They're just little guys. You can look at them for free and you can look at them up close if you pay for Bird Premium (binoculars or camera). They're just doing behaviors. They will never email you.
Are you saying that his BA in history and total lack of experience in either organisation management or health care isn't excellent preparation to manage one of the single largest employers in the world? Well I never
The thing is that apologists aren't capable of a single internally consistent thought. Anyone who disagrees is "extreme left" or "extreme right" and can't possibly have genuine arguments worth considering. They don't care. He could cheese grater a puppy on live tv and they'd be totally fine with it.
Any calm scientific conversation with these men where they don't agree and your scientific education is called hysterical opinions because they did a BA in English in the 80s. It doesn't matter how calm and polite you are, you must have no thoughts & must immediately retreat if they disagree.
It's funny. In Canada and the US nature pursuit are dominated by women. Birding, botany, butterflies, biological recording, etc etc. There are issues anywhere but it isn't known as particularly toxic. In Britain the behaviour of too many older middle aged men in nature is inexplicably aggressive.
It really feels futile to engage in British nature. Is this just the area I live in? Are there fewer nutcases elsewhere? I actually just give up.
Ahh a day that ends in Y. That means that it's a day where men in the local big nature group on FB become hostile and sneering in how they speak to a woman. Had the joy of one randomly being xenophobic as well. I'm SO SICK of this. Is there any way at all to engage in British nature without this?
"Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party, said: “There’s nothing real about the Reform party. Their supposed policies to tackle cost of living are fake, they spin stories that are fake and now we know even their campaigners are fake.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Britain is absolutely passionate about cats killing everything and the RSPB refuses to make a statement on it IMO because they know it would affect their donations.
I'm so sick of that thing coming into our garden and killing stuff. We keep our cats in because we're responsible pet owners and I'll block anyone who rambles about "free spirits".
We had a beautiful woodpigeon in our garden on her nest with her eggs. Huge thanks to our neighbours who let their damn cat out, who has ripped her to shreds and stolen the eggs.
Whaaaat, you're so nearby! I always mean to go there, was it great?
This painting, titled "L'escalier" (The Staircase), was created by French painter Marc Chalmé, known for his mastery of shadow and light, often compared to Vermeer. His work captures "still light" in landscapes, still lifes, and scenes like this.
This painting, titled "L'escalier" (The Staircase), was created by French painter Marc Chalmé, known for his mastery of shadow and light, often compared to Vermeer. His work captures "still light" in landscapes, still lifes, and scenes like this.
Evening grosbeaks.
A surprise find of Crimson Clover on the verge of the A38 near Notter Bridge today. No other alien plants there and the road has been here a long time, so it didn't come from amenity planting.
#wildflowerhour
Trifolium incarnatum subsp incarnatum
They can't stop sticking in jabs about "wringing hands and crying" but they're the ones obsessed with who Green supporters vote for. Why aren't they mad about Lib Dems not voting for them? If they're appealing to Tories why are they so convinced we have to accept them as progressive? Are they ok???
punchingjudy96 2h The biggest group is the Tories who have nowhere to go, all the decent people who supported a party with mps like David Gaulke, Anna Soubry - the competent ones that Boris threw out of the party. As the party swerved toward the extreme right they have become unsupportable for middle England voters, especially with KB in charge. SKS always said he needs10 years to repair the country and so, wisely in my opinion, he is doing nothing to scare that huge middle ground. 1/2 Reply punchingjudy96 2h The further left of the party can wring their hands and cry about 'Labour values', but the fact is that you have to be in power to do anything, and in a democracy like ours any stable government is going to be centrist - may lean to the left or right, but basically centrist. Having said that, how are Workers Rights bill, Renters Rights bill, breakfast clubs etc not Labour values
Labour obsessives are truly insane. On post number 6472818475637166 of day enraged that Green supporters don't love Labour I asked, given where Labour are polling, which group(s) of people do you think they're trying to appeal to to deliver another victory?
This was the reply.
Good morning from my beloved little pond. I cultivate it specifically for insects, which benefits everything. It's full of newts, freshwater shellfish, & all sorts of creatures.
I exclusively grow native plants in it & in summer it's surrounded by butterflies and dragonflies!
(Sound on for birds)
Screenshot from a 90s sci fi show, showing the view of a person using a game, with people staring in
Everyone urgently needs to watch the Star Trek TNG episode "The Game" and see what a frighteningly perfect analogy it is for what's happening with AI. I beg everyone to go watch it then come update here.
Good morning from my beloved little pond. I cultivate it specifically for insects, which benefits everything. It's full of newts, freshwater shellfish, & all sorts of creatures.
I exclusively grow native plants in it & in summer it's surrounded by butterflies and dragonflies!
(Sound on for birds)
I don't want billionaires making large donations. I want them taxed at 90+% and then Congress--representing the people rather the whims of the few--decide how tax dollars should be allocated.
close up of purple toothwort flowers emerging from the ground
Went to visit one of the rogue populations of Lathraea clandestina in Hampshire yesterday.
This root parasite is in full bloom now, a glade full of them, hundreds upon hundreds of purple toothwort blooms erupting from the soil!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social #botany #naturalists
It is! We have a related native species, Lathraea squamaria. It's pretty and creamy but this is much more glam
Three mini prints of rock drawings. The bottom one is new in my store
Rocks are memories of the land. 🩶
#art #sciart #rocks #earth #drawing
Well, it's non-native, but it's not invasive, it just naturalises here and there where it's escaped from botanical gardens. So I'm always thrilled to see it! The colour was beautiful in the dappled sun after some rain and dark skies cleared.
close up of purple toothwort flowers emerging from the ground
Went to visit one of the rogue populations of Lathraea clandestina in Hampshire yesterday.
This root parasite is in full bloom now, a glade full of them, hundreds upon hundreds of purple toothwort blooms erupting from the soil!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social #botany #naturalists
The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved legislation to shield 350,000 Haitians from deportations for three years, a rare bipartisan rebuke of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda enabled by a small group of Republican defectors
80000th time I'm begging to know why the National Trust is insisting on sending seedlings of an invasive tree all over the country to commemorate the one tree in a barren landscape. What on EARTH are they thinking?
This is great news!!
