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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 4h

Have you seen this from the Wikimedia Foundation?

www.theverge.com/report/75681...

How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content

Wikipedians are wading through the muck.

www.theverge.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Private equity wrecked UK high street, says Iceland Foods boss

PE model - low wages, cut staff/investment, high debt, profiteering, tax abuse.

PE devoured Debenhams, Maplin, Byron Burger, Cath Kidson, Comet, Flybe, Poundworld, Toys R Us.

Controls care homes, vets, supermarkets.
archive.ph/tJVkV

Private equity has wrecked the high street, says Iceland boss

Richard Walker says private buyers take out costs and fail to invest then sell to the highest bidder in a cycle that makes retailers steadily worse

www.thetimes.com

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 7h

Can we send some Mr Blobby costumes over?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 7h

While many conservation bodies are talking about restoring nature & halting declines but sidelining the impact of climate, the wildlife trusts have seen the elephant in the room.

Refreshingly direct & honest. Conservation cannot keep pace with climate change.

www.birdguides.com/news/new-rep...

New report highlights effect of climate change on UK nature reserves

The Wildlife Trusts have published a new assessment of the effects of climate change on UK natue reserves. The report, Resilient Nature, shows how much-loved species and habitats are faring across 2,6...

www.birdguides.com

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BTO Shropshire @btoshropshire.bsky.social · 19h

These courses are excellent, bringing training produced and delivered by expert birders into your home.

This one will help you get gull roost ready and equipped to visit the big roosts at Chelmarsh Reservoir and Ellesmere with confidence. Eight species possible in the autumn! 🙂

#ShropshireBirding

BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 20h

Confused by gulls? 🤔 Join our online Gull ID training sessions in November ➡️ www.bto.org/training

Our two-part, online Gull ID course run by our expert team helps you build knowledge and confidence to make gull ID easier! #UKBirding #Ornithology

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 18h

Such a great thread

Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 19h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · 21h

Good climate news this week
1 Global: Renewables generation surpasses coal for 1st time
2 Global: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries
3 Global: Solar and wind generation grew in 1st half by more than overall demand increased in the same period

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 18h

I'm a big fan of how strongly the Wildlife Trusts talk about climate change without fear of offending any of their supporters who might not believe in it or want to face up to it

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 18h

The Wildlife Trusts publish a new report, Resilient Nature, highlighting impact and adaptation across their reserves to climate change and extreme weather

www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/new-rep...

the report - www.wildlifetrusts.org/sites/defaul...

New report shows UK nature bearing brunt of chaotic climate | The Wildlife Trusts

The Wildlife Trusts warn: Government is shockingly underprepared

www.wildlifetrusts.org

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 1d

The Wildlife Trusts have published a new assessment of the effects of climate change on UK nature reserves:

New report highlights effect of climate change on UK nature reserves

The Wildlife Trusts have published a new assessment of the effects of climate change on UK natue reserves. The report, Resilient Nature, shows how much-loved species and habitats are faring across 2,600 reserves in response to the changing climate and extreme weather over the past year. Extreme changes in weather patterns have been the most damaging overall, reports BirdGuides.

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Bert Sgroggins @bsgroggins.bsky.social · 19h

A bonus today with the Whoopers, @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social South Walney, this one wearing a ring. Looking at the ringing record WWT Martin Mere is the likely destination. @kanebrides.bsky.social
#ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #UKbirding #ukbirds #waders

A Whooper Swan in flight showing the characteristic long neck and yellow and black bill pattern. On the right leg of the bird is a white ring engraved with the letters AAV.

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 18h

I did not know that about the castle! Thank you

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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 19h

"it's great we've got this national nature reserve, but if we're not careful we'll forget about the social history"

Significant point about peopling landscapes - & training, too!

Crowle Peatland Railway: Little trains in land of the Tiddy Mun - BBC News share.google/nUAx5Bz6A6rw...

Crowle Peatland Railway: Little trains in land of the Tiddy Mun - BBC News

Once a vast complex of peat works, this Isle of Axholme landscape is home to legendary bog spirits.

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 23h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 20h

An update on last week's theft.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police checked museum security week before gold jewellery stolen

Officers were

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, traditionally Leith is seen as run-down, shabby, problems with drugs and crime, but also with the community and character rougher places have

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic! I love this

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't realise Leith's Kirkgate shopping centre has been sold - another piece of "traditional" Leith vanishing/gentrified. Apparently shops have been given notice with closure later this year? And so soon after #BenchGate
#Edinburgh #Leith

www.estatesgazette.co.uk/news/m-core-...

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Phil Marsh @marshrail.bsky.social · 2d

Paddle Steamer PS Ryde may not make the 1700hrs from Yarmouth today. Or tomorrow....... @isleofwightarchive.bsky.social

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<Primary Salutation> @stevesparshott.bsky.social · 1d

How do we get 100 Mr Blobby suits over to Portland?

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Alan Wilson @alanwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Sad to see the recently uncovered ghost sign above The Elephant House on George IV Bridge being painted over.
#ghostsign #Edinburgh

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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