Here's where I stick all the social justice and environmental stuff that would bore/piss off my friends on Facebook. See @Botany_Tim for botany tweets
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Tim Purches retweeted
18 Oct 2024
This story is one of the most disturbing I've ever covered. It's about how the views of a deeply weird ideological sect affected science, medicine and the media, with devastating impacts on patients. Please read and pass on. This horror has to stop. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Tim Purches retweeted
6 Oct 2024
I'm talking latest on Plymouth Freeport: Oct 22, 7.30, Barbican Theatre. All welcome, free entry. I'll explore latest UK freeports info incl. the links btw Carbon Capture & Storage & freeports sites. I'll dig deep into freeports ‘eco’ claims @GeorgeMonbiot @blowhound @AnnAubert3
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Tim Purches retweeted
2 Sep 2024
Voting is now open for the National Trust’s 2024 AGM!! All you need is your membership card (see arrows). You can vote online or request a paper pack. Please vote. #DogsInPollingStations
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18 Aug 2024
Well, that’s not at all worrying 😲
18 Aug 2024
Noticed a rather odd look to the sky today?
Wildfire smoke originating from North America, has turned the sky white and hazy in some areas, rather than blue.
This may give a more vibrant sunset tonight and give an orange tinge to the almost full moon 🌕
ALT Satellite view of the UK taken on Sunday 18th August 2024. It shows a mixture of cloud and clear skies across the UK with smoke evident, especially in the south.
ALT A photo taken on Sunday 18th August 2024 in Exeter, Devon. It shows a pale blue/white sky with a cloud in front of a hazy looking sunshine.
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Devon has lost the scone wars.
Basically everywhere in Britain uses the 'Cornish method' (i.e. jam first). Even in Devon itself, only 49% use the 'Devon method' (i.e. cream first), while 46% go jam first
yougov.co.uk/society/article…
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10 Aug 2024
Yep, this definitely didn’t go where I was expecting, but it's one of the best threads I’ve read on Twitter
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Tim Purches retweeted
9 Aug 2024
Have you had to have THE TALK yet?
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Tim Purches retweeted
The >60,000 people who took to the streets at #RestoreNatureNow yesterday gained minimal press coverage compared to the 2 people who sprayed paint powder on stonehenge
This is why we take disruptive action
This is the Activist's Dilemma
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20 Jun 2024
RT @SeaSpitfires: This is not an attempt to justify what happened at Stonehenge today, or even to change anyone’s mind about it. I’d simply…
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Tim Purches retweeted
22 May 2024
“Trust me, I have a plan” says man who didn’t think to take an umbrella with him when giving an important speech outside, even though it was already raining.
ALT Image of Rishi Sunak with water soaking the shoulders of his suit as he announces the election outside number ten in the rain.
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Tim Purches retweeted
19 May 2024
We have had another week in which the catastrophic state of this country has been brutally expose and another week that shows this government's only priority is to divide and stir up the culture wars
A frustrating 🧵
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16 May 2024
An informative thread…
16 May 2024
Lots of discussion about the lack of evidence to support the Government’s proposed changes to statutory RSE guidance today. Interestingly, those changes don't (seem to) involve removing faith-based carve-outs to the subject, allowing faith schools to teach religiously based RSE.
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Tim Purches retweeted
10 May 2024
Don’t come crying to me when you wake up blind and being hunted by daffodils
10 May 2024
Northern Lights clearly visible right now in our corner of Surrey! Never seen them before this far south in my life. Tonight is the biggest geomagnetic storm for 20 years #NorthernLights
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4 May 2024
Interesting thread on energy storage technologies, which are surely a key technology in the move to renewables.
4 May 2024
In 2022, short on electrical grid inertia and long on renewable power, Ireland installed the world's largest flywheel, 130 spinning tons.
Why did we do something so preposterous?
And are there other, better storage technologies? Let's find out.
It's the grid storage thread!
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Tim Purches retweeted
2 May 2024
Help we gerrymandered the wrong demographic
2 May 2024
I am sorry about this.
The legislation on acceptable forms of ID came out before the veterans ID cards started coming out in January this year. I will do all I can to change it before the next one.
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Tim Purches retweeted
29 Apr 2024
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Tim Purches retweeted
29 Apr 2024
This 👇 #Vote
29 Apr 2024
I could use my lovely blue tick to go off on some thousand word diatribe about how beyond awful these low-lying scoundrels are, but instead I’ll just stick with: register to vote, make sure you have the right ID to vote, and vote.
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Tim Purches retweeted
23 Apr 2024
The Companion of Honour, which recognises achievements in science and the arts, is limited to 65 people - Peter Higgs has just died, and there's therefore a vacancy.
I'm not sure what has Kate done to deserve this honour alongside Sir Paul Mccartney and Dame Maggie Smith.
Community note
While it is true that Catherine has become a Companion of Honour, it is not the case that she has taken the place of Peter Higgs. Royal members are counted separately to the 65 ordinary members, amongst which there are currently three vacancies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_…
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