Niki Baker
@nrbakerwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Mostly nocturnal. Avoider of crowds and beaten paths.
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Author of '10:59'.
Shh! We're not supposed to talk about that. 🤫🤐
🌍💚🌲🌊🌿
Author of '10:59'.
Shh! We're not supposed to talk about that. 🤫🤐
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Now that it's December, I can legally mention the C word! 🎄🎁
"10:59" is an ideal Christmas gift, especially for young adults (and older adults) who are tricky to buy for! Don't just take my word for it - check out reviews like this on Goodreads 😊
nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/
"10:59" is an ideal Christmas gift, especially for young adults (and older adults) who are tricky to buy for! Don't just take my word for it - check out reviews like this on Goodreads 😊
nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/
So, are we going to aid & abet the fossil fuel industries & the capitalist billionaires to keep lining their pockets today? Or are we going to take action to ensure that our children have a habitable planet tomorrow? This isn't alarmist journalism. This is what it all boils down to. Time to choose.
Fun fact: This latest UN report doesn't just confirm overpopulation as the main driver of destruction (like the IPCC did in 2022).
It also uses the term "inevitable collapse" three times.
#Collapse #InevitableCollapse
It also uses the term "inevitable collapse" three times.
#Collapse #InevitableCollapse
Is this a serious question? Access to birth control works but we deny and do not acknowledge & accept the predicament.
Lyle has no children despite wanting some. 1st step: Be honest.
"All the environmental crises were worsening as the global population grows and required more food and energy"
Lyle has no children despite wanting some. 1st step: Be honest.
"All the environmental crises were worsening as the global population grows and required more food and energy"
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
So, are we going to aid & abet the fossil fuel industries & the capitalist billionaires to keep lining their pockets today? Or are we going to take action to ensure that our children have a habitable planet tomorrow? This isn't alarmist journalism. This is what it all boils down to. Time to choose.
Humans kill 100m sharks every year. 73% have their fins chopped off & are thrown back into the sea to die slowly & painfully. Wtf is wrong with us? 🤬
"Mankind"... what an oxymoron. Let's hope there are some other species left when our reign of terror on Earth comes to a messy and inglorious end.
"Mankind"... what an oxymoron. Let's hope there are some other species left when our reign of terror on Earth comes to a messy and inglorious end.
December 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Humans kill 100m sharks every year. 73% have their fins chopped off & are thrown back into the sea to die slowly & painfully. Wtf is wrong with us? 🤬
"Mankind"... what an oxymoron. Let's hope there are some other species left when our reign of terror on Earth comes to a messy and inglorious end.
"Mankind"... what an oxymoron. Let's hope there are some other species left when our reign of terror on Earth comes to a messy and inglorious end.
Thanks to @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social for recommending this powerful documentary. It's honest, hard-hitting & essential. Please watch & share.
Excellent work by Dr Sofia Pineda Ochoa with brilliant contributions from Nandita Bajaj, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...
Excellent work by Dr Sofia Pineda Ochoa with brilliant contributions from Nandita Bajaj, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...
GREENWASHED | Full Documentary [Official]
YouTube video by Dr. Sofia Pineda Ochoa
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Thanks to @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social for recommending this powerful documentary. It's honest, hard-hitting & essential. Please watch & share.
Excellent work by Dr Sofia Pineda Ochoa with brilliant contributions from Nandita Bajaj, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...
Excellent work by Dr Sofia Pineda Ochoa with brilliant contributions from Nandita Bajaj, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social & co.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...
Now that it's December, I can legally mention the C word! 🎄🎁
"10:59" is an ideal Christmas gift, especially for young adults (and older adults) who are tricky to buy for! Don't just take my word for it - check out reviews like this on Goodreads 😊
nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/
"10:59" is an ideal Christmas gift, especially for young adults (and older adults) who are tricky to buy for! Don't just take my word for it - check out reviews like this on Goodreads 😊
nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Now that it's December, I can legally mention the C word! 🎄🎁
"10:59" is an ideal Christmas gift, especially for young adults (and older adults) who are tricky to buy for! Don't just take my word for it - check out reviews like this on Goodreads 😊
nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/
"10:59" is an ideal Christmas gift, especially for young adults (and older adults) who are tricky to buy for! Don't just take my word for it - check out reviews like this on Goodreads 😊
nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/
Seems to me that every year the outcomes of COP are the same: disappointment & no meaningful changes. What's the point? How do we re-think the conference & switch things up a gear? Why do our world leaders care so little that tipping points are being passed? Should it be renamed COP-out???
#COP30
#COP30
COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass.
Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.
Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Seems to me that every year the outcomes of COP are the same: disappointment & no meaningful changes. What's the point? How do we re-think the conference & switch things up a gear? Why do our world leaders care so little that tipping points are being passed? Should it be renamed COP-out???
#COP30
#COP30
I wonder where this fallen tree is off to, all decked out in its fancy fungus frills... 🤔💃
November 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I wonder where this fallen tree is off to, all decked out in its fancy fungus frills... 🤔💃
What a time to be alive. 🤦♀️
Censorship means that you can't "make a joint decision to kill the lights"... you have to "make a j**nt decision to [unalive] the lights". Who are we protecting? Not the 10-year-olds who can all too easily get hold of guns and drugs, that's for sure.
Censorship means that you can't "make a joint decision to kill the lights"... you have to "make a j**nt decision to [unalive] the lights". Who are we protecting? Not the 10-year-olds who can all too easily get hold of guns and drugs, that's for sure.
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
What a time to be alive. 🤦♀️
Censorship means that you can't "make a joint decision to kill the lights"... you have to "make a j**nt decision to [unalive] the lights". Who are we protecting? Not the 10-year-olds who can all too easily get hold of guns and drugs, that's for sure.
Censorship means that you can't "make a joint decision to kill the lights"... you have to "make a j**nt decision to [unalive] the lights". Who are we protecting? Not the 10-year-olds who can all too easily get hold of guns and drugs, that's for sure.
A glass-half-empty person would focus on the fact that my quarterly royalties wouldn't buy me half a glass of anything very exciting 🫤🍷
But I'm a glass-half-full person, and I think it's so damn COOL that people in the UK, US, Germany and Canada bought my little book "10:59" this summer 😀🥂 Cheers!
But I'm a glass-half-full person, and I think it's so damn COOL that people in the UK, US, Germany and Canada bought my little book "10:59" this summer 😀🥂 Cheers!
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
A glass-half-empty person would focus on the fact that my quarterly royalties wouldn't buy me half a glass of anything very exciting 🫤🍷
But I'm a glass-half-full person, and I think it's so damn COOL that people in the UK, US, Germany and Canada bought my little book "10:59" this summer 😀🥂 Cheers!
But I'm a glass-half-full person, and I think it's so damn COOL that people in the UK, US, Germany and Canada bought my little book "10:59" this summer 😀🥂 Cheers!
Reposted by Niki Baker
FESTIVE BOOK FUN!
The Big Green Books Advent Calendar!
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Your chance to unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
The books will be chosen based on what you enjoy reading.
info HERE
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE
The Big Green Books Advent Calendar!
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Your chance to unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
The books will be chosen based on what you enjoy reading.
info HERE
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE
November 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
FESTIVE BOOK FUN!
The Big Green Books Advent Calendar!
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Your chance to unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
The books will be chosen based on what you enjoy reading.
info HERE
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE
The Big Green Books Advent Calendar!
Choose from 4, 6 or 12 books.
Your chance to unwrap a new surprise book every few days in the run up to Christmas.
The books will be chosen based on what you enjoy reading.
info HERE
www.biggreenbookshop.com/simon-likes-...
PLEASE SHARE
If you gaze long into the moon, the moon also gazes into you...
Happy #Hallowe'en, BlueSky peeps!
Happy #Hallowe'en, BlueSky peeps!
October 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If you gaze long into the moon, the moon also gazes into you...
Happy #Hallowe'en, BlueSky peeps!
Happy #Hallowe'en, BlueSky peeps!
Reposted by Niki Baker
*Thread! 😀
Here are my brand new 2026 Birds calendars! 🐦❤️
This is the Double A4 version. 😊
You can buy it here;
www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦
Here are my brand new 2026 Birds calendars! 🐦❤️
This is the Double A4 version. 😊
You can buy it here;
www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦
May 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
*Thread! 😀
Here are my brand new 2026 Birds calendars! 🐦❤️
This is the Double A4 version. 😊
You can buy it here;
www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦
Here are my brand new 2026 Birds calendars! 🐦❤️
This is the Double A4 version. 😊
You can buy it here;
www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦
Sincerest thanks to all my readers for taking the time and trouble to leave reviews - I really do appreciate it sooo much! 😘
nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/
nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/
October 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Sincerest thanks to all my readers for taking the time and trouble to leave reviews - I really do appreciate it sooo much! 😘
nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/
nrbakerwriter.com/how-to-buy/
We get such a thrill when we encounter our neighbours 😃 It's such a privilege to share our environment with so many amazing creatures. I mean, look at this beauty... the subtle gleam of its smooth scales... the gorgeous copper colour... the sinuous wiggles... I love slow worms 😍💚
#reptiles #nature
#reptiles #nature
October 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Rufus hates being photographed while he's eating. Still, he's more photogenic than I am when I'm caught with food in my mouth. Om nom nom...
#slug #gastropod #nature
#slug #gastropod #nature
October 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Rufus hates being photographed while he's eating. Still, he's more photogenic than I am when I'm caught with food in my mouth. Om nom nom...
#slug #gastropod #nature
#slug #gastropod #nature
Reposted by Niki Baker
PATREONS
I've sent a newsletter. It has photos & words.
It includes news of SIX new signed books that nobody else knows about, that you can order now!
And LOADS MORE.
I've made this post open to everyone for the first time.
So check out this link.
www.patreon.com/posts/big-gr...
I've sent a newsletter. It has photos & words.
It includes news of SIX new signed books that nobody else knows about, that you can order now!
And LOADS MORE.
I've made this post open to everyone for the first time.
So check out this link.
www.patreon.com/posts/big-gr...
Big Green Books News. 25th October | Simon Key
Get more from Simon Key on Patreon
www.patreon.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
PATREONS
I've sent a newsletter. It has photos & words.
It includes news of SIX new signed books that nobody else knows about, that you can order now!
And LOADS MORE.
I've made this post open to everyone for the first time.
So check out this link.
www.patreon.com/posts/big-gr...
I've sent a newsletter. It has photos & words.
It includes news of SIX new signed books that nobody else knows about, that you can order now!
And LOADS MORE.
I've made this post open to everyone for the first time.
So check out this link.
www.patreon.com/posts/big-gr...
Reposted by Niki Baker
We think extinction happens when a species disappears.
But for most, it begins long before—when roads, fields, and fences break the world into pieces so small that life can only breed with itself.
www.popsci.com/environment/...
But for most, it begins long before—when roads, fields, and fences break the world into pieces so small that life can only breed with itself.
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Michigan's only rattlesnake is inbreeding
Habitat loss is putting the timid wetland reptiles in a genetic bind.
www.popsci.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We think extinction happens when a species disappears.
But for most, it begins long before—when roads, fields, and fences break the world into pieces so small that life can only breed with itself.
www.popsci.com/environment/...
But for most, it begins long before—when roads, fields, and fences break the world into pieces so small that life can only breed with itself.
www.popsci.com/environment/...
Reposted by Niki Baker
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’ and the oceans devoid of marine life
Humans are not the caretakers of Mother Nature
They are its destroyers and will leave nothing for other species in the quest for more and more materialism www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Humans are not the caretakers of Mother Nature
They are its destroyers and will leave nothing for other species in the quest for more and more materialism www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer
Margot Raggett, whose latest compilation shows animals scrubbed from natural habitats, calls for rethink on UK accelerated housebuilding
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’ and the oceans devoid of marine life
Humans are not the caretakers of Mother Nature
They are its destroyers and will leave nothing for other species in the quest for more and more materialism www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Humans are not the caretakers of Mother Nature
They are its destroyers and will leave nothing for other species in the quest for more and more materialism www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Niki Baker
Passenger pigeon. Ivory-billed woodpecker. Eskimo curlew. Slender-billed curlew.
Every extinction is a wake-up call.
Our default setting is snooze.
theconversation.com/slender-bill...
Every extinction is a wake-up call.
Our default setting is snooze.
theconversation.com/slender-bill...
Slender-billed curlews are officially extinct – here’s why the loss of these migratory birds really matters
Why the loss of this species shines light on the global extinction crisis.
theconversation.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Passenger pigeon. Ivory-billed woodpecker. Eskimo curlew. Slender-billed curlew.
Every extinction is a wake-up call.
Our default setting is snooze.
theconversation.com/slender-bill...
Every extinction is a wake-up call.
Our default setting is snooze.
theconversation.com/slender-bill...
Reposted by Niki Baker
Last winter for three months running, the temp anomaly in the Arctic was 10-15°c above normal, a record. It's currently forecast to be 15-20°C. If this happens there'll be no denying we've lost the Arctic. I believe we already have.
#kissyourassgoodbye
#kissyourassgoodbye
Breaking News!
Code Yikes!
This last August saw a record low for average August Arctic sea-ice thickness, the first time below 1 meter, with data going back to 1979.
Still waiting for September data. Will we see a new all-time record low? The Climate 8-ball is drunk again.
Code Yikes!
This last August saw a record low for average August Arctic sea-ice thickness, the first time below 1 meter, with data going back to 1979.
Still waiting for September data. Will we see a new all-time record low? The Climate 8-ball is drunk again.
October 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Last winter for three months running, the temp anomaly in the Arctic was 10-15°c above normal, a record. It's currently forecast to be 15-20°C. If this happens there'll be no denying we've lost the Arctic. I believe we already have.
#kissyourassgoodbye
#kissyourassgoodbye
In the gloaming
I sat watching the forest
gather dusk around its roots.
A tiny wren landed close
then came closer still.
I held those moments as tight as I dared
storing them gently in my memory
among a wealth of similar small treasures.
For it is these rare gifts
that truly make life worth living.
I sat watching the forest
gather dusk around its roots.
A tiny wren landed close
then came closer still.
I held those moments as tight as I dared
storing them gently in my memory
among a wealth of similar small treasures.
For it is these rare gifts
that truly make life worth living.
October 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In the gloaming
I sat watching the forest
gather dusk around its roots.
A tiny wren landed close
then came closer still.
I held those moments as tight as I dared
storing them gently in my memory
among a wealth of similar small treasures.
For it is these rare gifts
that truly make life worth living.
I sat watching the forest
gather dusk around its roots.
A tiny wren landed close
then came closer still.
I held those moments as tight as I dared
storing them gently in my memory
among a wealth of similar small treasures.
For it is these rare gifts
that truly make life worth living.
If you think biodiversity loss is irrelevant to you...
If you think it's not that big an issue...
If you think it doesn't really affect you personally...
If you think it's someone else's problem...
... Boy oh boy, you and your kids have a hell of a shock coming.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If you think it's not that big an issue...
If you think it doesn't really affect you personally...
If you think it's someone else's problem...
... Boy oh boy, you and your kids have a hell of a shock coming.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report
Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you think biodiversity loss is irrelevant to you...
If you think it's not that big an issue...
If you think it doesn't really affect you personally...
If you think it's someone else's problem...
... Boy oh boy, you and your kids have a hell of a shock coming.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If you think it's not that big an issue...
If you think it doesn't really affect you personally...
If you think it's someone else's problem...
... Boy oh boy, you and your kids have a hell of a shock coming.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Niki Baker
No place to run
We are so deep in a climate crisis that has not happened in millions of years and has not yet fully manifested in reality, that no amount of renewable energy will solve it.
We need to save all existing forests and wetlands and restore degraded areas and stop economic growth
We are so deep in a climate crisis that has not happened in millions of years and has not yet fully manifested in reality, that no amount of renewable energy will solve it.
We need to save all existing forests and wetlands and restore degraded areas and stop economic growth
October 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
No place to run
We are so deep in a climate crisis that has not happened in millions of years and has not yet fully manifested in reality, that no amount of renewable energy will solve it.
We need to save all existing forests and wetlands and restore degraded areas and stop economic growth
We are so deep in a climate crisis that has not happened in millions of years and has not yet fully manifested in reality, that no amount of renewable energy will solve it.
We need to save all existing forests and wetlands and restore degraded areas and stop economic growth
"Those who lead through fear only stay in power while those they govern lack courage."
October 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Those who lead through fear only stay in power while those they govern lack courage."
"Failure is not inevitable. Failure is a choice."
We've known about all this for decades.
And we've chosen to change nothing.
We've chosen to drive our cars, have more babies, jet off on holidays, turn up the heating, stick our heads in the sand, & change nothing.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've known about all this for decades.
And we've chosen to change nothing.
We've chosen to drive our cars, have more babies, jet off on holidays, turn up the heating, stick our heads in the sand, & change nothing.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life
Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Failure is not inevitable. Failure is a choice."
We've known about all this for decades.
And we've chosen to change nothing.
We've chosen to drive our cars, have more babies, jet off on holidays, turn up the heating, stick our heads in the sand, & change nothing.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've known about all this for decades.
And we've chosen to change nothing.
We've chosen to drive our cars, have more babies, jet off on holidays, turn up the heating, stick our heads in the sand, & change nothing.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...