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Julie German
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Volunteer gardener at Sheffield Botanical Gardens and Derbyshire Wildlife.
‘Question everything. Learn something. Say nothing’ - Euripides.
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Shame on @naturescot.bsky.social for allowing Gannets to be hunted 😡
July 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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It's been four months since @BrittanyFerries resumed live exports from Ireland.

It's been four months of unweaned calves enduring 18-hour sea crossings without food.

Now it's time to ramp up the campaign. Add your voice: bit.ly/43ZYeF0

#BanLiveExports
July 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I was one of those men who couldn’t stop talking. Here’s how I learned to shut up and listen
I was one of those men who couldn’t stop talking. Here’s how I learned to shut up and listen
After realising how much I interrupted other people, I decided I needed to make a drastic change. Here’s how starting to listen changed my relationships – and made me happier
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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People wonder why pillars of the British Establishment, such as the media and security services, align not just with conservatism, but with the far right. But when you see the kind of books that were highly popular in elite schools 50 years ago, there's really no mystery.
June 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Antarctic krill fishing starves blue whales while drowning humpbacks. It burns four times the biomass it extracts in fossil fuel.

You might think of krill oil supplements, but the primary demand for this fishery is fish and shrimp farms.
Humpback whale killed in krill supertrawler net.

‘Krill are the foundation of the Antarctic ecosystem and targeting them must be banned. Antarctica should be a permanent refuge for wildlife, not a plunder zone for industrial supertrawlers,’

www.echo.net.au/2025/04/hump...
Humpback whale killed in krill supertrawler net
A criminal complaint has been filed regarding a humpback whale being killed by a krill supertrawler, the Chilean-flagged Antarctic Endeavour, in the pristine waters of the Antarctic.
www.echo.net.au
April 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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…it’s been a 5-year journey, but this day has finally arrived! I’m thrilled to share my new book, 🍋DETOXIFY: The Everyday Toxins Harming our Immune System and How to Defend Against Them www.simonandschuster.com/books/Detoxi...
…please join me on this journey☺️
May 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
No one in this business invests in it because they care. Care homes are abysmal places - no wonder we all dread it might be our fate.
Care home investors rake in billions from pensioners

96% of elderly care privatised. Private equity moving in.

Focus on short-term profits, cut wages/staff, low investment, poor care.

27% price hike. £1.5bn taken by shareholders.

Need integrated healthcare, not sharks.
archive.ph/0HR8Y
Care home investors rake in billions from ‘cash cow’ pensioners
Care for the elderly has become an afterthought as investors chase maximum profit
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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(1/2) Come along to our watchpoint events and catch a glimpse of this year's Peregrine chicks!

🐦 Free drop-in event
📅 24th, 28th, 31st May & 7th June
🕑 10:00am - 2:00pm
📌 Cathedral Green, Full Street, Derby
May 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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104,000 of us have brought that about. Whatever the outcome of the debate we have made this an issue, a political issue, when politicians and big land owners wanted to ignore it. Time is running out for driven grouse shooting.

To be part of that please sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
petition.parliament.uk
May 22, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Why Food Tastes Weird in Space
May 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Another Post Office boss linked to the Horizon scandal given a job handling compensation claims.

Insensitive.

Ministers repeatedly been asked to prevent this potential conflict of interests, and pain to the victims.

Post Office must have no link with any compensation decision.
archive.ph/qFzSg
Second Post Office boss linked to Horizon scandal handling compensation claims
Sarah Lambert was among managers advised to tell people that Horizon allegations were 'untrue' in 2015 - now she is handling compensation claims
inews.co.uk
April 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Wild trillium (thanks again hive mind for teaching me what this is 🙏) 🌱
April 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I've written a book that is a set of spiky dialogues between a king and a tutor to show how powerful people can justify brutal, total, murderous rule. Available online Blackwells.
April 5, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Excel Parking ordered to pay £10,240 in five-minute parking rule row
Excel Parking ordered to pay £10,240 in five-minute parking rule row
Excel Parking had demanded £11,390 from driver Hannah Robinson, but lost a court case against her.
www.bbc.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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“We welcome this significant step towards ending fox hunting by paving the way to removing the excuses being used by hunts to conceal the chasing and killing of animals." Emma Slawinski, chief executive.
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www.okehampton-today.co.uk/news/governm...
Government to look at trail hunt ban
The government has announced it will launch a consultation on the banning of trail hunting later this year.
www.okehampton-today.co.uk
April 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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I used to wear braids. A family friend used to use synthetic hair for my braids. I have never used the brands and types of extensions that were tested, but I wouldn't be surprised if the one I used was toxic, too. My former hair stylist told me it's not safe to use synthetic hair for braids.
February 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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[email protected] @georgiaes.bsky.social and I are today going public on our latest legal case - this is a dirty secret that businesses and regulators are in on.

All our legal work with @fightingdirty.bsky.social is crowdfunded. Please do donate. stop-uk-tyre-exports.raiselysite.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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This week’s episode is incredibly moving. Hannah meets the parents of her former classmate. Alice Ruggles. She also had a stalker. She also struggled to get help from the police. Her stalker murdered her. 💔
Just listened to the latest harrowing and moving episode of this important podcast- incredibly brave reporting. Thanks to all involved, not least Alice’s parents.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Stalked - 8. Alice - BBC Sounds
Hannah speaks to the parents of a young woman who has also been stalked.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Rachel Reeves is right that the world has changed - so why won’t she change her strategy to reflect it? Rigid adherence to arbitrary fiscal rules & refusing wealth taxes is a political choice that’s causing huge pain & harm, as well as laying out the welcome mat for the populists at Reform UK
March 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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A new day, a new warning to those in power to take urgent action against bird flu.

We must move away from intensive farming which can provide the perfect conditions for viruses to spread and mutate.
Bird flu detected in sheep in England for the first time
No further infection of the virus was detected in the remaining flock at the premises in the Yorkshire area, but the government has urged livestock farmers to remain vigilant for any signs of…
news.sky.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Arthur James ('AJ') Balfour, died #OTD 1930, aged 81. He was Conservative MP for Manchester East 1885-1906 and prime minister 1902-05. As foreign secretary in 1917 he issued the cabinet's Balfour Declaration, which supported a 'home for the Jewish people' in Palestine.
March 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM