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Birds, conifers and some green & pro-European politics. Strictly no DMs (any sent, won't be read).

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Nutcracker @nucifraga.bsky.social · 10d

Gossy this am, a brief half-second flight view of a Bittern, #128 on the green patch yearlist, but no pic; also this Snipe doing #rhynchokinesis 😃
This pm, a Guillemot on the Tyne made #129 and got my #SuperSeabirdSunday pic too 🤩 @steelyseabirder.bsky.social
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025

Gosforth Park view - Bittern flew out of reedbed at the far side and vanished left behind the bushes

Common Snipe with its bill bent open (rhynchokinesis), they have a joint in the bill to do this.

Guillemot swimming slowly backwards at Walker Riverside, trying to go east but being carried west upstream by the rising tide. My first on the Tyne for a couple of years.

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Nutcracker @nucifraga.bsky.social · 7h

Successful release? Or in such a poor state it needs care?

Nutcracker @nucifraga.bsky.social · 8h

Must get a copy of this, where can I get one?

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 11h

“Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging”

- The New World Magazine

www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-a...

Sign up to oppose this absurd ban: wedonotcomply.org

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 14h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 14h

The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large amounts of carbon.

UK rejects total ban on bottom trawling in offshore marine protected areas

The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large…

news.mongabay.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome

Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed

www.theguardian.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

I came across what looks to me like a bunch of pheasant feathers on the woodland floor, indicating a kill.

Since these are invasive predators of native wildlife, in one sense, that's great.

But it's also a major contributor to the highly damaging artificially high densities of species like fox.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 1d

Far too many fox (according to one estimate I heard, around 20x the natural level) impact across ecosystems, for example on native ground-nesting birds.

The mass release of pheasants for shooting is an utter disaster for native ecosystems, and should be banned NOW.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

The destruction of Gaza. Genocide.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23h

Rory Challands: "[Keir Starmer] says that some people have been using Palestine solidarity demos to call for the murder of Jewish people, though he doesn't actually provide any examples of where or when this took place"

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Josep Goded (New Main Account) @josepgoded2.bsky.social · 1d

During the night, Israeli occupation forces kidnapped activists after illegally boarding several of the Freedom Flotilla coalition ships in international waters.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22h

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22h

Treasury pushing for weakening of protections for England’s national parks & national landscapes to make it easier for developers.

Once lost, they are lost for ever

Rehabilitate empty homes.

Ever thought about building houses on the estates of the rich? Can't they live in smaller houses?

Green groups criticise plans to weaken protections for English national parks

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Rejoin Campaign @rejoincampaign.bsky.social · 22h

The only good thing Brexit did was to destroy the Tories - and it’s now dragging #Labour into the political abyss. Ah shame!

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d

"Salinity levels in the Shatt al-Arab have reached alarming concentrations, exceeding 30,000 total dissolved solids (TDS), which is approximately half the saltiness of seawater. This severe saltwater intrusion from the Persian Gulf is intensified by #climate change ..."

#Iraq 🇮🇶
#ClimateEmergency

Iraq’s Basra could become unlivable as climate crisis deepens, experts warn - Türkiye Today

Basra is facing increasingly severe heat waves, with extreme temperatures, especially near oil fields, which act as local heat centers and intensify the effects of climate change

www.turkiyetoday.com

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21h

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists

Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 1d

Resistance to genocide is not terrorism.

The genocide itself is terrorism.

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 21h

Daily Briefing: Climate action at the Hague | US ‘slashing’ more green funding | China ‘stockpiling’ oil

➡️ Read today's full briefing here: buff.ly/86qizgG

➡️ Sign up to our email briefings: buff.ly/3kFciAO

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Nutcracker @nucifraga.bsky.social · 10h

That's certainly where time standardisation came from! So you can blame them for GMT 👍

But BST was just a psychological lie, designed to make people think they were getting a lie-in, when they weren't. 😖

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Nutcracker @nucifraga.bsky.social · 10h

Bovine Spongiform Time (BST) is just a make-believe fake. Time fraud. Stay on real time (GMT) all year, and adjust your working hours as needed 👍

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 14h

🤮🤮🤮

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 19h

There's good reason why the oil and gas industry lobbies so hard for carbon capture - because it's the one 'climate solution' that wouldn't necessarily require shutting down the oil and gas industry

But it doesn't work. They need to be shut down

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 21h

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

influencemap.org

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 13h

Basra set to be unliveable due to climate crisis.

www.turkiyetoday.com/lifestyle/ir...

Iraq’s Basra could become unlivable as climate crisis deepens, experts warn - Türkiye Today

Basra is facing increasingly severe heat waves, with extreme temperatures, especially near oil fields, which act as local heat centers and intensify the effects of climate change

www.turkiyetoday.com

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Nutcracker @nucifraga.bsky.social · 12h

Shhh . . . alcohol 😂