Awkward Sean
@ginhaze.bsky.social
Gardening and growing food. Walking. Landscapes for wildlife. Land reform. Right to roam. Irish Setters. Kent Cricket. Half Man Half Biscuit. alt-text please.
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Awkward Sean
@ginhaze.bsky.social
· Nov 8
These two cheer me up every day. Perhaps they can help you too. #IrishSetter
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Where are the trees?
We have A LOT of this landscape and less than 4% native woodland. This should be a rich mosaic of habitats, moor, bog, woodland, montane scrub…We force it to remain in this artificial state. We don’t need to give every inch of our uplands over to sheep, grouse and deer stalking.
We have A LOT of this landscape and less than 4% native woodland. This should be a rich mosaic of habitats, moor, bog, woodland, montane scrub…We force it to remain in this artificial state. We don’t need to give every inch of our uplands over to sheep, grouse and deer stalking.
January 17, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Where are the trees?
We have A LOT of this landscape and less than 4% native woodland. This should be a rich mosaic of habitats, moor, bog, woodland, montane scrub…We force it to remain in this artificial state. We don’t need to give every inch of our uplands over to sheep, grouse and deer stalking.
We have A LOT of this landscape and less than 4% native woodland. This should be a rich mosaic of habitats, moor, bog, woodland, montane scrub…We force it to remain in this artificial state. We don’t need to give every inch of our uplands over to sheep, grouse and deer stalking.
For those of you who need some Setter love in your life.
Mum, Ginny 9, is still looking after her daughter, Hazel 5.
Mum, Ginny 9, is still looking after her daughter, Hazel 5.
January 23, 2026 at 8:26 PM
For those of you who need some Setter love in your life.
Mum, Ginny 9, is still looking after her daughter, Hazel 5.
Mum, Ginny 9, is still looking after her daughter, Hazel 5.
Vile.
Land "owners" do nothing but destroy and claim to be the "custodians" of our land.
Land "owners" do nothing but destroy and claim to be the "custodians" of our land.
147 Hen Harriers confirmed 'missing' or illegally killed in UK since 2018 - most of them on or close to grouse moors.
Data extracted from reports by Natural England, RSPB, HSE, various Police forces, National Wildlife Crime Unit.
#RaptorResearch 🌍
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/21/1...
Data extracted from reports by Natural England, RSPB, HSE, various Police forces, National Wildlife Crime Unit.
#RaptorResearch 🌍
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/21/1...
147 Hen Harriers confirmed ‘missing’ or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors
For anyone who still wants to pretend that the grouse shooting industry isn’t responsible for the systematic extermination of Hen Harriers on grouse moors across the UK, here’s the latest catalogue…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
January 23, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Vile.
Land "owners" do nothing but destroy and claim to be the "custodians" of our land.
Land "owners" do nothing but destroy and claim to be the "custodians" of our land.
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Ah, this will do the trick; everyone can stop baying for unnecessary re-nationalisation, corporate corruption will be stamped out brutally with these 'MOT-style checks'... Thank goodness for Starmer! 😉
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Water companies to face regular MOT-style checks in industry shake-up
The government says the industry will have nowhere to hide, but campaigners say the reforms do not go far enough.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Ah, this will do the trick; everyone can stop baying for unnecessary re-nationalisation, corporate corruption will be stamped out brutally with these 'MOT-style checks'... Thank goodness for Starmer! 😉
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Now 30,001 and counting.
My 86yo mother, with Alzheimers and severe arthritis, is without water.
Their response is to dump a pack of bottled water on her step.
She can't pick them up.
She can't open a bottle top.
Fuckers.
My 86yo mother, with Alzheimers and severe arthritis, is without water.
Their response is to dump a pack of bottled water on her step.
She can't pick them up.
She can't open a bottle top.
Fuckers.
30,000 homes left without water in Kent and Sussex.
South East Water company blamed bad weather and storms as though we never had that.
Real reason is lack of investment, unjustified dividends and exec pay.
Nothing will change until privatisation is ended, people empowered to vote on exec pay.
South East Water company blamed bad weather and storms as though we never had that.
Real reason is lack of investment, unjustified dividends and exec pay.
Nothing will change until privatisation is ended, people empowered to vote on exec pay.
Major incident declared as 30,000 homes left without water in Kent and Sussex
South East Water blames cold weather and Storm Goretti for problems, with schools and libraries closed for day
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Now 30,001 and counting.
My 86yo mother, with Alzheimers and severe arthritis, is without water.
Their response is to dump a pack of bottled water on her step.
She can't pick them up.
She can't open a bottle top.
Fuckers.
My 86yo mother, with Alzheimers and severe arthritis, is without water.
Their response is to dump a pack of bottled water on her step.
She can't pick them up.
She can't open a bottle top.
Fuckers.
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“The biodiversity target, which means stopping the decline of British species such as the hedgehog and red squirrel, will almost certainly not be met.”
Huge fail by Labour. Where’s the Land Use Framework? Where’s the promised nature purpose for national parks?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Huge fail by Labour. Where’s the Land Use Framework? Where’s the promised nature purpose for national parks?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wildlife targets will be missed in England and Northern Ireland, watchdog says
Seven out of 10 targets have little likelihood of being met by 2030, Office for Environmental Protection says
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:53 AM
“The biodiversity target, which means stopping the decline of British species such as the hedgehog and red squirrel, will almost certainly not be met.”
Huge fail by Labour. Where’s the Land Use Framework? Where’s the promised nature purpose for national parks?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Huge fail by Labour. Where’s the Land Use Framework? Where’s the promised nature purpose for national parks?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
You can't 'defect' if you're not actually an MP. He's merely stating his support for Reform like so many other radicalised right-wing grifters.
January 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
You can't 'defect' if you're not actually an MP. He's merely stating his support for Reform like so many other radicalised right-wing grifters.
And shows that the US oil grab is sooo.. 20th century and the death throes of a fading empire. The world is moving on.
This is a pretty cool graphic from Ember, showing the percentage of new car sales that are electric in different countries.
Reducing the overall number of cars (& their size) is essential, but if they do exist they should be electric. We're well on the way! 🎉
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Reducing the overall number of cars (& their size) is essential, but if they do exist they should be electric. We're well on the way! 🎉
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
January 9, 2026 at 9:03 PM
And shows that the US oil grab is sooo.. 20th century and the death throes of a fading empire. The world is moving on.
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You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
January 5, 2026 at 10:59 PM
You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
Chopping some lovely homegrown chillies.
Touched my eyes
Aarrrgghh!
Touched my eyes
Aarrrgghh!
January 4, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Chopping some lovely homegrown chillies.
Touched my eyes
Aarrrgghh!
Touched my eyes
Aarrrgghh!
Draught Bass. The original and best. Not available often enough.
December 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Draught Bass. The original and best. Not available often enough.
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As Labour announce they’ll ban trail hunting, man in Barbour jacket and mustard trousers accuses them of being out of touch with public: www.bbc.com/news/article...
December 21, 2025 at 11:35 PM
As Labour announce they’ll ban trail hunting, man in Barbour jacket and mustard trousers accuses them of being out of touch with public: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Apparently the ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ files have been released.
December 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Apparently the ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ files have been released.
Nothing will happen to these land"owners" and their gamekeeper lackeys. We know it's them. This should be a national scandal. Cunts.
Fourth White-tailed Eagle ‘disappears’ & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction – Raptor Persecution UK raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...
Fourth White-tailed Eagle ‘disappears’ & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction
Following the appalling news over the last couple of days about the highly suspicious, and almost certainly criminal, disappearance of three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles here, here and here…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Nothing will happen to these land"owners" and their gamekeeper lackeys. We know it's them. This should be a national scandal. Cunts.
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Scotland has enjoyed a Right to Roam for decades, supported by a detailed code of access that helps people enjoy nature responsibly. We hope to learn from this and create a new system of fair and responsible access in England.
Why does a right to roam mean to you?
forms.gle/kqw1WSJCBmEP...
Why does a right to roam mean to you?
forms.gle/kqw1WSJCBmEP...
December 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Scotland has enjoyed a Right to Roam for decades, supported by a detailed code of access that helps people enjoy nature responsibly. We hope to learn from this and create a new system of fair and responsible access in England.
Why does a right to roam mean to you?
forms.gle/kqw1WSJCBmEP...
Why does a right to roam mean to you?
forms.gle/kqw1WSJCBmEP...
Magnificent thread using actual evidence and not hysterical hyperbole.
🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid.
A pissed off thread using data.
Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
A pissed off thread using data.
Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
December 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Magnificent thread using actual evidence and not hysterical hyperbole.
Really looking forward to this. Hoping the Kent Downs feature🤞
Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom.
To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027:
www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi...
Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org
To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027:
www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi...
Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Really looking forward to this. Hoping the Kent Downs feature🤞
Pleased with 4 but NYT site is becoming more unusable every day. Thinking I might stop playing.
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Pleased with 4 but NYT site is becoming more unusable every day. Thinking I might stop playing.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Today the Government announced they will publish a new Trees Action Plan in 2026.
Here's what I think a Trees Action Plan needs to do to meet nature targets, restore rainforests and 'ghost woods', & support the natural regeneration of trees & scrub:
lostrainforestsofbritain.org/2025/11/25/a...
Here's what I think a Trees Action Plan needs to do to meet nature targets, restore rainforests and 'ghost woods', & support the natural regeneration of trees & scrub:
lostrainforestsofbritain.org/2025/11/25/a...
A new Trees Action Plan for England is in the works. Here’s what I think it should focus on
This is a post by Guy Shrubsole. Photo: Sticta sylvatica, a temperate rainforest lichen, taken by the author near Colliford Reservoir, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. Recently I was contacted by DEFRA, who …
lostrainforestsofbritain.org
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Today the Government announced they will publish a new Trees Action Plan in 2026.
Here's what I think a Trees Action Plan needs to do to meet nature targets, restore rainforests and 'ghost woods', & support the natural regeneration of trees & scrub:
lostrainforestsofbritain.org/2025/11/25/a...
Here's what I think a Trees Action Plan needs to do to meet nature targets, restore rainforests and 'ghost woods', & support the natural regeneration of trees & scrub:
lostrainforestsofbritain.org/2025/11/25/a...
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"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
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