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Miles King

@milesking.bsky.social

Now at tail end of a long career in UK Nature Conservation - nature reserves, SSSIs, policy work, lots of reports - and 10+ years of blogging. Currently run @poundburynatureproject. Cellist. Living with chronic vestibular migraine. Personal account.

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Dementia may make him less dangerous …

03.03.2026 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sharia Courts…. In the North Sea… indigenous people…. Illegal immigration…stupid islands… windmills ruining the fields… Open Up The North Sea

03.03.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Season 4 of Industry hasn’t pulled any punches.

03.03.2026 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He is undoubtedly stupid, vindictive and narcissistic. But they won’t have changed over the course of his life. Even since last year his ability to construct sentences seems to be declining. And as for his decision making, impulsivity, emotional regulation. They’re Are all going out of the window.

03.03.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

dementia is setting in

03.03.2026 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rue-leaved Saxifrage Saxifraga tridactylites and Common Whitlow-grass Erophila verna. Happy as Larry on this old wall in Winchester, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

03.03.2026 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seen 3 Brimstones and a Peacock today. Still mowing brambles. #signsofspring

03.03.2026 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today on the site: @matthewmshaw.bsky.social bids farewell to People Need Nature, the charity that has been promoting nature’s emotional, sensory and spiritual value since 2015 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/03/a-tr...

02.03.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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This is what climate change looks like for UK winters.

03.03.2026 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dull and mild February brings wet winter to a close The Met Office has released its provisional statistics for Winter 2025/26 and February 2026, revealing a season characterised by persistent wet weather and stark regional rainfall contrasts.

Winter second wettest for Dorset since records began in 1836. Only surpassed by Winter 2013/14. I recorded 635.2mm in Dorchester this Winter, and 646.1mm in 2013/14.

I remember 2013/14 as being much stormier (windier) here, than this Winter. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

03.03.2026 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks Gruff.

03.03.2026 07:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
02.03.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Matt x

02.03.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"British values" are whatever the incumbent Government want them to be, that will help them to persuade the country that what they are doing is for the best.

02.03.2026 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fortunate that this senile old man isn't in charge of anything important.

02.03.2026 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stewart Lee: Do you want to make a splash? Then use the right’s social media latrine Have you engineered a Gotcha! moment? Have you shorn it of context? Then all you need to do is drop it from a height and make a mess online

Stewart Lee's latest bit for @thenerve.news (belated) www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

In which Lee compares/contrast policing of anti-Gay protestors in Oxford St (they were stopped) with anti-Muslim protestors in Whitechapel (they were not), while musing on the limits of political theatre.

02.03.2026 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Farage rants about "family voting" & postal votes being "a rich seam for fraudsters to mine" without any evidence whatsoever.

He's silent on the far more dangerous problem of money flowing into UK politics from billionaires abroad. Given how much of Reform's cash comes this way, perhaps that's why.

01.03.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Another ironymeter explodes

01.03.2026 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I imagine Ukrainian arms industry reps are making their way rapidly to Middle East Defence departments in their droves.

01.03.2026 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the calculus no-one in the Labour cabinet seems capable of understanding. Our economy, as well as our society, is entirely dependent on, and massively benefits from, inward migration.

01.03.2026 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Strong Message Here - History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds Is history still written by the victors? How to people try and control their legacy?

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

26.02.2026 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 137    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 5

Let's face it, if Farage/Reform get into power by democratic means, they will waste no time in destroying the capacity of the electorate to kick them out again.

01.03.2026 08:54 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Limited temp stats I'm afraid, as my temp sensor had become inaccurate. Oregon Scientific has stopped making replacement sensors, but fortunately I purchased a spare a couple of years ago so things should be back to normal for March. Max temp was 15.8Β°C (25th) and min 0.2Β°C (17th).

01.03.2026 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy St David's Day! February in Dorchester was exceptionally wet with 172.2mm of rain. Coming after a very January means we have had 433.2mm of rain so far in 2026, while the Winter (Dec-Feb) saw an astonishing 635.2mm of rain. Wettest day was 26th with 55.4mm and widespread flooding. ⬇️

01.03.2026 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Voters: β€˜We hate celery’

Labour: β€˜clearly we need to offer more celery.’

28.02.2026 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 1

just another example of projection from Reform. They are the sectarians.

28.02.2026 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My line on BBCr4 Today on the Iran strikes was this. Last June there were intensive US/Iran talks under way. Aborted by Israeli strikes on Iran which US joined. I think this is similar. The US-Iran-Oman talks seemed to be going well. Netanyahu preempted, and Trump felt he had to follow 1/5

28.02.2026 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 280    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 29

Well….Dirty Business (channel 4) is excellent.

Hopefully it will make people very angry.

27.02.2026 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Handmaid’s Tale future’: Reform’s Matt Goodwin sparks outcry with fertility comments Byelection candidate accused of indulging β€˜alt right fantasy’ by suggesting women need β€˜biological reality’ check

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

27.02.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not just Kruger. Goodwin was also recently arguing that childless women were ruining education, and that women/girls should have babies as soon as they were fertile.

27.02.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0