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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 6h

Cybertruck rhymes with Cluster*uck

George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 6h

Beauties!

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 6h

I've signed - please, will you?
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We Can Make an Impact.

Review firework rules to protect animals from injury and distress

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 1d

All that winning

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 10h

Censorship, pure and simple.....

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 1d

They have no shame, especially when there's money to be made...

Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 1d

The government says it is “driving forward private finance efforts for Gaza's reconstruction.”

As if enabling a genocide wasn't enough. Now, they are allowing private companies to make some money out of it as well.

Have they no shame?

www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...

'No shame': UK invites private firms to compete for Gaza reconstruction contracts

As Britain positions itself as key player in the rebuilding of territory devastated by Israel's genocide, MPs point to its role in its destruction

www.middleeasteye.net

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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 1d

#Greenwashing Tactic 10: #Gaslighting #harassment and threats are used to attempt to discredit critics of an industry, certification scheme or commodity. #Boycottpalmoil #FightGreenwashing

Greenwashing Tactic 10: Gaslighting, Harassment, Stalking and Threats

Gaslighting, harassing or stalking vocal critics of a brand, commodity or industry certification in order to silence these critics - this is greenwashing!

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 1d

An ecologically destructive and indefensible practice to satisfy a few entitled people who see nothing wrong with killing creatures for their own amusement.

Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 1d

How is this still happening?!

Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 1d

#welcometoyorkshire moors burnt releasing carbon into the atmosphere to create habitat for tens of millions of non-native birds released into the wild each year. Reducing habitat and food for native wild birds and animals. Passed 20-30 dead pheasants run over on roads. Some traditions aren't good.

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The Vegan's Voice @animalrights1.bsky.social · 3d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 3d

Close up of the central panel in a late 4th century AD floor, #Roman townhouse at Colliton Park #Dorchester

The design, a stylised flower surrounded by guilloche, is simple but highly effective 😍

Excavated 1937-8, it's today protected by Dorset council and Dorset Museum

📷 Sept 2014

#MosaicMonday

Roundel in a Roman mosaic floor featuring a stylised flower surrounded by interlocking guilloche

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Stevie P @stevieparsons.bsky.social · 3d

It might not look much, but this is one of the UK and Europe’s rarest fungi - Poronia punctata (The Nail Fungus). Hours of checking New Forest pony dung finally paid off ! See ALT text for more details of this fungi #fungi #NewForest #FungiFriends @newforestnpa.bsky.social

The Nail fungus (so called because of the nail like shape of the fruiting body) Poronia punctata, is one of the rarest fungi in the UK and Europe . UK distribution is essentially limited to the New Forest. It is only found on the dung of horses and ponies that have been feeding on unimproved acidic grassland and heath vegetation - so New Forest pony dung is an ideal habitat. Farming herbicides, plant pesticides and synthetic chemicals used in the 'worming' of horses have been blamed for the demise of this fungus. Note: if you type Nail Fungus into an internet search you are likely to find far more unpleasant photos 😂

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 4d

I like spiders in the house, but there are limits! Louise Bourgeois at Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Giant, spindly-legged, metal spider artwork made by Louise Bourgeois located in a gallery and filling the whole room...

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 7d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 4d

I wouldn't trust JFK Jr to sit the right way round on a toilet...

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elda64.bsky.social @elda64.bsky.social · 5d

A frickin heroin addict is doing all this! Wake up America!!

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Eileen Schuyler @eschuyler.bsky.social · 5d

To the “doctors” in the GOP Senate: you could have prevented this deranged eugenicist from being confirmed, but you chose loyalty to Trump over your oaths. Perpetual shame.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

Nice recap

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 5d

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Antifa Crone @cheriegrant.bsky.social · 5d

I didn’t even know we had a shrew. 😭

Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 5d

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate.
The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

www.theguardian.com

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 4d

"Trees will only grow in fertile soil, not up in mountains."

This self-seeded pine, lodged in a crevice high up in a sheer rock escarpment in the Caha Mountains, begs to differ. It says that trees will grow just about *anywhere* sheep can't get at them.

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Paulette Donahue @9kittens.bsky.social · 5d

ABSOLUTELY

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Unmask ICE!

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#ONEV1

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 5d

Sen. Sanders: No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings rally on Oct. 18 is not a hate America rally. It’s a Love America Rally. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in our Constitution, in the American Freedom, and who’s not gonna let you or Trump turn this country into an authoritarian society.

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