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rhinocratic.bsky.social
Barry Centricsubdivision
@rhinocratic.bsky.social
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Intermittently functional programmer and aspiring Old Git.

🐑 Bleating the averages 🐑

💚 #Clojure

Dreams of a future where GDP is supplanted by Gross Global Wellbeing.

Please join a union. 💪
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rickmartin.bsky.social
A buff-tailed bumblebee on echinacea purpurea 🌱🐝

#InsectThursday #Bloomscrolling #BugSjy #Flowers #Pollinators
A buff-tailed bumblebee on echinacea purpurea
January 29, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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josiahmortimer.bsky.social
Big fan of this memorial in Bath
Bench plaque: '"A bench? I wanted a pyramid!" Malcolm Purvis - a truly talented man'
January 29, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
Sea holly 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #TuesdayBlue #BlueTue #ColorADay #EastCoastKin
Blue eryngium
January 27, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
Last call for CAMBRIDGE tonight - only a few tickets left - hope I can sell out - I promise a show full of joy, inclusivity, and love

www.junction.co.uk/events/robin... #comedy #poetry #cambridge
Robin Ince: The Universe and the Neurodiverse | Cambridge Junction
Book tickets for Robin Ince: The Universe and the Neurodiverse at J2 at Cambridge Junction. The Universe and the Neurodiverse is a journey from the outermost planets to our innermost thoughts.  Robin...
www.junction.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
If you’d like to hear me talking while Alexei Sayle spends a long time enjoying an almond croissant , then you might enjoy this podcast

audioboom.com/channels/503... #comedy #politics
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
If you listen to The Alexei Sayle podcast you will not be disappointed, unless you are expecting something other than an old man talking crap.
audioboom.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Fish and chip shop, Leeds, 1970s, photo by Peter Mitchell.
January 26, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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emmasartworks.bsky.social
Beach wildlife and strandline finds from an early morning walk last month. (Hartlepool, northeast England).
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Ink and watercolour drawings of shells, birds and fungi from Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, northeast England
January 26, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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nhmbryozoa.bsky.social
#MolluscMonday Sectioned Kosmoclymenia undulata from the Late Devonian, the position of the siphuncle labelled. In ammonoids of the order Clymeniida the siphuncle, a tube allowing access to the inner shell chambers, is located on the inside of the spiral (cf. ammonites where it is on the outside).
January 26, 2026 at 8:01 AM
rhinocratic.bsky.social
Well, that was mildly annoying...
Wordle 1,682 4/6

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January 26, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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localnotail.bsky.social
Mother nature is a raver.
Marram grass leaf. Light micrograph of a cross section through a closed (unravelled) leaf of Marram grass, Ammophila arenaria. The deeply grooved leaf is thrown into folds. The folds conserve water and withstand salt, and prevent excessive evaporation. Round vascular bundles are visible inside each fold, serving to transport food and water through the leaf. They look like smiley faces. The large "eyes" are the xylem, which transport water. The bright blue "mouths" are the phloem, which transport sugars produced during photosynthesis. The spiky, curved structure is a natural adaptation to drought conditions, helping the leaf to roll up and conserve water. Spines on the surface discourage animals from eating the leaf. Marram grass is important in coastal ecology, since it is one of the commonest grass species in Britain to stabilize sand dunes.
January 25, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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owensgrandpa.bsky.social
September 4th 2024
Yarrow
January 25, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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cstark.bsky.social
As nothing compared to what Fox “News” viewers have done to themselves

www.sciencealert.com/shrews-can-s...
Shrews Can Shrink Their Brains by 30%. Here's How They Grow It Back.
In preparation for winter, the common shrew (Sorex araneus) shrinks its brain by 30 percent to conserve precious energy.
www.sciencealert.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:41 AM
rhinocratic.bsky.social
Neeps, tatties, vegetarian haggis (a first for me) and a dram for dinner. I do have "Scottish blood", but even the most evangelical homeopath would probably say that it's a bit dilute 🙄. Honestly, from my perspective it's merely a welcome annual excuse to eat haggis.
January 25, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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askylitocean.bsky.social
The "Seaweed" pattern, William Morris.
January 25, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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annesmien.bsky.social
Watercolour painting of a Golden Retriever called Sam. Beautiful dog! #dogs #petportraits #watercolour #paintings
Pet portrait of a Golden Retriever called Sam. I love Golden Retrievers and loved painting Sam.
January 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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moviessilently.bsky.social
FRED OTT'S SNEEZE (1894), full film
January 25, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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stewartkatz.bsky.social
"Winter"
Part of my series, "The Four Seasons"
1997
Mixed Media on Canvas
24x16 inches
#BlueSkyArtShow #Cold #AbstractArt #Art #MixedMediaArt
#Paintings #AbstractPaintings #Winter
January 24, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
Feeling quite spiky 🌱🌵🪴

#SucculentSunday #Cacti #Succulents #PlantSky #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCForCloeUp
Macro shot of a juvenile ferrocactus detailing the red tinge of its more mature spines
January 25, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
Winter aconite, very keen, Greater Manchester 🌱

#WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #SundayYellow
A patch of low growing golden yellow winter aconite flowers in low light on a woodland floor
January 25, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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mccustard.bsky.social
More Rabbie, for Burns Nicht. So lovely.
January 25, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
Glaswegian attracts a puzzled gaze by taking his haggis for a walk on Robert Burns' birthday, 25th January 1967 (photo: Keystone).
January 25, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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groomb.bsky.social
Hebden Bridge, west Yorkshire, at first light, 2021, photo by Bruce Cutts.
January 25, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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squirlykat.bsky.social
Dear BBC
Please defund Mrs Browns Boys and divert funding to Winter/Spring/Autumn watch

Thx ever so
Signed
Everyone who isn’t a wrong ‘un
January 23, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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hannahbooth.bsky.social
North Sea Friday Folk #2 — lives shaped by the shallow sea on our doorstep

Today it’s the turn of St Hild, first abbess of Whitby Abbey

Shown here with ammonite fossils at her feet — a nod to the legend that Hild turned local snakes to stone

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January 23, 2026 at 8:41 AM
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oliver48.bsky.social
'Where one is enslaved, all are in chains'

"ROGER McKENZIE pays tribute to a communist, internationalist and organiser, who endures, 50 years after his death, not just as a towering artist but as a master teacher of struggle"
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/paul...
Paul Robeson: the revolutionary who taught us to organise
FRIDAY is the 50th anniversary of when the legendary communist Paul Robeson went on to enrich the ancestors.He was the classic example of an artist as revolutionary.Robeson, the son of a former enslav...
morningstaronline.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 11:29 AM