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Le Monde, "French MPs vote through the left's wealth tax on the ultra-rich" Your reminder that a 2% wealth tax on those with £10 million, affecting 0.04% of the UK population, would raise £24 billion a year You have to wonder why Labour chose not to do this..

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lol what It’s about 160 million in 24 hours at peak. It’s a few dozen in a few minutes at a polling place. This not strenuous for a computer.

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Another ill-considered and ill-advised UK government policy has its effect. #DataSecurity #Apple daringfireball.net/2025/02/appl...

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“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.” —by @tonguetiedfilms.bsky.social #MotherLanguageDay theconversation.com/how-scottish...

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Important step even if so cautious by Starmer too.

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When engaging with a gull-hating public, a really effective tool was showing them GPS tracks of their local gulls. Barrovians thought it was brilliant that a gull would spend winter in Casablanca and Madrid, then come back every year to raise their kids on Walney news.sky.com/story/seagul...

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Punchbowl News reporting that Trump and Hegseth plan to start firing top generals, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who was overwhelmingly Senate-approved for a 4-year term back in 2023. No one can say they weren’t warned.

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Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/backing-be... #Indy #IndyRef2

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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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‘Beware of the bat’: how a mine in Kigali became the focus of Marburg virus research

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Two years ago, Labour opposed the Internal Market Act - which is nothing short of an undemocratic power grab from Westminster. Today, Labour have just voted together with the Tories against protecting the powers of our Parliament. Only the SNP will stand up for Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Some good news

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New in #BirdStudy, and in last week's Altmetric top 10! Well-managed solar farms have higher bird diversity & abundance than arable farmland. Solar farm management influences breeding bird responses in an arable-dominated landscape (Copping et al) doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology #ukbirding

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I’m not sure this lot will produce much in the way of “fresh ideas” It will be more of the same: double down on the London-centric, finance-led economic model that got us into this mess

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theafterword.co.uk/dick-gaughan... #folk #FolkMusic

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Part-time GIS Analyst - RSPB - www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/104805-... #gis #ukbirding #ecology #conservation

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🧵 When I said my government would leave no stone unturned to find the solutions to secure Grangemouth’s future, I meant it. I’ve just set out some measures to Parliament seeking to protect workers and secure Grangemouth’s future. Here’s a thread 👇 1/8

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“In Munich, the Czechoslovak delegation were kept in an adjoining room to await details of when and how they would surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler. On Tuesday, the Ukrainians were not even in the same country.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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"There's an old saying in diplomatic circles: 'If you are not at the table, you are on the table.' Hard to believe it's 2025, and two superpowers are meeting to split up a sovereign nation—like colonialism never went out of style. #Ukraine

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Rediscovery of a lost petrel specimen, collected after a hurricane in 1893, highlights the critical role small #museum collections play in piecing together historical datasets and informing modern conservation: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Just a guess but could the one tasked with protecting Bats and Newts be top of the list?

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Tenement garden, Leith / Edinburgh 💚

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Musk firing people and taking their salaries for himself.

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Last nights Barnacle Geese reminded me of this #nocmig recording, one of those times analysing a night’s file that you can’t believe your ears the first time you here it. They must have skimmed the chimney! 😂 #highlandbirds xeno-canto.org/636017

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I am pleased to use a #DotScot email address for my business. Good for brand recognition, and there is a helpful customer service team with actual people to speak to (based just a wee hop and a skip up the road fae me). I am happy to recommend @domains.scot @registry.scot

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How Dunning-Kruger works... and travels.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

About us, without us - and fresh after another Munich.

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If you think, as I do, that GB News' open hostility to the LGBT+ community and Black and Brown people tacitly encourages violence we've made it very easy for you to tell Sky, one of its biggest advertisers, to stop funding hate. Please use and share. action.goodlawproject.org/sky-stop-fun...

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Glad that readers are responding so forced to the marriage notice of the Guardian to OpenAI. If you want to read the background to this deal & support a new independent outlet, please read this from 3 weeks ago & sign up for a new edition out soon. Yours, A Human open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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‘Fight for every penny’: the over-70s battling to achieve Scottish cohousing dream

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What a #German #hospital team in #Darmstadt would look like without their #migrant colleagues #FCKAFD #MigrantsWelcome

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

This is probably the most accurate take.

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Our dear friend @haggewoods.bsky.social regularly posts fabulous, insightful pieces about wildflowers and the invertebrates that rely upon them, combining an ecologist's expertise with the soul of a poet. If you're not already following Linden on BlueSky, we heartily recommend you do so!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Then whatever these talks are they aren’t an attempt to achieve a peace settlement to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Ficaria verna, Lesser Celandine, invert associates. Blooms in woods, hedgerows, verges, on grassy banks, March to May, supporting 15 species as a larval host. But also a valuable nectar & pollen source for emerging hoverflies, & pollen beetles. 📷Pl 59. Sturm, Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen

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This is wonderful. As with the original McCartney arrangement of Peter and Gordon’s Woman - the 45 is a remake with different orchestration - the stridency of Cilla’s version is absent. Instead there is subtlety and lightness and the whole thing just _works_.

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What the health & scientific world "have experienced in the past few weeks is like a death in the family. We are angry, shocked, & saddened, but we must not despair". This a telling account of what is happening in the #US, but I am saddened that the author felt it had to be written anonymously.

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Remembering Tim Buckley on his birthday. Here he is performing Song to the Siren on The Monkees TV show in 1968 youtu.be/vaa22ULitds

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