Keith Banks
@keithbanks.bsky.social
Art, books ,photography, birding, angling, walking, NFFC, conservation and life it's self.
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Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Huge congratulations to Zohran Mamdani on his election as Mayor of New York City from all of us at the Green Party! 🎉💚
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We are pleased to say that @corinnefowler.bsky.social will now be chairing our forthcoming event with Dan Hicks on November 19th - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/dan-hicks/.
Only a few tickets left.
Only a few tickets left.
Every Monument Will Fall with Dan Hicks, in conversation with Corinne Fowler – Five Leaves Bookshop
fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
We are pleased to say that @corinnefowler.bsky.social will now be chairing our forthcoming event with Dan Hicks on November 19th - fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/dan-hicks/.
Only a few tickets left.
Only a few tickets left.
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Nobody gets more airtime or less scrutiny than Nigel Farage.
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Nobody gets more airtime or less scrutiny than Nigel Farage.
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Oliver North, traitor and Fox News military analyst.
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Oliver North, traitor and Fox News military analyst.
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What a sick world.
October 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What a sick world.
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Something unexpected happened at the @meidascanada.ca town hall in Victoria.
A group of young Afghan girls who escaped the Taliban showed up and asked to speak. They told their story of the fight for education and the need for Canada to help.
We will be sharing their story.
@meidastouch.com
A group of young Afghan girls who escaped the Taliban showed up and asked to speak. They told their story of the fight for education and the need for Canada to help.
We will be sharing their story.
@meidastouch.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Something unexpected happened at the @meidascanada.ca town hall in Victoria.
A group of young Afghan girls who escaped the Taliban showed up and asked to speak. They told their story of the fight for education and the need for Canada to help.
We will be sharing their story.
@meidastouch.com
A group of young Afghan girls who escaped the Taliban showed up and asked to speak. They told their story of the fight for education and the need for Canada to help.
We will be sharing their story.
@meidastouch.com
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Huge turnout and great day at No Kings in Pasadena.
October 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Huge turnout and great day at No Kings in Pasadena.
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In a letter to Badenoch, the Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, called it “deeply concerning and unpatriotic. People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to ‘go home’. This is their home.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
In a letter to Badenoch, the Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, called it “deeply concerning and unpatriotic. People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to ‘go home’. This is their home.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Every channel is showing the press conference of the Epstein victim, except FOX.
September 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Every channel is showing the press conference of the Epstein victim, except FOX.
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There’s one issue that is gaining rare bipartisan support in DC: Outrage over the continued stonewalling of the full release of the Epstein files.
Epstein survivors begged Trump to release their files. He called it a “hoax.”
"President Trump: You have so much influence and power in this situation. Please use [it] to help us."
www.motherjones.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
There’s one issue that is gaining rare bipartisan support in DC: Outrage over the continued stonewalling of the full release of the Epstein files.
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This is a colossal failure for Trump and a huge win for Putin. He is strengthened both in Russia and on the world stage. All the time Ukrainians are fighting and dying to resist this dictator who will now feel he can do as he wishes without consequences.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Russia jubilant after Putin leaves Trump summit without making concessions
With no sanctions imposed on Russia, and no ceasefire agreed, Moscow feels it has the upper hand
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This is a colossal failure for Trump and a huge win for Putin. He is strengthened both in Russia and on the world stage. All the time Ukrainians are fighting and dying to resist this dictator who will now feel he can do as he wishes without consequences.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Love the graph. 🇨🇦✊
#BoycottUSA is working.
Plus it feels SO GOOD to go breezing by, and not buy, American products.
#ElbowsUp
#BoycottUSA is working.
Plus it feels SO GOOD to go breezing by, and not buy, American products.
#ElbowsUp
August 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Love the graph. 🇨🇦✊
#BoycottUSA is working.
Plus it feels SO GOOD to go breezing by, and not buy, American products.
#ElbowsUp
#BoycottUSA is working.
Plus it feels SO GOOD to go breezing by, and not buy, American products.
#ElbowsUp
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Oh hi @rspbscience.bsky.social!!! 💙💚
Give them a follow to stay up to date with our latest research, cool discoveries, citizen science & much more...👇
Give them a follow to stay up to date with our latest research, cool discoveries, citizen science & much more...👇
Hello world!
RSPB Conservation Science has officially landed on BlueSky
Follow us to hear about our science discoveries, new publications, citizen science, and all things conservation research
RSPB Conservation Science has officially landed on BlueSky
Follow us to hear about our science discoveries, new publications, citizen science, and all things conservation research
July 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Oh hi @rspbscience.bsky.social!!! 💙💚
Give them a follow to stay up to date with our latest research, cool discoveries, citizen science & much more...👇
Give them a follow to stay up to date with our latest research, cool discoveries, citizen science & much more...👇
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Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
June 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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Book of the Day (Author of the Day, since she is here) : The Life Affirming Magic of Birds by @charliebingham.bsky.social, complete with a swift on the cover. Signed copies now in stock. Charlie works her way round the country and birdlife, from gulls to curlews. She will be speaking here this year.
May 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Book of the Day (Author of the Day, since she is here) : The Life Affirming Magic of Birds by @charliebingham.bsky.social, complete with a swift on the cover. Signed copies now in stock. Charlie works her way round the country and birdlife, from gulls to curlews. She will be speaking here this year.
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Congratulations and thanks to Nottingham anti-fascists who faced off a gathering of far- right people this afternoon in the Market Square.
May 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Congratulations and thanks to Nottingham anti-fascists who faced off a gathering of far- right people this afternoon in the Market Square.
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Five Leaves New Poetry, all published in the last two years. East Midlands writers, in pamphlet for the first time. Check our publishing website for details www.fiveleaves.co.uk or have look when next in the bookshop.
Seven pound each, between 36-56 pages. They do look good together!
#booksky
Seven pound each, between 36-56 pages. They do look good together!
#booksky
April 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Five Leaves New Poetry, all published in the last two years. East Midlands writers, in pamphlet for the first time. Check our publishing website for details www.fiveleaves.co.uk or have look when next in the bookshop.
Seven pound each, between 36-56 pages. They do look good together!
#booksky
Seven pound each, between 36-56 pages. They do look good together!
#booksky
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International Women's Day every day we have been open and every day we do open
March 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
International Women's Day every day we have been open and every day we do open
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New and scarce species found at #WyverLaneNR this summer. Sciapus platypterus (new site record), Orchid Beetle (new site record) and Wasp Beetle (possibly just the 2nd site record) @belperbirder.bsky.social @richardttaylor.bsky.social @danmartinwildlife.bsky.social @cliveaderbys.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 11:43 AM
New and scarce species found at #WyverLaneNR this summer. Sciapus platypterus (new site record), Orchid Beetle (new site record) and Wasp Beetle (possibly just the 2nd site record) @belperbirder.bsky.social @richardttaylor.bsky.social @danmartinwildlife.bsky.social @cliveaderbys.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 11:01 AM
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More evidence the whole water sector is totally broken. Utterly toothless regulators & privatisation resulting in £80bn lining shareholders’ pockets since 1990 & raw sewage entering waterways for 3.6m hours last year, double amount recorded the year before #publicownershipnow @we-own-it.bsky.social
Water bills for households in England and Wales to rise by £31 a year
Water bills for households in England and Wales to rise by £31 a year
Regulator agrees to increase amount firms can charge over next five years so they can fund fixing leaky pipes and cut pollution
Households in England and Wales will see their water bills rise by an average of £31 a year, as suppliers pay to fix leaky…
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
More evidence the whole water sector is totally broken. Utterly toothless regulators & privatisation resulting in £80bn lining shareholders’ pockets since 1990 & raw sewage entering waterways for 3.6m hours last year, double amount recorded the year before #publicownershipnow @we-own-it.bsky.social
December 19, 2024 at 7:20 AM
#Birds #Photography #Derbyshire
One of my favourite bird photos taken back in 2014 at Lower Hartshay.
One of the commonest of birds, a female Blackbird.
Shows the juxtaposition of a fragile creature and the barbed wire.
One of my favourite bird photos taken back in 2014 at Lower Hartshay.
One of the commonest of birds, a female Blackbird.
Shows the juxtaposition of a fragile creature and the barbed wire.
December 3, 2024 at 12:34 PM
#Birds #Photography #Derbyshire
One of my favourite bird photos taken back in 2014 at Lower Hartshay.
One of the commonest of birds, a female Blackbird.
Shows the juxtaposition of a fragile creature and the barbed wire.
One of my favourite bird photos taken back in 2014 at Lower Hartshay.
One of the commonest of birds, a female Blackbird.
Shows the juxtaposition of a fragile creature and the barbed wire.
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So glad to see this - and it shows two things: first that most people are still perfectly good, kind and helpful, and second that Munchies deserves a big shout-out - as well as the anonymous finder/deliverer! Congratulations, @katharinehorgan.bsky.social !
Update: I’ve found the locket, and the chain can be easily replaced. Thank you, everyone. I’m so touched by your responses and beyond relieved to have found it—it’s hard to put into words. 🤍
bsky.app/profile/kath...
bsky.app/profile/kath...
I retraced my steps and asked in Munchies cafe as that was the nearest spot to where I thought I had heard the clink and some kind soul handed it in and the staff had it for me. I’m in floods of tears, the chain seems gone but I have the locket. Thank you universe ❤️
November 26, 2024 at 11:47 AM
So glad to see this - and it shows two things: first that most people are still perfectly good, kind and helpful, and second that Munchies deserves a big shout-out - as well as the anonymous finder/deliverer! Congratulations, @katharinehorgan.bsky.social !