Woohoo, lifer! Black Hairstreak, Castor Hanglands,04/06/26. #UKButterflies

25 or so Alder Moth to the trap last night (South Shropshire). #teammoth

britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/ch... Chequered Skipper

If I lived outside the UK I'd probably laugh at the nonsensical nature of it all. Sadly, I don't .........

University Challenge showed this picture and called it Sphagnum moss. Like WTF?

Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating www.theguardian.com/environment/... Massive Methane leaks aren't a bug in the fossil fuel industry, they're a feature.

People are beginning to grasp just how dangerous the duopoly's 34 contracts handed over to Palantir are. But I don't see enough about Peter Thiel, Karp, and Lonsdale's, shared ideology of free zones and free cities being exposed. Thread

Brilliant

Why were there no arrests?

For Shropshire Day: here are some Shropshire breed sheep in Shropshire last summer.

Get the butt of malmsey ready!

Men's Doubles Luge, Winter Olympics St Moritz 1948. When winter sports were less formal.

The Resolution Foundation’s “Unsung Britain” is an exercise in neoliberal excuse making for the politics of destruction www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02...

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

This was never science led, this was economy led

Here’s the problem… Feelings started trumping facts Stewart Lee put it perfectly when we met him…

Great news and congratulations to Middle Marches Community Land Trust on the purchase of another grassland SSSI. middlemarchescommunitylandtrust.org.uk/white-grit-m...

We are on our own folks. The government has abandoned us on preventions. 👇👇

Covid vax day today at Tesco Extra. Outrageously expensive. Nobody masked except me and one other person waiting to be vaccinated.

Look who came with

There is never a bad time to listen to this perfect song by Jake Thackray. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PG6...

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary at Llanfair Waterdine, South Shropshire today. #ukwildlife #UKButterflies

We have rain at last! Maybe the spring that supplies all the farm and domestic water won't dry up after all, and the hundreds of trees planted last winter will be saved.

Red moon rising tonight for the second night in a row. Any redder and it will surely drip blood. Something serious coming. (Poor photo alert).

The beauty of a Welsh mountain stream. #WaterfallWednesday.

This is the real news story: Disillusioned Labour votes far more likely to vote Green or Lib Dem (43% and 40%) compared to only 9% shifting to Reform. Share widely to counteract all the misinformation that justifies a further shift to the Right by the gov.

Mood! 😎✨

Never more glad to have left Lincolnshire 40 years ago than I am today. And well done Shropshire (where I live now) for stepping that little bit left to avoid onrushing bandwagon.

A quick trip round some mid Wales hills on the Mutt 250. Little bikes + little roads = fun, adventure and really wild things.

Just read it. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is right. What more can I add? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...

Shropshire (breed) lambs on the Shropshire Hills.

A lot of people are assuming that the new process for Environmental Delivery Plans will be that developers will get surveys of the site and pay into the Nature Restoration Fund where appropriate. But the government are quoted here as saying something very different 1/2 www.ft.com/content/7a97...

Just heard my first Curlew call of the year!

Who invented pistachio halva? Genius.

Shropshire ewe and lamb in Shropshire sunshine - bit of a rarity of late.

This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

It's been quite a start to 2025... and we're still only 5 weeks into the year Carl Sagan made this speech in 1990, the wisdom of these compelling arguments still holds true 35 years later. 🧪⚒️🌡️🔥⛈️ The evidence is clear, the risks are real, our choices matter 💙💙🤍💛🧡❤️♥️💔

"The argument put forward by the government, to justify the lack of #airborne mitigations, is that #Covid-19 is not ‘predominantly’ spread via the airborne route; they maintain that the ‘predominant’ mode of spread is through droplets and contact. This position now goes against the latest science."

From back in 1979 as the monetarists/neoliberals/conservatives started their takeover. At least that's my take on it. #JethroTull www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R0b...

Shropshire sheep on the Shropshire hills. A few lambs coming now.

Happy New Year when the time comes.

Venison pie, mash and veg for Xmas dinner. Bloody perfect.

Merry Whatever! Just have at least this much fun this mid-winter.

My contribution for #InternationalMountainDay Walking into Torres del Paine 30 years ago with Alice. Still together. #mountains

Hedging Last Winter I hedged. I bet, amid the murderous sloe, That my painful effort To pleach the awry thorn Would yield me dividends. The unruly ewes would be fielded The hedge made young And life awakened with the light. The bet was well placed. (verse 2 below)

Here's a song about charter cities/SEZs/freeports (more or less) by folk punk pioneers The Men They Couldn't Hang. Company Town from the album Silver Town (1989). www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJxQ...