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@squirrelface.bsky.social
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Dedicated to reality at all costs. Nature, wildlife, eco gardening, philosophy. All the domestic arts.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 18h
This is dead on. The other thing I’d say is you don’t weaken MAGA by using honey to lure adherents. You weaken it by stigmatizing it and making it toxic to be a part of it. It thrives on the perception that it’s strong.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Isn’t it amazing the way life can seem too short, and intrinsically magical, yet at the same time feel like a long, uphill road, potholed with fuckwits?
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 09/10/2026
Wales is showing that ending profit-making in children’s social care can be done. The first phase of the Welsh Government’s reforms is now underway — with all new children’s homes and fostering providers required to operate on a not-for-profit basis. Why aren't we doing this in England?
socialcare.wales
Removing profit from children's residential care
Information about removing profit from children's residential care, and where you can find out more.
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Jenny Symien @symienjennifer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Good news.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Ryan Swift @ryanswift93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Electoral reform is welcome but changing the voting system alone won’t fix our politics. The proposed Commission on Electoral Reform should go further, becoming a Commission for Democratic Reform, looking not just at the voting system but at how we can build fairer democratic participation.
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you don’t let us continue destroying the world, we will take our money elsewhere Time-honoured & disingenuous strategy by a business founded on exploiting the planet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Equinor may stop investing in UK if oil and gas fields do not get go-ahead
The boss of the Norwegian state company says further investment in the UK could be at risk if Rosebank and Jackdaw are not approved.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Phil Syrpis @syrpis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I saw a clip of Chris Mason interviewing her, and Chris Mason was not the most annoying person in the interview. Uncharted waters…
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The Ecologist @theecologist.org · 06/10/2026
"a tax on private jets to fund essential services is common sense for both our economy and our environment."
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Low private jet tax 'fuels climate crisis, inequality'
Andy Burnham, the prime minister and leader of the Labour Party, wants cheap, popular policies. Well, only seven per cent of voters support the current low tax on private jet fuel.
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Little Green Space 🐝 @lgspace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How long until it's gone? Ways to #BeatPollution and take #climateaction⁠: 🦀 Support beach clean-ups ♻️ Reduce. Reuse. Recycle 🌏 Avoid single-use plastic, and unnecessary or non-recyclable packaging 🌳 Celebrate special occasions with tree-planting not balloon releases
Picture of different items with the timescales required for each to decompose - ranging from two weeks to never - captioned ‘How long until it’s gone?’
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Great question 👇
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
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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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Heaney’s re-framing of the biblical story is interesting alone, shifting focus to the people who brought the man to be healed But this was written following a stoke he suffered in 2006 & could also be read as tribute to those who supported his own recovery #poetry #poemoftheday #seamusheaneysunday
Poem - 'Miracle' by Seamus Heaney
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With Halloween coming up, it's time for the reminder to avoid buying/using fake spiderwebs. They can entangle and entrap birds. There's some good alternative ideas on this web page ... birdlife.org.au/news/bird-sa...
birdlife.org.au
Bird-safe Halloween decorations - BirdLife Australia
How to celebrate Halloween with bird-friendly decorations.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/10/2026
This is the reality of people gaining a basic income floor for the rest of their lives. They don't get lazy. They get busy. They get to doing all the things they consider meaningful, paid or not.
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Rev Karen @revkarensethuraman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
**OVER 1000 SIGNATURES** Friends, we have reached over 1,000 signatures - we are absolutely blown away! A huge thank you to everyone who has taken the time to sign the letter. We will be closing the link tomorrow evening, so if you haven’t signed yet, there’s still time. Blessings, Rev Karen
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In many ways Mark Carney is proving to be an excellent Prime Minister for Canada at a critical time in our nation’s history. But he also might be the smartest man in the world to act really stupidly about #ClimateChange at a critical time in world history.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is (of course) very good and well worth a few short minutes of your time.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK law firm partners collect record pay, up to £2.5m per equity partner. Partners treated as self-employed. Firms don't pay employer national insurance (ENI) on profit taken by partners. £150k ENI dodged for every £1m profit shared. Public purse deprived. Must end this tax perk. archive.ph/vJCIj
ft.com
Top UK law firm partners take home record pay
Spate of listings in Hong Kong boosted IPO work and related transactions
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This “European political elites need to understand that if they say European security isn't possible without the US, they are actually saying that European security isn't possible. For many reasons, they don't want to accept that, but they urgently need to” Europe is bigger than 🇺🇸. It’s possible
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Braden Serkas 🎃 @portmanteauface.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Someone at work once asked me what my guilty pleasure was and I immediately shot back “pleasure never makes me feel guilty.” I’ve seldom felt cooler than I did in that moment. Literally one minute later I tripped on an extension cord and hit my head on a whiteboard in front of the entire office
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
(2/4) What the maths really shows is that ditching the triple lock will hurt the young far harder than the elderly, and will ensure that many of today's 20-year olds retire into poverty. 99-percent.org/condemning-y...
99-percent.org
Condemning Younger Generations to an Old Age of Poverty - 99%
Thirteen long years of increasingly far-right policies have left the UK visibly broken: we have a cost-of-living crisis; our NHS is on its knees and our schools are crumbling; and […]
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Restoration ecologists have long known that many ecosystems are so degraded that simply leaving them to recover naturally will not work Dispersal limitation, damaged substrate, excess nutrients, altered hydrology, etc mean active intervention is needed to recreate rich ecosystems in a timely way
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Consent training isn’t going to stop a gang rape.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/09/2026
Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to Rome Statute of the ICC decided that 25th session of the Assembly, scheduled to take place at UN HQ in NYC, will be relocated to The Hague. ..in light of concerns related to elected officials of the Court subject to US sanctions & visa restrictions
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These are stunning
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Isab El-Oakeshott seems to have decided that digging is the correct way to go about it.
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m sorry. Is the message “invest in us OR we’ll destroy humanity” or “invest in us AND we’ll destroy humanity“?
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How many men knew about these groups and said nothing? Where are all you supposed male protectors? Silent, because men aren’t protectors. They’re just territorial.
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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.
Rainbow sea slug on a rockRainbow sea slug on a rockRainbow sea slug on a rock from aboveRainbow sea slug on a rock
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or biological pathogens. If a product is potentially dangerous, it should be regulated and corporations should be held accountable for wrongdoing. Why would AI be any different? www.commondreams.org/news/ai-securi…
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AI Giants Probe 'Tens of Thousands' of Security Incidents—Some Involving Government Sites | Common Dreams
Security researchers investigate tens of thousands of artificial intelligence security incidents, fueling fresh calls fo
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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is very, very good.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*If you're in the 18th century, you're like: "Well, our transatlantic slave trade is what keeps us from going back to the 15th century" #teleology #technology en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_hi...
en.wikipedia.org
Whig history - Wikipedia
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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Did u know?Our detachment towards invertebrates stems from a P.R problem they have: they don't look stereotypically"cute"; they're small, so we find it tricky to understand them; we look huge to them, so when we get close, they slope off; they don't have forward-facing eyes, like us.... 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐙
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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
😯 A glorious mash-up of time and place. I had to blink twice when I first saw this – a real-life Hobbit house tucked into the ruined west front of the Abbey of St Edmund at Bury St Edmunds. Heading back soon..
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Lauren Jordan @loremjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I know so many people who want UBI so they can volunteer more. It’s not even that folks don’t want to work, they’ll literally do it for free, it just needs to MATTER. I pick up trash for fun and for free! I like it!!! I could do more of it if I didn’t have to scrounge for beans!!!!
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 27/09/2026
God at His computer
God at His computer
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Niche Enid Blyton
Guardian headline:
Five arrested for alleged terrorism offences after major incident near RAF Fairford.
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The last thing Fauxrage wants is responsibility for ANYTHING. Stir the pot/keep people angry/ stand back/monetize it - repeat ad nauseam. That's his act in a nutshell. He'd hate to be in a position where anyone would say 'OK, over to you then - what do we do?'. He has to pretend to be the outsider.
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Saunieindiego @saunieindiego.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If something is not eating your plants, then your garden is not part of the ecosystem.
A blurred background of green leaves. Yellow slats of wood attached to a  wooden stake with these words:

If something is not eating your plants, then your garden is not part of the ecosystem.
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Labour's immigration/asylum policies are profoundly racist and xenophobic. They embolden far right, undermine international law and violate basic human rights, while being even more hostile than the previous government. They can't be tweaked. They need to be scrapped. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Angela Rayner criticises worker visa plans on eve of Labour conference
The housing secretary says the government's plans to change wait times for permanent residency are unfair because they "change the goalposts".
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