Dottoressa Maggie
@lesserspottedh.bsky.social
Global issues, nature, gardens, lover of books, music and films, foodie, servant to two cats. Forever European.
I don’t hold with religion but David Lynch is God. RIP.
#VoteGreen #ClimateCatastrophe #LongCovid
I don’t hold with religion but David Lynch is God. RIP.
#VoteGreen #ClimateCatastrophe #LongCovid
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Interesting fact: Seed dispersers like #chimpanzees in the #Congo kicked off rainforest growth only 2000 years ago 🦍🙉🩷 Now they face #extinction from #mining WE SAY NO to #mining in #DRC! #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2022/07/03/c...
Chimpanzees once helped African rainforests recover from a major collapse
Most people probably think that the rainforest of central and west Africa, the second largest in the world, has been around for millions of years. However recent research suggests that it is mostly…
palmoildetectives.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Interesting fact: Seed dispersers like #chimpanzees in the #Congo kicked off rainforest growth only 2000 years ago 🦍🙉🩷 Now they face #extinction from #mining WE SAY NO to #mining in #DRC! #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2022/07/03/c...
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Good morning lovely people of the World.
Today's small lesson is Colonial Amnesia.
Yes, Amnesia!.
The ReformUK/Conservative/Labour party stance on immigrants just doesn't stack up to the facts.
Migrants, immigrants & refugees have propped this country up for decades & deserve a medal of honour!
Today's small lesson is Colonial Amnesia.
Yes, Amnesia!.
The ReformUK/Conservative/Labour party stance on immigrants just doesn't stack up to the facts.
Migrants, immigrants & refugees have propped this country up for decades & deserve a medal of honour!
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Good morning lovely people of the World.
Today's small lesson is Colonial Amnesia.
Yes, Amnesia!.
The ReformUK/Conservative/Labour party stance on immigrants just doesn't stack up to the facts.
Migrants, immigrants & refugees have propped this country up for decades & deserve a medal of honour!
Today's small lesson is Colonial Amnesia.
Yes, Amnesia!.
The ReformUK/Conservative/Labour party stance on immigrants just doesn't stack up to the facts.
Migrants, immigrants & refugees have propped this country up for decades & deserve a medal of honour!
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Any Canadians onboard for a class action suit? Have you used Siri? clg.org/Class-Action...
Apple Siri App Privacy Violation Canadian Class Action | Consumer Law Group Class Actions Canada
CONSUMER LAW GROUP has filed a Canada wide class action lawsuit excluding Quebec against Apple Inc and Apple Canada Inc for surreptitiously recordin
clg.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Any Canadians onboard for a class action suit? Have you used Siri? clg.org/Class-Action...
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96% of the highest-paid workers in the US have paid sick days.
Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.
Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.
Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
The Hidden Costs of Denying Paid Sick Leave
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
96% of the highest-paid workers in the US have paid sick days.
Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.
Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
Just 38% of the lowest-paid workers get them — including the thousands of retail workers working this holiday weekend.
Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.
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Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves.
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves.
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
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On the ferry, crossing the Firth of Clyde after a fantastic short break on Arran. We stayed in a brilliant vegan B&B - Stonewater House in Lamlash. Saw otters, red squirrels, eider, mergansers, many shore birds and woodland birds. A stunning place. share.google/AWcMAxYmL56h...
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
On the ferry, crossing the Firth of Clyde after a fantastic short break on Arran. We stayed in a brilliant vegan B&B - Stonewater House in Lamlash. Saw otters, red squirrels, eider, mergansers, many shore birds and woodland birds. A stunning place. share.google/AWcMAxYmL56h...
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🦇 Did you know that bats don't roost in the same place all year around? Find more about bat roosts: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🦇 Did you know that bats don't roost in the same place all year around? Find more about bat roosts: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
And what about AI?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown
Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
And what about AI?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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Your Black Friday reminder that in 75% of U.S. industries, a smaller number of companies now control more of the business than they did twenty years ago. We must stop the monopolization of America. Shop small if you can, please.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Your Black Friday reminder that in 75% of U.S. industries, a smaller number of companies now control more of the business than they did twenty years ago. We must stop the monopolization of America. Shop small if you can, please.
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Something about the shooting yesterday doesn't feel right.
It feels too convenient. A vetted Afgan national that was granted asylum, randomly shoots a National Guardsman near the WH for no reason right when the NG was set to leave DC because there was no violence.
Now the NG is not leaving DC.
It feels too convenient. A vetted Afgan national that was granted asylum, randomly shoots a National Guardsman near the WH for no reason right when the NG was set to leave DC because there was no violence.
Now the NG is not leaving DC.
Trump vows to 'permanently pause' migration from 'third world countries' after National Guard shooting
The president called for "reverse migration" in a lengthy social media post late on Thanksgiving and said that he wanted to deport anyone "non-compatible with Western Civilization."
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Something about the shooting yesterday doesn't feel right.
It feels too convenient. A vetted Afgan national that was granted asylum, randomly shoots a National Guardsman near the WH for no reason right when the NG was set to leave DC because there was no violence.
Now the NG is not leaving DC.
It feels too convenient. A vetted Afgan national that was granted asylum, randomly shoots a National Guardsman near the WH for no reason right when the NG was set to leave DC because there was no violence.
Now the NG is not leaving DC.
So, AI is going to disrupt our world massively, we hear. Especially the loss of jobs is in the news a lot. But no worries, we can adapt! Similar fears exist around the development of green technologies, loss of jobs a great worry. But adaptation is not talked about much as a solution. Ironic, no?
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 AM
So, AI is going to disrupt our world massively, we hear. Especially the loss of jobs is in the news a lot. But no worries, we can adapt! Similar fears exist around the development of green technologies, loss of jobs a great worry. But adaptation is not talked about much as a solution. Ironic, no?
Astonished and pleased that on both QT last night and on Channel4News tonight there was nobody from Deform present.
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Astonished and pleased that on both QT last night and on Channel4News tonight there was nobody from Deform present.
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Managing hedgerows for biodiversity: Disentangling the effects of trimming, structure and connectivity on the use of linear features by bats @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Managing hedgerows for biodiversity: Disentangling the effects of trimming, structure and connectivity on the use of linear features by bats
Our findings underscore the value of extensive hedgerow management in promoting on-farm bat activity and support the integration of simple hedgerow quality assessment protocols into agri-environment ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Managing hedgerows for biodiversity: Disentangling the effects of trimming, structure and connectivity on the use of linear features by bats @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
November 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
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Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Kinnock voice - "I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions....and you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour government, a *Labour* government, rejecting visas for homeless 8 yr olds trying to joing their parents"
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Biofuels are a con and globally today emit 16% more CO₂ emissions than the fossil fuels they replace
Growing crops to be burned as fuel uses up 32 million hectares of land - roughly size of Italy
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/cro...
Growing crops to be burned as fuel uses up 32 million hectares of land - roughly size of Italy
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/cro...
Burning food for land-hungry biofuels is fuelling the climate crisis
For the first time ever, Cerulogy, on behalf of T&E, looks at the global biofuels landscape today and what a growing market will look like in 2030.
www.transportenvironment.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Biofuels are a con and globally today emit 16% more CO₂ emissions than the fossil fuels they replace
Growing crops to be burned as fuel uses up 32 million hectares of land - roughly size of Italy
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/cro...
Growing crops to be burned as fuel uses up 32 million hectares of land - roughly size of Italy
www.transportenvironment.org/articles/cro...
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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A final (?) piece by the great Paul Brown - and a damning indictment of new nuclear
"I have regularly been fed wildly optimistic figures of construction costs and times and of the resultant electricity supply. At worst we have been consistently lied to"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"I have regularly been fed wildly optimistic figures of construction costs and times and of the resultant electricity supply. At worst we have been consistently lied to"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
After a career as an environment writer, here’s what I have learned
Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A final (?) piece by the great Paul Brown - and a damning indictment of new nuclear
"I have regularly been fed wildly optimistic figures of construction costs and times and of the resultant electricity supply. At worst we have been consistently lied to"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"I have regularly been fed wildly optimistic figures of construction costs and times and of the resultant electricity supply. At worst we have been consistently lied to"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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