Clare Rayner
@clareacrayner.bsky.social
Teacher, Mum, Apprentice Farmer. Very keen on native species plants 🌱 trees 🌳 and insects 🐞 Essex, UK
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UN report on the situation in the West Bank, October 2025 only:
-260 settler attacks (average 8 per day), highest number since the UN started recording in 2006
-140 Palestinians injured
-150 attacks on olive harvesting
-4,200 olive trees vandalised in 77 villages
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
-260 settler attacks (average 8 per day), highest number since the UN started recording in 2006
-140 Palestinians injured
-150 attacks on olive harvesting
-4,200 olive trees vandalised in 77 villages
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
Humanitarian Situation Update #337 | West Bank | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Palestinian Territory
October 2025 recorded the highest monthly number of Israeli settler attacks since OCHA began documenting such incidents in 2006, with more than 260 attacks resulting in casualties, property damage or ...
www.ochaopt.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
UN report on the situation in the West Bank, October 2025 only:
-260 settler attacks (average 8 per day), highest number since the UN started recording in 2006
-140 Palestinians injured
-150 attacks on olive harvesting
-4,200 olive trees vandalised in 77 villages
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
-260 settler attacks (average 8 per day), highest number since the UN started recording in 2006
-140 Palestinians injured
-150 attacks on olive harvesting
-4,200 olive trees vandalised in 77 villages
www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...
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Very excited to report that an owl seems to have moved into the box we installed 3 years ago. Managed to get a better pic today of it peering out!
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Very excited to report that an owl seems to have moved into the box we installed 3 years ago. Managed to get a better pic today of it peering out!
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Last night, Peers voted against Swift bricks: rejecting a simple, proven way to help one of our fastest declining birds recover. ❌
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
We share @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social's disappointment & frustration.
The vote came late, but with government refusing to back it, its fate was already sealed.
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Just some of the many plastic casings from fireworks we have picked up from Cornish beaches.
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Just some of the many plastic casings from fireworks we have picked up from Cornish beaches.
Whatta bookshop! Loved visiting the Norfolk Children’s Book Centre @childrensbooks.bsky.social this morning, so many books and super helpful staff. Thank you for the tea and biscuits!
October 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Whatta bookshop! Loved visiting the Norfolk Children’s Book Centre @childrensbooks.bsky.social this morning, so many books and super helpful staff. Thank you for the tea and biscuits!
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Did a car write this
October 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Did a car write this
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A simplified domestication history of apples for today’s #NationalAppleDay! Share to celebrate!
October 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A simplified domestication history of apples for today’s #NationalAppleDay! Share to celebrate!
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The proposed Nature Restoration Levy could accelerate the decline of vulnerable wildlife if applied to the wrong species🚨
We’re calling on Government to back up planning reforms with evidence & field trials to deliver on promise to boost nature & building in tandem 🏡
www.wcl.org.uk/evidence-bla...
We’re calling on Government to back up planning reforms with evidence & field trials to deliver on promise to boost nature & building in tandem 🏡
www.wcl.org.uk/evidence-bla...
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The proposed Nature Restoration Levy could accelerate the decline of vulnerable wildlife if applied to the wrong species🚨
We’re calling on Government to back up planning reforms with evidence & field trials to deliver on promise to boost nature & building in tandem 🏡
www.wcl.org.uk/evidence-bla...
We’re calling on Government to back up planning reforms with evidence & field trials to deliver on promise to boost nature & building in tandem 🏡
www.wcl.org.uk/evidence-bla...
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A mandatory swift brick for every new home won't be supported by Housing Secretary Steve Reed. That's quite a u-turn from the former Environment Secretary. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes
Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A mandatory swift brick for every new home won't be supported by Housing Secretary Steve Reed. That's quite a u-turn from the former Environment Secretary. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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More weight to @garius.bsky.social ‘s idea that McCartney’s The Frog Chorus (“We All Stand Together”) is the perfect anti-authoritarian protest song…
Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid
October 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
More weight to @garius.bsky.social ‘s idea that McCartney’s The Frog Chorus (“We All Stand Together”) is the perfect anti-authoritarian protest song…
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Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.
There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.
There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
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Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
Quick orchard forage earlier resulted in this bounty, plus the added bonus of seeing a group of ladybirds hanging out in one of the damaged pears!
October 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Quick orchard forage earlier resulted in this bounty, plus the added bonus of seeing a group of ladybirds hanging out in one of the damaged pears!
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My Remarkable Birds (1st ed) was used to train AI. Anthropic has agreed to pay compensation to rights holders. I am part of a USA class action.
Check if you qualify too secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Remarkable Birds markavery.info/books/remark...
Cover: Audubon
Check if you qualify too secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Remarkable Birds markavery.info/books/remark...
Cover: Audubon
October 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My Remarkable Birds (1st ed) was used to train AI. Anthropic has agreed to pay compensation to rights holders. I am part of a USA class action.
Check if you qualify too secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Remarkable Birds markavery.info/books/remark...
Cover: Audubon
Check if you qualify too secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
Remarkable Birds markavery.info/books/remark...
Cover: Audubon
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“My government has a relentless focus on looking after British citizens. Unless you’re kidnapped at sea, in which case good fucking luck I guess LOL”
Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”
October 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“My government has a relentless focus on looking after British citizens. Unless you’re kidnapped at sea, in which case good fucking luck I guess LOL”
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The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material
www.404media.co/openais-sora...
www.404media.co/openais-sora...
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.
www.404media.co
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material
www.404media.co/openais-sora...
www.404media.co/openais-sora...
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For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients?
For being disgustingly cynical & avaricious - in the sharpest of contrasts to all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?
For being disgustingly cynical & avaricious - in the sharpest of contrasts to all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients?
For being disgustingly cynical & avaricious - in the sharpest of contrasts to all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?
For being disgustingly cynical & avaricious - in the sharpest of contrasts to all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?
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If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?
September 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?
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Wondering if this is meant to include small children on family visas (for instance). Insanely stupid and offensive idea.
"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]
September 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Wondering if this is meant to include small children on family visas (for instance). Insanely stupid and offensive idea.
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We’ve given immense power to half a dozen dudes to force their midlife crises onto the whole of humanity
September 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
We’ve given immense power to half a dozen dudes to force their midlife crises onto the whole of humanity
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As Henry points out,a long piece about free speech in the UK that doesn’t mention the many, many people arrested for supporting Palestine Action and is entirely framed in right-wing talking points is a dereliction of journalism.
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
As Henry points out,a long piece about free speech in the UK that doesn’t mention the many, many people arrested for supporting Palestine Action and is entirely framed in right-wing talking points is a dereliction of journalism.
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Too many celebrities think that keeping honeybees addresses the #BiodiversityEmergency. Such a shame, they could do so much more with their money.
September 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Too many celebrities think that keeping honeybees addresses the #BiodiversityEmergency. Such a shame, they could do so much more with their money.