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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 5h

I like spiders in the house, but there are limits! Louise Bourgeois at Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Giant, spindly-legged, metal spider artwork made by Louise Bourgeois located in a gallery and filling the whole room...

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 3d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 9h

I wouldn't trust JFK Jr to sit the right way round on a toilet...

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elda64.bsky.social @elda64.bsky.social · 20h

A frickin heroin addict is doing all this! Wake up America!!

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Eileen Schuyler @eschuyler.bsky.social · 20h

To the “doctors” in the GOP Senate: you could have prevented this deranged eugenicist from being confirmed, but you chose loyalty to Trump over your oaths. Perpetual shame.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

Nice recap

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 18h

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Antifa Crone @cheriegrant.bsky.social · 20h

I didn’t even know we had a shrew. 😭

Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 1d

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate.
The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

www.theguardian.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 12h

"Trees will only grow in fertile soil, not up in mountains."

This self-seeded pine, lodged in a crevice high up in a sheer rock escarpment in the Caha Mountains, begs to differ. It says that trees will grow just about *anywhere* sheep can't get at them.

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Paulette Donahue @9kittens.bsky.social · 1d

ABSOLUTELY

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 1d

📢 Unmask ICE!

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

Sen. Sanders: No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings rally on Oct. 18 is not a hate America rally. It’s a Love America Rally. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in our Constitution, in the American Freedom, and who’s not gonna let you or Trump turn this country into an authoritarian society.

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 23h

Taken at Minsmere?

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

- Millions of federal employees aren’t getting paid
- 15 million people about to lose their health care
- 24 million Americans could see their insurance premiums DOUBLE

Now Speaker Johnson gives House Republicans another week off work. 4 straight weeks out of DC. Unbelievable.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

Mr. President. Stop breaking the law.

The shutdown does not give you the right to fire thousands of hard working federal employees.

Instead of giving huge tax breaks to your billionaire friends, show some respect for the struggling working families of our country.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

For years, this was part of a path through the land, but it's now an impenetrable tangle of gorse and young trees.

As the trees grow, the gorse and other vegetation will be shaded out, and I'll be able to pass again, but through *rainforest*.

Scrub is how natural forest ecosystems form.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d

Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions

www.latimes.com

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 1d

Nestle? No Way!

George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 2d

If you're in reach of the National Galleries of Scotland at the bottom of The Mound, you really should see Andy Goldsworthy's Fifty Years exhibition (ends 2nd November)...it is sensational.

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 2d

Having a Dark Island beer in Bennet's Bar in Edinbugh...braw!

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 2d

Fantastic!

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 3d

Do you know why crow-step gables are so-called? You do now...

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 3d

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

For thousands of years, ordinary people all over the world not only worked side-by-side with domestic animals on a daily basis, they also observed the wild fauna around them to learn how to navigate a...

www.openculture.com

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 3d

Oh c’mon. Good for the UK defense and intel chiefs for the analysis, bad on the politicians for trying to hide it. Suppressing this report doesn’t make the risk go away.

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 3d

'Green Chancellor' my arse....
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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