Mark Purvis

Mark Purvis

@markpurvis.bsky.social

River restorer, fly fishing guide, clean water champion, loves mountains, rides bikes

507 Followers 1,265 Following 119 Posts Joined Oct 2023
2 days ago

How is he on the offside rule?

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Ticks next to a 5p coin - that’s the scale.

Nymphs (poppy-seed sized) are so easy to miss!

Check skin after being outdoors, especially hidden spots and remove ticks promptly.

Awareness prevents Lyme.

#TickAware #LymeDiseaseAwareness

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Trump's tireless efforts to destroy the series of alliances forged by generations of American leaders of both parties are as striking as his relentless pursuit of the favor of Vladimir Putin. The story behind this will be told at some point.

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"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"

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1 week ago

Some thoughts

- Shed no tears for Khamenei et al - Islamic Republic has been brutal at home and scourge regionally

- Revolted at Bibi/Trump reckless and self interested adventurism

- UK has little alternative re use of Fairford and Diego Garcia - defence of GCC is a thin but defensible line

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Talisker bay, Isle of Skye #Scotland #Talisker #IsleofSkye www.damianshields.com

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Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse

Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal

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2 weeks ago
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Can a TV Show Solve the UK’s Sewage Crisis? My advice: Tune into Dirty Business, Channel 4’s new “factual drama” about the UK’s water pollution scandal — but don’t watch it while eating. There are simply too many shots of raw sewage to make a T...

After countless public campaigns, petitions, hefty fines and even a government inquiry, can three-part docudrama Dirty Business really make a difference?

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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Channel 4’s Dirty Business is a clarion call to nationalise the water industry As the drama shows, private firms no longer able to pollute the coast of England of Wales just switched to rivers instead

Excellent piece by @sandralaville who did so much of the early work to unocver this stinking scandal
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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1 month ago

Agreed, but COL crisis was trotted out for a particular moment when energy prices unexpectedly and suddenly went through the roof. I think the gov still uses the term to imply that COL is something external, like COVID, Brexit or the Financial Crisis rather than being something they could affect.

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1 month ago

Is it all down to "cost of living crisis" becoming the permanent chorus that prevents any rational discussion about taxation?

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1 month ago

Jan is too modest. It's been 5 years since the hydrogen ladder came out. And at least 3 years since his conclusive meta-study of hydrogen studies. We were clear that hydrogen as a fuel was a terrible idea.

Hydrogen promoters owe us billions in wasted money & years we can never recover.

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1 month ago

Very excited about this factual drama which will bring to our screens two of my real life heroes Ashley Smith and Peter Hammond. It will be strange to see them portrayed by actors but the story is a great one although the villains, as with the PO scandal, have not yet been brought to justice.

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1 month ago

So true, if you're short of time or commitment, shopping is so much easier than going fishing

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1 month ago

Great insight here into the disastrous state of our politics today, and the role played by oligarchs and media moguls in corrupting government. One man may be the focus but the rot is set much deeper.

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1 month ago

I yield to nobody in my hatred of these blockchain tokens, but this isn't quite right.

There is no "con", nor is it "pyramid scheme" nor are the buyers "rubes." If any of that were true, the value would have hit zero years ago.

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Flooding in Oxfordshire: what can we do? Oxfordshire has a flooding problem – and it’s getting worse. We are not talking Florida-style flooding. Oxfordshire is about as far as it’s possible to get from the sea in England – and although that...

Flooding: it’s a ‘full waterproof’ kinda day. ICYMI when we ran them, we have two, very different articles on flooding in Oxfordshire. The first about the causes of flooding…

oxfordclarion.uk/flooding-in-...

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1 month ago

This is such a scandal - why are water companies not subject to the law? This has to end.

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1 month ago

That's sad news, having been a customer of both Oxford and Chippy stores for 40 years. You could go in and ask for anything and they always had one somewhere on a high shelf or at the back of a drawer.

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1 month ago

There's a big switch. When it is flicked, magic happens. Flies hatch, trout rise, deer emerge from the woods, an otter puts it's head out of the water and fixes you with a stare. You belong where you are and everything else accepts you. No other humans exist.

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Agrivoltaics can help lettuce survive extreme heat Scientists have grown organic romaine lettuce under 13 different types of PV modules, in an unusual hot Canadian summer. Their analysis showed lettuce yields increased by over 400% compared to unshaded control plants.

Agrivoltaics can help lettuce survive extreme heat #energysky -- via pv magazine usa:

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1 month ago

I’m sure Indian billionaire, Sunny Varkey, wants to give Farage a ton of cash to improve the lives of the people of Clacton.
And definitely not to lobby for crypto or fossil fuels or to have first dibs on the firesale of British assets (eg the NHS) that Farage is bartering for power.
FFS wake up UK.

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Solar grazing: ‘triple-win’ for sheep farmers, renewables and society or just a PR exercise for energy companies? For Hannah Thorogood, a first-generation Lincolnshire farmer, grazing her sheep on solar land gave her a leg-up in the industry

#Solar grazing: ‘triple-win’ for sheep farmers, renewables and society or just a PR exercise for energy companies?

TLDR - the former
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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1 month ago

Make no mistake: Trump is not calling off his genocide. He's just chastising Noem for putting a guy in charge who revealed his power level too soon. He's got nine months to go before midterms, he's got to slow his roll as he figures out how many ICE agents he needs to patrol key voting districts.

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1 month ago

Very sorry to hear this. What a great loss for you both ... and what a dog.

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I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

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ARTE

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1 month ago

Do we have any information about progress with the criminal investigation?

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Link to the report here:

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