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Eben Muse

@ebenmyrddin.bsky.social

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Access and nature campaigner, physicist, researcher who writes. Keen climber/runner. Views are my own! https://open.substack.com/pub/ebenmuse?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=jl6lw

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 28d

The Guardian didn't end up using some of the most interesting photos for the article, but I'll share them here with credit to Rupert Allen.

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 2h

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 21h

Unfortunately I suspect they will opt for the former.

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 21h

Leaving the Plaid Cymru conference, I have never been more convinced that Plaid has a genuine conflict bordering on an identity crisis when it comes to nature and the environment.

It could cost them dearly in urban seats this election. Or they could reckon with it an reap significant rewards.

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 21h

Jokes aside, if Rhun genuinely wants to channel that 'Green' energy, he might want to consider mentioning nature a minimum of once during his very long speech!

Just a thought.

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 21h

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 1d

DE, yma o hyd #plaidconference #spotted

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 1d

Signs off with a "Cymru am byth" and strides furiously off stage.

Think he's angry that Farage has chosen today to hit the Caerphilly campaign...

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 1d

Lyndsay Whittle striking a defiant figure on the Plaid Cymru conference stage telling the fancy men from London in posh suits to hop on the train and get home...

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 1d

Plaid Cymru Conference day 2 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

📍Neuadd Brangwyn, Abertawe

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 3d

Something something, magic money tree 🤪

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 4d

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 4d

‘So, Mr Candy / Tice / Farage, what values attracted you to the low-tax, oil-rich regimes of the Persian Gulf?’

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

Ah!! I met one of the organisers at the Wild Summit in Bristol but unfortunately can't make it tonight. I'll be keeping a close eye.

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

It must be the duty of ALL of our public bodies, not to 'have regard' for, but to genuinely further the essential purposes of our National Parks.

The Wellbeing of Future Generations Act is helpful but it is neither specific enough here nor does it apply to all public bodies.

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

I'd like to make my own plea to those who are currently writing up their manifestos and electoral strategies, to consider the strength of feeling around the need to protect and conserve our landscapes.

@plaidcymru.bsky.social @walesgreenparty.bsky.social @welshlabour.bsky.social

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

As a Welshman though, I have to say: those additional protections we're fighting to protect in England are not in place in my country where public bodies must simply “have regard to the purposes” of National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

It's not good enough. 🏴❌

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

It's an utter disgrace that this government are allegedly trying to weaken the protections of our National Parks. ⚠️

I stand with the 202 organisations and sector leaders who have signed the @campaign4parks.bsky.social open letter pleading that they retain those protections.

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Peter G @dwyfor16.bsky.social · 4d

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Holly @fullyimaginary.bsky.social · 4d

It sure is lucky that all animals exist in some sort of silo and not in some sort of inter connected system which also includes animals which are “big”

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

2030s are going to feature our very own 1930s dustbowl. Huzzah!

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

First of all, 5mm isn't microscopic and you CAN see them.

Second of all, the fact that our Chancellor thinks she can't see these seems to mean she thinks they're not worthy of our consideration.

A hallmark of this government's terminal lack of imagination.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry I misread your reply with my previous reply! Agree!

Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

This is a deeply entitled and silly article. It's also the wrong approach if what Plaid wants is concessions from the Greens.

Unfortunately Wales stupid new electoral system deeply disincentives strategic alliances like the one proposed here. So what can Plaid offer the Greens going forward?

NationCymru @nation.cymru · 15d

Mr Polanski, you’ve impressed many of us, don’t blow that goodwill now. Stand down your candidate and recognise the gravity of this moment in Welsh life ✍️Ben Wildsmith

The Greens Must Stand Down

Ben Wildsmith To be ‘of the left’ is to face constant disappointment: at the willingness of voters to fall for right-wing lies and, most painfully, at the unending capacity that our leading…

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 4d

It's not a bad pitch and it's putting "your party" to shame.

I want to see @anthonyslaughter.bsky.social start making these in Grangetown and Splott.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

Let's make hope normal again.

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Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

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