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Posts by Laura MacKenzie

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

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Panama just took the Rights of Nature to the United Nations! 🌍🇵🇦 In a historic first, Panama & For Nature signed an agreement to advance a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Nature at the UN General Assembly, bringing this transformative legal framework onto the global stage. Congratulations 👏🏼🌿

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Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB Charity advises replacing seed and nut feeders, where birds gather, with small amounts of mealworms, fat balls or suet

Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says @rspb.bsky.social

- UK charity advises replacing seed and nut feeders, where birds gather, with small amounts of mealworms, fat balls or suet

Story by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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“Is it sillier to ask someone to imaginatively inhabit the perspective of a different species for an hour, or to continue running governance systems that have driven a 70% collapse in wildlife populations in 50 years?”

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Opinion: Restoring the Business and Biodiversity Balance: From Silent Risk to Collective Responsibility | Finance for Biodiversity Foundation For decades, warnings of ecosystem collapse were treated as the domain of activists and specialized scientists. But as of late January 2026, the conversation has fundamentally shifted with the UK Gove...

"The financial sector...requires a clear, consistent policy landscape to de-risk investments and channel capital at the necessary scale – the ball is now firmly in the court of governments" 👀 from @financeforbiodiversity.org www.financeforbiodiversity.org/news/restori... #naturesecurity #finance

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Precautionary #worldwaterrun 6k #sdg6 on Friday greeting several streams of #Renkumsbeekdal incl #Halveraadsbeek spreading joyously unconstrained into its marshy surroundings ended up being it! Unless 13k just walking around Planken Wambuis counts too -value of water & wetlands visibly precious 💙🌳🌲💦

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The weight of the cloud: the cost of AI for water - Cogito COGITO Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen people talk about “the cloud”, it sounds weightless, something almost magical floating in the sky. Except that it isn’t. It lives on the ground, in data centres filled wit...

The cost of AI for water... "alternatives include ... digital degrowth approaches, and forms of public ownership that give territories more control over how digital systems are developed and used" oecdcogito.blog/2026/03/22/t...

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"In closing, Lula underscored this as a time of great geopolitical tension and called for the UN Security Council to seek solutions to conflict. Noting a world without rules is an unsafe one, he urged working against wars and hate speech, and toward welcoming policies and strong multilateralism"

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Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Conservation Implications of Artificial Intelligence Conservation AI—the deliberate application of artificial intelligence technology to achieve conservation goals—has great potential to boost productivity, make existing conservation actions more effic...

Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Conservation Implications of Artificial Intelligence. Conservation Letters. e13076. doi.org/10.1111/conl...

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The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside

Norway comes for the #TechBros

www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

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"Without government policies that put in place the right incentives and create a level playing field, even the most committed companies will struggle to drive transformative change." #BizBiodiversity

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Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

- António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ramsar Convention on Wetlands COP15: synergies, nature-based solutions, and planetary health The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is a planetary health agreement whose work is central to achievement of most global goals related to the environment. The first line of the treaty recognises the inte...

Article @thelancetplanet.bsky.social highlights wetlands as "critical water connectors across the Rio Conventions" & key to planetary health, with new resolutions adopted at #RamsarCOP15 providing "catalytic entry points for public health sector support" #synergies www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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...The lawsuit, a request for “precautionary measures” to stop a violation of rights, was brought by lawyer Gustavo Ricardo Redín Guerrero on behalf of the toad. Under Ecuadorian law, anyone can act to enforce nature’s rights...🤩🐸⚖️

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Unexpectedly pleased to be on the Stena Line overnight 🚢 Hoek van Holland to Harwich, which is surprisingly not fully booked! Still an hour before check-in closes… #Eurostar #YoureWelcome #RailandSail

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Meanwhile momentum continues #rightsofwetlands #rightsofrivers

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"Nature is in crisis, and we need fewer “finance experts” and complex voluntary efforts and more focus on generating political will. We need to embrace the irony that to get the private sector investing in nature, we have to first focus on the public sector." 👀

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Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions Europe is planning to at least triple its data center capacity as part of a push to become a world-class AI hub.

Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions

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With the strongest focus on #water climate nexus since 2020 report it seems, notably insight #5 on declining groundwater and global water cycle - with role of #wetlands and #water key there and for others including #3 carbon sinks #4 climate biodiv feedback and #2 ocean warming

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Als je een rechtstreekse vergelijking maakt tussen de uitslag van #TK2025 en #TK2021 dan zie je dat een heel aantal partijen nu vrij dicht bij hun uitslag van toen zitten. De #VVD is de grootste uitzondering (-12). Meeste winst is voor extreemrechts.

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ChatGPT cited a paper of mine which I did not know existed, so I asked it for the link to it.
Unfortunately that link to the Nature website just gave a "Page not found".
So sad.

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Come on Bluesky Nederland let’s get the #DogsAtPollingStations party started #TK2025

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Beautifully timed PMB from @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
and #RightsOfNature campaigners: hot on the heels of (at least) two historic motions adopted at #IUCNcongress by Govt, NGO & IPLC members this month, notably 054 rights of nature and 067 rights of rivers & wetlands, which may help!

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The Network We Need vs. the Institutions We Have: Why Collaboration in Water So Often Feels Like Competition This piece grew out of conversations during and shortly after  New York Climate Week — and a recurring question: why do gatherings meant to build collaboration so often feel like contests for control?...

Many instances at #IUCNCongress and #WetlandsCOP this year when this was not remotely so. Nevertheless: "...collaboration often feels like competition. Convenings branded as 'collective' or 'building momentum' often become exercises in visibility..." 👀 www.connectingforchangellc.com/post/the-net...

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Phew! Earlier this evening final votes on motions including adoption of 104 on critical minerals and 054 on #RightsOfNature then powerful closing ceremony at #IUCNcongress iucncongress2025.org/assembly/mot... iucncongress2025.org/assembly/mot... Hats off to the motions team & chairs- we got there!

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A few hours ago, at #IUCNCongress, motion 67 'Living in harmony with rivers through the rights of nature and ecocentric law' adopted by a huge majority -an exciting step forward in recognition of #RightsofWetlands - with more #RightsofNature motions to come... iucncongress2025.org/assembly/mot...

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Essential and inspiring reading for everyone heading to #IUCNCongress where Rights of Nature - including rights of #rivers and #wetlands- will be a hot topic of discussions and motions to be debated & adopted, including Motion 067: iucncongress2025.org/assembly/mot...

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"F-gas producer Chemours is using the boom in AI and datacenters as justification for increasing production at its ...West Virginia and ...North Carolina, plants. Both... have been accused of polluting their regions’ water, soil and air, and poisoning drinking water"

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V useful stakeholderbijeenkomst organised by super talented international biodiversity team of #LVVN on #SBSTTA27 and many key decisions being prepared for adoption at biodiversity #COP17 in Armenia to boost #GBF implementation. Nice end to long week despite brainstrain of Dutch at 9am on a Friday 😆

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Thanks @runblueofficial.bsky.social for organising #WorldRiverRun yesterday - raising awareness (and funds!) for river restoration and protection, which needs to be a much higher priority for action on water security, climate resilience, and biodiversity and nature #nederrijn #uiterwaarden 💦🦩🐟

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