This is a very worrying story with implications. Personally I'd like to fire the whole of AI into the outer Oort. stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2026/01/1492...
Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem.
Thank you.
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Oh boy, this is magnificent.
A more robust constitution seems in order....
Votes, innit.
He had him pegged?
Venezuelan politician MarΓa Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize
A really intriguing vagrant Blackpoll Warbler resighting from California; parallels to be made with eastward reorientation in a few Yellow-browed Warblers in Western Europe too movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @pauldufour80.bsky.social #Ornithology
Broad-billed Sandpiper. Pomorie, Bulgaria. September 2025
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Nope, this is new to me!
Juvenile Little Egret can have black primary tips, who knew?
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Gulf of Epstein
Painting featuring a cityscape crowded with bluish houses illuminated by street lamps
'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #womensart
There are just so many things to be upset about⦠but each new thing is upsetting in its own uniquely upsetting way.
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Two elegant herons with long bills and vivid plumageβdeep blue wings, chestnut sides, and fine white plumesβstand close together among leafy branches in a dense green forest setting.
1960s acid jazz album cover.
These birds are way too hip.
Agami Herons, Agami Island #CostaRica
#birds #nature #herons
WTF? If this Government canβt even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesnβt come close β¦