Princess Leia pictured with blaster pistol. Phrase reads “Well behaved women rarely defeat empires.”

Finally! Enough pollen off the car to apply the second generation of this bumper sticker. #MaytheFourthBeWithYou
#AltGov #AltFam #AltCitizen

​‘The hypocrisy is staggering’: will swift bricks fall prey to government fears of Reform? Campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor fears goal of requiring all new homes to include a hollow brick to help endangered cavity-nesting birds may be dropped

"Labour ministers have privately told backbenchers that the government will whip against a new swift brick amendment tabled for the controversial infrastructure and planning bill"

These cost £35 per house you effing idiots

What is the matter with you Starmer

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No 10 blocks beaver release plan as officials view it as ’Tory legacy’ Exclusive: Natural England furious that years of work has been undone, with minister urged to push policy through

Prof Richard Brazier, who has conducted much beaver research in England, said: “From our research over the last 10 yrs and wider research around beaver reintroduction globally, the overwhelming consensus on the impacts of wild-living beavers is hugely positive”

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Thank God for Englishmen! This Sceptred Isle reigns supreme in climate sanity. For now.

Thank God for Englishmen! And thanks also to the @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social for confirming this island's status as a bastion of climate sanity, despite appearances.

While we’re banning books…

Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.

Be. Like. Finland.

Not a bad strategy, libs! Touché!

It's only right that my first post here is sharing Scotland's map of named ice gritters. You can follow where they all are in real-time.

Some favourites this year:

Sir David Attenbrrrrrr
Stone Cold Steve Frostin
Lord Coldemort
You're a blizzard, Harry

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We are recruiting new PhD student for an exciting project working in aerosol science at the interface of pollution monitoring and health impacts in ‘Exploring the size-resolved toxicological properties of aerosols’ do share and apply- details here: 🧪 www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk/2025-projects/

Cocktail waitress
Nightclub receptionist
Barmaid
Leisure assistant in a sports centre
Assistant curator in a geological museum
Sixth Form study supervisor
Croupier

Im so glad to have found a potential nearly-but-not-quite Twitter home!

‘Used like taxis’: Soaring private jet flights drive up climate-heating emissions Analysis of 19m flights between 2019 and 2023 reveals 50% rise in emissions, condemned as ‘gratuitous waste’

Private flights, used by just 0.003%, are most polluting form of transport

Total 2023 emissions from private jets was more than 15m tonnes, more than 60mn people of Tanzania

Research author says “fundamental disregard of climate change at the top of society”

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