Carolyn B
@kylenano.bsky.social
Astronomy, history of science, environment, video games.
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Beautiful Green Hellebore, Helleborus viridis, in woodland on the edge of Croydon. 💚 It is a member of the Ranunculaceae, the Buttercup family. What look like green petals are in fact sepals, and the petals themselves are reduced to small tubular nectaries (visible in third photo). #WildflowerHour
February 8, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Beautiful Green Hellebore, Helleborus viridis, in woodland on the edge of Croydon. 💚 It is a member of the Ranunculaceae, the Buttercup family. What look like green petals are in fact sepals, and the petals themselves are reduced to small tubular nectaries (visible in third photo). #WildflowerHour
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In between torrential downpours (when will it end?? ☔️) managed to see some lovely blooms for #wildflowerhour today.
13 species in flower, including the first alexanders and three-cornered leek of the year. Lovely clump of snowdrops and dainty violets galore.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
13 species in flower, including the first alexanders and three-cornered leek of the year. Lovely clump of snowdrops and dainty violets galore.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
In between torrential downpours (when will it end?? ☔️) managed to see some lovely blooms for #wildflowerhour today.
13 species in flower, including the first alexanders and three-cornered leek of the year. Lovely clump of snowdrops and dainty violets galore.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
13 species in flower, including the first alexanders and three-cornered leek of the year. Lovely clump of snowdrops and dainty violets galore.
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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This week’s #TheWinter10 -
Hazel, Red Deadnettle, Snowdrops, Common Chickweed, Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Small Nettle, Daisy, Periwinkle & Cyclamen
#WildflowerHour
Hazel, Red Deadnettle, Snowdrops, Common Chickweed, Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Small Nettle, Daisy, Periwinkle & Cyclamen
#WildflowerHour
February 8, 2026 at 8:17 PM
This week’s #TheWinter10 -
Hazel, Red Deadnettle, Snowdrops, Common Chickweed, Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Small Nettle, Daisy, Periwinkle & Cyclamen
#WildflowerHour
Hazel, Red Deadnettle, Snowdrops, Common Chickweed, Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Small Nettle, Daisy, Periwinkle & Cyclamen
#WildflowerHour
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Snowdrops out in abundance this week around the Whitby area 🤍💚
Found these snowdrops at Runswick Bay on a very wet and windy day (surprised camera got them in focus)!
#WildflowerHour
Found these snowdrops at Runswick Bay on a very wet and windy day (surprised camera got them in focus)!
#WildflowerHour
February 8, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Snowdrops out in abundance this week around the Whitby area 🤍💚
Found these snowdrops at Runswick Bay on a very wet and windy day (surprised camera got them in focus)!
#WildflowerHour
Found these snowdrops at Runswick Bay on a very wet and windy day (surprised camera got them in focus)!
#WildflowerHour
Flowers in city centre churchyards. Winter Aconite and Snowdrops under a tree. Red Valerian, Daisy and a Wood Anemone?
#WildFlowerHour #WildFlowerID
#WildFlowerHour #WildFlowerID
February 8, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Flowers in city centre churchyards. Winter Aconite and Snowdrops under a tree. Red Valerian, Daisy and a Wood Anemone?
#WildFlowerHour #WildFlowerID
#WildFlowerHour #WildFlowerID
Someone I work with came up with this solution for Google Books searches failing. Add -google to the search. I'm now getting results. Worth a try!
#GoogleBooks
#GoogleBooks
February 3, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Someone I work with came up with this solution for Google Books searches failing. Add -google to the search. I'm now getting results. Worth a try!
#GoogleBooks
#GoogleBooks
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Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent
‘“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?”
“Why?”
“It saves time.”’
‘“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?”
“Why?”
“It saves time.”’
Discworld QOTD, from Thud!
“Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”
“Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”
Discworld QOTD, from Making Money
"‘Even tyrants have to obey the law.’ He paused, looking thoughtful, and continued: ‘No, I tell a lie, tyrants do not have to obey the law, obviously, but they do have to observe the niceties.’"
"‘Even tyrants have to obey the law.’ He paused, looking thoughtful, and continued: ‘No, I tell a lie, tyrants do not have to obey the law, obviously, but they do have to observe the niceties.’"
January 30, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent
‘“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?”
“Why?”
“It saves time.”’
‘“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?”
“Why?”
“It saves time.”’
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Massive congratulations to @awintory.bsky.social on taking home the GRAMMY for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media!
Don't forget all of the music in Sword of the Sea can be streamed on all platforms without copyright strikes.
www.grammy.com/artists/aust...
Don't forget all of the music in Sword of the Sea can be streamed on all platforms without copyright strikes.
www.grammy.com/artists/aust...
February 2, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Massive congratulations to @awintory.bsky.social on taking home the GRAMMY for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media!
Don't forget all of the music in Sword of the Sea can be streamed on all platforms without copyright strikes.
www.grammy.com/artists/aust...
Don't forget all of the music in Sword of the Sea can be streamed on all platforms without copyright strikes.
www.grammy.com/artists/aust...
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For #wildflowerhour this week it’s Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna. Local names include smallwort, brighteye, pilewort, cheesecups and cream and butter-
February 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
For #wildflowerhour this week it’s Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna. Local names include smallwort, brighteye, pilewort, cheesecups and cream and butter-
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For this weeks #WildflowerHour Snowdrops, dead nettles, gorse, and daisies
February 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM
For this weeks #WildflowerHour Snowdrops, dead nettles, gorse, and daisies
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#Wildflowerhour Snowdrops appearing near Lancaster now.
February 1, 2026 at 8:18 PM
#Wildflowerhour Snowdrops appearing near Lancaster now.
Ivy, Meadow Grass, Chickweed, Yarrow, Shepherd's Purse, Groundsel, Daisy, Red Dead Nettle, Dandelion, White Dead Nettle.
#WildflowerHour #winter10
#WildflowerHour #winter10
February 1, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Ivy, Meadow Grass, Chickweed, Yarrow, Shepherd's Purse, Groundsel, Daisy, Red Dead Nettle, Dandelion, White Dead Nettle.
#WildflowerHour #winter10
#WildflowerHour #winter10
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 approaches Person 2 (with ponytail), sitting at desk with a laptop.] PERSON 1: Do you have an extension cord with prongs at both ends? Can I borrow it? PERSON 2: *NO!!!* (2) [Person 2 throwing up her hands.] PERSON 2: No one should *EVER* buy or make those! They start fires, destroy equipment, and risk electrocuting you or grid workers! PERSON 1: OK, OK, I get it. (3) PERSON 1: Can I just borrow a regular cord, then? PERSON 2: Sure. Here. [Person 2 hands cord to Person 1.] PERSON 1: The prongs aren’t important. I just thought they’d help anchor it to the wall. PERSON 2: Wait, what are you– (4) PERSON 1: I need it to help hold up the top half of the reflector for this plutonium core that I’m– PERSON 2: *AAAAAAAA!!!!* [Person 2 screams with hands on head as Person 1 walks away.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifslzj3zmkjcapx7x23ybx3nc4jlw3u3rjbfdljzesnxpwfwv3hia@jpeg)
January 28, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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I wait outside the closed shop in the quiet darkness. The painting of Eeyore is still leaning against the box with the papers in. The shopkeeper arrives and I lift the papers out of the box. The creaking lid. The sound of a passing plane.
January 28, 2026 at 6:22 AM
I wait outside the closed shop in the quiet darkness. The painting of Eeyore is still leaning against the box with the papers in. The shopkeeper arrives and I lift the papers out of the box. The creaking lid. The sound of a passing plane.
Read Carpe Jugulum recently. So much of the story relevant today, particularly this, treating people as things.
Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum
January 27, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Read Carpe Jugulum recently. So much of the story relevant today, particularly this, treating people as things.
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It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
January 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
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January 25, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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This Lesser Celandine at Sanderstead Pond made up for its bedraggled flowers with its rather fabulously marked leaves. #WildflowerHour
January 25, 2026 at 8:11 PM
This Lesser Celandine at Sanderstead Pond made up for its bedraggled flowers with its rather fabulously marked leaves. #WildflowerHour
Shepherd's Purse, Red Dead Nettle, Meadow Grass and Groundsel growing in grass verges. The Daisy was in St Mary de Castro churchyard, Leicester. #wildflowerhour
January 25, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Shepherd's Purse, Red Dead Nettle, Meadow Grass and Groundsel growing in grass verges. The Daisy was in St Mary de Castro churchyard, Leicester. #wildflowerhour
'30 May 2025, marks 35 years since Midnight Oil’s iconic protest against Exxon Oil on the streets of New York City – a defining moment for the band in environmental activism.' (Midnight Oil website)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gg1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gg1...
In Conversation: Rob Hirst (Midnight Oil) and Tracee Hutchison (Green Music Australia)
YouTube video by Green Music Australia
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:25 AM
'30 May 2025, marks 35 years since Midnight Oil’s iconic protest against Exxon Oil on the streets of New York City – a defining moment for the band in environmental activism.' (Midnight Oil website)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gg1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gg1...
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I wrote this some time ago - with all of us knowing this day would come, and Rob, of course, fighting like the bloody-minded bastard he was to the very end. He irrevocably changed my life - and how our country saw itself. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Rob Hirst was a force of nature, a born showman who led Midnight Oil from the back
Phenomenal drummer and percussionist was an equally accomplished songwriter who embodied the band’s bloody-minded spirit
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 AM
I wrote this some time ago - with all of us knowing this day would come, and Rob, of course, fighting like the bloody-minded bastard he was to the very end. He irrevocably changed my life - and how our country saw itself. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
Seen by New Walk, Leicester. Groundsel, flowering grass, Meadow Grass, Euphorbia (I think), a small purple/blue flower I haven't had time to ID, Dandelion.
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerID
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerID
January 18, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Seen by New Walk, Leicester. Groundsel, flowering grass, Meadow Grass, Euphorbia (I think), a small purple/blue flower I haven't had time to ID, Dandelion.
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerID
#WildflowerHour #WildflowerID
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An hour to kill in Chichester today so challenged myself to find enough #pavementplants for #thewinter10: Garlic Mustard, Annual Meadow Grass, Groundsel, Yarrow, Red Dead-Nettle, Sweet Violet, Winter Heliotrope, Petty Spurge, Daisy, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Annual Mercury, Primrose #wildflowerhour
January 11, 2026 at 8:12 PM
An hour to kill in Chichester today so challenged myself to find enough #pavementplants for #thewinter10: Garlic Mustard, Annual Meadow Grass, Groundsel, Yarrow, Red Dead-Nettle, Sweet Violet, Winter Heliotrope, Petty Spurge, Daisy, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Annual Mercury, Primrose #wildflowerhour
Too cold for flowers (and me!) today. Red Valerian (the only flower) by a pavement, and Ragwort. #WildFlowerHour #UrbanBotany
January 11, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Too cold for flowers (and me!) today. Red Valerian (the only flower) by a pavement, and Ragwort. #WildFlowerHour #UrbanBotany
Ivy (with ladybird), Mustard, Meadow Grass, Red Dead Nettle, Shepherd's Purse, Catkins, Dandelion, Dogwood.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
January 4, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Ivy (with ladybird), Mustard, Meadow Grass, Red Dead Nettle, Shepherd's Purse, Catkins, Dandelion, Dogwood.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour