@lancetrust.bsky.social
Grassroots charity maintaining & increasing biodiversity in Long Ashton, North Somerset & beyond so visit www.lancetrust.org to find out more
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'We now know that government by organised money is just as dangerous as government by organised mob' Franklin D Roosevelt 30.x.1936
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When a government tells us, within the course of one week, that we can't have new hospitals but must have new runways, you know that it is not working on our behalf, but on behalf of economic power.
January 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When a government tells us, within the course of one week, that we can't have new hospitals but must have new runways, you know that it is not working on our behalf, but on behalf of economic power.
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The chutzpah of the Tories and Labour to dare try saying @greenparty.org.uk ideas for a more equal society are "unworkable."
My response:
My response:
January 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The chutzpah of the Tories and Labour to dare try saying @greenparty.org.uk ideas for a more equal society are "unworkable."
My response:
My response:
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Hurray! Some good news for bees at last. Our new government has followed the science, and refused the application by sugar beet farmers to use banned neonicotinoid pesticides.
January 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Hurray! Some good news for bees at last. Our new government has followed the science, and refused the application by sugar beet farmers to use banned neonicotinoid pesticides.
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The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...
Heil Tesla
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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January 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...
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🌿 Climate and Nature Bill's co-sponsor, @labourlewis.bsky.social:
“I don't want to see growth that comes at the cost of my daughter and her generation's future. You can not have growth on a dead planet—MPs need to understand that. Climate, biodiversity and growth are interlinked.” #CANBill
“I don't want to see growth that comes at the cost of my daughter and her generation's future. You can not have growth on a dead planet—MPs need to understand that. Climate, biodiversity and growth are interlinked.” #CANBill
January 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🌿 Climate and Nature Bill's co-sponsor, @labourlewis.bsky.social:
“I don't want to see growth that comes at the cost of my daughter and her generation's future. You can not have growth on a dead planet—MPs need to understand that. Climate, biodiversity and growth are interlinked.” #CANBill
“I don't want to see growth that comes at the cost of my daughter and her generation's future. You can not have growth on a dead planet—MPs need to understand that. Climate, biodiversity and growth are interlinked.” #CANBill
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According to the Express, magpies are "hooligans" & "instinctive killers" best controlled by using pesticides to kill their insect prey. Against stiff competition, possibly the worst piece of journalism I've seen. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1984...
Warning issued to anyone with magpies in their garden
Magpies can cause damage to gardens, particularly in the breeding season.
www.express.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 12:16 PM
According to the Express, magpies are "hooligans" & "instinctive killers" best controlled by using pesticides to kill their insect prey. Against stiff competition, possibly the worst piece of journalism I've seen. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1984...
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Labour’s ‘planning laws reform’ is really an attack on local democracy | Simon Jenkins
Labour’s ‘planning laws reform’ is really an attack on local democracy | Simon Jenkins
People should have a say in their surroundings. But in its bid to build 1.5m homes, the government has left them powerless
All proper democracies have two tiers, central and local. They are equally vital, but in Britain the second tier is all but dead.…
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Labour’s ‘planning laws reform’ is really an attack on local democracy | Simon Jenkins
Love this!
Nobody ever planted a tree in this photo. It was a working gravel pit 30 years ago.
We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better.
It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍
We need to get over our obsession with planting trees and let nature do the job. The results are just SO much better.
It's also about realising we are not, in fact, central to everything. 🌍
December 9, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Love this!
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Social media plays a key role in trafficking wildlife - social media companies need to do more to stop it www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It shouldn’t be that easy’: inside the illegal wildlife trade booming on social media
Social media sites have become crucial tools for the sale of endangered species and platforms should do more to combat it, say experts
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Social media plays a key role in trafficking wildlife - social media companies need to do more to stop it www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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“But UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad; they have to be tested in the country in a certified lab of which there are now none.”
I mean… ffs…
Brexit never gets any less idiotic or ruinous, does it?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I mean… ffs…
Brexit never gets any less idiotic or ruinous, does it?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 8:27 AM
“But UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad; they have to be tested in the country in a certified lab of which there are now none.”
I mean… ffs…
Brexit never gets any less idiotic or ruinous, does it?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I mean… ffs…
Brexit never gets any less idiotic or ruinous, does it?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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It's that time of year when the trampolines fly south for the winter.
#StormDarragh
#StormDarragh
December 7, 2024 at 9:25 AM
It's that time of year when the trampolines fly south for the winter.
#StormDarragh
#StormDarragh
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Word of the morning is ‘williwaw’ (19th century): a sudden violent squall or a toppling gust of wind.
Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.
Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.
December 7, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Word of the morning is ‘williwaw’ (19th century): a sudden violent squall or a toppling gust of wind.
Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.
Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.
Our local school benefitted from @joshual951.bsky.social generosity to extend their wildlife meadows. Not only that but @lancetrust.bsky.social ensured his story of tribulation+kindness=generosity was passed onto the kids. It resonated big-time. So 🌸 to Joshua!
www.lancetrust.org/post/bright-...
www.lancetrust.org/post/bright-...
December 7, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Our local school benefitted from @joshual951.bsky.social generosity to extend their wildlife meadows. Not only that but @lancetrust.bsky.social ensured his story of tribulation+kindness=generosity was passed onto the kids. It resonated big-time. So 🌸 to Joshua!
www.lancetrust.org/post/bright-...
www.lancetrust.org/post/bright-...
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How mad and horrible is this? Thanks to @carladenyer.bsky.social for bringing it to the notice of the Prisons Minister
My jaw hit the floor when I heard about Gaie Delap's case. A 77-year old peaceful climate protester threatened with being returned to jail...because they can't find a tag small enough for her wrists.
As her MP, I have written to the prisons minister Lord Timpson.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As her MP, I have written to the prisons minister Lord Timpson.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag
Gaie Delap was sent to prison in August for her part in disruptive protests on M25 in November
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:51 PM
How mad and horrible is this? Thanks to @carladenyer.bsky.social for bringing it to the notice of the Prisons Minister
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Our pleas to save these trees did not even get a response. 😞
bristol247.com/opinion/your...
www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
bristol247.com/opinion/your...
www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
Notices pinned on trees in Centre due to be felled
Five London plane trees planted in 2020 have outgrown their planters
www.bristol247.com
November 28, 2024 at 6:42 AM
Our pleas to save these trees did not even get a response. 😞
bristol247.com/opinion/your...
www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
bristol247.com/opinion/your...
www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
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A Grand Day out for @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social with the Woodland Trust - we visited the doomed trees at St Mary-le-Port, Millennium Square and Baltic Wharf, stopping off at the SS Get Britain carpark to note that these tree are also threatened with removal.
November 29, 2024 at 2:09 PM
A Grand Day out for @bristoltreeforum.bsky.social with the Woodland Trust - we visited the doomed trees at St Mary-le-Port, Millennium Square and Baltic Wharf, stopping off at the SS Get Britain carpark to note that these tree are also threatened with removal.
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Heads-up.
13 trees, mostly London Plane, growing along Wine and High Streets and within the ruins of the ancient monument, St Mary-le-Port by Castle Park will soon be gone.
Now you see them, now you don't (in phase 2) - Blink and they're gone.
pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-appli...
13 trees, mostly London Plane, growing along Wine and High Streets and within the ruins of the ancient monument, St Mary-le-Port by Castle Park will soon be gone.
Now you see them, now you don't (in phase 2) - Blink and they're gone.
pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-appli...
November 29, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Heads-up.
13 trees, mostly London Plane, growing along Wine and High Streets and within the ruins of the ancient monument, St Mary-le-Port by Castle Park will soon be gone.
Now you see them, now you don't (in phase 2) - Blink and they're gone.
pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-appli...
13 trees, mostly London Plane, growing along Wine and High Streets and within the ruins of the ancient monument, St Mary-le-Port by Castle Park will soon be gone.
Now you see them, now you don't (in phase 2) - Blink and they're gone.
pa.bristol.gov.uk/online-appli...
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Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.994
November 29, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.994
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
A leading scientist at the University of Oxford has resigned from the UK’s national academy of sciences over concerns about Elon Musk’s…
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
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We're losing wildlife. Frogs, butterflies, bumblebees, hedgehogs, moths, bats, insects, birds are all declining. But if more of us take positive actions for biodiversity in our gardens, communities, landscapes and towns, we can help nature bounce back. Who's in?
November 24, 2024 at 8:58 AM
We're losing wildlife. Frogs, butterflies, bumblebees, hedgehogs, moths, bats, insects, birds are all declining. But if more of us take positive actions for biodiversity in our gardens, communities, landscapes and towns, we can help nature bounce back. Who's in?
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First post on BlueSky. Feels more comfortable here so far and am still finding my way around. I thank those who have ‘followed me back’ etc My first painting on here is of swifts and I dedicate it to the wonderful @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social my first responder and nature lover. More to follow…
November 21, 2024 at 9:45 AM
First post on BlueSky. Feels more comfortable here so far and am still finding my way around. I thank those who have ‘followed me back’ etc My first painting on here is of swifts and I dedicate it to the wonderful @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social my first responder and nature lover. More to follow…
“Know what you stand for and what you think is good.” Wise words from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:43 PM
“Know what you stand for and what you think is good.” Wise words from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"I personally feel we can rewild most spaces and for me, the most important of those spaces – the one that desperately needs to be rewilded – is the one inside our heads." So true thanks to @ianparsons.bsky.social more here: www.rewildingmag.com/we-need-to-r...
For rewilding to work, we need everyone on board
A new book rounds up perspectives on rewilding that show its broad applicability – and why adjusting how we think should be the first step.
www.rewildingmag.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:40 PM
"I personally feel we can rewild most spaces and for me, the most important of those spaces – the one that desperately needs to be rewilded – is the one inside our heads." So true thanks to @ianparsons.bsky.social more here: www.rewildingmag.com/we-need-to-r...