Sam Corke
@corkes.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Snails, seeds and soils.
I also take pictures.
I also take pictures.
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There are fantasy swords named Widowmaker in many a fiction, and then there is this.
This giant pinecone belongs to the coulter pine! It can be found in California & Mexico. Nicknamed “the widowmaker,” it produces some of the world's largest pinecones—which can weigh ~11 lbs (5 kg) & plummet to the ground with deadly force!
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
December 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
There are fantasy swords named Widowmaker in many a fiction, and then there is this.
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And also, life is not supposed to be *permanently* stressful. We're adapted to short periods of stress. If you maintain that kind of thing for weeks, let alone months or years, with no respite or hope, that's putting people into PTSD territory.
Right, but is it that we’re “forgotten life can be stressful” or is it that neoliberal capitalism doesn’t allow us to have natural, normal reactions to stress, so we seek treatment? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
And also, life is not supposed to be *permanently* stressful. We're adapted to short periods of stress. If you maintain that kind of thing for weeks, let alone months or years, with no respite or hope, that's putting people into PTSD territory.
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Playing the "Good/bad migrant line helps spread further division and racism.
As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them".
Labour knows this and just carries on.
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them".
Labour knows this and just carries on.
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
December 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Playing the "Good/bad migrant line helps spread further division and racism.
As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them".
Labour knows this and just carries on.
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
As @migrantvoice.bsky.social points out in this piece "People do not check what job someone has, or how they arrived, before attacking them".
Labour knows this and just carries on.
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
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The fact that many GPs don't believe people with mental health conditions will not be news to those of us with mental health conditions who have had to deal with these cunts.
Kudos on the BBC for continuing to manufacture consent to take away our rights and healthcare though.
Kudos on the BBC for continuing to manufacture consent to take away our rights and healthcare though.
'Life being stressful is not an illness' - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis
Hundreds of GPs in England tell the BBC they are also worried about a lack of help for patients.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
The fact that many GPs don't believe people with mental health conditions will not be news to those of us with mental health conditions who have had to deal with these cunts.
Kudos on the BBC for continuing to manufacture consent to take away our rights and healthcare though.
Kudos on the BBC for continuing to manufacture consent to take away our rights and healthcare though.
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It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
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It is! It is *fucked*! Everyone's wages are immediately sucked up by a parasitic class of landlords. It's drawing money out of the real economy and accelerating severe anti-growth trends! And nobody is fucking doing anything about it!!!
Surely spending this much on rent is unproductive for the wider economy?
October 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It is! It is *fucked*! Everyone's wages are immediately sucked up by a parasitic class of landlords. It's drawing money out of the real economy and accelerating severe anti-growth trends! And nobody is fucking doing anything about it!!!
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Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists
September 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists
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I put in a formal complaint about this and they did a classic NHS move: boilerplate reply with a “fact sheet” about what they’re doing
I replied like, “I already know the facts. I’m not requesting info, I’m saying what you’re doing is immoral.” And they ignored it lol
I replied like, “I already know the facts. I’m not requesting info, I’m saying what you’re doing is immoral.” And they ignored it lol
The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead
August 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I put in a formal complaint about this and they did a classic NHS move: boilerplate reply with a “fact sheet” about what they’re doing
I replied like, “I already know the facts. I’m not requesting info, I’m saying what you’re doing is immoral.” And they ignored it lol
I replied like, “I already know the facts. I’m not requesting info, I’m saying what you’re doing is immoral.” And they ignored it lol
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This argument used to be about stuff like universal healthcare and now it’s about specific groups of people deemed an acceptable loss
I am so fucking sick of this vile argument that fighting anti-trans hate is making perfect the enemy of good.
Forcing trans people out of society isn’t “good”!! It’s fucking evil!
“Once that is done” means “let a bunch of people that I deem less important die in the meantime”. No! Fuck you!
Forcing trans people out of society isn’t “good”!! It’s fucking evil!
“Once that is done” means “let a bunch of people that I deem less important die in the meantime”. No! Fuck you!
August 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This argument used to be about stuff like universal healthcare and now it’s about specific groups of people deemed an acceptable loss
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Sometimes, I long for him
July 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Sometimes, I long for him
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Can't think why a government wouldn't want more journalists and people who were able to critique media. Probably this is fine.
Pour one out for journalism and media studies, among the subjects somehow deemed unimportant enough to be cut even farther by a Labour government.
Funding for ‘high-cost’ university courses to be cut in England
Education secretary says top-up support for subjects including media must be scaled back in ‘challenging’ fiscal situation
on.ft.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Can't think why a government wouldn't want more journalists and people who were able to critique media. Probably this is fine.
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A brilliant piece of poetry from Michael Rosen, clearly directed at Starmer and the current Labour Government.
May 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A brilliant piece of poetry from Michael Rosen, clearly directed at Starmer and the current Labour Government.
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"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak"
our beef:
our beef:
April 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak"
our beef:
our beef:
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the twitter approach to downsizing is going great I see
February 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
the twitter approach to downsizing is going great I see
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My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France.
I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
January 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France.
I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.
Apropos of nothing. Here’s today’s T-shirt. @tufac.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Apropos of nothing. Here’s today’s T-shirt. @tufac.bsky.social