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This #NationalNestboxWeek, remember not all birds nest the same way! Here's a few options to get you started... 🧵👇 Robins and Wrens like to keep hidden, tucking their nests away in dense cover. An open-fronted box placed low down and out of sight is just their style. (1/4)

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🔴Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over recent weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

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Academics and campaigners have claimed a new basic income pilot in Greater Manchester could “end absolute poverty” in the city region, starting with people experiencing homelessness – if it gets the green light from mayor Andy Burnham. 🚦 Find out more. ⬇️ https://bit.ly/3EwrI4q

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OECD countries give a smaller share of their national income to foreign aid today than in 1960

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Look up! 👀 Six planets are putting on a show in our night sky, but there's only a month left to catch this celestial phenomenon. Have you seen the planetary parade? 🌠 🌌

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Nine in ten people in the world were in the range of a 4G network in 2023

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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

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88% of low-income households who receive disability benefits were going without the essentials in the 6 months to Oct 📢 59% had to take out a loan to cover the cost of essentials. 53% were in arrears. Our COL tracker: www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi... Anushka Asthana on @itvpeston.bsky.social

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ICYMI - 2024 was also the hottest year on record for our oceans. Unfortunately, we now say this every year. 🥹🌊 + Data: www.ocean.iap.ac.cn + Study: doi.org/10.1007/s003... + Summary: www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the...

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The proportion of families with children in poverty who are in work has increased over recent decades. Since 2000, the fraction of families in poverty where the adults are doing no paid work has fallen from 51 per cent to 30 per cent. Read more: https://buff.ly/4iZATds

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Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

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In the last 30 years, almost everybody in Bangladesh gained access to basic electricity

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The world has passed “peak child”

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Your reminder that correlation does not imply causation, except when it does.

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Norway gives more foreign aid per capita than any other OECD country

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🇬🇧 fossil fuel use fell to 29% in 2024, way behind renewables Renewables, including wind, solar, hydro & biomass, climbed to a record 45%. Nuclear energy came second on 13%, with the rest from other sources, including imports. The last coal plant closed in October apple.news/AGkVoikVHQ4a...

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Small pockets of hard to explain longevity? No, it’s just people claiming dead relatives’ pensions, says researcher bit.ly/3BQE7iD

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It’s time for THE charger. Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU. It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need! #DigitalEU

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Share of energy consumption coming from renewables in 2023 (%): 🇸🇪 66.4 🇫🇮 50.8 🇩🇰 44.9 🇱🇻 43.2 🇪🇪 40.9 🇦🇹 40.8 🇵🇹 35.2 🇱🇹 31.9 🇭🇷 28.1 🇷🇴 25.8 🇬🇷 25.3 🇸🇮 25.1 🇪🇸 24.9 🇧🇬 22.6 🇫🇷 22.3 🇩🇪 21.6 🇨🇾 20.2 🇮🇹 19.6 🇨🇿 18.6 🇭🇺 17.4 🇳🇱 17.2 🇸🇰 16.9 🇵🇱 16.5 🇮🇪 15.3 🇲🇹 15.1 🇧🇪 14.8 🇱🇺 11.6

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I'm always amazed when I look at just how fast coal use has dropped in the US It's a huge victory not just for climate but also for reductions in mercury, arsenic, and air pollution So many people will live longer healthier lives because coal use has dropped so much and I love it

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The two-child limit remains in place, and its impact will continue to grow as the policy affects an increasing number of children as time goes on. We estimate that an additional 63,000 children will become affected by the policy between now and April 2025.

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Brutal chart from the Financial Times. While larger companies have managed to adapt to new Brexit trading barriers (Marks and Spencer opened a warehouse just for post-Brexit paperwork) smaller companies have been hit incredibly hard. And this is BEFORE GPSR came into effect.

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Whenever I share govt announcements on here, one thing is always certain: the comments will be full of surprise from people who haven’t seen the news anywhere else Here's a bunch of recent announcements that you may have missed bylinetimes.com/2024/12/20/l...

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The #BigGardenBirdwatch will be here before we know it! Let's get some ID practice in with 10 familiar faces... 🐦👀 From dazzling Goldfinches to cheeky Robins, are any regulars on your patch? PS - Don't forget to sign up: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

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The big picture is that most workers are satisfied with their job. However, workers from low-income households have lower job satisfaction than workers in higher-income households.

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This is a Melanistic Fox one of the most beautiful and most rarest in the world.

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Will you be joining us at our craft fair at #LowerSmiteFarm tomorrow? From 10am until 4pm, come along to browse some local crafts. There will also be Trust cards and gifts to look through too 👇 worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/events/2024-11-23-christmas-craft-fair

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Tonight there will be a Blue Supermoon at 9:35 ET The moon will appear about 8% larger than a normal full moon and 15% brighter than a normal full moon. The next one won't be until January 2037. Keep any eye out tonight!

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Nine water companies have been blocked from using customer money to fund "undeserved" bonuses by the industry's regulator. The blocked payouts amount to 73% of the total executive awards proposed across the industry news.sky.com/story/water-...

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Love this 😀

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🗣️ “A choice between heating and eating isn't really a choice at all.” Millions are facing hardship because Universal Credit is falling short. The UK government must make sure UC covers the cost of the essentials we need to survive. Together we can end hunger and hardship.

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How to help a homeless person on the street in cold weather www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

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In the middle of changing the duvet cover and came back to find this #caturday #catpics #cats

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We made a mistake and priced our Christmas cards too high- so we’ve reduced the prices a lot! We emailed our mailing list and 100s of packs are now being ordered 😮⭐️🥰 Every order supports our work fighting for NHS patients and staff 💙🎄 ad 👉 shop.everydoctor.org.uk/collections/...

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Labour racked up the wins this week. Lots of new initiatives to make the country fairer and greener in particular. (Though much of it didn’t make the papers.) What you might have missed:

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🚨THIS WEEKEND please join me & British Heart Foundation in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️🙏 450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINS! Many of us will witness a cardiac arrest - let’s be ready👇 www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...

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The global number of people aged 65 years and older is set to double within the next thirty years

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The lowest-income households have had the least income growth over the last 20 years. While the mid-1990s to mid-2000s saw strong income growth across the distribution, income growth has stagnated since then.

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🔴Robert Jenrick Wasted £15 Million on a Contaminated Site to House Asylum Seekers That Can’t Be Used Conservative ministers purchased the contaminated land and asbestos-ridden buildings, despite warnings from officials bylinetimes.com/2024/11/15/r...

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Twitter is finally an X. Hello Bluesky

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Wow, the governor of the Bank of England just hit out at Brexit. Andrew Bailey is supposed to be neutral, and doesn’t have a track record of political interventions. A summary of exactly what he said:

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Hello! Looking for new bluesky gang who care about the NHS! Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙

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