Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists

Whilst Starmer, who said Israel has the right to withhold water from Palestinian civilians, hosts its President at Number 10. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I haven't seen as many Castianeira this year as I usually do, but this magnificent lass showed up at the end of my walk today and made me happy. Red lightning in the sand. ♥️ (still unclear which species this is, 4+ years after my first sighting)

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Thanks to UK leadership, a global 30x30 target was adopted at COP15 in 2022 as part of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. But last year, the Government appeared to be sleepwalking with only 3% of land in England effectively protected. Today, we are moonwalking at just 2.8%. 🧪🌎

[opposing devastating cuts to welfare] You can no longer be a Labour MP [sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction] Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez

BREAKING: They're scrubbing @banksy The court is erasing Banksy's mural just like it's erasing our right to protest.

Banksy is a pillar of British culture. He’s been daubing walls for three decades. As soon as he satirises peaceful protesters being dragged through the courts for holding placards opposing Israel’s genocide, he faces being unmasked and prosecuted.

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

A picture of my former hummingbird tree for #NationalHummingbirdDay 🪶

Linehan’s court case making it very clear indeed exactly how wacky this stuff always was, and that people like him have always been about incoherent hatred. e.g. the Harry Potter lady and those ex-Guardian colonists aren’t more reasonable than this: they are *more careful about public perception*.

Acting like they played no role in his rise, like they were just innocent bystanders reporting and not vehicles used to platform him, like they haven't legitimised many of his talking points despite knowing they were lies. You said just last week people are right to be concerned ffs.

none of my business

Climate crisis will increase frequency of lightning-sparked wildfires, study finds. These wildfires tend to burn in more remote areas and grow larger faster, posing a higher risk to public safety and health. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Surely they will have to admit this is untenable. Solidarity with everyone standing up against our authoritarian, genocide-enabling government.

just updating my friends on the latest glinner situation and i just presented these two accounts side my side. i'm howling [1) glinner's blog, tw: transphobia obviously; 2) the met's comments]

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Behold the gloriously weird Spotted Ratfish. It has teeth on its forehead for sex. The teeth line a cartilaginous appendage called a tenaculum that in males can be erected and used to grasp a female during mating 🧪

It's been a great week for weird biology: ants defying the species concept, fluorescing birds of paradise and now forehead teeth in ratfish

"Instead of catching real criminals and terrorists, we are arresting pensioners and disabled people calling for the saving of children’s lives,"Officer A continued. "It makes me question why I’m even in this career anymore." Then leave. Nobody is forcing you to stay novaramedia.com/2025/09/04/p...

Good insight here from NERF about why these so-called 'partnerships' to tackle the illegal killing of birds of prey repeatedly fail in the UK (spoiler alert - don't include reps from the industry responsible for doing the killing). #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/04/s...

Dusky Brocade (Apamea remissa), Carms 2020. Welsh name Brithyn Llwydolau - meaning dusky speckled one. #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

“We're seeing more people trapped in severe and sustained poverty, turning to food banks because they have nowhere else to go" @helenbarnard.bsky.social 📝 The cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission report is out today. It would lift 4.2 million people out of poverty. 1/2

i also visited the museum to see our welsh deino and was very happy to see a whole section about the brymbo fossil forest - a 300 million year old fossilised forest near where i'm from, on the site of the steelworks my granddad used to work on!

had a brilliant couple of days in cardiff/caerdydd (my first visit to the city!) starting my internship with the welsh government. the city is a beautiful display of welsh history, culture, and community

When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, a group of scientists and researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand dropped everything they were doing and rolled up their sleeves to help the response. This response ultimately saved around 20,000 lives 🧪 🧵

Dragonflies use “crazy turning” to dry themselves off after a cooling dip in water. Learn more on #NationalWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/3Vw2Df1

standing with glinner? no. i'm SITTING for DINNER. with my wife, who has not left me,

"The event features testimony from expert witnesses delving into the UK govts complicity in the genocide" Al Jazeera reporting on the Gaza Tribunal being held in London today.

In what may be one of Earth’s craziest forms of mimicry, researchers in 2023 reported a species of rove beetle that grows a termite puppet on its back to fool real termites into feeding it. Learn more on #NationalWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4mM2aS9

🏞️Fieldwork is one of the most inspiring parts of environmental science. Let’s make sure it’s also one of the safest and most inclusive! 🥇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I left Twitter because one of Linehan’s supporters doxxed my wife and made up conspiracy theories about her. not me, the person actually calling them losers, but my wife who barely has a social media presence. Linehan did nothing to stop them ofc

Important news:

The bravery on display by the LITERAL TEENAGER facing down both Glinner and a crowd of the most disgusting people alive while they laugh in her face from the public gallery is astonishing. I can't fucking *imagine* what she must have gone through over the past year.

Make sure that your MP & the Minister for Equalities know how important inclusive, safe services for everyone are to you. Ask them to oppose guidance proposed by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission that would exclude & segregate trans people: www.scottishtrans.org/emailfortran...

Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him. You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

'The Conservative party, whose leader Kemi Badenoch has repeatedly pledged to fight for “free speech”, has banned Byline Times from attending her party’s annual conference' bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

When I posted that I was the "lesbian staffer" that quit Duffield's office, Linehan went for me and I had days and days of abuse (Duffield did nothing natch). It was probably the most online homophobia I've ever experienced, and he called me a disgrace to gay rights.

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you a UKRI-funded doctoral student seeking policy experience? There's only a week left to apply for our two 2026 #policy internship positions for current PhD students funded by AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, & NERC. 📆 Applications close on 8 Sept Learn more: www.rsb.org.uk/ukri-interns...

My neighbor Barn Owl has a favorite perch. I found it again yesterday. #birds #owls #SuperbOwl

So you can come and study here but you can fuck off afterwards. I have no words anymore how hate filled this government is about asylum seekers, the disabled, LGBTQ+ people and more. It's just getting worse by the minute. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Fellow ‘Bluesky Elders’ will remember that the site was set up to pivot away from quote-tweets and dunks, but unfortunately I’ve found the perfect image to quote-tweet dunk someone with.

If keeping transphobes in “your party” is more important than solidarity with a minority being attacked then the whole exercise is DoA. It’s not a real alternative to the same parties we already have: across the board transphobia with different levels of politeness.

One of Scotland’s last remaining undeveloped dune systems, Coul Links is home to a variety of threatened butterfly and moth species, including the Northern Brown Argus, Portland Moth and the extremely rare Northern Groundling. 🦋 Please join us in protecting this precious habitat 👇

September is Suicide Prevention Month. I struggle with suicidal thoughts, have attempted suicide, have lost family members to suicide. It is no laughing matter. Check in on your friends & family. Lots of us might look OK on the outside but we really aren't on the inside. #SuicidePrevention

me: ahh yes must have crossed the border back into wales now them: how can you tell? me: