Allan Russell
@arnaturegeek.bsky.social
Scottish birding and nature liking person plus B.Sc and M.Res ecology graduate. Have found my way here after abandoning Twitter. All views expressed are my own. He/him 🐦⬛🐺🐋🐍🦋🌱🍄🏴
Providing Swift bricks isn't a magic wand that will solve Swift declines (need to reverse the collapse in insect populations!) but this is still very welcome news and a good, cheap method which will partly help. Very telling that the nature hating UK government rejected this
Swifts are in serious decline, with their UK population falling by 66% since 1995.
Moments ago MSPs backed our amendment to install low cost swift nesting bricks in new buildings.
This small act will make our communities more liveable for birds and help swifts recover.
Moments ago MSPs backed our amendment to install low cost swift nesting bricks in new buildings.
This small act will make our communities more liveable for birds and help swifts recover.
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Providing Swift bricks isn't a magic wand that will solve Swift declines (need to reverse the collapse in insect populations!) but this is still very welcome news and a good, cheap method which will partly help. Very telling that the nature hating UK government rejected this
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It’s striking how clearly western governments are trying to harden up their electorates for the effects of half the world being on fire or underwater, but they can’t say that in public so they’re all like Guys we just thought it’d be nice to change some laws a bit because reasons
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It’s striking how clearly western governments are trying to harden up their electorates for the effects of half the world being on fire or underwater, but they can’t say that in public so they’re all like Guys we just thought it’d be nice to change some laws a bit because reasons
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Brexit was bad, but this woman is fucking poison tbh
🚨🚨Major #EU news: More than 80 percent of Europe’s companies will be freed from environmental reporting obligations after @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu reached a deal on a proposal to cut green rules on Monday. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...
EU closes deal to slash green rules in major win for von der Leyen’s deregulation drive
Controversial “omnibus” bill saw center-right EU lawmakers side with the far right to water down environmental standards.
www.politico.eu
December 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Brexit was bad, but this woman is fucking poison tbh
Pure fascism from the Home Office, an organisation which should have been destroyed long ago
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Pure fascism from the Home Office, an organisation which should have been destroyed long ago
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Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
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There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.
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for the record everyone should be mad *at the government* for this
December 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
for the record everyone should be mad *at the government* for this
Wasting time having to inspect birthday and Christmas cards in the shops before I buy them to make sure they're not AI generated. Why can't this trash just go away? #FuckAI
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Wasting time having to inspect birthday and Christmas cards in the shops before I buy them to make sure they're not AI generated. Why can't this trash just go away? #FuckAI
View over the rhubarb fields at Blackstoun Farm this afternoon on a lovely, crisp early winter day. 1000+ Chaffinches, 400+ Skylarks and 170+ Stock Doves around these fields, plus managed to eke out at least 3 Bramblings among the finch hordes #clydebirding #birdingscotland
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
View over the rhubarb fields at Blackstoun Farm this afternoon on a lovely, crisp early winter day. 1000+ Chaffinches, 400+ Skylarks and 170+ Stock Doves around these fields, plus managed to eke out at least 3 Bramblings among the finch hordes #clydebirding #birdingscotland
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There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Willow trees on Prince William’s land in Devon poisoned with herbicide
Exclusive: Unknown culprit suspected of spraying glyphosate on protected trees hoped to stop peat erosion and flooding
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There are some people who seem to see the recovery of ecosystems in a deforested waste as a personal affront. It's about power, and different landscapes reflect the different ways in which power is distributed - or concentrated.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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🔥🔥🔥 While everyone is distracted by other budget news, Labour have just announced that they will allow more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea 🔥🔥🔥
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🔥🔥🔥 While everyone is distracted by other budget news, Labour have just announced that they will allow more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea 🔥🔥🔥
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
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You know for a fact they're only doing this because juries are routinely finding anti-genocide and climate change protestors innocent.
Bit of a test case here for “is liberalism still a real thing, or is it just a political version of a collection of Labubus that you show off to your friends” IMO.
![NEW: The Government is set to scrap trial by
jury for most cases
Only murder, rape, manslaughter and a few public interest cases will go to a jury, while all other cases will be decided by a single judge
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November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
You know for a fact they're only doing this because juries are routinely finding anti-genocide and climate change protestors innocent.
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I have felt for quite a while that at least a part of anti-migrant, anti-refugee behaviour from successive governments is pulling the drawbridge up ahead of an increase in climate-caused refugee movement.
And you know what? It's not gonna save us, lads
And you know what? It's not gonna save us, lads
On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I have felt for quite a while that at least a part of anti-migrant, anti-refugee behaviour from successive governments is pulling the drawbridge up ahead of an increase in climate-caused refugee movement.
And you know what? It's not gonna save us, lads
And you know what? It's not gonna save us, lads
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
A fire breaking out at the COP conference seems a bit on the nose?
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A fire breaking out at the COP conference seems a bit on the nose?
An celebration of the Christmas special of John Carpenter's The Thing
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
An celebration of the Christmas special of John Carpenter's The Thing
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Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
What the fuck are we?
Just pure and utter evil. Labour and the Tories both need a deserved annihilation, then salt poured on the ashes so nothing ever grows back
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Just pure and utter evil. Labour and the Tories both need a deserved annihilation, then salt poured on the ashes so nothing ever grows back
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The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right.
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture
join.greenparty.org.uk
The Labour government is evil, nature killing scum. They need removed from power as soon as possible if our precious wildlife is to stand any chance www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The Labour government is evil, nature killing scum. They need removed from power as soon as possible if our precious wildlife is to stand any chance www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Surprised to see this tame Shag during my Clyde Estuary @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count on Sunday. Seemed alert and active so hopefully not afflicted with avian flu. Slavonian Grebes, Great Northern and Red-throated Divers and Greenshanks among the best of the rest noted #birdingscotland #clydebirding
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Surprised to see this tame Shag during my Clyde Estuary @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count on Sunday. Seemed alert and active so hopefully not afflicted with avian flu. Slavonian Grebes, Great Northern and Red-throated Divers and Greenshanks among the best of the rest noted #birdingscotland #clydebirding
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donald trump is a pedophile and half the voters in the united states will come out acknowledge this, and be okay with that
“.. Epstein wrote in a 2019 email to Michael Wolff … ‘[O]f course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop.’”
@politico.com
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November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
donald trump is a pedophile and half the voters in the united states will come out acknowledge this, and be okay with that