Your reminder that Amazon... -Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

A nice little tool for oppression of British people coming our way

A US president calling for the killing of a US senator for imploring state sheba to uphold the law? Where will this end? youtu.be/NcvDcWSXsmI?...

With nature around the world in crisis, feels good to be doing my (teeny tiny) bit. Downhill there's room for a little copse. With no regeneration going on in the grazed gully next door at least some young trees will be coming thru by this woody strip. Blackbirds are loving the fallen crab apples.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

@boldpolitics.bsky.social The system isn't working. Terrified of what it is doing to the world and Humankind. Journalists ask about these numbers to know if you understand the system you want to change and how you're going to do it. Or you risk being Truss #2. (Green LD here) pca.st/podcast/07bb...

In a civilised nation you have every expectation of being able to protest at injustice without being murdered by agents of the state. Trump has the gaul to lecture other nations on the treatment of their citizens and set up a laughable peace organisation. He doesn't even ensure safety for his own.

@righttoroam.bsky.social @gill-lewis.bsky.social #gower @birdsinwales.bsky.social

A great accompaniment to this weekend's Big Garden Birdwatch - Songbird Saturday from Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust. Locally recorded by sound engineer volunteer Martin & MWT ecologist Tammy. #BigGardenBirdwatch @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social www.montwt.co.uk/songbird-saturday

Lovely, lazy start to Sat. A rare non-football morning. Dog on lap and enjoying scrolling this account. The photos really capture the essence of the plants and the descriptions highlight key features. Really terrific.

Useful!

Great blog!

Fascinating!

We're hiring! Could you become our new Wales Officer, lead our Priority Plants Project & support #BSBICountyRecorders across Wales? Apply here: bsbi.org/about/people... Deadline: 23 February Interested but not for you? Please help us spread the word!

This is lovely. Beautiful sentiment. Sure, tax the super rich but let's not pretend that's going to lift millions in the UK out of poverty. The problems we face are global - they require global tax agreements, global regulation of digital giants. And... the Greens in Wales are pro-independence 🤦🏼

Can you lobby your MP to pressure the government to legislate against planned obsolescence? The number of perfectly good computers about to hit landfill because of Microsoft abandoning Windows 10 is grotesque. @therestpolitics.bsky.social Your ruddy advert🙇🏼‍♀️ therestartproject.org/right-to-rep...

Really cool story about long-distance pollen transport by migratory hoverflies. The actual research paper is here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

👇 the bit everyone forgets about when they focus on plants for pollinators...

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. Biodiversity crisis, anyone?

BBC championing Reform again 🤦🏼 I can feel the cancellation of my licence coming on...

What climate crisis? Plus, the noise and pollution of Heathrow already directly blights the lives of millions of Londoners. Who are these businesses anyway - have they not heard of Zoom? Humankind continues to fiddle while the planet burns.

Love the Scots. The National's front page was a cracker too.

Killing children - not ok. Starving children - not ok. Depriving children of medicine - not ok. Supplying arms to a state that is doing all this - not ok. Locking people up who say the above - not ok. How can any of this be allowed to continue? @stevewitherdenmp.bsky.social

Nice explainer. Buy independent, buy local, where you can...

How can these people not give a hoot about the future for their children and grandchildren?

What a stunning photograph...

Interesting...

Life-cycle impact assessment of offshore wind energy development on migrating bird diversity in the North Sea 🐦 The combination of long-term bird ringing data & LCAs could be a useful tool for comparing potential impacts across proposed wind farm sites 🧪 🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Even-handed reflection on Labour's first year. Enlightening insights into goings-on hidden behind the nonsense politician threatre. I'd lost all track of most of their achievements: industrial strategy, workers' rights, net zero, EU alliances, assisted dying, abortion. Some good news for a change.

📝 Blog: Whose farming future is it anyway? Dr Charlie Taverner asks whether, amid a flurry of roadmaps, strategies & visions, have decision-makers spent enough time talking to people who these policies will affect? And will these policies help farmers live better lives? ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

Catching up on podcasts while gardening... On average children in the UK are consuming less than half the recommended amount of fruit and vegetables and over twice the amount of sugar. Good to hear govt is [still] working on a national food strategy. Hoping for some urgency! pca.st/podcast/c753...

How wonderful! And how terrific to see some good news! Good news from here too - 5 swallow chicks have just fledged after 3 years of failures. Over the moon!

More, better, and more joined up...

Taxing frequent flyers feels like a no-brainer. As does reducing the cost of train travel. Sat afternoon Eurostar at the start of the summer holidays last year was only one-third full 🙇🏼‍♀️

Never thought I'd see anything like this in the US.

And the other source we never hear about is the waste from all our private septic tanks that gets sprayed over farmland.

Exactly the sort of work going on here in Montgomeryshire. Interesting how much traditional agriculture has to teach us about managing landscapes in ways that benefit nature...

NEW EPISODE No you are not hallucinating, this is a new podcast episode! I chat to Becky Pullinger from @the-wildlifetrusts.bky.social about the Planning and Infrastructure Bill and why it will be such bad news for wildlife in the UK Listen here: www.uk-wildlife.co.uk/ep95-why-the...

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No surprise here...

Out today in Nature, our paper on the drivers of the record 2023 summer heating of the North Atlantic. Temperatures warmed to record levels in just a few months. The impacts on climate & ecosystems were severe. A thread on how this work came about and what we found.👇👇🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring this evening. She was writing about the dangers of dog flea treatments 63 years ago. Is it any wonder our rivers are in such a state?

All power to them...

Terrific to host Montgomeryshire Moths Group this morning. 211 of 45 species. Cat B Clouded Buff and Cat C Bird's Wing. #TeamMoth

Big Meadow Search 2025 starts today until 31st August. Everyone welcome, you dont need to be an expert, just record species you know. Please help us add more sites to the map. There will be daily plant ID or plant association posts to look out for. bigmeadowsearch.co.uk

Can't wait to visit this year. Excited to see nature and farming going hand-in-hand. Hoping land use change can be avoided...

What is happening in Gaza is beyond my comprehension. How can the world allow any of this to happen?