Katkin
@katkin38.bsky.social
EU citizen; Believe in social justice and democracy; Love cats🐈⬛, 📚 books , garden 🌻, being outside🏕 and oh so much more...
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A Bald Eagle, seen just north of my house on Dec. 9th!
North Waterloo, Ontario.
#birds
#birding
#birdphotography
#nature
#52frames_nature
#52frames
#photography
North Waterloo, Ontario.
#birds
#birding
#birdphotography
#nature
#52frames_nature
#52frames
#photography
December 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
A Bald Eagle, seen just north of my house on Dec. 9th!
North Waterloo, Ontario.
#birds
#birding
#birdphotography
#nature
#52frames_nature
#52frames
#photography
North Waterloo, Ontario.
#birds
#birding
#birdphotography
#nature
#52frames_nature
#52frames
#photography
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Bromeliad Guzmania
February 10th 2024
February 10th 2024
December 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Bromeliad Guzmania
February 10th 2024
February 10th 2024
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Got the dreaded ”we see something unusual on your mammogram results” phone call yesterday. Went back in this morning for another mamo and ultrasound. The radiologist looked at everything and said “You’re all clear!”
Women, stay up on your yearly mamo. It’s not fun but it can save your life.
Women, stay up on your yearly mamo. It’s not fun but it can save your life.
December 13, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Got the dreaded ”we see something unusual on your mammogram results” phone call yesterday. Went back in this morning for another mamo and ultrasound. The radiologist looked at everything and said “You’re all clear!”
Women, stay up on your yearly mamo. It’s not fun but it can save your life.
Women, stay up on your yearly mamo. It’s not fun but it can save your life.
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Day 1261 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and not so good weather for walking The Peak District AM, but our PM bit was incredible
Views on the Edges were amazing and hardly a soul around #PerfectDayOut ❤️🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
Views on the Edges were amazing and hardly a soul around #PerfectDayOut ❤️🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
December 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Day 1261 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and not so good weather for walking The Peak District AM, but our PM bit was incredible
Views on the Edges were amazing and hardly a soul around #PerfectDayOut ❤️🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
Views on the Edges were amazing and hardly a soul around #PerfectDayOut ❤️🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
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Happy Fox Friday ;-)
December 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Happy Fox Friday ;-)
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Sanderling
Long Island, NY
More at hipogrito.com/sanderling
#birds #birding #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography
Long Island, NY
More at hipogrito.com/sanderling
#birds #birding #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Sanderling
Long Island, NY
More at hipogrito.com/sanderling
#birds #birding #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography
Long Island, NY
More at hipogrito.com/sanderling
#birds #birding #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography
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🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
December 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years”
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
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Trumplethinskin creates his own version of reality & then expects us to believe it as if we don't have eyes, ears or functioning brains.
#SAD 🤣
#SAD 🤣
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Trumplethinskin creates his own version of reality & then expects us to believe it as if we don't have eyes, ears or functioning brains.
#SAD 🤣
#SAD 🤣
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Happy #HumanRightsDay!
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
European nations to begin major talks on ECHR migration rule changes
The talks are the most significant sign yet that international human rights law could be reinterpreted.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Happy #HumanRightsDay!
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"
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I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
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Christmas trees lining the west side of the Berlin Wall, ca. 1961. Photographer unknown.
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Christmas trees lining the west side of the Berlin Wall, ca. 1961. Photographer unknown.
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This is an astounding thing for the leader of a Labour Party who has just witnessed the Tory government crash the UK out of the EU, let Covid rip, and starve people under austerity to say!
Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government."
The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.
The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.
December 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This is an astounding thing for the leader of a Labour Party who has just witnessed the Tory government crash the UK out of the EU, let Covid rip, and starve people under austerity to say!
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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".
"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
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".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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The German parliament approved a new model for military service as thousands of school pupils demonstrated across the country against the plans. Meanwhile MPs signed off on pension hikes the young will bear the brunt of @kateconnolly.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
German MPs rubberstamp military service plan amid school pupil protests
All 18-year-old men to be screened for suitability for armed forces, but proposal falls short of conscription
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The German parliament approved a new model for military service as thousands of school pupils demonstrated across the country against the plans. Meanwhile MPs signed off on pension hikes the young will bear the brunt of @kateconnolly.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Apparently this is the wrong answer, so Wes Streeting is launching another review by a team picked to deliver a more convenient answer 🙄
Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.
Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.
An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1
April 2025
www.england.nhs.uk
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Apparently this is the wrong answer, so Wes Streeting is launching another review by a team picked to deliver a more convenient answer 🙄
Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.
Whichever review gives the answer they want will be hailed as "gold standard science", the other will be ignored.
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There's always somebody somewhere
Who needs flowers tonight
Who needs flowers tonight
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
There's always somebody somewhere
Who needs flowers tonight
Who needs flowers tonight
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November 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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So relevant again today:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
So relevant again today:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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On Trans Parent Day I’m proud to share this post from @transparentaction.bsky.social
I’m mindful that if you’re living without the support of birth family this may be a hard day.
Sending love to all trans people,
to parents of trans people and to everyone who loves and supports trans people 🩷
I’m mindful that if you’re living without the support of birth family this may be a hard day.
Sending love to all trans people,
to parents of trans people and to everyone who loves and supports trans people 🩷
Today is Trans Parent Day - a day to celebrate both parents who are trans and parents of trans people. It’s also an opportunity for us to speak about the pride we feel for our loved ones.
We’re a group of parents of trans children and adults who care about their future.
We’re a group of parents of trans children and adults who care about their future.
November 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
On Trans Parent Day I’m proud to share this post from @transparentaction.bsky.social
I’m mindful that if you’re living without the support of birth family this may be a hard day.
Sending love to all trans people,
to parents of trans people and to everyone who loves and supports trans people 🩷
I’m mindful that if you’re living without the support of birth family this may be a hard day.
Sending love to all trans people,
to parents of trans people and to everyone who loves and supports trans people 🩷
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What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯