Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 24/05/2025It's no less toxic - just toxic on the left rather than the right with little tolerance for diverse views. 010
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 19/05/2025It makes me laugh when people talk about EU animal welfare, environmental & food safety laws as if they're some kind of utopian ideal. They're not. There are many cases of the UK moving more quickly, more smartly or further in all these areas. 1/2 www.thetimes.com/article/e8e9...thetimes.comWhat’s on the table as part of Keir Starmer’s EU deal?From security and immigration to food standards and fisheries, the key elements in the prime minister’s wide-ranging new agreement with the bloc 110
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 18/05/2025We've never grown less of our own food... www.thetimes.com/article/7a9c...thetimes.comFrom chicken to potatoes, Britain’s never grown less of its own foodCheap imports and poor returns from farming mean our self-sufficiency is in peril. Some even think we’re on the road to rationing 021
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 11/05/2025And here we all are worrying about accepting that calendar or bottle or wine from suppliers at Christmas. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...abcnews.go.comTrump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: SourcesPresident Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources 010
Reposted by OxtaleWill Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 11/05/2025If you read to the very bottom of the Telegraph article He wants Fortescue to reach what he calls “real zero” by 2040 – where fossil fuels are no longer used because there are better alternatives. “I believe net zero is a f------ con,” he says. “Real zero is serious. Just stop burning fossil fuel.”buff.ly‘Net zero is a f------ con’, says mining tycoon going green — The TelegraphInterview: Andrew Forrest is on a mission to prove that business nous and climate evangelism can coexist 35116
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 11/05/2025*Facism* *Truth* *Big *Law* *Love* Five words explored by George Orwell in his works, that have taken on a chilling new resonance today. And of all of these, 'truth' is the most devastating. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...bbc.co.ukBBC Sounds - Orwell in Five Words - Available EpisodesListen to the latest episodes of Orwell in Five Words on BBC Sounds. 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Quite encouraged by the bug count on my car today. More than I've seen in a few years. But underlines the importance of good spring weather to bug populations? 000
Reposted by OxtaleRoot and Reason @rootandreason.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Should UK farmers play a part in meeting UK govt goals on climate change? AFN Champ @oxtale.bsky.social has released a report following a ‘farmers’ jury’ experiment conducted earlier this year. Read some conclusions & recommendations 👉 tinyurl.com/eefywrfd & full report 👉 tinyurl.com/farmerjurytinyurl.comAmy Jackson - AFN Network+Amy has spent most of her life working in and around farming: on farms, as trainee auctioneer and cattle breeder, and in agricultural public relations – including four years as head of communications ... 022
Reposted by OxtaleSomerset Wildlands @somersetwildlands.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Help us rewild the Somerset Levels, and make more space for nature. All this week your donations will be 𝗗𝗢𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗗 as part of the Big Give. If you can't donate please share to help spread the word. Thank you! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05... 0910
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 23/04/2025I do appreciate your concern @aendra.com, but that percentage does actually seem to reflect the wider population? In England and Wales, the 2021 census indicated that 0.54% of the population identified as a gender different from their sex registered at birth. 100
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Pretty clear-eyed and helpful in terms of explaining the facts, issues, context and routes forward... www.thetimes.com/article/f89e...thetimes.comIll-informed challenges to Supreme Court decision help nobodyCitizens should be involved in debate about law reform, but questioning the legitimacy of the judgment on misconceived grounds is irresponsible 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Just love this obituary of Anne Harper (formerly Scargill). I think many in high profile political roles are attracted to strong partners, but you rarely hear their partners' stories... www.thetimes.com/article/9ee1...thetimes.comAnne Harper obituary: activist and wife of Arthur ScargillFirebrand who brought ‘girl power’ to the miners’ strike in 1984-85 and later occupied pits threatened with closure 011
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 18/04/2025I found this a very thoughtful and empathetic view of the issues on both 'sides' in this heated debate. Views? www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/blog/sex-and...fawcettsociety.org.ukSex and gender identity: finding a way forwardOur CEO, Sam Smethers, reflects on the importance of empathy in order to balance the rights of both women and trans women. 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 16/04/2025You can. You just get an ESTA, same as before 🤷🏻♀️. Not excusing these guys but we don't need to make it worse than it already is... 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 14/04/2025What an age we live in. And what reprehensible, self-obsessed people we're watching shape it. 021
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/04/2025SUCH a great story via @theknowledgenews.bsky.social... Middle age men community cards 😍 www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainmen...tokyoweekender.comMiddle-Aged Man Trading Cards Go Viral in Rural Japan TownA trading card game consisting of real-life ojisan (middle-aged men) are going viral with kids in the city of Kawara in Fukuoka Prefecture. 020
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Drama every day. Every single day. Puts me in mind of... youtube.com/watch?v=zYUD...youtube.comPoop Poop!YouTube video by MikhailCompo 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Sobering thought for the day from @theknowledgenews.bsky.social 010
Reposted by OxtaleGory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Instead of believing the myth that three expensive, genetically modified wolves are “de-extinct” dire wolves, let’s look at animals humanity has actually brought back from the brink of extinction using proven science and dedicated hard work: 🧵/6 5132451570
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 08/04/2025I can't tell you how up for this I am. Go @themerl.bsky.social! 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 02/04/2025The problem is that average UK cows' milk per 240ml emits 300g CO2e (1.25kg/litre) and some (eg Arla's) is as low as 260g. UK also uses only 1.9 litres of 'blue' tap or abstracted water per 240g. The rest is rainfall. So global figures really are pretty irrelevant at a national level? 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Today, I found out my husband travels abroad with cocktail sticks. 230
Reposted by OxtaleThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Spring forth, spring equinox 731837
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Wondering if BlueSky is now a liberal elite echo chamber of people who, through an inability to empathise with those who feel differently to them, have unwittingly stoked this current crisis? 🤔 There are very few bad people in the world - but plenty of scared people. Shall we try to help sort that?media.tenor.coma dog is sitting in the back seat of a car and looking at the camera .ALT: a dog is sitting in the back seat of a car and looking at the camera . 000
Reposted by OxtaleTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/01/2025Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time. 363331958
Reposted by OxtaleSustainable Food Trust @susfoodtrust.bsky.social · 11/03/2025🗨️ Livestock farmers: If your local abattoir closed, what would you do? We need to hear directly from those on the frontlines of farming to understand how abattoirs are important for their businesses and the impact of losing the services they provide: surveymonkey.com/r/abattoirs 1107
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Is there any particular reason Google hasn't flagged Harriet Tubman day...? 🤨 Just asking... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet...en.wikipedia.orgHarriet Tubman Day - Wikipedia 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Neil Heseltine was inspiring at the Oxford Farming Conference... www.thetimes.com/article/f618...thetimes.comI’m a farmer with 400 sheep and only made £500 in a yearNeil Heseltine swapped 80 hours a week of intensive sheep farming for half the hours, an environmentally-friendly herd and money in the bank 020
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I have rarely seen a more worthwhile petition. Please read and given the current climate of ramapant overseas interference in many countries' domestic issues including ours, consider signing. 011
Reposted by OxtaleRob Cameron @robcjournalist.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Stansted. Has he not suffered enough? 1011213
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 14/02/2025One of the all time greats on the Far Side calendar yesterday... 010
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Who'd have thunk it about that newfangled thing called pasteurisation. 021
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 09/02/2025@oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social take note please re Cornmarket 011
Reposted by OxtaleStephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 06/02/2025My latest column just appeared in Science, entitled "Free speech, fact-checking, and the right to accurate information”. (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) I use one of President Trump’s first executive orders to unpack the terrain between misinformation and claims to free speech 1/nscience.orgFree speech, fact checking, and the right to accurate informationTrue to his campaign promises, on 20 January 2025, US President Donald Trump signed a broad range of Executive Orders, the scope of which ranged from renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” t... 4231114
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I think many can relate to this, in @theknowledgenews.bsky.social today... 🚄 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Can anyone explain this to me? Steve Micklewright, chief executive of Trees for Life, said: "If we are serious about tackling the nature and climate emergencies, we need lynx back." 🤔 www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comJohn Swinney rules out reintroduction of lynx to ScotlandThe first minister tells farmers that no carnivorous species will be reintroduced under his government. 100
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 06/02/2025As if HMRC would ever 'reach out'. Do better scammers - and sort that shonky email address out... 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Some positive news on bird flu as researchers close in on suitable antibody-based vaccine ...https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2025/02/04/bird-flu-breakthrough-amidst-pandemic-fears/?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=06-Feb-2025&cid=DM1191257&bid=613695494 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 29/01/2025@jakereynolds.bsky.social What happened to that post about WRI, where emissions come from, and behavioural factors? Because I have a question! 🙋🏻♀️ 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 25/01/2025"...pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow’s lovely form Evanishing amid the storm." 000
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Great thread on a new study that shows despite differences in soil carbon stocks in fields around the country, the carbon stored under hedges is consistently significantly higher! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comConsistent soil organic carbon accumulation under hedges driven by increase in light particulate organic matterHedgerow planting is recommended by biodiversity policies and those that promote the inclusion of woody plants in agricultural landscapes to sequester… 011
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Like Chester Royde arriving at Glenbogle. Well done @thescotsmanpaper.bsky.social for contacting the co. after seeing "scaling conservation to deliver positive environmental & social impact, in an attempt to save the world” on its website, to ask what that means. www.scotsman.com/hays-way/fir...scotsman.comFirm buys historic 15,000-acre Scottish Highlands estate to 'rewild' and sell carbon creditsRecords show it’s the third time the estate has changed hands in about 300 years. 010
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Reminded of prey animals hiding weakness to avoid attracting attention...& wonder whether there are negative repercussions for women in showing fatigue? Or maybe female 'success' relies more on relationships hence we strive to keep those going in adversity? 🤔 www.thetimes.com/article/f75d...thetimes.comWhy nobody notices when women are tired… but do when it’s a manNasa has found that observers tend to underestimate how much fatigue women are experiencing, but overestimate tiredness in men 010
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Interesting development considering one of the main treatments for E. coli infection in young weaned pigs has been zinc oxide (now banned in UK and EU). 110
Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Useful collation of expert opinion on the safety and use of Bovaer from the Science Media Centre. But as we know, the science is one thing, emotion and perception is quite another... www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...sciencemediacentre.org expert reaction to social media posts about cattle feed additive Bovaer | Science Media Centre 000