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Alyn Johnson
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Walking, nature, history, live and let live
Today was spent not at home
October 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life.

Crank it! 😀 🎸
August 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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July 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Last night at Moth Night, we saw a lot more than moths. The highlight was happening upon this beaver absolutely chowing down on some wood, corn on the cob style. You’re gonna want to put your sound on for this one.
July 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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June 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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This #dog has a PhD in #physics or what?

How did she learn that?
April 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Oh.
"What Brexit has meant for the [legal] profession is that we moved from one single set of rules... into 27 different regulatory regimes."

Marco Cillario from the Law Society sets out the impact of Brexit on our legal sector at today's UK-EU reset evidence session. 👇
April 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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“Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
-John Waters.
March 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Gary Stevenson, "I would advise people to look at what happens to American living standards over the next few years, because that could happen here if we vote the wrong way in the next general election" #BBCQT
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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The full statement from the family of R.E. Burke clarifies that there were no grounds whatsoever for the British cartoonist to be detained by ICE for almost 3 weeks – she held a valid ESTA, had broken no rules or laws in the US, and was ready & able to return home.

downthetubes.net/comic-creato...
Comic Creator RE Burke: Her Visa Story
Full family statement after her welcome return to the UK
downthetubes.net
March 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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20 minutes ago here in Venetie, Alaska, the skies erupted in a beautiful auroral substorm. Here is just one of many real-time videos I recorded during the show to give you a sense of how fast and dynamic the aurora can move.
March 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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It’s really very simple , not a single penny should come from the public purse to businesses or individuals that don’t pay their way in the UK.
Tits like Ratcliffe and Dyson that talk the talk about wanting the best for Britain and then fuck off at the first tax break can do one.
#mufc
March 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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When you make sure your friends get to eat too. #dogs
March 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Last month I did a little experiment.

I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.

The results were...interesting...

[Thread]
March 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Did not imagine to repost something as disturbing like this in my lifetime. But here we are.
March 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Am I the only person who founds it grating when people say 'I love food' ? The fact is you have to
March 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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It’s that time of year - people asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain what they’re up to.
Please #repost.
Every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year!
This is important!
1/9
March 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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“Illegal immigrant” was their first success.

Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”

Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
March 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Amen
March 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”.

The man is a fraud.
March 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Just watched a program called Humpback Whales, A Detective Story. I they explained many cases where whales have protected other species from danger. Empathy. A sense of caring, basically whales are WOKE.
March 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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I might just watch this on repeat for a while 😊
Just in case you haven't seen a guinea pig buffet today 🖤
March 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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If you’re drawn to a politician because they promise to be cruel to Muslims or Jews or immigrants or gays or transgender people etc, the least you should do - the absolute, bare bones, still morally vacuous least - is ask yourself whether they’re likely to stop at the group you want to see targeted.
March 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM