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Allan Russell

@arnaturegeek.bsky.social
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Scottish birding and nature liking person plus B.Sc and M.Res ecology graduate. All views expressed are my own. He/him 🐦‍⬛🐺🐋🐍🦋🌱🍄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17h
Pretty much what I would expect in a country that screams in enraged terror for a week about the very idea that Zionism may be racist, while entirely failing to ask whether the project itself is at all racist, despite the genocide, massive destruction, land seizure and ethnic cleansing
This is incredible.
And not in a good way at all
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Sally Rooney's books will no longer be published in UK over her support for Palestine Action
Faber blames UK antiterrorism legislation for decision to stop distributing bestselling autho...
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sure it's strange to seek inspiration from a fiver but there's something even more bizarre about viewing the natural world as being primarily for very young children.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Because it’s a genocidal ethnostate expanding into the territory of its neighbours and murdering or expelling the residents, Nick. I appreciate that you don’t get to be a radio presenter unless you are willing to pretend you are an honest to god clueless moron, but that makes things a bit trickier.
Nick Robinson ® @bbcnickrobinson
Why is this a difficult question to answer ?
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BBC Radio 4 Today * 4 @BBCr4today • 4h
"Do you think that the state of Israel, as a safe home for Jews after the Holocaust and after the pogroms, has a right to exist?"
@bbcnickrobinson repeatedly asks Green Party...
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Carrying out a genocide, destroying olive groves and bulldozing land in 3 different countries will cause a lot of carbon emissions and destroy wildlife. Seems like an environmental issue to me
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The press spent months stomping all over *Gary Lineker* for speaking up against the genocide. Does that not suggest to you that nobody will be permitted to speak without getting their teeth kicked in by battalions of hacks, and that nothing will be tolerated?
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A quest for autumn migrants on Saturday took me to the coast south of Dunbar. A heard only Yellow-browed Warbler and a Redstart were then best at Barns Ness, with lots of Little Gulls and a few 'commic' terns and Arctic Skuas offshore. Another vocal but elusive YBW was at Skateraw #BirdingScotland
A view of the rocky beach at Barns Ness, with a rock pool in the centre of the beach. A lighthouse is in the distance A Migrant Hawker dragonfly sitting on a tree branch
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Tories have announced they would abolish Natural England, support a Third Runway & pull the UK out of the Aarhus Convention - in further signs they’ve totally given up on Middle England, don’t give a toss about the environment & just want to please some wealthy grouse moor owners & raving YIMBYs
Tory party press release: “[We will leave the Aarhus] Convention that powers the lawfare hindering every major infrastructure project in this country.”

“Abolish Natural England and the Environment Agency, moving to a more streamlined regulatory landscape to protect our environment.”Tory PR: “Support a Third Runway at Heathrow Airport and wider expansion, increasing capacity to deliver cheaper flights, better connections for passengers, and more exports of high-value British goods.”
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's been a brilliant autumn for me for seeing Ruff. Plenty of them on the local patch and lots of them seen on days out to Musselburgh and Loch Leven RSPB earlier this month. These ones were performing right in front of the hides at the latter site #BirdingScotland #Birding
A Ruff wading in shallow water.A Ruff standing in shallow water, shaking water off itself.A Ruff wading in shallow water.
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Patrick Harvie @patrickharvie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There are few things as pathetic as the insecure whining of the super rich. To sit there on top of such a vast pile of wealth, complaining that it's all so unfair. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
MSPs from the two largest ‘progressive’ parties in Scotland regularly watch Arthur’s Seat burning from their parliamentary office windows because of climate change
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*rubs temples* why am i reading about MPs scrutinising Eurovision track record instead of them taking action against far-right and fascist groups that are harrassing the RNLI, the public, & shutting down infrastructure www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs
It comes after the UK's entry Look Mum No Computer came last in May's final, scoring just one point.
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obviously time will tell if this is any good, but the fact this is already making the worst people mad is a +1 for me
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am staggered by the insistence on the part of the press that a small rich village in Oxfordshire flinching at shadows and throwing a tantrum is worthy of news coverage. These people don't have real problems, they aren't afraid, they live in a sheltered bubble and have melted their brains.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An RNLI lifeboat guy here, and as I’ve been saying for many years now: why is it that the public have been subjected to hate campaigns against hated enemies including rescue services, Stonewall, Amnesty International, the left of the Labour Party, the National Trust, the Proms and Match of the Day?
Fr Paul @revpaulwhite • 1h
Let me tell you about the Overton window:
A white, middle-aged, middle-class, clergyman in the Church of England, who volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a radical leftist seeking to bring down Western society.
That is how far it has shifted.
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is exactly it: the first generation who will die knowing that no reward in heaven awaits them, and that the children they so virulently despise will inherit the Earth. That’s why they are frantically scrambling to wreck and destroy as much as they can, before the scythe falls.
barney farmer @barneyfarmer
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I have some sympathy for this haunted generation, the first to approach en masse personal extinction shorn of spiritual consolation, having completed their short lives of disconnected consumption experiences, now clutching at some semblance of meaning like drowners grab at straw.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 04/09/2026
A British government that is dropping Net Zero and supporting fossil fuels while doing nothing about rocketing food prices suggests that Brits should stockpile food against a coming climate emergency. You have to wonder what these people think their job is. I mean, do they just sit on Twitter?
theguardian.com
Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning
Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Utterly atrocious phone scope photo of 2 Curlew Sandpipers on the local patch at Newshot Island today? You've got it! The highlight so far of a nice run of passage waders across the local patch in the last few weeks, including good nos of Ruff and Green Sandpipers #ClydeBirding #BirdingScotland
Photo taken through a telescope: a patch of mud with several birds on it, with a patch of grass in the foreground.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Wrong person from Home Alone 2 died
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Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"This contradicts claims by some rightwing commentators, who have blamed rewilding for causing wildfires."
theguardian.com
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There is something truly surreal about back to back items on the news today where residents return to homes in Stourbridge destroyed by the heatwave wildfires, then some empty suit comes on to explain why we absolutely must open another oil field in the North Sea.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.
Sorry Zack Polanski this long hot summer is not the apocalypse - it's like a gloriously long holiday in France
..with village green cricket thrown in good measure
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse update: cloud. Love living in Scotland where we rarely get to see astrological phenomena!
A cloudy sky. No eclipse here!
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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There are so many reasons to despise the industrial scale of pheasant shooting. This list is just devastating.
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why is the 12th of the month always celebrated by the worst people
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It’s notable how much of day-to-day news is just things that you’d expect to read about on a corrupted computer in the bombed-out basement of Poseidon Energy in Fallout 4.
Metro
@MetroUK
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Hundreds of beachgoers fall sick after swimming in UK waters
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Red-footed Falcon at Aberlady Bay was just too tempting so popped over on Friday morning. A very pleasing lifer for me!
A male Red-footed Falcon sitting on a fence post in a grass field.
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Nor has he bothered to say anything about the droughts, heatwaves and fires the UK is suffering or how to combat their cause. Instead he finds plenty of time to cheer on oil drilling
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A post from “kavishj9611” that reads: 

“All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?”

Panel 2:
And Orange Guy and a Pink Guy are standing in a room that has two pipes in it. Both pipes are pumping raw sewage into the room. The characters are waist deep in it.
Orange Guy says smugly “Ok Mr “I don’t want to be in a room that’s filling up with raw sewage” let me ask you this”

Panel 3:
The sewage has reached their chests. Pink Guy is gagging. Orange Guy smugly continues “If all this sewage disappeared right now, could you get through the day without it?”

Panel 4:
The sewage is almost up to their eyeballs. Orange Guys says “Look at that shit floating past your face. Are you willing to give that up?”
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Incredible shit here: the guy Badenoch is defending was sent to prison for sending racist abuse to the MP Luciana Berger. Who then did a whole series of interviews and columns talking about her criminal harassment by Nazis, in a manner intended to make listeners believe it was done by Labour members
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🎉🎉🎉
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's been getting on my nerves that I haven't been able to find any Quail this year despite the huge influx into the UK. This one singing away unseen today near Newshot Island was found by someone else last week, so I'm pleased it did the decent thing and lingered #BirdingScotland #ClydeBirding
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/07/2026
It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.
ALLISTER HEATH
Britain can't stop
climate change. Scrap
net zero and embrace
Mediterranean
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
You’d think the far right doing nazi salutes, rioting and attacking people of colour on the street would be slightly further up the news and political agenda but no it’s treated as business as usual
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
So no change from Keir but now with added oil drilling and climate science denial. I hope the Labour party gets completely destroyed
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/07/2026
the cognitive dissonance required to threaten to sue *Amnesty International* out of existence and still think of yourself as a good person is incredible
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This hurts 😞💔
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A short lunchtime walk on the local patch today turned up sightings of Comma, Speckled Wood and Small Skipper (2 of the latter were my 1st local patch records!). This selection of butterflies would have been unthinkable here (near Glasgow) just 10 years ago #butterflies #scottishwildlife
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I’d like to wish senior Trump officials a very happy 250th fuck off and mind your own business
Steven Swinford Y @Steven_Swinford
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EXCLUSIVE:
Senior officials in President Trump's administration have privately warned that appointing Ed Miliband as chancellor would be a "mistake"
High-ranking US officials have told their counterparts in Britain, as well as senior Labour figures, that they are concerned about Miliband's opposition to new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea
They believe the ban on new licences is
"ideologically driven" and that tax revenues raised from lifting it could help to fund defence spending
Trump is strongly opposed to wind turbines, which the president views as a blight on the landscape, and has described Britain's net zero policies as "stupid"
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Allan Russell @arnaturegeek.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A nice wander last weekend around the Hamiltonhill Claypits in Glasgow, and good to see plenty of butterflies including multiple Small Skippers. Always amazes me that this site is a stones throw away from the city centre!
A Small Skipper butterfly sitting on a red clover flower.A female Common Blue butterfly sitting on a grass stem, with a yellow flower underneath.A view of the Glasgow city skyline, with trees and a meadow in the foreground.
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Oh my god, fucking fuck off
Breaking News
3m ago
B BC
Starmer announces extra £15bn for

defence, but says some road and energy

projects will be scrapped to fund it
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 26/06/2026
I see this kind of comment, "but still the right will deny and delay..." Yeah they will. They will happily kill you and your relatives to suit their ambitions for a more brutal world built on wealth. It's not because they're stupid or ignorant it's because the waves of death do not matter to them.
But still, the right will deny and delay as they wipe the sweat from their eyes.

'In 2003, a heatwave like the current one in Europe would have been 2C cooler due to the lower level of global heating at the time. In 1976, it would have been 3.5C cooler.' #r4today

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Guardian

European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis, scientists say
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 23/06/2026
Schools closed, events cancelled, travel warnings, and lives lost. This is the direct result of political choices made in our parliaments. The cost of climate inaction is incalculable.
The Guardian. Europe heatwave live: forty people drown in France; Met Office wars of UK temperatures could reach 39C.
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Álvaro López @bakadori.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It's amazing listening to Starmer listing his achievements and they're either: 1. Things that are bad 2. Things that he's not done 3. Things he initially opposed upon taking office Truly a generational talent in being a delusional prick.
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