Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
Pete Martin
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Lichens and other stuff from the beautiful English Lake District and beyond.
Always worth calling in on the Ruthwell Cross when passing.
Here's something about our recent Dale Head trip #lichenGBI cumbrialichensbryophytes.org.uk/2026/07/17/d...
Dale Head lichen trip report 12 July 2026
Some things change, some things stay the same. For the last few meetings we’ve done something different: meet at 9am rather than 9:30. I haven’t heard any complaints, and the car park at Honister w...
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A very pleasurable, leisurely day with Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte Group on Dale Head in the sun: Schaereria cinereorufa (scaly squamules) and Lecidoma demissum (melting chocolate apothecia) found near the summit. #LichenGBI
"Nowt good comes ower't Raise" they say. But in both directions this morning there was a gentle, cooling breeze. "It's gorgeous " I said to the first cyclist I met. "It is that" he replied.
If you are in Lakeland over the next few months and want to see some lichen-inspired art, Tracy Hill's exhibition (In)tangible is on at Allan Bank, Grasmere until 20th December. Well worth a visit. I'm doing another walk and talk to look at the lichens on trees and rocks there on 30th September.
A lovely day on the fells with some of my favourites: Bird's eye primrose; Peltigera leucophlebia; Secoglia jenensis. And that eternal question: what can you see in the map lichen's eye? #LichenGBI
Heathrow and Kew have both now reached 35°C. To give you an idea of how extreme a weather event this is, 35°C has only ever been reached on 4 days in June (26-29th). Once in 1957, and 3 of those were in one year, 1976.
Here's something about our trip to Whitbarrow Quarry last week... cumbrialichensbryophytes.org.uk/2026/05/07/w...
Whitbarrow Quarry lichen trip report 30 April 2026
Whitbarrow is that bright white limestone cliff just by the A590 as you head towards Barrow, and a several-mile-long plateau of pavement, crag, woodland and grassland beyond. The group’s visited befor...
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Yesterday at Whitbarrow Quarry with Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte group: Peregrine rattle echoes; Leproplaca cirrochroa; Coniocarpon cinnabarinum on the hazels; Slow worms. In the heat, it felt like the Cevennes... #LichenGBI
Have a Sunday Kakapo...
Andrew Digby@digs.bsky.social · 6mo ago#kakapo Esperance with chick Elsie-A2-2026 on Whenua Hou. At a month old the chicks start to get coloured feathers and males will weigh around 1kg - not far off the mother's weight. But she's still less than halfway through raising them in the nest! #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #wildlife
Called in on @friendsoflakes.bsky.social Little Asby on way back from @britishlichensociety.org.uk Appleby meet:Solorina saccata;Variospora flavescens; copious Squamarina cartilaginea. And that's the end of my limestone lichens for a while....
Day 6 of @britishlichensociety.org.uk Appleby meet: Appleby Castle and @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social Argill Woods. Two very different Pseudevernia substrates; Peltigera horizontalis and Chaenotheca ferruginea. #LichenGBI
Day 5 of @britishlichensociety.org.uk Appleby meet: trees and pavements . Thelotrema in an ancient wood; Ramalina fraxinea on an outgang sycamore; Placynthium nigrum on the Clouds. #LichenGBI
Day 4 of @britishlichensociety.org.uk Appleby meet: @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social S'marvellous Smardale. Quarries and woods: Dermatocarpon miniature and Lecanactis abietina. #LichenGBI
Day 3 of @britishlichensociety.org.uk Appleby meet: Green Castle and Knock Ore Gill. Peltigera leucophlebia, prolific Parmelia discordans tretching into the distance. #LichenGBI
Day 2 of @britishlichensociety.org.uk Appleby meet: Dun Fell delight. Cetraria islandica, fishbones Ochrolechia frigida, Pseudephebe pubescens and more more more in the sun. #LichenGBI
Day 1 of @britishlichensociety.org.uk Appleby meet: up above Helbeck. Highlight (for me) was Solorina spongiosa...or maybe it was just being out among the limestone fells and in the ramson reek woods with hazel mosaics #LichenGBI
Meadows morning: blues and sunshine. The utter utter joy of hearing the first willow warblers of spring (somewhere in that tree). A common sandpiper too.
I wrote something about he recent lichen trip to Barbondale #LichenGBI cumbrialichensbryophytes.org.uk/2026/03/31/b...
Barbondale lichen trip report 21 March 2026
Barbondale is surprisingly little visited: if you don’t know it, you aren’t alone! You’ll find it on the map running between the Lune valley (just north of Kirkby Lonsdale) over to Dentdale (which som...
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Lichen klaxon alert!!! An eagle-eyed friend found something she thought "looked rather like something I'd seen in the book". Teloschistes chrysophthalmos (AKA Goldeneyes) has made it to Cumbria. Just a bit further north than previously found... so keep checking those hawthorns everyone! #LichenGBI
Hard to imagine but, it seems like these people have been believing things that are simply made up.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 7mo agoClaims of a 'quiet revival' of churchgoing among young people was based on an error in the YouGov data. Academics had been pointing out that this was not found in other data www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A pleasant- if chilly- afternoon wander in the woods revealed primroses, some unexpected Arthonia vinosa on an old oak, a nice patch of Sphaerophorus globosus on a crag and fertile Scytinium lichenoides 'neath a mucky quarry spoil tip ash. #LichenGBI
Bit of a dog lichen day yesterday pottering up the beck in Barbondale with Cumbria Lichen and Bryophyte Group. Here's Peltigera leucophlebia and P. praetextata. #LichenGBI
