Bee ‘Outside another yellow moon Has punched a hole in the nighttime…’ Dream not that it might end but rather that it had never started… #bee #goodnight #dream

Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH

The superb @drdemetre.bsky.social (fellow Greek, I presume) who quit the CDC over RFK Jr's crankery explains correlation vs causation: "It's like saying people who develop lung cancer carry matches in their pocket. It's not the matches that cause cancer. It's the likelihood they smoke." #Newsnight

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

Gary’s tirelessly spoken up for the people of Gaza, asylum seekers, migrants & against racism.Many in the media and beyond have tried to turn him into a hate figure. They assumed they were on the right side of those issues.Tonight the public voted him Best Presenter ending Ant & Dec’s 23 yr record.

Just one example. But a big one. Farage talks shite. On everything. All the time. People might cheer on his racist fever dream but - you turn that into govt - and it all falls apart. Brexit, the very shitty sequel. Please let’s not be that stupid again.

An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.

This is exactly why the state needs to stop mucking about and commit to full unequivocal support for trans folk. An extraordinary and painfully revealing thread of just how shocking what's going on has been and actually is.

Yesterday: Nigel Farage says Reform UK "will detain and deport absolutely anyone that comes via that route.. Yes, women and children" Today: Nigel Farage, "Deportation of illegal immigrants, we were not even discussing women and children at this stage. The news reports who said that were wrong"

Nationalism is by default unimaginative and paradoxically every example of it is broadly similar to other examples everywhere else in the world. It's always about flags and chants and xenophobic exceptionalism. The mantra of people who don't have the imagination to actually love where they live.

The reality of 'immigrants being put up in five star hotels'.

Bumblebees #sleeping on/in #flowers at this time of year! What the feck is that all about? Lots of people asking us so here’s a quick (long)🙄 thread explaining what’s going on. Please #repost/#share so more are more informed. Thanks good people. #bees #nature #biodiversity #worldbeesanctuary 1/16

MOAR Christmas American chums. And sorry. I know it’s August. But tariffs will probably finish my US export business mid August. So PLEASE buy now! ROCKIN ROBINS! USE THE FORK, LUKE, RUDEOLPH AND FAT ROBORB cards available here dippyfishcards.etsy.com #bsnm #ukgiftam #tariffs #artist #smallbiz

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 168 Research indicates that, for European buff-tailed #bumblebees at least, about 80% of early season pollen tends to be collected from #trees and woody plants. Trees are vital for #bees and this is often overlooked. #nature #biodiversity #insects

For one of the delicious things about folklore is the promise that it makes to us that just beyond the gate to the meadow, just beyond the first trees of the wood, lives wonder. For folklore is never less than an enrichment of inner lives. – Dr. M. Benn #Folklore

If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 165 Although flowering meadowland/open habitat is the predominant landscape associated with #bumblebees and #bees the vital role that #forests, woodland and #trees may play in the bee life cycle should not be underestimated. #nature #biodiversity

Genius! Bravo Scotland!

How different birds would run a marathon... a thread. 👇 Reckon you could outdo these birds? We're taking applications for London Marathon 2026 Team RSPB runners. Follow the link to apply, you have 'til Sunday! 🏅 rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...

Okay folks it’s hot out there so we need to talk about #bees and #water. Please #repost and #share for impact. Thanks! BEES NEED WATER! BEES GET STUCK IN AND DIE IN WATER! Here’s what you need to know! Given that they can collect water, their nectar based diet and their ability to generate… 1/11

BORDER PATROL: “Are you an 🇺🇸 citizen?” 🔥 NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN: “FIRST ONES. We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us… what are you? You’re not first born. You’re not from this f*ckin’ land. Punk-as* b*tches.”

Forget the elephant in the room. Let’s talk about the #bumblebees in the box. A thread on the commodification of bumblebees to produce your #food. The numbers, why it’s bad for wild bees and how they kill them when they’re no longer of use. Please #share. #repost. For #bees. Thanks folks. 🐝🌍🙏🏼 1/14

🌈 It’s June. ⚠️ Rainbows are out. So are the Very Online bigots. Somewhere right now, a man named Keith is explaining how Skittles ruined Western civilisation. Stay hydrated. Weaponise sarcasm. Happy Pride. Read The Bear’s letter to the editor ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

Someone who read this called it "A sillier, East Midlands-based Stranger Things, written by Kurt Vonnegut and Sue Townsend." I doubt that's true, but if you want to find out yourself by buying one of the final few signed hardbacks, drop me an email at [email protected] & let me know your address.

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 124 Bumblebee diet matters. The pollen available to queens affects nest survival especially in early spring when the queen is in effect operating as a solitary bee. Quality and variety of early food sources is vital. #bees #nature #bumblebees 🐝🌍

To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement: I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings. Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 122 Plastic has become so ubiquitous in the planet’s #environment that #leafcutterbees have been observed using discarded #plastic instead of leaves in the construction of their nests. This is not positive evolution. #bees #nature #science 🐝🌍

Wake-up call… Lincolnshire has suffered some of the worst flooding in its history in recent years Lincolnshire’s newly elected Reform council has abolished the flooding committee This is who they are Please wake up to this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the drained-pool stage of “gender critical” feminism’s segregationist crusade has arrived. congratulations, everyone loses

When analysing Boris Johnson’s post-PM journalism, especially in relation to his stance on the EU, you’d do well to remember he’s a honking, morally bankrupt old spunker who’d fart out the theme to ‘Bullseye’ if you paid him & he writes like a boxing glove full of Scrabble tiles.

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 111 #Bumblebee nest sites include old rodent burrows, leaf piles, timber piles, compost heaps, hollows in trees, tall grass, under/in sheds and even birds nests so be #considerate of this if/when working in your #garden! #bees #nature #bushvetch 🐝🌍

‘Are these very small #bumblebees we’re seeing out foraging around now a specific species?’ A good question. Thanks for asking us. Here’s a brief thread to explain these diminutive beauties. Please #repost / #share with your crew. For the small bumblers. Thanks folks! #bees #nature #spring 1/9

Just after a cartoon rabbit hands you a cigar and lights it for you.

Oh to be a fly on the wall at the conclave tomorrow morning when one of the cardinals doesn’t come in to breakfast and then Claudia comes in and takes their portrait off the wall.

You knew #bumblebees were friendly but…is that bumblebee actually waving at you? Please #repost/#share for the #bees. Likes are nice but shares impact! Thanks folks. And go gentle in your #garden / #yard today! #bees #bumblebees #insects #pollinators #nature #science #education #caring 🐝🌍

Once again, not the picture that the media wants you to see

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

If the Green Party had the same coverage as Reform it would be them winning in a landslide. But of course the Green Party would actually tax the billionaires, so they won't platform them.

I doubt I will ever witness a better description of pheasants than the time I heard a ten-year-old call them "fashion chickens".

Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

If you want to know how serious our decline in the UK, when North Carolina did what the Labour Government and EHRC have done, the then UK Government told LGBT+ people to beware travelling there. (Credit to @kazhawa.bsky.social.) www.voanews.com/amp/uk-issue...

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. # 100 A #bumblebee colony develops over several months (Spring to Autumn). Most plants bloom for a few weeks. So a colony needs multiple plant/crop species blooming in succession to successfully complete the life cycle. #bees #nature #flowers 🌍🐝

I knew Fatima's work, I respect her last wishes. 😞 "If I die, I want a resounding death. I don't want to be in breaking news, nor as a number in a group. I want a death that the world will hear about, an impact that will last forever, and immortal images that will not be buried by time or space."

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

A 450-yo oak is felled without permission by a Toby Carvery (don’t eat there), who falsely claimed it was "dead". A tree alive when The Gunpowder Plot was hatched, which supports a web of 2000+ species, is in pieces. Legal protection for heritage trees needed. enfielddispatch.co.uk/toby-carvery...

A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad: 1. The Swimming Pool.