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A puddle resembling a Christmas tree on Dundas Street East in Toronto

Christmas Pud...dle.

#Toronto #PuddlesForPaula #Christmas #Photography

Nigel Farage denies saying anything racist ‘with malice’ as he attacks BBC Reform UK leader launches tirade against broadcaster in latest effort to address claims of abuse from school contemporaries

It’s obviously very funny seeing Farage lose his shit when given any journalistic attention short of doe-eyed adulation.

It’s also impossible not to despair at the thought of how different his career- & therefore recent UK history- would’ve been with the mildest media scrutiny a few years ago.

Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles NHS bosses warn the public to use hospitals wisely amid concern this could be a tough winter.

Some patients do attend A&E with problems that could be dealt with by other healthcare services. However, the article makes clear this cadre represents 2% of patients. If you really want to reduce pressure on A&Es, offer Covid vaccines free for all.

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As the sun descends, birds take flight, forming silhouettes against the fiery sky, a beautiful and fleeting dance of nature.

#Sunset #birds #loughNeagh #photography #Herons #landscape #EastCoastKin #Scape

In unrelated news, NF has been pushing crypto and calling for its' deregulation.

In 2014 Farage defended a comedian who appeared at UKIP conference and made a string of offensive "jokes" about Polish, Somalia, Muslims and Asian people.

The BBC by contrast banned the Black and White minstrel show in 1978

Alan H says the #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Songbirds and the alternative is #Seabirds

A Song Sparrow singing! #birds #videography #EastCoastKin

Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.

For #3sDay, 3 Rock Pigeons on a branch. #birds #photography #PigeonSky #EastCoastKin

From today, over 96,000 unpaid carers in Scotland will receive a £293.50 Carer’s Allowance Supplement payment - extra support that’s only available here in Scotland.

Dignity and fairness in action. That’s what you get with an SNP government.

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage’s biggest donor Christopher Harborne helped “turbocharge” money laundering says NCA

One Russian laundering network that switched to Tether in 2020 enabled “sanctions evasions and the highest levels of organised crime including providing services to the Russian state”

For #ThursJay and #ThirdEyelidThursday and, can you believe it...? #songbird for #BirdOfTheDay!

An American #Crow is using the nictitating eye membrane and is genetically in the songbird order Passeriformes! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #corvid #cawmunity

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News of that billionaire's multi-million pound donation to the Refukkers went down well at The Gullible Fascist.

It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.

A Steller’s Jay standing on a railing, looking towards the camera

A Steller’s Jay standing on a railing, looking towards the camera

For this #ThursJay a curious Steller’s Jay wondering what my deal is
#birds

Should make it clear that is not referring to WI but those that have legally forced them into this position

Short-fused racist has tantrum at BBC for asking him about being a racist bully at school. Then tries to claim that Reform was given £9M by crypto billionaire, Harborne, for “absolutely nothing in return”.

That’s all that sorted then.
Racist *and* corrupt.

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Netherlands and Spain boycott Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete There had been calls for Israel to be excluded over the conduct of the war in Gaza.

Netherlands and Spain taking a stand after Israel allowed to compete in Eurovision.

Un passeig a contrallum. Lleida.
#Fotografia #Color #HumansOfBlueSky #UrbanGaze #EastCoastKin

It also devours vast amounts of water

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Looking up into a stand of Ponderosa Pines all painted white with the night's snowfall.

All that is gold
does not glitter,
Not all those who
wander are lost;
The old that is
strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not
reached by the frost.
~J.R.R. Tolkien

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#ThickTrunkThursday
#Treehuggers
#GreenTherapy
#Photography
#EastCoastKin
#Snowscape
#Scape 🌿

On Bradwell Moor #landscape #photography 📷

OTD in 1975 Hannah Arendt died.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

On the edge by a dirt road stands a single bare tree. To its right is a body of water. In the background are mountains.

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Spent red roses covered in snow.

The last of the roses in the botanic gardens. Farewell until next year. Enjoy your slumber.

#PalacesandGardens #RedGreenGold #MobilePhotography #Photography 📷

It's always worth enjoying the beauty of the Sea. 🌊

For our winter appeal we are launching a brand new online raffle with an INCREDIBLE prize up for grabs!

Buy your tickets now & YOU could win an OUTSTANDING overnight stay for 2 in a luxury glamping unit!!

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Buy now and help someone start again in safety this winter. 🧡

Good morning, BlueSky Friends! 😎
One of my last shots of the #Sunrise between the branches from Nov 18. I doubt I will ever see this again so I took multiple shots. #PNW #Photography