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books, pond plants and wildflowers; Backlisted Podcast and WildflowerHour (and more books)
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What Wood Pigeons are saying: βNo, YOU make the teaβ
3 months ago
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WATERSHED Investigations
about 16 hours ago
Why is this something anyone even considered doing?
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Al Kennedy
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Prof Phoebe Barnard
3 days ago
We need nothing less than a profound humbling - a change of mindset and values, and a service relationship with Nature and each other if we are to survive. I donβt say this lightly.
www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-...
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The World's Forests Cannot Wait: Why COP30 Must Center Indigenous Peoplesβ and Local Communities' Leadership
As world leaders prepare to gather in Brazil for COP30 next week, they will convene in the heart of the Amazon β a fitting location for what must become a turning point in how the world addresses the ...
https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/the-worlds-forests-cannot-wait-why-cop30-must-center-indigenous-peoples-and-local-communities-leadership/
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Zero Hour for the Climate & Nature Bill
3 days ago
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#COP30
starts next week, and with the Paris Agreementβs 10-year anniversary approaching, this is a moment for delivery, not more targets; we need binding legislation. π Itβs time for a joined-up climate and nature strategy. We need the Climate and Nature Bill. π
zerohour.uk/cop30
#CANBill
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π COP30 and what we need to see from the UK
In the last few days, World leaders (and, going by previous conferences, a lot of fossil fuel lobbyists) have been arriving in BelΓ©m, Brazil, for the 30th Conference of the ...
https://zerohour.uk/cop30
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Angus Main
5 days ago
Well done Zohran! And of course the real victor of the day - typography.
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TrevorTheBotanist
5 days ago
Major revision of
#GBRedList
of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devilβs-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!
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A lesson in compassion and innovation from 1973
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Alex Prendergast
5 days ago
Well done all involved in years of data gathering, analysis, coordination & funding for this new GB red list. Dedicated work by top botanists. And thanks to the brilliant conservation orgs & land managers stemming the haemorrhaging of biodiversity too. Many declines but also some glimmers of hope
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Helen Barrett
5 days ago
Mamdani's speech is SO GOOD: respectful, generous, sparkling.
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Starting the day with a little dance of joy: this is great, and the bit about hands at the beginning is pure poetry:
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5 days ago
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Meg Thomas πΆ
6 days ago
I've joined the
#CANBill
campaign to demand the REAL change we need for our climate and nature. Join me and take action at
action.zerohour.uk
@zero-hour.bsky.social
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Climate and Nature Bill Campaign
Take action to support the Climate and Nature Bill
https://action.zerohour.uk
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Ness ππ¨π¦
6 days ago
everything is terrible! but at least there's always dog o'clock
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Leana Hosea
6 days ago
"Oil field pollutants contain mercury levels that would make a thermometer blush" - oil fields in Marine 'Protected' Areas - puffins, seals, dolphins at risk if planned expansion goes ahead in the North Sea - poisoning spawning grounds for fish whose numbers are already plummeting
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Hogweed still going strong, and being visited by insects, and Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Cymbalaria muralis in a warm spot at the foot of a wall
#thewinter10
#Wildflowerhour
8 days ago
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Dr. Aaron Thierry
9 days ago
12/ The forth theme is focused on climate 'Solutions'. Kicking us off for this section is 'Tomorrow' (2015) by Cyril Dion and MΓ©lanie Laurent that focuses on tracking down the solutions already being implemented all around us.
mubi.com/en/my/films/...
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TOMORROW - Trailer
YouTube video by DEMAIN le Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUN0QxRB7e0
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@valarie.bsky.social
Just looked at
#Samhain
and this is currently top of the thread:
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9 days ago
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Oop!
#theWinter10
begins this weekend. Now where did I see that Herb Robert?
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Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
10 days ago
For the afternoon/evening crowd, here's an image of what I read in October - more info on the blog plus thoughts about November's reading! π
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Would like to recommend Louie's regular Friday good news thread: kidlit and inclusiveness and everybody's good news of the week. lots of joy:
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10 days ago
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See, I told you this would be handy π
@backlisted.bsky.social
listeners!
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10 days ago
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βthe detour from graceβ
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11 days ago
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Philippa East (Author)
12 days ago
TransActual have put together these handy FAQs to respond to MPs (or anyone else) who is still struggling to get their head round why the EHRCβs draft Code of Practice would be so devastating for the trans community. Feel free to share, download, print, whatever!
transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Seb Schmoller
14 days ago
"Our dreams of a better tomorrow may be similar to yours. We hope you will see us not as strangers, but as new neighbours who want to live in peace and grow together with you." A moving letter from Greater Manchester asylum-seeking hotel-residents.
gmiau.org/assets/uploa...
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Backlisted Podcast
13 days ago
Hallowe'en special up now. Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontΓ«, with guests Andrew Male and Laura Varnam in conversation with Una McCormack and Andy Miller. π¬οΈππ§
@andrewmale.bsky.social
@drlauravarnam.bsky.social
@unamccormack.bsky.social
@iammilliam.bsky.social
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Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontΓ«
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZdeO0CsVrx2KrQzbbK8CI?si=d4f5defc3f874860
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Ways to help: (Also: this is a climate justice issue)
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BookTrust
12 days ago
We're so excited that
#BookTrustStorytime
is back in libraries for another year with five fantastic books to share with 0-5s! Based on librarians' feedback, this year we're sharing even more book-based activities & extra ideas to support
#BookTrustStorytime
. Find them here:
https://bit.ly/3JjlF68
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Arthur Snell
13 days ago
Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
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British Council βselling everything it canβ to survive
Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off βfinancial perilβ
https://on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
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A handy, simple refresher for anyone tackling a BrontΓ« novel this weekend ππ§‘
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A lovely listen for anyone who might happen to be reading a BrontΓ« novel at the moment: From
@slightlyfoxed.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
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At Home with the BrontΓ«s
Podcast Episode Β· Slightly Foxed Β· 15/10/2025 Β· 52m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/slightly-foxed/id1441881918?i=1000731958910
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If you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it?
accidentalgods.life/let-the-wild
#accidentalgods
#podcast
#spirituality
#BooksofBlueSky
#WritersofBlueSky
#Books
#Writers
@tamsintheshed.bsky.social
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Let the Wild Gods Rise! Bridging Between the Worlds with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott
Let the Wild Gods Rise.Β Easy to say and harder to do - but if you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it? ...
https://accidentalgods.life/let-the-wild..
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#NowPlaying
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Same Hogweed still going for this week's
#WildflowerHour
- three umbels of flowers waving in the wet windy field, as Autumn Colour begins in the distant woods:
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Weaver of Dreams by Elfrida Vipont - the childhood of Charlotte BrontΓ« and her siblings. Written as a childrenβs book, vivid and memorable, and still on my shelves. Cover - a watercolour by Charlotteβ¦ /2
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Lots more of this, please:
youtu.be/YsMyrhBFJoM
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Appleby Blue Almshouse β RIBA Stirling Prize 2025 winner | The UKβs best architecture
YouTube video by Royal Institute of British Architects
https://youtu.be/YsMyrhBFJoM
23 days ago
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Peter Chilvers
25 days ago
Hereβs another classic Pulp chorus
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Copyediting some academic writing. Even my spellcheck doesnβt recognise the polycrisis
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Valeria Vescina
26 days ago
The fourth
#AuthorInterview
in our
@womenwritersnet.bsky.social
series takes place on Thur 23 Oct. Canβt wait to interview
@brethertonwords.bsky.social
about her new novel, The Fire In Their Eyes! Come and join us - you are welcome to ask the author your questions!
@breakthroughbook.bsky.social
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This book is beautiful, a true work of art, and would make a lovely winter gift π π (for oneself?) - there is a list of independent bookshop stockists on Jackieβs website and also here
www.instagram.com/p/DN8gvqgAq32/
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28 days ago
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So our favourite places this week are *Denmark, and Portland? (*also dumped microsoft)
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#WildflowerHour
one last hogweed, standing not very tall, and flowering in the field. There was a late hay cut, and this has come up since then.
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#WildflowerHour
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Just an ordinary meadow buttercup β so bright!
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Creeping thistle, such an unlikely sugary pink colour flower, just a few left in the field
29 days ago
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π°megβοΈ @Birthright Audiobook!
about 1 month ago
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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UK people- this is happening on 27th November and it would be really useful if more MPs were to go. You can write to yours w the form provided.
@greenparty.org.uk
@yourpartyuk.bsky.social
www.nebriefing.org
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National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
https://www.nebriefing.org
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Open the window to let the mobile internet in! Oh god itβs in here now with all its cat memes and weirdness
29 days ago
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Slurms "where's your poppy?" MacKenzie
29 days ago
GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment. An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action. A disinformation machine as our journalism fails. A bias machine as fascism takes root. A job killer in a cost of living crisis.
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#NowReading
Rebecca Solnit's essay collection "No Straight Road Takes You There"
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"It is deeply unhelpful for politicians to make such comments and I encourage you to think about how your rhetoric might contribute towards unity rather than stoking division."
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