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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study The number of wild bee species in Europe at risk of extinction has more than doubled over the past decade, while the number of endangered butterfly species has almost doubled. The jeopardy facing crucial pollinators was revealed by scientific studies for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of threatened species, which found that at least 172 bee species out of 1,928 were at risk of extinction in Europe. Continue reading...

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 23h

How much were the bribes, though, I didn't see that in the article? How cheap a date was he for selling out his country and the EU?

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 23h

I went back to check on someone's address yesterday. The change was staggering.
When you're over there regularly, it's more like a gradual creep of the walls closing in but you don't quite notice just how claustrophobic its gotten until you leave & go back after a few months. It's gotten so dark.

a window in a building with a view of a field behind it

Alt: A door to the outside is gradually bricked up and closed.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 1d

What I wouldn't give for a decent taco truck. Well that and a packed Supreme Court and free abortion access. The usual.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

Global treaty to end subsidies for destructive fishing takes effect

A landmark global treaty to curb billions of dollars in government subsidies for overfishing took effect on Sept. 15, Mongabay contributor Elizabeth Fitt reported. The agreement marks the first time…

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 1d

What will they offer us next, free ice cream for everyone?!

Lordy, no!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 1d

A decade of organizing secured Chuckwalla National Monument — but a federal review, DOJ memo, lawsuit, and bills in Congress now threaten not just Chuckwalla, but monuments across the West. These unprecedented threats make public voices and vigilance more crucial than ever.

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The case for national monuments - High Country News

National monuments across the West face unprecedented threats, making public voices and vigilance more crucial than ever.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 1d

So that's like, a Nobel prize made of Lego?

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 1d

Men never realized that feminism was for them, too. 🤷‍♀️

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 1d

ok

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · Apr 15

The key paragraph from @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's powerful piece describing the urgency of our present moment. They are right, and we better move quickly.

To move forward with focus, we must first understand this simple fact: we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 2d

You mean why are people weird, or why are people weird online?

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 2d

Cute thread.

Also: Tamalpais

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 3d

This is ridiculous - the UK should be planning for water to be taken back into public ownership. Water is essential for life! It should never have been privatised. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Water bills to rise further for millions after appeal

Five water companies win permission for higher bills as they seek more investment to fix outdated infrastructure.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 4d

- put down the damn AI.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 3d

Found the Venn diagram overlap for me and highland cattle: disco naps.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 4d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 3d

There's an old German joke about a driver who hears a report of a wrong-way driver on the freeway.
"One wrong-way driver? I'm on the freeway right now and EVERYONE is driving the wrong way."

And of course there's a German word for wrong-way driver: "Geisterfahrer" - "ghost driver"

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 4d

Probably a natural aversion to the combo of ‘dick’ and ‘knot’ in the same word

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Gibby @thegibbon.bsky.social · 5d

The stuff in the Baltic isn't really getting the traction over here it might. We're currently doing seabed surveys off Gdansk in Poland but have lost well over a week now to GPS jamming and spoofing originating in Kaliningrad making the vessel's systems show it as being off Sweden.

Jonathan Rosenthal @journalistjon.bsky.social · 5d

Russia's grey-zone conflict against the West is escalating at sea as well as in the air, as evident in drone incursions in Denmark and a the boarding of Boracay by France
This week in @economist.com we look at the threat posed by Russia's shadow fleet, and NATO efforts to counter it. A short 🧵 1/3

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 5d

The lack of preparation for this real, concrete world that requires IRL thinking is genuinely dire.

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 5d

The reddit rabbit hole. www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...

From the chicago community on Reddit: Inside the real estate fight that led up to controversial South Shore fed raid

Explore this post and more from the chicago community

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 5d

*emerges from scary reddit rabbit hole*
Yeah, it looks ... odd

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 5d

So the building owners potentially had a deal with ICE to clear the place of residents?

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 5d

Riyadh Comedy Festival: “This whitewashing comes amid significant increase in repression, including a crackdown on free speech, which many of these comedians defend but people in Saudi Arabia are completely denied," says @hrw.org

www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Saudi Arabia: Riyadh Comedy Festival Whitewashes Abuses

The Saudi government is using the Riyadh Comedy Festival 2025 from September 26 to October 9 to deflect attention from its brutal repression of free speech and other pervasive human rights violations.

www.hrw.org

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Paula Read @paularead.bsky.social · 5d

🙏

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