Rob Galpin

Ecologist, writer and allotment gardener with an interest in permaculture and sustainability. Also experimental / undergound music, poetry, literature and nature/place writing.

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Radio Wave Girl🗼X00001@masto.hackers.town
2025-05-24

no sorry i dont really use instagram, i can contact you via ouija board, spirit box, fluctuations in temperature, flickering lights, and certain rituals. i am also on mastodon.

2025-05-22

@paul_edwin it's surprisingly fussy. The seeds need to be ultra fresh, there needs to be some good hard frosts over the winter, there needs to be bare soil, but also grass, but not TOO much grass...

2025-05-22

@rooftopjaxx well all the grasses really, but especially the big vigorous ones like couch and false oat grass

2025-05-22

Yellow rattle flowering in my mini-meadow! It's taken three years to really establish. I wonder if the drought has helped it a bit as the grass is considerably weakened this year. #allotment #allotmentGarden #meadow #minimeadow #yellowrattle #wildflower

Close-up of yellow rattle plant in flower, surrounded by grass, on a sunny day
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2025-05-22
Una british babosa, habitante de Bardon Mill, Northumberland (o Northumbria, nombre histórico, que me gusta más). Una tierra bellísima de la que me enamoré y a la que volvería sin dudarlo.
En cualquier caso, una cosa es segura: las british babosas no la lían en Bilbao ni se interesan por el fútbol. De hecho, las british babosas lo anotan todo en su libreta de cosas que les importan una p*ta mierda.
No me importaría ser una british babosa, la verdad.
Una babosa negra, grande, húmeda y viscosa en un suelo de hierbia verde y tierra oscura en Northumberland. Su cuerpo es rugoso.
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Ellen BakkerEllenB
2025-05-20

Vanmiddag even wat close-ups gemaakt in de tuin. Normaal zitten er dan veel hommels en bijen bij. Nu niet één...

Geranium macrorhyzumGrote korenbloemEchte koekoeksbloemPapaver oriëntalis
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A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆JuliusGoat
2025-05-19

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.
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Carmilla 🐝🧸carmilla@masto.es
2025-05-19
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2025-05-18
A lonely moorlnd track wwith tracto-track puddles, lookimg over a plain to distant hills. A tree covered hill slopes down from the left in the mid distance. The sky is blye with a little cloud cover floating around.
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2025-05-17

“And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.” ~ Ruskin Bond

𝘌𝑎𝘴𝑡𝘦𝑟𝘯 𝘉𝑙𝘢𝑐𝘬 𝘚𝑤𝘢𝑙𝘭𝑜𝘸𝑡𝘢𝑖𝘭

#butterflies #nature #transformation #NaturePhotography #SolaceInNature

A female Eastern Black Swallowtail butterfly sitting on low spring green grass, her black wings have rows of pale yellow spots and patches of iridescent blue on the hind wings.
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Julian OliverJulianOliver
2025-05-15

Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves).

But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime.

Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever

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2025-05-13

A reminder to the current leader of the Labour Party from one of the former leaders. In case he might have forgotten what the party stands for

"We are here to provide for all those who are weaker and hungrier, more battered and crippled than ourselves. That is our only certain good and great purpose on earth, and if you ask me about those insoluble economic problems that may arise if the top is deprived of their initiative, | would answer ""To hell with them!" The top is greedy and mean and will always find a way to take care of themselves. They always do.” Michael Foot
2025-05-13

An unexpected allotment delight I thoroughly recommend

2025-05-13

Smelling the roses whilst eating an extra spicy, freshly-pulled radish
#allotment #organicgardening #allotmentgardening #allotmentsofmastodon

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2025-05-13

Nobody is saying Corbyn was perfect. It was never about that. But the factions of Labour opposed to him never had an alternative to offer. Lacking any actual vision or strategy for dealing with ongoing crises, it was predictable that they'd default to the existing mainstream: austerity & bigotry.

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2025-05-12
First wild rose in the allotment hedge (Rosa rugosa)
#allotment #wildrose #gardensofpixelfed #bumblebee
A large pink, open-flowered rose with a small bumblebee right in the centre
2025-05-11

A few May wildflower garden shots. Bugle, red campion and sweet woodruff. The bugle is alive with insects from dawn to dusk, even in the shade. The woodruff has spread from a small patch in the garden to filling virtually every available space. Very recommended for indestructible fragrant ground cover!
#garden #gardening #wildflowers #wildflowergarden #wildlifegardening #wildlifegarden #bumblebee #bumblebees #insects #pollinators #PollinatorsNotPesticides

A bumblebee feeding at a purple bugle flower spikeClose up of (pink) red campion flowersClose up of small white sweet woodruff flower heads
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2025-05-10

To the surprise of no one a new investigation shows that carbon air capture company Climeworks is unable to offset even its own operations, let alone their clients.

And mind you that this is in Iceland, where these plants run on 100% renewable electricity.

heimildin.is/grein/24428/fongu

#climate #climatechange #carboncapture

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Gavin Logantamewhale
2025-05-07

We've created a world where we got rid of editors and quality assurance and invented a bullshit machine that runs on rainforests, what could possibly go wrong

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Rosemarie and Owen KellyKellys@mastodon.scot
2025-05-05

We are witnessing a medieval siege in Gaza- starve the people to death , then sally in and take their land.

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