BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special The new Private Eye is out now.

“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

It's felt like this all week down here in the West Country. Water everywhere, low grey skies, and both seemed to stretch out endlessly. This is in fact the Ceredigion coast taken a couple of summers ago. Nevertheless it feels apt. #landscape #photography #cymru

The "Francis Dubreuil rose" is a dark red, fragrant tea rose introduced in 1894 by the French rose breeder Francis Dubreuil. It is known for its velvety, multi-petaled blooms and intense, complex fragrance. From the garden of Gill Martinez.

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Holy crap—naked eye visible too!

Farmed salmon horror: Mass fish deaths at salmon farm lead to record welfare fine. Over 106,000 salmon died in cages at the Salaks’ site, prompting Norway’s FSA to issue its highest-allowed penalty & accuse the company of acting too late to stop prolonged suffering www.intrafish.com/finance/mass...

Best I could come up with today. Sunrise was muted at best.

Anna’s Promise is a #rose of many colors.The bud is a bright red orange, but when it blossoms, its petals show hues of bright and pale apricot. So glad this one survived the 26 degree weather two nights ago! #RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #EastCoastKin 🌱 #Photography #OnlyBeautifulThings

North of chancel #StDecumanWatchet #Somerset for #WindowsOnWednesday In an area where most early churches were transformed into Perpendicular style or even totally rebuilt C15, this is a great survivor. Simple pointed light. Outer frame a mix of chamfered and quarter moulded

Another heartbreaking article from @ianjames.bsky.social on the slow, choking off of this dwindling course of life-giving water

It's perhaps more understandable that people in the American Southwest are facing water shortage than that we've managed our water here on a rainy island so spectacularly badly we too are facing water scarcity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

12 November 1582: The court of James VI continues to be much more eventful than that of his cousin Elizabeth. Elizabeth's envoy, Robert Bowes, has, rather extraordinarily, been hunting for a casket, perhaps this one, containing the originals of the (in)famous Casket Letters from... 1/ #earlymodern

Fracking poisoning water supplies - another reason to invite Farage to #FrackOff

Managed to catch up with the Dusky Warbler at Westbrook below the Sunken Garden

Fracking poisoning water supplies - another reason to invite Farage to #FrackOff

Spoiler: The answer is YES AND HERE’S THE PROOF. 💥 Your invitation to a webinar by biologist John Stolz, leader in monitoring fracking’s impact on groundwater, director of the Center for Environmental Research and Education, a professor at Duquesne U. in Pittsburgh, and a masterful communicator:

Busy whiskers! She has an impressive sprout of whiskers despite her small stature. 🤍🧡🖤 #WhiskersWednesday #Calico #Kitten #Catsky #Tortioseshell #CatsofBluesky #AdoptDontShop

Doing a loop in Silver Lake, and Ivanhoe Reservoir is looking nicely van Gogh-esque this morning, a kind of daylight version of "The Starry Night."

Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement A must read for all climate activists zenodo.org/records/1758...

'Proximity to drilling wells, processing plants, pipelines + other fossil fuel facilities elevates the risk of cancer, respiratory conditions, heart disease, premature birth + death, as well as posing grave threats to water supplies + air quality, + degrades land.' Other than that, great stuff

Happy #RoseWednesday #Autumn #Bloomscrolling 🩷🍂

12 Nov 1651 b. Juana Inés de la Cruz, O.S.H. #otd in #Mexico. Nun, #poet, scholar, she wrote in Spanish & Nahuatl. She was known as the '10th muse'

“The green earth is a symbol of hope. Walk on it like you are going somewhere, even when you are going nowhere.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now" ~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at: youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...

Coming to groundwater near you if Farage and Friends get their way #FrackOff

If parents left children surrounded by toxic filth + they came to harm we'd see them in court. But when oil + fracking firms + politicians do it, they're made pillars of the community 👇

#ThickTrunkTuesday 🧡 #forest #trees #nature #moss #photography #EastCoastKin

Meanderings on this first cold and windy day in the Hudson Valley 💨🥶☀️ #ColorADay #bluetue #trees #sky #clouds #nature #catskills #nature #november #dutchesscounty #newyork #mobilephotography

For my #BirdOfTheDay, I give you a Mallard hen escorting her ducklings across the mud for #BirdsStandingOnSomething. She was escorting a brood of 5, hustling them along while keeping an eye on me. They were headed for a back channel in the rushes, one of the ducklings was quite far ahead.

A few village magpies that follow me into the forest in the hope of cat kibbles. 💙 #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsOnTheGround #forest #birds #Corvids #nature #photography #EastCoastKin

#Fungi, #Feathers, and #Insects Spring from Carol Long’s #Art Nouveau Vessels Link for more: www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/09/caro...

Petty Spurge, Euphorbia peplus prefers "... well-drained and nutrient-rich soils in sun-warmed situations..." & so probably isn't enjoying the current water levels at RSPB Leighton Moss all that much at present. @rspbengland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

As I keep saying, sucking out CO2 while still pumping it out is like giving a poisoned patient the antidote while administering more poison The fossil fuel corporations would see this as an opportunity to dig up more oil, gas and coal www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Leaf strewn Victoria Tower Gardens.

11.11.25 Cala Higuera, Torrevieja. Alicante, España. Sunrise 🌅☀️🚵

雪が来た

my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.

Much talk all the time of freshwater wetlands being great filters & cleaning water. We must remember that sending dirty water into wetlands destroys them. There is nothing more certain in science than that. Make wetlands clean!!! @ramsar.org @freshwaterbio.bsky.social

Given this is a House of Galloway stan account, good to see more credit given to Dervorgilla. theconversation.com/medieval-wom...

The leaves have been providing the colour. #bloomscrolling #autumn #leaves

Hamilton hard at work holding up an old fence post. #catsofbluesky #gingercat #orangecat

Some bright survivors of last week’s rain. #bloomscrolling #flowers #roses

In his new role as health and safety advisor, Hamilton is now checking all trees for sturdiness. #catsofbluesky #caturday #gingercat #orangecat

Long before Edmund Beaufort and Richard of York became sworn enemies, they were young men working together trying to rescue England's weakening position in France. Today I look at the 1436 Siege of Calais when Beaufort made his military reputation and became an English hero. 🔗👆🏾

Tag Nr. 310, Vogel Nr. 310: Haussperling #Mittagspausenvogel #birds #birdart #kleineKunstklasse #spatzencontent #Pappstreifenkunst

Still at 34 species seen while away in Murcia, Spain. Today was a train & market type of day so not a lot seen apart from the location for a nest chosen by a pair of House Sparrow & an apt road sign for a lover of birds (does Snipe have another meaning in Spanish?) #Birds #Birding # #Murcia #Spain

Turn the lights off when you leave! 🪐 * Good night ⋆ .˚ ⋆ ˚𓅇 ˚ ☽ 🌎 ✦

Female and male Bullfinch seen recently as a well as a Greenfinch. A few more fungi pictures from Felbrigg NT, one of which appears to be covered in mildew.