Matt Stribley
@mattstrib.bsky.social
Enjoy bryophytes, botany, nature, art and life. Be kind and considerate. Sometimes on my Brompton.
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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
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🍃NEW EPISODE: "We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths."
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social shatters an entrenched myth around human nature in less than 90 seconds.
Listen to the full episode of It’s Bloody Complicated, out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social shatters an entrenched myth around human nature in less than 90 seconds.
Listen to the full episode of It’s Bloody Complicated, out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
September 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🍃NEW EPISODE: "We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths."
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social shatters an entrenched myth around human nature in less than 90 seconds.
Listen to the full episode of It’s Bloody Complicated, out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social shatters an entrenched myth around human nature in less than 90 seconds.
Listen to the full episode of It’s Bloody Complicated, out now, wherever you get your podcasts.
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Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.
July 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.
Ravens having a little chat on Truro Cathedral.
May 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Ravens having a little chat on Truro Cathedral.
Spring Squill, Scilla verna on sea cliff in Cornwall. #Wildflowerhour
April 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Spring Squill, Scilla verna on sea cliff in Cornwall. #Wildflowerhour
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Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
petition.parliament.uk
April 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Just 850 more signatures will bring us to 100,000 and trigger a debate in parliament. Plz share widely - I’m holding my breath! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
I decided to decorate my simnel cake in a cheery, colourful way this year. A few flowers from the garden make all the difference.
April 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I decided to decorate my simnel cake in a cheery, colourful way this year. A few flowers from the garden make all the difference.
Here is a young plant of Wild Celery
(Apium graveolens) growing on the path edge, River side walk, #Truro. A reventment with more plants is on the opposite side of the footpath. Tidal Truro River beside Tesco carpark.
(Apium graveolens) growing on the path edge, River side walk, #Truro. A reventment with more plants is on the opposite side of the footpath. Tidal Truro River beside Tesco carpark.
April 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Here is a young plant of Wild Celery
(Apium graveolens) growing on the path edge, River side walk, #Truro. A reventment with more plants is on the opposite side of the footpath. Tidal Truro River beside Tesco carpark.
(Apium graveolens) growing on the path edge, River side walk, #Truro. A reventment with more plants is on the opposite side of the footpath. Tidal Truro River beside Tesco carpark.
A symmetrical pattern, well almost; with Clustered feather-moss (Rhynchostegium confertum) and Winter heliotrope (Petasites fragrant). Wall top, Truro.
April 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A symmetrical pattern, well almost; with Clustered feather-moss (Rhynchostegium confertum) and Winter heliotrope (Petasites fragrant). Wall top, Truro.
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Bawdy Greek jokes and Edwardian treats in today's pteridomanic @theguardian.com country diary by Sara Hudston. (Think I just made up a word...)
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: They look like tiny green toenails. So why the name ‘maidenhair’ spleenwort? Sara Hudston
Bridport, Dorset: The common fern’s name was inspired by another phase of its life cycle, when fronds die off and spindly threads of stem remain in luxuriant, wiry tufts
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April 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Bawdy Greek jokes and Edwardian treats in today's pteridomanic @theguardian.com country diary by Sara Hudston. (Think I just made up a word...)
#countrydiary #naturewriting
#countrydiary #naturewriting
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I'm thrilled to share news of my new book - Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of the World - which is now available for pre-order at some book shops and will hit the streets in August.
Published by Princeton University Press:
tinyurl.com/Mosses-of-th...
Published by Princeton University Press:
tinyurl.com/Mosses-of-th...
March 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm thrilled to share news of my new book - Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of the World - which is now available for pre-order at some book shops and will hit the streets in August.
Published by Princeton University Press:
tinyurl.com/Mosses-of-th...
Published by Princeton University Press:
tinyurl.com/Mosses-of-th...
Lovely, made me smile.
March 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Lovely, made me smile.
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Mexican Tree Fern, Cibotium schiederei in #Cambridge #BotanicGarden for #FernFriday, worthy of a Celtic craftsman.
March 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Mexican Tree Fern, Cibotium schiederei in #Cambridge #BotanicGarden for #FernFriday, worthy of a Celtic craftsman.
Wild daffodils in a Cornish hedge and an unusal pinkish coloured Barren Strawberry in woodland, Liskeard, from yesterday's roam. #wildflowerhour
March 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Wild daffodils in a Cornish hedge and an unusal pinkish coloured Barren Strawberry in woodland, Liskeard, from yesterday's roam. #wildflowerhour
Illuminous moss, Schistostega pennata Goblin gold in the Cornish hedges near Liskeard today. Always nice to find. Difficult to photograph as tucked back in earth hollows. #bryophyte #moss
March 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Illuminous moss, Schistostega pennata Goblin gold in the Cornish hedges near Liskeard today. Always nice to find. Difficult to photograph as tucked back in earth hollows. #bryophyte #moss
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A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
March 20, 2025 at 6:32 AM
A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
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"Let us not look for you only in memory,
Where we would grow lonely without you.
You would want us to find you in presence,
Beside us when beauty brightens."
~ John O'Donohue
The Gathering of Daffodils
🎨 Harold Harvey
Where we would grow lonely without you.
You would want us to find you in presence,
Beside us when beauty brightens."
~ John O'Donohue
The Gathering of Daffodils
🎨 Harold Harvey
March 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Let us not look for you only in memory,
Where we would grow lonely without you.
You would want us to find you in presence,
Beside us when beauty brightens."
~ John O'Donohue
The Gathering of Daffodils
🎨 Harold Harvey
Where we would grow lonely without you.
You would want us to find you in presence,
Beside us when beauty brightens."
~ John O'Donohue
The Gathering of Daffodils
🎨 Harold Harvey
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Second day of BBS Spring Field Meeting. Spring Wood, Kettlewell, was a rich site with some lovely plants including the limestone crevice specialists Pedinophyllum interruptum, Orthothecium intricatum, and Mnium marginatum.
March 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Second day of BBS Spring Field Meeting. Spring Wood, Kettlewell, was a rich site with some lovely plants including the limestone crevice specialists Pedinophyllum interruptum, Orthothecium intricatum, and Mnium marginatum.
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"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
~ Blaise Pascal
Flowers in a Vase (1873)
🎨 Paul Cezanne
~ Blaise Pascal
Flowers in a Vase (1873)
🎨 Paul Cezanne
March 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen."
~ Blaise Pascal
Flowers in a Vase (1873)
🎨 Paul Cezanne
~ Blaise Pascal
Flowers in a Vase (1873)
🎨 Paul Cezanne
Light green patch of the liverwort Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort) on lawn/path edge in municipal gardens. The area is regularly sprayed with Roundup. Accompanied by Phaeoceros laevis (Smooth Hornwort) and Crescent-cup Liverwort. #bryophyte #liverwort
March 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Light green patch of the liverwort Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort) on lawn/path edge in municipal gardens. The area is regularly sprayed with Roundup. Accompanied by Phaeoceros laevis (Smooth Hornwort) and Crescent-cup Liverwort. #bryophyte #liverwort
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Thanks everyone. Back
Later. Here is a wonderful collection of apple names and varieties. Helen🌷🐝📚
Later. Here is a wonderful collection of apple names and varieties. Helen🌷🐝📚
February 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Thanks everyone. Back
Later. Here is a wonderful collection of apple names and varieties. Helen🌷🐝📚
Later. Here is a wonderful collection of apple names and varieties. Helen🌷🐝📚
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‘Alex’ by Vicky Sawyer. She was the first artist to adorn animals etc with headdresses
February 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
‘Alex’ by Vicky Sawyer. She was the first artist to adorn animals etc with headdresses
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French President Emmanuel Macron says US and Ukraine should be compensated by Russia, not by Ukraine. Russia started the war 👏
February 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron says US and Ukraine should be compensated by Russia, not by Ukraine. Russia started the war 👏
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John Bratby R.A.(1928-1992
Amaryllis. Lino cut artist
Amaryllis. Lino cut artist
February 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
John Bratby R.A.(1928-1992
Amaryllis. Lino cut artist
Amaryllis. Lino cut artist
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Sphagnum tenellum can get quite large and quite orange when growing in richer and wetter habitats #moss #bryophyte
February 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Sphagnum tenellum can get quite large and quite orange when growing in richer and wetter habitats #moss #bryophyte