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Ironic street art St.Ives as the London 4x4s roll through the narrow streets

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New data shows all bad news for England's priority wildlife habitats. ❌big drop in monitoring: Natural England needs funds to keep up ❌fall in favourable management in & outside SSSIs ❌fall in SSSIs in good condition: better incentives & enforcement urgent. 🧵1/3

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Hoylake’s foreshore, an SAC, holds 2% of the UK’s young sand dunes. Yet, Natural England approved 1.5ha of clearance, endangering globally rare wildlife. I’ve instructed Freeths to challenge this & am raising £1,900 in legal fees. Any support helps! 🌱❤️ gofund.me/2669579c

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I feel nothing but hope and empathy for President Zelenskyy and the entire Country of Ukraine. To have An Adjudicated Rapist, Convicted Felon, Domestic Terrorist sitting behind the Resolute Desk saying the things he's saying about the man that's been an absolute hero for his Country. We get 💩

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As twitter collapses, right wing trolls are seeking to create outposts at BlueSky to infect this medium with their disinformation. Make sure to hide ("for all) their replies, report them, and block them.

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Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet. Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.

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The latest from Just Stop Oil HQ… From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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It’s a coup. It’s a strategic alliance with Putin. It’s the end of the post-war international order. It’s the triumph of lies over truth and in Putin’s case, evil over good. We are through the looking glass & we all now have to decide who we are & what we stand for

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Trump proving beyond a doubt he is working for Russia, is now openly attacking Zelenskyy and Ukraine after failing to blackmail them for trillions of dollars. Everyday Trump is president is a 100 years of shame and embarrassment for the United States.

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New @therestpolitics.bsky.social on the reliability or otherwise of the USA as an ally. Seems quite a shift to treat enemies as friends and friends as enemies. Plus the Navalny legacy alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/373-...

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As well as the clip of the Beaufort Hunt thug/ex huntsman Tony Holdworth who is currently hiding from Avon and Somerset police for violent offences, there was also another clip of this pair which was also replayed on BBC Points West last night in the feature about the Hunting Act 20 years on.

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Would help if BBC called out Trumps disinformation and lies and his peddling of Russian propaganda - its on #BBCVerify but pity reporters can't articulate as it happens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The SGA claimed the programme caused "unfair reputation [sic] damage". Nope, reputational damage is not being caused by the BBC reporting the evidence, it's being caused by criminal gamekeepers who continue to kill birds of prey. #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/02/17/b...

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UNBELIEVABLE. Am I the only person who remembers who Kirill Dmitriev is? He was in the Seychelles in January 2017 plotting with Trump envoy Erik Prince, a Jared Kushner envoy, Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and a host of shady characters who'd worked to steal the 2016 election for Trump.

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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Wallcreeper - possible in Cornwall?

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Traitors in the White House

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🚨NEW: The Treasury is on track to hand the Bank of England £130bn in the next five years as part of a stealth subsidy to bankers. This is money that should be spent on reviving our public services or building much needed social homes.

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This is what we are up against! Never has it been more important to stand up for what we have. I feel so so sorry that Americans are facing these choices. Farage and the far right tanked our economy with Brexit lies and now they want to tank our welfare state too. #unitedleft #ournhs

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The news outside the US noticed you! #3E #USProtests #TeslaTakeover www.bbc.com/news/article...

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It’s a cliché to say it—and no two historical scenarios offer a perfectly compelling analogy—but what each American is doing now is what they’d be doing were they a German living in Germany and were it 1936-38 There’s no more doubt about who the appeasers or the bad guys are—they’re in the open now

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🚨A New Spy Unit Is Leading Russia’s Shadow War Against the West The operations of Moscow’s Department of Special Tasks have included attempted killings, sabotage and a plot to put incendiary devices on planes. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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This is like if Roosevelt had met with Hitler to negotiate Britain’s surrender while Britain tried to hold out against Nazi forces invasion

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New paper Denialism campaigns are growing in attempts to discredit science, scientists, and the scientific process generally. Biodiversity loss denial is a new phenomenon that needs our attention. -With @alexanderlees.bsky.social + Eliza Grames! #CommSky 🧪🌏 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Clearly farming pesticides have massively reduced insects and bird numbers - the biggest threat to our wildlife. But I imagine they are also part of the reason behind the prevalence of cancer in humans too

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Laura Kuenssberg’s Time as BBC Political Editor has been a Catastrophic, Systemic Failure – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2022/03/30/l...

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Big sky tonight

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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Valentine's Day poem - written when Alex and I met as ecologists on Camden High Street back in the day .... #poetry

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Valentines Day when you’ve been married 30 years

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@mhamzij.bsky.social hi Mike, hope things well with you. Do you know if the hawfinches at Grittleton are obvious - in churchyard or something?

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BBC News - Well-managed solar farms can boost wildlife - Cambridge study - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The key to spotting embezzlement is that it involves a betrayal of trust or duty. While this looks different in every state, generally, these four factors must be present: www.justice.gov/archives/jm/...

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Ok, this is not looking good! Antarctic sea ice really trening to new record minimum. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice_...

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The Kremlin-linked Donald Trump blackmailed Ukraine (again), threatening to withhold aid unless it provides him and his corporate oligarchs with $500B in rare earth material or equivalent contracts. Hours later he praised Russia. 90% of US Ukraine aid is already reimbursed before delivery. #OpCanary

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Driven grouse shooting is about killing animals for fun, which personally I have never understood and it disgusts me. Plus the damage to ecosystems from the raising of grouse. @WildJustice_org is right to oppose it. Signed.

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BREAKING! 🚨 📢 In a first-of-its-kind action, we're challenging the world's largest ad firm, WPP, over their work promoting huge polluters. 👉 head to badverts.org/wpp to learn more!

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