Barry 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 💚 🌿
@wonkyeggs.bsky.social
Mainly plants and pretty things, with a dollop of music/TV geekery, and random nonsense
FISC 5, still makes mistakes 🤦♂️🤷♂️
He/Him/They/Them/Get Her
pro-Trans 🏳️⚧️
Low-level tolerance to wankery. Swears more than my mother would like.
🐦 wonky_eggs 🐦
FISC 5, still makes mistakes 🤦♂️🤷♂️
He/Him/They/Them/Get Her
pro-Trans 🏳️⚧️
Low-level tolerance to wankery. Swears more than my mother would like.
🐦 wonky_eggs 🐦
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New paper led by @metalichen.bsky.social from our group presenting a chromosome-level assembly of the Trebouxia photobiont alga from the lichen Xanthoria parietina - a resource we hope will enable significant new insight into the symbiosis @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
New paper led by @metalichen.bsky.social from our group presenting a chromosome-level assembly of the Trebouxia photobiont alga from the lichen Xanthoria parietina - a resource we hope will enable significant new insight into the symbiosis @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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So here's the favour I want to ask: if this post crosses your feed, please take this chance to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow by watching our latest HGA and passing it on.
Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
So here's the favour I want to ask: if this post crosses your feed, please take this chance to support the Gitxsan and Gitanyow by watching our latest HGA and passing it on.
Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
Help us put Ksi Lisims and PRGT on the map 🙏
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Friends, can I ask a favour.
Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
1/🧵
Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
1/🧵
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Friends, can I ask a favour.
Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
1/🧵
Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
1/🧵
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Harebell just clinging on , fox-and-cubs , yarrow and red dead-nettle this week for #wildflowerhour
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Harebell just clinging on , fox-and-cubs , yarrow and red dead-nettle this week for #wildflowerhour
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Dandelion, Daisy, Bush vetch & Ragwort, all in flower today. #wildflowerhour
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dandelion, Daisy, Bush vetch & Ragwort, all in flower today. #wildflowerhour
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Devil's bit Scabious on the Eastbourne Downs on Saturday #wildflowerhour
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Devil's bit Scabious on the Eastbourne Downs on Saturday #wildflowerhour
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After reading the Eye's special report on how Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen’s flagship “levelling up” project became a taxpayer-funded scandal, a reader writes...
Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube.
Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
After reading the Eye's special report on how Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen’s flagship “levelling up” project became a taxpayer-funded scandal, a reader writes...
Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube.
Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube.
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Whilst at Whitlingham C.P. today I walked past this thistle rosette and twigged that it looked slightly unusual. I stopped and had a closer look, noticing that one of the leaves has edged by the slime mould Diachea leucopodia.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Whilst at Whitlingham C.P. today I walked past this thistle rosette and twigged that it looked slightly unusual. I stopped and had a closer look, noticing that one of the leaves has edged by the slime mould Diachea leucopodia.
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Doesn’t get much better than dangling on a rope counting Tufted Saxifrage rosettes 🥰🤪
Great talk by Gus to close the #ScotBotanistsConf, big thanks to @plantlifeuk.bsky.social for organising the survey, and watch out for Gus’s final report coming soon…
Great talk by Gus to close the #ScotBotanistsConf, big thanks to @plantlifeuk.bsky.social for organising the survey, and watch out for Gus’s final report coming soon…
A fantastic presentation on some hardcore survey work in the Scottish uplands here. Great to hear from Gus Routledge, who is unfortunately not on Bluesky ☹️, but evidently still doing inspirational field botany alongside @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social youtu.be/RZFv8lSfmj8?...
Tough tufts to tally: Scottish Tufted Saxifrage Survey 2025
YouTube video by Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Doesn’t get much better than dangling on a rope counting Tufted Saxifrage rosettes 🥰🤪
Great talk by Gus to close the #ScotBotanistsConf, big thanks to @plantlifeuk.bsky.social for organising the survey, and watch out for Gus’s final report coming soon…
Great talk by Gus to close the #ScotBotanistsConf, big thanks to @plantlifeuk.bsky.social for organising the survey, and watch out for Gus’s final report coming soon…
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A cascade of Sedum in a niche on my new favourite wall.
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A cascade of Sedum in a niche on my new favourite wall.
Ram's Horn Galls caused by the wasp Andricus aries spotted in Middlesbrough today. Never recorded this far north before (species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMS...).
Bonus Oak Marble Galls - nature has a sense of humour 😉
Bonus Oak Marble Galls - nature has a sense of humour 😉
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Ram's Horn Galls caused by the wasp Andricus aries spotted in Middlesbrough today. Never recorded this far north before (species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMS...).
Bonus Oak Marble Galls - nature has a sense of humour 😉
Bonus Oak Marble Galls - nature has a sense of humour 😉
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When you boycott and sanction the UAE not only are you helping Sudan but also cutting off one of the many tentacles propping up Trump and MAGA.
October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
When you boycott and sanction the UAE not only are you helping Sudan but also cutting off one of the many tentacles propping up Trump and MAGA.
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We in @friendlyevalley.bsky.social would like to thank all at @oxconservation.bsky.social vols for a great work session last weekend, raking cuttings up & lots of scrub work at the #LyeVally #SSSI south #fen section. This maintains this tiny site in private ownership's stunningly rich biodiversity.👏
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
We in @friendlyevalley.bsky.social would like to thank all at @oxconservation.bsky.social vols for a great work session last weekend, raking cuttings up & lots of scrub work at the #LyeVally #SSSI south #fen section. This maintains this tiny site in private ownership's stunningly rich biodiversity.👏
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This should concern all of us living in the UK. Not just is this practice inhumane and humiliating, it is also a gross misuse of people's personal data. The public deserve the know all the details (including names) of how this practice came about, so those responsible can take responsibility.
UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’
UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’
Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip
A woman who booked a flight from London to Oslo but never checked in or travelled has had her child benefit stopped by the UK government. Tax authorities told her their records showed she had emigrated.
Lisa Morris-Almond is one of thousands of people who have had their child benefit frozen as part of a botched crackdown on benefit fraud. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This should concern all of us living in the UK. Not just is this practice inhumane and humiliating, it is also a gross misuse of people's personal data. The public deserve the know all the details (including names) of how this practice came about, so those responsible can take responsibility.
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Häxan (1922), an early example of a horror film that was framed as a documentary
October 29, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Häxan (1922), an early example of a horror film that was framed as a documentary
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Good day recording around Cahore, Co. Wexford today. Nephus redtenbacheri agg. was my 29th Irish ladybird. Rhyzobius litura was the most numerous species with 50 individuals seen, beaten from grass and rush tussocks.
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Good day recording around Cahore, Co. Wexford today. Nephus redtenbacheri agg. was my 29th Irish ladybird. Rhyzobius litura was the most numerous species with 50 individuals seen, beaten from grass and rush tussocks.
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Israel is bombing tents again with F35 jets.
They commit genocide with impunity.
There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day.
They must be held to account.
Speak up. Take action.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
They commit genocide with impunity.
There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day.
They must be held to account.
Speak up. Take action.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
October 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Israel is bombing tents again with F35 jets.
They commit genocide with impunity.
There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day.
They must be held to account.
Speak up. Take action.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
They commit genocide with impunity.
There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day.
They must be held to account.
Speak up. Take action.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Requiem for a hillfort
Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows
📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social
Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️
📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002
#HillfortsWednesday
Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows
📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social
Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️
📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002
#HillfortsWednesday
October 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Requiem for a hillfort
Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows
📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social
Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️
📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002
#HillfortsWednesday
Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows
📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social
Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️
📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002
#HillfortsWednesday
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Siham Hassan, a former member of Sudan’s Parliament who ran community kitchens to feed the hungry and starving in her hometown of Al-Fashir, was executed by UAE-backed RSF terrorists.
October 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Siham Hassan, a former member of Sudan’s Parliament who ran community kitchens to feed the hungry and starving in her hometown of Al-Fashir, was executed by UAE-backed RSF terrorists.
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🧵 / YouGov's new study finds Britain's ethnic minority communities now tend to have a negative view of the Labour party
Greens: +17 net favourable
Lib Dems: +1
Labour: -19
Conservatives: -44
Reform UK: -62
Breakdowns by individual ethnic group in chart 👇
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Greens: +17 net favourable
Lib Dems: +1
Labour: -19
Conservatives: -44
Reform UK: -62
Breakdowns by individual ethnic group in chart 👇
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Surprise!
Bog Bean rearing to flower by Halloween.
#WildflowerHour #Anglesey
#WalesPeatlandAction
@natreswales.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Bog Bean rearing to flower by Halloween.
#WildflowerHour #Anglesey
#WalesPeatlandAction
@natreswales.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Surprise!
Bog Bean rearing to flower by Halloween.
#WildflowerHour #Anglesey
#WalesPeatlandAction
@natreswales.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Bog Bean rearing to flower by Halloween.
#WildflowerHour #Anglesey
#WalesPeatlandAction
@natreswales.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Just watching a couple of YouTubers, & the Troubles in Northern Ireland came up. She hadn’t heard of it [but has visited Ireland] but he had, so he explained. The mad thing here, is that these are two young Americans with no education & they know more than UK govts [who run the place]
October 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Just watching a couple of YouTubers, & the Troubles in Northern Ireland came up. She hadn’t heard of it [but has visited Ireland] but he had, so he explained. The mad thing here, is that these are two young Americans with no education & they know more than UK govts [who run the place]