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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 2h

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 15h

Citizens demanding transparency and lawfulness from their public servants.

📢This is the way.
#ChicagoStrong

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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 2h

Well past St. Michaelmas Day along the #DykeApproach path today and yet ..

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Galop @galopuk.bsky.social · 2d

The newly released Official Statistics for Hate Crime in 2024-2025 do not accurately reflect the true prevalence of anti-LGBT+ hate in England and Wales. This misrepresentation matters.

Read our full statement ⬇️
bit.ly/3J6BNYr

Galop's Statement on the 2024/25 Official Statistics for Hate Crime in England and Wales.

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Simon Tucker @simonrtucker.bsky.social · 7h

Is any government not tainted by corruption from the grouse and pheasant shooting industries?

parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/10/12/c...

Culblean Hill, playing with fire in the Cairngorms National Park and the politics of muirburn - parkswatchscotland

On Thursday 9th October, the same day Jim Fairlie the Scottish Government minister responsible announced a further 9 month delay in the “watered down” – excuse the phrase – muirburn licensing scheme,...

parkswatchscotland.co.uk

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 8h

Crop yields in England 2nd lowest on record as climate chaos kicks in - exactly as scientists have been predicting for years
www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

Provisional Government data suggests a much worse harvest than experts had so far predicted.

www.independent.co.uk

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 1d

Truly inspirational journalism from these iconic Palest!nian journalists.

Watch, share and vote! And let’s slowly work to restore our humanity.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 8h

Find the “spot” today

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 8h

Shooting Times uses selective quote to shamelessly misrepresent my view on predator culls raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/12/s...

Shooting Times uses selective quote to shamelessly misrepresent my view on predator culls

A couple of weeks ago, on 24 September, the Shooting Times published a news item in which it was suggested that I support predator culls: The Shooting Times article was supposedly a précis of an ar…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 9h

What an amazing set of images Rob!

My meagre effort is of Blue in the Goat Willow on the lottie in spring.
#BirdOfTheDay

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 10h

Great piece from @marthagill.bsky.social on the state of Britain’s National Parks. Shocked highest levels of sewage discharge are on Dartmoor. Good account of historical reasons park authorities have such limited powers to manage greatest threats to park ecologies.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

In our national parks sewage flows while the funds for co...

Underfunded, over-farmed and politically sidelined, Britain’s most treasured landscapes need more than protection

observer.co.uk

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Daniel Bastaja @kupac1.bsky.social · 1d

The Eurasian Goshawk (Astur gentilis) was very interested in something in the grass, but it was being mobbed by Hooded Crows who eventually drove it away. #BirdingHungary #hawks #raptors #BirdsOfPrey #goshawks #birds

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 6d

Monarch migration parade, Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival, Mexico City at the Day of the Dead
Image by Poloide93

#monarchbutterflies #monarchmigration #sanantoniotexas #monarchparade #monarchfestival #butterflies #celebrations

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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 23h

yep with thorns 😜

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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 1d

A faded rose

or how I feel on a dull day

#allotment in #Autumn

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Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · 1d

Homophobia 🤝 transphobia

Growing up in the 70s, 80s, & 90s we heard the exact same stuff - word for word - being said about gays and lesbians.

#transrightsarehumanrights

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 1d

‘“Faragism” is neoliberalism at its most inhumane, more destructive even than [Thatcher’s] monetarism, and vindictive far beyond austerity.’

Good analysis by Gordon Brown - and why progressives should attack Farage on economics above all:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 1d

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing.

Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing.

Choose sanity. Vote Binface.

(Photo dated 9th October 2025)

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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 1d

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Aintright @aintright.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Saturday! #BirdOfTheDay #ukbirds #ukwildlife #EastCoastKin

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