Pay-Per-View with the proceeds going to SNAP beneficiaries?

National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign. 35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee 12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate Non-slate candidated www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Sinuous old Hawthorn ladies and gentlemen bowing as in a dance across the green velvet path

This morning, I walked along a tiny lane lined with ancient dry stone walls. North West old lanes are great places to find lichens. Here are Parmelia saxatilis and its realtive P. omphalodes. P. omphalodes was called dark crottle by Scots tweed makers. Gaelic "crotal": lichens for red/brown dyes.

Stereocaulon vesuvianum is a common lichen of upland silicious rock, often on dry stone walls, and I associate it with holidays in the North West. l hadn't seen it till today - the last day of my holiday. So I can go home content now! Its pseudopotetia could make you think it's a Cladonis sp.

Cutting the insulation schemes that are one of the best ways to permanently reduce energy bills for low income families would be an eyewateringly daft & counterproductive way of seeking to reduce energy bills, as well as driving up emissions & leading to mass job cuts in the insulation sector 🙄

'Small-scale fishermen using low-impact methods are...forced out by industrial vessels "that take more in a day than we can in a season...we are not asking for special treatment, only for rules that protect the ocean, reward those who fish responsibly, + give our communities a chance to survive"'.

In this episode of @planetpossible.bsky.social, Julie Foley comments how ridiculous it is that the EA draws up coastal erosion management plans with foremost experts, and everyone, including the government, feels completely free to ignore them when building: share.google/mlAONLAEMmpo...

Mayors often have the direct connections within their cities to actually get people working together to achieve meaningful change. Maybe that effectiveness is one reason they're sometimes subject to vicious online campaigns?

“When American organisations with annual budgets in the hundreds of millions fund UK litigation, there are legitimate questions about whether this serves British democratic interests” cc @goodlawproject.org @goodlawproject.bsky.social

The #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 by Convention on Wetlands#GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 is available! Wetlands are vanishing, along with the life they sustain. 🌱 Explore the data & solutions to protect these crucial ecosystems. Full report 👉 http://global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org/ #GWO2025 #WetlandsMatter 🌍🧪

A Bald Eagle 'taking off' on a foggy day for #BirdOfTheDay If you are in the US enjoy the Veterans Day weekend and a happy 'regular' weekend to the rest of you!

Most of the names turned out to be Australians, (via the CWGC website) the church in Edmonton, happening to be near where they were based before heading to the slaughter in France.

Native woodland floor today East Sussex

Between Mary's Substack article, and the Bloomberg article about this deal, it's enough to make you scream. #Epstein keeps looming larger with each passing day. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Justice4EpsteinSurvivors

2 more defections from Labour to Greens www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ivy-clad Hawthorn gloaming hollow into blaze of Hazel stained glass skies on darkly damp and jewelled fungi floor towards the hills #NewTimberHill #nativewoodland #photography

.. and spiders 😊

We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history. We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I met a spider today and then it flew away on a fine line into the grey #DykeAproach path #spiders #joy #nature

Hazel leaf window with Goldcrest Autumn along the #DykeApproach path #birds #nativetrees #photography

An old man showed me a blurry bird photo in the parking lot and asked, “Any idea what this bird is?” I gave him a half-confident “Maybe a Red-flanked Bluetail?” 😅🪶 ジョビには会えぬがルリには会えた😊鎮まりたまえオレの煩悩っ‼️🔥🤣 #nature #photography #animals #wildlife #Red-flankedBluetail #ルリビタキ #birds #野鳥

Twitter's reporting system protects and defends another tweet "go home and you won't have to be worried about being called a p__" at the Green deputy leader. "We hope you'll continue to make reports if you see things that might break our policies". x.com/J83448690/st...

There is a good simple media story in doing a mystery shopping reporting exercise of 100 uses of p-word and n-word racism to get the snapshot % for Twitter protecting hate crimes , with pressure not just on the platform execs, but on ministers, police, ofcom, ehrc and select committees.

Trump is going all the way to SCOTUS to starve 40 million people. I'm sure the court will say that somehow Trump not being able to starve children is a greater injury than starving children for... reasons. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This went under radar but is important! In early 1930's Germany the Nazis targeted small distinct groups of people as they surmised that general population wouldn't notice. Trump targeted deaf people by quietly omitting their right to sign language at all WH Press Briefings. Hail to this Judge!

Judge Issues Injunction Impacting White House Press Briefings youtu.be/rd4qD926zj4?...

Please listen to Liz @lawyeroyer.com and post this far and wide. Trump's embrace of corruption knows no bounds.

That moment when a walk on your local wildlife site gets a bit more exciting! Treecreeper doing what they do among the Hawthorns at #AshlawncuttingLNR this morning. Hadn't seen one for ages and was getting concerned,happier now :-).

Terrible photo of a Hen Harrier. A birding couple in the hide had scopes & were talking about sexual dimorphism of HHs. I couldn't see well enough with my bins, so I asked the woman what sex it was. The man answered for her. Casual misogyny is not unusual from my experience of RSPB volunteering.

"Why This Matters Marine protection in UK has lagged behind terrestrial conservation by nearly a century. While land-based protections began in 1915 w Lord Rothschild’s list of 284 sites, our Sussex Marine Conservation Zones were designated 2013 to 2019. This is our 2nd successful Judicial Review;

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This is brilliant news for marine life in our Sussex coastal waters and all life that depend on that life including wading birds and seabirds!

Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.

Cumbria vs. Sussex observation! There are few Usnea sp. on Hawthorn in Sussex, and if there are, they are typically U. cornuta; but Usnea seems common on Cumbrian Hawthorns, especially U. subfloridana. Moreover, you never see the lovely liverwort Frullania tamarisci on a Sussex Hawtborn.

Smile it's officially Friday!😁 #HappyFriday #AmbassadorWolf

A shame it's being tested like this, but a forceful reminder that restoring nature, preserving clean, thriving ecosystems is also ensuring we have something to fall back on during tough times: grist.org/indigenous/t...

Morales: I don’t care if you’re the most individualistic person on the planet—because you “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” and think government should stay out of your business and “don’t tread on me.” Climate change is already treading on you, and you should care about this issue.

In the early 30s Germany the Nazis targeted the Roma, the Disabled, the Homosexual and the Trans groups of people because these were small distinct communities & they knew they'd more easily get away with the inhuman cruelty. Be less like the Nazis and more like the Greens Bristol City Council!

This is a political party with a spine.

This is the way the monarchy dies: open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

The beautiful colours of a male Eurasian Chaffinch ~ Picture taken at Fforestganol ~ South Wales 🪶🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #ukwildlife #naturephotography #birdwatching #naturetherapy #birdsofbluesky #finches

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents. I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising. 📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides #UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

Today's lunch bench, a trip back in time ("Winter watch area, sponsored by SEEBOARD"? They got bought out in 2002). Still, I was ready, I had my '90s map (mainly to use as a plate for waffles and Welsh cakes😊). Today I was where 'toggers tell you every stick has a Kingfisher. Welcome to... 1/4

Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended. Please do contact us on [email protected] if you would like to support us.

Can you share the petition with any alums please Anna? www.change.org/p/stop-the-s...

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?