More diverse moors are more resilient to climate change, disease, and outbreaks like this year's Heather Beetles.

Pollinators must be seriously impacted by the lack of heather flowers this year, especially as it's such a late flowering species.

I was up on the moors yesterday. Very little Heather hanging on. Vast swathes of dry, dead stems and exposed peat.

Any serious rain and that peat will wash away. Dry weather will release the stored carbon.

Heather monocultures are a disaster.

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Trailing St John's-wort

#WildflowerHour

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

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Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

The TikTok outlines that a specific goal of these animations is to multiply their reach by cultivating secondary coverage

And indeed, dozens of major outlets like BBC, CNN and Sky News have aired them, in part or in full, often without context

These assets have been used in IDF videos as recently as September 5, in an animation of the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City, which was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes the same day

In this video the ground itself is a patch-work quilt of third-party scans of pavement & parking lots

Hubert's assets, created as decorations for cyberpunk cityscapes, are used especially widely in animations that the IDF released during their strikes on Iran in June.

Ripped assets from Hubert are shown here in stills from IDF animations, with blue highlights:

We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Scans of parking lots, antennas, and pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.

A great opportunity for a wetland ecologist interested in large-scale peatland restoration. #generationrestoration

It is simply mad for people to say "integration matters" while proposing a segregated petrostate that does not want integration (just a transactional extractive relationship with exploited gastarbeieter & a hotel model for some affluent guests) as a vision for non-settlement, non-citizenship here!

I think, #fungifriends, this might be the prettiest Blusher, Amanita rubescens, I’ve ever seen!! Isn’t it beautiful! 🥰

#MushroomMonday #FungiFriday

Not just men but women too

I have missed the desert so much (even if it’s not my desert)

This strikes me as pretty bad

Lord Heseltine, "I wouldn't touch Nigel Farage"

"I hear of talk about a pact with Reform UK"

"We can see Reform UK, all over Europe. Le Penn in France. AfD in Germany. Same equivalent in Italy, Spain"

"It's all the same stuff"

More on Teesmouth seal pup deaths, suggesting sewage effluent and legacy of industrial pollution may have exacerbated natural mortality. Typical comedy response from Northumbrian Water saying they couldn't possibly be responsible for faecal bacteria in estuary.
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Greta Thunberg is not in the Epstein files, but Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump are.

Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"

Ofcom has refused to investigate GB News airing claims that trans people are “drug addicts”, that 95% of trans people have a “fetish”, and that “transgenderism” is part of a nefarious plan “being pushed by Soros”.

Every example here has been OK'd by Ofcom, despite clear & obvious breaches /5

Since GB News launched, there have been many other examples of toxic content which Ofcom has flatly refused to even investigate.

Earlier this year GB News aired comments suggesting that disabled benefit claimants should be starved & shot. No action from Ofcom. /2 bylinetimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

Ofcom took *six months* to decide to take no action after thousands complained about this very blatant breach of broadcasting standards by GB News.

But perhaps the real surprise is that they investigated it at all… /1

www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/06/g...

Hey, look, it’s the guy who paid affectionate tribute to US podcaster Charlie Kirk when he got murdered.