Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿
Mainly plants and pretty things, with a dollop of music/TV geekery, and random nonsense
FISC 5, still makes mistakes 🤦♂️🤷♂️
He/Him/They/Them/Get Her
pro-Trans 🏳️⚧️
Low-level tolerance to wankery. Swears more than my mother would like.
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿I'm sure you're all as heart broken as I am 💔 www.normalisland.co.uk/p/i-dont-wis...
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- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton. The party confirmed they sent out campaign materials without proper party imprint, something it insists was a mistake.
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- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Interview with Steven Falk via @nhbs.bsky.social : www.nhbs.com/blog/author-...
- Two fab species of Cladonia lichens found today at The Spetchells in Prudhoe by the River Tyne. With @botanicalmartin.bsky.social
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿There was an agreement that the year would start with all political leaders being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg. The Green Party were on Sunday. Watch back 👇🏼 m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmD...
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Check out this new @journalofecology.bsky.social paper on Geranium sylvaticum. Produced by @openuniversity.bsky.social, @ukceh.bsky.social, @naturalengland.bsky.social, North Pennines AONB Partnership, University of Lincoln and Royal Agricultural University Read for free here: tinyurl.com/4vrn979j
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Labour only has emotional blackmail left. Green by-election candidate Hannah Spencer has a suggestion: "How about you actually just do something to make people vote for you?"
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿"We want to stop them bleeding people dry." The Green Party want to see stricter regulations on gambling to reduce harm. Nigel Farage thinks gambling shops are great places for lonely people to hang out... What do you think?
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Corn Parsley Petroselinum segetum seen with #NorfolkFloraGroup this weekend. Abundant in arable and ruderal situations in parts of north Norfolk. Margins and verges thick with it! #Wildflowerhour
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Questions about Mandelson, his heinous crimes and how much Starmer knew. Dan Norris, elected as Lab MP, arrested - 2 counts of rape. Tulip Siddiq sentenced to 4 years. I wonder why Labour have made 3 attack videos about me in the last 24 hours? They're done. Finished. Toast.
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿I mean... this is REALLY not ok
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- Grey Willow. Lovely to see (and feel) spring beginning to stir. #WildflowerHour
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admits that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from yesterday’s Epstein files release. WHAT ELSE ARE THEY HIDING???
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿No water, no heating, no power, -15 degree weather outside. It is not on the front pages of your newspapers, but Ukraine is living through a humanitarian disaster right now because of Russian bombardment and the world has barely noticed.
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Thanks to amazing team who came canvassing in Denton with me today - we had a lot of fun & fab reception on the doorsteps 🙂. And if anyone is still (weirdly) thinking of voting Labour - one more Labour backbencher will make no difference - the first Green MP from Manchester would be transformative 💪
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- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Hannah is the Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton. She is also a plumber and dog rescuer🐕💪
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Say hello to Hannah Spencer—councillor, plumber, greyhound lover and your Green Party candidate for Gorton and Denton 💚
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿We promised to throw the kitchen sink at this election. Well we've definitely voted for the right candidate with the skills for the job! Hannah & the Greens are taking the fight to Reform. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿A surprise find yesterday with our 1st Shieldbug of the year on the windowsill in the bathroom! - a Mottled Shieldbug (Rhaphigaster nebulosa). Put outside in a sheltered spot. @rockwolf74.bsky.social
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿What Hoylake has now is a biodiversity hotspot here to stay filled with >250 species of wild plant, Endangered natterjack toads & much so more. Thank you to everyone who has helped fight to keep this special place over these years - I can’t tell you how appreciated you are 🌱❤️
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿🚨Hoylake beach update🚨 After a LONG six years, we’re finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!! An agreement has finally been reached between @NaturalEngland and @WirralCouncil which means around 2% of the 41ha of vegetated foreshore at Hoylake will be cleared.
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- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Just glance at Minnesota to see where this leads.
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿In 2025, 1,348 attacks were carried out on medical facilities, resulting in the deaths of 1,981 people. Watch our documentary series “Again and Again” which reveal attacks against healthcare and their devastating consequences: ow.ly/o87P50Y1aar
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- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿A world where our health records are used to power state-sponsored surveillance and target vulnerable communities isn’t so far away goodlawproject.org/palantir-uses-medic…
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- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Board of Peace - Season 1
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Forestry England and Forest Research workshop about measuring herbivore impacts on nature recovery, held 20th January 2026, Worcester College, Oxford This was an extremely productive and refreshing workshop, a true opportunity to brainstorm with a range of practitioners. Organised by Forestry…
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿🌸Got a botanical study in mind?🌾🌼You can apply for a helpful @bsbibotany.bsky.social Study Grant- but do it soon: the deadline is 31 January. More info at bsbi.org/learn/grants.... @atu-ie.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @phoebeobrien.bsky.social @mikekally.bsky.social
- Are you planning to undertake a project in 2026 which involves collecting plant-related data? Would you like <£1,000 towards your costs? Apply for a #BSBIPlantStudyGrant! Here's how: bsbi.org/learn/grants... Read how a #BSBIGrant helped Katherine research ancient meadows: bsbi.org/blog/2026/01...
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- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Congratulations to Dr Margaret Bradshaw, who has done more than anyone to promote understanding and conservation of Upper Teesdale's unique arctic-alpine flora. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Barry 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿Very interesting blog on ANCIENT GRASSLAND by Katherine Judson, who is currently researching the topic for her PhD. Fascinating to hear of genetic research into Dyer's Greenweed & very much looking forward to hearing the outcome.
- Are you planning to undertake a project in 2026 which involves collecting plant-related data? Would you like <£1,000 towards your costs? Apply for a #BSBIPlantStudyGrant! Here's how: bsbi.org/learn/grants... Read how a #BSBIGrant helped Katherine research ancient meadows: bsbi.org/blog/2026/01...
