In 2014, conservationists released bison onto abandoned farmland in Romania’s southern Carpathians. Eight years later, satellite data revealed a transformation visible from space: over 100 free-roaming bison reshaped the land into a living mosaic of grasslands, forest edges, and wetlands.

A quick reminder that this Friday, Saturday and Sunday is Rhubarb Festival time in Wakefield. Celebrate the area’s most distinctive food and drink tradition: the forced rhubarb grown in the historic Rhubarb Triangle. #Wakefield @wflibraries.bsky.social experiencewakefield.co.uk/event/rhubar...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Alison Hargreaves was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest solo, unaided, and without bottled oxygen (1995). She was also the first person (man or woman) to solo the six "great north faces" of the Alps in a single summer season (1993). She was born #OTD in 1962. #mountaineering

Twice elected in Battersea, ‘Comrade Sak’ devoted his life to the twin causes of working-class struggle and Indian independence – a legacy now honoured 90 years after his death, write DAVID HORSLEY and JEANNE RATHBONE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/red-...

If your nation harms the very people Jesus called us to serve, namely the poor, the hungry, the sick, the immigrant, the disenfranchised, the marginalized, and oppressed, all while calling your nation “Christian,” you are embodying the exact kind of religious hypocrisy Jesus raged against.

EU treeguide tree species of the day is: Cork oak (Quercus suber), bloem-flower-blume-fleur-flor https://www.bomengids.nl/l/sp/203.html posted by# #bomengidsnlbot# #trees# #botany# #nature# #gardening Welcome to European treeguide bomengids.nl

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🔴Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to ‘Topple’ Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that “we are overthrowing May right now” as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

My book about Britain ends with a memory. Of the first time I ever worked at Broadcasting House as a guest commentator, what that meant to me, and what the BBC means for 🇬🇧’s place in the world. The idea that the World Service could end is awful, and frankly embarrassing for the British Government.

This. Why throw away one of the tools for countering Russian disinformation when it’s never been so important. Especially with US antics going on.

On a rather dull & wet #SundayMorning, here's a view from 1929 where the sun is always shining! This is "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne: it was the view that he woke up to every day. It is in the collection at Brighton & Hove Museums, where it is currently on display.

Dr. Angella Ferguson was born #OTD in 1925. Pediatrician who developed one of the first reliable blood tests to detect sickle cell disease in newborns (1950s). By 2010, her blood test and diagnostic protocols were the standard of care in 40 US states & remain the standard today. #WomenInSTEM #BHM

Worth watching. The folks spreading misinformation aren't normally punished, rather they're financially rewarded.

On a plateau above the River Ure in North Yorkshire stand the remarkable Thornborough Henges, three vast, identical Neolithic earthworks built around 2500 BC. Aligned north-west to south-east over more than 3 kilometres, each henge measures about 250 metres across The overall 1/6

Approaching Swinderby. 7 February 2026. #railway #photography

This matters because London has among the lowest vaccination rates for measles in England - there are many pockets of unvaccinated communities that could be at significant risk from a runaway outbreak:

EU treeguide tree species of the day is: European filbert (Corylus avellana), vrucht-fruit-frucht-fruit-fruta https://www.bomengids.nl/l/sp/59.html posted by# #bomengidsnlbot# #trees# #botany# #nature# #gardening Welcome to European treeguide bomengids.nl

Fishing Village - etching by Swedish artist and printmaker, Eva Holmér Edling More of this artist's stunning work, here: enjoyscandinavianart.com/the-artists/... #art #printmaking

Tiger Bay, 1950, Cardiff's oldest multi-ethnic community, photo by Bert Hardy for Picture Post.

Everybody should be on the Left.

THESE ISLES: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Irish poet, playwright and translator, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. The committee described his oeuvre as ‘works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past’. 1/7

#OtD 13 Feb 1997 Black musician Michael Menson died after being beaten, racially abused, robbed and set on fire by 3 racists in London. Police first claimed he had committed suicide. But after campaigning by his family the murderers were convicted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8470...

EU treeguide tree species of the day is: Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), blad-leaf-blatt-feuille-hoja https://www.bomengids.nl/l/sp/138.html posted by# #bomengidsnlbot# #trees# #botany# #nature# #gardening Welcome to European treeguide bomengids.nl

Camera-shy young girl stays close to an older woman, possibly her grandmother, on Inis Meain, Aran Islands, Ireland, 1924, photo by Swedish folklorist Carl von Sydow (National Folklore Collection, UCD).

Steelworks, Ebbw Vale, south Wales, 1951, painting by Nan Youngman, 1906-95, English artist (Newport Museum and Art Gallery).

We really should be asking ourselves why one rich twat’s racist opinion can become headline news in this country While the perspectives of thousands of volunteers welcoming migrants in their communities & mixed migrant/British families are never heard?

Browsing through Koberger’s 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle in which the #woodcut illustrations do the heavy lifting long before the text gets a chance. #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Dockworkers in over twenty Mediterranean ports launched strikes and protests against war and rearmament on a historic international day of action on 6 February.

A bad hair day for a Hair duck. Red-breasted merganser in a brisk Southerly. Hair duck, Papay name. #Papay #Orkney #birdnames

One of my favourite #Waterbirds A Red-necked phalarope, on a fresh water pool on Mull Head #Papay. Thanks to Alan and Rob for #BirdOfTheDay

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

I had to double check to see if this was a repeat. Nope, this is at least the second ICE agent picked up for sex crimes in the area in the last few months. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

The art of the meaningless utterance.

#OtD 10 Feb 1920 physician, anarchist and novelist who was most famous for writing The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort was born. A member of the Committee of 100 group, he regularly broke into BBC newscasts to denounce nuclear weapons. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...

#OtD 10 Feb 2025 Israeli authorities raided 2 branches of the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem. Even though censors approved all the books police claimed books contained "nationalist Palestinian themes" and arrested the owners. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1357...

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So glad to see George Cottrell being named in parliament yesterday. He was Farage’s head of fundraising when he convicted of an offence related to money laundering & is still close to & funding Farage. Crypto is an urgent democratic threat to the UK

The Reform guys live free speach apart from when they don't bsky.app/profile/john...

Epstein survivor rejects Starmer’s apology. Pls share.

I hope my dear colleagues at @theobserveruk.bsky.social will forgive me if I say, it's so much fun working at the paper, but nothing, nothing, compares to my Muppet days... 😉

This is worth watching in toto. And though I am loath to single out any politician given the existential threats of Russian interference in Ukraine our democracies, @danjarvismp.bsky.social’s grasp and reach and generosity on this issue is stunning. www.youtube.com/live/BXlk5uf...

The sun won't set earlier than it did today again until around Halloween... .. a thought that might help some others cope with this dreary time of year.

What I want to know is what investigations if any ensued. What are the file notes? Crime reports? Instructions from line managers. Senior personnel. Politicians. They aren’t exactly trivial. Any site visit at all? When? What examination of the site? Forensics? Logs?

House Oversight Democrat Rep. Melanie Stansbury Who came out of the Ghislaine Maxwell deposition "The US gov is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex-trafficking scandal and influence pedalling scandal in the history of the US" "And Donald Trump is right at the centre of it"

A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.

I’ve seen the Niagara Falls 🇨🇦 many times, and they never fail to leave me in awe. But winter adds a whole new layer of wonder ❄️ The icy mist, frozen edges, and thunderous power feel almost sacred - nature reminding us to pause, breathe, and marvel at beauty that never grows old.