Beautiful pair of Greenfinches on the kitchen window feeder this morning.

Making the most of them while I can.

Feed seasonally. Feed safely. And most importantly plant as much bird habitat and food friendly plants in your gardens as you possibly can.

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Stewart Lee: Kanye West’s banned. Meanwhile certain people get away with antisemitism scot-free Obviously, rap stars advertising swastika T-shirts during the Super Bowl is unacceptable. There seem to be different rules for another kind of racism in Britain

This week Stewart Lee explores the double standards operating in Britain over anti-semitism. While Kanye West is banned causing the Wireless festival to collapse, Nigel "gas the jews" Farage and holocaust denier-adjacent Matt GPT, receive endless news coverage.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...?

I am not interested in building cities on Mars.

I am not interested in AI being forced into every app.

I am not interested in data centres orbiting the Earth.

I want clean water.

I want a stable climate.

I want insects to survive.

No petrol, no problem: The electric car drivers beating the crisis

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Secret Garden - Series 1: 1. Oxfordshire David Attenborough reveals the lives of kingfishers, otters and other animals whose home is a river garden. Life here seems idyllic, but all are at the mercy of seasonal floods.

What a wonderful series…..

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Refuge or reality? Olivia Laing on gardening in the permacrisis Planting, pruning, digging and tending can feel like an escape. But they are also a way of engaging with the world

A garden is a way for a people to define who they truly are.

Like reading or listening to music, gardening is a cognitively rich activity.

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I see the knives are out, from Labour, attacking Polanski for criticising Labour's plans to extract fossil gas from the North Sea.

Labour is finally waking up to the fact that they are haemorrhaging voters to the Greens. But the only way to stop this is to change direction, not attack Polanski.

Huge folly and completely spineless.

Of course we shouldn’t drill for more oil in the North Sea – we cancelled further exploitation for a reason | Bill McGuire We are at a critical point in the climate emergency and already struggling to meet emissions reduction targets. The UK government must hold its nerve, says Bill McGuire, professor emeritus of geophysi...

Of course we shouldn’t drill for more oil in the North Sea – we cancelled further exploitation for a reason

Clear as usual from Bill McGuire

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Almost finished!

#CommunityArtClass #Paintable #acryliconcanvas

Trump is threatening further and greater war crimes in Iran: "completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants... and possibly all desalinization plants!".
This directly contravenes the laws of war.
One day he and his enablers must face justice.
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‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands A project on Dartmoor to reprofile the landscape aims to return the springy bog – and carbon store – to its natural condition

"Tin mining, drainage for agriculture, deforestation, burning and military testing of ordnance are among the activities that have damaged" the bogs.

Don't forget overgrazing.

‘The start of the healing process’: the vital work to restore Britain’s peatlands
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Photos From the Third Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Protest More than 3,000 marches and rallies took place yesterday in cities and towns across America during the third “No Kings” event, where millions protested against the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration.

More than 3,000 marches and rallies took place this Saturday in cities and towns across America during the third “No Kings” event, where millions protested against the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration. See via The Atlantic photo:

Flea-treatments and sheep-dips at damaging levels in Welsh rivers Chemicals used in veterinary flea-treatments and sheep-dips are potentially harming wildlife in Welsh rivers.

Pesticides used in pet flea-treatments occur widely in Welsh rivers and were detected in over three quarters of river water samples, finds new research by Cardiff University and Natural Resources Wales.

www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/30...

An energy revolution is in the wind | The Observer Labour’s plans for cheap renewable power will transform British lives as dramatically as the NHS once did

Ed Miliband gets relentless bile from the right for his ‘ideological’ commitment to clean, cheap renewable energy - just as Nye Bevan once did for creating the NHS. Yet on March 25 97.7 % of our electricity was from renewables. A revolution is unfolding.

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Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas - Carbon Brief Carbon Brief factchecks some of the most common claims about North Sea oil and gas.

Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas that the fossil fuel funded, non tax paying, right wing media, doesn’t want you to know.

www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-ni...

Power the UK with homegrown renewables

I just signed the Greenpeace petition calling on the government to power the UK with homegrown renewables. Every conflict abroad sends our energy bills soaring at home. The only way out is cheaper, safer renewable energy. Join me in demanding an end to the fossil fuel cost chaos?
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Fossil fuels? No thanks. Why Trump’s Iran war is pushing EU toward renewables. EU countries may argue about the short-term fixes for high energy prices, but agree that clean power is the best long-term bet.

Polish PM Tusk: "“I want to make it clear to all the skeptics that renewable energy sources, above all else, are the most sovereign energy source for Poland...The war in Iran clearly demonstrates how dangerous dependence on external energy supplies can be.” (16/x)

#cleanenergyisnationalsecurity

No. It really doesn’t. This is nonsense and you know it.

But your fossil fuel sponsors will be happy with you trying to force the agenda.

This is where the debate should be, rather than on the distraction of North Sea drilling. What can government do to move faster on clean tech and green buildings? Can it afford to be more ambitious and demand new homes are passivhaus and zero bill? How quickly can it bring down fossil fuel reliance?

Gorton and Denton Postmortem The biggest ever shake up to the party system may be on the way in May

Interesting analysis of the Gorton and Denton by-election and what it means for the May elections, from @robfordmancs.bsky.social

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Re-wilding landscapes and Gardens with Frances Tophill - RAMM Join gardener, TV presenter and author Frances Tophill for this discursive and open-minded talk on the topic of re-wilding in both a landscape and garden setting. Frances will explore the best methods to use to support wildlife, whether it is allowing nature to regenerate on its own, or targeting species…

The brilliant Frances Tophill from BBC Gardeners' World and ITV's Love Your Garden joins us on 9 October to talk re-wilding landscapes and gardens 🌳🦔

Frances will explore the best methods to use to support wildlife in our spaces.

9 Oct | 6.30pm | £10.50

Book at rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/re-...

I think with climate breakdown we have to consider non invasive, non natives to preserve biodiversity.

Lots of chat about native vs non-native plants at last week’s inaugural Wilding Gardens conference but nothing in detail. Wrote some thoughts… open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...

We remain remarkably, dangerously ignorant of such histories, treating every event as if it came out of the blue. Again and again our governments wade in, with their bombs and missiles and special forces, and congratulate themselves on their strategic brilliance, only to create further crisis.

I want @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on #bbcqt EVERY week.

He literally runs rings around the politicians with his superior knowledge and eloquent oratory.

He is compulsive viewing.

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Help Stop the Criminal Killing of Birds of Prey. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/he...

Keir Starmer's attempt to paint the Greens as extremists yet again reveals his intolerance of political difference. His instincts are illiberal and authoritarian.

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party