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Andy Burke
@andyburke.bsky.social
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Ex-clinical trials project manager, father of 2, amateur photographer, would-be writer, musician & geek. Opinions are my own etc. He/him.
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Excellent performance by @katherinepriddy.bsky.social and George Boomsma at the Royal Albert Hall.

Next up Suzanne Vega.
Katherine Priddy and George Boomsma on stage at the Royal Albert Hall
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
andyburke.bsky.social
A magpie inkcap stands guard by fallen comrade. Love these striking little guys.

#FungiFriends #FungiFriday
A black and white mushroom among the brown leaves of autumn and the green shoots of the woodland floor. A second mushroom lies fallen to the side.
October 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
andyburke.bsky.social
For #stunday here’s an impressionist #icm view of a local woodland in full autumnal beauty.
An impressionist image of autumnal woodland created using a 2 second exposure and slight vertical camera motion. There are trees left and right of a central winding path. Greens, browns, oranges and yellows dominate.
October 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Reposted by Andy Burke
ottoenglish.bsky.social
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.

Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October

Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out.

Then share. Thank you.

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October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
andyburke.bsky.social
My app tells me these are amethyst deceivers, and who am I to doubt them.

#FungiFriends #FungiFriday #fungi
Two purple mushrooms poke up among green, yellow and brown leaves.
October 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
andyburke.bsky.social
For #BlueSkyArtShow a #vertical #icm of winter trees from early this year.
A photo of group of winter (leafless) trees captured using a 2 second exposure with vertical motion of the camera to emphasise the trunks and ghost the branches. The trunks are side lit with winter light so they are light on one side and dark on the other.
October 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
andyburke.bsky.social
It’s #FungiFriday again and here are some mica caps growing locally.

#FungiFriends #Fungi
A photo of mica cap mushrooms growing on a woodland floor. The conical mushrooms are darker reddish brown on top, paler yellower brown at the edges, with light speckles over the caps. The foreground has four mushrooms in focus with others around and behind.
October 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow
A 3 second icm exposure of a London street at night. The motion of the camera makes the city lights jiggle.
October 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
andyburke.bsky.social
A bunch of sulphur tuft mushrooms for #FungiFriday #FungiFriends
A bunch of yellowish mushrooms growing on a tree stump among some green moss.
October 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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It’s the season for #fungi. Seem to be honey mushrooms everywhere in the local woods.

#fungifriends #stunday
Honey mushrooms from ground level. Four in a line, with a few behind. Honey coloured with darker caps. Around them are some brown leaves and twigs. Some green plants in foreground and background.
October 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Reposted by Andy Burke
cassetteboy.bsky.social
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
September 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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eddavey.libdems.org.uk
Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.

I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.

Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.
September 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Reposted by Andy Burke
marcdavenant.bsky.social
When the leader of a political party sets out plans to build concentration camps, and proposes sending people back to oppressive countries in the knowledge they will be tortured or executed, you would have thought his political opponents would at the very least attack the moral basis of those plans.
marcdavenant.bsky.social Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Aug 26
Farage would like nothing more than to have his plan for mass deportation blocked by a judge. It would provide an excuse for not delivering on his unworkable promises and open the door to a full blown assault on the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.
Farage’s plan to deport thousands of asylum seekers draws scorn from legal experts
August 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
andyburke.bsky.social
Here’s a tree for #WorldPhotographyDay from a walk yesterday.

I haven’t done much monochrome photography for a while, think I might do more.
A tree on the edge of Kelly Hall Tarn in the Lake District. A monochrome image shows the tree in silhouette against the sky with hints of reflection in the foreground water and hills in the background.
August 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reposted by Andy Burke
naomiaklein.bsky.social
Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.

"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."

It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...
The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City
“We understand these are our last days.”
www.dropsitenews.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Andy Burke
sailorrooscout.bsky.social
Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…

HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775

HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000

PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.

NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research
Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Reposted by Andy Burke
lizziegibney.bsky.social
This year quantum physics turns 100, so @nature.com decided to conduct the biggest ever survey of what lies behind it. Do physicists really believe in multiple universes? Can influences happen instantaneously? Is the Copenhagen interpretation all it's cut out to be? ⚛️🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Physicists disagree wildly on what quantum mechanics says about reality, Nature survey shows
First major attempt to chart researchers’ views finds interpretations in conflict.
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
andyburke.bsky.social
Not sure whether to count this as skyscape, riverscape or cityscape but it’s certainly a #scape #Belfast
An image of the river Lagan in Belfast. A long exposure used to smooth the water. Stormy clouds in the sky, it started to rain shortly after this
July 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by Andy Burke
chrischirp.bsky.social
🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
July 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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marcdavenant.bsky.social
A woman weeps over the genocide in Gaza as she waits to be arrested as a terrorist for holding up a piece of cardboard. Parliament Square today.
Weeping woman with a placard, the contents of which cannot be replicated here due to the risk of prosecution
July 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
andyburke.bsky.social
I don’t often use my Lensbaby Velvet lens but it makes this wild garlic flower glow for #stunday
A soft image of a white wild garlic flower on a green background.
June 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
andyburke.bsky.social
An #icm #scape of the #Chilterns.
A scene of the Chiltern Hills in the UK. A green landscape of fields, hedges and hills under light grey clouds. All blurred slightly by intentional camera movement.
June 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted by Andy Burke
marshfamilysongs.bsky.social
A song we adapted from "Iris" (Goo Goo Dolls) about seeing and acknowledging what's happening now, in Gaza.

youtu.be/7OGcRQtorAM
"Gaza" - adaptation by the Marsh Family of "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls, on the occupation of Gaza
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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May 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
andyburke.bsky.social
I just resigned from the Labour Party. I can’t support this far-right and damaging stance from the current leadership.
nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · May 12
The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous.

Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family.

To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.
May 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
#Lines
Lines of light and dark at different angles across a blue watery surface. A multi exposure image of light reflections on the surface of Coniston Water.
May 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM