Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.
A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.
@sarahdalgulls @DavidTanner Ah, the tales of Vera, she only sold Castle Eden beer. An Irish roadstone lorry driver was drinking with us and Gordon and said he didn't like the beer, after a few pints I said "You seem to like it now". "I've switched to the lager". Vera had just told him it was lager to shut him up. Then there were the crisps "Crisps? This is a pub not a restaurant". And finally, my mate Ian went in for a packet of fags. "I only sell cigarettes to the locals".
from my dad mastodon.green/@JohnDal/116...
The Star at Netherton is up for sale. Back in the day, a little lady sat behind the hatch in pic 20 and sold you Castle Eden straight from the cask next to her. Someone asked for crisps once "does this look like a restaurant?" Also pic 25, beat that Wetherspoons
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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Rachel & Reid's routine surveillance trip to #Coquet to check for rat sign coincided with #TrinityHouse carrying out helicopter drops.The #Conservation #DetectionDog team were able to check cargo for suspicious signs & provide reassurance on top of checks already carried out by Trinity House & #RSPB
I love a really good fake quote.
This one has all the ingredients because it sounds nothing like Orwell, is poorly written, and incredibly dumb.
"But if you attach a famous name and deliver it with whispered gravitas, there will always be dumbasses who'll believe it."
~ Keith Harris (and Orville)
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
People see conservation as an exciting, romantic field to work in
But it's a tough life watching the places you love, study and fight for being destroyed
Andrew Tate's twatty video only starts making any sense when you use different music
Our warming climate is bringing more frequent and more intense winter storms.
The number of seabirds dying as a result of recent storms looks to be huge…
#ukbirding
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
Anyways.
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Party Total reported Donations accepted (excl. public funds) Public funds accepted Total accepted in this quarter Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland £65,140 £20,538 £44,602 £65,140 Conservative and Unionist Party £4,216,224 £2,401,452 £1,614,729 £4,016,181 Co-operative Party £131,180 £131,180 £0 £131,180 Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. £104,320 £0 £104,320 £104,320 Green Party £294,069 £189,010 £98,764 £287,773 Labour Party £2,043,007 £1,943,824 £31,836 £1,975,660 Liberal Democrats £2,190,101 £1,314,139 £749,173 £2,063,312 Open Party £197,151 £155,067 £0 £155,067 People Before Profit £8,605 £0 £6,453 £6,453 Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales £63,967 £30,000 £33,967 £63,967 Reform UK £5,473,000 £5,456,000 £0
The funding gap between Reform UK and the Greens is astounding.
New Electoral Commission stats today reveal the reportable donations in Q4 2025:
🟢 Green Party: £189,010
🟣 Reform UK: £5,456,000
Greens are bringing in barely 3.5% of Reform UK's large donations - but still polling around 20%.
Amazing!
Wow! Not what you would have expected to see out of the office window in Southern England a few years ago. Adult White-tailed Eagle and 2 Common Crane circling together over the Piddle Valley late morning @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
BBC Response to Green Paper:
As well as content on YouTube they say:
"We will open up BBC platforms like iPlayer and Sounds to other UK content providers, so the country can retain scaled PSB services capable of competing with global streamers."
I really care about men's rights, and having given it much thought, I have decided the best way to advance them is to deny women help in the face of violence
Wow. Well, that's dystopian as hell.
BirdWatch Ireland CEO Andrew Kelly & BTO CEO Juliet Vickery are sitting at a table outside smiling as they get ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.
RSPB Chief Executive Beccy Speight & BTO CEO Juliet Vickery are sitting together at a table in the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge holding pens ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.
BTO CEO Juliet Vickery & Scottish Ornithologists Club President Ruth Briggs are sitting at a table smiling and holding pens ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.
BTO CEO Juliet Vickery & Welsh Ornithological Society Chair Anne Brenchley are sitting at a table together looking down and holding pens as they get ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31. Wildlife and nature themed artwork hangs on the wall behind them.
1/ Five leading charities forge partnership for bird conservation for the Bird Atlas 2027–31! 🐦 But what is the Bird Atlas? ⬇️🧵 #Ornithology
@btobirds.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @birdsinwales.bsky.social
The groundswell of anger against Katie Hopkins touring Britain like she's just some normal celebrity grows.
Well done to local people in Dorset who aren't taking it lying down.
www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
A Roseate Tern, standing beside a list of seabird jobs being advertised by Birdwatch Ireland.
We are currently hiring for a range of #seabird jobs at @birdwatchireland.bsky.social , with a deadline of 22nd March. If you'd like to join our Seabird team this summer see birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved...
A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
finally read uncle vanya, one more thing i can chekhov my bucket list
Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
thank you Lizzie!
Jellyfish have survived all 5 mass extinctions which goes to show the best way to succeed in this world is to not have a brain or heart
Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.
A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.
