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I identify as deliberately defiant most of the time

[Today In History @historigins]

The children of hop pickers on a farm in Kent, England, photographed on September 3, 1940, as they took shelter in a trench at the edge of a field and watched the aerial combat unfolding overhead during the Battle of Britain

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Good Afternoon
Kate Philp Landscape artist
Born in Africa
Brought up in Scotland she currently lives on the borders of North Northumberland
‘The Allotments, Berwick on Tweed ‘
‘St Abbs Harbour’

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Funky Feet" by artist David Miller

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

From Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara's series on the bond between her grandmother Misao and her cat Fukumaru #womensart #Tuesday

[YorkshireLass @MaureenPlatts]

Wensleydale, Yorkshire Dales

[Irena Buzarewicz @IrenaBuzarewicz]

Sunday

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Mirrors ("shisha") are extensively used in tradition Afghan embroidery. By reflecting sunlight, mirrors are hoped to protect the wearer from negative energies #WomensArt

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[Yorkshire Wolds Weather @WeatherWolds]

A Lunchtime Bicycle Ride. 21°C and a strengthening Westerly. Cow Parsley.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Wake up Steve, our bowls are empty," by artist Anthony Machuca

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Etchings by Welsh artist Phil Greenwood

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Hazel MacNab, contemporary UK printmaker based in Cornwall #Womensart #PrintmakerArtWeek

[Yorkshire Wolds Weather @WeatherWolds]

Sunset At The Yorkshire Coast. 20°C. Herring Gulls.

[Darlington Nursing Union @DarlingtonUnion]

BREAKING: New Health Secretary @jamesmurray_ldn has refused to provide a cast-iron commitment to meet the Darlington nurses

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[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Contemporary UK artist Priscilla Watkins, known for her paintings of swimmers at Brockwell Lido, London #womensart #summer 🌊

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle who is inspired by her local countryside #womensart #PrintmakerArtWeek 🖼

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Sadly, mixed spaces increase the risk for women. Many men might be at risk from other men (there's no evidence that trans-id men are disproportionately at risk). We have always said that we will support any additional measures that need to be taken, but that can never be at women's expense.

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

Full transcript of my speech at the Cambridge Union here:

https://t.co/q2A9NZ0IFi