Badger Mash
@badgermash.bsky.social
Made of the land I lived on. Plants, Wildlife, BBC Radio 4, Tolkien, Tea, TaiChi, Policy rather than Politics, #Population #SaveOurBBC Worcestershire
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So many of those in power: political, media, and, particularly, business and finance, have personal interests (often they are landlords or speculators) in the cost of housing continuing to rise that they will never do anything, unless forced.
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"what has it got in its pocketses" - good question to ask when you're doing the laundry
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
"what has it got in its pocketses" - good question to ask when you're doing the laundry
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Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists
Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists
The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.
www.bbc.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists
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University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
🦅 Animal #858 🐠
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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#metazooa
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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#metazooa
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December 5, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🦅 Animal #858 🐠
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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#metazooa
I figured it out in 10 guesses!
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🔥 3 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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#metazooa
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Bidding has started at £100 and will end at 9pm uk time
It’s the time of year when I do my Christmas auction. This mouse icon is up for auction and it’s to raise money for Shelter Cymru & Doctors without borders. 100% of the money raised will go to these charities on a 50-50 basis.
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Bidding has started at £100 and will end at 9pm uk time
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you better watch out
you betTER WATCH OUT
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
Happy Krampusnacht!
you betTER WATCH OUT
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
Happy Krampusnacht!
December 5, 2023 at 11:42 PM
you better watch out
you betTER WATCH OUT
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
Happy Krampusnacht!
you betTER WATCH OUT
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
Happy Krampusnacht!
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📮Take back our 500 year old Royal Mail 📮
Buy back this national asset from its Czech billionaire owner
Use the profits to reduce outrageous stamp prices and improve service
Until 11.59pm tonight @ofcom.bsky.social is listening to YOU - take action on link below
weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-...
Buy back this national asset from its Czech billionaire owner
Use the profits to reduce outrageous stamp prices and improve service
Until 11.59pm tonight @ofcom.bsky.social is listening to YOU - take action on link below
weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-...
End the Royal Mail privatisation experiment now
Ofcom is consulting on stamp prices. It is time to demand that they end Royal Mail privatisation.
weownit.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
📮Take back our 500 year old Royal Mail 📮
Buy back this national asset from its Czech billionaire owner
Use the profits to reduce outrageous stamp prices and improve service
Until 11.59pm tonight @ofcom.bsky.social is listening to YOU - take action on link below
weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-...
Buy back this national asset from its Czech billionaire owner
Use the profits to reduce outrageous stamp prices and improve service
Until 11.59pm tonight @ofcom.bsky.social is listening to YOU - take action on link below
weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-...
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'Tis the season!
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
'Tis the season!
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol! In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and remaining stock was destroyed.
#skystorians #medhist #science 🧪
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Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
🍂 Plant #796 🌲
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 9.8
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#metaflora
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 9.8
flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora
Metaflora
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Plant!
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December 4, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🍂 Plant #796 🌲
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 9.8
flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora
I figured it out in 4 guesses!
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🔥 5 | Avg. Guesses: 9.8
flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora
Phew. Another tough one.
🐇 Animal #857 🦃
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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#metazooa
🐇 Animal #857 🦃
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
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🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
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#metazooa
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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December 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Phew. Another tough one.
🐇 Animal #857 🦃
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
🟥🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
metazooa.com
#metazooa
🐇 Animal #857 🦃
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
🟥🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
🔥 2 | Avg. Guesses: 7.1
metazooa.com
#metazooa
WOW.
December 4, 2025 at 6:27 AM
WOW.
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EARLY CAT: What that?
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
EARLY CAT: What that?
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.
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I swear the cat is plotting something. And whatever it is (a) it's not good and (b) it involves me.
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I swear the cat is plotting something. And whatever it is (a) it's not good and (b) it involves me.
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Carl Linnaeus's beloved pet raccoon, Sjupp, was a gift from the King of Sweden, and regularly stole snacks from Linnaeus's students. This drawing is thought to be Sjupp. (LM/PF/ALS/1) #EYAPets
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Carl Linnaeus's beloved pet raccoon, Sjupp, was a gift from the King of Sweden, and regularly stole snacks from Linnaeus's students. This drawing is thought to be Sjupp. (LM/PF/ALS/1) #EYAPets
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On this day in 1976, Algie the Pig escaped his moorings on Battersea Power Station and made his way to a field in Kent, grounding flights at Heathrow along the way.
December 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
On this day in 1976, Algie the Pig escaped his moorings on Battersea Power Station and made his way to a field in Kent, grounding flights at Heathrow along the way.
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Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest.
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird
Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...
🍀 Plant #795 🍃
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
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🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 9.8
flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 9.8
flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora
Metaflora
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Plant!
flora.metazooa.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
🍀 Plant #795 🍃
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 9.8
flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora
I figured it out in 11 guesses!
🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🔥 4 | Avg. Guesses: 9.8
flora.metazooa.com
#metaflora
Jake Thackray: "The Castleford Ladies Magical Circle Meets Tonight."
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Jake Thackray: "The Castleford Ladies Magical Circle Meets Tonight."
Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
metazooa.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM