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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 6h

🦇 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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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 6h

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 · 6h

🦇 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 · 16h

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 · 6h

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 · 21h

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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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 16h

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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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23h

We can't keep up...

Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.

Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 22h

But it’s easier for me because
(1) I’m not Palestinian
(2) I’m not Muslim
(3) I’m white
(4) I don’t earn my main income from writing kids books or talking about kids books.

Please support other authors & illustrators who are more dependent on this income. 🙏

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 22h

There’s been a lot of censorship, boycotts & cancelling of children’s authors & artists who stand up for a free 🇵🇸

I write kids nature books. I’ve personally had no author bookings for 2 years.

I don’t care. For me, it is more important to speak up, than stay silent to appease fascists.

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine

Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

www.theguardian.com

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 22h

Reminder.

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

No one with a fair mind can claim it’s fine to describe freedom fighters who are resisting 77 years of brutal colonialist massacres & oppression as “religious militants” but refuse to see their genocidal oppressors as “religious militants”

Don’t be shy. They are Jewish Zionists
#EmperorsNewClothes

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

So Hamas is described as a “militant Islamist” organisation by the Guardian but they refuse to use the same term to describe the genocidal militant Jewish Zionist organisation known as Likud / the IDF / the terrorist State of Israel.
#MediaBias
The Guardian is populated by Islamophobic Zionists

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

So Hamas is described as a “militant Islamist” organisation by the Guardian but they refuse to use the same term to describe the genocidal militant Jewish Zionist organisation known as Likud / the IDF / the terrorist State of Israel.
#MediaBias
The Guardian is populated by Islamophobic Zionists

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 2d

#Bristol vigil at 6pm today.

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 2d

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 2d

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