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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 18m

owls, not ows - it wasn't painful.

James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 18m

Wonderful! Extra points for it being middle of the night and in the highlands.

James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 26m

I will now add 'defrosting king fishers' to the list. www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckin...

From the nextfuckinglevel community on Reddit: Bird stuck on a railing , set free by a kind man

Posted by Acceptable_Street862 - 21,947 votes and 603 comments

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 1h

Thank you for the recommendation! Ows & Bob Mortimer 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=then...

Bob Mortimer's Pet Owl! | Would I Lie to You? | Banijay Comedy

YouTube video by The Laugh Track

www.youtube.com

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 1h

It's never too late!

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 1h

I will now add "herons wearing seat belts in cars" to my list of favourite things.

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 12h

a little girl is making a funny face with her eyes closed .

ALT: a little girl is making a funny face with her eyes closed .

media.tenor.com

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 13h

I once saved a sea gull. It bite me then flew off. That's the nearest I have got to owl saving.

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 14h

a close up of a stuffed monkey 's face with a serious look on it 's face .

ALT: a close up of a stuffed monkey 's face with a serious look on it 's face .

media.tenor.com

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 14h

😍

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16h

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 15h

Stories about people randomly saving owls are one of my favourite type of stories. Please share your owl saving stories.

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 1d

Episode 2 of @overshootpod.bsky.social is out!

I ask: who’s going to clean up the mess?

We hear the story of how climate plans are dependent on one big idea

But it might not even work, and we didn’t vote for it

And it all started in Swedish paper mills...

🎧👇
open.spotify.com/episode/49H1...

Episode 2: Carbon Suckers

open.spotify.com

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 20h

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21h

You can't fix offsets, because they're not really broken

They are designed from the ground up as a way for polluters to falsify climate action, and for disgustingly rich bankers to divert funds away from frontline communities

As long as fossil fuels exist, offsets will exist

Good paper! -->>>

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?

This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...

www.annualreviews.org

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21h

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 1d

"Greening the global economy does not have to be done through unjust fuel extraction; societies can choose fairer paths to net-zero emissions." Perfectly put.

Love this glowing review of @triofrancos.bsky.social's EXTRACTION in @nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

From fossil fuels to ‘green capitalism’: the dilemmas of a just energy transition

Greening the global economy does not have to be done through unjust fuel extraction; societies can choose fairer paths to net-zero emissions.

www.nature.com

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BankTrack @banktrack.bsky.social · 1d

The Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) has officially dissolved, but little changes — it had already lost credibility. Banks won’t align with climate goals voluntarily, regulation is now essential.
#NZBA #ClimateFinance

www.banktrack.org/article/bank...

BankTrack’s statement on the dissolution of the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA)

The announcement of the immediate dissolution of the Net Zero Banking Alliance finally puts an end to its sad spiral of decline. But very little will change in practice, as the NZBA had already…

www.banktrack.org

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 1d

Overshoot Episode 1: Uncharted Territory

If the world didn’t win, has it lost?

We meet the underdog diplomats who helped the world set the 1.5°C goal, and the champion sailors who can help us set a course for navigating what comes next

Listen to episode one now: open.spotify.com/episode/1bJl...

PART 1: Uncharted Territory

open.spotify.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 1d

Officially, the Tories have about 120,000 members but a) I suspect that’s inflated and b) it’s falling. Will @greenparty.org.uk overtake them before the year is out? #gpconf

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: over 3,000 people joined @greenparty.org.uk over conference weekend.

Membership now stands at over 86,000.

We’re just getting started.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 2d

This is key for planetary and personal health: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries

www.theguardian.com

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 2d

Not saying it would be my #1 priority, but if I ever became King of the World, I would get a team on working to increase the cord rewind strength on vacuum cleaners. Why are they so feeble?

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