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Craig Birder

@craigbirder.bsky.social
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Keen naturalist, world birder, geology and fossils, gardening, butterflies, moth, herptiles, botany, mosses, lichen and bees. Existentialist, Classical music, history, fishing, golf, cricket, snooker. X branch official for Unison and proud EHO 35 years.

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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Some of us have moral clarity, unlike you, who wishes to push dangerous Marxist and Islamofascist ideas on Filipino care workers and the dying Jewish lady who are about to be butchered by this Hamas thug. If you can't condemn this or even start to justify it you have been dangerously radicalised
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DipteristsForum @dipteristsforum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Dipterist Forum are running a new series of online training courses with those nice people @biologicalrecording.co.uk We're kicking off with 'Surveying for Flies' ideal for beginners or if you want to tighten up your field craft skills. More information in the link: dipterists.org.uk/events/surve...
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more. I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
climatecoloredgoggles.com
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Try Jackdaws riding these windy 🌬️ days of autumn 🍂 Like swirling leaves 🍁 these birds behaviour is intriguing and a mysterious phenomenon to be explored.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Interaction is the key and working together with AI can help crystallise ideas and structure thought processes. As an existentialist I found it very useful in helping lines of thinking 🤔 especially in relation to Heidegger ideas of anxiety and temporality many humans can’t understand.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Like with Brexit, it’s started with the deportation of hardened criminals to deportation of law abiding people with INDEFINITE leave to remain. So much for the term indefinite and the huge expense and sacrifices to get it.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Labour is happy to destroy the legitimacy of our asylum system by allowing it to be blatantly gamed by economic migrants. He was instrumental at creating this ridiculous legal framework that benefits criminals and even acknowledges it by introducing an identity card to discourage them working here.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The state meaning politicians including many Labour ones, senior police and council officers paid handsomely to turn a blind eye. He is part of this rotten establishment of know nothing grifters.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It appears you want similar action against the Israeli government. If you don’t then apologies.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Fighting Jihadists. Or do you omit those important facts that don’t fit your narrative of a persecuted minority? How very conceited of you. How do you live with people who believe you should be wiped from your ancestral homeland because you are a Jew whose ancestors rejected their prophet.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
To me renewables was always the target. I think the Democrats were complicit by rolling climate change up with extreme gender ideology to inherently destroy the scientific consensus and credibility and the self radicalising left unwittingly drove it.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
The question you should be asking is imagine how extreme and unpopular your policies and ideas are that you’d prefer Donald Trump to save you. The self radicalising left made themselves unelectable.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Something I have advocated for a long time.
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
To anyone who still doubts what climate scientists tell you, predicting so exactly how such a complex variable such as ocean volume would react to our unprecedented addition of CO2 to the atmosphere is nothing short of miraculous, and you should shut up and listen.
phys.org
Sea-level projections from the 1990s were spot on, study says
Global sea-level change has now been measured by satellites for more than 30 years, and a comparison with climate projections from the mid-1990s shows that they were remarkably accurate, according to ...
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"Australia’s biggest battery – and the first to feature more than two gigawatt-hours (GWh) of energy storage – has raced through its commissioning process and is now fully operational." reneweconomy.com.au/australias-f... via @gilesparkinson.bsky.social 🔌💡
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We have legal migration in order to assure the good character of immigrants. The abuse of the asylum system by criminals is a genuine concern. When you consider the appalling impact of a single criminal then it’s right criminals are removed.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We need to relearn our good manners and social etiquette that are all tools to overcome social anxiety. For example there was a car show at Stamford today. The interest in cars actually were a catalyst of friendly interaction. Whereas mass transit increases social anxiety like the London Tube.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
In the UK 🇬🇧 we have the NHS and the government is always pushing the growth agenda to pay for it as its focus is managing the elderly population medical conditions. Housing, diet, air pollution are all relegated to the treatment of the elderly.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Try and focus on the content not on the classification of who produced it. Try get over your prejudice.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
You’re the ones with cognitive dissonance. Supporting misogynistic billionaire jihadists, petro-state funded terror against a modern democracy. Hamas are boasting they’re replaced the dead children martyrs and it’s worth it because of people like you supporting them. Could you be more complicit.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
TINA is the greatest illusion they want to perpetuate
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Trump regime cancels funding for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the entity that produces the National Climate Assessment, the federal government’s signature climate change study. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Trump moves to hobble major US climate change study
The cuts are a potentially fatal blow to the National Climate Assessment that Congress mandated to ensure the government understands the threats posed by rising temperatures.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
No I don’t. I don’t think it’s right so easily to turn a blind eye to the architects of this war who are doing it for jihadists reasoning. What if Norway had to suffer daily rocket attacks and its citizens massacred by fanatics who just wanted to exterminate you for being Norwegian?
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/03/2025
🌍💙 It's Manatee Appreciation Day - the perfect time to remember how they remain on the brink of extinction. These gentle giants are the Amazon’s gardeners, shaping ecosystems as they feed. But habitat loss, from humany activity and climate change, threatens their future. Read:
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Researcher discovers new role played by manatees, ‘the gardeners of the Amazon’
MANAUS, Amazonas, Brazil — Located near the confluence of the Solimões and Japurá rivers, Lake Amanã, which means “the path of the rain,” is known as the home of the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inun...
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World Resources Institute @worldresources.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
💰Investments in developing countries seriously lag behind growing adaptation needs. Find out how philanthropy can scale #climate financing👇
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How Philanthropy Can Boost Adaptation Finance in Developing Countries
To fill the large gap needed to finance climate adaptation, there are innovative opportunities for philanthropic foundations to partner with multilateral development banks.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The Chinese would have already done it. Pull your finger out 🇺🇸
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The soon-to-be-tragic story of deep-sea mining in the Pacific feels a lot like the tragic story of coal mining in Appalachia--the false promise of prosperity for locals, the extraction of billions by corporations, the certainty of vast environmental destruction. www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/digg...
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Digging For Minerals In The Pacific’s Graveyard: The $20 Trillion Fight Over Who Controls The Seabed
“The soul of our ancestors, when they leave this world, they go into the deep.”
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Another Hamas apologist. Why you so supportive of petrodollar funded billionaire terrorists?
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Surely the Indian government must act as a sovereign nation. 80 years of independence so where’s its environmental protection legislation?
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Primroses. Alfred’s Cakes, Turkey Tail and Queen Bufftailed Bumblebee
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
You sound like a jihadist apologist. I am a former Union branch secretary and Green Party member who promotes human and environmental justice. I don’t ignore the horrific human crimes committed by the far left like Chomsky and others have. I am critical of communism and dystopian ideology. R U?
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Hamas built 500km of tunnels for it fighters in preparation for a war it started and not one shelter for the children (some of which were forced to dig them). Ask yourself why they left the children on top whilst they hid?
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Thank you for sharing. My birding in Trent Valley from 1970’s appears to reflect your findings. GSW were very scarce whereas Willow Tits were always present in farmland and gravel pits with old elderberry bushes. GSWs are common now and eat fat balls which coincided with Willow Tits going.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
What guidance would you give about feeding birds? Is there some feeds that are more harmful or is it practices and places. I remember dog walkers putting fat balls in Trent Valley and GSWs appeared and Willow Tits vanished!
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 12/03/2025
While UK newspapers were falling over themselves to cover the "stalling" EV market, the actual number of EVs on the UK's roads surged by 39% in *just 1 year* The 1.4m EVs, 0.8m PHEVs & 76,000 EV vans on the road in 2024 saved ~£1.7bn in lower fuel costs www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Tor "SolarFred" Valenza @torsolarfred.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Solar remained fastest-growing source of electricity in 2024 #energysky -- via Solar Power World: www.solarpowerworldo...
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Solar remained fastest-growing source of electricity in 2024
A review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) confirms that throughout 2024, solar remained
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Absolutely disgusting
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Democrats just had to be sensible rather than side with hysterical activists on non issues. By lumping them with climate change they actively and cynically undermined those issues and the consensus reached and let these frighteningly ignorant people in.
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Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) @cms.int · 28/02/2025
Did you know that seagrass isn’t the same as seaweed (algae) and that it supports 10 SDGs? 🌿🌊 As World Seagrass Day approaches tomorrow, 1 March, here are interesting facts about seagrass and the benefits it provides us all. 🐟 Click on the thread below to expand or download these visual resources!
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Interesting seeing how over managed we are! Or are these grifters sitting in meetings all day long
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
My concern is without energy conservation measures like insulation and help like solar panels many people won’t have the capital to invest and are locked into old gas boilers. Opening that gas field in Lincolnshire looks very tempting
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It’s not hyperbole to say that American science is being destroyed before our eyes.
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Scientists warn of long-term damage as Trump’s orders slow research
By blocking announcements in the Federal Register, the administration is keeping experts from meeting to evaluate funding proposals.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This is something the Conservative Government did in the UK 🇬🇧 with profound consequences being realised now as a failing stagnant state and economy. Kill the messenger of bad news = climate change and its solutions.
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Andrew Stroehlein @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
The truth: Putin's Russia invaded #Ukraine. Russia's invasion started in 2014 & accelerated in 2022. Russian forces in Ukraine have been committing war crimes & other mass atrocities from the beginning, both in areas outside their control & in areas they occupy. www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...
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One Thousand Days of Terror: Daily Brief
“What happens next in #Ukraine has been the subject of much speculation in recent weeks, but one thing remains certain regardless. The victims of Russian terror and atrocities in Ukraine deserve justi...
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The public simply don’t know and understand our work. I work air quality, contaminated land, biodiversity and acoustics. I also work with colleagues in climate change. The public believes but doesn’t understand and are easily misled
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The willow blister fungus, also known as Cryptomyces maximus at Rutland Water found by Tim Sexton. In the top 100 most endangered species on earth
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Local government staff are despairing. You’re not tackling the financial crippling statutory obligations of social care on local government. It’s depressing to see LA 🇬🇧 being run into the ground by Labour. No wonder your polling rating has collapsed when lifelong Labour supporters are deserting you.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Sorry to break the echo chamber but your reorganisation of local government has been met with despair amongst staff I work with. The creation of large anonymous and unresponsive local authorities is the death knell of local democracy. Chief officers trying to plead with staff not to leave.
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Craig Birder @craigbirder.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Does 🇺🇸, China 🇨🇳 and Russia see the melting as freeing up resources and navigation and taking a punt on the consequences not being as bad as expected?
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Ambitious plans for this important upland reserve. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/02/06/r...
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RSPB Geltsdale Reserve to become ‘Pennines Paradise’ for nature
Press release from RSPB (3rd Feb 2025) RSPB Geltsdale to become a Pennines paradise for nature A bold new restoration project is set to transform RSPB Geltsdale, an upland reserve in Northeast Cumb…
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