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Ecologist fighting 4 nature; Watches Earth like hawk or Small Blue; Wanders in South Downs; Wildlife photo-recorder; Hove plot holder 4 nature; Brit/Norwegian/European; Art, Science, Politics; Walks, swims & buses; Some humour please in these bad times
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This is fu@king shameful .. no better than Trump's America .. in the UK Supreme Court's ruling it condemned trans women never to be called women by the state .. why? because it bowed to mere biology at birth over being fully human & listening to those fear-spreading cat-mongers led by JK Rowling!

fox and the gop have sold latino migrants as all being scary af ms-13 members. its the same thing nazis did with jewish people. repeat: it is the same thing nazis did with jewish people. the. same. thing.

So you can take over Greenland and Canada but can’t send a plane to pick up someone you are paying another country to hold for a year? Weird take on sovereignty.

Come on all Americans, be more like Danuta Danielsson and whop all the Neo nazis in your federal and state governments and beyond with your handbags!

Normalize this again.

Action you can take - Murkowski here says it - if we put huge pressures on our representatives they MUST take action DO IT!!

“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.

This man speaks the actual truth to Trump's America! Worth a listen to the end!

Ring Ouzel! A nice treat in the garden this morning before heading to the BirdEyes office. A fun day of manuscript revision and working on a PhD proposal of a talented student. But also looking forward for some patch birding on the way home this evening. Spring time is the best time! #ornithology

🚨Very bad news! Annual global CO₂ increase of 3.75 ppm! @climate.noaa.gov had to extend its y-axis by 1 ppm for the first time. More and more of the CO₂ we emit stays in the atmosphere (Airborne fraction). Likely because the Land Sink (biosphere) is decreasing, increasing the Atmospheric Sink

I've just created my first ever Eventbrite event 'An Introduction to the Fascinating World of Honeybees, Bumblebees, & Solitary #Bees' Sunday 18th May. Cornwall Details & tickets via link - do please share if you know anyone who might be interested 🐝 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-buzz-abo...

Trump Says He Will NOT Bring Abrego Garcia Back, Signaling He Will Defy Supreme Court Order. youtu.be/M6vrf2G_YOg?...

If the Trump administration truly cared about the real problem of antisemitism (and not just as a ruse to bludgeon universities to curb academic freedom) how about starting by condemning the violence against PA Governor Shapiro and his family on Passover.

Goodbye US free trade deal, and good riddance Nigel Farage & Lee Anderson may not mind chlorinated chicken, but the vast, vast majority of Brits think US food standards are bloody disgusting bsky.app/profile/davi...

So many of the roundabouts in #Donegal & the west of Ireland look like this. A win,win for pollinators,tourists & councils. Low maintenance, low cost, native wildflowers,high impact boost for Orangetip butterfly & bumblebees amongst others. Big shout out to @donegalcouncil

As it IS #MallardMonday .. in fact all day but I forgot again .. shameful woman that I am .. so here's some Mallard goings-on from the pond with lots of male Mallard showings-off and a poor female close to drowning in the breeding process. She was ok I think 🙄 #RottingdeanPond #Mallards #Ducks

It being the 80th anniversary of VE day in May, I though't I'd try out some of the old favourite songs of the period on my concertina, and was struck by a lyric that's very apt for this platform: Keep smilin' thro' just like you always do, Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away...

The two top plant heroes on my #allotment today were: ⭐ The #Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) and again the #Bugle (Ajuga reptans)! Together they came up with the goods for the insects.

Albert Einstein knew back then (in 1948) that it was a British & American & Israeli nationalist problem .. as it is still!

Spot on 👇

#Oak blossom. #DevilsDyke

It’s getting busy at The once upon a time lawn of the back garden. Bumblebees are nectaring on the early purple orchids. There are primroses violets plantain cowslips oxlips and daisies. A running buffet bumblebees. A salad for the soul.

#Oak bursting. #DevilsDyke

1/⚠️ Blackbirds are in trouble & we need your help! Threatened by the Usutu virus, we need you to submit your garden Blackbird sightings so scientists can better understand the virus’ spread & potential impacts on these songbirds. 🌍 Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/blackbirds #UKBirding #Ornithology

TODAY: Josh and Ray explore the life & thought of philosopher-novelist Iris Murdoch with Eva-Maria Düringer from the @utuebingen.bsky.social, author of "Evaluating Emotions" – 11 am on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco & online at www.kalw.org/show/philoso.... #PhilSky #philosophy #fiction

Meet the mega-talented @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social, Faversham's premier political commentary source. And well worth a listen to their back catalogue, on a sunny Sunday afternoon! @kentandsurreybylines.co.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DyN...

Great news!! Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions. /1 thread apnews.com/article/ship...

Because you have two homes?

Albert Einstein refused to see people from Israel from 1948 onwards. He called them 'misled and criminal people'.

#Grow4WildBees

"The best way to help bees? Don’t become a beekeeper like I did." Please be aware that beekeeping (bee farming) is a disaster for wild bees and other pollinators. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Standing with Ukraine. 🇺🇦 💪 Siskin. Perfect colours. #birdphotography 🪶 #EastCoastKin

Yesterday Mark Carney was told, “Mr Carney, there’s a genocide in Palestine”. “I’m aware,” Carney told the protester, “That’s why we have an arms embargo.” This has really, really upset Benjamin Netanyahu, so don't RT unless you hate him.

Switzerland is one of the few countries to have introduced "tertiary" cleaning of sewage. Cleaning the sewage 3 times, removes not only bacteria & viruses but also chemicals & medicines - reducing risk of antibiotic resistant bacteria developing. www.theguardian.com/science/audi...

Is your home at risk of flooding? I learned from a @floodmary.bsky.social interview that, even if you live on high ground, your home may still be at risk of groundwater flooding. The link below lets you check your home's current flood risk, & what it will be 2040-60: www.gov.uk/check-long-t...

Millions of UK children live in homes which are likely to flood by 2060. The education system could be doing so much more to prepare them for the future they face. I'm becoming increasingly concerned that we're utterly failing to give them the knowledge and skills they'll undoubtedly need 😥

Meadow pipit on Gorse #DevilsDyke #birds #botany

#Oak in flower, #Buzzard hunt, #Meadowpipit look-out and #Dark-edgedBee-fly deep in #Cowslip on #DevilsDyke

Spring on #DevilsDyke today! #WideedgedBeefly on #Cowslip

"Nature only functions healthily if and when all the parts are present" .. 🤔 how come "clever" humans never figured this out long ago 🤔? I wonder if we've always been this self-serving of & ignorant of our impact on nature .. or are we constantly duped by the too-big-to-sink-titantic illusion?

Brilliant news 👏🐳