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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 2h

It's also not "just another" extinction, it's the first from mainland Europe in centuries. CENTURIES.

And there will be others within our lifetime.

That's biodiversity loss.

We'll never hear this sound, ever again xeno-canto.org/398794

XC398794 Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris)

Awful wind noise in the original! See sonogram and notes of the recording circumstances on p12 of Gretton A. (1991) The ecology and conservation of the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris). ...

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David Clegg @delphijunkie.bsky.social · 10h

Looking forward to Winston Peters taking full responsibility for this. That's how this works now, right? #nzpol

The Press @thepress.co.nz · 10h

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

Teen charged with making death threats against former Green MP Benjamin Doyle

The 19-year-old will appear in a Gisborne court next week. Doyle stepped down from Parliament in September, citing the intolerable level of abuse.

dlvr.it

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.bsky.social · 11h

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 11h

I have two places left on my weird and wonderful carnivorous plants art workshop THIS SUNDAY. No experience necessary and all materials provided, including the most amazing pitcher plants. Message me and save $10 on the additional booking fee. Bring your BFF. Go on, you know you want to!

boal art class n carnivorous pants in Auckland this Sunday

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 15h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks Andy. We’ll catch up another time.

Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · 13h

I would love to come along Phil but I'm on a bus heading north. Hope it all goes well!

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 1d

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 1d

massive scoop from Nicky Hager: "Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop" ... "Without any announcement, New Zealand is being integrated into a de facto Anglo military alliance that ties the country into a US/UK-led military build up."

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago Police were ordered to not help ICE Gestapo! 🤣😂✊🏼 #iceout #chicago

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 1d

At least a thousand but most likely more folks marching in Chicago to protest the deployment of the National Guard and continued ICE raids. Chanting "whose city our city!"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

I keep hearing from people who say they bought my book on Amazon but received something with empty pages or with what appears to be filled with AI crap.

I don’t want you to be defrauded, so please read this for more info. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/because-amazon-wont-police-its-offerings

Because Amazon won’t police its offerings, you’re getting shafted (and so am I)

Here’s direct evidence

robertreich.substack.com

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 1d

We cant trust Trump or Netanyahu. But want Gaza for their own purposes. Jared Kushner is involved in the peace talks. He was the first public figure to describe Gaza as “ great real estate”. These are people with ZERO compassion

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 2d

One of Russia’s main supply routes from China has been shut down. From today, the border with Kazakhstan is fully stopped.. over 5,000 trucks are stuck, inspections are ongoing, and goods are being confiscated. Drones, EW gear, batteries, components, nothing is getting through.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Ellis getting into her concerns over plainclothes agents.

She says she's willing to give some leeway to "undercover" officers, but says other agents, including those doing crowd control at protests, need to have ID that "identifies them numerically and by agency."

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.bsky.social · 1d

And the award for the best rhyming slang in a TV series goes to Slow Horses (S5; E3).

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Ellis rules that the plaintiffs have standing for their case. She cites the "ongoing and sustained record of conduct" by federal agents gathered over the last month.

She further finds the plaintiffs have plausibly shown feds have "frustrated" efforts to "protect journalist safety."

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 1d

Exclusive: The Government has avoided questions about whether it’s joining preparations for a US confrontation with China. Until now, the public has had no insight.

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

newsroom.co.nz

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.bsky.social · 2d

Ok iirc it was collected by AJ Healy and should be in the database. Ask Ines.

Rebecca Bloomer @rhbloomer.bsky.social · 2d

Well now I wanna go find the specimens! 8 years right next door and I only made it to the herbarium for the first time a fortnight ago, which is sort of ridiculous.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Only generally aware of Nigel Farage, it’s been shocking to me in the week I’ve been reading UK papers daily how *precisely* Tory & Reform rhetoric echo Trumpism, particularly the full conquest of GOP by MAGA circa 2017-18. Reminder yet again that this fascism is global.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.bsky.social · 2d

Ha ha. It might be a descendant of the original bird and the plant

Rebecca Bloomer @rhbloomer.bsky.social · 2d

Even better, that's ~150m away from where this particular plant is 🤩

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, I just realised you’re in Ōtautahi. I was referring to the Allan Herbarium at @bioeconomyscience.bsky.social in Lincoln.

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Robert Kowalenko @rob-kowa.bsky.social · 2d

So much of the internet (while not great before) begins to read like badly written first year or high school student essays.
People are using AI more and more.
I cannot read about gardening, or hi-fi systems, or movies, or *anything* now, without listening to a machine.
Have you all gone insane.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.bsky.social · 2d

What is a "two speed" economic recovery? Fast forward for landlords and billionaires, reverse for the rest of us?

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.bsky.social · 2d

The recognise the badge.

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