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Jamie Warren @mossmalarkey.bsky.social · 16h

Blindiadelphus Campylopoda (Bentfoot Rock-bristle) a nationaly scarce seligerial species that grows on limestone fragments in woodland ,pretty much only known from the wye valley ,here at daggers hill near Chepstow 27.9.26 ,nice bryo @bbsbryology.bsky.social

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Jamie Warren @mossmalarkey.bsky.social · 16h

Nice to find Seligeria donniana (Donn's Rock-bristle) whilst searching for the rarer S. Campylopoda in the Wye Valley at the weekend ,still a new site for S. Donniana is still nice 3.10.26 @bbsbryology.bsky.social

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2h

This is gutting. Sternberg is one of the most important paleontology museums in the country. MUSEUMS SHOULD BE LAST ON THE LIST TO CLOSE, NOT FIRST. What kind of world do we want to live in? Because running the country -- and universities -- like businesses and not a public good is what got us here.

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · 2h

My co-author, Paul, and I had our online book launch today to coincide with #WorldTeacherDay. It was fun 🥂 "Teaching the climate emergency in primary schools" won't be a best seller but it will hopefully provide support and ideas to educators wanting to make their lessons relevant and engaging.

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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 4h

This massive power shift is even more starkly illustrated by the billionaires, financial mavens, and tech bros who put Trump in power, who refuse to slow climate change, and who are now deciding on the future of AI and therefore humanity, writes @rbreich.bsky.social.

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The Wealthy Hold More Power Than Ever—Can We Take It Back?

How can government enact and enforce the necessary reforms if it’s under the control of a power elite that won’t permit them?

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Truthout @truthout.org · 4h

In a campaign speech in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday, President Donald Trump suggested he would withhold federal funds from the state if voters elect Democratic politicians in this year’s midterm races.

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At Ohio Campaign Rally, Trump Threatens to Withhold Aid If Democrats Get Elected

“I’m not going to help” if an Ohio Democratic candidate for governor wins, Trump said.

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 5h

1/ Albert Einstein sometimes described himself as a Zionist & wanted Palestine to be a safe haven for Jews. But he abhorred ethno-nationalist Zionism & foresaw its destructive consequences. This is the now dominant form of Zionism that the Green Party motion refers to but it is is not the only...

For Netanyahu, the presupposition is that Israel must stand as a Jewish state, something that Einstein did not approve of. Yes, Einstein was a self-proclaimed Zionist, but as with so much else, Einstein’s view was non-standard. Einstein thought that Palestine should be a multi-cultural nation which could serve as a safe space for Jews in danger to flee and in which there would be Jewish institutions, especially Hebrew University, which he saw as a potential beacon of pride for Jews around the world if it could be made into a world-class research university. But the idea of an exclusively Jewish state worried Einstein because it would take Judaism and marry it to nationalism, something that could rot Judaism from the inside.

As a child in turn of the century Germany, Einstein had developed a loathing of nationalism and the jingoistic militarism it bred. The heart of Judaism as Einstein saw it was an appreciation of the other as a full human being. Jews since the Diaspora were always minorities and this meant that Jews had acquired a sense of what it meant to be marginalized and thereby an ethic based on empathy and mutual recognition. If real estate became a golden idol to be worshipped, it could cause harm to the ethic that lay at the core of Judaism itself.

Of course, Einstein’s vision is not that which shaped the region, but it was not a fight Einstein failed to take up passionately, arguing publicly and vociferously with those who would be the founding fathers of what has become Likud, Netanyahu’s political party. Their nationalistic ideology and their glorification of violent means led Einstein to denounce them. It was nationalism that fed anti-Semitism, Einstein contended, to adopt such a stance ourselves would cause us to ignore the lessons our history should have taught us.

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Andrew Maurins (he/they) @andrewmaurins.bsky.social · 6h

Important to remember for this Banned Books Week. 📌

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12h

There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. 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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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 11h

He’s lying about our elections. He’s assaulting our elections. He’s sowing distrust in our elections. He’s laying the groundwork to once again not accept the results of our elections. He’ll try again to overturn our elections. He is America’s enemy. Treat him as such.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 22h

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Any sane academic evaluation policy would forbid mention of Impact Factor

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14h

I still remember getting my first email address as a freshman in college. It was the coolest thing ever and no one was screaming YOU BETTER ADOPT THIS OR WE’RE ALL DEAD.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20h

Every Republican voter voted for this

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This twisted and magnificent holly tree is what you get if you give them many decades to grow in an ancient woodland. Slow growing but worth the wait.

Holly tree, with a two-foot wide trunk and gnarled elephant-hide bark. Halfway up the frame, the trunk splits into three secondary trunks. in the background are lush green leaves. Offa's Dyke Path above the Wye Valley near Tidenham.

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Illuminated @illuminatedcomics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It came to me in a dream. #comics

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am sorry, Holly Trees. I did not appreciate your game.

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a desolate wasteland of a party. It is clear from the shadpw chancellor's speech that he has no idea what these agencies actually do. Even Michael Gove appreciated their value. 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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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Greens' open model gives members real power and makes the party credible as a democratic, bottom-up organisation, but it exposes the leadership to this kind of risk. Internal rules have consequences!

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This twisted and magnificent holly tree is what you get if you give them many decades to grow in an ancient woodland. Slow growing but worth the wait.

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Green Sod Ireland @greensodireland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Check out our hands-on day of peatland restoration at Meenletterbale with @inishowenrivers.bsky.social This is part of the ongoing work to restore three hectares of peatland at the site. #PeatlandRestoration #Meenletterbale #Inishowen #Donegal #Volunteering #NatureRestoration.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What people fail to understand is also that Zionism was not just a plan/ideology for Jews in Palestine, it was also a vision for Jewish *diasporic* identity. Much of Zionist activity has always taken place outside Palestine/Israel and was about communal identity and politics. Hence the attachment.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Jen @jekesta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love Hannah Fry and I can't believe how hard they're going to murder her, just because a) she pointed out how stupid they are, and b) Jerry Hall is scared of the dark. www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDv...

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How would Alan Turing have played the Traitors?

YouTube video by Hannah Fry

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whorls upon whorls in the trunk of a yew tree, highlighted by sea-green lichen.

Close up of the trunk of a yew tree, showing yellow and brown whorls of wood, outlined by small sea-green patches of lichen. In the Lower Wye Valley, just below Offa's Dyke

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026

Fascists and authoritarians, both in government and within families, love “A.i.”’because it’s a tool for violating consent and enforcing conformity and obedience.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Could do without another "The Man in the High Castle" reboot if I'm being honest

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...

My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.

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Whorls upon whorls in the trunk of a yew tree, highlighted by sea-green lichen.

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026

Europe didnt just experience an exceptionally hot summer in 2026. It experienced a summer where multiple climate extremes reinforced each other. First - temperature records were broken at daily, monthly and seasonal scales across Europe Read more: climate.copernicus.eu/summer-revie...

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026

#Climate change is not just raising temperatures. It is increasing the likelihood of prolonged periods when heat, water stress and wildfire risk occur simultaneously. Understanding these compound extremes is essential for building resilience across our water, food, energy and health systems.

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With the acorn crop seemingly non-existent in much of England this year (following the huge masting event last year) it's not surprising that hungry Jays are turning up at the coast as they run out of road in the search & competition for food.

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Over the past 40 years, we have basically said, 'To hell with it. We don't have to change. We can adapt.' And then we have catastrophically failed to adapt.

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Those jokes and offhand insults and snide comments that are "just workplace banter" are the foundations of women's degradation that enable a sexist society.

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We may have already caused coral reef extinction. How many more ecosystems will we destroy before we change? “The ocean is transforming: Warming, rising seas, and ecosystem degradation are interconnected signs of significant and long-term change.” www.commondreams.org/news/heating...

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Report Delivers 'Starkest Warning Yet' on How Climate Emergency Is Causing 'Profound Changes' for Oceans | Common Dreams

The 10th annual Copernicus Ocean State Report reveals alarming ocean warming and extreme events, signaling profound shifts due to the climate crisis. Are we ready to face the consequences of continued...

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SWAYHEM @swayart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A real showgirl… Zatanna #8 illustration by me

Zatanna , DC comic character , is a magician . She sits down backwards of a chair in a seduce pose around are demon hands pointing around her

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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Dr. Nina Davtian (she/her/hers) @ninadavtian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is how I celebrated the #MinCup26 champion. Congrats #Quartz! Names of the shown quartz varieties in the ALT text.

Selfie (Nina Davtian) taken on 3rd October 2026. In addition to a pink top, Nina wears a necklace with amethyst stones and a silver ring with a smoked quartz stone on her right ring finger.

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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women; in the definition of masculinity, domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit

Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point – the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women

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Jess @jesspearce.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So I was wrong...I could love her more. youtu.be/twDvxNooI_4?... #hannahfry #thetraitors #maths

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How would Alan Turing have played the Traitors?

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/10/2026

Predators don’t work in a silo. The Epstein files, Gisèle Pelicot, the over 50 students involved in the Cornell scandal - hundreds of men knew about the sexual assaults and abuses. And did nothing. No more silence. No more inaction. Add your name. bit.ly/4jv2tSs

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It’s time for men to speak up - and act | Good Law Project

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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