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Toy wolf of Wharfedale

@toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social
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Climate and Weather. Also expat Austrian toy wolf in Yorkshire. Wiener Schnitzel. Trees. Mountains. Trains. Gothica. No cats.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The idea that "regenerative" grazing is a climate solution has really taken hold in some quarters. But the science is clear: It doesn't work. Methane and land-use emissions just overwhelm any soil carbon benefits. Here's a great piece by @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social drawdown.org/insights/eig...
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Eight reasons regenerative grazing can’t make beef climate-friendly
An influential regenerative grazing movement continues to grow. But here's why the science doesn't back up the purported climate benefits.
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Toured a chunk of northern Spain by bike. Reading this makes me think of the big contrast between Oviedo (car culture, motorway fest) and Gijón (progressive changes): two cities in Asturias just 20 miles apart.
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Kevin cuts through the nonsense as usual.
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Bike, walk and bus in Picos de Europa! But even over 1200m the temperature was insane.
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Seppo @sepponet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Unique #Natura2000 protected mire #Viiankiaapa in Finnish Lapland is threatened. The mining company #AngloAmerican wants to open a huge #mine there & say they can #ecologically #compensate the damages. How can you replace an irreplaceable #wetland? #birds #wilderness www.seppo.net/e/mining-com...
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 24/08/2026
Over the weekend, a storm in the Baltic states caused significant disruption to power supplies and at least 2 deaths. An experimental reanalysis-based attribution approach suggests that ~20% more rain fell than if the same weather pattern had occurred in a world that was 1°C cooler.
A Baltic storm caused significant damage on 22nd August 2026, but more rain fell than would have done had the world been cooler.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Problem solved. Except OFWAT estimates for just the next 5 years are: Reservoirs: £104 billion Fixing leaks: £50 billion Flood / drought resilience: £13 billion Restore's deportation plan: £132 billion That's £300 billion extra. And Restore say they'll massively cut tax. Problem not solved.
Rupert Lowe tweets: After weeks of no rain and hosepipe bans, we're now being warned to expect flooding. A Restore Britain Government will build some reservoirs, fix the drains, fix leaks and deport millions. Problem solved.
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
It's a big day for music fans today (8th August), as it marks the 20th anniversary of the Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident. And if you think you can guess where this story is going, I assure you that you cannot. Spoiler: things rapidly went down the drain. And, er, didn't.
Dave Matthews pulling a bit of an awkward face. It's the best I could do.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 10/07/2026
When a driver says “My car can’t drive 20 mph” I hear “I don’t know how to drive very well and my 20th century manual petrol/diesel car makes it more difficult.”
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Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Eoghan Sweeney @eoghan.eurosky.social · 28/06/2026
I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that
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DR Congo superfan denied US visa to support team at World Cup
Michel Kuka Mboladinga is iconic for his motionless tribute at DRC games, but a US World Cup repeat has been denied.
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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It's not "the new normal": this heatwave shows that we're never going to have "normal" again - by @mjflepage.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2531...
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If you aren't terrified by this heatwave, you should be
The extreme heat currently being felt in Europe isn’t the new normal – much worse is to come, and we are doing far too little to adapt, says Michael Le Page
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I'd have thought 40°C in Eastern England and wildfires in London in 2022 would have done it. Or the massive floods of 2015. Or the heatwave of 2003 hitting NW Europe.
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 24/06/2026
It’s not just about getting to net zero, but getting to net zero as soon as possible. simonleewx.com/2026/06/24/n...
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Notes from a hot island
Fifty years on from the infamous 1976 heatwave, the UK looks set to experience its hottest June day on record – exceeding the maximum of 35.6°C set on 28 June 1976. Extreme summertime heat has quic…
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It’s less than a week since my radio was telling me that Britain needed to abandon net zero and drill baby drill because the Tories won a by election in Aberdeen Now it’s so hot the kids can’t sleep
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 23/06/2026
This needs a skeet of its own. In Boston: ducks (and ducklings) got cones. :) #SCO
Statue of mom duck and ducklings, with cones #SCO
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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Reform don't do irony even if it slaps them in the face. Just bigotry. And head up the arse.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It’s the 7th anniversary of German police seizing 4,200 litres of beer in Ostritz, a town of only 2,300 people, which would sound like a mean-spirited thing to do, were it not for the fact that they were preventing a bunch of Nazis having any beer at a festival celebrating Hitler 🧵
Tweet, 22 June 2019, from Polizei Sachsen: “Auch heute setzen wir das Alkoholverbot in #Ostritz weiter durch. Bei Vorkontrollen konnten wir bisher mehr als 200 Liter sicherstellen.” (Roughly: Even today, we continue to enforce the alcohol ban in #Ostritz. During pre-checks, we have been able to ensure more than 200 liters so far.) plus a photo of three officers handling crates of booze
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Alarming. But unsurprising.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/06/2026
They are already doing damage control because they likely destroyed the lawn
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/06/2026
Foam floats on the surface as National Park Service workers dump bottles of hydrogen peroxide in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as part of their effort to mitigate an algae bloom which followed the completion of renovations in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 16, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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GFD @gfd1967.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Kathy Burke is a diamond
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12/06/2026
100 days of Hannah Spencer MP And she's just getting started 💚
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 13/06/2026
Big news from the World Cup this morning. Scots fans gave the statue of George Washington near Boston's Fenway Park their highest accolade. And don't even think about taking it down until the Tartan Army have gone home, it'll reappear before the cherry picker is back in the garage.
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Climate Reality catching up with us fast and hard. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052 | Bill McGuire
People sleep outside because their houses are too hot to inhabit, water is scarce and supermarkets are for the wealthy, says climate academic Bill McGuire
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Reading this and listening to holiday jets scream above filled with folk heading off south.
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Bluebells in Wharfedale
A mass of bluebell flowers in a woodland settingBluebells by a woodland path
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
This account has happily documented many reasons for vessels to be lost. Daft designs, acts of cartographical inexactitude and suicidal signalling have all featured heavily. However "capsized due to proximity of nudists" is surprisingly underrepresented in the historical record. Until now.
Helicopter shot of what looks like an upturned pontoon with three vessels tied alongside. To save you the effort of zooming in further on this blurry, pixelated mess, the people visible have more or less the regular number of socially acceptable clothes on. They're not in the nip.
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I wonder what the N stands for?
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...
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Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
YouTube video by Massive Attack
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Hold it men, he's not bluffing!
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💥Seriously🚀Scientific💥 @seriouslysci.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Experience reentry as it would have been viewed by the Artemis II crew! 🌍🔥 Plunging into the atmosphere at Mach 32, the Orion capsule generates a 2,760°C (5,000°F) plasma shield before a pinpoint ocean splashdown. #NASA #SpaceExploration #Splashdown
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Hungary’s prime minister is more important to Donald Trump than all of his voters put together, than all Americans, than America itself, and it’s not even close. I wrote an essay yesterday to explain why: snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Reform - Spreading shit wherever they go.
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Never knew that maritime mishaps could be so amusing. It's how you tell 'em...
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Count Mysterioso @mysteriosox.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
What people were expecting this morning vs. what they woke up to
Nuclear warA disappointing wet fart of an event
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Always love the Deep Dive. Helps with understanding the context of the forecasts so much more.
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Toy wolf of Wharfedale @toywolfwharfedale.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Boom! (Mic drop).
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?
Step 1: deliberately scare people with misinformation and lies about what a proposed policy or plan will do.

Step2: wait for misinformed people to complain.

Step 3: say that “clearly people are concerned,“ so we should “listen to the people“ and reject the plan.

The Populist PlaybookStep 4: mainstream media “reports the controversy” rather than the fact it was manufactured, and the amplify the quotes of those who manufactured it..

Step5: other elected leaders who know the truth, still vote against the good plan or policy, because they’re too afraid of the “heat.“
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Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Not now, symbolism.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Watching the West defend the Middle East against Iran’s drones reveals a sickening double standard. Ukrainians have endured years of Russian missiles and shaheds with heavily restricted strike capabilities and insufficient air defense. Why the hesitation to defend Kyiv?
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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"If pandemic threat assessment and preparedness was as fragmented, we would be scandalised." It was great talking to Ellen for this excellent piece in @prospectmagazine.co.uk about climate risk and the threat of AMOC collapse specifically Essential reading!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"
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