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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

It's no less toxic - just toxic on the left rather than the right with little tolerance for diverse views.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Does the US still have hate crimes?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Who is this unqualified pillock? (It's a rhetorical question by the way).

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Will it include the people who actually produce the food?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

And before you ask, I give you: banning veal & sow stalls; banning microbeads, more extensive marine protection, enforced air quality targets, legislated net zero & climate change targets. I'd also argue recent changes to UK gene editing laws will improve animal welfare & reduce pesticide use. 2/2

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

It 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.com

What’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

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Why are you guys all hand wringing over this? Haven't you got bigger problems?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I thought I was reading a story about the situation in the US. But no...😔

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I love the fonts he uses. This makes me feel so peaceful every time I look at it.

Evening will come. They will sew the blue sail. By Ian Hamilton Finlay.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Why is the media even giving them any oxygen?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

It's rubbish I'm afraid.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Er no. Wales has NOT reduced TB more effectively than England. Unless you have data I haven't seen?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Yeah. That is a problem....

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

And I'm now institutionalised. I start to twitch if I have to head in front first.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

💯 There's a reason why it's mandated in many large European companies involved in construction. Your safest first move is forward.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

It was kinda what put me off watching Titanic.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Mildew. I hate the mildew.

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

If 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.”

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‘Net zero is a f------ con’, says mining tycoon going green — The Telegraph

Interview: Andrew Forrest is on a mission to prove that business nous and climate evangelism can coexist

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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.uk

BBC Sounds - Orwell in Five Words - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Orwell in Five Words on BBC Sounds.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

You can't have food production in brownfield soil.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I love solar, but when every other country in the world manages to have it on roofs and car parks and down central reservations, why are we condemning thousand hectare blocks of land to a future which is this then brownfield when we have no idea what our future food production capability will be?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Furthermore, land under panels might sequester significant carbon, but if you're then going to dig all the pilings up again, how much are you releasing back into the atmosphere through those earthworks and land movements?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Only if managed in that way. Adoption of regenerative practices would have a different outcome.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I would say certainty of development afterwards, given destruction of the existing drainage infrastructure and hundreds of steel and concrete pilings extending 4-5m into the soil. What else could anyone do with it? And I'm not sure we're having honest conversations about that permanent change.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Also, what happens at the end of the solar farm life, say in 40 years? Because I'm not really buying the 'it returns to farmland'. How can it be greenfield when it has concrete pilings all over it? I'm presuming it goes for development, and if so, how does that affect the carbon stored?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Can I ask where that comes from, that carbon builds in soils more quickly under solar panels than in conventional farmland...and is the emphasis there on conventional as opposed to farmland actively managed to capture carbon?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Yes yes yes. Please no paving over 2,500 acres of Oxfordshire countryside with panels, which will allegedly return to farmland in 40 years. But it won't. Because once you've driven concrete pilings into land, it can never be greenfield again. It will become a giant development conurbation.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Loved the gasp across the auditorium at *that* revelation. And the power behind the button of Isabella Rossellini. 👌🏻

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Especially the way they're cutting back safeguards even more in the US.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Ah, I just thought it was the same performer but yes, that has a real irony and makes sense!

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Oooh, and Seiglinde pleading with the Valkyries...😍

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Loved Fricka and her entrance in the Rolls as well though...💃

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It was bloody amazing. I went with my dad and he was crying as Wotan said goodbye to Brunnehilde...

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man....

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

So...someone goes to a US cinema and pays $10 to see a US-produced film, $20 to see a UK-produced film, and ...€15 to see a film jointly produced in the UK and US? 🤔

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I'm not the one making assumptions.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Flagged again. Out of interest does someone have to report that or is it an algorithm?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Why is it intolerant to explain what the legal case was about @safety.bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app ?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

As I said 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

And those arguing against For Women Scotland included The Scottish Government's legal representatives, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and Amnesty International. Apparently no other groups specifically supporting trans right applied to be part of the hearings. Unless you know different?

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hey, I'm just telling you how the process works. But carry on jumping up and down and railing against the system ineffectively.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

They aren't scientists, they're legal experts. They are simply interpreting what the law says. If people think the science is wrong, it's the law that needs changing, not the supreme court.

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Oxtale @oxtale.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

To be fair, the comments under the article pretty much all centre on the theme of tiny violins.

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