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When you boycott and sanction the UAE not only are you helping Sudan but also cutting off one of the many tentacles propping up Trump and MAGA.

We in @friendlyevalley.bsky.social would like to thank all at @oxconservation.bsky.social vols for a great work session last weekend, raking cuttings up & lots of scrub work at the #LyeVally #SSSI south #fen section. This maintains this tiny site in private ownership's stunningly rich biodiversity.👏

This should concern all of us living in the UK. Not just is this practice inhumane and humiliating, it is also a gross misuse of people's personal data. The public deserve the know all the details (including names) of how this practice came about, so those responsible can take responsibility.

Häxan (1922), an early example of a horror film that was framed as a documentary

Nephus redtenbacheri agg.

Coccidula rufa.

Variation in Rhyzobius litura individuals.

Nephus redtenbacheri agg. habitat.

Good day recording around Cahore, Co. Wexford today. Nephus redtenbacheri agg. was my 29th Irish ladybird. Rhyzobius litura was the most numerous species with 50 individuals seen, beaten from grass and rush tussocks.

Israel is bombing tents again with F35 jets.

They commit genocide with impunity.

There was no ceasefire, they broke it every single day.

They must be held to account.

Speak up. Take action.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

@democracynow.org 300+ writers announce boycott of New York Times over Palestine coverage

Black and white aerial photograph showing a cloud shadow covered agricultural landscape divided by hedge rows and trees, the outline of an Iron Age hillfort appearing centre left

The slight traces of an Iron Age hillfort ditch appear as dark lines in an agricultural landscape photographed from the air

Requiem for a hillfort

Until the 1960s, the outline of Madmarston Iron Age hillfort #Oxfordshire was defined by fieldbanks and hedgerows

📷 © 1962 CUCAP AFQ74 @camdiglib.bsky.social

Since then it has been sadly obliterated by agriculture ☹️

📷 © 2022 HE Archive 27618_002

#HillfortsWednesday

Siham Hassan in parliament

Siham Hassan, a former member of Sudan’s Parliament who ran community kitchens to feed the hungry and starving in her hometown of Al-Fashir, was executed by UAE-backed RSF terrorists.

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Surprise!
Bog Bean rearing to flower by Halloween.
#WildflowerHour #Anglesey
#WalesPeatlandAction
@natreswales.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The Irish story: Teesside’s activists in the 1870s On the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Julia Mazza goes back further in time and writes about the role of Teesside in Irish Independence

I was too young at the time to know if there was any reason behind the choice; however, it's interesting that Mo Mowlam was MP in an area with a large population of Irish decent.

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Just watching a couple of YouTubers, & the Troubles in Northern Ireland came up. She hadn’t heard of it [but has visited Ireland] but he had, so he explained. The mad thing here, is that these are two young Americans with no education & they know more than UK govts [who run the place]

Emotionally all my hair is gray

Also physically we’re well on our way so

Species-rich grasslands can be just as colourful in the autumn too - with fungi!!! Grassland fungi are very special and are some of the most threatened organisms globally. Let’s celebrate them for #WildFlowerHour this week. Spotted a waxcap, club, coral or other grassland fungi this week, show us your pics this Sunday 8-9pm

I don’t know about you but I’ve seen lots of fungi this week, shall we have a #WildFungiHour tomorrow for #WildFlowerHour & celebrate all those wonderful diverse grasslands that ‘flower’ in the autumn too! All the wild blooms that you’ve spotted in the last week are welcome too of course! See ALT ⬇️

Four Cladonia lichen, the tops split and are finished off with bright red-topped fruiting bodies (apothecia)

Cladonia #lichen

If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.

Tactical. Chocolate.

With poppies.

1 button = 1 #respect

Joke's on them, they didn't have jets in WW1.

2/10, poor effort.

27 moths of 11 species last night - Mottled Umber, new for year in my Laois garden. #teammoth

The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour.

Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"

I had a great time this morning learning to use the Scanning Electron Microscope. Here are urediniospores of Puccinia rusts from the grassland restoration projects of @donnarainey4.bsky.social and @ceanncait.bsky.social . I'm hoping it will help with ID!
#FungiFriends #PlantPathogens

Some Blackening Waxcap fungi from a local churchyard from last week - quite easy to spot in the grass and ID when they turn black

At this time of year I usually see lots of fungi that I can't name but I saw this and thought it was a Penny Bun!* because from above it literally looks like an egg-glazed bread bun.
*Now I check it could also be Bitter Bolete** (I didn't photo the right bits). Either way, it was fun to find

Great to see almost 2000 plants for Nidderdale National Landscape leaving the habitat creation nursery at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social Much of the material was collected in Nidderdale, bulked up in the nursery, and will be used to enhance a network of new upland ponds & scrapes.

More from the Wellcome collection.
Morcella crassipes, by R. Baker, April. 1896, at Claverton. crassipes meaning thick-footed or thick-stemmed.
One of its vernacular names is Big-foot Morel.
Possibly painted at an art class in the Severn region of Clevedon, Avon. @botanicalmartin.bsky.social

Marsh Mallow in flower this week on Rye Harbour nature reserve #wildflowerhour

Over the past couple of months I've repeated in various talks that 11 of our endemic plant species have gone extinct.

I was delighted to read in the most recent BSBI News that one of these, the Glenridding Hawkweed, last seen in 1953, has been rediscovered!!

📷: Mark Lynes

Fabulous young little red Blackening Waxcap growing on a road verge on the North York Moors