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Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 16h

If Ireland was a just country, the people responsible for this would lose their land to the state, be forced to pay to replant the area and spend a decade in jail.

It isn't a just country though, so if they even get found out, they'll get a slap on the wrist of a few hundred euros fine at most.

Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 18h

This is what we're up against. People still removing woodlands when we've already lost so much

www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

www.thejournal.ie

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 10h

"The Treasury....plans to gut green rules with amendments to its planning and infrastructure bill – ditching the precautionary principle, slashing species protections and curbing legal challenges"

Indefensible

This must be fought tooth and nail

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on Labour targeting nature: the problem isn’t snails, but a broken housing model | Editorial

Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes built, but not at any cost

www.theguardian.com

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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 13h

#News: #Guatemala is now the world’s deadliest country for environmental defenders. Latin America sees 82% of global killings, mostly over #landgrabbing and resource conflicts #BoycottGold4Yanomami #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetect #HumanRights

Guatemala becomes the deadliest country for environmental defenders

New Global Witness report shows over 80% of all environment-related killings last year occurred in Latin America

dialogue.earth

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Reform UK’s Nathan Gill met with EU President Tajani to lobby him based on Russian Bribes.

Even then, Nigel Farage didn’t bat an eyelid.

Remarkable video. He had never shown an interest in free speech related to Ukrainian TV channels before.

#ReformRussianBribes

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Wallis @wallish.bsky.social · 20h

I regretted wearing a coat yesterday as it was unseasonably hot, but at least I wasn't relying on it for camouflage!

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Openly Gay Animals 🌈 @openlygayanimals.bsky.social · 9d

living the good life … 😂

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Wallis @wallish.bsky.social · 21h

Strike me down with falling space debris, but everything Skum does seems to be an objective correlative for premature ejaculation: www.independent.co.uk/space/elon-m...

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling to Earth at an alarming rate

An average of one to two Starlink satellites are deorbiting each day in 2025

www.independent.co.uk

Wallis @wallish.bsky.social · 22h

No justification needed for Belgian bun eating!

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Wallis @wallish.bsky.social · 22h

She was constantly slagged off in the papers, but she was a vulnerable person - prescribed barbituates as a baby and diagnosed with schizophrenia at 15.

Right wing rag The Sun describing her as "Nauseating Nancy" in 1978

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Wallis @wallish.bsky.social · 22h

This antivax rubbish is completely insane.

Wallis @wallish.bsky.social · 23h

By best friend saw this in a medical book when she was a child and its haunted her ever since.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Wallis @wallish.bsky.social · 5d

Snoopervising 😹😹😹

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 6d

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Electrek @electrek.co · 6d

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally. more…

electrek.co

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Wallis @wallish.bsky.social · 5d

Green energy is cheap but electricity prices are set by the most expensive source that needs to be ‘turned on’ at any given time, usually gas.

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Mike Sivier @midwalesmike.bsky.social · 5d

The Tories claim scrapping green energy rules will cut bills – but it’s a con. Energy firms will profit, pollution will rise, and the UK will fall behind.
#Tories #ClimateCrisis #EnergyBills #NetZero VoxPolitical #bbcnews #itvnews #PoliticsLive
voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/10/07/t...

Tory ‘back to fossil fuel’ plan won’t cut your energy bills

The Tories’ plan to scrap green rules won’t cut bills – it will boost profits, burn more fossil fuels and wreck the UK’s energy security.

voxpoliticalonline.com

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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 6d

#News: The illegal #wildlife trade has a new target: ants 🐜 and #reptiles 🦎. As traffickers shift from #rhinos to smaller species, #Africa's ecosystems are at risk. We need stronger laws to protect these animals. @palmoildetect #Boycott4Wildlife dialogue.earth/en/nature/tr...

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 7d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Jul 30

The “evolutionary psychology” pervasive on the far right is pseudoscience they use to justify their worldview, including the ideas that liberal women are responsible for what they see as Western cultural deterioration and that rape of women by men is normal.