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Nigel Pugh
@nspugh.bsky.social
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Photographer http://www.nigelpugh.co.uk
Environmental / Social Justice Campaigner

Urgent economic systems change is required #WellbeingEconomy

Masto: https://toot.wales/@nspugh
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/nspughphoto/
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Trees work on farms too:

🌳Store & protect carbon
🌳Reduce pollution increase water quality
🌳Reduce flood impacts
🌳Reduce heat & drought impacts
🌳Protect & provide wildlife habitats
🌳Beautifies the countryside
🌳Enables food resilience

#NoFarmersNoFood #Agroforestry @thesoilassociation.bsky.social
Social media post reads from James Melville who leads on #NoFarmersNoFood “A simple and effective way to improve towns and cities: Plant lots of trees. 🌳stores carbon dioxide 🌳reduces city pollution 🌳helps protect from flooding 🌳reduces city temperatures 🌳provides habitats for urban wildlife 🌳beautifies urban surroundings” With an urban tree infographic attached Titled: Why Trees Are Cool from EPS, North Carolina State University. US Forestry Service “If the Labour government wanted to save £30bn, they should scrap their ridiculous carbon capture machine monstrosities and instead, plant more trees. But corporate money funnelling doesn’t grow on trees.” Social media post reads from James Melville who leads on #NoFarmersNoFood Follow up post: “If the Labour government wanted to save £30bn, they should scrap their ridiculous carbon capture machine monstrosities and instead, plant more trees. But corporate money funnelling doesn’t grow on trees.” Follow up post With an urban tree infographic attached Titled: Why Trees Are Cool from EPS, North Carolina State University. US Forestry Service
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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skip like a stone: Greenwich Prime Meridian

time skipping like a stone,
lost time between impact,
jump to land explode,
circles concentric hit outward,
impacts imprint more memory,
ourselves rippling outward,
forgetting nothing remembering joy, hurt, love the loss.

#photography #poetry #alttext
A landscape view across central London commercial skyline, from Greenwich Prime Meridian at dusk, looking across autumn colours. Young people sit and stand and gaze beyond a physical barrier Northwards along an invisible timeline.
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Giants:

#TateModern #photography #StreetPhotography #SilentSunday
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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For nearly two years I’ve documented the opposition to the genocide & cultural cleansing of Palestinian people. Cardiff #Wales

I’m from a small mid Wales market town, I’ve now seen a generation grow up in Cardiff - community is at its best with diversity.

#freepalestine #photography
October 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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After two decades of using social platforms, & seeing humanity being peddled so hideously backwards, I’m now struggle to see the point of, or even wanting to use social platforms for creativity or progressive advocacy.

Any enabling thoughts out there?

#photography #facism #freepalestine
A cyclist passes by Brandenburg Gate, image mirrored in a puddle, framed by two trees either side. There’s an empty stage set up in front of the Gate waiting for a Free Palestine event. Berlin, Germany 12 September 2025
October 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Who wants a racist police force?

Reform, Tommy Robinson, Trump, Musk and a lot of other extremely wealthy, white male, loveless, future busting sociopaths.

#Reform #Senedd2026
October 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Cardiff Transformed - I’ve been campaigning on, & attending social, environmental & economic systems change events for 2 decades.

Yet #Senedd26 we’re here with Reform polling 2nd to @plaidcymru.bsky.social why?

@greenpartymolly.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
@anthonyslaughter.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Music @aphextwin.bsky.social #4

Ripple tank 4: a series of art video / film shorts that observe forces upon natural elements, sometimes drawing dark parallels to human societal shifts, to then the naturally mesmerising, ephemeral.
August 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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The eye of the crimson whale:

Two sections of crimson flesh, blushed apple, sections through the cores, on bluey black slab.

#photo #photography #food
Two sections of crimson blushed apple, sections through the cores, on bluey black slab.
August 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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1/2. South East Wales moves to 'drought' status.

Last year extreme wet weather impacted farms! Now due to heat & drought farmers are having to give winter feed to their stock. Farm wells, ponds & some boreholes are running dry, & livestock's wellbeing is being impacted by heat & access to water.
NFU Cymru meme text, over a green toned image of dry cracked earth reads "During July, Wales as a whole only received 63% of the long-term average rainfall. North Wales had 76.7%, South East had 52.5% and South West had 54.5%. This followed a dry spring and Wales has recorded the driest six month period February to July since the drought of 1976.
August 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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"It’s clear that the police operation on Saturday was a charade, designed not to protect the public, but to spare the blushes of the Home Secretary."

@pscupdates.bsky.social

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

#PalestineGenocide #Palestine #KeirStarmer
August 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Hero of #Musk & Reform - Tommy Robinson, born Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon fled the UK on a flight in the early hours of this morning after a victim suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital after being given CPR by paramedics in London. www.lbc.co.uk/crime/tommy-...
July 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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“Wales' bottle & can return scheme will launch at the same time as the rest of the UK's on 1 Oct 2027… but without glass being fully part of it at the start.”

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #photography

There’s no depths that aren’t impacted by drinks related litter. #DRS
July 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The Wales #SFS has to urgently:
✅Be a fair transition
✅Deliver sustainable, localised food security
✅Help downstream communities adapt to climate impacts, & deliver future wellbeing
✅Mitigate unseasonal weather, extreme heat, drought & flood
✅Begin to replenish nature
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Tractor tracks imprinted on to a farm track, heading towards a starburst rising sun. Landscape image. A graph of EU record low spring river flows
July 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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📉 Spring 2025 saw the lowest seasonal river flow across #Europe since records began in 1992.

This map highlights widespread below-average flows across Europe. More details: european-flood.emergency.copernicus.eu/en/news/c3s-...

Why hold deluge naturally when it happens?

#Flood #Drought
July 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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We are not spending too much on welfare

We’ve refused to tax the rich

We are refusing to invest in the public

Tax the ultra rich, not sick and disabled people. Sign now

act.38degrees.org.uk/act/tax-the-...
July 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Study of Common carder bee on Purple toadflax

@bumblebeetrust.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#nature #photography #wildflowerhour
July 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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the wonder wall: portrait by @nathanwyburnart.bsky.social of Oasis. Utilising 3000 bucket hats.

#cardiff #oasis2025 #blackandwhitephotography
July 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Hope: is shared leadership that cares to tackle injustices and our climate crisis. Hope isn’t blind faith, it’s trust and belief in a plan that has sight of a positive future.

Hope, is to end plans for war and societal collapse.

#Corbyn #BackZack
July 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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"Ed Milliban plots garden #wind farm revolution" www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

@rspb.bsky.social are more worried about Infrastructure Bill going through Parliament that weakens existing nature protections.

10ish years ago I came across Ridge Blades - better? ridgeblade.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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aïda amer is a brooklyn-based visual artist specializing in editorial illustration, art direction, photography and more www.aidaamer.com

#blackandwhite
The American Flag - a photo composition of barbed wire as the stripes and diamond shaped fencing wire as the stars. Black background.
July 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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#Illustration - Elise Swain for The Intercept
June 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Woodland canopy cover is increasing, but its nature and health is in severe decline.

For the sake of our Future Generations we need to do much soul searching.

State of Woods and Trees Report www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/state-of-uk-...

#Woodlands #Nature #ClimateAction
A meme quote “THE TREES ENCOUNTERED ON A COUNTRY STROLL, REAVEAL A LOT ABOUT A COUNTRY’S SOUL… A culture is no better than its woods and trees.” - W.W. Auden Text over lays a dusks woodland understory- wood land ferns Fran the image, and orange glow sinks within the blurred distance.
June 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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@taxjusticeuk.bsky.social @oxfamgb.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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'Wales draft Environment Bill is flawed' - @green-alliance.org.uk - @ruthchambers.bsky.social

Give it independent teeth as there is in English & Scottish legislation, & urgent targets!

www.itv.com/news/wales/2...

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June 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM