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Natural Luke 🇮🇪❤️🇵🇸
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A dyslexic queer over-thinker. Passionate about invasive species, environmental protection, disability and indigenous rights.

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This gives me real hope. In the last 24 hours you've donated over £20k to @calaisappeal.bsky.social

Please do watch my Christmas message here:

youtu.be/lopMMkz0law?...

and donate here:

www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...
Zack Polanski's Christmas Message
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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December 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Over a 1000 submissions on the latest round of public consultation on the Blackpool Flood Scheme. We made one detailed submission. In the last (2020) consultation there were 71 (ish) submissions. Interesting. #cork
December 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The NPWS otter and bat derogations page has been offline since at least Dec 11th. I have been told by NPWS that it will not be back online until the new year. Currently apart from a long winded AIE process there is no way to tell if derogations have been issued.
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Happy Christmas y’all! Thanks for the support over the years. #cork
December 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A reminder that 90% of Ireland's so-called 'forests' are industrial plantations, virtually empty of nature.

It doesn't have to be like this: with a bit of thought, we could satisfy our timber needs AND have huge tracts of natural forest ecosystems, bursting with life.
December 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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This video from @beavertrust.bsky.social shows how beavers can help insects and #bats 🦇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy3j...
December 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Crackdowns on hunger strikers and Palestine solidarity aren’t about “security.” They’re about control. A government that’s failed on everything clings to repression.

(Save Our Citizenships)
December 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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It's hard to fathom but we are now *here* on this path to fascism.
December 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Unexploded Israeli ordnance kills child in Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="432809" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unexploded-israeli-ordnance-kills-child-gaza-0" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/unexploded-israeli-ordnance-kills-child-gaza-0" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Unexploded Israeli ordnance kills child in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A child was killed by the explosion of an ordnance left behind from Israeli military operations in Nuseirat camp, Gaza, Al Jazeera reported.</p> <p>This&nbsp;<u data-stringify-type="underline"><a data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-stringify-link="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-says-children-most-risk-unexploded-ordnance-gaza" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-says-children-most-risk-unexploded-ordnance-gaza" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">comes a week after</a></u>&nbsp;the UN issued an official warning on remnants of war and unexploded ordnance in Gaza posing a threat to civilians, with children being most at risk.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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"nkosizwelivelile

We call on the entire international solidarity movements to rally behind The Red Ribbons Campaign which is a call for all Palestinian Political prisoners in Israeli jails to be released immediately."

www.threads.com/@nkosizweliv...

(1/2)

#FreePalestine #Israel #Palestine
December 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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The European Bewick's Swan population more than halved between 1995 and 2020, accordingly to a newly published paper:
European Bewick's Swan population more than halves in 25 years
A study shows that Bewick's Swan numbers have fallen by 56% in Europe between 1995 and 2020, with further losses anticipated in the 2026 International Swan Census.
bit.ly
December 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Israel demolishes family home near Ramallah in latest West Bank raid
<article data-history-node-id="432717" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-demolishes-family-home-near-ramallah-latest-west-bank-raid" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-demolishes-family-home-near-ramallah-latest-west-bank-raid" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel demolishes family home near Ramallah in latest West Bank raid</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="121" data-start="0">Israeli occupation soldiers&nbsp;carried out a pre-dawn demolition in the village of Deir Qadis, west of Ramallah, intensifying their campaign of home destruction across the occupied West Bank.</p> <p data-end="513" data-start="351">Local sources told Wafa that Israeli soldiers, backed by a military bulldozer, raid the village and tear down the home of Nader al-Khawaja, leaving a large family displaced.</p> <p data-end="691" data-start="515">The demolished house has two storeys and sheltered more than 10 people. Residents say the family had lived there for around 15 years before Israeli forces reduced it to rubble.</p> <p data-end="861" data-start="693">The incident forms part of a wider pattern of punitive demolitions carried out by Israel, which rights groups describe as collective punishment under international law.</p> <p data-end="1067" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="863">Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli occupation bulldozers also destroyed a Palestinian home in the town of Rafat, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, extending the wave of demolitions to another area of the West Bank.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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The hero of Bondi Beach, Ahmed al Ahmed.

It was a Muslim that stopped the attack and saved lives, exactly like it was in Australia, and in the UK.
December 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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#israel #surveillance #palestine Palestinians throughout the genocide in Gaza have been watched, tracked & often killed by Israeli forces who have access to their most intimate details, including phone & text records, social relations, drone footage, biometric data & artificial intelligence tools.
Palestinians in Gaza Are Watched, Tracked, and Targeted by Israeli Surveillance
Reporter Mohammed Mhawish describes the surveillance, from cameras at checkpoints to drones flying into people’s homes.
truthout.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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The Freedom Flotilla will sail again in 2026. Civil society will not stand by while Gaza is strangled and annihilated. We are preparing more vessels, more international participation and more coordinated actions than ever before to #BreakTheSiege of Gaza.
December 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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The wall of silence and complicity in genocide is starting to crack.

Ireland has won the Eurovision 7 times. Will any of those winners let their humanity shine through in the same way?

It's the right thing to do.
www.thejournal.ie/2024-eurovis...
2024 Eurovision winner hands back trophy due to Israel’s participation
Nemo won 2024’s Eurovision on behalf of Switzerland.
www.thejournal.ie
December 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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What a shocker. Agriculture minister who’s also a livestock farmer thinks livestock farmers should be free to continue to pour shit into our waterways with impunity, all the while pocketing taxpayer subsidies. This is his “ambition”.

What a country we live in.

www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid...
Agriculture minister says it's his 'ambition' to secure future derogation deals for Ireland
Martin Heydon said securing derogation deals for Ireland post 2028 was his 'ambition' for the future
www.irishexaminer.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Snapshot of a rainforest floor in winter.
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Give it a decade or two, and this and many other spots like it in the southwest will be lost to a thick tangle of invasive rhododendron, requiring unimaginable time and energy to remove.

Why is this unfolding calamity being ignored by the authorities?
December 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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United Nations @unrwa.org aid agency's headquarters in occupied E. #Jerusalem taken over by #Israeli occupied forces, which have kidnapped 4 security guards.

#Israel has killed over 380 UN staff in the last 27 months & blocked UNRWA aid from Gaza.

#BDS #BoycottIsrael #EastJerusalem #FreePalestine
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Five United Nations experts have again written to the UK government to condemn Keir Starmer’s “unnecessary and disproportionate” attack on the rights and freedoms of UK citizens to speak freely and protest publicly against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
UN condemnation: Experts slam Palestine Action ban
UN condemnation warns Starmer’s protest crackdown is unlawful, disproportionate, and a threat to free speech and civil rights in the UK
www.thecanary.co
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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#gaza #injuries #children #israel #UNICEF

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) stated that 11,000 children in Gaza have suffered life-changing injuries since October 2023.
UNICEF: 11,000 Children in Gaza suffered life-changing injuries
The United Nations Children&#039;s Fund (UNICEF) stated that 11,000 children in Gaza have suffered life-changing injuries since October 2023.
www.saba.ye
December 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM