Mike Tupling
@miketupling.bsky.social
Photography, art, ugly music as Wendy's Ironic Conservatory.
Coffee enthusiast.
Retired teacher.
www.miketupling.com
www.wendysironicconservatory.bandcamp.com
Let's just be kind to one another
Coffee enthusiast.
Retired teacher.
www.miketupling.com
www.wendysironicconservatory.bandcamp.com
Let's just be kind to one another
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Remembering Georgia O'Keeffe on her birthday 🎂
📷 Tony Vaccaro, Albuquerque, 1960
"As she became modern art’s first celebrity artist, O’Keeffe’s self-created image shaped her work’s accessibility, while at the same time shielding her privacy."
- Roberta Smith
📷 Tony Vaccaro, Albuquerque, 1960
"As she became modern art’s first celebrity artist, O’Keeffe’s self-created image shaped her work’s accessibility, while at the same time shielding her privacy."
- Roberta Smith
November 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Remembering Georgia O'Keeffe on her birthday 🎂
📷 Tony Vaccaro, Albuquerque, 1960
"As she became modern art’s first celebrity artist, O’Keeffe’s self-created image shaped her work’s accessibility, while at the same time shielding her privacy."
- Roberta Smith
📷 Tony Vaccaro, Albuquerque, 1960
"As she became modern art’s first celebrity artist, O’Keeffe’s self-created image shaped her work’s accessibility, while at the same time shielding her privacy."
- Roberta Smith
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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Samir Zitouni a Muslim Immigrant from Algeria left hospital today, 2 weeks after being the first person to try stop the attack in Huntingdon train attack.
They won't want to talk about this immigrant.
They won't want to talk about this immigrant.
November 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Samir Zitouni a Muslim Immigrant from Algeria left hospital today, 2 weeks after being the first person to try stop the attack in Huntingdon train attack.
They won't want to talk about this immigrant.
They won't want to talk about this immigrant.
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Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as much complexity as in the past."
The Surprising Reason Kids Can't Seem To Read Anymore
Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as much complexity as in the past."
www.huffpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as much complexity as in the past."
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Texas, where they want to force the teaching of things that don't exist—like a snake chatting up someone called "Eve"—and ban the teaching of things that do exist—like race and gender. Christian Nationalism is toxic.
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Texas, where they want to force the teaching of things that don't exist—like a snake chatting up someone called "Eve"—and ban the teaching of things that do exist—like race and gender. Christian Nationalism is toxic.
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Eunice Newton Foote discovered the Greenhouse Effect.Her first paper was in the "Annual Scientific Discovery", with the paper, "Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's rays".She was the first person to show that carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas in 1856.
rinconeducativo.org/en/recursos-...
rinconeducativo.org/en/recursos-...
Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneer in greenhouse research - Rincón educativo
Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneer in greenhouse research.
rinconeducativo.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Eunice Newton Foote discovered the Greenhouse Effect.Her first paper was in the "Annual Scientific Discovery", with the paper, "Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's rays".She was the first person to show that carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas in 1856.
rinconeducativo.org/en/recursos-...
rinconeducativo.org/en/recursos-...
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The tide is turning @zackpolanski.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The tide is turning @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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"The magic money tree exists, it’s in the City of London and it’s with the billionaires"
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/zara...
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/zara...
Zarah Sultana perfectly spells out why the UK’s economic system is ‘fundamentally broken’ on Question Time
'The super rich in this country are laughing all the way to the bank'
leftfootforward.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"The magic money tree exists, it’s in the City of London and it’s with the billionaires"
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/zara...
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/zara...
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Zarah Sultana, "I find the rhetoric around safety for women and girls concerning when in the West Midlands two Sikh girls were raped in racially motivated attacks by far right individuals"
"And we find very little media coverage of incidents like this"
"And we find very little media coverage of incidents like this"
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Zarah Sultana, "I find the rhetoric around safety for women and girls concerning when in the West Midlands two Sikh girls were raped in racially motivated attacks by far right individuals"
"And we find very little media coverage of incidents like this"
"And we find very little media coverage of incidents like this"
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🎉 Green WIN! 🎉
💚 Congratulations to Mike Dunn of North Somerset Green Party on being elected in Long Ashton ward!
💚 Congratulations to Mike Dunn of North Somerset Green Party on being elected in Long Ashton ward!
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🎉 Green WIN! 🎉
💚 Congratulations to Mike Dunn of North Somerset Green Party on being elected in Long Ashton ward!
💚 Congratulations to Mike Dunn of North Somerset Green Party on being elected in Long Ashton ward!
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My personal views only, but I'd suggest the following:
(1) a blanket ban on detecting on land that's in any form of environmental stewardship or landscape recovery scheme - because heritage is part of the environment those measures are meant to be protecting
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(1) a blanket ban on detecting on land that's in any form of environmental stewardship or landscape recovery scheme - because heritage is part of the environment those measures are meant to be protecting
🧵
How about "Where is our heritage demonstrably most risk from metal detecting"? It isn't lost, it's part of the archaeological record.
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Cc @Tess_Machling🏺
#FindsFriday
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Where in the UK is the greatest amount of hidden treasure?
Objects uncovered have included precious Viking coins and a Roman earwax scoop
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
My personal views only, but I'd suggest the following:
(1) a blanket ban on detecting on land that's in any form of environmental stewardship or landscape recovery scheme - because heritage is part of the environment those measures are meant to be protecting
🧵
(1) a blanket ban on detecting on land that's in any form of environmental stewardship or landscape recovery scheme - because heritage is part of the environment those measures are meant to be protecting
🧵
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Zarah Sultana, "Wages are stagnating, bills are rising, companies are posting record profits, the rich are laughing all the way to the bank. Everyone can see it."
Yes they can.
#bbcqt
Yes they can.
#bbcqt
November 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Zarah Sultana, "Wages are stagnating, bills are rising, companies are posting record profits, the rich are laughing all the way to the bank. Everyone can see it."
Yes they can.
#bbcqt
Yes they can.
#bbcqt
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Finally a politician who is honest about Donald Trump. No other party leader is on the level about this.
Zack Polanski on President Trump, "It's difficult to call him anything other than a fool"
"This is sociopathic behaviour"
"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"
"I'm not a fan of Trump"
Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
"This is sociopathic behaviour"
"He is toxic, misogynistic, racist"
"I'm not a fan of Trump"
Christiane Amanpour, "It's pretty clear"
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Finally a politician who is honest about Donald Trump. No other party leader is on the level about this.
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'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian painter from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
'Bush Flowers' by Raelene Stevens, contemporary Indigenous Australian painter from the Tweed Valley area of NSW #WomensArt
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Scottish painter Victoria Crowe, Large Tree Group, 1975 #WomensArt
November 14, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Scottish painter Victoria Crowe, Large Tree Group, 1975 #WomensArt
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Yet another story about the Labour Government that absolutely stinks.
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Yet another story about the Labour Government that absolutely stinks.
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🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🔉What dangers does X pose to our democracy? And should the government stop using it?
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
Good to hear yesterday from @sundersays.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the immense risk of X as it ignores legal obligations and its owner tries to influence UK politics.
@commonswec.parliament.uk
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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Millionaires group urge Reeves to introduce wealth tax to ‘lift kids of out poverty’.
But Govts listen to the City type.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Can't grow economic by squeezing the bottom 50%.
But Govts listen to the City type.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Can't grow economic by squeezing the bottom 50%.
Why a group of wealthy Brits have urged Reeves to introduce a wealth tax
This appeal comes ahead of Reeves’s upcoming Budget announcement in Westminster later this month
www.independent.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Millionaires group urge Reeves to introduce wealth tax to ‘lift kids of out poverty’.
But Govts listen to the City type.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Can't grow economic by squeezing the bottom 50%.
But Govts listen to the City type.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population.
Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
Can't grow economic by squeezing the bottom 50%.
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The work of Sue Welfare, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmaker
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The work of Sue Welfare, contemporary UK printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmaker
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If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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I think somehow it's going to take a lot more then that.
But yes, that would be welcome.
But yes, that would be welcome.
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I think somehow it's going to take a lot more then that.
But yes, that would be welcome.
But yes, that would be welcome.
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Ofwat PROPOSES £11m fine on Wessex Water for wastewater failures.
Company has 47+ criminal convictions, fleeced customers for yrs, allowed to negotiate fines. No fines on execs
Water industry is a prime example of rentier economy controlled by criminals. 1,135+ criminal convictions.
Company has 47+ criminal convictions, fleeced customers for yrs, allowed to negotiate fines. No fines on execs
Water industry is a prime example of rentier economy controlled by criminals. 1,135+ criminal convictions.
Wessex Water must pay £11m over wastewater failures, says regulator
Company failed to effectively operate, maintain and upgrade its wastewater assets, Ofwat finds
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Ofwat PROPOSES £11m fine on Wessex Water for wastewater failures.
Company has 47+ criminal convictions, fleeced customers for yrs, allowed to negotiate fines. No fines on execs
Water industry is a prime example of rentier economy controlled by criminals. 1,135+ criminal convictions.
Company has 47+ criminal convictions, fleeced customers for yrs, allowed to negotiate fines. No fines on execs
Water industry is a prime example of rentier economy controlled by criminals. 1,135+ criminal convictions.
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Corporate funded think-tanks urge govt to cut benefits, pensions, schools meals, public spending; charge for seeing GPs.
Oppose taxes on the rich.
Support subsidies for auto, steel, film, shipbuilding, oil, gas, biomass, semiconductor, internet and other companies.
It is class war.
Oppose taxes on the rich.
Support subsidies for auto, steel, film, shipbuilding, oil, gas, biomass, semiconductor, internet and other companies.
It is class war.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Corporate funded think-tanks urge govt to cut benefits, pensions, schools meals, public spending; charge for seeing GPs.
Oppose taxes on the rich.
Support subsidies for auto, steel, film, shipbuilding, oil, gas, biomass, semiconductor, internet and other companies.
It is class war.
Oppose taxes on the rich.
Support subsidies for auto, steel, film, shipbuilding, oil, gas, biomass, semiconductor, internet and other companies.
It is class war.