Andrew
@thewholeshebang.bsky.social
20yrs working in forestry, watching in horror as our ecosystems collapse under climate change. Born 332ppm. #cancer #lovenotwar
Last part for the truck came today (solenoid for the hub actuators).
Just finished installing the fiddly little bugger and I'm chuffed to announce it's a complete success!!!
I now have working 4WD that cost me a fraction of the quoted £3k. I'll call that a victory.
Just finished installing the fiddly little bugger and I'm chuffed to announce it's a complete success!!!
I now have working 4WD that cost me a fraction of the quoted £3k. I'll call that a victory.
a man in a suit is being touched by a woman in a headband
Alt: Smug man
media.tenor.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Last part for the truck came today (solenoid for the hub actuators).
Just finished installing the fiddly little bugger and I'm chuffed to announce it's a complete success!!!
I now have working 4WD that cost me a fraction of the quoted £3k. I'll call that a victory.
Just finished installing the fiddly little bugger and I'm chuffed to announce it's a complete success!!!
I now have working 4WD that cost me a fraction of the quoted £3k. I'll call that a victory.
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🎨This week’s news, as seen through the eyes of the world’s political cartoonists👇
World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
Drawing the top stories around the globe.
www.politico.eu
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🎨This week’s news, as seen through the eyes of the world’s political cartoonists👇
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7-day forecast 20.12.2025
As usual courtesy www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
temperatures will try to bounce
🔥🔥
America
N #Africa
Scandinavia
All of China 😱😱
Deep 🥶🥶
West Canada + Alaska
North and South Russia
Almost no heat in The Southern Hemisphere again
#ClimateCrisis
As usual courtesy www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
temperatures will try to bounce
🔥🔥
America
N #Africa
Scandinavia
All of China 😱😱
Deep 🥶🥶
West Canada + Alaska
North and South Russia
Almost no heat in The Southern Hemisphere again
#ClimateCrisis
December 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
7-day forecast 20.12.2025
As usual courtesy www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
temperatures will try to bounce
🔥🔥
America
N #Africa
Scandinavia
All of China 😱😱
Deep 🥶🥶
West Canada + Alaska
North and South Russia
Almost no heat in The Southern Hemisphere again
#ClimateCrisis
As usual courtesy www.karstenhaustein.com/climate
temperatures will try to bounce
🔥🔥
America
N #Africa
Scandinavia
All of China 😱😱
Deep 🥶🥶
West Canada + Alaska
North and South Russia
Almost no heat in The Southern Hemisphere again
#ClimateCrisis
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Where did he come from? Nobody knows...
Beaver ‘escape artist’ mystery
A mysterious beaver has appeared in Norfolk, prompting excitement and an investigation into which enclosure it escaped from
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Where did he come from? Nobody knows...
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I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Zack Polanski: Allow small boat migrants in and let them work
Green Party leader accuses Sir Keir Starmer of following Nigel Farage in ‘pushing racist rhetoric’ and calls JK Rowling’s stance on single-sex spaces ‘hateful’
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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"Revealed: How British engines ended up in Israeli drones" www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
via @declassifieduk.org
via @declassifieduk.org
Revealed: How British engines ended up in Israeli drones
Documents obtained by Declassified suggest the government has allowed UK companies to send drone engines to Israel without export licences.
www.declassifieduk.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"Revealed: How British engines ended up in Israeli drones" www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
via @declassifieduk.org
via @declassifieduk.org
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10th December 2022
My earliest Irish medieval coin find.
A penny of King John, minted by Roberd of Dublin, 1208-1212.
Unlike the English coins of John, these are in his name.
My earliest Irish medieval coin find.
A penny of King John, minted by Roberd of Dublin, 1208-1212.
Unlike the English coins of John, these are in his name.
December 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
10th December 2022
My earliest Irish medieval coin find.
A penny of King John, minted by Roberd of Dublin, 1208-1212.
Unlike the English coins of John, these are in his name.
My earliest Irish medieval coin find.
A penny of King John, minted by Roberd of Dublin, 1208-1212.
Unlike the English coins of John, these are in his name.
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How does something so fragile survive around 4000 years in the field. Years of ploughing, harrowing, drilling, and at this farm power harrows. Everthing made to break up the ground for next years crop.
For #FindsFriday, A barbed and tanged arrowhead, Neolithic to Bronze Age
For #FindsFriday, A barbed and tanged arrowhead, Neolithic to Bronze Age
December 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
How does something so fragile survive around 4000 years in the field. Years of ploughing, harrowing, drilling, and at this farm power harrows. Everthing made to break up the ground for next years crop.
For #FindsFriday, A barbed and tanged arrowhead, Neolithic to Bronze Age
For #FindsFriday, A barbed and tanged arrowhead, Neolithic to Bronze Age
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From the 'on this day' archive.
13th December 1991
A medieval silver penny of Henry III
Voided long cross
Minted by Nicole of London
AD 1248
13th December 1991
A medieval silver penny of Henry III
Voided long cross
Minted by Nicole of London
AD 1248
December 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
From the 'on this day' archive.
13th December 1991
A medieval silver penny of Henry III
Voided long cross
Minted by Nicole of London
AD 1248
13th December 1991
A medieval silver penny of Henry III
Voided long cross
Minted by Nicole of London
AD 1248
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Keir Starmer wants to ditch
the human rights of people
he used to passionately defend
as a human rights lawyer
to ensure he becomes
a multi-millionaire
on retirement
the hypocrite
the human rights of people
he used to passionately defend
as a human rights lawyer
to ensure he becomes
a multi-millionaire
on retirement
the hypocrite
December 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Keir Starmer wants to ditch
the human rights of people
he used to passionately defend
as a human rights lawyer
to ensure he becomes
a multi-millionaire
on retirement
the hypocrite
the human rights of people
he used to passionately defend
as a human rights lawyer
to ensure he becomes
a multi-millionaire
on retirement
the hypocrite
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“We are tragically incompetent at catastrophizing: a much-underrated skill that is looked down upon by our system”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
The Tragic Limitations of Human Intelligence
50 Flavors of Stupid
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
“We are tragically incompetent at catastrophizing: a much-underrated skill that is looked down upon by our system”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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Small boat crossings follow same pattern every year. They drop off over winter due to weather conditions. It has absolutely nothing, zero, zilch, to do with Labour's anti-asylum policies.
What Labour's policies do mean though are more people are forced into using irregular routes in first place.
What Labour's policies do mean though are more people are forced into using irregular routes in first place.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Small boat crossings follow same pattern every year. They drop off over winter due to weather conditions. It has absolutely nothing, zero, zilch, to do with Labour's anti-asylum policies.
What Labour's policies do mean though are more people are forced into using irregular routes in first place.
What Labour's policies do mean though are more people are forced into using irregular routes in first place.
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UK Govt plan to reduce child poverty is welcome but that requires reduction in parental poverty.
That can't be done without equitable distribution of income and wealth, stronger trade unions, progressive taxation, decent housing, education, healthcare, jobs and sound economy.
Who will do that?
That can't be done without equitable distribution of income and wealth, stronger trade unions, progressive taxation, decent housing, education, healthcare, jobs and sound economy.
Who will do that?
To tackle child poverty the government must deal with parental poverty
Labour's child poverty strategy offers some welcome measures, but it won't address the factors keeping families trapped in poverty
leftfootforward.org
December 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
UK Govt plan to reduce child poverty is welcome but that requires reduction in parental poverty.
That can't be done without equitable distribution of income and wealth, stronger trade unions, progressive taxation, decent housing, education, healthcare, jobs and sound economy.
Who will do that?
That can't be done without equitable distribution of income and wealth, stronger trade unions, progressive taxation, decent housing, education, healthcare, jobs and sound economy.
Who will do that?
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Looking back at temperature departures averaged over the last three months - what's it like in your area?
🟥 [red] warmer than average
🟦 [blue] colder than average
Dataset (NOAAGlobalTempv6) described in doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
🟥 [red] warmer than average
🟦 [blue] colder than average
Dataset (NOAAGlobalTempv6) described in doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Looking back at temperature departures averaged over the last three months - what's it like in your area?
🟥 [red] warmer than average
🟦 [blue] colder than average
Dataset (NOAAGlobalTempv6) described in doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
🟥 [red] warmer than average
🟦 [blue] colder than average
Dataset (NOAAGlobalTempv6) described in doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
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"After Paris, came down to 3C....after Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021...... to about 2.8C. Today, the forecast stands at about 2.5C, IF ALL EXISTING PROMISES ARE FULFILLED"
These numbers might as well have been picked out of a hat
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
These numbers might as well have been picked out of a hat
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement
The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"After Paris, came down to 3C....after Cop26 in Glasgow in 2021...... to about 2.8C. Today, the forecast stands at about 2.5C, IF ALL EXISTING PROMISES ARE FULFILLED"
These numbers might as well have been picked out of a hat
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
These numbers might as well have been picked out of a hat
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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'I never thought our county would be dragged into the dark place' - Anti-racism activists' protest halts Staffordshire council meeting
'I never thought our county would be dragged into the dark place' - Anti-racism activists' protest halts Staffordshire council meeting
A Staffordshire County Council meeting descended into chaos after anti-racism activists staged a noisy protest against the ruling Reform UK group. The full council meeting was brought to a halt when…
www.expressandstar.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
'I never thought our county would be dragged into the dark place' - Anti-racism activists' protest halts Staffordshire council meeting
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Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like
Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like
Nigel Farage’s party is gunning for power – so what is it like in the places where they’ve already got it? We embedded with Lancashire county council to find out what happens when rhetoric meets…
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Infighting, broken promises and insisting on the national anthem: what seven months of Reform UK in charge actually looks like
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Must watch from Yellow Dot!
POV: Big Oil explains the weather they caused.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Must watch from Yellow Dot!
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Instead of #TaxTheRich
Reform Party goes after the poorest
Why?
Because Reform Party leaders
are funded by multi-millionaires
who spend £££££ in bribes
to buy policies that ensure
they avoid paying any taxes ...
Reform Party goes after the poorest
Why?
Because Reform Party leaders
are funded by multi-millionaires
who spend £££££ in bribes
to buy policies that ensure
they avoid paying any taxes ...
Low earners to pay council tax in Durham as Reform UK’s changes approved.
Reform UK Durham Leader, Andrew Husband and Deputy, Darren Grimes both defended the plan to “squeeze money out of somebody who doesn't have any."
Reform UK Durham Leader, Andrew Husband and Deputy, Darren Grimes both defended the plan to “squeeze money out of somebody who doesn't have any."
Durham County Council approves council tax discount scheme changes - BBC News
It means most County Durham residents will have to pay at least 10% of their council tax bills.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Instead of #TaxTheRich
Reform Party goes after the poorest
Why?
Because Reform Party leaders
are funded by multi-millionaires
who spend £££££ in bribes
to buy policies that ensure
they avoid paying any taxes ...
Reform Party goes after the poorest
Why?
Because Reform Party leaders
are funded by multi-millionaires
who spend £££££ in bribes
to buy policies that ensure
they avoid paying any taxes ...
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Redheugh Bridge safety fear as councillors urge bosses not to be 'careless' over crumbling concrete
| Daniel Holland
| Daniel Holland
Newcastle/Gateshead: Redheugh Bridge safety update
Redheugh Bridge safety fear as councillors urge bosses not to be 'careless' over crumbling concrete
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Redheugh Bridge safety fear as councillors urge bosses not to be 'careless' over crumbling concrete
| Daniel Holland
| Daniel Holland
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This is something that most fail to see👇
Nature doesn’t negotiate with budgets. When a system survives only because of constant human intervention, it’s no longer an ecosystem…it’s a managed illusion. The façade crumbles when the money stops.
apple.news/A6r-PfYqcSoy...
apple.news/A6r-PfYqcSoy...
Experts issue warning as nightmare creature spreads across US region: 'Something out of a horror movie' — The Cool Down
Left untreated, the invasive creature is a complete menace. Dec 09, 2025 Funding to research new ways to control the sea lamprey, the invasive vacuum cleaner of the Great Lakes, is at risk. The develo...
apple.news
December 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This is something that most fail to see👇
December 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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'Wild weather can be expected in the days ahead, alongside elevated fire danger as scorching temps and likely t'storms plague Australia.
Multiple heatwave warnings are in place for parts of WA, SA, the NT and Qld until Fri as the mercury climbs upward of 45C in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.'
Multiple heatwave warnings are in place for parts of WA, SA, the NT and Qld until Fri as the mercury climbs upward of 45C in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.'
Australia heatwave warnings: 50C temperature range and fire danger www.nzherald.co.nz/world/austra... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Heatwave #Charleville #AliceSprings #Australia
Heat and fire danger: Aussies brace for 45C days, storms and high winds
Multiple states face heatwave warnings as inland highs top 45C this week.
www.nzherald.co.nz
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
'Wild weather can be expected in the days ahead, alongside elevated fire danger as scorching temps and likely t'storms plague Australia.
Multiple heatwave warnings are in place for parts of WA, SA, the NT and Qld until Fri as the mercury climbs upward of 45C in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.'
Multiple heatwave warnings are in place for parts of WA, SA, the NT and Qld until Fri as the mercury climbs upward of 45C in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.'