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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 5h

I think this needs to be said.
They preach about saving nature.
A lot of them make money out of speaking up for nature or writing on it.
They won’t protect it without recognising human rights, black rights, racism and European colonialism. Otherwise it’s just #WhitePrivilege & #VirtueSignalling

Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 5h

People in the nature sector are finally speaking up after staying silent for 2 whole years (and 75 more).

They ignored every single post i made on it even though loads of them follow me. I checked their feeds too. Nothing.

Please now walk the talk, otherwise it’s empty virtue signalling. 🙏

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 5h

I think this needs to be said.
They preach about saving nature.
A lot of them make money out of speaking up for nature or writing on it.
They won’t protect it without recognising human rights, black rights, racism and European colonialism. Otherwise it’s just #WhitePrivilege & #VirtueSignalling

Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 5h

People in the nature sector are finally speaking up after staying silent for 2 whole years (and 75 more).

They ignored every single post i made on it even though loads of them follow me. I checked their feeds too. Nothing.

Please now walk the talk, otherwise it’s empty virtue signalling. 🙏

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 5h

People in the nature sector are finally speaking up after staying silent for 2 whole years (and 75 more).

They ignored every single post i made on it even though loads of them follow me. I checked their feeds too. Nothing.

Please now walk the talk, otherwise it’s empty virtue signalling. 🙏

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 6h

a close up of a dart board with the number 8 written on it

ALT: a close up of a dart board with the number 8 written on it

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Drawn @commoner.bsky.social · 6h

It's always amazed me how few people understand that we're the bad guys.
Still see so many people talking about Israel as if it's some separate entity, one that has 'made us' do bad things.
And not the core of how we do business, and how we've done it for hundreds of years.

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 6h

7/ Hat tip to these people.

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 6h

Us Brits collectively still need a huge mindset shift + actions to systematically recognise our colonial history & its ongoing legacy.
We need re-education. Most of us never learned it in school.
Israel’s atrocities largely fall on deaf ears because people look away & don’t join the dots.
An idea:
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Green Party is polling higher than ever before. Our membership is growing rapidly.
And every single day we are surging.

Where Labour have failed, the Left must be ready to take on Reform.

news.sky.com/story/bring-...

'Bring it on': Left-wing activists gather for fight back against the right - and Labour

Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will headline a left-wing festival in Manchester this weekend - as progressive voters look for an alternative to Labour.

news.sky.com

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 9h

There may be a ceasefire in Gaza but while all the media talk will be of Israeli hostages, remember that Israel is also illegally occupying the West Bank, murdering, detaining, torturing and abusing Palestinians and stealing their land every day.

IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 20h

Israelis are still murdering Palestinians in the West Bank and Israelis on Telegram still think that’s just great

Israeli Telegram @israeligram.observer · 20h

Source

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 9h

To me, as an ecologist & environmental scientist, this stuff really should be obvious… but from what I see everywhere, it’s clearly not!

You can download this free advice here:
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Ben Ross @benakl.bsky.social · 22h

Overheating urban areas are back in the spotlight, and the reason is clear: a lack of greenery, particularly trees.

The 3-30-300 handbook serves as a practical guide for cities and urban areas to address this issue by keeping their environments cool,

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t often share my own work publicly or much personal stuff because a lot of the public are just f*king horrible, especially to women.

It feels a bit safer on here compared to the other place though. 🤞🏽

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 1d

A rare picture of me to say hello, from my little bat cave / witchy* coven / ecology work cupboard.

*witchy = anti-bullshit, inclusive, woke, feminist & scientist - I’m seemingly hated by a lot of men for being these things. Women were burned on bonfires for less.
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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 1d

I’m overjoyed & relieved for Gaza this week. Let’s hope it is the start of a real & lasting peace alongside justice, respect, equality & accountability.
Without all those, peace will not last.

Love to everyone fighting the good fight in movements for change, & to all oppressed people everywhere.

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 1d

There’s been some inexplicable silence, but all the millions of inspiring acts of love, solidarity & kindness I’ve witnessed during these past 2 years, amid so much horror, I’d have gone mad without seeing that. It feels like we’ve all been desperately trying to hold humanity & each other together.

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 1d

I’m overjoyed & relieved for Gaza this week. Let’s hope it is the start of a real & lasting peace alongside justice, respect, equality & accountability.
Without all those, peace will not last.

Love to everyone fighting the good fight in movements for change, & to all oppressed people everywhere.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 2d

Wes Streeting extended the puberty-blocker ban on 6 November 2024.

Leia died by suicide on 11 November 2024.

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Wildlife and Countryside Link @wclnews.bsky.social · 1d

We have a number of exciting opportunities to join the communications & campaigns team at Link:

Director of Campaigns & Media🎥
Events & Campaigns Manager🎉
Digital Media & Communications Officer📱

Join us now to help us push for nature action🌱

Find out more & apply via wcl.org.uk/jobs.asp

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 1d

🦇 The legend that is Shirley Thompson just told me that people used to call the ‘common’ pipistrelle the ‘bandit’ - because of its dark face mask.

I love that. It’s a much better name than ‘common’ !

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve said & written many times before on what I think about green washy carbon credit tree planting.

I wonder if they sought advice from any proper ecologists or just followed the money.

What a sad embarrassing mess.
Facepalm emoji.

farmlandgrab.org/post/33072-u...

UK: A sober end to BrewDog’s rewilding adventure

BrewDog has sold a 9,300-acre estate in the Scottish Cairngorms to a specialist carbon credit company after ditching plans to go “carbon negative” by planting trees on the site.

farmlandgrab.org

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 1d

Only one person deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, and that is Greta Thunberg. I acknowledge the work done by others, but only one person has the joined up moral and realistic vision.

I expect Greta is the least interested in it, which is why she deserves it.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Nobel peace prize 2025: Norway fears repercussions if Donald Trump not honoured in ceremony

US president has been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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Science Magazine @science.org · 1d

As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds took note.

Leveraging nature’s own experiment, scientists and the public joined forces to show how different species responded to sudden midafternoon darkness followed by a new “dawn.” Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/48WbhLL

As the Moon eclipsed the Sun on 8 April 2024, birds like these rock pigeons (Columba livia) took note.

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