Claire Laila Dines

Claire Laila Dines

@freedomtodoubt.bsky.social

Ecologist fighting 4 nature; Watches Earth like hawk or Small Blue; Wanders in South Downs; Wildlife photo-recorder; Hove plot holder 4 nature; Brit/Norwegian/European; Art, Science, Politics; Take bus or walk while I can ere I'm dust in the ground.

860 Followers 861 Following 4,397 Posts Joined Nov 2024
4 minutes ago

Prime examples of male insecurity with daddy or mummy issues.

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Video 2,200 Marine unit, 3 warships ordered to head to Middle East Marine expeditionary unit with 2,200 Marines aboard three U.S. Navy amphibious ships is being ordered to the Middle East, according to two U.S. officials.

2,200 Marines aboard three U.S. Navy amphibious ships are being ordered to the Middle East, ABC News reports.

abcnews.com/video/131043...

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Nothing feels more special to me than when wildlife decides to use part of me as a perch 😊
March 18th last year.
Maybe he or she will repeat the honour next week?
#AllotmentWild

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7 hours ago

Given lit trends, I'm rebranding my book as smut. It's about the romance of salmon, who navigate oceans & rivers to fuck & perish. It's about the sensuous slithering of lamprey; the orgiastic joy of herring; the bondage of male anglerfish. Cover art depicts a bull shark in a bodice. Ichthyoerotica.

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7 hours ago

Corporate so-called democrats .. but they're not .. showing their true nastiness .. buying people to piss on progressive true Democratic candidates wherever they dare to stand .. one of whom is @katmabu.bsky.social 💙
Keep standing up against these traitors!

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7 hours ago

Thanks again Rob!

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7 hours ago

Thanks Rob!

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In an Irish Atlantic rainforest, a 'wolf' oak: the term for a tree much older than those all around.

A grandmother tree, progenitor and nurturer of the ecosystem, she very possibly grew when – even because – wolves still hunted these parts.

A nice twist on the word.

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8 hours ago

This is so great ..
"The life of a wool hoverer ends with the completion of the sweater."

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Der Wollschweber, ein hummelartiges Insekt, besitzt in meiner Version einen Körper aus einer blauen Wolldocke. Aus diesem Knäuel hängt ein Fadenende heraus, das zu einem angefangenen Strickstück führt. Das Insekt besitzt transparente gepunktete Flügel und einen auffällig langen Saugrüssel. Technik: Koloriertes Aquarell.

#art #illustration #animalmarch #kleinekunstklasse #surrealism #wollschweber
Das Leben eines Wollschwebers endet mit der Fertigstellung des Pullovers.

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8 hours ago
Starmer is powerless to stop Polanskis savage Green army

Starting to think the British press aren't coping too well with the Green Party wanting to tax wealth fairly.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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8 hours ago

True but we can chew & walk at the same time .. that is converting from our fossil fuel dependence to electricity but at the same time promoting lifestyles less dependent on even electricity so heavily dependent on metals & rare earths for various applications that most people seem deaf & blind to.

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8 hours ago

OR .. turning something that uses electricity into something that doesn't use electricity .. like travelling using legs & bike wheels instead of electric vehicles OR making a cake without electric mixers but hand/arm power OR reading books instead of reading this on an electricity-powered laptop?

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RFK Jr is a deeply insecure man who is dangerous because deeply insecure people should never be allowed to hold even the tiniest bit of power over others .. he may also be insane.

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9 hours ago

All they've got left are symbols .. and some of those are fake or highly suspect.

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Here we go again

Matt Vickers MP made a Conservative party video about the removal of Churchill from the fiver... and Vickers says:

"As Churchill himself once said 'a nation that forgets its past has no future.'

It's a FAKE QUOTE Churchill never said that.

Vickers is a shadow minister

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The GOP's White Supremacist Policies Are Now Hurting Trump's White Voters Trump's white base loved his cruelty and celebrated his corrupt policies, especially when they hurt people of color. Now, the white supremacist chicken has come home to roost.

This is so brilliant .. 👏👏 to Waj & Jared .. informative, funny and searingly honest .. thank you both!
The GOP's White Supremacist Policies Are Now Hurting Trump's White Voters
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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@robcrank68.bsky.social's alt theme today is #HeadShots so here are some head portraits of the resident birds on my allotment ..
Dunnock ◻️ Male Blackbird ◻️ Chiffchaff ◻️ Female Blackbird
#BirdOfTheDay
#EastCoastKin
#birds

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PFAS pollution in a drinking water source near the old Denham Film Studio, so high the source had to be taken out of use.

That's a water source that was providing 20 million litres a day to London, a city where water is already becoming scarce.

From my report on BBC Inside Science, today👇🏾

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How 'forever chemicals' have seeped into almost everything – video Josh Toussaint-Strauss talks to Leana Hosea and Rachel Salvidge of Watershed investigations about what the spread of Pfas means for our health and the environment, and what can be done to get rid of t...

Water companies currently address PFAS contamination in drinking water sources by diluting the contaminated supply with uncontaminated water.

Privately, many water company insiders tell us it's getting harder to find uncontaminated water to use for this:

share.google/wBmHBnxDUO6g...

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12 hours ago
Water Security Atlas filtered to show levels of water stress in parts of Britain and France.

London & the Southeast are increasingly water-stressed & cannot afford to have a single water source in an unusable condition.

The map below is from our Water Security Atlas & shows levels of water stress by region. Darker = less water available.

share.google/WJ5mHSOoAcRb...

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@robcrank68.bsky.social's great themes today are #TwigsAreUs with the alt being #HeadShots ..
Thanks Rob!
So here are various twigs on which birds are perching with shots taken from different angles 🤪🙃

#BirdOfTheDay
#EastCoastKin
#birds

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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TwigsAreUs, birds perched on twigs, the Alt theme is #HeadShots, any birds head shot.
Here's a Siskin, Greenfinch, Goldfinch & Cormorant.

#birds #photography #ECK #birdphotography #CanonR5mkii #naturephotography #ukbirding #CanonPhotography @rspb.bsky.social

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ICE violence is fueled by misogyny and white nationalism How the Trump administration has mobilized state-sponsored terror in Minneapolis and beyond.

Make no mistake: The thousands of new recruits to ICE, driven by a $100 million “wartime recruitment” push, were selected with violence in mind.

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EXCLUSIVE: Epstein 'Suicide' Noose Likely Never Had DNA Taken to Investigate Potential Homicide As far as he knows "they never did anything with it," forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden—who observed Epstein's autopsy—reveals to us about DNA never being tested on nooses found in Epstein cell

EXCLUSIVE: Epstein 'Suicide' Noose Likely Never Had DNA Taken to Investigate Potential Homicide via @jordanchariton.bsky.social

www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/exclusive-...

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1 day ago

However, NOT Brighton & Hove @brighton-hove.gov.uk!

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London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%

China and Hong Kong are home to 9 of the 19 cities, with 9 European cities making up the rest. The analysis found interventions such as cycle lanes, uptake of electric cars, and restrictions on polluting vehicles had helped to drive the improvements: www.theguardian.com/environment/... (gift). 🌎

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Yes

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2 days ago
Royal Bank of Scotland banknotes £5/£10/£20 showing animals mackerel, otters and squirrels respectively.

We've had beautiful wildlife banknotes in Scotland for a while. Little works of art

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Helen Matthews (c. 1872–1950), Scottish artist, footballer & suffragette (below left), also recruited the first Black woman footballer in the UK. Emma Clark (below right) is thought to have made her debut for the British Ladies' Football Club in 1895. #WomensHistoryMonth ⚽️

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