: Rufous woodpecker (Micropternus brachyurus)

#borneo #birds #addBirder #forest #borneolocaljourney #woodpecker #wildlife

A rufous woodpecker is seen clinging to a pale tree trunk high in a tropical forest canopy. Broad green leaves frame the scene, while soft daylight filters through gaps in the foliage. The bird’s warm brown plumage and red crown stand out clearly against the sky and surrounding branches.

December 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍

@irishrainforest.bsky.social

The present global economic system has only one setting: destruction of everything that has true value for profit.

Yet if you point this out, you're assailed by smart arses trying to show how clever they are.

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 1d

Thousand of bulldozers on the way to flatten over 5 million acres of forest in West Papua and this is just one ship
Such is the rush that even the Indonesia army has been brought in to speed up the deforestation
A shameful day for Indonesia and the world

December 27, 2025 at 10:07 AM

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍

@irishrainforest.bsky.social

99% of what you need to understand about the relentless murder of our living planet, in one word:

CAPITALISM

December 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM

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George Monbiot

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot

From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

December 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM

Ed Foster.

@fo5tered.bsky.social

A Blue Tit in the Cherry Plum Tree in September last year 🪶 #birds

December 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM

Ed Foster.

@fo5tered.bsky.social

Robin in the Park in September last year 🪶 #birds #DDOR

December 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM

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Margot Finn

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

'We don’t really know how AI reaches its conclusions – even the programmers admit as much. Nor can we verify its reasoning against clear, objective criteria. So when we follow AI’s advice, we are not guided by reason. We are back in the realm of faith.'

Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck

Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute

www.theguardian.com

December 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM

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Margot Finn

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

'Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions.' 1/2

‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure

Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers

www.theguardian.com

December 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM

Ed Foster.

@fo5tered.bsky.social

A Green Woodpecker in the Park in July last year 🪶 #birds

December 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM

Ed Foster.

@fo5tered.bsky.social

A Robin in the Park in August last year 🪶 #birds #DDOR

December 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM

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shauna

@goldengateblond.bsky.social

this holiday trump took time away from his wife, 5 kids, and 11 grandkids to post a tsunami of text about a dead pedophile that he is definitely not at all concerned about

the creepy pedo who duped a buncha dopes into putting him in charge again took time away from his 5 kids, 11 grandkids, and a bored wife who loathes him to blurp:

Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein, gave him bundles of money, went to his Island, attended his parties, and thought he was the greatest guy on earth, only to "drop him like a dog" when things got too HOT, falsely claimed they had nothing to do with him, didn't know him, said he was a disgusting person, and then blame, of course, President Donald J. Trump, who was actually the only one who did drop Epstein, and long before it became fashionable to do so. When their names get brought out in the ongoing Radical Left Witch Hunt (plus one lowlife
"Republican," Massie!), and it is revealed that they are Democrats all, there will be a lot of explaining to do, much like there was when it was made public that the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax was a fictitious story - a total Scam - and had nothing to do with "TRUMP." The Failing New York Times, among many others, was forced to apologize for their bad and faulty Election "Reporting," even to the point of losing many subscribers due to their highly inaccurate (FAKE!)
coverage. Now the same losers are at it again, only this time so many of their friends, mostly innocent, will be badly hurt and reputationally tarnished. But sadly, that's the way it is in the World of Corrupt Democrat Politics!!! Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas! President Donald J. Trump
Dec 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM

December 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM

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Chris Packham

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social

On the first day of Foxmas, a very comfy fox . . . one curled up quite nicely in a box !

Thank you to Dora Nightingale of Fox Guardians #FoxOfTheDay

December 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM

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Melissa Martin

@doubleemmartin.bsky.social

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM

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Libération

@liberation.fr

🦊 A Londres, 10 000 renards trottent toutes les nuits dans les rues. Devenus emblèmes de la ville, où ils font perdurer une once de vie sauvage, ces animaux suscitent autant d’attachement que d’agacement.

Reportage à lire dans le Libé des animaux : bit.ly/4pTZnrJ

December 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM

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Bryan

@elwick70.bsky.social

London, 1948

Two Bobbies examine the Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree through the smog of a grey December day

#Christmas 🎄

December 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸

@nothoodlum.bsky.social

The Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled. The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, said, “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert.”