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nellylouscoat.bsky.social

@nellylouscoat.bsky.social
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I’m French now living in Brittany, spent most of my adult life in Britain mainly in Wales. Mad about gardening and rare plants

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am endlessly thankful to Just Stop Oil for taking to the streets again today But it's not easy seeing such good, generous-hearted and courageous people being handcuffed and taken away, many possibly to long jail sentences It shouldn't have to be this way
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Some of the biggest marine No-Take Zones on the planet, bearing the most *phenomenal* gains for wildlife, fisherpeople and tourism, will now be wrecked by Trump, an act of mind-blowing pigheaded stupidity. If you truly care about the wellbeing of the natural world, getting political is imperative.
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
1/4 After the disaster of privatisation, the water sector needs a fundamental reset - not more tinkering around the edges. Yet the Government continues to muddle through regulatory reforms that ignore the root of the problem: ownership.
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Helen @helenmaryme.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A tailorbird is a bird known for its remarkable ability to sew leaves together to create a nest. This process involves puncturing the edges of leaves and using plant fibers to stitch them together, creating a sturdy and camouflaged nest that protects the chicks from predators.
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MicheleMuse 💙🌈🦋🇺🇦 @michelemuse.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
There is still beauty in the world. 📷 unknown. These flowers are consistent with Ochna integerrima, a popular ornamental plant in East Asia known as the Yellow Mai flower.
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
‘Cruel’ is a perfect description for these plans. Proposals to double the time it takes for migrant care workers to qualify for permanent settlement will throw lives into doubt.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An accidental thread here, on an issue of enormous importance, as this paper became fundamental to government climate policy (and non-policy) around the world.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A group of at least 14 feral goats in Killarney National Park on Sunday. The relevant global authority, the IUCN, classes goats as among THE most ecologically devastating alien invasive species on Earth. Why are these walking strimmers still tolerated in Irish state nature reserves?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I would beg you to read the whole thread, as I think very few people have seen how fast the foundations of democracy are being torn out in the UK, and how far down the road towards authoritarianism we have already travelled. Sorry to pester you, but this could not be more important. Thanks.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alarm over ‘extreme’ sentences for anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism
First amendment groups call 50-to-100-year prison terms chilling as legal experts say sentences unusually long
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Yearly Murmuration of Starlings in Rome are incredibly adaptable songbirds known for their mesmerizing, synchronized aerial acrobatics, exceptional vocal mimicry, and shifting, shimmering plumage
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
And no, 'forest' doesn't mean monoculture plantations. It means generally native, natural ecosystems. italiantimes.substack.com/p/forests-no...
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Forests Now Cover Over a Third of Italy, Overtaking Farmland for the First Time Since the Middle Ages
Italy is now, in effect, a forest nation. Wooded areas have surpassed 100,000 square kilometers in extent and cover more than a third of the national territory.
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Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I will keep saying this until people start understanding: Data centers are speeding up the wars of the future, which will be over water, not oil. This is not something to wait until after the fact to fight. If you will not be able to afford water, what do you think they will make you do for it?
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
While we struggle to pay the highest electricity prices in Europe, Australia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, causing huge price drops. A perfect example of how the wellbeing of people and planet *can* be dovetailed. share.google/xMhW48OyxXUF...
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The household battery revolution that could change energy bills … and the world
Australia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, proving what is possible with the right policies
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nellylouscoat.bsky.social @nellylouscoat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Palantir’s technologies are used by the powerful to attack the powerless. This company should not be involved in our public services. Sign this petition if you agree act.globaljustice.org.uk/get-palantir...
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Get Palantir out of UK public services
The UK has handed Palantir dozens of public contracts, including with the NHS, even as the dangers of empowering a class of big tech oligarchs become clear. Palantir has supplied military technology t...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5
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Azul = Blue @azulequalsblue.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Taking care of business. We need to do this and move on.
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nellylouscoat.bsky.social @nellylouscoat.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Ok here the garlic flowers are white, but I like your pink one
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Alan Cross🇨🇦 @alancross.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Dear America, DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR PRESIDENT AND YOUR FECKLESS GOVERNMENT! WHY SHOULD EVERYONE ELSE SUFFER BECAUSE OF THIS INSANITY? Signed, Most of the rest of the planet
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Tony Blair’s oil lobbying is a misleading rehash of fossil fuel industry spin
Ex-PM’s thinktank urges more drilling and fewer renewables, ignoring evidence that clean energy is cheaper and better for bills
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Such a powerful maiden speech from our amazing new Green MP Hannah Spencer - take a few moments to listen & celebrate that a bit more humanity has entered Westminster & hope is beginning to feel more normal 👇
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Tee Koobaan 🇨🇦 - Kevin Sorbo's failed acting coach 🙄 @teekoobaan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
As an Iranian in exile as some call it, I want nothing more than a regime change in Iran. But what I don't want is my country destroyed, people killed, and all looted by Americans! #FuckYourWar
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
BREAKING⚡️The High Court has just ruled that the government's draconian ban of Palestine Action was unlawful. This is a massive blow to the Home Office’s authoritarian approach. They need to stop criminalising people protesting a genocide and start ending the UK's complicity
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nellylouscoat.bsky.social @nellylouscoat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Trump. Giving him a royal visit right now sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. We can stop this if enough of us speak up. Will you add your name to the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
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Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The bombing of Venezuela is an act of aggression: unprovoked, unjustified and unjustifiable.
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The UK uses c227,000 miles of wrapping paper each year – & an estimated 83 square kilometres of wrapping paper isn't recycled. So choosing sustainable wrapping paper, & disposing of it responsibly by recycling, is an important way to cut Christmas waste. More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/reviews/casc...
Gifts wrapped with red and white Christmas paper and tied with ribbons
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Avaaz @avaaz.org · 21/10/2025
You might have read this before in some of our emails, but it never hurts to repeat: from our heart to yours—don’t lose hope. 💪 #Avaaz #Quotes
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Word of the day is ‘tamalou’: a French name for an older person who no longer greets their friends with ‘how was your holiday?, but with ‘t’as mal où ?’, ‘where does it hurt?’. There follows an enthusiastic account of aches and pains and doctor’s appointments.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Life-saving idea! Pass it on!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Let's empty the jails so we can fill them with octogenarians who care about genocide. Because that's the real threat to society. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Prison bosses make room for possible influx before planned protests across England
Exclusive: Possible arrests at protests against Palestine Action ban and asylum hotels likely to stretch prisons
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.
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Avaaz @avaaz.org · 28/07/2025
Go to avaaz.org/confrontIsrael and join our collective action to confront Israel.
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A real pleasure to join Martin Simpson on the 'Folk on Foot' podcast , walking through the woods near my home in the New Forest . Goshawks , poodles and my favourite tree . . . listen now at chrispackh.am/folkonfoot
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Water firms across the country are announcing hosepipe bans. All while: - 3 billion litres of water are wasted daily through leaks. - Not a single major reservoir has been built since privatisation. Time for public ownership: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...
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nellylouscoat.bsky.social @nellylouscoat.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Beautiful
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Perfectly expressed.
"I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. 

Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. 

That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. 

If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after"

Sahar Delijani,
Iranian author
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Isn’t this beautiful! I would happily join you for that roam, Gemma! x
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Solidarity with Indigo & other brave nonviolent #climate activists - the true criminals are the fossil fuel giants driving climate breakdown
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I received a 30-month jail sentence for nonviolent resistance. Why so harsh? Because protest works | Indigo Rumbelow
The judge wanted us to show remorse, but I can’t apologise for fighting the climate disaster, writes Indigo Rumbelow, co-founder of Just Stop Oil
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Well said @elliechowns.bsky.social Nuclear weapons are weapons of mass destruction - and by upgrading ours, we send a signal that it’s acceptable for all other countries to seek to acquire them too, making the world far less safe
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Plans to upgrade UK’s own Weapons of Mass Destruction breaches our international obligations & destroys any moral authority we might have had to deter other countries eg Iran from seeking to acquire their own nukes. Instead we should be finally signing UN Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Eoghan's Irish Rainforest New YouTube video by the great Eoin Reardon on my rewilding a rainforest ecosystem in Beara, West Cork! youtu.be/EavXzC_y3NM?...
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Eoghan's Irish Rainforest
YouTube video by Eoin Reardon
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I've just been told about this, and I'm honoured to be on the list. Far be it from me to seek to influence your vote, and there are other good people here ... but I trust, as ever, in my readers' impeccable judgement 😉 www.amnesty.org.uk/cast-your-vote
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Cast Your Vote for the Amnesty UK People's Choice Award
Cast your vote in the first ever Amnesty UK People's Choice Awards. Which UK journalist do you think made the greatest impact in their tireless reporting on human rights?
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Gillian Mackay - Scottish Greens @gillianmackaygreen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I am delighted that the Government has finally committed to the Scottish Green Party policy of ending peak rail fares for good. This is why having Green voices in Holyrood is so important. Voting Green gets results!
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Couldn't have put it better myself ! Climate change is real , and fossil fuels are killing our planet . Just 5 days left to force a Parliamentary debate on banning fossil fuel ads – sign my petition today govpetition.uk/700024
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Les Pellicules @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
They'll care when huge numbers of them get replaced by Reform Gobshites
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Andrew Fusek Peters @andrewfusekpeters.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
One of the most incredible things I have ever seen - mistle thrush feeding an orphaned blackbird fledgeling! This is ultra rare behaviour and have never seen it photographed. @omsystem.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @bto-gbw.bsky.social
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The government's benefits cuts, two-child cap and freeze in Local Housing Allowance are all *false economies*. They don't save money. They merely push spending into different parts of the budget, while causing untold suffering. Cruel, perfomative and pointless. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...
The analysis shows that 206,000 children will be living in temporary accommodation by 2029 – a 26% increase over five years – while the cost to the taxpayer is set to rise by 71% to £3.9bn a year.
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