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Trish 🦊🌿🌼

@trishfln.bsky.social
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I love wildlife, woodland & trees, wildflowers & gardens, follow politics & I'm interested in science. I hate injustice to humans & animals alike.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🚨🚨Polish Prime Minister @donald-tusk.bsky.social warned yesterday that #Russia could launch drone or missile strikes in the coming months against countries supporting #Ukraine and play them off as accidents. www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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Tusk warns of ‘accidental’ Russian strikes against Ukraine’s allies in fall and winter
The Polish prime minister says a critical time lies ahead for Ukraine and its Eastern European allies as Russia steps up attacks.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Speaking in the country’s parliament, Tusk said intelligence assessments from #NATO, Ukraine and Poland indicated that “the most likely scenario for the next few months” is that Russia will step up attacks against Ukraine and its allies, including Poland. /2
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tusk said Russia’s aim was to “weaken NATO’s integrity” & convince its members that “Article 5 is more theoretical than practical.” Under Article 5, an armed attack on one member is viewed as an attack on all. Russian hybrid attacks, espionage & stray drones have probed the threshold of what
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
constitutes such an attack. “There is a real risk that drones or other types of missiles could enter the territory of one or several NATO countries on the eastern flank and cause damage. And the official narrative will be that it was an accident,” Tusk said.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“we are not going to die for Poland, we are not going to die for Latvia or Lithuania.” The warning came as Tusk said the coming fall and winter months could prove “tragically critical” for Ukraine, with Russia expected to carry out continuous, high-intensity strikes on major Ukrainian cities while
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
targeting warehouses, rail infrastructure and other logistics essential to the country’s defense. Such attacks have intensified in recent weeks, also covering western Ukraine close to the Polish border, as Russia has increased its use of jet-powered drones that Ukraine has struggled to intercept.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚨🚨Another utterly disgraceful act by the #Trump administration. The US has sanctioned the president of the international criminal court ( #ICC) and a prosecutor tasked with investigating crimes committed by #Israel during its war on #Gaza. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor
Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🚨🚨"Did the Trump Administration Have a Role in the Ceuta ‘Migrant Invasion’?" Great piece by @nixonsimon.bsky.social on the #ceuta crisis and the #Trump admin's potential role in it. via @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/08/06/d...
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Did the Trump Administration Have a Role in the Ceuta 'Migrant Invasion'?
Trump-aligned think tanks have previously advocated using Ceuta to exert pressure on Madrid, reports Simon Nixon
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Trish 🦊🌿🌼 @trishfln.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What a shocking waste www.instagram.com/reel/DbwFAB0...
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I set out my own thoughts here in @eastangliabylines.co.uk on how the UK could accede again to the EU internal market here without joining the EU (still not an easy option): eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
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Customs union or single market: but is there a third way?
How could a Labour government opt for closer EU ties? We explain the customs union, internal market, and a third way combining these options
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I was quite early to leave X when I saw the downward spiral of this platform but I sometimes miss having more extensive and fiercer debates on #EU policy and #brexit obviously without hate-mongering (I had to withstand quite some crap on X for explaining simple factual things about the #EU). /3
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Nonetheless, it would be ideal to have a robust platform which would allow for a larger, distinctive and heterogenous set of views and with superstringent rules for hate speech and content moderation. /2
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
🚨🚨" far-right and MAGA politicians, influencers, and podcasters will immediately use the most divisive language possible in order to make voters as angry as possible, as fast as possible, regardless of what actually happened. " Strong piece by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on FR reactions to #ceuta:
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Trish 🦊🌿🌼 @trishfln.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@profjacob.bsky.social An extended family of 18 from Gaza has been granted permission to reside in UK, by Upper Tribunal Judge Gemma Loughran under ECHR law for family life. They will require welfare & speak no English. Has the judge made an accurate interpretation of this ECHR law please?
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Trish 🦊🌿🌼 @trishfln.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Look at those eyes!
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Mr @missedmycue.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It is almost like you lot have missed the point. Don't you understand? The Minister for Homelessness was going to make a much larger profit from evicting her tenants and charging her new tenants a much higher rent.
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a woman in a red jacket is holding a piece of paper and says ka-ching
Alt: a woman(Melissa Mcarthy)in the film The Boss, in a red jacket is holding a piece of paper and says ka-ching while making the gesture for big money with her left hand
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Danica Priest @danicapriest.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Labour were elected to protect the environment actually PricedOut. “We will protect and enhance our precious green spaces and natural environment, supporting biodiversity recovery and climate resilience.” Is a direct quote from the manifesto
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
An extraordinary underestimate of the catastrophic impact of #climate breakdown by 2050 Forget food being a bit more expensive, increasing analysis suggests we will be very lucky to still have a functioning global society and economy www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘Climateflation’ could push up UK food prices by more than a third by 2050, report says
Exclusive: Increasingly extreme weather a threat to production and supply chains in Britain and elsewhere
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Only a matter of time before a wildfire wipes a major city from the face of the planet Will people sit up and take notice then? Will governments and fossil fuel corporations act to slash emissions? Will they hell www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Wildfire burns through northern suburb of Athens as residents told to evacuate
People in Kryoneri, north-east of the Greek capital, receive SMS messages telling them to get to safe areas
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Trish 🦊🌿🌼 @trishfln.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
There are already 3 new housing dev along this road - people objected to this as it encroached on farmland adjacent to Battle Abbey site but they promised affordable housing🤔 @explorerdale.bsky.social BBC News - Developer freed of affordable housing commitment www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Developer freed of affordable housing commitment in Battle scheme
Councillors felt they had no option but to approve a request for an amendment to a 20-home scheme.
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Trish 🦊🌿🌼 @trishfln.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
so why is this Government not doing more to protect our dwindling natural resourses but instead threatening with more destruction with their planning policy? @danicapriest.bsky.social @explorerdale.bsky.social BBC News - NHS using nature to treat poor mental health www.bbc.com/news/article...
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NHS staff being trained to use outdoors for treating patients
Don't underestimate the importance of nature for tackling poor mental health, says Natural England.
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Saddletramp🇪🇺 @saddletramp.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
You may recall I collected my 88 yr old neighbour from hospital at 10.00 PM last night. We were assured that a carer would visit today. Yeah right! The only person to visit was my wife and a good thing she did too. The Govt has to get a grip.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
And this is the party that claims to be on the side of nature Utter bollox - as usual - from Starmer & Co. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Labour housing plans could destroy 215,000 hectares of nature in England, analysis shows
Critics say change in biodiversity protections would harm environmental recovery and make scheme ineffective
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
2025. really important new paper. "Institutional animal care and use committees and the challenges of evaluating animal research proposals" researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #AnimalEthics #ResearchEthics
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Institutional animal care and use committees and the challenges of evaluating animal research proposals - Research Integrity and Peer Review
Background In the U.S. and many other countries, animal use in research, testing, and education is under the purview of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees or similar bodies. Their responsibi...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A close-up of hedge woundwort to brighten your day. Bees and other pollinators love this wildflower, native to Europe and western Asia. Rewilding gives 1,000s of wild species – and, equally importantly, all the connections between them – the chance to thrive. 🌍
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Paul @paulst001.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Colourful wild flowers in our local park.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
"Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or Turkey" Just astonishing Shows what can be done when the will is there www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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China breaks more records with surge in solar and wind power
Between January and May, China added 198 GW of solar and 46 GW of wind, enough to generate as much electricity as Indonesia or Turkey
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I think the way Dems should play this is genuinely to make Hegseth apologize for denigrating Operation Overlord
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Left: David Lammy announces that British Israelis are being evacuated from Israel because of the threat from Iran Right: That time British Palestinians were abandoned by the UK under Rishi Sunak, unable to leave Gaza, because Israel which was (and is still bombing Gaza) wouldn't let them leave
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Kev Moore @kevmoore.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I have no words to express my utter disgust at the shit that’s just spewed out of Starmer’s mouth.
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Kev Moore @kevmoore.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Sign the Petition
Prevent UK involvement in unjust Iran conflict
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Very sorry to see I was right on this. We're in extremely dangerous, unknown territory now, with two nuclear-armed terrorist militaries attacking another sovereign nation unprovoked. Their message to the world? Might is right.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Labour pledged to ban trail hunting in their 2024 manifesto. Now, campaigners await action — calling for tougher laws & urgent timelines.
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Trail hunting – important tradition or cover for illegal hunting?
UK faces pivotal decision on trail hunting: campaigners call for urgent ban to protect wildlife, while others defend it as tradition
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
"If it is warm in the days after the solstice, they will produce more flower buds the following spring, leading to a bumper crop of beech nuts in the autumn. If it’s cool they might produce none – a phenomenon known as masting" Miraculous nature Marvellous 😊 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Why the summer solstice is a ‘celestial starting gun’ for trees
Research shows longest day is a cue for beeches to launch their growth strategies
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
They're really going to do it. After murdering millions of people in Iraq based on lies, The same people are gearing up to murder god only knows how many more people in Iran based on lies.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Absolutely despicable In addition to being incompetent, in thrall to the rich and powerful, and politically inept, this woman has now been caught making deals with foreign oil corporations She has to go www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reeves promised oil industry ‘quid pro quo’ over windfall tax in private meeting
Government accused of making ‘secret exchange deal’ with fossil fuel companies to compensate for tax hike
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"A large part of what I do in my actual dayjob is cut waste in spending... So when politicians claim to be hunting waste while refusing to show their working, when they make dramatic claims without providing evidence, when they turn efficiency into entertainment – that’s not reform."
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Show your working: a challenge to Reform UK
Reform UK blames inefficiency for public failures, but real scrutiny starts with data, not Twitter outrage. Here's why...
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Trish 🦊🌿🌼 @trishfln.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Netanyahu complaining Iran has hit a hospital in Israel where there are children and babies. Did he think of the Palestinians when saying this?
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨🚨God, in pure hysterical delusional 'Telegraph' style Sean Thomas has mastered the craft of writing one of the worst columns of the week. Needless to say, 1) No, #bluesky is far from dying, 2) #Twitter/X is nastier than everything on social media (excluding the porn sites).
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Dann @dann1960.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Imagine: a wealthy newcomer with Taco’s🌮 $5M Gold Card💳 casually buys up what used to be your National Forest🌲—now carved into luxury plots, thanks to the land sale💲 mandate buried in his Big Beautiful Bill. No history, no roots, just money and permission to claim what once belonged to everyone.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
This makes sense: Israel is very unlikely to have launched a war on Iran without Trump's backing. Extremely worrying, since it increases the probability that the US will also start bombing Iran. Mad times.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Banks pledge almost a trillion £ in fossil fuel investment Everyone involved in these deals is complicit in murder As I have mentioned a few times, the world is now going backwards, as corporations and governments turn away from #climate action Desperate times www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds
Two-thirds of the biggest 65 banks increased financing by $162bn from 2023 to 2024, walking back climate promises
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
“If you become disabled before next April, you'll get £13.85 a day to pay for someone to help. If you become disabled on May 1, you'll get £7.14 a day. What was insufficient will become farcical” @fleetstreetfox.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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'Why the PIP cuts will push disabled people OUT of work'
Disabled benefit is being cut to "encourage" the sick into work, says Fleet Street Fox. It will have the opposite effect
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Melissa Hirst 💙🔥BLUE ADVOCATE OF LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE @melmayhem.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙 Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Quite unbelievable What is this government thinking of? Complicit doesn't even begin to cover it
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suesliberal 💙☮️🧿🧷🏳️‍🌈 @suesliberal.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Veterans arrested on Capital steps
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Chicago ✊
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