Matt
@keepgoingleft.bsky.social
Professional gardener. Horticulture, orchids, nature, ecology, rewilding etc. If it’s not raining or dark you’ll find me outdoors.
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Not quite spring yet but so lovely to see flowers in the garden after such a miserable winter 🥶
March 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Not quite spring yet but so lovely to see flowers in the garden after such a miserable winter 🥶
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
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Important info for pet owners, but the manufacturers, suppliers and regulators are at fault.
Flea and tick treatments are a concentrated dose of insecticide/pesticide. They end up in our canals and rivers, on your clothes and skin and those of your children, and now this...
Flea and tick treatments are a concentrated dose of insecticide/pesticide. They end up in our canals and rivers, on your clothes and skin and those of your children, and now this...
Pet owners accidentally poisoning garden birds.
Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin
Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin
January 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Important info for pet owners, but the manufacturers, suppliers and regulators are at fault.
Flea and tick treatments are a concentrated dose of insecticide/pesticide. They end up in our canals and rivers, on your clothes and skin and those of your children, and now this...
Flea and tick treatments are a concentrated dose of insecticide/pesticide. They end up in our canals and rivers, on your clothes and skin and those of your children, and now this...
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Billionaire wealth has risen 3 times faster in 2024 than 2023 according to @oxfamgb.bsky.social with 60% coming from either inheritance, cronyism and corruption or monopoly power.
This gross level of wealth hoarding is unjust and unsustainable.
Now is the time to tax the super-rich properly.
This gross level of wealth hoarding is unjust and unsustainable.
Now is the time to tax the super-rich properly.
January 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Billionaire wealth has risen 3 times faster in 2024 than 2023 according to @oxfamgb.bsky.social with 60% coming from either inheritance, cronyism and corruption or monopoly power.
This gross level of wealth hoarding is unjust and unsustainable.
Now is the time to tax the super-rich properly.
This gross level of wealth hoarding is unjust and unsustainable.
Now is the time to tax the super-rich properly.
The introduction of new kitten continues (week 3!) 😒.
The curmudgeonly one is still resisting. So supervised visits still necessary.
Kitten’s crime? Apparently smells funny… and possibly too cute. #catsofbluesky #kitten #caturday
The curmudgeonly one is still resisting. So supervised visits still necessary.
Kitten’s crime? Apparently smells funny… and possibly too cute. #catsofbluesky #kitten #caturday
January 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The introduction of new kitten continues (week 3!) 😒.
The curmudgeonly one is still resisting. So supervised visits still necessary.
Kitten’s crime? Apparently smells funny… and possibly too cute. #catsofbluesky #kitten #caturday
The curmudgeonly one is still resisting. So supervised visits still necessary.
Kitten’s crime? Apparently smells funny… and possibly too cute. #catsofbluesky #kitten #caturday
I think me and this stoat surprised each other today. They seem to have a den in an old pipe at the back of the pond.
When I’d backed away enough, off they went, hunting in the meadow. #stoat
When I’d backed away enough, off they went, hunting in the meadow. #stoat
January 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I think me and this stoat surprised each other today. They seem to have a den in an old pipe at the back of the pond.
When I’d backed away enough, off they went, hunting in the meadow. #stoat
When I’d backed away enough, off they went, hunting in the meadow. #stoat
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👋 Hi Labour. We have an idea...
Rather than taking money off disabled people - some of the poorest people in society - you could tax the super-rich properly and raise billions to help fix our crumbling public services 👍
Rather than taking money off disabled people - some of the poorest people in society - you could tax the super-rich properly and raise billions to help fix our crumbling public services 👍
January 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
👋 Hi Labour. We have an idea...
Rather than taking money off disabled people - some of the poorest people in society - you could tax the super-rich properly and raise billions to help fix our crumbling public services 👍
Rather than taking money off disabled people - some of the poorest people in society - you could tax the super-rich properly and raise billions to help fix our crumbling public services 👍
🤭
January 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🤭
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Can we have a big shout-out for dandelions? These wildflowers will be back in just a few weeks - offering a vital early food source for all sorts of insects, including bees & butterflies. Please let them grow - this short film (made by our daughter) shows how they can boost biodiversity!
January 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Can we have a big shout-out for dandelions? These wildflowers will be back in just a few weeks - offering a vital early food source for all sorts of insects, including bees & butterflies. Please let them grow - this short film (made by our daughter) shows how they can boost biodiversity!
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Absolutely lovely day, far too nice to be indoors!
Local lanes full of spiders air-travelling across the road to the opposite hedge🕷️
#Shropshire #LongMynd
Local lanes full of spiders air-travelling across the road to the opposite hedge🕷️
#Shropshire #LongMynd
January 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Absolutely lovely day, far too nice to be indoors!
Local lanes full of spiders air-travelling across the road to the opposite hedge🕷️
#Shropshire #LongMynd
Local lanes full of spiders air-travelling across the road to the opposite hedge🕷️
#Shropshire #LongMynd
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Just deleted my Threads account.
Zuckerberg has to understand we went to threads because of what Musk did to X.
Now he’s sucking up to Trump he should know it is in all our powers to make Threads and eventually Instagram and Facebook a graveyard.
Zuckerberg has to understand we went to threads because of what Musk did to X.
Now he’s sucking up to Trump he should know it is in all our powers to make Threads and eventually Instagram and Facebook a graveyard.
January 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Just deleted my Threads account.
Zuckerberg has to understand we went to threads because of what Musk did to X.
Now he’s sucking up to Trump he should know it is in all our powers to make Threads and eventually Instagram and Facebook a graveyard.
Zuckerberg has to understand we went to threads because of what Musk did to X.
Now he’s sucking up to Trump he should know it is in all our powers to make Threads and eventually Instagram and Facebook a graveyard.
Knockout sunrise this morning over the Long Mynd.
I can’t remember when we last had such a long, cold spell. 🥶
Praise be to the god of greenhouse heaters.
I can’t remember when we last had such a long, cold spell. 🥶
Praise be to the god of greenhouse heaters.
January 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Knockout sunrise this morning over the Long Mynd.
I can’t remember when we last had such a long, cold spell. 🥶
Praise be to the god of greenhouse heaters.
I can’t remember when we last had such a long, cold spell. 🥶
Praise be to the god of greenhouse heaters.
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This is Maisy. She gets an additional party hat for each birthday, and she just turned nine. 13/10 may this tradition go on forever
January 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This is Maisy. She gets an additional party hat for each birthday, and she just turned nine. 13/10 may this tradition go on forever
Taking a mushy stroll to the neighbours for a belated mince pie.
Hope this melts before freezing again 🫤
Hope this melts before freezing again 🫤
January 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Taking a mushy stroll to the neighbours for a belated mince pie.
Hope this melts before freezing again 🫤
Hope this melts before freezing again 🫤
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The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
January 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
January 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This little box of springs came to live with us a few days ago.
Bluesky, meet Kenzo.
#catsofbsky #cats #kitten
Bluesky, meet Kenzo.
#catsofbsky #cats #kitten
December 31, 2024 at 11:29 AM
This little box of springs came to live with us a few days ago.
Bluesky, meet Kenzo.
#catsofbsky #cats #kitten
Bluesky, meet Kenzo.
#catsofbsky #cats #kitten
A much needed (mince pie powered) walk up the lane to the Long Mynd.
Home now to make left overs soup (not mice pies).
#shropshire #Longmynd
Home now to make left overs soup (not mice pies).
#shropshire #Longmynd
December 30, 2024 at 2:59 PM
A much needed (mince pie powered) walk up the lane to the Long Mynd.
Home now to make left overs soup (not mice pies).
#shropshire #Longmynd
Home now to make left overs soup (not mice pies).
#shropshire #Longmynd
December 29, 2024 at 8:41 PM
A little late for Christmas - A big Mistletoe at the Shropshire Discovery Centre.
Low down on its host apple tree too so good to get up close 🧐
Low down on its host apple tree too so good to get up close 🧐
December 29, 2024 at 4:28 PM
A little late for Christmas - A big Mistletoe at the Shropshire Discovery Centre.
Low down on its host apple tree too so good to get up close 🧐
Low down on its host apple tree too so good to get up close 🧐
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