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Mark the Birder

@northantsbirder.bsky.social
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Life long, Birder/Photographer often found wandering around Summer Leys LNR. Got Zino's Petrel on my list 30/07/2020 from a Scilly palagic. Chelsea F.C.

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Make it make sense 😑
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Scotland must stand up to the barbaric killings of baby Gannets in Scotland - ask your MSP to support a ban on the Guga hunt.
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Another day, another headline about AI gone rogue. It's why I've signed a new petition calling for the UK Gov to introduce an AI Rights Bill - with REAL rules, regulations and guardrails to protect us from AI gone rogue. Join me: 38d.gs/5roa
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Put an AI Rights Bill in place NOW, before it’s too late
Another day, another headline about AI gone rogue. It's why I've signed a new petition calling for the UK Gov to introduce an AI Rights Bill - with REAL rules, regulations and guardrails to protect us...
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
218 hectares of Havering grassland is set to be torn up for 340,000m² of data centre sheds. That land is home to badgers, water voles, bats, hares, great crested newts, hedgehogs, skylarks and more. The developer said its own 'compensation habitat' won't even reach "moderate" condition for 15 years.
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STAUNCH Campaign @staunchcampaign.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are just £20 short of our next #CrowdJustice milestone Please help us in our #CourtOfAppeal fundraising to uphold the #HabitatRegulations right across the #UK. #EnvironmentalLaw #SpecialProtectionArea #GoldenPlover #Lapwing #UpperNene #Birds #SavOurCountryside www.crowdjustice.com/case/wildlif...
A Golden Plover in a field
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STAUNCH Campaign @staunchcampaign.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We are starting Monday sitting strong at £11,600! That means we are exactly £3,400 away from smashing our £15,000 stretch milestone.Help us secure our #CourtOfAppeal fund to protect the #UpperNeneValley SPA from #megawarehouses. Let's clear this next hurdle! 👇 #STAUNCH #SaveOurCountryside
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Wildlife Not Warehouses
Our Judicial Review at the High Court was dismissed. Our legal team believe that there are grounds for appeal in relation to the judge's approach on 2 grounds.
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STAUNCH Campaign @staunchcampaign.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
❌ Don't wait for someone else to do it. The birds of the Upper Nene Valley SPA can't protect themselves—but we can. Please donate and share! @markavery.bsky.social @pippacrerar.bsky.social @dom70.bsky.social @rosiep4.bsky.social @northantstelegraph.bsky.social @northantsbirder.bsky.social
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Wildlife Not Warehouses
Our Judicial Review at the High Court was dismissed. Our legal team believe that there are grounds for appeal in relation to the judge's approach on 2 grounds.
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STAUNCH Campaign @staunchcampaign.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The developers thought we would run out of steam, but this community is just gaining speed. Chip in what you can or RT to spread the word across Northamptonshire! 👇 @markavery.bsky.social @northantsbirder.bsky.social @northantstelegraph.bsky.social www.crowdjustice.com/case/wildlif...
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Wildlife Not Warehouses
Our Judicial Review at the High Court was dismissed. Our legal team believe that there are grounds for appeal in relation to the judge's approach on 2 grounds.
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I can't believe this London-based landowner is putting the iconic Glenelg to Skye ferry at risk. Support the local community - not millionaire financiers - and save the world famous Glenelg to Skye ferry by joining me and signing the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save the Glenelg - Skye ferry!
This ten minute crossing is famous around the world - and is believed to be the last turntable style ferry anywhere. It's an iconic part of Skye's history, but it's under threat thanks to a wealthy la...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 21/08/2026
No wonder Labour wants more drilling in the North Sea.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Warmed and inadequately cleaned wastewater released from data centers is likely to affect water systems too. At least 200 new data centres are under consideration in the UK. Labour ministers have intervened on several occasions to push the processes through.
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Shops are still selling disposable barbecues even though they are causing wildfires. Ban them! 38d.gs/BanDisposabl...
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BAN DISPOSABLE BARBECUES NOW
People evacuated from their homes. Firefighters' lives in danger. All because of BBQs?
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Meta’s creepy smart glasses can be used to film people without their consent. 😡 Wetherspoons has banned them, now we need every public venue to do the same. Sign the petition 👇 38d.gs/nzn_
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Ban the use of Meta glasses in ALL public venues
Meta’s creepy smart glasses can be used to film people without their consent. 😡 Wetherspoons has banned them, now we need every public venue to do the same. Sign the petition 👇
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
£1 MILLION. That’s what Thames Water has handed its new finance chief while customers face rising bills, the company drowns in debt and they dump sewage into our waterways 😡 Sign the petition demanding he gives the money back: 38d.gs/vqro
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Thames Water: Put customers before bosses
£1 MILLION. That’s what Thames Water has handed its new finance chief while customers face rising bills, the company drowns in debt and they dump sewage into our waterways 😡 Sign the petition demandin...
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Firefighters put out 15 campfires and three disposable barbecues in one day in the Snake Pass area of the Peak District. Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service warned a "single spark could cause another devastating wildfire". Leave barbecues at home!
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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
URGENT: the river Tyne is facing a plastic pollution disaster. On 19 July, a cargo ship collision caused over a billion plastic pellets to spill to the port of river Tyne - polluting the river system, coastal sites and the sea. To find out how you can help, visit buff.ly/XpB89LA
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
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End the sewage pollution scandal
Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action!
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
LAST PUSH! Can we get 250,000 people demanding an end to the killing of Gannet chicks?
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"It’s all very well putting up £1 m to explore Golden Eagles re-establishment in northern England but w/out also investing in wildlife crime enforcement capabilities, any eagle will simply be shot, trapped, poisoned or bludgeoned, with 0 consequences for the offenders, as they've been for 70+ years"
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The EU wants to hand over our fingerprints and facial images to Trump. Hardly anyone knows. Sign and share to help stop it! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...
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EU: Don’t send our data to the US!
Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: EU: Don’t send our data to the US!
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
💧Water is a basic service, not a cash machine 🤑 While bills rise and sewage pours into our rivers and seas, water companies keep rewarding shareholders. Enough is enough. It's time to bring water back into public ownership. Add your name: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/big-publ...
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Bring our water back into public ownership
💧Water is a basic service, not a cash machine 🤑 While bills rise and sewage pours into our rivers and seas, water companies keep rewarding shareholders. Enough is enough. It's time to bring water ba...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The genocide in Gaza is a moral litmus test for Burnham.
In particular, something that's very important to lots of people in this country, is the genocide in Gaza, which Andy Burnham often refuses to recognise as a genocide.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
To make your submission on Ireland's Nature Restoration Plan, follow the steps in this @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social page. We can't lament the terrible state of Irish nature if we do nothing to change it. iwt.ie/have-your-sa...
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Have your Say: Ireland’s Nature Restoration Plan - Irish Wildlife Trust
You are part of nature restoration. Make your voice heard. Send your submission to Ireland's Nature Restoration Plan by 01 July.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".
A painting which depicts Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Volkswagen wants to move from making cars to helping fuel Israel's war machine. The deal isn’t signed yet - let’s stop it before the ink is dry. SIGN NOW and tell Volkswagen: stay out of war. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...
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Stop Volkswagen’s dangerous new deal
Share the petition and you'll help multiply the impact of this campaign: Stop Volkswagen’s dangerous new deal
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Hi everyone.👋 Just to inform you that @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social is currently suspended from her account.😔 You might have seen her talking about birds recently on Clarkson's Farm. Please share, hopefully someone at @bsky.app will notice & reinstate this champion of our feathered friends!🙏
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The Guga hunt is Scotland's shame - native seabird chicks being slaughtered in the name of tradition. Why are we allowing this massacre to go on?
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Did you know pheasants aren’t native?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Yes. If you're a bigot who wants to divide communities, a billionaire wanting to preserve your wealth or a "newspaper" that wants to preserve power: we're very sinister indeed. To everyone else: feels a lot like hope. Join.greenparty.org.uk
The greens could be about to get even more sinister
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Ofcom is investigating GB News for its outrageous Trump interview. Ofcom must enforce its own rules and hold them to account! Add your name to the open letter now. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ofcom-st...
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Ofcom: Stop GB News flouting the rules
I just signed the campaign calling on Ofcom to stop GB News from flouting the rules
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
There is now clear evidence that the Great Israeli Real Estate event had unlawful activity at it. I've written to the Mayor of London to ask what he intends to do about it. This needs to be escalated immediately.
During Mayor's Question Time last week I asked you to put pressure on the government to ban the “unlawful” ‘Great Israeli Real Estate.’

You clarified that you had discussed the event with the Metropolitan Police Service and stated that any allegations of criminality relating to the potentially unlawful sale of property at the event would be assessed by the Met as part of an investigation.


It has since come to light that materials handed out at the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate’ event included properties in Ma'Ale Adumin and Givat Zeev in the West Bank and
Ramat Eshkol and Givat HaMatos in East Jerusalem. 

These settlements are illegal under international law. This event should never have been allowed to happen in our city.  There was substantial evidence ahead of the event that organisers were advertising properties in illegal settlements. More than 100 organisations, including human rights groups, as well as over 100 MPs called for the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate’ event to be cancelled.

The UK Government has repeatedly affirmed that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. 

With horrific settler violence against Palestinians on the rise, it’s more important than ever that those involved in hosting this deplorable event in our city are not allowed to act with impunity.

The Proceeds of Crime Act makes it illegal for promoters and estate agents operating in the UK to facilitate the sale of land acquired through illegal conduct. 

Yvette Cooper has confirmed that the Advertising Standards Authority will investigate Sunday's event but that response is completely inadequate. This needs to be escalated to the Metropolitan Police Service immediately, anything less fails to reflect the
seriousness of the situation.

Following your discussion with the Met, why was a decision not made to ban the event given the clear and mounting evidence that justified its cancellation and how was it assessed that the event should go ahead? Could you also confirm whether t…
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Discarded and abandoned fishing gear— kills hundreds of thousands of marine mammals and millions of seabirds annually An estimated 640,000 to 800,000 tonnes of fishing gear are lost or discarded into the world's oceans every year www.wwf.org.ec?365018/Ghost...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...
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Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law
Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 11/06/2026
Must watch: Martin Lewis lets loose on politicians over 10yrs inaction over scam ads. Courtesy: @thismorningitv.bsky.social youtu.be/PxWA6fzkdj4
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Martin Lewis lets loose on politicians over 10 years inaction over scam ads
YouTube video by Martin Lewis
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Did you know that thousands of energy-hungry AI data centres are coming to Europe? Our electricity bills could go up fast unless Big Tech is forced to run them on 100% new, renewable energy. Join me in signing👇 action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-05...
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Run EU data centres on 100% renewables!
Thousands of energy-hungry data centres are being built across Europe. Our bills depend on how they’re powered - expensive fossil fuels or homegrown, renewable energy. Sign the petition to call on the...
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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End the sewage pollution scandal
Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action!
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
'Share' this post if you agree! END BIRD SHOOTING
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Your daily reminder that Pheasants are non-native birds that are factory farmed and then released into the British countryside in the tens of millions. All so that paying clients have as many as possible to shoot for fun.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
No excuse for killing birds for the sheer hell of it.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/05/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: “We urgently need to do — and I mean actually do — something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don’t think we will. I think we’re fucked.” www.thriftbooks.com/w/ten-billio...
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Ten Billion book by Stephen Emmott
Buy a cheap copy of Ten Billion book by Stephen Emmott. Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the r...
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Please sign the e-action asking NatureScot to not award the licence to the Guga hunters. protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
ACT NOW TO STOP THE 2026 GUGA HUNT! protectthewild.substack.com/p/its-happen...
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Guga hunters have submitted their 2026 kill licence
The chicks are hatching. The Guga hunters are waiting. NatureScot is deliberating.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
THE BRITISH PUBLIC NEED TO KNOW THIS.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We're calling on the Govt to remove all loopholes and exemptions from the 2004 Hunting Act. You can take 15 seconds to respond to the live Govt consultation and ensure these views are put across: protectthewild.org.uk/trail-huntin...
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Trail Hunting Consultation - Protect the Wild
TAKE ACTION: Hunting ConsultationThe government is consulting on plans to ban trail hunting a practice widely used as a cover for illegal fox hunting and the killing of other mammals.This is your…
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I've signed. Please can you. Thanks
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I just signed the campaign calling on the new Health Secretary to get Palantir out of our NHS! act.38degrees.org.uk/act/to-the-n...
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To the new Health Secretary: Get Palantir out of our NHS!
I just the petition calling on the new Health Secretary to get Palantir out of our NHS!
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Mark the Birder @northantsbirder.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Bird highlights from yesterday's wander around Summer Leys are Glossy Ibis, Whimbrel, C Sandpiper, GW Egret, Avocets, 2 Hobbies, 3 LR Plovers, all the usual Warblers and a fly over Osprey. @wildlifebcn.org #birds #northantsbirds #Nikon @jcbirder.bsky.social
Whimbrel in a field of daisy's Whimbrel in a field of daisy's Osprey in flight Osprey in flight
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