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Jacob Heringman

@jacobheringman.bsky.social

musician, book lover, non-flyer https://www.heringman.com

105 Followers  |  223 Following  |  29 Posts  |  Joined: 13.11.2024  |  1.8429

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15.09.2025 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rachel Reeves to cut β€˜bats and newts’ in boost to developers Chancellor considers making it harder for concerns about nature to stand in the way of infrastructure projects, in an effort to boost the economy

Let's say it again, "the economy" is entirely dependent on the environment.

No economy on a dead planet, no #PublicHealth on #biodiversity-depleted islands

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

18.08.2025 06:37 β€” πŸ‘ 519    πŸ” 201    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 29
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Campaigner, Emma Wigg (and goats), Pontardawe Here's an alternative to spraying pesticides - let the goats out!

We're not kidding! Letting the goats out could reduce the use of pesticides - our latest on the campaign to stop spraying public spaces with #glyphosate #pesticide thenortherneco.substack.com/p/campaigner...

29.07.2025 06:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@drrachelclarke.com Dear Rachel, The Story of a Heart is a beautiful book--inspiring, instructive, luminous, and heart warming. I loved the audiobook from beginning to end. Thank you for writing it πŸ–€

12.07.2025 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations, @doctoroxford.com and Yael van Der Wooden!

12.06.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don’t they look great together?! Introducing The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden, winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke, winner of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. With thanks to #Audible, #Baileys and @findmypast.bsky.social

12.06.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6
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Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...

Reproductive rights are under attack! Take 2 mins to write to your MP TODAY to demand that abortion is decriminalised

action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...

11.06.2025 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hooray! I was especially eager for this one, as an avid UKLG fan.

09.06.2025 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And the profound inner transformation he undergoes through the spirit visitations--how does that fit in? It's a form of introspection/retrospection? Is that in the faith category?

06.06.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Modulations IV (DiNDDL34), by Ian Boddy 5 track album

A surprise new release - Modulations IV spans just under three hours of Boddy’s recent modular synth concerts in Rugeley, Sunderland, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Philadelphia in the USA, performed between August 2023 to April 2024.
Hi-Res digtial download.
dinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/modula...

05.06.2025 06:51 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I sympathise; it's something that disturbs me regularly too!

30.05.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dartmoor rally to extend public access to the countryside Wild camping is safe on Dartmoor. Now the government must pass a Right to Roam Act to provide more access to the countryside across England

Victory for wild camping on Dartmoor was just the start.

On Monday we’ll be rallying to call for a Right to Roam Act to extend the public’s right to responsibly access nature.

Come join us on Haytor on Dartmoor, details below:

www.eventbrite.com/e/dartmoor-r...

22.05.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Calling everybody who walks, runs or rides! Now’s the time - back our project to develop the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways

22.05.2025 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We Can Make an Impact. Save the Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts!

chng.it/7wz9zXtSHj

11.05.2025 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There be dragons..... in the Dales Plus climate cycling and all the latest eco headlines

There be dragons..... in the Dales
open.substack.com/pub/thenorth...

06.05.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—£οΈCalling all TikTokers- I’m in your midst!
That’s right, I’ve joined TikTok! I’ll be sharing quick videos like this one to explain how parliament works (and how it could work better!), what life is like as an MP, and how to influence politics for positive change. Follow me on TikTok at @EllieChowns!

01.05.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

"[...] Trump’s administration does parallel FDR’s in an odd way. Trump set out in his first hundred days to undo the government FDR established in his first hundred days."

My favorite FB comment on this post says it all, though:

"We’ve gone from FDR’s New Deal to donald’s Rotten Deal…"

30.04.2025 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 307    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Defend Encryption and Privacy Online – Sign the Petition | Mozilla Governments are pushing laws to weaken encryption and threaten our privacy. Join Mozilla’s global campaign to reject backdoors and protect end-to-end encryption. Sign now.

foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns...

30.04.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

17.04.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 808    πŸ” 359    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 41
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Adam Roberts, "Lake of Darkness" Adam Roberts was born in 1965 in London. He studied English and Classics at Aberdeen University, did a PhD at Cambridge and is now Professo...

Lake of Darkness: creativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2025/04/adam...

15.04.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Switching from Safari? We’ve made it almost too easy. One click and your browser data’s already home. Break free from that Big Tech browser with Vivaldi. 😌

14.04.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Thank you @bjenkinsnz.bsky.social‬ for this morning's dewy #FoxOfTheDay

06.04.2025 06:00 β€” πŸ‘ 566    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What a lovely day it's been πŸ’š

30.03.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Total Cost to Musicians Since Brexit - European Movement UK The cost of Brexit to UK musicians is staggering. Discover the impact in Spotify streams, Wembley tickets, vinyl LPs, and more. Support the campaign and sign the petition!

Brexit has cost UK musicians Β£914M+ and counting. See the toll in streams, tickets, and vinyl. Sign the petition to act now:

18.03.2025 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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It’s that time of year - people asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain what they’re up to.
Please #repost.
Every #queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce new queen #bees for next year!
This is important!
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15.03.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 158    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 10
Closeup of a reddish brown weathered door, with the rusted remnant of a door handle which looks very much like an owl, with the two screws for eyes.

Closeup of a reddish brown weathered door, with the rusted remnant of a door handle which looks very much like an owl, with the two screws for eyes.

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Owlish old door (see top of picture)

16.03.2025 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ursula K. Le Guin β€” Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

Nomination time, folks!

www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

03.03.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A heads up that DoppelgΓ€nger (DiN91), my new collaborative album with Harald Grosskopf, will be availebl from the DiN Bandcamp store this Bandcamp Friday March 7th on limited edition digipak CD & download.

03.03.2025 08:25 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

done!

24.02.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Simple basic science? Discredited Victorian "science", more like!

22.02.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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