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#News: #Dugongs AKA "sea cows" are starving as seagrasses vanish in #Thailand 🛑🌊 But a Thai influencer is fighting back, using his drone footage to help scientists restore the seagrass 🪸🚁 #SaveTheDugong #MarineConservation #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social oneplanete.com/actualite-en...

Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds. Oxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action My article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate emissions resulting from approving drilling at Rosebank, expanding Heathrow airport, watering down UK’s EV targets, cutting heat pump grants would be 402m tonnes of CO2 over the next 25 years Greater than the annual emissions of 106 coal plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Report says AI has been embedded across Home Office in near-total secrecy. AI plays part in tasks like asylum seeker age assessments, spotting sham marriages, summarising interviews, and border surveillance. It calls for regulation and register of govt AI tools. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All rivers spill their stories to the sea: a River Tees pollution story. Part Three In Part Three, the final part, I’ll describe what happened on the first day of the event, 25 September 2021 northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

Remember this when making Food Bank donations. Teenagers’ self esteem relies on the fragrances they wear. Especially around Xmas, donations of gift packs of prestige fragrances hygiene products will be welcomed

THE HEXHAM HEADS: In 1976, BBC early evening magazine show Nationwide aired a segment about a real-life folk horror story. Stone heads unearthed from a garden, paranormal activity and werewolves abound in this notorious report, thought lost until 2024...

Parch Marks is a cli fi novel with a dual narrative - near future and Middle Bronze age, with some folk horror elements. Archaeologist Eva Sinclair excavates a mysterious massacre #Halloween #HalloweenReads Pumpkin carved by @motiblackart.bsky.social www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

"Israel is trying to erase Palestinian life in the West Bank and Gaza with minimum fuss and attention," said one activist barred from entering the territory to observe the olive harvest amid a wave of Israeli settler violence.

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

ALL OUT ON 10 NOVEMBER! Join the Badger Trust, local groups and individuals, both outside and inside the Senedd, to demand no badger cull. 👉 11am - 2.30pm: Peaceful demonstration outside the Senedd. 👉 12pm - 1.30pm: Talks inside the Senedd media room. Join us all to demand NO CULL IN CYMRU!

Collective punishment through punitive home demolitions of 1,500 Palestinians in Hebron. The pre election war crime action of Netanyahu and Smotrich. Will Burnham call it out? Will Miliband?

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

The Indian masters students' house was attacked repeatedly over subsequent nights 😣 West Midlands Police say they are taking it seriously, but I can't say I'm hopeful. Good to see fellow students standing up to protect them, but this should not be necessary. These rotters need putting down.

Meanwhile, in nearby Chelmsley Wood the Chelmsley Wood Patriots are harassing non-white men for being in the park

They've still got their flagpole in the middle, I thought, that's a compromise. Everyone else gets lovely green peace But now these Kingstanding Patriots 🤬 are doxxing deflaggers while begging for more money for more flags so I invite you to report their fundraiser because they don't have permits.

Despite being the largest #tortoise in Asia, Asian Giant Tortoises are #extinct in #Singapore 😿 and critically #endangered in #Indonesia 🇮🇩 #Malaysia 🇲🇾 #Thailand 🇹🇭 due to #palmoil #deforestation and the #pet trade. #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/25/a...

EXCL: The Soho Society is trying to stop the redevelopment of a deserted office because it would make Soho too busy. They claim that adding new bars, restaurants and cheap office space would alter its "established character as a quieter civic and green space". My @the-londoner.bsky.social scoop:

'The real threat to Britain's countryside' - spoof video about Pheasant shooting by Lord Christian Brighty! Watch it & then send in your evidence to Defra about impact of gamebird shooting - consultation closes Sun 1st Nov! raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/26/t...

#OnThisDay 899 Death of Alfred the Great who became king of the Anglo-Saxons on the death of his brother Æthelred (no, not that one). He defeated repeated Viking invasions (yes, those bastards again) & laid the foundations of modern England.

The Israeli Air Force dropped incendiary bombs from the air on "terrorists" tents in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, on Salah al-Din Street in Gaza.

This is 8 yr old Princess Polly! #nycacc wants her dead bc she doesn’t want to return to her kennel! Do u blame her? SMASH 💥 THE MIDDLE OPTION TO REPOST HER! The more shares she has the betters chance for her 2b saved! FUCK #nycacc Help me save her! More info below ⬇️

Tomorrow, the University of Oxford will host the racist academic Amy Wax, who was suspended from U Penn for her racism. Oxford apparently has a passion for hosting bigots who are famous predominantly for their bigotry.

Looking for a car safety harness for Nico, I found this picture of a dog crash test dummy. This dog must be protected at all costs.

FICTION: “Trident House has glamoured her and, in her glamour, she is unaware of what draws her there and stalks her through the concrete weald – the imprint of a vanished forest, a distorted memory, an inverted thing.” precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/10/23/f...

Orban, now Vucic! A bad day for Putin, Trump & MAGA influencers. A very good day for #Serbia & democracy in Europe. 🤞🏻 for Lula in Brazil, where the corrupt far right has tried to steal the election by preventing the poor from voting.

Roman gods, Saxon graves and witch marks: The strange and spectacular discoveries found beneath Britain’s HS2 railway #Folklore www.zmescience.com/feature-post...

"There will be guests at the Hall." These last words will echo on for decades to come... 🎨: 'The Ash-tree', illustrated by @alisdairwood.bsky.social, from #GhostStoriesofanAntiquary! 🔗 buff.ly/FZQ7E4Z @leahmoore.bsky.social @johnreppion.bsky.social #selfmadehero #halloween #indiecomics

Capturing Bigfoot tells the story of the infamous Patterson film one person at a time sharonahill.com/capturing-bi...

Evergreen message from the Financial Times to its readers www.ft.com/content/88c8...

As well as phantom ships, there are many ghosts along the UK coast. I’ve previously ‘done’ the dismembered smuggler in #Norfolk. Another smuggler is seen running, then falling as if shot, at Worbarrow Bay, #Dorset, and an Excise Man haunts the White Cliffs of #Dover. [More #SpookySunday #folklore

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Please sign & share the petition calling on the EU to defend the International Criminal Court against Trump’s attacks. The EU has a powerful tool that could protect international law - mass public pressure will force them to act. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-10...

This story went up late on Friday and got less attention than it otherwise might have done. A sentencing hearing on Friday was told three participants in the Tory election-betting scandal - dismissed at the time as "a flutter" - would have made nearly £50,000 if undetected www.ft.com/content/510e...

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

Quis est iste qui venit? NOVEMBER NIGHT TALES Henry C. Mercer Dublin: Swan River Press (2015) “History fades into prehistoric darkness . . ." swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/no... Day 25/31 #Booktober #Halloween🎃👻

Can't they axe Mason, Kuenessberg and Question Time instead? None of them are fit for purpose and I resent funding their bigotry

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Depressing to hear the BBC propagating the non-story started by the Tories about the possibility of power cuts because of renewables A classic fossil fuel lie being given credibility by our public service broadcaster #BBCR4Today

Latest offering from Stewart Lee for @thenerve.news, noting that 9 stand-up comics generate the same employment as the Jackdaw gas field. But has Lee Missed something? Perhaps the Jackdaw field is itself a piece of art, holding up a mirror to our burning world. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

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It will take 119 yrs to get the social housing we need at the current building rate. And the funding for councils to buy homes is far, far too little. Sign my petition for a massive new Buy the Supply fund, to buy as well as build homes, to help fix this FAST! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

There's four weeks and about 100 in-person tickets left for The Haunted Landscape on 21 November 2026 @conwayhall.bsky.social We present witches, ghosts, fairies, folklore and the Great God Pan. In-person and online tickets: forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... 1/6