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After two decades of letting nature lead at Knepp Estate, the species recovery has been phenomenal 🦋 The @kneppwilding.bsky.social story is well known. 20 years ago, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree's land was managed farmland and the business was struggling. 🧵1/5

And today I made the point that his so called “board of peace” is totally unnecessary when we already have one - it’s called the UN. He has undermined international networks & instead tries to create a members club to run the world. He is incredibly dangerous - a wolf in sheep’s clothing

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In the six-plus years since, every mental health professional I have come across has told me that my essay had it exactly right. I think every word of it has been proven right many times over. Even today, he's still only going to get worse. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

One step closer to seeing elk back in Britain’s landscapes 🫎 Last year, we awarded @nottswildlife.bsky.social and @derbyswildlife.bsky.social funding from our Rewilding Innovation Fund to research the feasibility of reintroducing Eurasian elk to beaver wetlands in Nottinghamshire. 🧵1/3

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We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

Reform's opponents need to keep punching this bruise. It's a real problem for a would-be nationalist leader when they start looking like the lapdog of a hostile power. This did a lot of damage to Oswald Mosley in the 1930s, and it could become a serious issue for Farage.

birds do it bees do it even educated fleas do it let's do it let's fly into a window

"That's not a knife. This is a knife." - Crocodile Dundee's in-home carer at lunchtime. Gently, ever so gently.

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The Dutch equivalent of "hip hip hooray" is "hieperdepiep* hoera" *pronounced "heeper de peep" As ever, do with this information what you will

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

20. '1981 Toilet Seat Henflap Leads To Far More Transcendental Space Than Hens Had Imagined'. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

💥 A MUST READ breakdown for Americans on the consequences of attacking Greenland and Europe – from a longer post on X by @beefeaterfella.bsky.social

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

#NationalBirdDay Hellenistic mosaic floor panel from Pergamon depicting an Alexandrine parakeet. 🦜 The Alexandrine parakeet species is named after Alexander the Great, who is said to have brought several birds back from India.

Reform UK Ltd, previously Brexit Party, previously UKIP, previously EDL, previously BNP, previously National Front, previously British Union of Fascists. … and now morphing inte the New Conservatives…

Guten Morgen 🙃

I’d prefer to be thinking about muppets.

Something beautiful for the weekend! ✨ A rare rock crystal tool made by Neanderthals between 200,000 - 40,000 years ago. From a Mousterian level at the Merveilles rockshelter, Sergeac, Dordogne, France. 6 x 3.3 x 1.5 cm. Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 📷 by me #Archaeology

‘If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be life hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.’ ~ G Eliot #BookWormSat

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Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress. He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.

Narwhal Whales Arctic waters of Canada, Greenland and Russia Credit: NOAA Fisheries: Narwhal Research

"Tom Watson recently announced to colleagues that he has a new singular political mission: putting Britain back at the heart of Europe." A must-read from @ethangcroft.bsky.social on how Labour's EU Ultras in parliament are organising magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/01/17/l...

We never worried about our TV being stolen in the 70s. It took 4 people just to move it a few inches to the right. - 😂 #Truth

A massive "Hands off Greenland" protest is happening right now in Copenhagen to demonstrate against Trump's threats. "The aim is to send a clear and unified message of respect for Greenland's democracy," organisers said. “Respect for Greenland, respect for Greenlanders, respect for Denmark.”

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

We have an ageing population, struggling public services, and climate change. People might want low taxes, no migrants and cheaper energy, but they also don't want to lie in a hospital corridor for hours or have their house flooded. You can win elections with magic thinking but can't govern with it.

Admirable! And looking good #Winterpicnic

PETITION: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I couldn’t have said it better.

Dating from around 1865, this hooded parka from the Aleutian Islands in southern Alaska is made from seal intestines, a naturally waterproof & windproof material. Both robust & decorative, these seal gut parkas would have been used daily to keep warm & dry in this harsh environment. bit.ly/4oRZuCC

Is administration is full of ignorant liars.

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

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"ICE AGENTS VERBALLY ASSAULTED AT MN RESTAURANT"

I think it’s basically time to retire the peace prize because it really is meaningless at this point. Another 100+ year-old tradition cheapened, wrecked, and discredited by the gauche garish gangster.