Peter Driver
@peterdriver.bsky.social
Artist. Birder #BerksBirds. @BerksBirdClub. #lowcarbonbirding.
See my stuff here: https://linktr.ee/peterdriverstudio
See my stuff here: https://linktr.ee/peterdriverstudio
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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The UK charity Hen Harrier Action @henharrieraction.bsky.social launches Xmas fundraiser to buy more satellite tags.
Commentary on why this is important & a link to the fundraiser ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/11/t...
Commentary on why this is important & a link to the fundraiser ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/11/t...
The charity Hen Harrier Action launches Xmas fundraiser to buy satellite tags
The charity Hen Harrier Action has launched its annual Xmas fundraising appeal, this year with a target of £15K to purchase five satellite tags to be fitted to Hen Harrier chicks in 2026. As you…
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December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The UK charity Hen Harrier Action @henharrieraction.bsky.social launches Xmas fundraiser to buy more satellite tags.
Commentary on why this is important & a link to the fundraiser ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/11/t...
Commentary on why this is important & a link to the fundraiser ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/11/t...
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Musk talking about fighting falsehoods on his platform. One hour before he'd amplified a falsehood to millions of people. Nobody died in that incident, caused by a drunk driver. No community note, no correction.
December 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Musk talking about fighting falsehoods on his platform. One hour before he'd amplified a falsehood to millions of people. Nobody died in that incident, caused by a drunk driver. No community note, no correction.
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If you enjoyed listening to Michael on GG recently then you are in for a treat! 👇
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It’s out there folks … venture out into the wild Essex marshes, with me and #BBCCountryfile Plodcast host, Fergus Collins. www.countryfile.com/podcast #birdsandplace #Essex #thecuckooslea
Next week I'm on the brilliant #BBCCountryfile Plodcast with Fergus Collins (out 2nd Dec). For now, here's a teaser--a soundscape episode recorded there. Big up the Essex marshes! link.chtbl.com/8j_GMQQa @essexbirdnews.bsky.social @esbr-essex.bsky.social #EssexMarshes #birdsandplace
December 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
If you enjoyed listening to Michael on GG recently then you are in for a treat! 👇
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This Government once vowed to be “the most nature-positive [we have] ever had”.
Months of blaming wildlife and stripping back protections have already made a mockery of that promise.
And if the rumoured cuts to BNG go ahead, it will deal yet another devastating blow to nature.
Months of blaming wildlife and stripping back protections have already made a mockery of that promise.
And if the rumoured cuts to BNG go ahead, it will deal yet another devastating blow to nature.
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This Government once vowed to be “the most nature-positive [we have] ever had”.
Months of blaming wildlife and stripping back protections have already made a mockery of that promise.
And if the rumoured cuts to BNG go ahead, it will deal yet another devastating blow to nature.
Months of blaming wildlife and stripping back protections have already made a mockery of that promise.
And if the rumoured cuts to BNG go ahead, it will deal yet another devastating blow to nature.
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March to barbarism
Billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia”, co-founder of Palantir wants public executions.
Not content with profiteering, exploitation, wants public hangings.
Who will they hang - poor, homeless, hungry, people falsely convicted?
Too much money creates insanity.
Billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia”, co-founder of Palantir wants public executions.
Not content with profiteering, exploitation, wants public hangings.
Who will they hang - poor, homeless, hungry, people falsely convicted?
Too much money creates insanity.
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
March to barbarism
Billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia”, co-founder of Palantir wants public executions.
Not content with profiteering, exploitation, wants public hangings.
Who will they hang - poor, homeless, hungry, people falsely convicted?
Too much money creates insanity.
Billionaire member of the “PayPal Mafia”, co-founder of Palantir wants public executions.
Not content with profiteering, exploitation, wants public hangings.
Who will they hang - poor, homeless, hungry, people falsely convicted?
Too much money creates insanity.
I hope to be there with signed copies of the Widdershins Walk in book, for those last-minute stocking fillers!
Come to the Club's Christmas social on Wednesday 17 December, 7.30pm for tasty seasonal refreshments, a quiz, unique poems from John, and a short talk from David Massie on a trip to Vietnam.
Room G44, Edith Morley Building
Or stay in and join on Zoom from 7.15pm: bit.ly/4lrQGl8 **
#berksbirds
Room G44, Edith Morley Building
Or stay in and join on Zoom from 7.15pm: bit.ly/4lrQGl8 **
#berksbirds
December 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I hope to be there with signed copies of the Widdershins Walk in book, for those last-minute stocking fillers!
Parts of my award-winning installation in the Private Spaces exhibition at spudWORKS, Sway, New Forest, until 10th January.
The free prints are going like hot cakes but there are plenty of them.
I've been making and giving them away since 2013.
The whole show is worth a visit.
#art #sway
The free prints are going like hot cakes but there are plenty of them.
I've been making and giving them away since 2013.
The whole show is worth a visit.
#art #sway
December 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
V. pleased that my submission for the @spud.org.uk open show Private Spaces, was picked by the judges as 'Best in Show'.
Thanks to Alison Barnes, CEO of New Forest NPA (pic) for completely getting the meaning of my ongoing 'I'm glad you're alive!' project.
The show runs til 10 January.
#sway #art
Thanks to Alison Barnes, CEO of New Forest NPA (pic) for completely getting the meaning of my ongoing 'I'm glad you're alive!' project.
The show runs til 10 January.
#sway #art
December 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Here is the link the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
Listen to 'Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring', with Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Jukes, Sergei Cristo & special guests - The Citizens
A thriller featuring Carole Cadwalladr, Peter Jukes and Sergei Cristo that exposes an alleged secret spy ring operating at the very heart of the British establishment. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Ama...
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December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Here is the link the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...
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Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Oh look. They’ve actually drawn a diagram for all the people stupid enough to need a bloody diagram.
I was too ill to join this walk to Little Marlow Gravel Pit, still never been. it's over the County border, so not on my radar. I'll take a look sometime in 2026 though, when I'm passing. It's a good site, well watched by knowledgeable birders who often find interesting birds.
#bucksbirds
#bucksbirds
Far from ideal weather for BOC's field trip to Little Marlow Gravel Pits (Bucks) on Wednesday. The highlight was a flock of c100 Siskin (some pictured here showing how poor the light was). Snipe, Shoveler, Pochard, Treecreeper, Lapwing, Common Gull, no winter thrushes in evidence.
#bucksbirds
#bucksbirds
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I was too ill to join this walk to Little Marlow Gravel Pit, still never been. it's over the County border, so not on my radar. I'll take a look sometime in 2026 though, when I'm passing. It's a good site, well watched by knowledgeable birders who often find interesting birds.
#bucksbirds
#bucksbirds
An old photo, but adding it as an Instagram story, it suddenly struck me what it reminded me of.
Hosehill lake is an hour and a half up the motorway from Portishead.
Hosehill lake is an hour and a half up the motorway from Portishead.
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
An old photo, but adding it as an Instagram story, it suddenly struck me what it reminded me of.
Hosehill lake is an hour and a half up the motorway from Portishead.
Hosehill lake is an hour and a half up the motorway from Portishead.
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This is wonderful! I picked up mine last night 🤗
December 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This is wonderful! I picked up mine last night 🤗
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Europe’s water reserves are drying up - freshwater storage shrinking across S & central Europe, & parts of UK
Satellite data on changes in gravitational field show changes in available water as it's heavy
Climate breakdown can be seen in the data say scientists
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Satellite data on changes in gravitational field show changes in available water as it's heavy
Climate breakdown can be seen in the data say scientists
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Europe’s water reserves are drying up - freshwater storage shrinking across S & central Europe, & parts of UK
Satellite data on changes in gravitational field show changes in available water as it's heavy
Climate breakdown can be seen in the data say scientists
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Satellite data on changes in gravitational field show changes in available water as it's heavy
Climate breakdown can be seen in the data say scientists
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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2025 was heat and drought. 2024 was incessant rain
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
2025 was heat and drought. 2024 was incessant rain
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Three of the five worst British harvests on record have now occurred since 2020
Some farmers are asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reminder: the Owls of Britain are our subject at this Wednesday's talk (3 Dec, 7.30pm).
If you've not been to a BOC meeting before (non-members welcome), this'll be a good one, come, learn about our native owls, enjoy Mike's fabulous photos and meet some friendly birders.
#berksbirds #owls
If you've not been to a BOC meeting before (non-members welcome), this'll be a good one, come, learn about our native owls, enjoy Mike's fabulous photos and meet some friendly birders.
#berksbirds #owls
December 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reminder: the Owls of Britain are our subject at this Wednesday's talk (3 Dec, 7.30pm).
If you've not been to a BOC meeting before (non-members welcome), this'll be a good one, come, learn about our native owls, enjoy Mike's fabulous photos and meet some friendly birders.
#berksbirds #owls
If you've not been to a BOC meeting before (non-members welcome), this'll be a good one, come, learn about our native owls, enjoy Mike's fabulous photos and meet some friendly birders.
#berksbirds #owls
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WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!! What a *huge* honour to be named #bookoftheyear by Mark Avery. With such awesome company I never imagined such an accolade. Absolutely chuffed to bits! Thank you 😊
November 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!! What a *huge* honour to be named #bookoftheyear by Mark Avery. With such awesome company I never imagined such an accolade. Absolutely chuffed to bits! Thank you 😊
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So many indicators right across the board down here in the concreted parking gardens of England:
"..in Kent there has been an annual average decline in insects of 23% since the survey began in 2021.."
(We carry on in motornomativity, increasing climate extremes around us. This is fine😜)
"..in Kent there has been an annual average decline in insects of 23% since the survey began in 2021.."
(We carry on in motornomativity, increasing climate extremes around us. This is fine😜)
Kent bug splat survey shows 'troubling' fall in flying insects
A new 'splat' survey shows bug numbers have plummeted, but experts say this can be reversed.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
So many indicators right across the board down here in the concreted parking gardens of England:
"..in Kent there has been an annual average decline in insects of 23% since the survey began in 2021.."
(We carry on in motornomativity, increasing climate extremes around us. This is fine😜)
"..in Kent there has been an annual average decline in insects of 23% since the survey began in 2021.."
(We carry on in motornomativity, increasing climate extremes around us. This is fine😜)
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Buzzard being mobbed by crows at Lea Farm lake this morning #ukbirds #berksbirds
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Buzzard being mobbed by crows at Lea Farm lake this morning #ukbirds #berksbirds
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"Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake"
- Deuteronomy 15:10
"God loves a cheerful giver"
- 2 Corinthians 9:7
"Budget for benefit street"
- Badenoch - Odds of Remaining Leader 150:1
- Deuteronomy 15:10
"God loves a cheerful giver"
- 2 Corinthians 9:7
"Budget for benefit street"
- Badenoch - Odds of Remaining Leader 150:1
As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?"
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Give liberally and be ungrudging when you do so, for on this account the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake"
- Deuteronomy 15:10
"God loves a cheerful giver"
- 2 Corinthians 9:7
"Budget for benefit street"
- Badenoch - Odds of Remaining Leader 150:1
- Deuteronomy 15:10
"God loves a cheerful giver"
- 2 Corinthians 9:7
"Budget for benefit street"
- Badenoch - Odds of Remaining Leader 150:1
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Come to this free talk on Wed 3rd Dec, 7.30pm, Rm 109, Palmer Building, Uni. of Reading.
Dr Mike Leach on British owls, dispelling myths & revealing the realities of an owl’s life, with dramatic photos.
Non-members welcome, in person or via this Zoom link, from 7.15 pm bit.ly/4lrQGi8
#ukbirding
Dr Mike Leach on British owls, dispelling myths & revealing the realities of an owl’s life, with dramatic photos.
Non-members welcome, in person or via this Zoom link, from 7.15 pm bit.ly/4lrQGi8
#ukbirding
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Come to this free talk on Wed 3rd Dec, 7.30pm, Rm 109, Palmer Building, Uni. of Reading.
Dr Mike Leach on British owls, dispelling myths & revealing the realities of an owl’s life, with dramatic photos.
Non-members welcome, in person or via this Zoom link, from 7.15 pm bit.ly/4lrQGi8
#ukbirding
Dr Mike Leach on British owls, dispelling myths & revealing the realities of an owl’s life, with dramatic photos.
Non-members welcome, in person or via this Zoom link, from 7.15 pm bit.ly/4lrQGi8
#ukbirding
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An excellent record of a pair of Whooper Swans feeding at #LMGP yesterday afternoon - found by @grahamwfc.bsky.social Only the 3rd record here that I can think of, but two years running now. #UKBirding
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
An excellent record of a pair of Whooper Swans feeding at #LMGP yesterday afternoon - found by @grahamwfc.bsky.social Only the 3rd record here that I can think of, but two years running now. #UKBirding
Working with West Berkshire Barn Owl Group yesterday, we installed two new Barn Owl boxes on a farm in our area.
Hoping for a better breeding year in 2026. Nesting success down by 90% this year, as vole shortage/spring weather gave little chance for the owls to reach breeding weight.
#ukbirding
Hoping for a better breeding year in 2026. Nesting success down by 90% this year, as vole shortage/spring weather gave little chance for the owls to reach breeding weight.
#ukbirding
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Working with West Berkshire Barn Owl Group yesterday, we installed two new Barn Owl boxes on a farm in our area.
Hoping for a better breeding year in 2026. Nesting success down by 90% this year, as vole shortage/spring weather gave little chance for the owls to reach breeding weight.
#ukbirding
Hoping for a better breeding year in 2026. Nesting success down by 90% this year, as vole shortage/spring weather gave little chance for the owls to reach breeding weight.
#ukbirding