Ben Gilbert
@minkmaguari.bsky.social
Vogons, Voord, dasyurids, dasyatids, &c. He/him. 🦒🏳️🌈
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
Last 3 months I can't get near the #Yorkshire coast without running into #dolphins. Been regularly visiting this stretch for over 10 years on shore and by boat and never seen them before. Porpoises, often. Minke Whales twice. But not the dolphins. Now - can't escape them! #wildlife #mammalwatching
October 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Last 3 months I can't get near the #Yorkshire coast without running into #dolphins. Been regularly visiting this stretch for over 10 years on shore and by boat and never seen them before. Porpoises, often. Minke Whales twice. But not the dolphins. Now - can't escape them! #wildlife #mammalwatching
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How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
A slow day for migrants at Flamborough and Bempton yesterday but amply counteracted by the antics of the local 'regulars'. Pictured are Grey Seal, Common Bottlenose Dolphin, and Northern Gannet. #wildlife #mammalwatching #birding #birds #seals #dolphins #Yorkshire
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A slow day for migrants at Flamborough and Bempton yesterday but amply counteracted by the antics of the local 'regulars'. Pictured are Grey Seal, Common Bottlenose Dolphin, and Northern Gannet. #wildlife #mammalwatching #birding #birds #seals #dolphins #Yorkshire
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What Reform are promising is abhorrent, as is the fact that we’re at a point that a mainstream political party in the UK could even consider it as a policy position, as is the fact that Labour are seemingly only arguing against the fact that the sums don’t add up
September 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
What Reform are promising is abhorrent, as is the fact that we’re at a point that a mainstream political party in the UK could even consider it as a policy position, as is the fact that Labour are seemingly only arguing against the fact that the sums don’t add up
Excellent treat today before the rains came - the juvenile Eurasian Dotterel near Fox House. #birds #birding #derbyshire #wildlife @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Excellent treat today before the rains came - the juvenile Eurasian Dotterel near Fox House. #birds #birding #derbyshire #wildlife @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social
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NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
September 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
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Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
September 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement:
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
"Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?"
Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
Full day of #Anglesey #mammalwatching today - European Red Squirrel and Risso's Dolphin the targets and both lovely and showy. #dolphins #squirrels #mammals #ynysmon
September 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Full day of #Anglesey #mammalwatching today - European Red Squirrel and Risso's Dolphin the targets and both lovely and showy. #dolphins #squirrels #mammals #ynysmon
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Furthest I've been:
S: OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg
E: Near Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah
W: Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
N:...
The public toilets by the station car park in Lossiemouth...
S: OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg
E: Near Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah
W: Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
N:...
The public toilets by the station car park in Lossiemouth...
Furthest I've been:
N: Reykjavík
S: Gansbaai
E: Cape Byron
W: Lima
N: Reykjavík
S: Gansbaai
E: Cape Byron
W: Lima
Furthest I've been:
N: Akureyri
S: Mason Bay
E: Chiba
W: Eureka
N: Akureyri
S: Mason Bay
E: Chiba
W: Eureka
August 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Furthest I've been:
S: OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg
E: Near Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah
W: Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
N:...
The public toilets by the station car park in Lossiemouth...
S: OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg
E: Near Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah
W: Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
N:...
The public toilets by the station car park in Lossiemouth...
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Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
Check out Goodnight Sweetheart: Many Happy Returns by Idiot Box Books on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/idi...
Goodnight Sweetheart: Many Happy Returns
A brand new novel based on the hit TV comedy series written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.
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July 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Check out Goodnight Sweetheart: Many Happy Returns by Idiot Box Books on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/idi...
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
The non-animally parts of a glorious Easter weekend in #Czechia across Prague and Pilsen. The Easter markets were a great surprise and an excellent place to stock up on green beer and sausages.
April 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The non-animally parts of a glorious Easter weekend in #Czechia across Prague and Pilsen. The Easter markets were a great surprise and an excellent place to stock up on green beer and sausages.
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Former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption explains why @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social has got it completely wrong when she says trans women must be placed in danger by using the men's toilets.
April 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption explains why @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social has got it completely wrong when she says trans women must be placed in danger by using the men's toilets.
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This is kind of important: he is saying the law allows you to be a bigot, but it doesn't require you to be.
Anyone, including the government, who chooses, say, to stop trans women using female toilets is doing so because they want to, not because they are forced to.
Anyone, including the government, who chooses, say, to stop trans women using female toilets is doing so because they want to, not because they are forced to.
Former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption explains why @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social has got it completely wrong when she says trans women must be placed in danger by using the men's toilets.
April 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This is kind of important: he is saying the law allows you to be a bigot, but it doesn't require you to be.
Anyone, including the government, who chooses, say, to stop trans women using female toilets is doing so because they want to, not because they are forced to.
Anyone, including the government, who chooses, say, to stop trans women using female toilets is doing so because they want to, not because they are forced to.
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The people who don't or can't experience empathy, who say empathy is a "woke virus" spreading in other people's minds, are like color-blind people declaring that the colors red and green don't exist and people who "believe" are crazy. And then tearing apart the world to take out the "fake" colors.
March 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The people who don't or can't experience empathy, who say empathy is a "woke virus" spreading in other people's minds, are like color-blind people declaring that the colors red and green don't exist and people who "believe" are crazy. And then tearing apart the world to take out the "fake" colors.
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Photographically confirmed sighting of the New Britain Goshawk Tachyspiza princeps | afo.birdlife.org.au/... | Australian Field Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
Photographically confirmed sighting of the New Britain Goshawk Tachyspiza princeps | Vierus | Australian Field Ornithology
Photographically confirmed sighting of the New Britain Goshawk Tachyspiza princeps
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March 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Photographically confirmed sighting of the New Britain Goshawk Tachyspiza princeps | afo.birdlife.org.au/... | Australian Field Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
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We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
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The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
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So close!
DNA is the DNA of life.
DNA is the DNA of life.
February 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
So close!
DNA is the DNA of life.
DNA is the DNA of life.
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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
February 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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"It was found that 85% of the tracked dogs were walked off-lead in the breeding season despite signage requesting owners not to let their pets run free due to ground-nesting birds. At Snelsmore Common, Berkshire, more than 90% of the site was disturbed by dogs, reducing its conservation value"
A tracking study has found that dogs walked off-lead cause significantly more disturbance on lowland heaths than pets kept on the lead:
Dog-tracking study reveals disturbance to lowland heaths
Researchers tracked dogs on heathland sites, showing off-lead walking can reduce conservation value.
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January 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"It was found that 85% of the tracked dogs were walked off-lead in the breeding season despite signage requesting owners not to let their pets run free due to ground-nesting birds. At Snelsmore Common, Berkshire, more than 90% of the site was disturbed by dogs, reducing its conservation value"