Mike Bradley
captainconcorde.bsky.social
Mike Bradley
@captainconcorde.bsky.social
Astronomer
Humanist
Model Rocketeer
Refugee from X
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On this darkest solstice day of the year, my heart has dimmed, waking up to learn of the loss of dear colleague and mentor, Yannick Mellier. Yannick will be known to most as the lead of the amazing Euclid Space Telescope which will revolutionise our understanding of the Dark Universe 🧵🔭
December 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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If you find🎄 hard due to grief,trauma,family stuff,wonky self esteem,neurodivergence &/or an urge to throw Christmas down the loo, become a reclusive pagan & maybe make a small hat out of mistletoe at a push,then hi,me too.Here are some good twigs & I’m sending gentle thoughts. It’s only a few days🌿
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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More detail about the missing White-tailed Eagle in mid-Wales.

Not the first investigation into raptor persecution in this area.

Press release from Dyfed-Powys Police & commentary from me 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime @iolowilliams.bsky.social

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/m...
More detail about the missing White-tailed Eagle in mid-Wales
Further to the news on Thursday (here) that three White-tailed Eagles have ‘disappeared’ in suspicious circumstances, one in England, one in Wales and one in Scotland, Dyfed-Powys Police has issued…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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September 25, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice
December 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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The USA spreading " democracy" as usual.
December 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Almost certainly the most psychedelic photo I have taken of a bullock at sunset.
December 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Musician Kirsty MacColl died #onthisday in 2000. It's difficult to believe it's been 25 years. We were proud to conduct her humanist funeral, in accordance with her wishes. This Christmas marks the third year without Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl, but still, their voices live on❤️
December 18, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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A very quick session with M44, the Beehive Cluster, because I woke up early and couldn't stand to waste half an hour of clear darkness. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.

Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.

#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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An amazing discovery in a Suffolk wood suggests man was able to create fire way before it was previously thought. What went so wrong for intelligent life? 350,000 years later - we've produced Trump!
December 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Day 10 of #InsectAdvent & the Christmas flirting has ramped up

This male Robberfly, Pegesimallus teratodes, has striking, feather-like scales on its hind legs, likely used for female attraction during courtship. (& cleaning the dance floor)

@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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FIFA invents a peace prize for the man-baby…

Liz Truss launches her own show

Absolute obscenities, but hilarious fodder for our podcast.

Brand new episode of THE TRAWL out today👇🏽

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Man-Baby FIFA Peace Prize & Truss Hits YouTube
Podcast Episode · The Trawl · 11/12/2025 · 32m
podcasts.apple.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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In the 1940’s due to the shortage of men because of WWII the forestry commission employed pixies to manage the forests. Here are a group cutting down a 6 foot Christmas tree in Penmachno in 1945.
December 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Quite simply, Parr invented a political, humanist and instantly accessible photographic language which confronted the absurdity of working class life but also its kitsch, mischief and its tenderness

✏️ Jason Solomons
Martin Parr, the people's photographer
A new film celebrates Martin Parr, recorder of the mischief and tenderness of British working class life
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Anyone noticed how UK media is a lot less obsessed with Farage’s alleged antisemitism than Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism?

Odd that.
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Who gave the billionaires like Musk and Bezos the right to cut the Earth off from the Universe?
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.

Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 4, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Hi Refom party in Wales. I've amended the letter you sent to me.
November 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Thank you for following !
Happy Friday all....❤️
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna.

Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up.

Like if you want Mone on trial.
RT if you want them both facing the music.
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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THREAD. A Deconstruction Of Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales Books, 1964-74.

You will find the analysis of these beloved books in the alt text below.

1. The Gingerbread Boy.
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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THIS IS HOW YOU DO ALT-TEXT OMG 😂
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM