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George McGavin
@georgemcgavin.bsky.social
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Zoologist, entomologist, broadcaster and President of The Dorset Wildlife Trust. Zero Hour Ambassador.
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The Vegan's Voice @animalrights1.bsky.social · 1d
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 2d
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 · 1d
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 😂 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 · 2d
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 · 3d
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 · 6d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
A frickin heroin addict is doing all this! Wake up America!!
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Eileen Schuyler @eschuyler.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 3d
Nice recap
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 3d
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Antifa Crone @cheriegrant.bsky.social · 3d
I didn’t even know we had a shrew. 😭
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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 3d
"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 · 4d
ABSOLUTELY
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 4d
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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 4d
📢 Unmask ICE!

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#ONEV1
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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 4d
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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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 3d
Taken at Minsmere?
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 4d
- Millions of federal employees aren’t getting paid
- 15 million people about to lose their health care
- 24 million Americans could see their insurance premiums DOUBLE

Now Speaker Johnson gives House Republicans another week off work. 4 straight weeks out of DC. Unbelievable.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 4d
Mr. President. Stop breaking the law. 

The shutdown does not give you the right to fire thousands of hard working federal employees.

Instead of giving huge tax breaks to your billionaire friends, show some respect for the struggling working families of our country.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 4d
For years, this was part of a path through the land, but it's now an impenetrable tangle of gorse and young trees.

As the trees grow, the gorse and other vegetation will be shaded out, and I'll be able to pass again, but through *rainforest*.

Scrub is how natural forest ecosystems form.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5d
Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions
Nestle quietly exits global initiative to reduce dairy methane emissions
www.latimes.com
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 4d
Nestle? No Way!
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 4d
If you're in reach of the National Galleries of Scotland at the bottom of The Mound, you really should see Andy Goldsworthy's Fifty Years exhibition (ends 2nd November)...it is sensational.
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 4d
Having a Dark Island beer in Bennet's Bar in Edinbugh...braw!
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