Lydia Macpherson

🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."

linkedin post screenshot: Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally) Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

On #Walshaw Moor, #curlews are curleeing, #lapwings are peewitting,meadow #pipits are piping. It's all full of fresh life under a high blue sky. Please help us save this highly protected #SAC #SPA #peatland Donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou... Sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Please sign and share - 10K names will been the government must respond.

@yorkshirepeat.bsky.social get an admiring write up in Nick MacKinnon's latest blog

Nick MacKinnon's latest blog is out now. Nick and friends have now walked to 32 of the 65 proposed turbine sites. It's an important analysis of the question we all want an answer to: access to the wind farm site... or not. Thanks to our friend @markavery.bsky.social
markavery.info/2025/03/27/g...

If you are able to support this national campaign to ban wind farms on protected peat, please donate: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/protect-ou...

Great blog by @green--jenny.bsky.social courtesy of @markavery.bsky.social ... This is why wind farms must not be built on protected peatland:

markavery.info/2025/03/15/g...

#blanketbog #hebdenbridge #floods #Walshaw #grouse #wheelerdealer #protectourpeat

Let @lucympowell.bsky.social know how WRONG she got it yesterday in HoC - please share and quote and stand up for #TeamPeat #TeamBat #TeamNewt #TeamNature

Congrats to our runners up! 🙌

Audrey Molloy
@jaxxi.bsky.social
Ilse Pedler
Janice Warman
Jo Haslam
Livvy Hanks
@afreshafresh.bsky.social
Mary Mulholland
Penny Boxall
Roselle Angwin
rosiehadden.bsky.social
Rosie Jackson
Sharon Black
@sophiaargyris.bsky.social
So Sparham
Tonya Lailey

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social we’d be grateful if you could give this petition some love - old stomping ground?

Petition: Ban wind farms on protected peat land in England In its recent consultation on new onshore wind planning regulations, the government asked if some habitats, such as those containing peat soils, need extra protection from renewable energy development...

Walshaw Moor stretches from Top Withens aka Wuthering Heights to Hardcastle Crags. It’s highly protected carbon-storing blanket bog. Curlews (on the edge of extinction) breed there. Please sign this petition to ban wind farms on protected peatland in England petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Morning! x

News Klaxon! John Glenday will be joining our Galloway House Estate 9-15th June 2025 Writing Retreat as our first guest tutor! John most recently judged the Saltire Prize’s First Book Award (Poetry, Fiction and Non Fiction). More details about the retreat on my website link above or DM for more info

Hello!

Last house before Top Withens feat. Airedale Terror

Best cakes for miles around.

My wife has a bakery in West Yorkshire - you may remember it from 'cakegate'.

Anyway, the Christmas range is available to order and there is even a postal option if you're not local: www.threelittlebirdsbakery.com/christmas

This year, more than ever, supporting small businesses is a must.

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.

RP if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

King Charles inherited £650m tax free, gets £125m a year tax free from the tax payer and has an estate worth £22bn that’s never taxed.

But he still needed a 45% pay rise.

Like if he needs a pay cut.
RP if you want the Monarchy gone.

#AbolishTheMonarchy

Peat grows a millimetre per year. Some peat on Walshaw moor has been growing since the Bronze Age, absorbing rainwater (thus mitigating flooding in the Calder Valley) and storing carbon. Wind farms don’t need to be built on protected peatland.

Choosing a Course - Course Types & Levels - Arvon We have a range of creative writing courses for writers of all levels of experience. Some are more suitable for beginners or more experienced writers.

Loads of brilliant writing courses on offer at Arvon with grants available for low income writers. I used to be a Trustee and can vouch for their dedication to being as inclusive and accessible as possible.

The Magic of Bogs an online creative writing workshop with Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw.

This Sunday 24th November from 4-6pm: join an online writing workshop with me and Anna Chilvers - and explore the extraordinary ecology of bogs and their unique culture as world-between-worlds. Every penny raised goes to the Give Peat A Chance crowdfunder for our Little Toller “Book of Bogs”.

January Writing Hours 2025 Come and join Kim Moore and Clare Shaw in a daily Writing Hour throughout January 2025

this is what Kim Moore and I do every day in January along with hundreds of other writers. Poetry, prompts and time for writing; pay-what-you feel and bursaries available. Everyone is welcome (but shy, neurodivergent, queer, left-wing, disabled and/or anxious folk will feel especially at home).

This free online event sounds fantastic.

Slender-billed Curlew, a bird once seen migrating over Europe (in huge flocks) from unknown breeding grounds (somewhere in former Soviet Union?) to North African winter quarters, is considered practically certain to be extinct.

RSPB press release: markavery.info/2024/11/18/r...

📷 Chris Gomersall