jreidy.bsky.social
@jreidy.bsky.social
Ex teacher loves dogs, science & art
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Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! If you love Europe's wetlands, birds, rivers... Sign our petition against dismantling the laws that protect them 💚👇

Powerful polluting industries are pressuring lawmakers to take apart Europe's oldest nature laws.

Stop them: www.wwf.eu/campaigns/ha...

#HandsOffNature
February 2, 2026 at 10:44 AM
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How to change the world from your little place in it?
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Speak about your passions a little.

Do what you’re scared of a little.

Challenge your tribe a little.

Pause before you react a little.

Believe that everyone is struggling a little.

Spread hope a little.

Love yourself at least a little.
January 31, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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This is essentially blackmail and could endanger vaccine supply for many countries that need thiomersal in vaccines to keep them stable when they lack infrastructure to keep vaccines cool in transport and storage 🧵
The Trump administration has told global vaccine group GAVI to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding. Thimerosal was targeted by RFK Jr last summer in US vaccines without a rigorous scientific process

TAT: [Attacking Science]
Exclusive: US conditions funding to global vaccine group on dropping mercury-based preservative from shots
The Trump administration has told global vaccine group Gavi to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding, a U.S. official and a Gavi spokesperson told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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'This is not a progressive system, it's a regressive one.'

@lewisgoodall.com explains how the student loan system has 'quietly shifted the burden' from higher earners onto those 'least able to bear it'.
January 28, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Only 3 days left if you want to apply for a #BSBIPlantStudyGrant!
Go to bsbi.org/learn/grants... for an application form & to read reports by two of last year's recipients.
Helping students carry out projects collecting plant-related data is one of our very favourite things!
@bucbotany.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Great news from Scotland: a LAW to ensure new buildings have swift bricks. (Contrary to Labour spin, there is no law and no guarantees that builders or planners will incorporate bricks in England.)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law
Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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Are you an American who wants your voice heard? Given the current situation, you can write under a pseudonym if you wish. Contact our MD Ben Dickenson, [email protected], who can direct you to one of our 10 UK national and regional citizen publications with a combined read of over 20m.
January 28, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦‪ MARK RUSKELL MSP‬⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!
January 27, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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If that's what they're willing to do in public, while being filmed, what do they do behind closed doors?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Video shows moments around fatal shooting in Minneapolis
Bystander footage has captured the seconds before the killing of 37-year-old Alex Pretti.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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January 25, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
January 23, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Garden or no garden, why everyone should get involved in this year's #BigGardenBirdwatch: https://bit.ly/4sRrpG4
January 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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UK governments of all stripes have looked at cutting planning rules & 'red tape' to produce growth

Previous evidence-based reviews have contradicted this view

This UK govt is first one to take forward cutting of protections without bothering with evidence

www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/evidenc...
Evidence shows PM’s plan to slash environmental protections is based on inaccuracies | The Wildlife Trusts
MPs and environmental groups urge a rethink to avoid nature catastrophe
www.wildlifetrusts.org
January 20, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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For years, experts have warned that nature loss would become a security threat.

Now a national security assessment confirms it: biodiversity collapse risks food shortages, economic instability and global disorder.

Nature underpins our global safety. So why is UK Government failing to protect it?
January 21, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Households will be able to get zero-interest loans for solar panels and grants for heat pumps to provide air conditioning under a £15 billion ­government “warm homes plan” ⬇️
Zero-interest solar panel loans in Labour’s warm homes plan
Zero-interest solar panel loans in Labour’s warm homes plan
www.thetimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Great #aurora display near Conwy, north Wales just now. Increasing cloud moving in sadly, but wow!
January 19, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Ok this is fucking brilliant and I have to replace a split wooden loo seat soon and now I know exactly what I’m doing with it!
I doubt I will ever see a more inspired bit of upcycling.
January 18, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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Contemporary Polish visual artist known under the artistic pseudonym Laura Makabresku #WomensArt
January 9, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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A petition calling for #RejoinEU is targeting 100,000 signatures
needed for an MPs’ debate ahead of the 10th anniversary of the #Brexit
vote in June 2026.
It’s highlighted in this @teessidelive.bsky.social letter urging
#UKLabour and #Starmer to drop Brexit “red lines”.
January 2, 2026 at 6:49 AM
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Sir David Hare has joined a national campaign to protect his beloved namesake, the hare, from year-round hunting ⬇️
David Hare joins fight to give hares respite from hunters’ guns
Playwright supports campaign for a closed season to protect ‘intelligent, shrewd’ brown hares in government’s animal welfare strategy
www.thetimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Battery technology cuts bills for customers and massively reduces the need to generate energy yet this government is so captured by the developers that they won't even insist that new buildings are fitted with them.
And they pretend to be green.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England
Critics say removing battery installation requirement will reduce amount homebuyers save on energy bills
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 AM