Dani Dark Skies ✨
@danidarkskies.bsky.social
Defender of Darkness 🌌
Author of All Through the Night 📚
Lover of landscapes, wildlife and all round nature nerd ✨🐝🦇🐳🦉
Surfer and Marine Mammal Medic 🦭🌊
Work to make our National Parks/Landscapes thrive at night 🌌
Cymraeg 🏴
https://linktr.ee/danidarkskies
Author of All Through the Night 📚
Lover of landscapes, wildlife and all round nature nerd ✨🐝🦇🐳🦉
Surfer and Marine Mammal Medic 🦭🌊
Work to make our National Parks/Landscapes thrive at night 🌌
Cymraeg 🏴
https://linktr.ee/danidarkskies
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Did you know corals time their spawning perfectly with a particular moon phase?
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
The Great Barrier Reef is spawning. 🪸 ✨
A phenomenon Sir David Attenborough once described as “one of the greatest of all natural spectacles,” the annual event is a dazzling display presenting hope for bigger, stronger coral reefs. 💙
Here's what spawning looks like👇
A phenomenon Sir David Attenborough once described as “one of the greatest of all natural spectacles,” the annual event is a dazzling display presenting hope for bigger, stronger coral reefs. 💙
Here's what spawning looks like👇
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Did you know corals time their spawning perfectly with a particular moon phase?
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
Storm Claudia is about to sweep the nation and NOBODY has made a joke about a ‘fringe front’ moving in. Come on @metoffice.gov.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Storm Claudia is about to sweep the nation and NOBODY has made a joke about a ‘fringe front’ moving in. Come on @metoffice.gov.uk
It’s me. Again.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It’s me. Again.
If this is you in a camper van, parked at Eshaness lighthouse, for the love of God, switch your lights off!
You’ve been sat with your headlights on for over 45 mins 😂
You can’t see aurora if you sit in a van with all your lights on…
You’ve been sat with your headlights on for over 45 mins 😂
You can’t see aurora if you sit in a van with all your lights on…
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If this is you in a camper van, parked at Eshaness lighthouse, for the love of God, switch your lights off!
You’ve been sat with your headlights on for over 45 mins 😂
You can’t see aurora if you sit in a van with all your lights on…
You’ve been sat with your headlights on for over 45 mins 😂
You can’t see aurora if you sit in a van with all your lights on…
🚨AURORA🚨
Currently active and visible from the UK! If (and it’s a big if!) you have clear skies, pop out and take a look.
This is a screenshot from Shetland Webcam. I’d be very annoyed by the campervan with all its lights on!
Currently active and visible from the UK! If (and it’s a big if!) you have clear skies, pop out and take a look.
This is a screenshot from Shetland Webcam. I’d be very annoyed by the campervan with all its lights on!
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🚨AURORA🚨
Currently active and visible from the UK! If (and it’s a big if!) you have clear skies, pop out and take a look.
This is a screenshot from Shetland Webcam. I’d be very annoyed by the campervan with all its lights on!
Currently active and visible from the UK! If (and it’s a big if!) you have clear skies, pop out and take a look.
This is a screenshot from Shetland Webcam. I’d be very annoyed by the campervan with all its lights on!
If you have clear skies around you (unlike me 😭) now would be a good time to go out and look north for aurora!
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
If you have clear skies around you (unlike me 😭) now would be a good time to go out and look north for aurora!
The skies went a little bit biblical just after sunset this evening!
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The skies went a little bit biblical just after sunset this evening!
I worry about AI illiteracy. Over 6k people liked, shared and commented on these images and the vast majority are not questioning what they see and accept them as real, which I find utterly astounding but there we are. If people believe this bollocks is real, what won’t they believe?
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I worry about AI illiteracy. Over 6k people liked, shared and commented on these images and the vast majority are not questioning what they see and accept them as real, which I find utterly astounding but there we are. If people believe this bollocks is real, what won’t they believe?
After another grey day the sky tonight erupted as the sun set ☀️
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
After another grey day the sky tonight erupted as the sun set ☀️
My dad isn’t one for phones, so I was surprised to get a call from him yesterday, and panicked that something was wrong.
He was just calling because he was really excited about seeing a bird and wanted to tell me ❤️
(Great Northern Diver, for those interested.)
He was just calling because he was really excited about seeing a bird and wanted to tell me ❤️
(Great Northern Diver, for those interested.)
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
My dad isn’t one for phones, so I was surprised to get a call from him yesterday, and panicked that something was wrong.
He was just calling because he was really excited about seeing a bird and wanted to tell me ❤️
(Great Northern Diver, for those interested.)
He was just calling because he was really excited about seeing a bird and wanted to tell me ❤️
(Great Northern Diver, for those interested.)
Me: ‘why is the grass still growing so quickly?’
Temperature on Nov 5th: 18.5 degrees.
18.5 degrees Celsius in November!?
Temperature on Nov 5th: 18.5 degrees.
18.5 degrees Celsius in November!?
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Me: ‘why is the grass still growing so quickly?’
Temperature on Nov 5th: 18.5 degrees.
18.5 degrees Celsius in November!?
Temperature on Nov 5th: 18.5 degrees.
18.5 degrees Celsius in November!?
Look at this pure feast for the senses, the colours, the textures, the gorgeously voluptuous sloes, the wisened lichens and velvety mosses.
Autumnal bounty 🍂
Autumnal bounty 🍂
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Look at this pure feast for the senses, the colours, the textures, the gorgeously voluptuous sloes, the wisened lichens and velvety mosses.
Autumnal bounty 🍂
Autumnal bounty 🍂
If you can see the Moon tonight, you can also see Saturn!
Look for a small, but bright, light, roughly at the Moon’s 5 o’clock
Look for a small, but bright, light, roughly at the Moon’s 5 o’clock
November 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
If you can see the Moon tonight, you can also see Saturn!
Look for a small, but bright, light, roughly at the Moon’s 5 o’clock
Look for a small, but bright, light, roughly at the Moon’s 5 o’clock
Obviously I’m not really a ‘media voice’ but I was recently subject of a BBC documentary. Someone took time out of their day to email me and tell me I should ‘learn to speak properly and say my t’s’.
They took time out of their day to write that. Imagine. I have an accent. I’m not ashamed.
They took time out of their day to write that. Imagine. I have an accent. I’m not ashamed.
TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has emphasised the need for better representation of working-class voices in the media because ‘if you’re only going to hear elite opinions we’re never going to get anywhere’
Media needs to retain opportunities for ‘working-class voices’ – Lorraine Kelly
TV presenter Lorraine Kelly has emphasised the need for better representation of working-class voices in the media because “if you’re only going to hear elite opinions we’re never going to get anywher...
wp.me
November 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Obviously I’m not really a ‘media voice’ but I was recently subject of a BBC documentary. Someone took time out of their day to email me and tell me I should ‘learn to speak properly and say my t’s’.
They took time out of their day to write that. Imagine. I have an accent. I’m not ashamed.
They took time out of their day to write that. Imagine. I have an accent. I’m not ashamed.
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Welsh indie music duo Rogue Jones have become the latest in a string of artists to remove their music from Spotify, opposing the CEO's controversial investments and the platform's ‘popularity contest’
‘Greedy men are wrecking the place’: Welsh duo latest to quit Spotify
Molly Stubbs Welsh indie music duo Rogue Jones have become the latest in a string of artists to remove their music from Spotify, opposing the CEO’s controversial investments and the platform’s deliber...
wp.me
November 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Welsh indie music duo Rogue Jones have become the latest in a string of artists to remove their music from Spotify, opposing the CEO's controversial investments and the platform's ‘popularity contest’
Dogs have been acting weird, and I was like why, why act weird on Halloween of all nights!?
Just had a huge thunderclap. They must have been able to hear the storm further away.
Lightning Storm on Halloween is a bit dramatic though, isn’t it?
Just had a huge thunderclap. They must have been able to hear the storm further away.
Lightning Storm on Halloween is a bit dramatic though, isn’t it?
October 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Dogs have been acting weird, and I was like why, why act weird on Halloween of all nights!?
Just had a huge thunderclap. They must have been able to hear the storm further away.
Lightning Storm on Halloween is a bit dramatic though, isn’t it?
Just had a huge thunderclap. They must have been able to hear the storm further away.
Lightning Storm on Halloween is a bit dramatic though, isn’t it?
Noson Calan Gaeaf Hapus Pawb 🎃
Happy Halloween Everyone 👻
Happy Halloween Everyone 👻
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Noson Calan Gaeaf Hapus Pawb 🎃
Happy Halloween Everyone 👻
Happy Halloween Everyone 👻
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If the sight doesn't send chills down your spine, the smell will.
Be warned - lattice stinkhorn fungus gives off an odour of rotten flesh. How apt it was spotted at Greenway in Devon in time for Halloween!
Photo: Pat B
Be warned - lattice stinkhorn fungus gives off an odour of rotten flesh. How apt it was spotted at Greenway in Devon in time for Halloween!
Photo: Pat B
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
If the sight doesn't send chills down your spine, the smell will.
Be warned - lattice stinkhorn fungus gives off an odour of rotten flesh. How apt it was spotted at Greenway in Devon in time for Halloween!
Photo: Pat B
Be warned - lattice stinkhorn fungus gives off an odour of rotten flesh. How apt it was spotted at Greenway in Devon in time for Halloween!
Photo: Pat B
5 word horror story for an author:
‘No one bought your book’
Or
‘Make a TikTok account now’
(PleaseBuyMyBook)
‘No one bought your book’
Or
‘Make a TikTok account now’
(PleaseBuyMyBook)
October 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
5 word horror story for an author:
‘No one bought your book’
Or
‘Make a TikTok account now’
(PleaseBuyMyBook)
‘No one bought your book’
Or
‘Make a TikTok account now’
(PleaseBuyMyBook)
I keep being told to get on TikTok
My common sense tells me I’m too old.
I also don’t want another social media platform to try and steel myself away from as I have the will power of a gnat.
Does anyone think it’s a good idea?
My common sense tells me I’m too old.
I also don’t want another social media platform to try and steel myself away from as I have the will power of a gnat.
Does anyone think it’s a good idea?
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I keep being told to get on TikTok
My common sense tells me I’m too old.
I also don’t want another social media platform to try and steel myself away from as I have the will power of a gnat.
Does anyone think it’s a good idea?
My common sense tells me I’m too old.
I also don’t want another social media platform to try and steel myself away from as I have the will power of a gnat.
Does anyone think it’s a good idea?
Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti are all suffering from a climate change enhanced hurricane and Space Dick is still launching his rockets.
The disparity and unjustness of this is literally being spelled out for us in the sky.
The disparity and unjustness of this is literally being spelled out for us in the sky.
Bright light seen over Wirral after being seen in Ireland too. Not Starlink, not a plane. UFO.
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti are all suffering from a climate change enhanced hurricane and Space Dick is still launching his rockets.
The disparity and unjustness of this is literally being spelled out for us in the sky.
The disparity and unjustness of this is literally being spelled out for us in the sky.
Night-flying insects in decline across the UK 🌙
Good to see light pollution being cited as a reason for insect declines 💡
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good to see light pollution being cited as a reason for insect declines 💡
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals
Study of Met Office data one of first to show how nocturnal insects affected by factors such as light pollution
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Night-flying insects in decline across the UK 🌙
Good to see light pollution being cited as a reason for insect declines 💡
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good to see light pollution being cited as a reason for insect declines 💡
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Young people are increasingly being forced to choose homes in nature-poor urban areas according to new research by @wclnews.bsky.social. The fewer parks and green spaces an area has relative to the population, the more first-time buyers have to flock there. c-js.uk/3Jo3IDp
Young homebuyers being forced into urban nature deserts, new research finds
c-js.uk
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Young people are increasingly being forced to choose homes in nature-poor urban areas according to new research by @wclnews.bsky.social. The fewer parks and green spaces an area has relative to the population, the more first-time buyers have to flock there. c-js.uk/3Jo3IDp
This is always one of the biggest concerns from audiences when I go out to speak to people.
LED car headlights are far too bright and causing lots of issues for drivers. Glad to see there’s work being done around this by government.
apple.news/AyMD6vISeRx2...
LED car headlights are far too bright and causing lots of issues for drivers. Glad to see there’s work being done around this by government.
apple.news/AyMD6vISeRx2...
Headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night — BBC News
Concern over the glare from brighter headlamps is prompting the government to review vehicle design.
apple.news
October 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This is always one of the biggest concerns from audiences when I go out to speak to people.
LED car headlights are far too bright and causing lots of issues for drivers. Glad to see there’s work being done around this by government.
apple.news/AyMD6vISeRx2...
LED car headlights are far too bright and causing lots of issues for drivers. Glad to see there’s work being done around this by government.
apple.news/AyMD6vISeRx2...