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Clare Rayner
@clareacrayner.bsky.social
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Teacher, Mum, Apprentice Farmer. Very keen on native species plants 🌱 trees 🌳 and insects 🐞 Essex, UK
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A simplified domestication history of apples for today’s #NationalAppleDay! Share to celebrate!
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The proposed Nature Restoration Levy could accelerate the decline of vulnerable wildlife if applied to the wrong species🚨

We’re calling on Government to back up planning reforms with evidence & field trials to deliver on promise to boost nature & building in tandem 🏡

www.wcl.org.uk/evidence-bla...
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More weight to @garius.bsky.social ‘s idea that McCartney’s The Frog Chorus (“We All Stand Together”) is the perfect anti-authoritarian protest song…
Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid
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Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
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Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
Quick orchard forage earlier resulted in this bounty, plus the added bonus of seeing a group of ladybirds hanging out in one of the damaged pears!
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My Remarkable Birds (1st ed) was used to train AI. Anthropic has agreed to pay compensation to rights holders. I am part of a USA class action.

Check if you qualify too secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Remarkable Birds markavery.info/books/remark...

Cover: Audubon
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“My government has a relentless focus on looking after British citizens. Unless you’re kidnapped at sea, in which case good fucking luck I guess LOL”
Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”
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For caring more about lining your own pockets than the deaths of NHS staff & patients?

For being disgustingly cynical & avaricious - in the sharpest of contrasts to all those millions of ordinary, decent Britons across the country who stepped up with such courage & decency?
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If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?
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Wondering if this is meant to include small children on family visas (for instance). Insanely stupid and offensive idea.
"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]
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We’ve given immense power to half a dozen dudes to force their midlife crises onto the whole of humanity
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As Henry points out,a long piece about free speech in the UK that doesn’t mention the many, many people arrested for supporting Palestine Action and is entirely framed in right-wing talking points is a dereliction of journalism.
What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point
How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?
www.bbc.co.uk
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Millions spent on Trump visit. Red carpets, Royals in coronets and golden dining services too. And all he offers in return are petulant racist insults about our capital city and our mayor.

What a singular lack of decorum, grace, and courtesy. Fuck him and his damp hands and his nicotine yellow wig
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Basically, Farage is promoting fascism. I don’t see how anyone can deny it.
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Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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The citizens told the thugs that they were proud of their national flag and did not like how it’s used to create fear and division. They managed to clip 6 down, but were squared up to and verbally abused. If fascism has got as far as quiet villages we need to muster moral courage and not ignore it.
Incredible rainbow over our meadow last night!
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If you want to be serious about combatting Reform it requires ensuring people seeking asylum can do so without irregular routes. It means providing them with the right to work once here, to cover costs, and it means combatting the racist narrative that they are to blame for people's problems. 9/