Here is a street near to my mum’s house.

BBC News - Nearly 1,000 people trapped on Mount Everest slopes www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dutch news now reporting this Gaza demo in Amsterdam drew 250,000. If so, I think that makes it the biggest in the Netherlands since the anti-nuclear-missiles demo in 1981.

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On flu jabs, paperwork, and a trickling tremor that public attitudes to science are going in the wrong direction. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

I assume if implemented these new powers to further restrict protests in the UK will also be used against those outside hotels...right? Right? It's just another erosion of the right to protest, and we keep seeing that right chipped away. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015. Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

This just a few weeks after many of Robinson’s supporters were doing Nazi salutes and shouting Nazi slogans at his march in London. Absolutely insane stuff.

The police will tell you they have 'no choice' because PA are a proscribed organisation but come to Belfast and you learn very quickly that is a lie. This is absolutely a choice.

This is a great piece of local journalism - about all those flags going up in Brum. Some interesting details.

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

The Ambassador of South Africa to France, who filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Criminal Court, has died after falling from the 22nd floor of the hotel where he was staying in Paris. It was reported that the ambassador had been unreachable for the two days prior to his death

Utterly despicable.

"I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard" RIP to the greatest to ever do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...

On Frozen Pond! A heron stands on one leg on a frozen pond hoping for fish? #BirdOfTheDay #AllWeathers #UKWildlife #Winter #Birds #Ornithology #GreyHeron #Ice #Photography #Scape #EastCoastKin

Pollution kills all Tees Estuary seal pups Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

Media figures who cheerlead & champion Nigel Farage every minute of every day are freaking out about Keir Starmer telling a few home truths about the whiny little liar’s racism. And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

🇵🇸 That's solidarity! 175 great civil society groups have endorsed our National Demonstration for Palestine Saturday. See you at the Garden of Remembrance at 12.30pm, all out for Palestine! #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide 🇵🇸

💰 PPE Medpro must repay £122m for supplying defective PPE ⚖️ But it doesn’t stop with Baroness Mone. When will the ministers who referred their cronies onto the VIP Lane face consequences? https://goodlaw.social/f2e9

Voting done ✅ Decided to register for remote voting to offset my sibling’s vote for right wing policies. #SmallSteps #DutchParliamentaryElections

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Judge rules that Mone company must repay govt £122 million for breach of Covid PPE contract www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

The revolutionary proposal that people shouldn't have to earn or deserve or justify stuff that others got simply by being born somewhere. (Where "stuff" includes the basic circumstances of survival, for instance.)

Sliabh Liag / Slieve League from Mullaghmore yesterday. #MountainMonday #BlueMonday #Sligo #Donegal

But supporting Palestine Action does make you a terrorist.

This! And I’m not going to be forced to apply for citizenship. Luckily I’ve options and if necessary I’ll move countries again. I don’t want to be part of a country where you’re a second class citizen unless you’ve got a bit of paper stating you’re British.

Gonna be some random tariffs on Ireland tomorrow

The whole concept of “earned” settlement or citizenship is deeply problematic, implying to people they’re only here on sufferance until proven otherwise, as well as suggesting there’s something uniquely & magically virtuous about UK society which means you have to be extra good to be part of it 🤷‍♂️

BREAKING: Peaceful protestors arrested outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool Yet more peaceful protesters are being arrested today and hauled from the streets by police - a scene which just a few months ago would have been shocking but is quickly becoming the norm... 🧵

Glow-in-the-dark geese

Voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction and most of them blame Brexit. Just LOOK at the voter breakdowns in our research. People get it. Brexit made us poorer and the goons who sold it to us, chiefly Farage, need to held accountable. www.bestforbritain.org/new_polling_...

Had anyone here had experience of Shopify taking money from an account even though you've not signed up?

I’m not It isn’t. It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.

A story that’s attracted surprisingly little attention in our media: Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Lake District police chiefs call for ban on fly-camping - BBC News

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW: A plan to make Tony Blair the interim leader of Gaza has been described as “nothing short of insane” by the SNP

The tree you climbed as a child. Gone. The Swifts over your town. Gone. The air you breathe. Polluted. The river. Unsafe. This is the reality of deregulation. Cutting protections would mean disaster for nature & our economy. Our CEO sets out why: rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈

Bless those who think the Home Office can successfully carry out a huge IT procurement exercise for digital ID cards for implementation before the next general election.

Migrants already have to demonstrate their immigration status to be able to work, rent etc. Key thing when talking about "undocumented" migrants is they are undocumented, and those employing them know it, so an additional form of ID makes absolutely sod all difference. www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘History will remember who showed up’: Keir Starmer faces calls to attend #Cop30 summit - Response from leaders comes after PM’s aides advised non-attendance over concerns Reform may attack him #climatecrisis Story by @fionaharvey.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

2. Countries that have ID cards - like the whole of Europe - still have the same irregular migration problem (you may have heard!!!) & in fact the UK has the lowest share of its economy estimated as irregular economy in Europe so if it fixes the issue WHY DIDNT IT FIX IT THERE?

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

I miss @matt-getoutside.bsky.social on here. First of the year and only 3 months to go 🎄🎅