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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 9h

Beautiful indeed! There are some views we never get bored of, for sure. I can sit on my balcony for hours in the summer, just looking out over the trees 😺

Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 9h

Generally if I’m around he expects his dinner! Mainly because I tend to get in around 18.30 & then he knows he doesn’t have to wait long. He also knows that when the footie’s on in the pm he doesn’t have long to wait either. He gets confused at the weekend when the footie’s on earlier! 😹

Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 12h

Nearly every picture I have of BG is the same - especially in the darker half of the year! He sees it get dark and thinks, ‘Hang on, why haven’t I had my dinner yet?’ Hence the outraged expression 😸

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 12h

Overfishing is not the answer.

Together, we can demand that the government put our shared seas before corporate profit.

Help us tell UK Govt it's time to: END OVERFISHING 🎣 https://bit.ly/3Wxi2MI

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 12h

I wonder what the jackdaw thought of you? The #FirstBirdOfMyDay here was a Wood Pigeon racing past - certainly didn’t see me, much less think anything of me as it whizzed by! Gotta get out of that wind and rain!

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 1d

We are sowing the seeds of our own destruction

SuzyM @suzymarxist.bsky.social · 1d

environmentamerica.org/articles/how...

How just a single seed can kill 80,000 bees

A common farming practice is spreading toxic pesticides into the environment: harming pollinators, wildlife and ecosystems.

environmentamerica.org

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 1d

“Check out my magnificent whiskers this Wednesday! Especially as it’s coming up to my time of year!” Yes, Pumpkin. We know 😹 #WhiskersWednesday

Pumpkin the ginger tomcat proudly displaying his magnificent whiskers. You can even see the ones sticking up from his eyebrows and the top of his head.

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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 1d

An exciting project and a very worthy cause in a beautiful area. Please consider supporting it, if you can. 🙏 💚

www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...

Donate to Secure the Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts

Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...

www.wildlifetrusts.org

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 1d

Finally someone brave enough to just come out and say it and who isn’t scared of the backlash that will come because he actually believes what he’s talking about and has some evidence to support his claims.

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing you (and all of us) the best for this debate. The Gulls (the Gulls!) are sending you vociferous support - so loud you can probably hear them all the way over the Channel 😺 #FirstBirdOfMyDay

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 1d

“Check out my magnificent whiskers this Wednesday! Especially as it’s coming up to my time of year!” Yes, Pumpkin. We know 😹 #WhiskersWednesday

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 3d

Only six and a half months to go and they’ll be back! 😻😻😻 What a fantastic colony! Have you considered getting a nest box or two for your house or flat? Now that would make an unusual Christmas present!

Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 4d

Have you got those dark, winter evening blues already?
Take yourself to a June morning in Dorset and watch the Swifts at Cranborne Manor, flying those live-long Summer days...
All things must pass.
#Swifts #ornithology #dorset #wildlifephotography #ukbirds 🌿🦉 #SaveOurSwifts

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 1d

Well colour me surprised.

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 2d

After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing

‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov

www.theguardian.com

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 2d

🎼 🎶 Back in the USSR…🎶

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t forget the banks that still fund the fossil fuel industry. They’re all in this together, not us.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'

We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.

Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.

Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

www.theguardian.com

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 2d

A couple of weeks ago now but check out this stately trunk now serving as a wonderful host to all this ivy, which was buzzing with bees 😺 Always nice to see the circle of life in full flow #ThickTrunkTuesday

In the foreground a thick trunk by a path, with what looks like its verdant foliage. But on closer inspection it’s actually dead, and its leaves are those of a bushy ivy which has made the trunk its scaffold. The flowers were just coming out and the bees were buzzing around in great numbers.

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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 2d

British icon, hilarious comic & bird-kind ⁦‪Bill Bailey‬⁩ thinks securing homes for birds reliant on cavity nesting habitat is an ace idea. The swift brick debate is tomorrow. Help the birds. Email SWIFT BRICKS to [email protected] & [email protected]

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 2d

How exciting! I had Mr Feral Pigeon doing a dance around Ms Feral Pigeon in the park. While his dance was energetic, her response was less so 😹 #FirstBirdOfMyDay

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 2d

When your AI assistant gives you “the news,” how sure are you it’s right?

BBC/EBU research shows half of AI-generated answers about current events contain errors.

Time for standards in AI journalism.

Stephen McNair reports

Artificial Intelligence and the news: ‘could do better’

Growing numbers of people are getting their news from artificial intelligence assistants. A new international study raises some concerns.

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 2d

They’re not encouraging people to buy more petrol/diesels, but giving subsidies to people for electric cars without specifying that they should be a replacement, so people are just buying second or third cars which are electric. So we just end up with families getting more cars.

Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent work 👍 Here they’re encouraging electric car use but as an addition which just makes traffic problems worse!

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 3d

I can imagine the uproar there would have been in the UK if the EU had dared to put out a ‘What has the EU ever done for us?’ type of video. Propaganda! Brussels interference! EUSSR! I think it could have backfired spectacularly, even if it had been 100% factual and made the case brilliantly.

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 3d

True but we’re talking about people who want to spend half or most of the year in their ‚holiday’ home while officially being UK residents. They never registered before because no-one chased them up and they don’t want to have to choose now. So it’s all the terrible EU’s fault they have to decide.

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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 3d

No, thank you for all your wildlife work 😻

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