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Sunset at the Spinney
Jo Grundy.
November 23, 2024 at 4:22 PM
theguardian.com
Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope, but first, the more strident, misguided voices must be muted, says author Laura Spinney
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
pashion.bsky.social
Caroll Spinney operating Oscar the Grouch while wearing his Big Bird legs still 1980 sesame street Muppets
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
moderateheretic.bsky.social
Spinney shot of my legion champion
August 6, 2026 at 11:42 AM
rahmstorf.bsky.social
Covid, 5 years on:
"The mRNA vaccines prevented millions of deaths. [...] Masks worked. And as with every pandemic in recent history, subsequent reviews have found that the advice to go early and hard with containment was correct."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Five years on, the right’s Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope – but first, the more strident, misguided voices must pipe down, says author Laura Spinney
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream (MT @profstevegriffin.bsky.social)

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope, but first, the more strident, misguided voices must be muted, says author Laura Spinney
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
thedrewstarr.bsky.social
This is true for so many of these performers. As a kid, I got to hear Big Bird say very not Big Bird things
A Facebook post of mine from 2015 Not to detract from the Reddit interview people are sharing of Caroll Spinney (the actor behind Big Bird) speaking to a a dying child over the phone, but to lighten it up a bit with a related story. Here's my "meeting" Caroll Spinney over the phone story. Spinney was friends with one of my Dad's secretaries from early in his business. He would regularly call Jan at the office to talk. I had vaguely known of this fact when I was hired at age 10 or so to be my Dad's receptionist for 2 days while the rest of his employees packed the office for a move. My job was basically to ask people to call back in a couple days unless it was an emergency. Here is where I should note Caroll Spinney's Big Bird voice is just Caroll Spinney's voice. He sounds like that all the time. At age 10, I was no longer watching Sesame Street but I recognized who he was immediately. I told him about the pseudo-office closure, but he insisted it was an emergency, so I patched him through. I couldn't help myself from listening in. For the next twelve minutes, I was treated to Big Bird cursing out "those fuckers at the RMV," (MA's auto / driver registry). It was my most glorious childhood phone experience / meeting one's hero story ever.
February 7, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaVj...

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Day 503
Painting Houses
Alex Spinney
September 1, 2026 at 12:42 AM
jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social
blackthorn blossom drifts
downwind through the ash spinney
a fox’s stare back
March 15, 2026 at 5:36 PM
dotjones.bsky.social
WWT Slimbridge, Spinney - Treecreeper #GlosBirds #ukbirding
January 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
polenz.bsky.social
"The mRNA vaccines prevented millions of deaths. [...] Masks worked. And as with every pandemic in recent history, subsequent reviews have found that the advice to go early and hard with containment was correct."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Five years on, the right’s Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope – but first, the more strident, misguided voices must pipe down, says author Laura Spinney
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
self.agency
carroll spinney told me oscar was unofficially jewish
jfruh.bsky.social Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · Feb 22
which muppets do you think are jewish. my preliminary list: gonzo, beaker, scooter, statler and waldorf. fozzie is def a gentile
February 23, 2026 at 12:25 AM
profstevegriffin.bsky.social
Brilliant from Laura Spinney👏

It saddens me that not even such a heartbreaking loss of life, health, and livelihoods is enough for some folks to look out from behind their blinkers...

If H5N1 breaks, we're in serious trouble.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope, but first, the more strident, misguided voices must be muted, says author Laura Spinney
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
spindlypete.bsky.social
watching the ecoterrorism evil bugs episode of x-files, one of my personal faves. rip in peace to spinney
December 31, 2024 at 3:53 AM
ralfwittenbrink.bsky.social
Rat, früh und hart mit der Eindämmung zu beginnen, richtig war.“

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Five years on, the right’s Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope – but first, the more strident, misguided voices must pipe down, says author Laura Spinney
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
kenplume.bsky.social
Caroll Spinney as Big Bird, performing the tongue-twisting "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" with gusto...
June 11, 2026 at 2:03 AM
kityates.bsky.social
"Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope, but first, the more strident, misguided voices must be muted."

Great piece from Laura Spinney.

www.theguardian.com/...
Five years on from the pandemic, the right’s fake Covid narrative has been turbo-charged into the mainstream | Laura Spinney
Before the next outbreak, we need a serious conversation about how to cope, but first, the more strident, misguided voices must be muted, says author Laura Spinney
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
jevoncarey.bsky.social
Fenland Spinney with Passing Shower.
NikonFe, Nikkor Auto-s 50mm f1.4, Ilford HP5 plus in FX55.
#photography #landscapephotography #blackandwhitephotography #believeinfilm #EastCoastKin
February 12, 2026 at 12:33 PM
delicate-prey.bsky.social
Doug Spinney an eco terrorist from an episode of x files would huge 1920s Italian anarchist energy
February 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
dhmontgomery.com
Fred Rogers thought it was deceitful to tell children Big Bird was *real*; he wanted Big Bird's performer Caroll Spinney to remove the costume on camera and discuss how the puppet worked. Spinney equally forcefully opposed ruining the illusion of Big Bird for children.
September 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
historydefined.bsky.social
Caroll Spinney operating Oscar the Grouch, while wearing his Big Bird legs. ca. 1980
September 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
rock-rex.bsky.social
"Frog Moon Spinney".

#poem #poetry #skypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #blueskypoetry #visualpoem #visualpoetry
April 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
jevoncarey.bsky.social
Frozen Spinney.

From a couple of years ago.
Nikon D800
Nikkor Auto-S 50mm f/1.4
#photography #thefens #fenland #Cambridgeshire #NewTopographics
Black and white photograph of a small frosted spinney standing alone in a flat Fenland field. The trees form a dense, pale mass near the centre of the frame, their branches coated in frost and softened by fog. Dark trunks and inner branches show through the lighter outer canopy. A narrow strip of field runs along the bottom, with faint reeds or rough grasses on either side. The background disappears into a smooth grey mist, leaving the spinney isolated beneath a large empty sky. The image is quiet, cold, and still, with the fog flattening the distance and the frost defining the shape of the trees.
June 2, 2026 at 1:01 PM
sesamehistory.bsky.social
We lost Carroll Spinney, the original performer of Big Bird 5 years ago today. He developed him from a goofy giant to a sensitive six-year-old. We miss you, Carroll 💛
"The most important lesson I've learned is that first you have to dream, and then you have to believe in your dreams. That is the only way for them to come true." Carroll Spinney and Big Bird with their arms around each other.
December 8, 2024 at 5:20 PM
robertabirder.bsky.social
Gorgeous Redpoll feeding in the spinney @slimbridge_wild this morning. My first #DodgyVid of the year! #Glosbirds #BirdsSeenIn2025
January 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM