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While Blake writes in the context of the US, forever chemicals have been found in the remotest places on earth. There is no child, no person safe from their reach.

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"Humans have made the world more stressful for all kinds of animals by, for example, destroying their habitat and damming up rivers. At the same time, we’re flooding the environment with mood-changing meds. Is that somehow helping them cope?" www.vox.com/down-to-eart...

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Spotted in my local river the other day, possible salmon kelt showing signs of fungal infection possibly from spawning? Hopefully it'll make it back to sea and recover and return

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The EU chemical regulation policy is very far from perfect. The European Environmental Bureau highlights it takes weeks to get a chemical registered for use in Europe, then decades to fully safety check that chemical. But the UK is falling behind even that. eeb.org/need-for-spe...

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8lb on a copper bead head buzzer last week. Slipped in mud and did my back in silly me

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People at risk of exposure to globally banned PFOS & PFOA in Bentham - are having to fund raise for their own blood testing as neither the government nor industry steps up to investigate the impact on people's health in the UK's most PFAS polluted town. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/benth...

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Hereford MP Jesse Norman introduced his Ten Minute Rule Bill today to highlight the plight of the River Wye and call for urgent action and funding to restore the river to health. Watch here: youtu.be/ZWJdhcEt77Q?...

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The Soil Association and the RSPCA assured scheme are not fit for purpose, neither has an upper limit for mortality, a farmer could lose 99% of their fish and the remaining 1% would still get the "high welfare" rubber stamp. Why?

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Peatlands are critical ecosystems which contain more carbon than all the world’s forests... despite covering just 3% of the global land surface. But new research shows that vast areas of the UK’s peatlands, are, due to climate change likely to become unsuitable for peat accumulation.

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Well said, Pete Buttigieg

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Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

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As the transgender community continues to fight for civil rights in the U.S., one of the most common arguments against progress is that transgender people are a recent phenomenon. But it’s a fight that’s been happening here for decades and around the world for centuries. ⤵️

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"The breaking of taboos is reaching a point that is dangerous for the entire free world." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 107 days ago • 30 comments

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

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A bishop just called out Trump and Vance to their faces at church. This was their reaction 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/watch-t...

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Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏

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LBC dedicating several minutes of their news bulletins reporting interviews with Nigel Farage and taking seriously his promise of an unofficial inquiry into child grooming gangs. They did not reference him not turning up to a debate on child grooming gangs last night in the Commons.

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While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

submitted 125 days ago • 1359 comments

Don't look away

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Hmm I wonder WHY billionaires would get behind a party that wants to slash taxes for the very richest?? It's such a conundrum.

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We have seen it before actually, we call it World War 2 and the Holocaust.

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"it would render the medicines we use to treat bacterial infections ineffective or less effective". Research into developing new antibiotics has ground almost to a halt since the '90s. Meanwhile, with sewage dumping & inadequate treatment, we're doing our level best to stop existing meds working.

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Tests run for us by @alistairboxall.bsky.social at Uni of York found even bathing sites on rivers as exquisite as the Ribble & Wharfe teem with bacteria with antibiotic resistance genes & a heady mix of chemicals & meds, writes @brianmchugh.bsky.social 🧵 yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...

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E. coli, chemicals, meds & genes resistant to antibiotics- small wonder healthy people are being hospitalised. Our investigation of pollution at England's bathing sites with @sascampaigns.bsky.social @alistairboxall.bsky.social & river groups on @itvnews.bsky.social www.itv.com/news/2024-12...

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