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Owl of Impiety

@dunite.bsky.social
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Likes: science, rocks, mountains, history, geckos, dragonflies, wine. Dislikes: bigotry, discrimination, inequality, horseflies, carrots. Just a wee bit bolshie. She/her. Morecambe, UK

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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Tories may as well announce that burning the country to the ground will now officially be a key policy to be outlined in their manifesto. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes! Yet more swingeing cuts is *exactly* what a stagnating economy needs. Nothing promotes spending and stimulates growth more effectively than making an already impoverished populace feel even more financially precarious. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories plan to extend cuts beyond £47bn previously pledged, leak reveals
Exclusive: Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith told party members last year he had discussed making further savings if they win next election
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With a powerful tail containing 47 vertebrae giving them exceptional agility, the long-tailed #pangolin of #WestAfrica is a rainforest icon! Help them survive don't buy Chinese medicine ☠️❌ scales and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴❌#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-beZ2
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Long-tailed Pangolin Phataginus tetradactyla Palm Oil Detectives
Long-tailed pangolins AKA African black-bellied pangolins are Vulnerable from bushmeat and traditional medicine along with palm oil deforestation. Take action!
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The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So uh... we was robbed! No really 😅 Couple scammers last night made off with a little cash, not even into triple figures, not a huge deal, we'll live. But my poor wonderful staff did not deserve that experience. So if you come by the shop this week, please be extra lovely to my people?
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Conversely, stats suggest that, in spite of higher taxes, Scandinvians are happier overall as they can access healthcare, social support etc when needed. Maybe we just need politicians brave enough to admit that Thatcher's experiment failed so we can adopt a Scandinavian approach & focus on people.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Taxation/allocation of resources is based on the norm of the last ~50 yrs. Reduction in the (historically far higher) levels of direct tax has coincided with far greater social inequality & higher levels of poverty, especially as corporations/wealthy individuals are so adept at avoiding/evading tax.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Many people face drastically reduced workplace pensions as nearly two decades of austerity has had a huge impact on career average payouts. The ideologically-driven decision to abandon the triple lock will consign them to poverty or make them work longer, thereby blocking jobs for younger people.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fuck Labour. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election
Guarantee will remain until 2030 but MPs will vote on changes during this parliament, government says
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OH MY GOD I AM CRYING WITH LAUGHTER www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedd...
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As someone with both a geology degree and an extensive sweater collection this feels personal. *mooches off to continue knitting yet another sweater*
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yep. Frankly, he's trying to lure back the disillusioned left/progressive vote, while still appeasing the right of the party. In all honesty, I don't see how he can ever make the radical changes this country needs while having Mahmood & Streeting etc in cabinet. There's too much history of sabotage.
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Unsustainable public finances" for a currency issuer spending on pensions is backwards. The real question: are there enough care workers and beds? The triple lock debate should be about real resources, not phantom affordability constraints. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics
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Will pensioners be poorer as a result of Burnham scrapping the triple lock? | State pensions | The Guardian
Original triple lock was designed to lift pensioners out of poverty but OBR says it contributes to unsustainability of public finances
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well, he's making (some of) the right noises. But so, initially at least, did Starmer & look how that turned out. Frankly, it feels like he's promising to do some tinkering, but without much of actual substance. For example, faffing with VAT on energy bills won't help folk hit by years of austerity.
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Bad Medical Takes @badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Twitter user alexydude9:
Valid. Pro-choice should be the norm but many women confuse it with glorification of abortion. I've seen women in social media gloating about having their 6th abortion in a month.
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Clem.PM @clempm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fed up of having to say this Britain still spends significantly less on pensions than other major European countries such as Germany, France and Spain, and about two million pensioners languish in poverty.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh I hear you! Using *circulars for anything more than, say, adding a neckband sets me twitching. (*Well, I've got to justify buying a set of the bloomin' things somehow).
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Relatable...
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That's a real shame. Especially given how many of her constituents learned the hard way the problem of relying solely on mobiles/t'internet as a means of communication after Storm Desmond.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll save you the click-through: A lab at University of Copenhagen had been feeding draft manuscripts & data into "Claude Science" & then Anthropic announces a discovery that this lab made a year ago but hasn't published yet. It's plausible that Claude found the same signatures independently...
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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 25/09/2026
this is just to say i have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to observe forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nearly 2,000 people are backing the call for Ikea to pull their ads from Murdoch's Talk Radio - you can add your voice here: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
Text of comment from petition calling on Ikea to pull their ads from Talk: "Shocked that a company with a reputation for being ethical and people-focused should be advertising on a radio channel that is spreading toxic untruths and hatred. Please do the right thing, IKEA." - Catherine
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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If the Home Secretary doesn't wake up and stomp on this, she's going to lose the rule of law in this country as well as the next election.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The OH & I were discussing that only yesterday during a conversation about the government advising folk to be prepared for national emergencies. We noted it was a shame that the communications network will be completely knackered by BT's government-sanctioned actions, but hey, there you go.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The BBC is at risk of entering an inescapable doom spiral..." Sadly, they already have. I've barely watched since they decreed BBC4 couldn't commission new content. Most newer documentaries, with repetitive narration and often bloated with CGI/AI, are awful. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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BBC ‘risks entering inescapable doom spiral’ as further cuts hit TV and radio
Warning from union comes as corporation cuts local specialist correspondent roles as part of plan to save £500m
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dear gawd, have they not endured enough already...? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Rick Wakeman performs piano concert to 150 rescued moon bears in Vietnam
Former Yes musician plays at sanctuary to raise awareness of animals that remain stuck in cages at ‘bile farms’
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need a government that recognises that poverty fuels alienation & extremism and implements policies to make people feel more financially secure. One that takes swift & decisive action when fascists run amok instead of dithering. Above all, we need a government that inspires hope for the future.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From not challenging the concept that disabled folk are 'benefits scroungers', to failing to defend the rights of trans community and actively demonising migrants, centrists have appeased the far-right time and time again. In doing so, they've normalised both their demands & their hateful rhetoric.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Both Thatcher & Cameron were deemed 'centre right', yet they gave us Section 28 & the 'hostile environment'. In doing so, they laid the foundations for the current shitshow of bigotry & hate. What's been *far* more damaging is the failure of the 'centre left' to stand up for decency & tolerance.
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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Researchers wrap tiny Saw-Whet Owls in cloth bags to keep them calm. Linked story is about a grassroots banding project by All About Birds / Cornell Lab of Ornithology: allaboutbirds.org/news/a-grass... Want to donate to Cornell Lab? give.birds.cornell.edu Photos: CHRIS LINDER 💛🦉 #owlsintowels
A Saw-Whet Owl is pouched in a cotton draw-string bag in the hands of a bander. She looks directly at camera with eyes yellow and wide: one eye lit from above-left, the other occluded in shadow. Feathers are muted brown with streaks of cream-white radiating from the eyes. The pouch is white with light blue stripes like the Uruguayan flag (1828-1830). In the background atop a wooden desk and out of focus is a chart with bars of yellow - likely for registering the hue of each banded owl's eyes as part of the migration research.Three identical pouches are strung from a horizontal cord, affixed with wooden clothes pegs like garments on a washing line. The pouches, I think it's safe to assume, are laden with one Saw-Whet Owl each. Some trust has been placed in the springs of the pegs, given that these little goobers typically weigh around 80 grams or 2.8 ounces. For reference that's the weight of a very small banana, or a hefty lemon, but those things rarely try to escape once put in a bag.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, I couldn't think of a more appropriate term for the hate-fueled bigot. How on earth she was ever considered a suitable candidate for a career based on empathy, respect and providing non-judgmental care for others is utterly beyond me.
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Playing the victim again, eh. She truly is a rancid turd... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Trans row nurse tells tribunal she ‘felt discriminated against’ by her union
Sandie Peggie accuses RCN of failing to adequately support her in dispute over sharing women’s changing room with trans doctor
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
More on the supernova: www.theastroholic.co.uk/catch-a-supe...
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Catch A Supernova Before It Fades
I had a bit of a dream come true happen this week. It also reopened an envious gripe that I have with early modern Western astronomers (and pretty much with anyone that lived across the decades betwee...
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Bats, on a scale of amazing to amazing, they're super amazing." *Nods* www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bats originated in Europe, rewriting mammals’ family tree, study reveals
Biggest study of its kind provides insights into bats’ evolution – a potential gamechanger for research into human virus and cancer treatment
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
IKEA are advertising on Talk – who today said 'we should do MORE slashing dinghies' 😖 IKEA can't claim to want to 'change the narrative around refugees for the better' whilst advertising on a channel notorious for spreading hate and misinformation Sign the petition: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik...
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They knew this 1,000-year-old archaeological site was here. It had been mapped, published, and reported to the agencies responsible for the land. Trump's border-wall contractors bulldozed right through it /1 Link: youtu.be/A4U6q76eqUM
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
S'OK, I'll let you off, but *only* because Buried Evidence is so excellent (I especially loved the recent St Brice's Day massacre episode. Thank you for that one!)
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
*So* disappointed that @rakshadigs.bsky.social failed to mention him in yesterday's Buried Evidence. Such negligence! #JusticeForPlaymobilÖtzi
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s #PlaymobilÖtzi Day again!
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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 19/09/2026
After taking a poll, the r/crafts subreddit has banned Harry Potter crafts from being posted in the sub because of JKR's consistent hateful conduct.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exxon is now expecting a 2.5 - 3C rise by 2050 But says f*ck you - we are just going to keep right on sucking up as much gas and oil as we can Because even though we know what's coming, we really don't give a sh*t www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember when the Guardian fired Dawn Foster for calling this guy out
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yeah, but 'Mickey Mouse degrees' or some such bullshit plays so well in far-right circles. We can't risk having a debt-free, educated populace who've engaged in a subject due to a passion to learn. So pile on the debt, limit future options and feed off despair. It's the way of true British patriots.
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby
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Owl of Impiety @dunite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Steady on now. We can't be too hasty and rush into implementing any old knee-jerk policy. I mean, by 2050, it'll only be ~65 years since I was taught at school that the increased emission of greenhouse gases caused by burning of fossil fuels would result in chaotic global warming.
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